1921
The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington Cemetery is dedicated.
1499 | Pretender to the English throne Perkin Warbeck is executed. | |
1778 | Indians, led by William Butler, massacre the inhabitants of Cherry Valley, N.Y. | |
1831 | Nat Turner, a slave who led a revolt against slave owners, is hanged in Jerusalem, Virginia. | |
1889 | Washington becomes the 42nd state of the Union. | |
1909 | Construction begins on the naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. | |
1918 | German leaders sign the armistice ending World War I. | |
1919 | The first two-minutes’ silence is observed in Britain to commemorate those who died in the Great War. | |
1921 | The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington Cemetery is dedicated. | |
1922 | Canada’s Vernon McKenzie urges his government to fight U.S. propaganda with taxes on U.S. magazines. | |
1933 | The first of the great dust storms of the 1930s hits North Dakota. | |
1935 | Albert Stevens and Orvil Anderson set a new altitude record in South Dakota, when they float to 72,395 feet in a balloon. | |
1938 | Irving Berlin‘s “God Bless America” is performed for the first time by singer Kate Smith. | |
1940 | Britain’s Royal Navy attacks the Italian fleet at Taranto. | |
1944 | Private Eddie Slovik is convicted of desertion and sentenced to death for refusing to join his unit in the European Theater of Operations. | |
1953 | The polio virus is identified and photographed for the first time in Cambridge, Massachusetts. | |
1966 | The United States launches Gemini 12, a two-man spacecraft, into orbit. | |
1970 | U.S. Army Special Forces raid the Son Tay prison camp in North Vietnam but find no prisoners. | |
1973 | Israel and Egypt sign a cease-fire. | |
1973 | The Soviet Union is kicked out of World Cup soccer for refusing to play Chile. | |
1987 | An unidentified person buys Vincent Van Gogh’s painting “Irises” from the estate of Joan Whitney Payson for $53.9 million at Sotheby’s in New York. | |
1993 | A sculpture honoring women who served in the Vietnam War is dedicated at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, DC. | |
1999 | The House of Lords Act reforming Britain’s House of Lords, is given Royal Assent; the act removed the right to hereditary seats (sitting members were permitted to remain). | |
2001 | Journalists Pierre Billaud (France), Johanne Sutton (France) and Voker Handlock (Germany) are killed in Afghanistan during an attack on the convoy in which they were traveling. | |
2004 | New Zealand’s Tomb of the Unknown Warrior is dedicated at the National War Museum, Wellington. | |
2004 | The Palestine Liberation Organization confirms the death of its longtime chairman Yasser Arafat; the cause of death has never been conclusively determined. | |
2006 | Queen Elizabeth II unveils the New Zealand War Memorial in London. | |
2008 |
RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 (QE2)sets sail on her final voyage, bound for Dubai.
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Born on November 11
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1050 | Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor. | |
1821 | Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky, Russian novelist and political revolutionary (The Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment). | |
1885 | George S. Patton, U.S. Army commander in World War II. | |
1898 | Rene Clair, French film director. | |
1922 | Kurt Vonnegut, American novelist (Slaughterhouse Five). | |
1925 | Jonathan Winters, comedian. | |
1928 | Carlos Fuentes, Mexican novelist and essayist. | |
1945 | Chris Dreja, musician; guitarist and bass player for The Yardbirds. | |
1945 | Daniel Ortega, President of Nicaragua (2007– ). | |
1962 | Demi Moore, actress (Ghost, A Few Good Men); in 1996 she became the highest-paid actress in film history when she received $12.5 million to star in Striptease. | |
1974 | Leonardo DiCaprio, actor; (Titanic, The Great Gatsby) won a Golden Globe for Best Actor (The Aviator, 2004). | |
1974 | Bettina Goislard, the first United Nations worker to be killed in Afghanistan (Nov. 16, 2003) since the fall of the Taliban in December 2001; she was a French employee of the UN High Commission for Refugees. |
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