November 11 is the 315th day of the year (316th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 51 days remaining.
- 308 - Congress of Carnuntum, where Diocletian came out of retirement to attempt to negotiate an agreement to preserve the Tetrarchy
- 1620 - Mayflower Compact signed, establishing the basic laws for the Plymouth Colony.
- 1648 - France and Netherlands agree to divide the island of Sint Maarten/Saint Martin
- 1864 - General William Tecumseh Sherman begins burning Atlanta, Georgia to the ground
- 1889 - Washington is admitted as the 42nd U.S. state.
- 1918 - World War I ends, and this day is thereafter celebrated as "Armistice Day," "Remembrance Day," "Veterans Day," "Victory Day," or "World War I Memorial Day," depending on your location.
- 1921 - Tomb of the Unknowns dedicated at Arlington National Cemetery
- 1940
- 1965 - Rhodesia proclaims itself independent.
- 1968 - Maldives become a republic
- 1975 - Angola becomes independent from Portugal
- 1975 - Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam is sacked by the Australian Governor General, Sir John Kerr during the Australian constitutional crisis of 1975.
- 1992 - The Church of England votes to allow women to become priests.
- 1050 - Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor (+ 1106)
- 1493 - Paracelsus, physician
- 1744 - Abigail Adams, First Lady
- 1792 - Mary Anne Evans, wife of Benjamin Disraeli
- 1821 - Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russian novelist (+ 1881)
- 1863 - Paul Signac, painter (+ 1935)
- 1864 - Alfred Hermann Fried[?], pacifist and recipient of the Nobel Peace Price[?] 1911 (+ 1921)
- 1869 - King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy (+ 1947)
- 1882 - King Gustav VI Adolf of Sweden (+ 1973)
- 1885 - George Patton, American general (+ 1945)
- 1887 - Roland Young[?], actor (+ 1953)
- 1889 - Clifton Webb, actor (+ 1966)
- 1897 - Charles 'Lucky' Luciano[?], mobster (+ 1962)
- 1901 - F. Van Wyck Mason, author
- 1903 - Sam Spiegel[?], film producer (+ 1985)
- 1904 - Alger Hiss, American government official, spy (+ 1994)
- 1909 - Robert Ryan[?], actor (+ 1973)
- 1914 - Howard Fast, author
- 1920 - Roy Jenkins, British politician (+ 2003)
- 1922 - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., American novelist
- 1925 - June Whitfield, British comedienne
- 1925 - Jonathan Winters, comedian, actor
- 1927 - Mose Allison, jazz musician
- 1928 - LaVern Baker
- 1929 - Hans Magnus Enzensberger[?], poet
- 1944 - Jesse Colin Young[?], musician ("The Youngbloods")
- 1945 - Daniel Ortega, Sandinista, President of Nicaragua
- 1953 - Marshall Crenshaw[?], musician
- 1962 - Demi Moore (born "Demetria Guynes"), actress
- 1959 - Lee Haney, American body builder
- 1964 - Calista Flockhart, American actress
- 1974 - Leonardo DiCaprio, American actor
- 1980 - ManicGypsy Encyclopediann
- 397 - Martin of Tours, French saint
- 537 - St. Silverius, Pope
- 1028 - Constantine VIII of the Byzantine Empire
- 1285 - Peter III of Aragon
- 1643 - Claudio Monteverdi, Italian composer
- 1831 - Nat Turner, American leader of a slave rebellion
- 1855 - Søren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher
- 1880 - Ned Kelly hanged
- 1945 - Jerome David Kern, American composer
- 1974 - Alfonso Leng, Chilean composer
- 1975 - Theodosius Dobzhansky, Ukrainian geneticist
- 1979 - Dimitri Tiomkin, composer
- 1989 - Kenneth Maclean Glazier, Sr.[?], minister, librarian, Secretary of the Liberal Party in Alberta
- 1999 - Jacobo Timmerman, writer, journalist
- 2000 - Hugh Paddick, British actor
See Also:
November 10 - November 12 - October 11 - December 11 -- listing of all days
January, February, March, April, May, June, July,
August, September, October, November, December
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