11 November History


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  • 1499    -    Pretender to the 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.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.

  • 11 November Birthdays

  • 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.