11 November

The 11t o November is the 315t day o the year (316t in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 50 days bidin.

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Events

1889: Banner o Washington

Poppies (in 2002) commemoratin the 1918 Airmistice at the end o Warld War I

• 1417 - Pape Martin V is electit.
• 1648 - Fraunce an the Netherlands agree tae divide the Caribbean isle o Saunt Martin atween them.
• 1855 - A yirdquauk in Edo (nou Tokyo) kills 6,000 fowk.
• 1880 - Australian outlaw Ned Kelly is executit.
• 1889 - Washington becomes the 42nt state o the Unitit States.
• 1917 - Liliuokalani, the last Hawaiian monarch, dees agit 79, awmaist 25 year efter her forced abdication.
• 1918 - The Airmistice endin Warld War I is signed at the 11t hour, on the 11t day o the 11t month. It is commemoratit as Remembrance Day, Armistice Day an Veterans Day.
• 1918 - Jozef Pilsudski taks control in Poland.
• 1960 - A coup attempt is made in Sooth Vietnam against Ngo Dinh Diem.
• 1965 - Rhodesie unilaterally declares unthirldom frae the Unitit Kinrick.
• 1975 - Angolae gains unthirldom frae Portugal.
• 1975 - Governor-General o Australie John Kerr dismisses Prime meenister Gough Whitlam an replaces him wi Malcolm Fraser.
• 1981 - Antigua an Barbuda jyn the Unitit Naitions.
• 1992 - The Kirk o Ingland allows female priests.
• 1997 - Mary McAleese becomes Preses o the Republic o Ireland.
• 2000 - A cable car catches fire in an alpine tunnel in Kaprun, Austrick, killin 155 fowk.
• 2004 - Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat dies in Paris, agit 75.
• 2011 - Michael D. Higgins becomes Preses o the Republic o Ireland.
• 2014 - 58 fowk are kilt in a bus crash in the Sukkur District in Sindh, Soothren Pakistan.
• 2018 - Ceremonies tak place warldwide tae mairk 100 year syne the Warld War I Airmistice; Frank-Walter Steinmeier becomes the first German Heid o State tae tak pairt in the Lunnon Cenotaph Remembrance commemorations.

Births

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Leonardo DiCaprio

• 1050 - Henry IV, Haly Roman Emperor (d. 1106)
• 1493 - Paracelsus, Swiss-German physeecian, botanist, astrologer an occultist (d. 1541)
• 1748 - Charles IV o Spain (d. 1819)
• 1821 - Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Roushie writer (d. 1881)
• 1863 - Paul Signac, French penter (d. 1935)
• 1864 - Alfred Hermann Fried, Austrick pacifist (d. 1921)
• 1869 - Victor Emmanuel III o Italy (d. 1947)
• 1882 - Gustaf VI Adolf o Swaden (d. 1973)
• 1885 - George S. Patton, American general (d. 1945)
• 1919 - Hamish Henderson, Scots poet (d. 2002)
• 1920 - Roy Jenkins, Welsh politeecian (d. 2003)
• 1922 - Kurt Vonnegut, American writer (d. 2007)
• 1925 - June Whitfield, Inglis actress (d. 2018)
• 1925 - Jonathan Winters, American actor, comedian an screenwriter (d. 2013)
• 1928 - Carlos Fuentes, Panamanian-Mexican writer (d. 2012)
• 1940 - Barbara Boxer, American politeecian
• 1945 - Daniel Ortega, Preses o Nicaragua
• 1955 - Jigme Singye Wangchuck, umwhile Keeng o Bhutan
• 1960 - Stanley Tucci, American actor an director
• 1962 - Demi Moore, American actress
• 1964 - Calista Flockhart, American actress
• 1966 - Benedicta Boccoli, Italian actress
• 1974 - Leonardo DiCaprio, American actor
• 1983 - Philipp Lahm, German fitbawer
• 1990 - Tom Dumoulin, Dutch cyclist
• 1990 - Georginio Wijnaldum, Dutch fitbawer
• 1991 - Nick Ross, Scots fitbawer

Daiths

• 1855 - Soren Kierkegaard, Dens philosopher (b. 1813)
• 1880 - Ned Kelly, Australian outlaw (b. 1855)
• 1880 - Lucretia Mott, American feminist an activist (b. 1793)
• 1917 - Liliuokalani, Queen o Hawaii (b. 1838)
• 1945 - Jerome Kern, American componer (b. 1885)
• 1973 - Artturi Ilmari Virtanen, Finnish scientist (b. 1895)
• 2004 - Yasser Arafat, Palestinian leader (b. 1929)
• 2014 - Jim Storrie, Scots fitbawer (b. 1940)

Halidays

Banner o Angolae

• Remembrance Day in Canadae an the Unitit Kinrick
• Armistice Day (Fraunce, Belgium)
• Veterans' Day (Unitit States)
• Independence Day (Poland, Angolae)
• Saunt Martin's Day
• Women's Day (Belgium)
• Singles Day (Fowkrepublic o Cheenae)

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