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On this day - November 11

308 — At Carnuntum, Emperor emeritus Diocletian confers with ...

1028 — Constantine VIII dies, ending his uninterrupted reign as ...

1100 — Henry I of England marries Matilda of Scotland, the daughter ...

1215 — The Fourth Council of the Lateran meets, defining the doctrine ...

1500 — Treaty of Granada: Louis XII of France and Ferdinand II of ...

1572 — Tycho Brahe observes the supernova SN 1572.

1620 — The Mayflower Compact is signed in what is now Provincetown ...

1634 — Following pressure from Anglican bishop John Atherton, the ...

1673 — Second Battle of Khotyn in Ukraine: Polish–Lithuanian ...

1675 — Gottfried Leibniz demonstrates integral calculus for the first ...

1724 — Joseph Blake, alias Blueskin, a highwayman known for attacking ...

1750 — The F.H.C. Society, also known as the Flat Hat Club, is formed ...

1750 — Riots break out in Lhasa after the murder of the Tibetan ...

1778 — Cherry Valley massacre: Loyalists and Seneca Indian forces ...

1805 — Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Dürenstein: Eight thousand French ...

1813 — War of 1812: Battle of Crysler's Farm: British and ...

1831 — In Jerusalem, Virginia, Nat Turner is hanged after inciting a ...

1839 — The Virginia Military Institute is founded in Lexington, ...

1855 — A powerful earthquake occurs in Edo, Japan, causing ...

1865 — Treaty of Sinchula is signed whereby Bhutan cedes the areas ...

1869 — The Victorian Aboriginal Protection Act is enacted in ...

1880 — Australian bushranger Ned Kelly is hanged at Melbourne Gaol.

1887 — Four convicted anarchists were executed as a result of the ...

1889 — The State of Washington is admitted as the 42nd state of the ...

1911 — Many cities in the Midwestern United States break their record ...

1918 — Emperor Charles I of Austria relinquishes power.

1918 — Józef Piłsudski assumes supreme military power in Poland – ...

1918 — World War I: Germany signs an armistice agreement with the ...

1919 — Latvian forces defeat the West Russian Volunteer Army at Riga ...

1919 — The Industrial Workers of the World attack an Armistice Day ...

1921 — The Tomb of the Unknowns is dedicated by U.S. President Warren ...

1923 — Adolf Hitler is arrested in Munich for high treason for his ...

1926 — The United States Numbered Highway System is established.

1930 — Patent number US1781541 is awarded to Albert Einstein and Leó ...

1934 — The Shrine of Remembrance is opened in Melbourne, Australia.

1940 — World War II: The German auxiliary cruiser Atlantis captures ...

1940 — World War II: In the Battle of Taranto, the Royal Navy ...

1942 — The Turkish parliament passes the Varlık Vergisi, a capital ...

1942 — World War II: France's zone libre is occupied by German ...

1949 — The People's Liberation Army Air Force is founded.

1960 — A military coup against President Ngô Đình Diệm of South ...

1961 — Thirteen Italian Air Force servicemen, deployed to the Congo ...

1962 — Kuwait's National Assembly ratifies the Constitution of ...

1965 — United Air Lines Flight 227 crashes at Salt Lake City ...

1965 — Southern Rhodesia's Prime Minister Ian Smith unilaterally ...

1966 — NASA launches Gemini 12.

1967 — Vietnam War: In a propaganda ceremony in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, ...

1968 — Vietnam War: Operation Commando Hunt initiated. The goal is to ...

1972 — Vietnam War: Vietnamization: The United States Army turns over ...

1975 — Independence of Angola.

1975 — Australian constitutional crisis of 1975: Australian ...

1977 — A munitions explosion at a train station in Iri, South Korea ...

1981 — Antigua and Barbuda joins the United Nations.

1982 — Space Shuttle Columbia launches from the Kennedy Space Center ...

1992 — The General Synod of the Church of England votes to allow ...

1993 — A sculpture honoring women who served in the Vietnam War is ...

1999 — The House of Lords Act is given Royal Assent, restricting ...

2000 — Kaprun disaster: One hundred fifty-five skiers and ...

2001 — Journalists Pierre Billaud, Johanne Sutton and Volker Handloik ...

2002 — Russian mathematician Grigori Perelman posts the first of ...

2002 — A Fokker F27 Friendship operating as Laoag International ...

2004 — The Palestine Liberation Organization confirms the death of ...

2004 — New Zealand Tomb of the Unknown Warrior is dedicated at the ...

2006 — Queen Elizabeth II unveils the New Zealand War Memorial in ...

2011 — A helicopter crash just outside Mexico City kills seven, ...

2012 — A strong earthquake with the magnitude 6.8 hits northern ...

2020 — Typhoon Vamco makes landfall in Luzon and several offshore ...

2022 — Russo-Ukrainian War: Ukrainian armed forces enter the city of ...

2024 — A vehicle-ramming attack in Zhuhai, China, kills 38 people and ...