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November 11 is the 315th day of the year (316th in leap years ) in the Gregorian Calendar , with 51 days remaining.
Events
308 - Congress of Carnuntum , where Diocletian came out of retirement to attempt to negotiate an agreement to preserve the Tetrarchy
1620 - Mayflower Compact signed, establishing the basic laws for the Plymouth Colony .
1648 - France and Netherlands agree to divide the island of Sint Maarten /Saint Martin
1864 - General William Tecumseh Sherman begins burning Atlanta, Georgia to the ground
1889 - Washington is admitted as the 42nd U.S. state .
1918 - World War I ends, and this day is thereafter celebrated as "Armistice Day," "Remembrance Day," "Veterans Day," "Victory Day," or "World War I Memorial Day," depending on your location.
1921 - Tomb of the Unknowns dedicated at Arlington National Cemetery
1940
1965 - Rhodesia proclaims itself independent.
1968 - Maldives become a republic
1975 - Angola becomes independent from Portugal
1975 - Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam is sacked by the Australian Governor General , Sir John Kerr during the Australian constitutional crisis of 1975 .
1992 - The Church of England votes to allow women to become priests.
Births
1050 - Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor (+ 1106 )
1493 - Paracelsus , physician
1744 - Abigail Adams , First Lady
1792 - Mary Anne Evans , wife of Benjamin Disraeli
1821 - Fyodor Dostoyevsky , Russian novelist (+ 1881 )
1863 - Paul Signac , painter (+ 1935 )
1864 - Alfred Hermann Fried[?] , pacifist and recipient of the Nobel Peace Price[?] 1911 (+ 1921 )
1869 - King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy (+ 1947 )
1882 - King Gustav VI Adolf of Sweden (+ 1973 )
1885 - George Patton , American general (+ 1945 )
1887 - Roland Young[?] , actor (+ 1953 )
1889 - Clifton Webb , actor (+ 1966 )
1897 - Charles 'Lucky' Luciano[?] , mobster (+ 1962 )
1901 - F. Van Wyck Mason , author
1903 - Sam Spiegel[?] , film producer (+ 1985 )
1904 - Alger Hiss , American government official, spy (+ 1994 )
1909 - Robert Ryan[?] , actor (+ 1973 )
1914 - Howard Fast , author
1920 - Roy Jenkins , British politician (+ 2003 )
1922 - Kurt Vonnegut , Jr., American novelist
1925 - June Whitfield , British comedienne
1925 - Jonathan Winters , comedian, actor
1927 - Mose Allison , jazz musician
1928 - LaVern Baker
1929 - Hans Magnus Enzensberger[?] , poet
1944 - Jesse Colin Young[?] , musician ("The Youngbloods ")
1945 - Daniel Ortega , Sandinista , President of Nicaragua
1953 - Marshall Crenshaw[?] , musician
1962 - Demi Moore (born "Demetria Guynes"), actress
1959 - Lee Haney , American body builder
1964 - Calista Flockhart , American actress
1974 - Leonardo DiCaprio , American actor
1980 - ManicGypsy Wikipedian
Deaths
397 - Martin of Tours , French saint
537 - St. Silverius , Pope
1028 - Constantine VIII of the Byzantine Empire
1285 - Peter III of Aragon
1643 - Claudio Monteverdi , Italian composer
1831 - Nat Turner , American leader of a slave rebellion
1855 - Søren Kierkegaard , Danish philosopher
1880 - Ned Kelly hanged
1945 - Jerome David Kern , American composer
1974 - Alfonso Leng , Chilean composer
1975 - Theodosius Dobzhansky , Ukrainian geneticist
1979 - Dimitri Tiomkin , composer
1989 - Kenneth Maclean Glazier, Sr.[?] , minister, librarian, Secretary of the Liberal Party in Alberta
1999 - Jacobo Timmerman , writer, journalist
2000 - Hugh Paddick , British actor
Holidays and observances
See Also:
November 10 - November 12 - October 11 - December 11 -- listing of all days
January , February , March , April , May , June , July ,
August , September , October , November , December
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