- 0397 - Martin of Tours dies. French saint
- 0405 - Arsacius dies. Intruding archbishop of Constantinople
- 0537 - Pope Silverius dies. Saint
- 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.
- 1500 - Treaty of Granada - Louis XII of France and Ferdinand II of Aragon agree to divide the Kingdom of Naples between them.
- 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).
- 1638 - Cornelis Corneliszoon van Haarlem dies (b. 1562). Dutch painter.
- 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.
- 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 was born (d. 1824). Baroness von Krüdener, Russian writer.
- 1778 - During the American Revolution, Iroquois Indians, in direct retaliation or 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.
- 1812 - Platon Levshin dies (b. 1737). Metropolitan of Moscow.
- 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 - Nat Turner dies (b. 1800). American slave rebel.
- 1833 - Former United States President John Quincy Adams is first chief executive involved in a railroad accident when the Camden & Amboy train he is riding derails due to a broken axle caused by an overheated journal box in the meadows near Hightstown, New Jersey. He is uninjured and continues his trip onto Washington, D.C. the following day.
- 1836 - Thomas Bailey Aldrich was born (d. 1907). American poet and novelist
- 1839 - The Virginia Military Institute is founded in Lexington, Virginia.
- 1843 - Hans Christian Andersen's The Ugly Duckling was first published.
- 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.
- 1858 - Marie Bashkirtseff was born (d. 1884). Russian painter.
- 1861 - Pedro V dies (b. 1837). King of Portugal (1853-61).
- 1862 - James Madison Porter dies (b. 1793). American politician.
- 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 - 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.
- 1883 - Ernest Ansermet was born (d. 1969). Swiss conductor.
- 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 Fisher and George Engel are executed.
- 1887 - Construction of the Manchester Ship Canal starts at Eastham.
- 1887 - Haymarket defendants: 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.
- 1899 - Pat O'Brien was born (d. 1983). American film actor.
- 1900 - Halina Konopacka was born (d. 1989). Polish athlete.
- 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).
- 1912 - Thomas C. Mann was born (d. 1999). American diplomat.
- 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 - Józef Piłsudski comes to Warsaw and assumes supreme military power in Poland. Poland regains its independence.
- 1918 - Emperor Charles I of Austria abdicates.
- 1918 - George Lawrence Price dies. Canadian soldier who was the last person to be killed in W.W.I.
- 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 - Terrell Bell was born (d. 1996). American politician
- 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 Filipe was born in Boavista Island, Cape Vert (d. 1964). Portuguese poet.
- 1926 - U.S. Route 66 is established.
- 1926 - Harry Lumley was born (d. 1998). National Hockey League goaltender
- 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 (Death of Artemio Cruz).
- 1929 - Hans Magnus Enzensberger was born. German writer.
- 1929 - LaVern Baker was born (d. 1997). American singer.
- 1930 - Patent number US1781541 was awarded to Albert Einstein and Leó ilárd for their invention, the Einstein refrigerator.
- 1931 - Shibusawa Eiichi dies (b. 1840). Japanese industrialist.
- 1935 - Bibi Andersson was born. Swedish acress.
- 1937 - Nobel prize for physics awarded to C. J. Davisson and G. P. Thomson.
- 1937 - Stephen Lewis was born. Canadian politician and diplomat
- 1938 - Haruhiro Yamashita was born. Japanese gymnast
- 1938 - Ants Antson was born. Estonian speed skater.
- 1938 - Mustafa Ismet Inönü assumes the Presidency of Turkey.
- 1938 - Typhoid Mary dies (b. 1869). Carrier of the typhoid disease.
- 1939 - Denise Alexander was born. American actress
- 1939 - Jan Opletal dies. Czech student, victim of nazi violence in Prague
- 1940 - Barbara Boxer was born. U.S. Senator
- 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 - Chris Dreja was born. British guitarist and bassist (The Yardbirds)
- 1945 - Vince Martell was born. American guitarist (Vanilla Fudge)
- 1945 - Jerome David Kern dies (b. 1885). American composer.
- 1950 - Mircea Dinescu was born. Romanian poet.
- 1950 - Jim Peterik was born. American musician and songwriter (Survivor)
- 1951 - Juan Perón is reelected President of Argentina
- 1951 - Kim Peek was born. American megasavant.
- 1951 - Marc Summers was born. American game show and documentary host
- 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 - Mic Michaeli was born. Swedish keyboardist (Europe)
- 1962 - Kuwait's National Assembly ratifies the Constitution of Kuwait.
- 1964 - Calista Flockhart was born. American actress
- 1964 - Judith Edelman was born. American musician
- 1965 - Aldair was born. Brazilian football player
- 1966 - Alison Doody was born. Irish actress.
- 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 - David L Cook was born. American singer and comedian
- 1969 - Carson Kressley was born. American television personality
- 1969 - Ernest Ansermet dies (b. 1883). Swiss conductor.
- 1970 - Lee Battersby was born. Australian author
- 1972 - Vietnam War: Vietnamization - The United States Army turns over the massive Long Binh military base to South Vietnam.
- 1972 - Berry Oakley dies (b. 1948). Bass Player and founder, Allman Brothers Band
- 1973 - Jason White was born. American Musician (Green Day)
- 1973 - David "Stringbean" Akeman dies (b. 1915). American banjo player
- 1974 - Alfonso Leng dies (b. 1894). Chilean composer.
- 1974 - Leonardo DiCaprio was born in Louisiana. American actor
- 1974 - Wajahatullah Wasti was born. Pakistani cricketer
- 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 - Mike Leon Grosch was born. German singer
- 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
- 1977 - Maniche was born. Portuguese football player.
- 1977 - Greta Keller dies (b. 1903). Vienna-born cabaret singer and actress.
- 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 - Courtenay Semel was born. American reality TV star
- 1979 - Dimitri Tiomkin dies (b. 1894). Ukrainian-born composer.
- 1980 - Willie Parker was born. American football player
- 1981 - Guillaume was born. Hereditary Grand Duke of Luxembourg
- 1981 - Natalie Glebova was born. 2005 Miss Universe
- 1982 - Brittny Gastineau was born. American socialite
- 1983 - Philipp Lahm was born. German football player
- 1983 - Kristal Marshall, American professional wrestler
- 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 .
- 1988 - William Ifor Jones dies (b. 1900). Welsh Conductor & Organist.
- 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.
- 1993 - Erskine Hawkins dies (b. 1914). American trumpet player and big band leader.
- 1995 - Noah Gray-Cabey was born. American actor
- 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
- 2004 - New Zealand Tomb of the Unknown Warrior dedicated at the National War Memorial, Wellington
- 2004 - Yasser Arafat is confirmed dead by the Palestine Liberation Organization, of unidentified causes. Mahmoud Abbas is elected chairman of the PLO minutes later.
- 2004 - Official Guided by Voices Day in San Diego,
- California.
- 2004 - Mary McAleese inaugurated for a second term as President of Ireland.
- 2004 - Richard Dembo dies (b. 1948). French director and screenwriter.
- 2004 - Yasser Arafat dies (b. 1929).Palestinian leader, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
- 2005 - Lord Lichfield dies (b. 1939). British photographer.
- 2005 - Peter Drucker dies (b. 1909). American management theorist.
- 2005 - Moustapha Akkad dies (b. 1930). Syrian-American film producer and director.
- 2006 - Belinda Emmett dies (b. 1974). Australian actress.
- 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
- Veterans Day in the United States (Formerly "Armistice Day")
- Dia de São Martinho (Portugal)
Amor, morte, poesia, política, actualidade, futebol, efemérides, solidão, paz, humor, musica...tudo e nada; Here we talk about life, love, death,
On this day in History, poetry, politics, football (soccer), solitude, peace, humour, music ... nothing and all.
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