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11 November, 2004

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

11 November, 2004

Yasser Arafat is confirmed dead by the Palestine Liberation Organization, of unidentified causes. Mahmoud Abbas is elected chairman of the PLO minutes later.

11 November, 2000

In Kaprun, Austria, 155 skiers and snowboarders die when a cable car catches fire in an alpine tunnel.

11 November, 1992

The Church of England votes to allow women to become priests.

11 November, 1975

Australian constitutional crisis of 1975: Australian Governor-General Sir John Kerr dismisses the government of Gough Whitlam and commissions Malcolm Fraser as caretaker Prime Minister, and announces a general election to be held in early December.

11 November, 1972

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

11 November, 1968

Vietnam War: Operation Commando Hunt initiated. The goal was to interdict men and supplies on the Ho Chi Minh Trail, through Laos into South Vietnam.

11 November, 1968

A second republic is declared in the Maldives.

11 November, 1967

Vietnam 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.

11 November, 1966

NASA launches spaceship Gemini 12.

11 November, 1965

In Rhodesia (modern-day Zimbabwe), the white-minority government of Ian Smith unilaterally declares independence.

11 November, 1962

Kuwaits National Assembly ratifies the Constitution of Kuwait.

11 November, 1942

World War II: Nazi Germany completed their occupation of France.

11 November, 1940

World War II: Battle of Taranto - The Royal Navy launches the first aircraft carrier strike in history, on the Italian fleet at Taranto.

11 November, 1940

The German cruiser Atlantis captures top secret British mail, and sends it to Japan.

11 November, 1940

Armistice Day Blizzard: An unexpected blizzard kills 144 in U.S. Midwest.

11 November, 1933

Dust Bowl: In South Dakota, a very strong dust storm strips topsoil from desiccated farmlands.

11 November, 1930

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

11 November, 1926

U.S. Route 66 is established.

11 November, 1924

Prime Minister Alexandros Papanastasiou proclaims the first Greek Republic.

11 November, 1921

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

11 November, 1919

The Centralia Massacre in Centralia, Washington results the deaths of four members of the American Legion and the lynching of a local leader of the IWW.

11 November, 1918

World War I ends: Germany signs an armistice agreement with the Allies in a railroad car outside of Compiègne in France. The war officially stops at 11:00 (The eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month).

11 November, 1918

Józef Pilsudski comes to Warsaw and assumes supreme military power in Poland. Poland regains its independence.

11 November, 1918

Emperor Charles I of Austria relinquishes power.

11 November, 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).

11 November, 1889

Washington is admitted as the 42nd U.S. state.

11 November, 1887

Anarchist Haymarket Martyrs August Spies, Albert Parsons, Adolph Fischer and George Engel are executed.

11 November, 1887

Construction of the Manchester Ship Canal starts at Eastham.

11 November, 1880

Australian Bushranger Ned Kelly is hanged at Melbourne Gaol.

11 November, 1865

Treaty of Sinchula is signed in which Bhutan ceded the areas east of the Teesta River to the British East India Company.

11 November, 1864

American Civil War: Shermans March to the Sea - Union General William Tecumseh Sherman begins burning Atlanta, Georgia to the ground in preparation for his march south.

11 November, 1839

The Virginia Military Institute is founded in Lexington, Virginia.

11 November, 1831

In Jerusalem, Virginia, Nat Turner is hanged after inciting a violent slave uprising.

11 November, 1805

Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Dürenstein - 8000 French troops attempted to slow the retreat of a vastly superior Russian and Austrian force.

11 November, 1778

Cherry Valley Massacre: an attack by Loyalists and Seneca Indian forces on a fort and village in eastern New York during the American Revolutionary War, killing more than forty civilians and soldiers.

11 November, 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.

11 November, 1724

Joseph Blake, alias Blueskin, a highwayman known for attacking "Thief-Taker General" (and thief) Jonathan Wild at the Old Bailey, is hanged in London.

11 November, 1675

Gottfried Leibniz demonstrated integral calculus for the first time to find the area under the graph of y = f(x) function.

11 November, 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.

11 November, 1634

Following pressure from Anglican bishop John Atherton, the Irish House of Commons passes "An Act for the Punishment for the Vice of Buggery".

11 November, 1620

In what is now Provincetown Harbor near Cape Cod, the Mayflower Compact is signed on the Mayflower, establishing the basic laws for the Plymouth Colony.

11 November, 1500

Treaty of Granada - Louis XII of France and Ferdinand II of Aragon agree to divide the Kingdom of Naples between them.

11 November, 1215

The Fourth Lateran Council meets, defining the doctrine of transubstantiation, the process by which bread and wine are transformed into the body and blood of Christ.

11 November, 308

The Congress of Carnuntum: Attempting to keep peace within the Roman Empire, the leaders of the Tetrarchy declare Maxentius and Licinius to be Augusti, while rival contender Constantine I is declared Caesar of Britain and Gaul.

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