On this day in History - Nov. 11

• 0308 - 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.
• 0397 - Martin of Tours dies. French saint.
• 0405 - Arsacius dies. Intruding archbishop of Constantinople.
• 0537 - Pope Silverius dies. Saint.
• 0826 - Theodore the Studite dies. Saint.
• 0865 - Petronas the Patrician dies. Byzantine General.
• 0995 - Gisela of Swabia was born (d. 1041). Holy Roman Empire Empress.
• 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.
• 1569 - Martin Ruland the Younger was born (d. 1611). German physician and alchemist.
• 1599 - Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg was born (d. 1655). Queen of Sweden.
• 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.
• 1673 - Second Battle of Khotyn in 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.
• 1675 - Gottfried Leibniz demonstrated integral calculus for the first time to find the area under the graph of y = f(x) function.
• 1675 - Guru Teg Bahadur Ji dies. 9th sikh guru.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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).
• 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.
• 1764 - Barbara Juliana was born (d. 1824). Baroness von Krüdener, Russian writer.
• 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.
• 1791 - Josef Munzinger was born (d. 1855). Swiss Federal Councillor.
• 1792 - Mary Anne Evans was born (d. 1872). English wife of Benjamin Disraeli.
• 1805 - Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Dürenstein - 8000 French troops attempted to slow the retreat of a vastly superior Russian and Austrian force.
• 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 - In Jerusalem, Virginia, Nat Turner is hanged after inciting a violent slave uprising.
• 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 - Mouzinho de Albuquerque was born in Batalha (d. 1902). Portuguese soldier and colonial governator.
  
• 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 - 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.
• 1864 - Alfred Hermann Fried was born (d. 1921). Austrian pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.
• 1865 - Treaty of Sinchula is signed in which Bhutan ceded the areas east of the Teesta River to the British East India Company.
• 1869 - Gaetano Bresci was born (d. 1901). Italian-American anarchist.
• 1869 - Victor Emmanuel III was born (d. 1947). King of Italy.
• 1872 - David I. Walsh was born (d. 1947). 46th Governor of Massachusetts.
• 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.
• 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). American baseball player.
• 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.
• 1901 - Magda Goebbels was born (d. 1945). Wife of Nazi minister of propaganda, Josef Goebbels.
• 1901 - 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 - 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).
• 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 - Stubby Kaye was born (d. 1997). American comic actor.
• 1918 - George Lawrence Price dies (b. 1892). 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.
• 1919 - Eduardo das Neves dies (b. 1874). Brazilian composer and violinist.
• 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.
• 1921 - Terrell Bell was born (d. 1996). American politician.
• 1922 - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. was born. American novelist.
• 1924 - Prime Minister Alexandros Papanastasiou proclaims the first Greek Republic.
• 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). Canadian ice hockey player.
• 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).
• 1928 - Gracita Morales was born (d. 1995). Spanish actress.
• 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 Szilárd for their invention, the Einstein refrigerator.
• 1930 - Hank Garland was born (d. 2004). American guitar virtuoso.
• 1930 - Hugh Everett was born (d. 1982). American physicist.
• 1930 - Vernon Handley was born. English conductor.
• 1931 - Shibusawa Eiichi dies (b. 1840). Japanese industrialist.
• 1933 - Dust Bowl: In South Dakota, a very strong dust storm strips topsoil rom desiccated farmlands.
• 1934 - Jim Perry was born. Canadian-American television personality.
• 1935 - Bibi Andersson was born. Swedish acress.
• 1936 - Jack Keller was born (d. 2005). American songwriter.
• 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.
• 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.
• 1941 - Jesse Colin Young was born. American singer and songwriter (The Youngbloods)
• 1942 - World War II: Nazi Germany completed their occupation of France.
• 1942 - Road to Morocco, starring Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, and Dorothy Lamour, premieres.
• 1943 - Doug Frost was born. Australian swimming coach.
• 1944 - Kemal Sunal was born. Turkish actor.
• 1945 - Chris Dreja was born. British guitarist and bassist (The Yardbirds).
• 1945 - Daniel Ortega was born. President of Nicaragua (1984-90).
• 1945 - Vince Martell was born. American guitarist (Vanilla Fudge).
• 1945 - Jerome David Kern dies (b. 1885). American composer.
• 1946 - Al Holbert was born (d. 1988). American race car driver and team owner.
• 1950 - Ed Ordynski was born. Australian rally driver.
• 1950 - Jim Peterik was born. American musician and songwriter (Survivor).
• 1950 - Mircea Dinescu was born. Romanian poet.
• 1950 - Rudy Sarzo was born. Cuban bass guitarist.
• 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 - Andy Partridge was born. English musician (XTC).
• 1953 - Kostas Skandalidis was born. Greek politician.
• 1953 - Marshall Crenshaw was born. American musician.
• 1953 - António Maria Lisboa dies (b. 1 Aug 1928). Portuguese surrealist poet.
• 1954 - Mary Gaitskill was born. American novelist.
• 1955 - Dave Alvin was born. American songwriter and guitarist.
• 1956 - António Ferro dies. Portuguese politician and journalist.
• 1958 - Luz Casal was born. Spanish singer.
• 1958 - Carlos Lacamara was born. Cuban-born American actor.
• 1959 - Lee Haney was born. American bodybuilder.
• 1960 - A military coup against President Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam was crushed.
• 1960 - Chuck Hernandez was born. American baseball coach (Detroit Tigers).
• 1960 - Peter Parros was born. American actor.
• 1960 - Stanley Tucci was born. American actor and film director.
• 1961 - Stalingrad renames Volvograd.
• 1961 - Corinne Hermès was born. French singer.
• 1961 - Jan Kuehnemund was born. American guitarist.
• 1962 - Kuwait's National Assembly ratifies the Constitution of Kuwait.
• 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 - Anabel Alonso was born. Spanish actress.
• 1964 - Calista Flockhart was born. American actress.
• 1965 - Rhodesia (now called Zimbabwe) was declared independent by the white minority regime of Ian Smith.
• 1965 - Aldair was born. Brazilian footballer.
• 1965 - Max Mutchnick was born. American TV writer and producer.
• 1966 - NASA launches spaceship Gemini 12.
• 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 - A second republic is declared in the Maldives.
• 1968 - David L Cook was born. American singer and comedian.
• 1969 - Jim Morrison (The Doors) is arrested by the FBI after repeatedly prodding a stewardess.
• 1969 - Carson Kressley was born. American television personality.
• 1969 - Kristen Wilson was born. American actress.
• 1969 - Ernest Ansermet dies (b. 1883). Swiss conductor.
• 1970 - Lee Battersby was born. Australian author.
• 1971 - Jennifer Celotta was born. American TV producer and writer.
• 1971 - Paul Chaloner was born. English TV e-sports commentator.
• 1972 - Vietnam War: Vietnamization - The United States Army turns over the massive Long Binh military base to South Vietnam.
• 1972 - Adam Beach was born. Canadian actor.
• 1972 - Leslie Mann was born. American actress.
• 1972 - Tyler Christopher was born. American actor.
  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.
• 1973 - Artturi Ilmari Virtanen dies (b. 1895). Finnish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1974 - Leonardo DiCaprio was born. American actor.
  
• 1974 - Static Major was born (d. 2008). American singer.
• 1974 - Wajahatullah Wasti was born. Pakistani cricketer.
• 1974 - Alfonso Leng dies (b. 1894). Chilean composer.
• 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 - Angelica Vale was born.Mexican actress.
• 1975 - Theodosius Dobzhansky dies (b. 1900). Ukrainian geneticist.
• 1976 - Lisa Gleave was born. American actress and model.
• 1976 - Jason Grilli was born. Relief pitcher for the Detroit Tigers.
• 1976 - Jesse Keeler was born. Canadian musician.
• 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 - Abraham Sarmiento, Jr. dies (b. 1950). Filipino journalist & political activist.
• 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.
• 1978 - Lou Vincent was born. New Zealand cricketer.
• 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 - Candy Manson was born. American pornographic actress.
• 1983 - Matt Garza was born. American baseball player.
• 1983 - Philipp Lahm was born. German football player.
• 1983 - Kristal Marshall was born. American professional wrestler.
• 1984 - Em Madrid, a atleta portuguesa Aurora Cunha torna-se campeã mundial de estrada.
• 1984 - Hilton Armstrong was born. American basketball player.
• 1985 - Jessica Sierra was born. American Idol season 4 finalist.
  
• 1985 - Kalan Porter was born. Canadian singer.
• 1985 - Raquel Guerra was born. Portuguese singer and actress.
• 1985 - Robin Uthappa was born. Indian cricket player.
• 1986 - Sperry Rand and Burroughs merge to form Unisys, becoming the second largest computer company.
• 1986 - François Trinh-Duc was born. French rugby player.
  
• 1987 - Van Gogh's "Irises" sells for record $53.6 M at auction.
• 1987 - Yuya Tegoshi was born. Japanese Idol (member of NEWS and Tegomass).
• 1988 - In Sacramento, California, police find a body buried in the lawn of 60-year-old boardinghouse landlady Dorothea Puente.
• 1988 - Alexandra Kyle was born. American actress.
  
• 1988 - William Ifor Jones dies (b. 1900). Welsh Conductor & Organist.
• 1989 - Reina Tanaka was born. Japanese singer (Morning Musume, Aa!, Elegies).
• 1990 - Alexis Minotis dies (n. 1898). Greek actor.
• 1990 - Yiannis Ritsos dies (b. 1909). Greek poet, proposed nine times for the Nobel Prize for Literature, winner of the Lenin Peace Prize.
• 1990 - Attilio Demaría dies (b. 1909). Argentinian footballer.
• 1991 - Christa B. Allen was born. American actress.
  
• 1992 - The Church of England votes to allow women to become priests.
• 1992 - Trey Smith was born. American actor.
• 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.
• 1994 - John A. Volpe dies (b. 1908). 61st and 63rd Governor of Massachusetts, 2nd United States Secretary of Transportation.
  
• 1994 - Pedro Zamora dies (b. 1972). Cuban-American AIDS activist.
• 1994 - Tadeusz Żychiewicz dies (b. 1922). Polish journalist, art historian and publicist.
• 1995 - Noah Gray-Cabey was born. American actor.
• 1997 - Mary McAleese inaugurated the eighth President of Ireland.
• 1997 - Rodney Milburn dies (b. 1950). American athlete.
• 1998 - Frank Brimsek dies (b. 1913). American ice hockey player.
  
• 1999 - A six-storey apartment block collapses in Foggia, Italy, killing 62.
• 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 atches fire in an alpine tunnel.
• 2001 - Journalists Pierre Billaud, Johanne Sutton and Volker Handloik are killed in Afghanistan during an attack on the convoy they were traveling on top off.
• 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.
• 2005 - Patrick Anson, 5th Earl of Lichfield dies (b. 1939). British photographer.
• 2006 - The New Zealand war memorial monument was unveiled by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in London, United Kingdom, commemorating the loss of soldiers from the New Zealand Army and the British Army.
• 2006 - Belinda Emmett dies (b. 1974). Australian actress.
• 2006 - Harry Lehotsky dies (b. 1957). American pastor and activist.
• 2007 - Delbert Mann dies (b. 1920). American film director.
• 2008 – The RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 (QE2) set sail on her final voyage to Dubai.
• 2008 – Herb Score dies (b. 1933). American baseball player.
• 2009 - Dhanpat Rai Nahar dies (b. 1919). Indian labour leader.
  
• R.C. Saints - Martin of Tours.
• Colombia - Independence of Cartagena, from the Spanish Army in 1918.
• Poland - Independence Day (1918).
• Angola - Independence Day (1975).
• Maldives - Republic Day (1968).
• 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 France and Belgium.
• Veterans Day in the United States (Formerly "Armistice Day").
• South Korea - Pepero Day.
• Women's Day (1972) in Belgium.
• St. Martin's Day / Dia de São Martinho.
• Feriado municipal em Meda, Penafiel e Torres Vedras.