Historical Events on November 11

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• 725 English pilgrim Willibald (later St. Willibald) arrives in Jerusalem. One of the first known Europeans to visit the Holy Land.
• 887 Parliament in Tribur: King Charles III resigns

• 1208 Otto van Wittelsbach chosen German king
• 1215 4th Lateran Council (12th ecumenical council) opens in Rome
• 1400 Battle of Aleppo: Timur and his army defeat the forces of Sultan Faraj, Mameluke ruler of Egypt, 20,000 people reportedly massacred and a pyramid of their skulls built
• 1417 Oddo Colonna elected as Pope Martinus V

• 1500 Treaty of Granada: France & Aragon divide the Kingdom of Naples

• 1572 Duke of Alva's son Don Fredrik begins siege of Haarlem

• 1606 Turkey & Austria sign Treaty of Zsitva-Torok

• 1620 Mayflower Pilgrims make their first landing in America, at Provincetown Harbor, Massachusetts [1]
• 1634 Following pressure from Anglican bishop John Atherton, the Irish House of Commons passes "An Act for the Punishment for the Vice of Buggery".
• 1640 Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford, impeached by the House of Lords on the evidence of John Pym, and imprisoned in the Tower of London; he was later executed.
• 1647 Massachusetts passes first compulsory school attendance law in the American colonies
• 1648 Dutch & French agree to divide St Maarten, Leeward Islands
• 1671 Dutch States-General forbids importation of French wine
• 1673 Second Battle of Khotyn in the Ukraine, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth forces under the command of Jan Sobieski. defeat the Ottoman army. In this battle, rockets of Kazimierz Siemienowicz were successfully used.

• 1714 A highway in Bronx is laid out, later renamed East 233rd Street

• 1750 The F.H.C. Society, also known as the Flat Hat Club, was formed at Raleigh Tavern, Williamsburg, Virginia. It was the first college fraternity.
• 1752 Theresianische Military Academy opens in Vienna

• 1778 British Soldiers and Loyalists, allied with Iroquois and Seneca raiders, slaughter 40 in the "Cherry Valley Massacre" in central New York
• 1790 Chrysanthemums are introduced to England from China

• 1811 Cartagena Colombia declares independence from Spain
• 1813 Dresden surrenders to allied armies
• 1836 Chile declares war on Bolivia & Peru
• 1839 The Virginia Military Institute is founded in Lexington, Virginia.
• 1851 Alvan Clark patents telescope
• 1864 Sherman's troops destroy Rome, Georgia
• 1864 Skirmish at Shoal Creek, AL
• 1865 Mary Edward Walker, the first US Army female surgeon, awarded Medal of Honor
• 1865 Thomas William Robertson's play "Society" premieres in London
• 1865 Treaty of Sinchula is signed in which Bhutan ceded the areas east of the Teesta River to the British East India Company.
• 1868 1st American amateur track & field meet (NYC)

• 1887 Anarchist Haymarket Martyrs August Spies (b. 1855), Albert Parsons (b. 1848), Adolph Fischer (b. 1858) and George Engel (b. 1836) are executed.
• 1887 Construction of the Manchester Ship Canal starts at Eastham.
• 1889 Washington admitted as 42nd state of USA
• 1890 D McCree patents portable fire escape
• 1895 Bechuanaland becomes part of Cape Colony
• 1896 Jules Vandenpeereboom becomes Belgium's minister of War
• 1896 Samuel Pierpont Langley's Number 6 'heavier-than-air' aircraft model flies over 1,500 m (5,000 ft).
• 1899 Stuart/Rubens/Boyd-Jones' "Floradora" premieres in London

• 1905 High Commissioner Prince George declares amnesty for all leaders of the insurrection that has been disturbing Crete during the recent months - but which never gained mass support
• 1906 Ethel Smyth's "Standrecht" premieres in Leipzig
• 1909 Construction of US navy base begins at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
• 1909 J M Synge's "Tinker's Wedding" premieres in London
• 1911 Many cities in the U.S. Midwest broke their record highs and lows on the same day as a strong cold front rolls through. (see The 11/11/11 cold wave).
• 1911 Russia issues an ultimatum to Persia and follows it with an invasion of North Persia to impose political control
• 1918 Dutch SDAP leader Troelstra announces revolution
• 1918 Emperor Charles I of Austria-Hungary abdicates

• 1919 Pope Benedictus XV states Roman Catholics political and business views
• 1920 Great Britain's monument to her war dead, the Cenotaph in Whitehall, designed by Edwin Lutyens, unveiled
• 1920 The burials of unknown soldiers take place simultaneously in Westminster Abbey, London, and at the Arc de Triomphe, Paris

• 1922 Largest US flag displayed (150' X 90') expanded in 1939 (270' X 90')
• 1923 Eternal flame lit for the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier under the Arc de Triomphe in Paris
• 1924 Martin Beck Theater opens at 302 W 45th St NYC
• 1924 Palace of Legion of Honor dedicated in San Francisco

• 1925 City of Chicago, Illinois renames Municipal Grant Park Stadium, as Soldier Field, in honor of US soldiers killed in combat during World War I
• 1925 Earnest Thalmann becomes chairman of German KPD

• 1925 Night of Kersten - Prime Minister Hendrikus Colijn's Dutch government falls by SGP-amendement

• 1926 U.S. Route 66 is established from Chicago, Illinois to Santa Monica, California 2,448 miles (3,940 km)

• 1928 KXO-AM in El Centro CA begins radio transmissions
• 1928 WGL-AM in Ft Wayne IN begins radio transmissions
• 1928 WMT-AM in Cedar Rapids IA begins radio transmissions
• 1928 WOL-AM in Washington, D.C. begins radio transmissions

• 1931 Cornerstones laid for Opera House & Veteran's Building in San Francisco, California
• 1933 "Great Black Blizzard" 1st of the great dust storms that created the dust bowl rips through South Dakota

• 1934 WOC-AM in Davenport Iowa splits from WHO-WOC & becomes KICK-AM
• 1935 Explorer 2 balloon sets altitude record of 72,000 feet over South Dakota
• 1937 German aircraft Messerschmidt ME-109V13 flies a new world air speed record for landplanes with piston engines of 610.95 km/h (379.62 mph)
• 1937 Nobel prize for physics awarded to American Clinton Joseph Davisson and Briton George Paget Thomson "for their experimental discovery of the diffraction of electrons by crystals"
• 1938 German & Austrian Jewish suffer 1 billion Mark damage in nazi

• 1940 Blizzard strikes midwestern US killing over 100
• 1940 British Fleet Air Arm attack destroys half of Italian fleet at Taranto
• 1940 Thousands of Paris students lay a wreath at the Grave of the Unknown Soldier
• 1940 Willys unveiled its General Purpose vehicle ("Jeep")
• 1941 Czech premier General Eliasj arrested by Nazis
• 1942 -12] last German offensive in Stalingrad

• 1942 Germany completes its WWII occupation of France
• 1942 Jews in the Free Zone of France ordered to wear a yellow star of David
• 1942 Lt-general Kumakashi Harada becomes Japanese commander on Java
• 1942 Transport #45 departs with French Jews to Nazi-Germany

• 1943 US air raid on Rabaul, Papua New Guinea
• 1944 New York Rangers beat Detroit Red Wings, 5-2 to end NHL record 25 game winless streak (0-21-4)
• 1946 New York Knicks play their first Basketball Association of American (BAA) home game at Madison Square Garden; lose, 78-68 to Chicago Stags in overtime

• 1949 WTTV TV channel 4 in Bloomington-Indianapol, IN (IND) 1st broadcast

• 1957 Demolition begins on cable car barn at California & Hyde, San Francisco

• 1958 AL announces Kansas City will play AL record 52 night games in 1959
• 1959 1st episode of Jay Ward's cartoon series "Rocky & His Friends", featuring Rocket J. ("Rocky") Squirrel and Bullwinkle J. Moose. airs on NBC
• 1959 Seals Stadium, a minor league baseball park and temporary home of MLB Giants) in San Francisco, California demolished
• 1960 Record New York Knicks' crowd for the third Madison Square Garden venue on 49th Street, NYC; 18,499 see Knicks beat Syracuse Nationals, 112-108
• 1961 "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller is published by Simon and Schuster in New York
• 1961 Adulterous couple ride a dung cart through Staphorst, Netherlands
• 1961 City of Stalingrad renamed Volgograd
• 1961 Congolese soldiers murder 13 Italian UN pilots

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

• 1965 Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith signs Unilateral Declaration of Independence, proclaiming independence from Britain
• 1965 William Alfred's "Hogan's Goat" premieres in NYC
• 1966 Gemini 12 (Lovell & Aldrin) launched on 4-day flight
• 1966 Methodist Church & Evangelical United Brethren Church unite as United Methodist Church (USA)
• 1966 NASA launches spaceship Gemini 12

• 1968 Maldives (in Indian Ocean) becomes a republic
• 1968 Ron Hill sets record 10-mile run (46:44) at Leicester England

• 1970 Baltimore Oriole Boog Powell wins AL MVP
• 1971 Man-made earthslide at Kawasaki Japan, kills 15
• 1972 Dow Jones Index moves above 1,000 for 1st time
• 1972 US Army turns over Long Bihn base to South Vietnamese army

• 1975 Angola gains independence from Portugal (National Day)
• 1975 Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam removed from office by Governor General Sir John Kerr - 1st elected PM removed in 200 yrs
• 1975 James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement (the first "modern treaty") signed between Quebec government and Grand Council of the Crees of Quebec and the Northern Quebec Inuit Association [1]

• 1977 Wings release "Mull of Kintyre" & "Girl's School"
• 1978 Maumoon Abdul Gayoom becomes president of Maldives
• 1979 Boston Court issues occupancy permit for Cambridge Buddhist Center
• 1980 Crew of Soyuz 35 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 37

• 1982 5th NASA Space Shuttle Mission: Columbia makes the first officially "operational" shuttle mission
• 1982 Gas explosion in Israeli army headquarters near Tyre; kills 60

• 1983 1st US cruise missiles arrive in Great Britain
• 1983 Australian cricket wicketkeeper/batsman Wayne Phillips scores 159 on Test debut vs Pakistan at WACA, Perth

• 1985 1st AIDS themed TV movie - "An Early Frost" screens in US on NBC
• 1985 Challenger flies back to Kennedy Space Center via Davis-Monthan Air Force Base
• 1985 Yonkers is found guilty of segregating schools & housing
• 1986 Houston's Astro Mike Scott (18-10) wins NL Cy Young Award
• 1986 Suriname government proclaims gold purification

• 1987 Moscow party secretary Boris Jerusalem resigns

• 1988 Oldest known insect fossils (390 million yrs) reported in Science
• 1989 Romanian students protest in Bucharest before the Communist Party congress, shouting "we want reforms", in a sign of the revolution to come
• 1990 California Angel Chuck Finley & Seattle Mariner Randy Johnson combine to pitch a no-hitter in exhibition game between US & Japanese all-star teams
• 1992 The Church of England approves the ordination of female priests

• 1994 Progress M-25 launched to space station Mir
• 1996 Atlanta Braves starting pitcher John Smoltz wins NL Cy Young Award; Pat Hentgen of the Toronto Blue Jays claims AL Award
• 1997 Canadian based players win Cy Young Awards for best MLB pitcher; Toronto Blue Jays' Roger Clemens wins his 4th AL Award; Pedro Martinez of Montreal Expos takes NL Award

• 1997 NHL’s new Columbus franchise (scheduled to begin play in 2000) announce team’s name would be “Blue Jackets” after soldiers in the Union army during the American Civil War
• 1997 WNBA announces franchises in Detroit (Shock) and Washington D.C. (Mystics) would join the League as expansion teams for the 1998 season
• 1999 Last upside down date until January 1, 6000
• 2000 155 skiers and snowboarders die when a funicular railway catches fire in an alpine tunnel near Kaprun, Austria
• 2001 Journalists Pierre Billaud, Johanne Sutton and Volker Handloik are killed in Afghanistan during an attack on the convoy they were traveling on top off.

• 2004 New Zealand Tomb of the Unknown Warrior dedicated at the National War Memorial, Wellington.

• 2006 New Zealand war memorial monument unveiled by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in London, United Kingdom, commemorating the loss of soldiers from the New Zealand Army and the British Army

• 2008 RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 (QE2) sets sail from Southampton, England on her final voyage to Dubai

• 2012 12 people are killed by a magnitude 6.8 earthquake in Burma

• 2013 100 people are killed in a tropical cyclone in the Puntland region, Somalia
• 2013 4 people are killed and 8 are injured after a building catches fire in Mumbai, India

• 2014 58 people are killed in a bus crash in the Sukkur District, Pakistan
• 2014 An Italian appeals court overturns a manslaughter conviction against 6 scientists for failing to give adequate warning of a deadly earthquake
• 2014 Samsung Lions beat Nexen Heroes, 11-1 in Game 6 at Jamsil Baseball Stadium, Seoul to win the Korean Series

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