On this day in History - Nov. 11

0397 - Martin of Tours dies. French saint
0537 - Pope Silverius dies. Saint
1028 - Constantine VIII of the Byzantine Empire dies (b. 0960)
1050 - Henry IV was born (d. 1106). Holy Roman Emperor.
1111 - The famous "Eleven Day" was held in various countries in Europe at 11:11:11.
1130 - Teresa de Leão dies (b. 1080). Regent of Portucale
1154 - Sancho I was born (d. 1212). King of Portugal
1155 - Alfonso VIII was born (d. 1214). King of Castile.
1215 - The Fourth Lateran Council meets, adopting the doctrine of transubstantiation, meaning that bread and wine are transformed into the body and blood of Christ.
1220 - Alphonse of Toulouse was born (d. 1271). Son of Louis VIII of France
1285 - Peter III dies (b. 1239). King of Aragon

1417 - Martin V was unanimously elected pope, bringing an end to the Great Schism.
1493 - Bernardo Tasso was born (d. 1569). Italian poet.

1493 - Paracelsus was born (d. 1541). Swiss Scientist.

1493 - Christopher Columbus discovered the island of St. Martin.

1503 - Pope Julius II is elected
1599 - Prince Octavio Piccolomini was born (d. 1656). Duke of Amalfi, Austrian field marshal
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.
1623 - Philippe de Mornay, dies (b. 1549). French writer.
1633 - George Savile was born (d. 1695). 1st Marquess of Halifax, British statesman.
1634 - Following pressure from Anglican bishop John Atherton, the Irish House of Commons passes "An Act for the Punishment for the Vice of Buggery" (anal sex).
1668 - Johann Albert Fabricius was born (d. 1736). German classical scholar and bibliographer.
1675 - Gottfried Leibniz demonstrated integral calculus for the first time to find the area under the graph of y = f(x) function.
1675 - Guru Gobind Singh becomes the Tenth Guru of the Sikhs.
1686 - Louis II de Bourbon, Prince de Condé dies (b. 1621). French general
1686 - Otto von Guericke dies (b. 1602). German scientist, inventor, and politician.
1729 - Louis Antoine de Bougainville was born (d. 1811). French explorer.
1743 - Carl Peter Thunberg was born (d. 1828). Swedish naturalist.
1744 - Abigail Adams was born (d. 1818). First Lady of the United States.
1748 - Charles IV was born (d. 1819). King of of Spain (1788-1808).
1764 - Barbara Juliana, Baroness von Krüdener, was born (d. 1824). Russian writer.

1778 - During the American Revolution, Iroquois Indians, in direct retaliation for colonial assaults on two Indian villages, attacked a New York frontier settlement in the Cherry Valley Raid.
1791 - Josef Munzinger was born (d. 1855). Swiss Federal Councillor.
1792 - Mary Anne Evans was born (d. 1872). English wife of Benjamin Disraeli.
1810 - Alfred de Musset was born (d. 1857). French dramatist, poet, and novelist.

1813 - British troops under Colonel J.W. Morrison defeated U.S. forces led by General John Boyd at the Battle of Crysler's Farm during the War of 1812.
1821 - Fyodor Dostoyevsky was born (d. 1881). Russian novelist ( Crime and Punishment)
1828 - Sri Deep Narayan Mahaprabhuji was born (d. 1963). Hindu saint.
1831 - In Jerusalem, Virginia, Nat Turner is hanged after inciting a violent slave uprising.
1831 - Nat Turner dies (b. 1800). American slave rebel.
1839 - The Virginia Military Institute is founded in Lexington, Virginia.
1850 - António Carvalho da Silva Porto was born (d. 1893). Portuguese painter.
1852 - Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf was born (d. 1925). Austro-Hungarian field marshal.
1855 - Søren Kierkegaard dies (b. 1813). Danish philosopher.
1861 - Pedro V dies (b. 1837). King of Portugal (1853-61).
1863 - Paul Signac was born (d. 1935). French painter.
1864 - Maurice Leblanc was born († 1941). French writer.
1864 - Alfred Hermann Fried was born (d. 1921). Austrian pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1911.
1864 - American Civil War: Sherman's March to the Sea - Union General William Tecumseh Sherman begins burning Atlanta, Georgia to the ground in preparation for his march south.
1865 - Treaty of Sinchula is signed in which Bhutan ceded the areas east of the Teesta River to the British East India Company.
1869 - Victor Emmanuel III was born (d. 1947). King of Italy.

1872 - Maude Adams was born. American actress, was best known for her portrayals of Sir James Barrie's heroines.

1874 - Gamma Phi Beta sorority is founded at Syracuse University.
1880 - Australian bushranger and bank robber Ned Kelly is hanged in Melbourne.
1880 - Ned Kelly dies hanged. Australian bushranger
1880 - Lucretia Mott dies (b. 1793). American feminist and abolitionist.
1882 - Gustav VI Adolf was born (d. 1973). King of Sweden.
1884 - Alfred Brehm dies (b. 1827). German zoologist
1885 - George Patton was born (d. 1945). American general.
1887 - Roland Young was born (d. 1953). American actor.
1887 - Anarchist Haymarket Martyrs August Spies, Albert Parsons, Adolph Fischer and George Engel are executed.
1887 - Construction of the Manchester Ship Canal starts at Eastham.
1887 - Haymarket riot martyrs: George Engel (b. 1836); Adolph Fischer (b. 1858) ; Albert Parsons (b. 1848) and August Spies (b. 1855)
1888 - Johannes Itten was born (d. 1967). Swiss painter, teacher and writer associated with the Bauhaus school.
1889 - Clifton Webb was born (d. 1966). American actor.
1889 - Washington is admitted as the 42nd U.S. state.
1891 - Rabbit Maranville was born (d. 1954). Baseball player.
1897 - Lucky Luciano was born (d. 1962). American gangster.
1898 - René Clair was born († 1981). French film director.
1901 - F. Van Wyck Mason was born (d. 1978). American author.
1903 - Sam Spiegel was born (d. 1985). Austrian-born film producer.
1904 - Alger Hiss was born (d. 1994). American government official and spy.
1904 - J. H. C. Whitehead was born (d. 1960). British mathematician.

1908 - Club Atlético Huracán (Argentina) is founded
1909 - Robert Ryan was born (d. 1973). American actor.
1911 - Many cities in the 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).
1914 - Howard Fast was born (d. 2003). American author.
1914 - Henry Wade was born (d. 2001). American lawyer.
1915 - William Proxmire was born. U.S. Senator
1915 - José Pereira de Sampaio Bruno dies (b. 1857). Portuguese essayst.
1917 - Liliuokalani of Hawaii dies (b. 1838). Queen of Hawaii.
1918 - Stubby Kaye was born (d. 1997). American comic actor.
1918 - World War I ends: Germany signs an armistice agreement with the Allies in a railroad car outside of Compiègne in France.
1918 - Józef Piłsudski comes to Warsaw and assumes supreme military power in Poland. Poland regains its independence.
1918 - Emperor Charles I of Austria abdicates.
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.
1919 - Kalle Päätalo was born (d. 2000). Finnish novelist.
1920 - Roy Jenkins was born (d. 2003). British politician.
1921 - The Tomb of the Unknowns is dedicated by US President Warren G. Harding at Arlington National Cemetery.

1921 - First Armistice Day celebrated: The anniversary of the end of World War I, the first Armistice Day was commemorated with the burial of the bodies of unknown soldiers in tombs in Paris, in London, and outside Washington, D.C.

1921 - Jorge Marcelo Holguín Mallarino assumes (second time) the Presidency of Colombia
1922 - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. was born. American novelist
1925 - June Whitfield was born. British comedienne
1925 - Jonathan Winters was born. American comedian and actor
1925 - Daniel Damásio was born. Portuguese poet.
1926 - Noah Gordon was born. American writer
1927 - Mose Allison was born. American musician.
1928 - LaVern Baker was born (d. 1997). American singer.
1928 - Carlos Fuente was born.Mexican writer.
1929 - Hans Magnus Enzensberger was born. German writer.

1929 - Carlos Fuentes was born. Mexican author (Death of Artemio Cruz)
1930 - Patent number US1781541 was awarded to Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd for their invention, the Einstein refrigerator.
1931 - Shibusawa Eiichi dies (b. 1840). Japanese industrialist.
1933 - Dust Bowl: In South Dakota, a very strong dust storm strips topsoil from desiccated farmlands.
1935 - Bibi Andersson was born. Swedish acress.

1937 - Nobel prize for physics awarded to C. J. Davisson and G. P. Thomson
1938 - Ants Antson was born. Estonian speed skater.

1938 - Mustafa Ismet Inönü assumes the Presidency of Turkey.
1939 - Denise Alexander was born. American actress
1940 - Barbara Boxer was born. U.S. Senator
1940 - World War II: Battle of Taranto - The Royal Navy launches the first aircraft carrier strike in history, on the Ialian fleet at Taranto.
1940 - The German cruiser Atlantis captures top secret British mail, and sends it to Japan.
1940 - Armistice Day Blizzard: An unexpected blizzard kills 144 in U.S. Midwest.
1942 - Road to Morocco, starring Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, and Dorothy Lamour, premieres.
1943 - Doug Frost was born. Australian swimming coach
1944 - Jesse Colin Young was born. American musician (The Youngbloods)
1945 - Daniel Ortega was born. President of Nicaragua (1984-90)
1945 - Jerome David Kern dies (b. 1885). American composer.
1950 - Mircea Dinescu was born. Romanian poet
1951 - Juan Perón is reelected President of Argentina
1953 - Marshall Crenshaw was born. American musician
1953 - António Maria Lisboa dies (b. 1 Aug 1928). Portuguese surrealist poet.
1956 - António Ferro dies. Portuguese politician and journalist.
1959 - Lee Haney was born. American bodybuilder
1960 - Peter Parros was born. American actor
1960 - Stanley Tucci was born. American actor and film director
1961 - Corinne Hermès was born. French singer.

1961 - Stalingrad renamed Volgograd
1962 - James Morrison was born. Australian jazz musician
1962 - Demi Moore was born. American actress
1962 - Kuwait's National Assembly ratifies the Constitution of Kuwait.
1964 - Calista Flockhart was born. American actress
1965 - Aldair was born. Brazilian football player
1965 - Proclamação da Independencia da Rodésia pelo primeiro ministro Ian Smith.
1965 - Rhodesia (now called Zimbabwe) was declared independent by the white minority regime of Ian Smith.

1966 - NASA launches spaceship Gemini 12.
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.
1967 - Gil de Ferran was born. Brazilian race car driver
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.
1968 - A second republic is declared in the Maldives.
1969 - Jim Morrison (The Doors) is arrested by the FBI after repeatedly prodding a stewardess.
1969 - Carson Kressley was born. American fashion expert.
1969 - Ernest Ansermet dies (b. 1883). Swiss conductor.
1972 - Vietnam War: Vietnamization - The United States Army turns over the massive Long Binh military base to South Vietnam.
1973 - Jason White was born. American Musician (Green Day)
1973 - David "Stringbean" Akeman dies (b. 1915). American banjo player
1973 - Artturi Ilmari Virtanen dies (b. 1895). Finnish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.
1974 - Alfonso Leng dies (b. 1894). Chilean composer.
1974 - Leonardo DiCaprio was born in Louisiana. American actor
1975 - Angola becomes independent from Portugal.
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.
1975 - Theodosius Dobzhansky dies (b. 1900). Ukrainian geneticist
1976 - Alexander Calder dies (b, 1898). American artist
1977 - A ONU condena a Indonésia pela invasão de Timor Leste.
1977 - Ben Hollioake was born. English cricketer
1978 - Maumoon Abdul Gayoom succeeded Ibrahim Nasir as the president of the Republic of Maldives. He has since been re-elected for six consecutive 5-year terms.
1978 - A renovated Hollywood Sign is unveiled, replacing the older version that was built in 1923.
1979 - Dimitri Tiomkin dies (b. 1894). Ukrainian-born composer
1981 - Natalie Glebova was born. 2005 Miss Universe
1984 - Em Madrid, a atleta portuguesa Aurora Cunha torna-se campeã mundial de estrada.
1985 - Kalan Porter was born. Canadian singer
1986 - Sperry Rand and Burroughs merge to form Unisys, becoming the second largest computer company.

1987 - Van Gogh's "Irises" sells for record $53.6 M at auction
1988 - In Sacramento, California, police find a body buried in the lawn of 60-year-old boardinghouse landlady Dorothea Puente .
1992 - The Church of England votes to allow women to become priests.
1993 - Australian Prime minister P. J. Keating makes a famous speech at the dedication of the tomb and the burial of the unknown Australian soldier
1997 - Mary McAleese inaugurated the eighth President of Ireland.
1997 - Marianne Biancuzzo is charged for drowning her newborn baby in a toilet and hiding the remains in a coffee can in Tucson, Arizona.
1997 - Rodney Milburn dies (b. 1950). American athlete
1999 - Jacobo Timmerman dies (b. 1923). Argentine writer and journalist
1999 - Mary Kay Bergman dies (b. 1961). Voice actress
2000 - In Kaprun, Austria, 155 skiers and snowboarders die when a cable car catches fire in an alpine tunnel.
2004 - New Zealand Tomb of the Unknown Warrior dedicated at the National War Memorial, Wellington
2004 - Mahmoud Abbas is elected chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization minutes after the death of Yasser Arafat.
2004 - Official Guided by Voices Day in San Diego, California.
2004 - Mary McAleese inaugurated for a second term as President of Ireland.
2004 - Yasser Arafat dies (b. 1929).Palestinian leader, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
Colombia - Independence of Cartagena, from the Spanish Army in 1918
Poland - Independence Day (1918)
Angola - Independence Day (1975)
Opening of carnival season in Germany ("Fasching" on 11-11, at 11:11)
The Feast of Saint Martin
Remembrance Day in the Commonwealth of Nations
Armistice Day in some European countries
Veterans Day in the United States (Formerly "Armistice Day")
South Korea - Pepero Day
Dia de São Martinho (Portugal) - Feriado municipal em Meda, Penafiel e Torres Vedras