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November 11 in History
Historical Events on November 11
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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.
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.
1215
The 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.
1500
Treaty of Granada: Louis XII of France and Ferdinand II of Aragon agree to divide the Kingdom of Naples between them.
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: 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.
1675
Gottfried Leibniz demonstrates integral calculus for the first time to find the area under the graph of y = ƒ(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 Dürenstein: 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 Compiègne.
1918
Józef 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 Leó Szilárd 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 Ngô Đình 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
In Rhodesia (modern-day Zimbabwe), the white-minority government of Ian Smith unilaterally declares independence.
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.
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.
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