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This day in history: 11 November

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415 historical events, births and deaths are listed for 11 November.
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2024: A vehicle-ramming attack in Zhuhai, China, kills 38 people and injures 48.

Holidays and observances

Birthday of King Jigme Singye Wangchuck (Bhutan)

Children's Day (Croatia)

Christian feast day: Bartholomew of Grottaferrata

Christian feast day: Martin of Tours, and its related observances.

Christian feast day: Menas

Christian feast day: Mercurius (Coptic)

Christian feast day: November 11 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Christian feast day: Søren Kierkegaard (Lutheran Church)

Christian feast day: Theodore the Studite

End of World War I-related observances: Armistice Day (France, Belgium and Serbia)

End of World War I-related observances: National Independence Day (Poland), commemorates the anniversary of Poland's assumption of independent statehood in 1918

End of World War I-related observances: Remembrance Day (United Kingdom and the Commonwealth of Nations, including Australia and Canada)

Events

2024A vehicle-ramming attack in Zhuhai, China, kills 38 people and injures 48.

2022Russo-Ukrainian War: Ukrainian armed forces enter the city of Kherson following a successful two-month southern counteroffensive.

2020Typhoon Vamco makes landfall in Luzon and several offshore islands, killing 67 people. The storm causes the worst floods in the region since Typhoon Ketsana in 2009.

2012A strong earthquake with the magnitude 6.8 hits northern Burma, killing at least 26 people.

2011A helicopter crash just outside Mexico City kills seven, including Francisco Blake Mora the Secretary of the Interior of Mexico.

2006Queen 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.

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.

2002A Fokker F27 Friendship operating as Laoag International Airlines Flight 585 crashes into Manila Bay shortly after takeoff from Ninoy Aquino International Airport, killing 19 people.

2002Russian mathematician Grigori Perelman posts the first of three preprint texts with his proof of the Poincaré conjecture. It remains the only of the Millennium Prize Problems in mathematics to be solved. He later refused both the prize mone

2001Journalists Pierre Billaud, Johanne Sutton and Volker Handloik are killed in Afghanistan during an attack on the convoy they are traveling in.

2000Kaprun disaster: One hundred fifty-five skiers and snowboarders die when a cable car catches fire in an alpine tunnel in Kaprun, Austria.

1999The House of Lords Act is given Royal Assent, restricting membership of the British House of Lords by virtue of a hereditary peerage.

1993A sculpture honoring women who served in the Vietnam War is dedicated at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.

1992The General Synod of the Church of England votes to allow women to become priests.

1982Space Shuttle Columbia launches from the Kennedy Space Center on STS-5, the first operational mission of the Space Shuttle program.

1981Antigua and Barbuda joins the United Nations.

1977A munitions explosion at a train station in Iri, South Korea kills at least 56 people.

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.

1972Vietnam War: Vietnamization: The United States Army turns over the massive Long Binh military base to South Vietnam.

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.

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.

1966NASA launches Gemini 12.

1965Southern Rhodesia's Prime Minister Ian Smith unilaterally declares the colony independent as the unrecognised state of Rhodesia.

1965United Air Lines Flight 227 crashes at Salt Lake City International Airport, killing 43.

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

1961Thirteen Italian Air Force servicemen, deployed to the Congo as a part of the UN peacekeeping force, are massacred by a mob in Kindu.

1960A military coup against President Ngô Đình Diệm of South Vietnam is crushed.

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

1942The Turkish parliament passes the Varlık Vergisi, a capital tax mostly levied on non-Muslim citizens with the unofficial aim to inflict financial ruin on them and end their prominence in the country's economy.

1942World War II: France's zone libre is occupied by German forces in Case Anton.

1940World War II: In the Battle of Taranto, the Royal Navy launches the first all-aircraft ship-to-ship naval attack in history.

1940World War II: The German auxiliary cruiser Atlantis captures top secret British mail from the Automedon, and sends it to Japan.

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

1930Patent number US1781541 is awarded to Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd for their invention, the Einstein refrigerator.

1926The United States Numbered Highway System is established.

1923Adolf Hitler is arrested in Munich for high treason for his role in the Beer Hall Putsch.

1921The Tomb of the Unknowns is dedicated by U.S. President Warren G. Harding at Arlington National Cemetery.

1919Latvian forces defeat the West Russian Volunteer Army at Riga in the Latvian War of Independence.

Born on this day

2005Ben Gannon-Doak, Scottish footballer

2004Oakes Fegley, American actor

1999X González, American activist

1998Liudmila Samsonova, Russian tennis player

1996Tye Sheridan, American actor and producer

1995Josh Aloiai, New Zealand rugby league player

1995Shin Seung-ho, South Korean actor and model

1995Yuriko Miyazaki, British tennis player

1994Ellie Simmonds, English swimmer

1994Lio Rush, American wrestler

1994Sanju Samson, Indian cricketer

1993Jamaal Lascelles, English footballer

1992Jean-Gabriel Pageau, Canadian ice hockey player

1992Sofía Luini, Argentine tennis player

1991Christa B. Allen, American actress

1991Kaho Onodera, Japanese curler

1990Georginio Wijnaldum, Dutch footballer

1990James Segeyaro, Papua New Guinean rugby league player

1990Tom Dumoulin, Dutch road bicycle racer

1989Adam Rippon, American figure skater

1989Joe Ragland, American basketball player

1989Lewis Williamson, Scottish race car driver

1989Nick Blackman, English-Israeli footballer

1989Reina Tanaka, Japanese singer

1988David Depetris, Argentinian-Slovak footballer

1988Kyle Naughton, English footballer

1988Mikako Komatsu, Japanese voice actress and singer

1987Chanelle Hayes, English model and singer

1987Vinny Guadagnino, American actor

1986François Trinh-Duc, French rugby player

1986Jon Batiste, American singer and pianist

1986Mark Sanchez, American football player

1986Victor Cruz, American football player

1985Austin Collie, American football player

1985Jessica Sierra, American singer

1985Osvaldo Alonso, Cuban footballer

1985Robin Uthappa, Indian cricketer

1985Tiidrek Nurme, Estonian runner

1984Birkir Már Sævarsson, Icelandic footballer

1984Stephen Hunt, English footballer

Died on this day

2024Frank Auerbach, German-British painter (born 1931)

2024John Robinson, American football player and coach (born 1935)

2021F. W. de Klerk, South African lawyer and politician, former State President of South Africa, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1936)

2017Chiquito de la Calzada, Spanish singer, actor and comedian (born 1932)

2016Robert Vaughn, American actor (born 1932)

2016Victor Bailey, American singer and bass player (born 1960)

2015Nathaniel Marston, American actor and producer (born 1975)

2015Rita Gross, American theologian and author (born 1943)

2014Big Bank Hank, American rapper (born 1956)

2014Carol Ann Susi, American actress (born 1952)

2014Harry Lonsdale, American chemist, businessman, and politician (born 1932)

2014John Doar, American lawyer and activist (born 1921)

2014Philip G. Hodge, American engineer and academic (born 1920)

2013Atilla Karaosmanoğlu, Turkish economist and politician, 33rd Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey (born 1931)

2013Bob Beckham, American singer-songwriter (born 1927)

2013Domenico Bartolucci, Italian cardinal and composer (born 1917)

2013John Barnhill, American basketball player and coach (born 1938)

2013John S. Dunne, American priest and theologian (born 1929)

2012Harry Wayland Randall, American photographer (born 1915)

2012Joe Egan, English rugby player and coach (born 1919)

2012Lam Adesina, Nigerian educator and politician, Governor of Oyo State (born 1939)

2012Rex Hunt, English lieutenant, pilot, and diplomat, Governor of the Falkland Islands (born 1926)

2012Victor Mees, Belgian footballer (born 1927)

2011Francisco Blake Mora, Mexican lawyer and politician, Mexican Secretary of the Interior (born 1966)

2010Marie Osborne Yeats, American actress and costume designer (born 1911)

2008Herb Score, American baseball player and sportscaster (born 1933)

2008Mustafa Şekip Birgöl, Turkish colonel (born 1903)

2007Delbert Mann, American director and producer (born 1920)

2006Belinda Emmett, Australian actress (born 1974)

2005Moustapha Akkad, Syrian-American director and producer (born 1930)

Quote of the day

“It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.”

Seneca

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