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November 11
is the 315th day of the year (316th in
leap years
) in the
Gregorian calendar
. There are 50 days remaining until the end of the year.
- 1100
-
Henry I of England
marries
Matilda of Scotland
, daughter of
Malcolm III of Scotland
.
- 1417
-
Pope Martin V
is elected.
- 1500
-
Treaty of Granada
:
Louis XII of France
and
Ferdinand III of Aragon
agree to divide the
Kingdom of Naples
.
- 1620
? In what is now
Provincetown Harbor
near
Cape Cod
, the
Mayflower Compact
is signed on the
Mayflower
, establishing the basic laws for the
Plymouth Colony
.
- 1648
?
France
and the
Netherlands
agree to divide the island of
Sint Maarten
/
Saint Martin
.
- 1675
?
Gottfried Leibniz
demonstrated
integral calculus
for the first time to find the area under the y=x
function
.
- 1675
?
Guru Gobind Singh
becomes the Tenth
Guru
of the
Sikhs
.
- 1750
-
Riots
break out
Lhasa
after the
murder
of the
Tibetan
regent.
- 1839
? The
Virginia Military Institute
is founded in Lexington, Virginia.
- 1855
- An
earthquake
near
Edo
, now
Tokyo
, kills 6,000 people.
- 1864
?
American Civil War
:
Union
General
William Tecumseh Sherman
begins burning
Atlanta, Georgia
to the ground in preparation for his march south.
- 1865
- The
Treaty of Sinchula
is signed:
Bhutan
gives areas east of the Teesta
River
to the
British East India Company
.
- 1880
?
Australian
bushranger
and bank robber
Ned Kelly
is hung in
Melbourne
.
- 1887
- Haymarket trials:
August Spies
,
Albert Parsons
,
Adolph Fischer
and
George Engel
are
executed
.
- 1887
-
Building
work begins on the
Manchester Ship Canal
.
- 1889
?
Washington
is admitted as the 42nd
U.S. state
.
- 1918
?
World War I
ends
:
Germany
signs an armistice agreement
with the
Allies
in a
railroad
car outside of
Compiegne
in
France
.
- 1918
?
Jozef Piłsudski
comes to
Warsaw
and assumes supreme military power in
Poland
.
- 1918
? Emperor
Charles I of Austria
abdicates.
- 1919
-
Latvian
forces defeat the
Freikorps
at
Riga
in the
Latvian War of Independence
.
- 1921
? The
Tomb of the Unknowns
is dedicated by US President
Warren G. Harding
at
Arlington National Cemetery
.
- 1926
- The
US
' numbered
Highway
system is introduced.
- 1930
-
Patent
number US1781541 is given to
Albert Einstein
and
Leo Szilard
for their invention, the Einstein
refrigerator
.
- 1934
- The
Shrine
of
Remembrance
is opened in
Melbourne
,
Australia
.
- 1940
?
World War II
: The
Royal Navy
launches the first
aircraft carrier
strike in history, on the
Italian
fleet at
Taranto
.
- 1940
- The Armistice Day
Blizzard
kills 144 people in the
Midwestern United States
.
- 1942
-
World War II
:
Germany
completes its occupation of
France
.
- 1954
-
The Two Towers
, part of the
trilogy
of
The Lord of the Rings
by
J. R. R. Tolkien
, is released in the
UK
.
- 1960
- In
South Vietnam
, a coup against
Ngo Dinh Diem
is crushed.
- 1965
?
Rhodesia
(now called
Zimbabwe
) was declared independent by the white minority regime of
Ian Smith
.
- 1966
?
NASA
launches spaceship
Gemini 12
.
- 1967
?
Vietnam War
: In a propaganda ceremony in
Phnom Penh
,
Cambodia
, three
American
prisoners of war are released by the
NLF
and turned over to "new left" antiwar activist
Tom Hayden
.
- 1968
?
Vietnam War
:
Operation Commando Hunt
initiated. The goal was to interdict men and supplies on the
Ho Chi Minh Trail
, through
Laos
into
South Vietnam
.
- 1968
? A second
republic
is declared in
Maldives
.
- 1972
?
Vietnam War
:
Vietnamization
? The
United States Army
turns over the massive
Long Binh
military base to
South Vietnam
.
- 1975
?
Angola
becomes independent from
Portugal
, with
Agostinho Neto
as president.
- 1975
?
Australian
Governor-General
Sir
John Kerr
dismisses the government of
Gough Whitlam
and commissions
Malcolm Fraser
as
Prime Minister
.
- 1978
?
Maumoon Gayoom
succeeds
Ibrahim Nasir
as the
President
of the
Republic of the Maldives
.
- 1978
? A renovated
Hollywood sign
is unveiled, replacing the older version that was built in
1923
.
- 1981
-
Antigua and Barbuda
joins the
UN
.
- 1986
?
Sperry Rand
and
Burroughs
merge to form
Unisys
. They become the second largest
computer
company.
- 1992
? The
Church of England
votes to allow women to become priests.
- 1997
?
Mary McAleese
was inaugurated as the eighth President of
Ireland
.
- 2000
? In
Kaprun
,
Austria
, 155 skiers and snowboarders die when a cable car catches fire in an alpine tunnel.
- 995
-
Gisela of Swabia
(d.
1041
)
- 1050
?
Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor
(d.
1106
)
- 1154
? King
Sancho I of Portugal
(d.
1212
)
- 1155
? King
Alfonso VIII of Castile
(d.
1214
)
- 1220
-
Alphonse, Count of Poitiers
(d.
1271
)
- 1441
?
Charlotte of Savoy
, Queen of
France
(d.
1483
)
- 1491
-
Martin Bucer
,
Alsatian
theologian
and
religious
reformer (d.
1551
)
- 1493
?
Paracelsus
, Swiss
physician
,
alchemist
and mystic (d.
1541
)
- 1493
-
Bernardo Tasso
, Italian
poet
(d.
1569
)
- 1569
-
Martin Ruland the Younger
, German
physician
and
alchemist
(d.
1611
)
- 1579
-
Frans Snyders
,
Flemish
painter
(d.
1657
)
- 1599
-
Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg
,
Queen
of
Sweden
(d.
1655
)
- 1668
?
Johann Albert Fabricius
, German scholar and bibliographer (d.
1736
)
- 1696
-
Andrea Zani
, Italian
violinist
and
composer
(d.
1757
)
- 1733
-
Philip John Schuyler
, American politician and soldier (d.
1804
)
- 1743
-
Carl Peter Thunberg
, Swedish
naturalist
(d.
1828
)
- 1744
?
Abigail Adams
,
First Lady of the United States
(d.
1818
)
- 1748
- King
Charles IV of Spain
(d.
1819
)
- 1758
-
Caleb P. Bennett
,
Governor
of
Delaware
(d.
1836
)
- 1781
-
Caroline Bardua
, German painter (d.
1864
)
- 1791
-
Josef Munzinger
, Swiss politician (d.
1855
)
- 1792
-
Mary Anne Disraeli
, Welsh wife of
Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield
(d.
1872
)
- 1799
-
Charles Bent
, Territorial Governor of
New Mexico
(d.
1847
)
- 1821
?
Fyodor Dostoevsky
,
Russian
writer
(d.
1881
)
- 1831
-
Willard Fiske
, American
librarian
and scholar (d.
1904
)
- 1835
?
Matthias Jochumsson
,
Icelandic
poet (d.
1920
)
- 1848
-
Zinovy Rozhdestvensky
, Russian
admiral
(d.
1909
)
- 1854
-
William Yates Atkinson
, American politician,
Governor
of
Georgia
(d.
1899
)
- 1858
-
Marie Bashkirtseff
, Russian painter (d.
1884
)
- 1863
?
Paul Signac
, French
painter
(d.
1935
)
- 1864
?
Alfred Hermann Fried
, Austrian
pacifist
(d.
1921
)
- 1869
?
Gaetano Bresci
, Italian anarchist (d.
1901
)
- 1869
?
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy
(d.
1946
)
- 1872
-
Maude Adams
, American actress (d.
1953
)
- 1872
-
David I. Walsh
, 46th
Governor of Massachusetts
(d.
1947
)
- 1882
?
Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden
(d.
1973
)
- 1883
-
Ernest Ansermet
, Swiss
conductor
(d.
1969
)
- 1885
?
George S. Patton
, American general (d.
1945
)
- 1887
-
Roland Young
, English actor (d.
1953
)
- 1888
-
Abul Kalam Azad
, Indian independence activist (d.
1958
)
- 1891
-
Rabbit Maranville
, American
baseball
player (d.
1954
)
- 1893
-
Paul van Zeeland
,
Prime Minister of Belgium
(d.
1973
)
- 1894
-
Beverly Bayne
, American silent movie actress (d.
1982
)
- 1896
-
Lucky Luciano
, Italian-born American gangster (d.
1962
)
- 1898
-
Rene Clair
, French movie director (d.
1981
)
- 1899
-
Pat O'Brien
, American movie actor (d.
1983
)
- 1901
?
Magda Goebbels
, wife of
Joseph Goebbels
(d.
1945
)
- 1901
?
Sam Spiegel
, Austrian-American movie director (d.
1985
)
- 1904
?
Alger Hiss
, American government official and spy (d.
1996
)
- 1904
-
J. H. C. Whitehead
, British
mathematician
(d.
1960
)
- 1904
-
Andrzej Bogucki
, Polish actor, operetta singer and songwriter (d.
1978
)
- 1909
-
Robert Ryan
, American actor (d.
1973
)
- 1910
-
Carl A. Wirtanen
, American
astronomer
(d.
1990
)
- 1911
?
Roberto Matta
,
Chilean
painter (d.
2002
)
- 1912
-
Nina Andrycz
, Polish
actress
(d.
2014
)
- 1914
-
Howard Fast
, American writer (d.
2003
)
- 1915
-
Anna Schwartz
, American
economist
and writer (d.
2012
)
- 1917
-
Manuel Alexandre
, Spanish
actor
(d.
2010
)
- 1918
-
Stubby Kaye
, American actor (d.
1997
)
- 1920
?
Roy Jenkins
, British politician (d.
2003
)
- 1921
-
Terrel Bell
, American politician, 2nd
United States Secretary of Education
(d.
1996
)
- 1922
?
Kurt Vonnegut
, American
novelist
(d.
2007
)
- 1925
-
John Guillermin
, English
director
,
writer
and
producer
(d.
2015
)
- 1925
?
June Whitfield
, English
actress
(d.
2018
)
- 1925
-
Jonathan Winters
, American
comedy
actor
(d.
2013
)
- 1926
-
Torfi Bryngeirsson
, Icelandic long jumper (d.
1995
)
- 1926
-
Harry Lumley
, Canadian
ice hockey
player (d.
1998
)
- 1926
-
Noah Gordon
, American
novelist
- 1926
-
Maria Teresa de Filippis
, Italian racing driver (d.
2016
)
- 1927
-
Mose Allison
, American
jazz
musician (d.
2016
)
- 1928
-
Joseph Mercieca
, former
Archbishop
of
Malta
(d.
2016
)
- 1928
-
Ernestine Anderson
, American singer (d.
2016
)
- 1928
-
Gracita Morales
, Spanish
actress
and
singer
(d.
1995
)
- 1928
?
Carlos Fuentes
,
Mexican
writer (d.
2012
)
- 1929
?
Hans Magnus Enzensberger
, German writer
- 1929
-
LaVern Baker
, American singer (d.
1997
)
- 1930
?
Hugh Everett
, American
physicist
(d.
1982
)
- 1930
-
Vernon Handley
, English
conductor
(d.
2008
)
- 1930
-
Mildred Dresselhaus
, American
physicist
(d.
2017
)
- 1932
-
Germano Mosconi
, Italian
journalist
- 1936
-
Mala Sinha
,
Bollywood
movie
actress
- 1936
-
Susan Kohner
, American
actress
- 1937
-
Andre Brugiroux
, French traveler and writer
- 1937
-
Stephen Lewis
, Canadian politician and diplomat
- 1938
-
Haruhiro Yamashita
, Japanese
gymnast
- 1938
-
Ants Antson
, Estonian speed skater (d.
2015
)
- 1940
-
Barbara Boxer
, American politician and
United States
Senator
for
California
- 1944
?
Kemal Sunal
, Turkish actor
- 1945
?
Daniel Ortega
,
President
of
Nicaragua
- 1945
-
Vince Martell
, American musician
- 1945
-
Chris Dreja
, English
guitarist
- 1948
-
Rene Harris
,
President
of
Nauru
(d.
2008
)
- 1950
-
Jim Peterik
, American
musician
- 1951
?
Kim Peek
, American megasavant (d.
2009
)
- 1951
-
Fuzzy Zoeller
, American
golfer
- 1953
-
Marshall Crenshaw
, American
rock music
singer
- 1953
-
Andy Partridge
, British musician and singer-songwriter
- 1953
-
Evelyn Matthei
, Chilean politician
- 1955
-
Friedrich Merz
, German politician
- 1955
-
Jigme Singye Wangchuck
, former
King
of
Bhutan
- 1956
-
Jose Luis Brown
, Argentine
footballer
(d.
2019
)
- 1956
-
Ian Craig Marsh
, English
guitarist
- 1958
-
Luz Casal
, Spanish singer
- 1958
-
Kathy Lette
, Australian author
- 1960
-
Marcel Koller
, Swiss
footballer
and
coach
- 1960
-
Stanley Tucci
, American actor and director
- 1960
-
Cristina Odone
, Italian
journalist
,
writer
and editor
- 1960
-
Chuck Hernandez
, American
baseball
player and coach
- 1961
-
Luca Zingaretti
, Italian actor
- 1962
?
James Morrison
, Australian musician
- 1962
?
Demi Moore
, American
actress
- 1964
?
Calista Flockhart
, American actress
- 1966
-
Benedicta Boccoli
, Italian actress
- 1966
-
Alison Doody
, Irish
actress
and
model
- 1966
-
Paul Monaghan
, Scottish politician
- 1968
-
Peaches
, Canadian-German
singer-songwriter
,
DJ
,
producer
and
actress
- 1968
-
Alfredo Reinado
,
East Timorese
rebel leader (d.
2008
)
- 1969
-
Carson Kressley
, American
television
host and
fashion
designer
- 1970
?
Lee Battersby
, Australian writer
- 1971
-
Jennifer Celotta
, American
director
,
producer
and
screenwriter
- 1972
-
Tyler Christopher
, American actor
- 1973
-
Jason White
, American musician (
Green Day
)
- 1974
?
Leonardo DiCaprio
, American actor
- 1977
?
Ben Hollioake
, English
cricketer
(d.
2002
)
- 1977
?
Maniche
, Portuguese
footballer
- 1978
-
Ludmilla Radchenko
, Russian actress
- 1978
?
Erik Edman
, Swedish footballer
- 1981
?
Guillaume, Hereditary Grand Duke of Luxembourg
- 1981
?
Raphael Gualazzi
, Italian
pianist
and singer
- 1981
?
Natalie Glebova
, Russian-Canadian
beauty
queen,
Miss Universe
2005
- 1982
-
Gonzalo Canale
, Argentine-born Italian
rugby
player
- 1983
?
Philipp Lahm
,
German
footballer
- 1983
-
Arouna Kone
,
Ivorian
footballer
- 1986
-
Greta Salome Stefansdottir
, Icelandic singer, songwriter and violinist
- 1986
?
Francois Trinh-Duc
, French
rugby
player
- 1987
-
Yuya Tegoshi
, Japanese singer and actor
- 1989
?
Reina Tanaka
, Japanese singer (
Morning Musume
)
- 1989
-
Adam Rippon
, American figure skater
- 1990
-
Georginio Wijnaldum
, Dutch
footballer
- 1990
-
Tom Dumoulin
, Dutch cyclist
- 1991
-
Christa B. Allen
, American actress
- 1993
-
Jamaal Lascelles
, English
footballer
- 1994
-
Ellie Simmonds
, British
Paralympic
swimmer
- 855
-
Petronas
,
Byzantine Empire
general
- 1028
-
Constantine VIII
, Byzantine Emperor
- 1130
-
Theresa, Countess of Portugal
(b.
1080
)
- 1189
-
William II of Sicily
(b.
1153
)
- 1623
-
Philippe de Mornay
, French theorist (b.
1549
)
- 1686
?
Otto von Guericke
, German
scientist
,
inventor
and
politician
(b.
1602
)
- 1724
-
Joseph Blake
, English outlaw and highwayman (b.
1700
)
- 1751
-
Julien Offray de La Mettrie
, French
physician
and
philosopher
(b.
1709
)
- 1831
?
Nat Turner
, American slave rebel (b.
1800
)
- 1855
?
Søren Kierkegaard
,
Danish
philosopher
(b.
1813
)
- 1861
? King
Pedro V of Portugal
(b.
1837
)
- 1862
-
James Madison Porter
, American
lawyer
and
politician
(b.
1793
)
- 1880
?
Ned Kelly
, Australian
bushranger
(b.
1855
)
- 1880
?
Lucretia Mott
, American
feminist
and abolitionist (b.
1793
)
- 1887
- Haymarket affair executions:
- 1917
?
Liliuokalani
,
Queen
of
Hawaii
(b.
1838
)
- 1918
?
George Lawrence Price
, Canadian soldier (b.
1892
)
- 1918
-
Victor Adler
, Austrian politician (b.
1852
)
- 1919
-
Pavel Chistyakov
, Russian painter (b.
1832
)
- 1919
-
Felix von Hartmann
, German
cardinal
(b.
1861
)
- 1938
-
Typhoid Mary
, Irish-American carrier of
typhoid
fever (b.
1869
)
- 1939
-
Jan Opletal
, Czech student (b.
1915
)
- 1945
?
Jerome Kern
, American composer (b.
1885
)
- 1948
-
Fred Niblo
, American
movie
actor
,
director
and
producer
(b.
1874
)
- 1950
-
Alexandros Diomidis
, Greek banker and
statesman
(b.
1875
)
- 1953
-
Princess Irene of Hesse and by Rhine
(b.
1866
)
- 1968
?
Jeanne Demessieux
,
French
composer
(b.
1921
)
- 1972
-
Berry Oakley
, American musician (b.
1948
)
- 1973
?
Artturi Ilmari Virtanen
, Finnish
chemist
(b.
1895
)
- 1976
?
Alexander Calder
, American artist (b.
1898
)
- 1977
-
Greta Keller
, Austrian-American actress and singer (b.
1903
)
- 1979
-
Dmitri Tiomkin
, Ukrainian-American
composer
and
conductor
(b.
1894
)
- 1984
-
Martin Luther King, Sr.
, American civil rights figure (b.
1899
)
- 1985
?
Pelle Lindbergh
, Swedish
ice hockey
player (b.
1959
)
- 1990
?
Yiannis Ritsos
, Greek poet (b.
1909
)
- 1993
-
Erskine Hawkins
, American
trumpeter
and big band leader (b.
1914
)
- 1994
?
Pedro Zamora
, Cuban-American
AIDS
activist (b.
1972
)
- 1994
-
John A. Volpe
, 61st
Governor of Massachusetts
(b.
1908
)
- 1997
-
Rod Milburn
, American
athlete
(b.
1950
)
- 1999
?
Vivian Fuchs
, British
geologist
and polar explorer (b.
1908
)
- 2000
-
Sandra Schmidt
, German
skier
(b.
1981
)
- 2004
?
Yasser Arafat
,
President
of the
Palestinian Authority
(b.
1929
)
- 2004
?
Richard Dembo
, French director and screenwriter (b.
1948
)
- 2005
?
Patrick Anson, 5th Earl of Lichfield
, British
photographer
(b.
1939
)
- 2010
-
Marie Osborne
, American actress (b.
1911
)
- 2012
-
Rex Hunt
, former British
Governor
of the
Falkland Islands
(b.
1926
)
- 2013
-
Domenico Bartolucci
, Italian
cardinal
(b.
1917
)
- 2013
-
Stein Grieg Halvorsen
, Norwegian theatre actor (b.
1909
)
- 2014
-
John Doar
, American
lawyer
(b.
1921
)
- 2014
-
Carol Ann Susi
, American
actress
(b.
1952
)
- 2014
-
Harry Lonsdale
, American
scientist
,
entrepreneur
and
politician
(b.
1932
)
- 2015
-
Nathaniel Marston
, American actor (b.
1975
)
- 2015
-
Phil Taylor
, English musician (
Motorhead
) (b.
1954
)
- 2016
-
Robert Vaughn
, American actor (b.
1932
)
- 2016
-
Aki Schmidt
, German
footballer
(b.
1935
)
- 2016
-
Ilse Aichinger
, Austrian writer (b.
1921
)
- 2017
-
Kirti Nidhi Bista
,
Prime Minister
of
Nepal
(b.
1927
)
- 2017
-
Valery Rozov
, Russian BASE jumper (b.
1964
)
- 2017
-
Ian Wachtmeister
, Swedish business executive and politician (b.
1932
)
- 2017
-
Henry Emeleus
, British geologist (b.
1930
)
- 2018
-
D. J. Finney
, British statistician (b.
1917
)
- 2018
-
Olga Harmony
, Mexican playwright (b.
1928
)
- 2018
-
Wayne Maunder
, Canadian-American actor (b.
1937
)
- 2018
-
Douglas Rain
, Canadian actor (b.
1928
)
- 2018
-
Frankie Schneider
, American
NASCAR
driver (b.
1926
)
- 2019
-
Zeke Bratkowski
, American football player (b.
1931
)
- 2019
-
Frank Dobson
, British politician (b.
1940
)
- 2019
-
Winston Lackin
, Surinamese politician (b.
1954
)
- 2019
-
James Le Mesurier
, British army officer and aid worker (b.
1971
)
- 2019
-
Ralph T. O'Neal
,
Premier
of the
British Virgin Islands
(b.
1933
)
- 2019
-
Mumtaz Soysal
, Turkish politician and lawyer (b.
1929
)
- 2019
-
Edward Zacca
, Acting Governor-General of
Jamaica
(b.
1931
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