About November 11
November 11, 2024 is the 316th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 50 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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Scorpio is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Topaz is the modern birthstone for this month. Pearl is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 79 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On November 11
- 1215 –The Fourth Lateran Council meets, defining the doctrine of transubstantiation, the process by which bread and wine are, by that doctrine, said to transform into the body and blood of Christ.
- 1805 –Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Dürenstein – 8000 French troops attempt to slow the retreat of a vastly superior Russian and Austrian force.
- 1831 –In Jerusalem, Virginia, Nat Turner is hanged after inciting a violent slave uprising.
- 1839 –The Virginia Military Institute is founded in Lexington, Virginia.
- 1880 –Australian bushranger Ned Kelly is hanged at Melbourne Gaol.
- 1889 –The State of Washington is admitted as the 42nd State of the United States.
- 1911 –Many cities in the Midwestern United States break their record highs and lows on the same day as a strong cold front rolls through.
- 1918 –Emperor Charles I of Austria relinquishes power.
- 1918 –Józef Piłsudski assumes supreme military power in Poland - symbolic first day of Polish independence.
- 1919 –Lāčplēša day – Latvian forces defeat the Freikorps at Riga in the Latvian War of Independence.
- 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 Industrial Workers of the World.
- 1924 –Prime Minister Alexandros Papanastasiou proclaims the first recognized Greek Republic.
- 1940 –Armistice Day Blizzard: An unexpected blizzard kills 144 in the U.S. Midwest.
- 1940 –The German cruiser Atlantis captures top secret British mail, and sends it to Japan.
- 1962 –Kuwait’s National Assembly ratifies the Constitution of Kuwait.
- 1975 –Australian constitutional crisis of 1975: Australian Governor-General Sir John Kerr dismisses the government of Gough Whitlam, appoints Malcolm Fraser as caretaker Prime Minister and announces a general election to be held in early December.
- 1975 –Independence of Angola.
- 1981 –Antigua and Barbuda joins the United Nations.
- 1999 –The House of Lords Act is given Royal Assent, restricting membership of the British House of Lords by virtue of a hereditary peerage.
- 2006 –Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II unveils the New Zealand War Memorial in London, United Kingdom, commemorating the loss of soldiers from the New Zealand Army and the British Army.
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