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
- 1634 –Following pressure from Anglican bishop John Atherton, the Irish House of Commons passes An Act for the Punishment for the Vice of Buggery.
- 1675 –Gottfried Leibniz demonstrates integral calculus for the first time to find the area under the graph of y = ƒ(x).
- 1750 –The F.H.C. Society, also known as the Flat Hat Club, is formed at Raleigh Tavern, Williamsburg, Virginia. It is the first college fraternity.
- 1813 –War of 1812: Battle of Crysler’s Farm – British and Canadian forces defeat a larger American force, causing the Americans to abandon their Saint Lawrence campaign.
- 1880 –Australian bushranger Ned Kelly is hanged at Melbourne Gaol.
- 1918 –Emperor Charles I of Austria relinquishes power.
- 1921 –The Tomb of the Unknowns is dedicated by US President Warren G. Harding at Arlington National Cemetery.
- 1934 –The Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne, Australia is opened.
- 1940 –The German cruiser Atlantis captures top secret British mail, and sends it to Japan.
- 1942 –World War II: The Second Battle of El Alamein is won by the British in El Alamein, Egypt.
- 1960 –A military coup against President Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam is crushed.
- 1962 –Kuwait’s National Assembly ratifies the Constitution of Kuwait.
- 1968 –A second republic is declared in the Maldives.
- 1968 –Vietnam War: Operation Commando Hunt initiated. The goal is to interdict men and supplies on the Ho Chi Minh Trail, through Laos into South Vietnam.
- 1975 –Independence of Angola.
- 1981 –Antigua and Barbuda joins the United Nations.
- 1992 –The General Synod of the Church of England votes to allow women to become priests.
- 2004 –The Palestine Liberation Organization confirms the death of Yasser Arafat from unidentified causes. Mahmoud Abbas is elected chairman of the PLO minutes later.
- 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.
- 2008 –RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 (QE2) sets sail on her final voyage to Dubai.
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