November 11Birthdays & History

On this day: November 11 in history

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1. 308At Carnuntum, Emperor emeritus Diocletian confers with Galerius, Augustus of the East, and Maximianus, the recently returned former Augustus of the West, in an attempt to end the civil wars of the Tetrarchy.Europe
2. 1028Constantine VIII dies, ending his uninterrupted reign as emperor or co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire of 66 years.Europe
3. 1100Henry I of England marries Matilda of Scotland, the daughter of Malcolm III of Scotland and a direct descendant of the Saxon king Edmund Ironside; Matilda is crowned on the same day.Europe
4. 1215The Fourth Council of the Lateran meets, defining the doctrine of transubstantiation, the process by which bread and wine are, by that doctrine, said to transform into the body and blood of Christ.Europe
5. 1500Treaty of Granada: Louis XII of France and Ferdinand II of Aragon agree to divide the Kingdom of Naples between them.Europe
6. 1572Tycho Brahe observes the supernova SN 1572.Europe
7. 1620The Mayflower Compact is signed in what is now Provincetown Harbor near Cape Cod.North America
8. 1634Following pressure from Anglican bishop John Atherton, the Irish House of Commons passes An Act for the Punishment for the Vice of Buggery.Europe
9. 1673Second Battle of Khotyn in Ukraine: Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth forces under the command of Jan Sobieski defeat the Ottoman army. In this battle, rockets made by Kazimierz Siemienowicz are successfully used.EuropeMiddle East
10. 1675Gottfried Leibniz demonstrates integral calculus for the first time to find the area under the graph of y = ƒ(x).Europe
11. 1724Joseph Blake, alias Blueskin, a highwayman known for attacking "Thief-Taker General" (and thief) Jonathan Wild at the Old Bailey, is hanged in London.Europe
12. 1750Riots break out in Lhasa after the murder of the Tibetan regent.Asia
13. 1750The F.H.C. Society, also known as the Flat Hat Club, is formed at Raleigh Tavern, Williamsburg, Virginia. It is the first college fraternity.North America
14. 1778Cherry Valley massacre: Loyalists and Seneca Indian forces attack a fort and village in eastern New York during the American Revolutionary War, killing more than forty civilians and soldiers.AsiaNorth America
15. 1805Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Dürenstein: Eight thousand French troops attempt to slow the retreat of a vastly superior Russian and Austrian force.Europe
16. 1813War of 1812: Battle of Crysler's Farm: British and Canadian forces defeat a larger American force, causing the Americans to abandon their Saint Lawrence campaign.EuropeNorth America
17. 1831In Jerusalem, Virginia, Nat Turner is hanged after inciting a violent slave uprising.North America
18. 1839The Virginia Military Institute is founded in Lexington, Virginia.North America
19. 1855A powerful earthquake occurs in Edo, Japan, causing considerable damage in the Kantō region from the shaking and subsequent fires. It had a death toll of 7,000–10,000 people and destroyed around 14,000 buildings.Asia
20. 1865Treaty of Sinchula is signed whereby Bhutan cedes the areas east of the Teesta River to the British East India Company.AsiaEurope
21. 1869The Victorian Aboriginal Protection Act is enacted in Australia, giving the government control of indigenous people's wages, their terms of employment, where they could live, and of their children, effectively leading to the Stolen Generations.Oceania
22. 1880Australian bushranger Ned Kelly is hanged at Melbourne Gaol.Oceania
23. 1887Four convicted anarchists were executed as a result of the Haymarket affair.North America
24. 1889The State of Washington is admitted as the 42nd state of the United States.North America
25. 1911Many cities in the Midwestern United States break their record highs and lows on the same day as a strong cold front rolls through.North America
26. 1918Józef Piłsudski assumes supreme military power in Poland – symbolic first day of Polish independence.Europe
27. 1918World War I: Germany signs an armistice agreement with the Allies in a railroad car in the forest of Compiègne.Europe
28. 1918Emperor Charles I of Austria relinquishes power.Europe
29. 1919Latvian forces defeat the West Russian Volunteer Army at Riga in the Latvian War of Independence.Europe
30. 1919The Industrial Workers of the World attack an Armistice Day parade in Centralia, Washington, ultimately resulting in the deaths of five people.North America
31. 1921The Tomb of the Unknowns is dedicated by U.S. President Warren G. Harding at Arlington National Cemetery.North America
32. 1923Adolf Hitler is arrested in Munich for high treason for his role in the Beer Hall Putsch.Europe
33. 1926The United States Numbered Highway System is established.North America
34. 1930Patent number US1781541 is awarded to Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd for their invention, the Einstein refrigerator.North America
35. 1934The Shrine of Remembrance is opened in Melbourne, Australia.Oceania
36. 1940World War II: In the Battle of Taranto, the Royal Navy launches the first all-aircraft ship-to-ship naval attack in history.Europe
37. 1940World War II: The German auxiliary cruiser Atlantis captures top secret British mail from the Automedon, and sends it to Japan.EuropeAsia
38. 1942The Turkish parliament passes the Varlık Vergisi, a capital tax mostly levied on non-Muslim citizens with the unofficial aim to inflict financial ruin on them and end their prominence in the country's economy.Middle East
39. 1942World War II: France's zone libre is occupied by German forces in Case Anton.Europe
40. 1949The People's Liberation Army Air Force is founded.Asia
41. 1960A military coup against President Ngô Đình Diệm of South Vietnam is crushed.Asia
42. 1961Thirteen Italian Air Force servicemen, deployed to the Congo as a part of the UN peacekeeping force, are massacred by a mob in Kindu.EuropeAfrica
43. 1962Kuwait's National Assembly ratifies the Constitution of Kuwait.Middle East
44. 1965United Air Lines Flight 227 crashes at Salt Lake City International Airport, killing 43.North America
45. 1965Southern Rhodesia's Prime Minister Ian Smith unilaterally declares the colony independent as the unrecognised state of Rhodesia.Africa
46. 1966NASA launches Gemini 12.North America
47. 1967Vietnam War: In a propaganda ceremony in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, three American prisoners of war are released by the Viet Cong and turned over to "new left" antiwar activist Tom Hayden.AsiaNorth America
48. 1968Vietnam War: Operation Commando Hunt initiated. The goal is to interdict men and supplies on the Ho Chi Minh trail, through Laos into South Vietnam.Asia
49. 1972Vietnam War: Vietnamization: The United States Army turns over the massive Long Binh military base to South Vietnam.AsiaNorth America
50. 1975Independence of Angola.Africa
51. 1975Australian constitutional crisis of 1975: Australian Governor-General Sir John Kerr dismisses the government of Gough Whitlam, appoints Malcolm Fraser as caretaker Prime Minister and announces a general election to be held in early December.Oceania
52. 1977A munitions explosion at a train station in Iri, South Korea kills at least 56 people.Asia
53. 1981Antigua and Barbuda joins the United Nations.Latin America
54. 1982Space Shuttle Columbia launches from the Kennedy Space Center on STS-5, the first operational mission of the Space Shuttle program.North America
55. 1992The General Synod of the Church of England votes to allow women to become priests.Europe
56. 1993A sculpture honoring women who served in the Vietnam War is dedicated at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.AsiaNorth America
57. 1999The House of Lords Act is given Royal Assent, restricting membership of the British House of Lords by virtue of a hereditary peerage.Europe
58. 2000Kaprun disaster: One hundred fifty-five skiers and snowboarders die when a cable car catches fire in an alpine tunnel in Kaprun, Austria.Europe
59. 2001Journalists Pierre Billaud, Johanne Sutton and Volker Handloik are killed in Afghanistan during an attack on the convoy they are traveling in.Asia
60. 2002A Fokker F27 Friendship operating as Laoag International Airlines Flight 585 crashes into Manila Bay shortly after takeoff from Ninoy Aquino International Airport, killing 19 people.Asia
61. 2002Russian mathematician Grigori Perelman posts the first of three preprint texts with his proof of the Poincaré conjecture. It remains the only of the Millennium Prize Problems in mathematics to be solved. He later refused both the prize money from Clay Mathematics Institute as well as the Fields Medal for his work.Europe
62. 2004New Zealand Tomb of the Unknown Warrior is dedicated at the National War Memorial, Wellington.Oceania
63. 2004The Palestine Liberation Organization confirms the death of Yasser Arafat from unidentified causes. Mahmoud Abbas is elected chairman of the PLO minutes later.Middle East
64. 2006Queen Elizabeth II unveils the New Zealand War Memorial in London, United Kingdom, commemorating the loss of soldiers from the New Zealand Army and the British Army.OceaniaEurope
65. 2011A helicopter crash just outside Mexico City kills seven, including Francisco Blake Mora the Secretary of the Interior of Mexico.Latin America
66. 2012A strong earthquake with the magnitude 6.8 hits northern Burma, killing at least 26 people.Asia
67. 2020Typhoon Vamco makes landfall in Luzon and several offshore islands, killing 67 people. The storm causes the worst floods in the region since Typhoon Ketsana in 2009.Asia
68. 2022Russo-Ukrainian War: Ukrainian armed forces enter the city of Kherson following a successful two-month southern counteroffensive.Europe
69. 2024A vehicle-ramming attack in Zhuhai, China, kills 38 people and injures 48.Asia

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