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T Calendar Gears Gregorian Calendar
2020
"11/11/11" redirects here. For the holiday
commemorating the end of World War I, see Remembrance
Day. For the 2011 mockumentary film, see 11/11/11 (Keith Allan film). "11-11-11"
redirects here. For the film directed by Darren Lynn Bousman, see 11-11-11
(film).
November 11 is the 315th day of the
year (316th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 50 days remain until the
end of the year. Contents
·
1Events ·
2Births ·
3Deaths Events[edit]
·
308 At 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. ·
1028 Constantine
VIII died, ending his uninterrupted reign as emperor or co-emperor of the Byzantine
Empire of 66 years. ·
1100 Henry 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 in the same day.[1] ·
1215 The 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. ·
1500 Treaty of Granada: Louis XII of France and Ferdinand II of Aragon agree to
divide the Kingdom of Naples between them. ·
1572 Tycho Brahe observes
the supernova SN 1572. ·
1620 The Mayflower Compact is signed in what is
now Provincetown Harbor near Cape Cod. ·
1634 Following pressure from Anglican bishop John Atherton,
the Irish House of Commons passes An
Act for the Punishment for the Vice of Buggery. ·
1673 Second Battle of Khotyn in Ukraine: PolishLithuanian Commonwealth forces
under the command of Jan Sobieski defeat
the Ottoman army. In this battle, rockets
made by Kazimierz Siemienowicz are
successfully used. ·
1675 Gottfried Leibniz demonstrates integral calculus for the first time to
find the area under the graph of y = (x). ·
1724 Joseph Blake, alias Blueskin, a
highwayman known for attacking "Thief-Taker General" (and
thief) Jonathan Wild at the Old Bailey,
is hanged in London. ·
1750 Riots break out in Lhasa after the murder of the Tibetan regent. ·
1750 The F.H.C. Society, also known as
the Flat Hat Club, is formed at Raleigh
Tavern, Williamsburg, Virginia. It is the first
college fraternity. ·
1778 Cherry 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. ·
1805 Napoleonic
Wars: Battle of Dόrenstein: Eight thousand French
troops attempt to slow the retreat of a vastly superior Russian and Austrian
force. ·
1813 War 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. ·
1831 In Jerusalem, Virginia, Nat Turner is
hanged after inciting a violent slave uprising. ·
1839 The Virginia Military Institute is
founded in Lexington, Virginia. ·
1864 American Civil War: General William Tecumseh Sherman begins
burning Atlanta to the
ground in preparation for his march to the sea. ·
1865 Treaty of Sinchula is signed
whereby Bhutan cedes
the areas east of the Teesta River to
the British East India Company. ·
1869 The 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. ·
1880 Australian bushranger Ned Kelly is
hanged at Melbourne Gaol. ·
1887 August Spies, Albert Parsons, Adolph Fischer and George Engel are executed as a result of the Haymarket
affair. ·
1889 The State of Washington is admitted as the 42nd state of
the United States. ·
1911 Many cities in the Midwestern United States break their record highs and lows
on the same day as a strong cold front rolls through. ·
1918 World War I:
Germany signs an armistice agreement with the Allies in a railroad car in
the forest of Compiθgne. ·
1918 Jσzef Piłsudski assumes supreme
military power in Poland - symbolic first day of Polish independence. ·
1918 Emperor Charles I of Austria relinquishes power. ·
1919 The Industrial Workers of the World attack an Armistice Day parade
in Centralia, Washington, ultimately
resulting in the deaths of five people. ·
1919 Latvian forces defeat the West Russian Volunteer Army 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. ·
1923 Adolf Hitler was
arrested in Munich for high treason for
his role in the Beer Hall Putsch. ·
1926 The United States Numbered Highway
System is established. ·
1930 Patent number
US1781541 is awarded to Albert
Einstein and Leσ Szilαrd for
their invention, the Einstein refrigerator. ·
1934 The Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne,
Australia is opened. ·
1940 World War II:
In the Battle of Taranto, the Royal Navy launches
the first all-aircraft ship-to-ship naval attack in history. ·
1940 World War II: The German auxiliary
cruiser Atlantis captures top secret British mail from
the Automedon, and sends it to Japan. ·
1942 World War II: France's zone libre is
occupied by German forces in Case Anton. ·
1960 A military coup against President Ngτ Đμnh Diệm of South Vietnam is crushed. ·
1961 Thirteen Italian Air Force servicemen, deployed
to the Congo as a part
of the UN peacekeeping force,
are massacred by a mob in Kindu. ·
1962 Kuwait's
National Assembly ratifies the Constitution of Kuwait. ·
1965 Southern Rhodesia's Prime Minister Ian Smith unilaterally
declares the colony independent as the unrecognised
state of Rhodesia ·
1966 NASA launches Gemini 12. ·
1967 Vietnam 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. ·
1968 Vietnam War: Operation Commando Hunt initiated.
The goal is to interdict men and supplies on the Ho Chi Minh trail, through Laos into South Vietnam. ·
1972 Vietnam War: Vietnamization:
The United States Army turns over the massive Long Binh military base to South Vietnam. ·
1975 Australian 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. ·
1975 Independence of Angola. ·
1977 A munitions explosion at a train
station in Iri, South
Korea kills at least 56 people.[2] ·
1981 Antigua and Barbuda joins the United Nations. ·
1992 The General Synod of the Church of
England votes to allow women to become priests. ·
1993 A sculpture honoring women who served in
the Vietnam War is dedicated at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in
Washington, D.C. ·
1999 The House of Lords Act is given Royal Assent,
restricting membership of the British House
of Lords by virtue of a hereditary peerage. ·
2000 Kaprun
disaster: One hundred fifty-five skiers and snowboarders die when
a cable car catches
fire in an alpine tunnel in Kaprun,
Austria. ·
2001 Journalists Pierre Billaud, Johanne Sutton and Volker
Handloik are killed in Afghanistan during an attack on the
convoy they are traveling in. ·
2004 New Zealand Tomb of the Unknown
Warrior is dedicated at the National War Memorial, Wellington. ·
2004 The Palestine Liberation Organization confirms
the death of Yasser Arafat from unidentified
causes. Mahmoud Abbas is elected chairman of the
PLO minutes later. ·
2006 Queen 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. ·
2012 A strong earthquake with the magnitude 6.8 hits northern Burma,
killing at least 26 people. ·
2014 Fifty-eight people are killed in a bus crash in the Sukkur
District in southern Pakistan's Sindh province. Births[edit]
·
1050 Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor (d.
1106)[3] ·
1154 Sancho I of Portugal (d. 1212) ·
1155 Alfonso VIII of Castile (d. 1214) ·
1220 Alphonse, Count of Poitiers (d.
1271) ·
1430 Jot of Romberk, Bishop of Breslau (d. 1467) ·
1441 Charlotte of Savoy, French queen (d. 1483) ·
1449 Catherine of Poděbrady, Hungarian
Queen (d. 1464) ·
1491 Martin Bucer,
German Protestant reformer (d. 1551) ·
1493 Paracelsus,
Swiss-German physician, botanist, astrologer, and occultist (d. 1541) ·
1512 Marcin Kromer,
Prince-Bishop of Warmia (d. 1589) ·
1569 Martin Ruland the Younger, German
physician and chemist (d. 1611) ·
1579 Frans Snyders,
Flemish painter (d. 1657) ·
1599 Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg (d.
1655) ·
1599 Ottavio Piccolomini, Austrian-Italian field
marshal (d. 1656) ·
1633 George Savile, 1st Marquess of
Halifax, English politician, Lord President of the Council (d.
1695) ·
1668 Johann Albert Fabricius, German author
and scholar (d. 1736) ·
1696 Andrea Zani,
Italian violinist and composer (d. 1757) ·
1743 Carl Peter Thunberg, Swedish botanist,
entomologist, and psychologist (d. 1828) ·
1748 Charles IV of Spain (d. 1819) ·
1791 Josef
Munzinger, Swiss lawyer and politician, 3rd President of the Swiss
Confederation (d. 1855) ·
1821 Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian novelist, short
story writer, essayist, and philosopher (d. 1881) ·
1836 Thomas Bailey Aldrich, American poet and
author (d. 1907) ·
1852 Franz Conrad von Hφtzendorf,
Austrian-Hungarian field marshal (d. 1925) ·
1855 Stevan Sremac,
Serbian author and activist (d. 1906) ·
1857 Janet Erskine Stuart, English nun and
educator (d. 1914) ·
1860 Thomas Joseph Byrnes, Australian politician,
12th Premier of Queensland (d. 1898) ·
1863 Paul Signac,
French painter and educator (d. 1935) ·
1864 Alfred Hermann Fried, Austrian journalist and
activist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1921) ·
1866 Martha Annie Whiteley, English chemist
and mathematician (d. 1956)[4] ·
1867 Shrimad Rajchandra, a Jain philosopher,
spiritual mentor of Mahatma Gandhi (d. 1901)[5] ·
1868 Ιdouard Vuillard, French painter and academic
(d. 1940) ·
1869 Victor Emmanuel III of Italy (d.
1947)[6] ·
1872 David I. Walsh,
American lawyer and politician, 46th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1947) ·
1882 Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden (d. 1973) ·
1883 Ernest
Ansermet, Swiss conductor and academic (d. 1969) ·
1885 George S.
Patton, American general (d. 1945) ·
1887 Roland Young,
English-American actor (d. 1953) ·
1888 Abul Kalam
Azad, Indian activist, scholar, and politician, Indian
Minister of Education (d. 1958) ·
1888 J. B.
Kripalani, Indian lawyer and politician (d.1982) ·
1891 Rabbit Maranville, American baseball player
and manager (d. 1954) ·
1891 Grunya
Sukhareva, Ukrainian-Russian psychiatrist and university lecturer
(d. 1981) ·
1894 Beverly Bayne,
American actress (d. 1982) ·
1895 Wealthy
Babcock, American mathematician and academic (d. 1990) ·
1896 Shirley Graham Du Bois, American author,
playwright, composer, and activist (d. 1977) ·
1896 Carlos Eduardo Castaρeda,
Mexican-American historian (d. 1958) ·
1898 Renι Clair,
French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1981)[7] ·
1899 Pat O'Brien, American actor (d. 1983) ·
1900 Maria Babanova,
Russian stage and film actress (d. 1983) ·
1901 Sam Spiegel,
American film producer (d. 1985) ·
1901 F. Van Wyck Mason, American historian and
author (d. 1978) ·
1904 Alger Hiss,
American lawyer and convicted spy (d. 1996) ·
1904 J. H. C. Whitehead, Indian-American
mathematician and academic (d. 1960) ·
1906 Brother
Theodore, German-American monologuist and comedian (d. 2001) ·
1907 Orestis Laskos,
Greek director, screenwriter, and poet (d. 1992) ·
1909 Robert Ryan,
American actor (d. 1973) ·
1909 Piero Scotti,
Italian race car driver (d. 1976) ·
1911 Roberto Matta,
Chilean-Italian painter and sculptor (d. 2002) ·
1912 Thomas C. Mann,
American lawyer, politician, and diplomat, United States Ambassador to El
Salvador (d. 1999) ·
1914 James Gilbert Baker, American astronomer,
optician, and academic (d. 2005) ·
1914 Taslim Olawale Elias, Nigerian academic and
jurist, 2nd Chief Justice of Nigeria (d. 1991) ·
1914 Howard Fast,
American novelist and screenwriter (d. 2003) ·
1914 Henry Wade,
American soldier and lawyer (d. 2001) ·
1914 Daisy Bates, American activist who
played a leading role in the Little Rock Integration Crisis of 1957 (d. 1999) ·
1915 William
Proxmire, American soldier, journalist, and politician (d. 2005) ·
1915 Anna Schwartz,
American economist and author (d. 2012) ·
1916 Robert Carr,
English engineer and politician, Lord President of the Council (d.
2012) ·
1918 Stubby Kaye,
American entertainer (d. 1997) ·
1919 Kalle Pδδtalo, Finnish soldier and author (d.
2000) ·
1920 Roy Jenkins,
Welsh-English captain, academic, and politician, President of the European
Commission (d. 2003) ·
1920 Walter
Krupinski, German captain and pilot (d. 2000) ·
1921 Terrel Bell,
American sergeant, academic, and politician, 2nd United States Secretary of
Education (d. 1996) ·
1922 Kurt Vonnegut,
American novelist, short story writer, and essayist (d. 2007)[8] ·
1925 John
Guillermin, English-American director, producer, and screenwriter
(d. 2015) ·
1925 June Whitfield,
English actress (d. 2018) ·
1925 Jonathan
Winters, American actor and screenwriter (d. 2013) ·
1926 Harry Lumley, Canadian ice hockey player
(d. 1998) ·
1926 Maria Teresa de Filippis, Italian race
car driver (d. 2016) ·
1927 Mose Allison,
American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 2016) ·
1927 Martin pegelj, Croatian general and
politician, 2nd Croatian Minister of Defence (d.
2014) ·
1928 Ernestine Anderson, American singer (d. 2016) ·
1928 Carlos Fuentes,
Mexican novelist and essayist (d. 2012) ·
1929 LaVern Baker,
American singer (d. 1997) ·
1929 Hans Magnus Enzensberger, German author
and poet ·
1929 Martin Jacomb,
English lawyer, businessman, and academic ·
1930 Hugh Everett
III, American physicist and mathematician (d. 1982) ·
1930 Vernon Handley,
English conductor (d. 2008) ·
1930 Mildred Dresselhaus, American physicist and
academic (d. 2017) ·
1932 Germano
Mosconi, Italian journalist (d. 2012) ·
1933 Martino
Finotto, Italian race car driver (d. 2014) ·
1933 Peter B. Lewis,
American businessman and philanthropist (d. 2013) ·
1935 Bibi Andersson,
Swedish actress (d. 2019) ·
1936 Jack Keller, American songwriter and
producer (d. 2005) ·
1937 Vittorio Brambilla, Italian race car driver
(d. 2001) ·
1937 Stephen Lewis,
Canadian politician and diplomat, 14th Canadian Ambassador to the United
Nations ·
1937 Alicia
Ostriker, American poet and scholar ·
1939 Denise
Alexander, American actress ·
1940 Barbara Boxer,
American journalist and politician ·
1940 Dennis Coffey,
American guitarist ·
1942 Jonathan Fenby,
English journalist and businessman ·
1942 Roy Fredericks,
Guyanese-American cricketer and politician (d. 2000) ·
1942 Diane
Wolkstein, American author and radio host (d. 2013) ·
1943 Doug Frost, Australian swim coach ·
1945 Chris Dreja,
English guitarist and songwriter ·
1945 Vince Martell,
American singer and guitarist ·
1945 Daniel Ortega,
Nicaraguan politician, President of Nicaragua ·
1946 Al Holbert,
American race car driver (d. 1988) ·
1948 Andrzej Czok,
Polish mountaineer (d. 1986) ·
1948 Vincent Schiavelli, American actor (d. 2005) ·
1948 Robert John "Mutt" Lange,
British-South African record producer and songwriter ·
1949 Ismail Petra of Kelantan, former Sultan
of Kelantan (d. 2019) ·
1949 Kathy
Postlewait, American golfer ·
1950 Mircea Dinescu,
Romanian journalist and poet ·
1950 Jim Peterik,
American singer-songwriter and guitarist ·
1951 Kim Peek,
American megasavant (d. 2009) ·
1951 Marc Summers,
American television host and producer ·
1951 Fuzzy Zoeller,
American golfer ·
1953 Marshall Crenshaw, American singer-songwriter
and guitarist ·
1953 Andy Partridge,
English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer ·
1954 Steve Brain,
English rugby player ·
1954 Mary Gaitskill,
American novelist, essayist, and short story writer. ·
1954 Roger Slifer,
American author, illustrator, screenwriter, and producer (d. 2015) ·
1955 Dave Alvin,
American singer-songwriter and guitarist ·
1955 Jigme Singye Wangchuk, King of Bhutan ·
1955 Teri York,
Canadian diver[9] ·
1956 Ian Craig
Marsh, English guitarist ·
1956 Talat Aziz,
Ghazal singer ·
1958 Luz Casal,
Spanish singer-songwriter and actress ·
1958 Kazimieras Černis, Lithuanian
astronomer and astrophysicist ·
1958 Carlos Lacαmara, Cuban-American actor and
playwright ·
1958 Kathy Lette,
Australian-English author ·
1959 Lee Haney,
American bodybuilder ·
1959 Richard Rowe, English jockey and trainer ·
1959 Christian Schwarzenegger, Swiss
criminologist and academic ·
1959 Carl Williams, American boxer (d. 2013) ·
1960 Colin Harvey, English author and critic
(d. 2011) ·
1960 Chuck
Hernandez, American baseball player and coach ·
1960 Paquito Ochoa, Jr., Filipino lawyer and
politician, 37th Executive Secretary of the
Philippines ·
1960 Cristina Odone,
Kenyan-Italian journalist and author ·
1960 Peter Parros,
American actor, producer, and screenwriter ·
1960 Stanley Tucci,
American actor and director ·
1961 Yuri Milner,
Russian-born entrepreneur, venture capitalist and physicist ·
1962 Mario Fenech,
Maltese-Australian rugby league player and sportscaster ·
1962 Georgios Mitsibonas, Greek footballer (d.
1997) ·
1962 Demi Moore,
American actress, director, and producer ·
1962 James Morrison, Australian trumpet
player and composer ·
1963 Billy Gunn,
American wrestler and actor ·
1964 Margarete Bagshaw, American painter and
potter (d. 2015) ·
1964 Calista Flockhart, American actress ·
1964 Philip McKeon,
American actor (d. 2019) ·
1965 Max Mutchnick,
American screenwriter and producer ·
1965 Kim Stockwood,
Canadian singer-songwriter ·
1966 Benedicta Boccoli, Italian model and actress ·
1966 Vince Colosimo,
Australian actor ·
1966 Alison Doody,
Irish model and actress ·
1967 Gil de Ferran,
Brazilian race car driver ·
1967 David Doak,
Northern Irish video game designer ·
1967 Frank John Hughes, American actor, producer,
and screenwriter ·
1968 David L. Cook,
American singer-songwriter and comedian ·
1968 Diego Fuser,
Italian footballer and manager ·
1971 David DeLuise,
American actor and director ·
1971 Tomas Pačėsas, Lithuanian
basketball player and coach ·
1972 Adam Beach,
Canadian actor ·
1973 Jason White, American singer-songwriter
and guitarist ·
1974 Jon B.,
American singer-songwriter and producer ·
1974 Leonardo DiCaprio, American actor and producer[10] ·
1974 Static Major,
American singer-songwriter and producer (d. 2008) ·
1974 Wajahatullah Wasti, Pakistani cricketer ·
1975 Daisuke Ohata,
Japanese rugby player ·
1976 Jason Grilli,
American baseball player ·
1976 Jesse F.
Keeler, Canadian bass player ·
1977 Ben Hollioake,
Australian-English cricketer (d. 2002) ·
1977 Jill Vedder,
American philanthropist, activist and fashion model[11] ·
1977 Maniche,
Portuguese footballer and manager ·
1977 Marsha Mehran,
Iranian-American author (d. 2014) ·
1978 Lou Vincent,
New Zealand cricketer ·
1980 Willie Parker,
American football player and coach ·
1980 Edmoore Takaendesa, Zimbabwean-German rugby
player ·
1982 Gonzalo Canale,
Argentinian-Italian rugby player ·
1982 Jeremy Williams, English model, actor,
and poet ·
1983 Arouna Konι,
Ivorian footballer ·
1983 Philipp Lahm,
German footballer ·
1983 Tatsuhisa
Suzuki, Japanese voice actor and singer ·
1984 Stephen Hunt, English
footballer ·
1984 Birkir Mαr Sζvarsson, Icelandic footballer ·
1985 Osvaldo Alonso,
Cuban footballer ·
1985 Austin Collie,
American football player ·
1985 Tiidrek Nurme,
Estonian runner ·
1985 Jessica Sierra,
American singer ·
1985 Robin Uthappa,
Indian cricketer ·
1986 Franηois Trinh-Duc, French rugby player ·
1986 Jon Batiste,
American singer and pianist ·
1986 Mark Sanchez,
American football player ·
1986 Victor Cruz, American
football player ·
1987 Vinny
Guadagnino, American actor ·
1987 Chanelle Hayes,
English model and singer ·
1988 David Depetris,
Argentinian-Slovak footballer ·
1988 Mikako Komatsu,
Japanese voice actress and singer ·
1988 Kyle Naughton,
English footballer ·
1989 Nick Blackman,
English-Israeli footballer[12] ·
1989 Adam Rippon,
American figure skater ·
1989 Reina Tanaka,
Japanese singer ·
1989 Lewis
Williamson, Scottish race car driver ·
1990 James Segeyaro,
Papua New Guinean rugby league player[13] ·
1990 Tom Dumoulin,
Dutch road bicycle racer[14] ·
1990 Georginio Wijnaldum, Dutch footballer[15] ·
1992 Sofνa Luini,
Argentine tennis player[16] ·
1993 Jamaal
Lascelles, English footballer[17] ·
1994 Ellie Simmonds,
English swimmer[18] ·
1994 Sanju Samson,
Indian cricketer[19] ·
1995 Josh Aloiai,
New Zealand rugby league player[20] Deaths[edit]
·
405 Arsacius of Tarsus, Tarsian archbishop (b.
324) ·
683 Yazid I,
Muslim caliph (b.
647) ·
865 Petronas, Byzantine general ·
865 Antony the Younger, Byzantine monk and saint
(b. 785) ·
875 Teutberga,
queen of Lotharingia ·
1028 Constantine
VIII, Byzantine emperor (b. 960) ·
1078 Udo of Nellenburg, Archbishop of Trier (during
the siege of Tόbingen) ·
1089 Saint Peter Igneus,
Italian Benedictine monk ·
1130 Teresa of Leσn, Countess of
Portugal, Portuguese regent (b. 1080) ·
1189 King William II of Sicily ("the
Good") (b. 1153) ·
1285 King Peter III of Aragon (b. 1239) ·
1331 Stefan Uro III Dečanski of
Serbia (b. c. 1285) ·
1561 Hans Tausen,
Danish reformer (b. 1494) ·
1583 Gerald FitzGerald, 15th Earl of
Desmond, Irish rebel ·
1623 Philippe de Mornay, French theorist and
author (b. 1549) ·
1638 Cornelis van Haarlem, Dutch painter and
illustrator (b. 1562) ·
1724 Joseph Blake, English criminal (b. 1700) ·
1812 Platon Levshin,
Russian metropolitan (b. 1737) ·
1831 Nat Turner,
American slave and rebel leader (b. 1800) ·
1855 Sψren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher,
author, and poet (b. 1813) ·
1861 Pedro V of Portugal (b. 1837) ·
1862 James Madison Porter, American lawyer and
politician, 18th United States Secretary of War (b.
1793) ·
1880 Ned Kelly,
Australian criminal (b. 1855) ·
1880 Lucretia Mott,
American activist (b. 1793) ·
1884 Alfred Brehm,
German zoologist, author, and illustrator (b. 1827) ·
1887 Haymarket
affair defendants: ·
1887 George Engel,
German-American businessman and activist (b. 1836) ·
1887 Adolph Fischer,
German-American printer and activist (b. 1858) ·
1887 Albert Parsons,
American journalist and activist (b. 1848) ·
1887 August Spies,
American journalist and activist (b. 1855) ·
1917 Liliuokalani of
Hawaii (b. 1838) ·
1918 George Lawrence Price, Canadian soldier
(b. 1892) ·
1919 Pavel
Chistyakov, Russian painter and educator (b. 1832) ·
1921 Lιon Moreaux,
French target shooter (b. 1852) ·
1931 Shibusawa
Eiichi, Japanese businessman (b. 1840) ·
1939 Bob Marshall, American
author and activist (b. 1901) ·
1940 Muhittin Akyόz, Turkish general and diplomat
(b. 1870) ·
1944 Munir Ertegun,
Turkish diplomat (b. 1883) ·
1945 Jerome Kern,
American composer (b. 1885) ·
1949 Loukas Kanakaris-Roufos, Greek lawyer
and politician, Greek Minister of Foreign Minister (b.
1878) ·
1950 Alexandros Diomidis, Greek banker and
politician, 145th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1875) ·
1953 Princess Irene of Hesse and by
Rhine (b. 1866) ·
1961 Behiη Erkin,
Turkish colonel and politician, Turkish
Minister of Environment and Urban Planning (b. 1876) ·
1962 Joseph Ruddy,
American swimmer and water polo player (b. 1878) ·
1965 Luis Arturo Gonzαlez Lσpez Guatemalan
supreme court judge and briefly acting president (b. 1900) ·
1972 Berry Oakley,
American bass player (b. 1948) ·
1973 Artturi Ilmari Virtanen, Finnish chemist
and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1895) ·
1973 Richard von Frankenberg, German race car
driver and journalist (b. 1922) ·
1974 Alfonso Leng,
Chilean dentist, composer, and academic (b. 1894) ·
1976 Alexander
Calder, American sculptor (b. 1898) ·
1977 Abraham Sarmiento, Jr., Filipino
journalist and activist (b. 1950) ·
1979 Dimitri
Tiomkin, Ukrainian-American composer and conductor (b. 1894) ·
1980 Vince Gair,
Australian politician, 27th Premier of Queensland (b. 1901) ·
1984 Martin Luther King, Sr., American
pastor, missionary, and activist (b. 1899) ·
1985 Pelle
Lindbergh, Swedish ice hockey player (b. 1959) ·
1985 Arthur
Rothstein, American photographer and educator (b. 1915) ·
1988 Charles Groves Wright Anderson, South
African-Australian colonel and politician (b. 1897) ·
1988 William Ifor Jones, Welsh conductor and
organist (b. 1900) ·
1990 Attilio Demarνa, Argentinian footballer (b.
1909) ·
1990 Sadi Irmak,
Turkish physician and politician, 17th Prime Minister of Turkey (b.
1904) ·
1990 Alexis Minotis,
Greek actor and director (b. 1898) ·
1990 Yiannis Ritsos,
Greek poet and playwright (b. 1909) ·
1993 Erskine
Hawkins, American trumpet player and bandleader (b. 1914) ·
1993 John Stanley, American author and
illustrator (b. 1914) ·
1994 John A. Volpe,
American soldier and politician, 61st Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1908) ·
1994 Tadeusz Żychiewicz, Polish
journalist, historian, and publicist (b. 1922) ·
1997 Rod Milburn,
American hurdler and coach (b. 1950) ·
1997 William Alland,
American film producer and writer (b. 1916) ·
1998 Frank Brimsek,
American ice hockey player and soldier (b. 1913) ·
1998 Paddy Clancy,
Irish singer and actor (b. 1922) ·
1999 Mary Kay
Bergman, American voice actress (b. 1961) ·
1999 Jacobo
Timerman, Argentinian journalist and author (b. 1923) ·
2000 Sandra Schmitt,
German skier (b. 1981) ·
2001 Erna Viitol,
Estonian sculptor (b. 1920) ·
2002 Frances Ames,
South African neurologist, psychiatrist, and human rights activist (b.
1920) ·
2003 Miquel Martν i Pol, Catalan poet (b. 1929) ·
2004 Dayton Allen,
American comedian and voice actor (b. 1919) ·
2004 Yasser Arafat,
Palestinian engineer and politician, 1st President of
the Palestinian National Authority, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1929) ·
2004 Richard Dembo,
French director and screenwriter (b. 1948) ·
2005 Moustapha
Akkad, Syrian-American director and producer (b. 1930) ·
2005 Patrick Anson, 5th Earl of
Lichfield, English photographer (b. 1939) ·
2005 Peter Drucker,
Austrian-American author, theorist, and educator (b. 1909) ·
2006 Belinda Emmett,
Australian actress (b. 1974) ·
2007 Delbert Mann,
American director and producer (b. 1920) ·
2008 Herb Score,
American baseball player and sportscaster (b. 1933) ·
2008 Mustafa Şekip Birgφl, Turkish
colonel (b. 1903) ·
2010 Marie Osborne Yeats, American actress and
costume designer (b. 1911) ·
2011 Francisco Blake Mora, Mexican lawyer and
politician, Mexican Secretary of the Interior (b.
1966) ·
2012 Lam Adesina,
Nigerian educator and politician, Governor of Oyo State (b. 1939) ·
2012 Joe Egan, English rugby player and coach
(b. 1919) ·
2012 Rex Hunt, English lieutenant, pilot, and
diplomat, Governor of the Falkland Islands (b.
1926) ·
2012 Victor Mees,
Belgian footballer (b. 1927) ·
2012 Harry Wayland Randall, American
photographer (b. 1915) ·
2013 John Barnhill, American basketball
player and coach (b. 1938) ·
2013 Domenico Bartolucci, Italian cardinal and
composer (b. 1917) ·
2013 Bob Beckham,
American singer-songwriter (b. 1927) ·
2013 John S. Dunne,
American priest and theologian (b. 1929) ·
2013 Atilla Karaosmanoğlu, Turkish
economist and politician, 33rd Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey (b.
1931) ·
2014 John Doar,
American lawyer and activist (b. 1921) ·
2014 Big Bank Hank,
American rapper (b. 1956) ·
2014 Philip G.
Hodge, American engineer and academic (b. 1920) ·
2014 Harry Lonsdale,
American chemist, businessman, and politician (b. 1932) ·
2014 Carol Ann Susi,
American actress (b. 1952) ·
2015 Rita Gross,
American theologian and author (b. 1943) ·
2015 Nathaniel Marston, American actor and
producer (b. 1975) ·
2016 Victor Bailey, American singer and bass
player (b. 1960) ·
2016 Robert Vaughn,
American actor (b. 1932) ·
2017 Chiquito de la Calzada, Spanish singer,
actor and comedian (b. 1932) Holidays and observances[edit]
·
Birthday of King Jigme Singye Wangchuck (Bhutan) ·
Christian feast day: o Bartholomew of Grottaferrata o Martin of
Tours (Roman Catholic Church), and its related observances. o Menas o Sψren Kierkegaard (Lutheran
Church) o November 11 (Eastern Orthodox
liturgics) ·
End of World War I-related observances: o Armistice Day (New
Zealand, France, Belgium and Serbia) o National Independence Day (Poland),
commemorates the anniversary of Poland's assumption of independent statehood
in 1918 o Remembrance
Day (United Kingdom and the Commonwealth of Nations, including
Australia and Canada) o Veterans Day,
called Armistice Day until 1954, when it was rededicated to honor American
military (Army, Navy, Marine, and Air Force) veterans. (United States) ·
Independence Day, celebrates the
independence of Angola from Portugal in 1975. ·
Independence of Cartagena (Colombia) ·
Lāčplēsis Day, celebrates
the victory over the Bermontians at the Battle of Riga in 1919. (Latvia) ·
Opening of carnival ("Karneval"/"Fasching"),
on 11-11, at 11:11. (Germany, the Netherlands, and other countries) ·
National Education Day (India) ·
Singles Day (China) ·
St. Martin's Day (Sint Maarten, Kingdom of the Netherlands) ·
Women's Day (Belgium) |
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