1499 | | Pretender to the throne Perkin Warbeck is executed. |
1778 | | aIndians, 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.
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1889 | | Washington becomes the 42nd state of the Union. |
1909 | | Construction begins on the naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. |
1918 | | The 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 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 Anderson and Orvil Anderson set a new altitude record in South Dakota, when they float to 74,000 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 orbiter, 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 buyer 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 | | Sculpture honoring women who served in the Vietnam War dedicated at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, DC. |
1999 | | House of Lords Act reforming Britain's House of Lords, 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 Handloik (Germany) killed in Afghanistan during an attack on the convoy in which they were traveling. |
2004 | | New Zealand Tomb of the Unknown Warrior dedicated at the National War Museum, Wellington. |
2004 | | Palestine Liberation organization confirms the death of its longtime chairman Yasser Arafat; cause of death has never been conclusively determined. |
2006 | | Queen Elizabeth II unveils New Zealand War Memorial in London. |
2008 | | RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 (QE2)sets sail on her final voyage, bound for Dubai. |
Born on November 11 |
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 became 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 Golden Globe for Best Actor (The Aviator, 2004). |
1974 | | Bettina Goislard, 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 Commissioner for Refugees.
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