Events
308 - 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
Gaul1215 - The
Fourth Lateran Council meets, adopting the doctrine of
transubstantiation, meaning that bread and wine are transformed into the body and blood of Christ.
1500 -
Treaty of Granada -
Louis XII of France and
Ferdinand II of Aragon agree to divide the
Kingdom of Naples between them.
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.
1634 - Following pressure from
Anglican bishop
John Atherton, the
Irish House of Commons passes "An Act for the Punishment for the Vice of Buggery".1673 - Second
Battle of Khotyn in the
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.
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.
1778 -
Cherry Valley Massacre:
Seneca Indians in central
New York kill more than forty people.
1805 -
Napoleonic Wars:
Battle of Dürenstein - 8000
French troops attempted 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.
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.
1880 - Australian
Bushranger Ned Kelly is hanged at
Melbourne Gaol.
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.
1889 -
Washington is admitted as the 42nd
U.S. state.
1911 - Many cities in the U.S. 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).
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 relinquishes power.
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.
1921 - The
Tomb of the Unknowns is dedicated by US President
Warren G. Harding at
Arlington National Cemetery.
1926 -
U.S. Route 66 is established.
1930 -
Patent number US1781541 was awarded to
Albert Einstein and
Leó Szilárd for their invention, the
Einstein refrigerator.
1933 -
Dust Bowl: In
South Dakota, a very strong
dust storm strips
topsoil from desiccated farmlands.
1940 -
World War II:
Battle of Taranto - The
Royal Navy launches the first
aircraft carrier strike in history, on the
Italian 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 -
World War II:
Nazi Germany completed their occupation of
France.
1962 -
Kuwait's National Assembly ratifies the Constitution of Kuwait.
1965 - In
Rhodesia (modern-day
Zimbabwe), the white-minority government of
Ian Smith unilaterally declares
independence.
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.
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.
1972 -
Vietnam War:
Vietnamization - The
United States Army turns over the massive
Long Binh military base to
South Vietnam.
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.
1992 - The
Church of England votes to allow women to become priests.
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,
Wellington2004 -
Yasser Arafat is confirmed dead by the
Palestine Liberation Organization, of unidentified causes.
Mahmoud Abbas is elected chairman of the PLO minutes later.
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