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The
11t o November
is the 315t day o the year (316t in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 50 days bidin.
Events
- 1417
-
Pape Martin V
is electit.
- 1648
-
Fraunce
an the
Netherlands
agree tae divide the
Caribbean
isle o
Saunt Martin
atween them.
- 1855
- A
yirdquauk
in Edo (nou
Tokyo
) kills 6,000 fowk.
- 1880
- Australian outlaw
Ned Kelly
is executit.
- 1889
-
Washington
becomes the 42nt state o the
Unitit States
.
- 1917
-
Liliuokalani
, the last
Hawaiian
monarch, dees agit 79, awmaist 25 year efter her forced abdication.
- 1918
- The Airmistice endin
Warld War I
is signed at the 11t hour, on the 11t day o the 11t month. It is commemoratit as Remembrance Day, Armistice Day an Veterans Day.
- 1918
-
Jozef Pilsudski
taks control in
Poland
.
- 1960
- A coup attempt is made in
Sooth Vietnam
against
Ngo Dinh Diem
.
- 1965
-
Rhodesie
unilaterally declares unthirldom frae the
Unitit Kinrick
.
- 1975
-
Angolae
gains unthirldom frae
Portugal
.
- 1975
- Governor-General o
Australie
John Kerr
dismisses Prime meenister
Gough Whitlam
an replaces him wi
Malcolm Fraser
.
- 1981
-
Antigua an Barbuda
jyn the
Unitit Naitions
.
- 1992
- The
Kirk o Ingland
allows female priests.
- 1997
-
Mary McAleese
becomes
Preses
o the
Republic o Ireland
.
- 2000
- A cable car catches
fire
in an alpine tunnel in Kaprun,
Austrick
, killin 155 fowk.
- 2004
- Palestinian leader
Yasser Arafat
dies in
Paris
, agit 75.
- 2011
-
Michael D. Higgins
becomes
Preses
o the
Republic o Ireland
.
- 2014
- 58 fowk are kilt in a bus crash in the Sukkur District in
Sindh
, Soothren
Pakistan
.
- 2018
- Ceremonies tak place warldwide tae mairk 100 year syne the
Warld War I
Airmistice;
Frank-Walter Steinmeier
becomes the first German Heid o State tae tak pairt in the
Lunnon
Cenotaph Remembrance commemorations.
Births
- 1050
-
Henry IV, Haly Roman Emperor
(d.
1106
)
- 1493
-
Paracelsus
, Swiss-German physeecian, botanist, astrologer an occultist (d.
1541
)
- 1748
-
Charles IV o Spain
(d.
1819
)
- 1821
-
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
, Roushie writer (d.
1881
)
- 1863
-
Paul Signac
, French penter (d.
1935
)
- 1864
-
Alfred Hermann Fried
, Austrick pacifist (d.
1921
)
- 1869
-
Victor Emmanuel III o Italy
(d.
1947
)
- 1882
-
Gustaf VI Adolf o Swaden
(d.
1973
)
- 1885
-
George S. Patton
, American general (d.
1945
)
- 1919
-
Hamish Henderson
, Scots poet (d.
2002
)
- 1920
-
Roy Jenkins
, Welsh politeecian (d.
2003
)
- 1922
-
Kurt Vonnegut
, American writer (d.
2007
)
- 1925
-
June Whitfield
, Inglis actress (d.
2018
)
- 1925
-
Jonathan Winters
, American actor, comedian an screenwriter (d.
2013
)
- 1928
-
Carlos Fuentes
, Panamanian-Mexican writer (d.
2012
)
- 1940
-
Barbara Boxer
, American politeecian
- 1945
-
Daniel Ortega
,
Preses
o
Nicaragua
- 1955
-
Jigme Singye Wangchuck
, umwhile Keeng o
Bhutan
- 1960
-
Stanley Tucci
, American actor an director
- 1962
-
Demi Moore
, American actress
- 1964
-
Calista Flockhart
, American actress
- 1966
-
Benedicta Boccoli
, Italian actress
- 1974
-
Leonardo DiCaprio
, American actor
- 1983
-
Philipp Lahm
, German fitbawer
- 1990
-
Tom Dumoulin
, Dutch cyclist
- 1990
-
Georginio Wijnaldum
, Dutch fitbawer
- 1991
-
Nick Ross
, Scots fitbawer
Daiths
Halidays
Ootside airtins