What happened on November 11? There are more than 288 events that were made this day in history. Here are the important historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
Interesting Facts & Myths About November 11
November 11 is the 316th day of the year 2024. There are 50 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday. This day falls under the 46th week of the year 2024.
On this day in North, Virginia 23128 sunrise occured at 06:40 AM and sunset occured at 04:59 PM (local time).
The zodiac sign of a person born on this day is Scorpio. The modern birthstone for this month is Topaz while the mystical birthstone is Pearl.
According to the Chinese calendar, there are 79 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year (January 29, 2025).
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Historical Events For November 11
- 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 restore order to the Roman Empire.
- 1215The Fourth Lateran Council 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.
- 1500Treaty of Granada – Louis XII of France and Ferdinand II of Aragon agree to divide the Kingdom of Naples between them.
- 1620The Mayflower Compact is signed in what is now Provincetown Harbor near Cape Cod.
- 1634Following pressure from Anglican bishop John Atherton, the Irish House of Commons passes An Act for the Punishment for the Vice of Buggery.
- 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.
- 1675Gottfried Leibniz demonstrates integral calculus for the first time to find the area under the graph of y = ƒ(x).
- 1724Joseph Blake, alias Blueskin, a highwayman known for attacking “Thief-Taker General” (and thief) Jonathan Wild at the Old Bailey, is hanged in London.
- 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.
- 1750riots break out in Lhasa after the murder of the Tibetan regent.
- 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.
- 1805Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Dürenstein – 8000 French troops attempt to slow the retreat of a vastly superior Russian and Austrian force.
- 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.
- 1831In Jerusalem, Virginia, Nat Turner is hanged after inciting a violent slave uprising.
- 1839The Virginia Military Institute is founded in Lexington, Virginia.
- 1864American Civil War: Sherman’s March to the Sea – Union General William Tecumseh Sherman begins burning Atlanta, Georgia to the ground in preparation for his march south.
- 1865Treaty of Sinchula is signed by which Bhutan cedes the areas east of the Teesta River to the British East India Company.
- 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.
- 1880Australian bushranger Ned Kelly is hanged at Melbourne Gaol.
- 1887Anarchist Haymarket Martyrs August Spies, Albert Parsons, Adolph Fischer and George Engel are executed.
- 1887Construction of the Manchester Ship Canal begins at Eastham.
- 1889The State of Washington is admitted as the 42nd State of the United States.
- 1911Many cities in the Midwestern United States break their record highs and lows on the same day as a strong cold front rolls through.
- 1918Emperor Charles I of Austria relinquishes power.
- 1918Józef Piłsudski assumes supreme military power in Poland - symbolic first day of Polish independence.
- 1918World War I: Germany signs an armistice agreement with the Allies in a railroad car in the forest of Compiègne, France. The fighting officially ends at 11:00 a.m., (the eleventh hour in the eleventh month on the eleventh day) and this is annually honoured with a two-minute silence. The war officially ends on the signing of the Treaty of Versailles on 28th June, 1919.
- 1919Lāčplēša day – Latvian forces defeat the Freikorps at Riga in the Latvian War of Independence.
- 1919The Centralia Massacre in Centralia, Washington results the deaths of four members of the American Legion and the lynching of a local leader of the Industrial Workers of the World.
- 1921The Tomb of the Unknowns is dedicated by US President Warren G. Harding at Arlington National Cemetery.
- 1924Prime Minister Alexandros Papanastasiou proclaims the first recognized Greek Republic.
- 1926U.S. Route 66 is established.
- 1930Patent number US1781541 is awarded to Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd for their invention, the Einstein refrigerator.
- 1934The Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne, Australia is opened.
- 1940Armistice Day Blizzard: An unexpected blizzard kills 144 in the U.S. Midwest.
- 1940The German cruiser Atlantis captures top secret British mail, and sends it to Japan.
- 1940World War II: Battle of Taranto – The Royal Navy launches the first aircraft carrier strike in history, on the Italian fleet at Taranto.
- 1942World War II: Nazi Germany completes its occupation of France.
- 1942World War II: The Second Battle of El Alamein is won by the British in El Alamein, Egypt.
- 1944Dr. jur. Erich Göstl, a member of the Waffen SS, is presented with the Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross, to recognise extreme battlefield bravery, after losing his face and eyes during the Battle of Normandy.
- 1960A military coup against President Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam is crushed.
- 1961thirteen Italian Air Force servicemen, deployed to the Congo as a part of the UN peacekeeping force are massacred by a mob in the course of the Kindu atrocity.
- 1962Kuwait’s National Assembly ratifies the Constitution of Kuwait.
- 1965In Rhodesia (modern-day Zimbabwe), the white-minority government of Ian Smith unilaterally declares independence.
- 1966NASA launches Gemini 12.
- 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.
- 1968A second republic is declared in the Maldives.
- 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.
- 1972Vietnam War: Vietnamization – The United States Army turns over the massive Long Binh military base to South Vietnam.
- 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.
- 1975Independence of Angola.
- 1981Antigua and Barbuda joins the United Nations.
- 1992The General Synod of the Church of England votes to allow women to become priests.
- 1993A sculpture honoring women who served in the Vietnam War is dedicated at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.
- 1999The House of Lords Act is given Royal Assent, restricting membership of the British House of Lords by virtue of a hereditary peerage.
- 2000Kaprun disaster: 155 skiers and snowboarders die when a cable car catches fire in an alpine tunnel in Kaprun, Austria.
- 2001Journalists Pierre Billaud, Johanne Sutton and Volker Handloik are killed in Afghanistan during an attack on the convoy they are traveling in.
- 2004New Zealand Tomb of the Unknown Warrior is dedicated at the National War Memorial, Wellington.
- 2004The Palestine Liberation Organization confirms the death of Yasser Arafat from unidentified causes. Mahmoud Abbas is elected chairman of the PLO minutes later.
- 2006Her Majesty 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.
- 2008RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 (QE2) sets sail on her final voyage to Dubai.
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Who Were Born On November 11?
- 995Gisela of Swabia, Holy Roman Empire Empress (d. 1041)
- 1050Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1106)
- 1154King Sancho I of Portugal (d. 1212)
- 1155King Alfonso VIII of Castile (d. 1214)
- 1220Alphonse of Toulouse, son of Louis VIII of France (d. 1271)
- 1493Bernardo Tasso, Italian poet (d. 1569)
- 1493Paracelsus, physician (d. 1541)
- 1569Martin Ruland the Younger, German physician and alchemist (d. 1611)
- 1599Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg, Queen of Sweden (d. 1655)
- 1599Ottavio Piccolomini, Austrian-Italian field marshal (d. 1656)
- 1633George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax, British statesman (d. 1695)
- 1668Johann Albert Fabricius, German scholar and bibliographer (d. 1736)
- 1743Carl Peter Thunberg, Swedish naturalist (d. 1828)
- 1744Abigail Adams, First Lady of the United States (d. 1818)
- 1748King Charles IV of Spain (d. 1819)
- 1791Josef Munzinger, Swiss Federal Councillor (d. 1855)
- 1792Mary Anne Evans, Welsh wife of Benjamin Disraeli (d. 1872)
- 1821Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russian novelist (d. 1881)
- 1836Thomas Bailey Aldrich, American poet and novelist (d. 1907)
- 1852Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf, Austro-Hungarian field marshal (d. 1925)
- 1857Janet Erskine Stuart, Sacred Heart educator (d. 1914)
- 1858Marie Bashkirtseff, Russian painter (d. 1884)
- 1863Paul Signac, French painter (d. 1935)
- 1864Alfred Hermann Fried, Austrian pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1921)
- 1869Gaetano Bresci, Italian-American anarchist (d. 1901)
- 1869King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy (d. 1947)
- 1872David I. Walsh, 46th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1947)
- 1882King Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden (d. 1973)
- 1883Ernest Ansermet, Swiss conductor (d. 1969)
- 1885George Smith Patton, Jr., American general (d. 1945)
- 1887Roland Young, American actor (d. 1953)
- 1888Abul Kalam Azad, Indian independence movement leader (d. 1958)
- 1891Rabbit Maranville, American baseball player (d. 1954)
- 1898René Clair, French film director (d. 1981)
- 1899Pat O'Brien, American film actor (d. 1983)
- 1900Halina Konopacka, Polish athlete (d. 1989)
- 1901F. Van Wyck Mason, American author (d. 1978)
- 1901Magda Goebbels, wife of Nazi minister of propaganda, Joseph Goebbels (d. 1945)
- 1901Sam Spiegel, Austrian-born American film producer (d. 1985)
- 1904Alger Hiss, American government official and spy (d. 1996)
- 1904J. H. C. Whitehead, British mathematician (d. 1960)
- 1907Orestis Laskos, Greek film director, screenwriter and poet (d. 1992)
- 1909Robert Ryan, American actor (d. 1973)
- 1911Roberto Matta, Chilean painter (d. 2002)
- 1912Thomas C. Mann, American diplomat (d. 1999)
- 1914Henry Wade, American lawyer (d. 2001)
- 1914Howard Fast, American author (d. 2003)
- 1914James G. Baker, American astronomer and optician (d. 2005)
- 1914Taslim Olawale Elias, Nigerian jurist and former ICJ president (d. 1991)
- 1915William Proxmire, American politician (d. 2005)
- 1916Robert Carr, British conservative politician
- 1918Stubby Kaye, American comic actor (d. 1997)
- 1919Kalle Päätalo, Finnish novelist (d. 2000)
- 1920Roy Jenkins, British politician (d. 2003)
- 1921Terrel Bell, American politician (d. 1996)
- 1922Kurt Vonnegut Jr., American novelist (d. 2007)
- 1925Jonathan Winters, American comedian and actor
- 1925June Whitfield, British comedian
- 1926Harry Lumley, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1998)
- 1927Mose Allison, American jazz pianist and singer
- 1928Carlos Fuentes, Mexican writer
- 1928Gracita Morales, Spanish actress (d. 1995)
- 1929Hans Magnus Enzensberger, German writer
- 1929LaVern Baker, American singer (d. 1997)
- 1930Hank Garland, American guitar virtuoso (d. 2004)
- 1930Hugh Everett, American physicist (d. 1982)
- 1930Vernon Handley, English conductor (d. 2008)
- 1931Veronica Hurst, British actress
- 1932Germano Mosconi, Italian journalist and former-anchorman
- 1936Jack Keller, American songwriter (d. 2005)
- 1936Mala Sinha, Bollywood film actress
- 1936Susan Kohner, American actress
- 1937Stephen Lewis, Canadian politician and diplomat
- 1938Ants Antson, Estonian speed skater
- 1938Haruhiro Yamashita, Japanese gymnast
- 1939Denise Alexander, American actress
- 1940Barbara Boxer, American politician
- 1943Doug Frost, Australian swimming coach
- 1944Kemal Sunal,Turkish actor
- 1945Daniel Ortega, President of Nicaragua
- 1945Vince Martell, American guitarist (Vanilla Fudge)
- 1946Al Holbert, American racing driver and team owner (d. 1988)
- 1946Chris Dreja, British musician (The Yardbirds)
- 1948Vincent Schiavelli, American actor d.2005
- 1950Ed Ordynski, Australian rally driver
- 1950Jim Peterik, American musician and songwriter (Survivor)
- 1950Mircea Dinescu, Romanian poet
- 1951Bill Moseley, American actor
- 1951Kim Peek, American megasavant (d. 2009)
- 1951Marc Summers, American game show host
- 1953Andy Partridge, English musician (XTC)
- 1953Kostas Skandalidis, Greek politician
- 1953Marshall Crenshaw, American musician
- 1954Mary Gaitskill, American novelist
- 1955Dave Alvin, American songwriter and guitarist
- 1956Ian Craig Marsh, British musician
- 1957Oleg Vishnepolsky, American aphorist, software developer
- 1958Carlos Lacamara, Cuban-born American actor
- 1958Luz Casal, Spanish singer
- 1959Lee Haney, American bodybuilder
- 1960Chuck Hernandez, American baseball coach
- 1960Lawrence Bayne, Canadian actor
- 1960Peter Parros, American actor
- 1960Stanley Tucci, American actor and director
- 1961Jan Kuehnemund, American guitarist
- 1962Demi Moore, American actress
- 1962Georgios Mitsibonas, Greek footballer (d. 1997)
- 1962James Morrison, Australian musician
- 1962Mic Michaeli, Swedish keyboardist
- 1963Monty Sopp, American professional wrestler
- 1964Anabel Alonso, Spanish actress
- 1964Calista Flockhart, American actress
- 1965Max Mutchnick, American TV writer and producer
- 1966Alison Doody, Irish actress
- 1967Gil de Ferran, Brazilian racing driver
- 1968David L. Cook, American singer and comedian
- 1969Carson Kressley, American television personality
- 1969Kristen Wilson, American actress
- 1970Lee Battersby, Australian author
- 1971David DeLuise, American actor
- 1971Jennifer Celotta, American TV producer and writer
- 1971Paul Chaloner, English TV e-sports commentator
- 1972Adam Beach, Canadian actor
- 1972Tyler Christopher, American actor
- 1973Jason White, American musician (Green Day)
- 1973Melissa Stark, American sportscaster/journalist
- 1974Leonardo DiCaprio, American actor
- 1974Static Major, American singer (d. 2008)
- 1974Wajahatullah Wasti, Pakistani cricketer
- 1975Angelica Vale Mexican actress
- 1975Denisa Legac, sex therapist and hypnotherapist, active in Austria, Croatia and the United States of America
- 1976Jason Grilli, American baseball player
- 1976Jesse F. Keeler, Canadian musician
- 1976Lisa Gleave, Australian-American actress and model
- 1977Ben Hollioake, English cricketer (d. 2002)
- 1977Maniche, Portuguese footballer
- 1978Lou Vincent, New Zealand cricketer
- 1980Edmoore Takaendesa, Zimbabwean-born German rugby player
- 1980Jaeson Ma, Pastor, Artist, Missionary
- 1980Willie Parker, American football player
- 1981Guillaume, Hereditary Grand Duke of Luxembourg
- 1981Natalie Glebova, Russian/Canadian beauty queen, Miss Universe 2005
- 1982Gonzalo Canale, Argentine-born Italian rugby player
- 1982Jeremy Williams, British Actor
- 1983Brittny Gastineau, American socialite
- 1983Philipp Lahm, German footballer
- 1985Austin Collie, American football player
- 1985Jessica Sierra, American singer
- 1985Kalan Porter, Canadian singer-songwriter
- 1985Robin Uthappa, Indian cricketer
- 1986François Trinh-Duc, French rugby player
- 1986Mark Sanchez, American football player
- 1986Victor Cruz, American football player
- 1987Chanelle Hayes, British reality TV star
- 1987Yuya Tegoshi, Japanese singer (NEWS, Tegomass)
- 1988Kyle Naughton, English footballer
- 1989Lewis Williamson, British racing driver
- 1989Reina Tanaka, Japanese pop singer (Morning Musume)
- 1991Christa B. Allen, American actress
- 1994Connor Price, Canadian actor
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Who Died On November 11?
- 405Arsacius of Tarsus, Tarsian religious figure (before 324)
- 537Pope Silverius (date of birth unknown)
- 826(feast day) Theodore the Studite, Byzantine monk (b. 759)
- 865Petronas the Patrician, Byzantine General
- 1623Philippe de Mornay, French writer (b. 1549)
- 1638Cornelis van Haarlem, Dutch painter (b. 1562)
- 1675Guru Tegh Bahadur, Indian religious figure (b. 1621)
- 1686Louis II de Bourbon, Prince de Condé, French general (b. 1621)
- 1686Otto von Guericke, German scientist, inventor, and politician (b. 1602)
- 1724Joseph Blake, English highwayman (b. c. 1700)
- 1812Platon Levshin, Metropoitan of Moscow (b. 1737)
- 1831Nat Turner, American slave rebel (b. 1800)
- 1855Søren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher (b. 1813)
- 1861King Pedro V of Portugal (b. 1837)
- 1862James Madison Porter, American politician (b. 1793)
- 1880Lucretia Mott, American feminist and abolitionist (b. 1793)
- 1880Ned Kelly, Australian bushranger (b. c.1855)
- 1884Alfred Brehm German zoologist (b. 1827)
- 1887Haymarket defendants: Adolph Fischer (b. 1858)
- 1887Haymarket defendants: Albert Parsons (b. 1848)
- 1887Haymarket defendants: August Spies (b. 1855)
- 1887Haymarket defendants: George Engel (b. 1836)
- 1917Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii (b. 1838)
- 1918George Lawrence Price, Canadian WWI soldier (b. 1892)
- 1919Pavel Chistyakov, Russian painter (b. 1832)
- 1931Shibusawa Eiichi, Japanese industrialist (b. 1840)
- 1938Mary Mallon, Irish-born American carrier of typhoid (b. 1869)
- 1939Bob Marshall, American conservationist (b. 1901)
- 1939Jan Opletal, Czech student and anti-Nazi demonstrator (b. 1915)
- 1945Jerome Kern, American composer (b. 1885)
- 1949Loukas Kanakaris-Roufos, Greek politician (b. 1878)
- 1950Alexandros Diomidis, Greek banker and statesman (b. 1875)
- 1953Princess Irene of Hesse and by Rhine (b. 1866)
- 1972Berry Oakley, American musician (Allman Brothers Band) (b. 1948)
- 1973Artturi Ilmari Virtanen, Finnish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1895)
- 1974Alfonso Leng, Chilean composer (b. 1894)
- 1976Alexander Calder, American artist (b. 1898)
- 1977Abraham Sarmiento, Jr., Filipino journalist and political activist (b. 1950)
- 1977Greta Keller, Austrian cabaret singer and actress (b. 1903)
- 1979Dimitri Tiomkin, Ukrainian-born American film composer (b. 1894)
- 1984Martin Luther King, Sr., American civil rights figure (b. 1899)
- 1985Pelle Lindbergh, Swedish ice hockey player (b. 1959)
- 1988William Ifor Jones, Welsh conductor and organist (b. 1900)
- 1990Alexis Minotis, Greek actor (b. 1898)
- 1990Attilio Demaría, Argentinian footballer (b. 1909)
- 1990Yiannis Ritsos, Greek poet (b. 1909)
- 1993Erskine Hawkins, American trumpeter and big band leader (b. 1914)
- 1994John A. Volpe, American politician and Nixon administration cabinet member (b. 1908)
- 1994Pedro Zamora, Cuban-born American TV personality and AIDS activist (b. 1972)
- 1994Tadeusz Żychiewicz, Polish journalist, art historian and publicist (b. 1922)
- 1997Rod Milburn, American athlete (b. 1950)
- 1998Frank Brimsek, American ice hockey player (b. 1913)
- 1999Jacobo Timerman, Argentine writer and journalist (b. 1923)
- 1999Mary Kay Bergman, American voice actress (b. 1961)
- 2003Miquel Martí i Pol, Catalan poet (b. 1929)
- 2004Richard Dembo, French director and screenwriter (b. 1948)
- 2004Yasser Arafat, Palestinian leader, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1929)
- 2005Keith Andes, American actor (b. 1920)
- 2005Moustapha Akkad, Syrian-American film producer and director (b. 1930)
- 2005Patrick Anson, 5th Earl of Lichfield, British photographer (b. 1939)
- 2005Peter Drucker, American management theorist (b. 1909)
- 2006Belinda Emmett, Australian actress (b. 1974)
- 2006Harry Lehotsky, American-born Canadian pastor and activist (b. 1957)
- 2007Delbert Mann, American film director (b. 1920)
- 2008Herb Score, American baseball player (b. 1933)
- 2009Dhanpat Rai Nahar, Indian labour leader (b. 1919)
- 2010Baby Marie Osborne, American actress (b. 1911)
- 2010William Edwin Self, American actor and television producer (b. 1921)
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