The 11t o November is the 315t day o the year (316t in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 50 days bidin.
Events
1889 : Banner o Washington
Poppies (in 2002 ) commemoratin the 1918 Airmistice at the end o Warld War I
1417 - Pape Martin V is electit.
1648 - Fraunce an the Netherlands agree tae divide the Caribbean isle o Saunt Martin atween them.
1855 - A yirdquauk in Edo (nou Tokyo ) kills 6,000 fowk.
1880 - Australian outlaw Ned Kelly is executit.
1889 - Washington becomes the 42nt state o the Unitit States .
1917 - Liliuokalani , the last Hawaiian monarch, dees agit 79, awmaist 25 year efter her forced abdication.
1918 - The Airmistice endin Warld War I is signed at the 11t hour, on the 11t day o the 11t month. It is commemoratit as Remembrance Day, Armistice Day an Veterans Day.
1918 - Jozef Pilsudski taks control in Poland .
1960 - A coup attempt is made in Sooth Vietnam against Ngo Dinh Diem .
1965 - Rhodesie unilaterally declares unthirldom frae the Unitit Kinrick .
1975 - Angolae gains unthirldom frae Portugal .
1975 - Governor-General o Australie John Kerr dismisses Prime meenister Gough Whitlam an replaces him wi Malcolm Fraser .
1981 - Antigua an Barbuda jyn the Unitit Naitions .
1992 - The Kirk o Ingland allows female priests.
1997 - Mary McAleese becomes Preses o the Republic o Ireland .
2000 - A cable car catches fire in an alpine tunnel in Kaprun, Austrick , killin 155 fowk.
2004 - Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat dies in Paris , agit 75.
2011 - Michael D. Higgins becomes Preses o the Republic o Ireland .
2014 - 58 fowk are kilt in a bus crash in the Sukkur District in Sindh , Soothren Pakistan .
2018 - Ceremonies tak place warldwide tae mairk 100 year syne the Warld War I Airmistice; Frank-Walter Steinmeier becomes the first German Heid o State tae tak pairt in the Lunnon Cenotaph Remembrance commemorations.
Births
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Leonardo DiCaprio
1050 - Henry IV, Haly Roman Emperor (d. 1106 )
1493 - Paracelsus , Swiss-German physeecian, botanist, astrologer an occultist (d. 1541 )
1748 - Charles IV o Spain (d. 1819 )
1821 - Fyodor Dostoyevsky , Roushie writer (d. 1881 )
1863 - Paul Signac , French penter (d. 1935 )
1864 - Alfred Hermann Fried , Austrick pacifist (d. 1921 )
1869 - Victor Emmanuel III o Italy (d. 1947 )
1882 - Gustaf VI Adolf o Swaden (d. 1973 )
1885 - George S. Patton , American general (d. 1945 )
1919 - Hamish Henderson , Scots poet (d. 2002 )
1920 - Roy Jenkins , Welsh politeecian (d. 2003 )
1922 - Kurt Vonnegut , American writer (d. 2007 )
1925 - June Whitfield , Inglis actress (d. 2018 )
1925 - Jonathan Winters , American actor, comedian an screenwriter (d. 2013 )
1928 - Carlos Fuentes , Panamanian-Mexican writer (d. 2012 )
1940 - Barbara Boxer , American politeecian
1945 - Daniel Ortega , Preses o Nicaragua
1955 - Jigme Singye Wangchuck , umwhile Keeng o Bhutan
1960 - Stanley Tucci , American actor an director
1962 - Demi Moore , American actress
1964 - Calista Flockhart , American actress
1966 - Benedicta Boccoli , Italian actress
1974 - Leonardo DiCaprio , American actor
1983 - Philipp Lahm , German fitbawer
1990 - Tom Dumoulin , Dutch cyclist
1990 - Georginio Wijnaldum , Dutch fitbawer
1991 - Nick Ross , Scots fitbawer
Daiths
Halidays
Ootside airtins