What are the important events that happened on November 11? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
November 11: Facts & Myths About This Day
November 11 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.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is October 29, 2024 – a Monday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 28,854,720 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘trihectadecahexagon’ day.
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Scorpio is the zodiac 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.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,343 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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November 11 Historical Events
- 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 made by Kazimierz Siemienowicz are successfully used.
- 1805 –Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Dürenstein – 8000 French troops attempt to slow the retreat of a vastly superior Russian and Austrian force.
- 1869 –The Victorian Aboriginal Protection Act is enacted in Australia, giving the government control of indigenous people’s wages, their terms of employment, where they could live, and of their children, effectively leading to the Stolen Generations.
- 1887 –Anarchist Haymarket Martyrs August Spies, Albert Parsons, Adolph Fischer and George Engel are executed.
- 1944 –Dr. jur. Erich Göstl, a member of the Waffen SS, is presented with the Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross, to recognise extreme battlefield bravery, after losing his face and eyes during the Battle of Normandy.
- 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 –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.
- 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, appoints Malcolm Fraser as caretaker Prime Minister and announces a general election to be held in early December.
Who were born on November 11?
- 1791 –Josef Munzinger, Swiss Federal Councillor (d. 1855)
- 1872 –David I. Walsh, 46th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1947)
- 1911 –Roberto Matta, Chilean painter (d. 2002)
- 1921 –Terrel Bell, American politician (d. 1996)
- 1931 –Veronica Hurst, British actress
- 1951 –Bill Moseley, American actor
- 1953 –Kostas Skandalidis, Greek politician
- 1960 –Chuck Hernandez, American baseball coach
- 1973 –Jason White, American musician (Green Day)
- 1986 –Victor Cruz, American football player
Who died on November 11?
- 1724 –Joseph Blake, English highwayman (b. c. 1700)
- 1887 –Haymarket defendants: Adolph Fischer (b. 1858)
- 1887 –Haymarket defendants: George Engel (b. 1836)
- 1953 –Princess Irene of Hesse and by Rhine (b. 1866)
- 1977 –Greta Keller, Austrian cabaret singer and actress (b. 1903)
- 1984 –Martin Luther King, Sr., American civil rights figure (b. 1899)
- 1990 –Yiannis Ritsos, Greek poet (b. 1909)
- 1994 –Pedro Zamora, Cuban-born American TV personality and AIDS activist (b. 1972)
- 2006 –Belinda Emmett, Australian actress (b. 1974)
- 2010 –Baby Marie Osborne, American actress (b. 1911)
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