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Today In History - November 11 |
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1620 41 pilgrims land in Massachusetts and sign the Mayflower Compact… In the name of God, Amen. We whose names are underwriten, the loyall subjects of our dread soveraigne Lord King James by the grace of God, of Great Britaine, Franc, & Ireland king, defender of the faith, &c |
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Famous Persons Born on This Date in History |
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1154 Sancho I, King of Portugal 1155 Alfonso VIII, King of Castilia 1493 Paracelsus 1523 Joachim Hopperus 1579 Frans Snyders 1599 Ottavio Piccolomini 1633 George Savile 1636 Yen Jo-chu 1657 Guido Starhemberg 1679 Firmin Abauzit 1688 Lorenzo Somis 1690 Gerhard Hoffmann 1696 Andrea Zani 1722 Johann Philipp Sack 1724 Willem A. Alting 1731 Carl Joseph Toeschi 1736 Johann H. Schepp 1744 Abigail Smith Adams 1748 Carlos IV, King of Spain 1767 Bernhard Romberg 1771 Ephraim McDowell 1788 Michal Wielhorski 1811 Ben McCulloch 1821 Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky 1832 Paolo Giorza 1836 Thomas Bailey Aldrich 1864 Alfred Hermann Fried 1868 Edouard Vuillard 1872 Maude K. Adams 1883 Ernest Ansermet 1885 George S. Patton 1894 Aaron Avshalomov 1894 Winifred Kingston 1895 Beulah Ecton Woodard 1895 Jacov Gotovac 1896 Charles "Lucky" Luciano 1897 Gordon W. Allport 1898 Rene Clair 1899 Pat O'Brien 1900 Helena Konopacka 1900 Hugh Scott 1900 John Longden 1901 Sam Spiegel 1903 Charles Bruce Perry 1904 Alger Hiss 1905 Israel Aaron Maisels 1909 Robert Ryan 1911 Reginald Patric Lawrence Knowles 1912 Cissie Elizabeth Charlton 1913 German Leont'yevich Zhukovsky 1913 Peter Black 1914 Daisy Bates 1914 Hansje Toussaint 1914 Howard Fast 1914 Perry Bass 1915 Bernhard Heiliger 1915 William Proxmire 1916 Eladio Rusconi 1918 Stubby Kaye 1920 Roy Jenkins 1921 Maila Nurmi 1922 Kurt Vonnegut 1925 Jonathan Winters 1927 Lord Wolfson 1927 Mose Allison 1928 Arthur Cunningham 1928 Edward Zorinsky 1928 Ernestine Anderson 1928 Lavern Baker 1928 Trevor Meale 1929 Carlos Fuentes 1934 Bibi Andersson 1934 Elzbieta Krzesinska 1934 Paula Myers-Pope 1936 Susan Kohner 1938 John Reilly 1938 Josef Odozil 1938 Roger Laver 1939 Claudia Boyarskikh 1939 Denise Alexander 1940 Barbara Boxer 1942 Roy Fredericks 1943 Chas Hodges 1943 Jan Adamski 1943 Karin Kent 1944 Jesse Colin Young 1945 Chris Dreja 1945 Daniel Ortega Saavedra 1945 Denise Alexander 1945 Niaz Ahmed 1945 Vince Martell 1946 Chip Hawkes 1946 Corrine Brown 1946 Vladimir Alekseyevich Soloviyov 1947 Brad Lee Sexton 1947 Callum Alexander MacDonald 1950 Otis Armstrong 1950 Rex Samuel Sellers 1954 Gail Marquis 1955 Jigme Singye Wangchuk 1956 Billy Smith 1956 Ian Craig Marsh 1959 Vincent Irizarry 1960 Lisa Welch Semler 1961 Matt Ghaffari 1961 Steve Young 1962 Demi Moore 1963 Vinnie Testaverde 1964 Calista Flockhart 1964 Jon Hough 1964 Philip McKeon 1964 Robert Haynes 1964 Roberto Hernandez 1965 Brian Wilson 1965 Ruthie Matthes 1966 Benedicta Boccoli 1966 Gina Pillitiere 1966 Jeff Buckley 1967 Bill Musgrave 1968 Jo Kittsee 1968 John Jett 1968 Lin Elliott 1968 Wyatt Pauley 1969 Damion Easley 1969 Dave Moore 1969 Jeff Sydner 1969 LaRee Pearl Sugg 1969 Michael Owens 1970 Derry Brownson 1970 Jeff Ware 1970 Lee Parkin Starsky 1971 Melvin Tuten 1971 Ryan Hancock 1972 Berry Oakley 1972 Cornell Thomas 1972 Jack Jackson 1972 Steve Konowalchuk 1973 Jason Bowen 1973 Stacy Perrone 1973 Terrance Shaw 1974 Leonardo DiCaprio 1974 Phillip Ward |
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537 St. Silverius ends his reign as the Catholic Pope 887 King Charles III resigns 1158 Emperor Frederik I Barbarossa declares himself ruler of Northern Italy 1208 Otto van Wittelsbach is chosen German King 1215 The 4th Lateran Council opens in Rome 1417 Oddo Colonna is elected as Pope Martinus V 1493 Columbus discovers Saba 1500 Treaty of Granada 1503 Pope Julius II is elected 1572 Duke of Alva's son, Don Fredrik, begins the siege for Haarlem 1606 Turkey and Austria sign the Treaty of Zsitva-Torok 1620 41 pilgrims land in Massachusetts and sign the Mayflower Compact 1640 John Pym, earl of Strafford, is locked in the Tower of London 1647 Massachusetts passes the first U.S. compulsory school attendance law 1648 The Dutch and French agree to divide St. Maarten, Leeward Islands 1671 The Dutch States-General forbids importation of French wine 1688 Prince Willem III's invasion fleet sails to England 1714 A highway in the Bronx is laid out 1745 Bonnie Prince Charles' army enters England 1752 The Theresianische Military Academy opens in Vienna 1778 Iroquois Indians in New York kill 40 people in the Cherry Valley Massacre 1790 Chrysanthemums are introduced into England from China 1811 Cartagena, Colombia declares its independence from Spain 1813 Dresden surrenders to the allied armies 1836 Chile declares war on Bolivia and Peru 1838 Emma Wedgwood accepts Charles Darwin's marriage proposal 1851 Alvan Clark patents the telescope 1864 Sherman's troops destroy Rome, Georgia 1864 The skirmish at Shoal Creek, AL 1865 Mary Edward Walker, the first Army female surgeon, is awarded the Medal of Honor 1889 Washington is admitted as the 42nd state 1890 D. McCree patents the portable fire escape 1895 Bechuanaland becomes part of Cape Colony 1896 Jules Vandenpeereboom becomes Belgium's Minister of War 1909 Construction of a Navy base at Pearl Harbor begins 1918 Armistice Day: WW I ends 1918 Dutch SDAP leader Troelstra announces the revolution 1918 Emperor Charles I of Austria abdicates the throne 1918 Germany surrenders and signs an armistice 1918 Poland declares its independence 1919 Pope Benedictus XV states the Roman Catholics political and business views 1921 President Harding dedicates the Tomb of Unknown Soldier at Arlington Cemetery 1922 The Largest U.S. flag is displayed (150' X 90') 1923 The Eternal Flame is lit for the tomb of the unknown solder at the Arc de Triumph 1925 Louis Armstrong records first of his Hot Five and Hot Seven recordings 1925 Robert Millikan announces the discovery of cosmic rays 1926 Eddie Collins is released as the White Sox manager 1931 The cornerstones are laid for the Opera House and Veteran's Building 1933 "Great Black Blizzard" first recorded great dust storm in the Great Plains 1937 The Nobel Prize for physics is awarded to C. J. Davisson and G. P. Thomson 1938 Kristallnacht: the Jews are forced to wear the Star of David 1939 Kate Smith first belts out Irving Berlin's "God Bless America" 1940 Thousands of Paris students lay a wreath at Grave of Unknown Soldier 1940 A blizzard strikes the mid-west killing over 100 people 1940 A British air attack destroys half of the Italian fleet 1940 Willy's unveiled its General Purpose vehicle: the Jeep 1941 Czech Premier General Eliasj is arrested by the Nazis 1942 745 French Jews are deported to Auschwitz 1942 Germany completes their occupation of France 1942 Jews in Free Zone of France are ordered to wear the yellow Star of David 1942 The last German offensive in Stalingrad 1943 U.S. air raid on Rabaul 1953 Jimmy Dykes succeeds Marty Marion as the Baltimore Orioles' manager 1959 The first episode of "Rocky and His Friends" airs 1959 Seals Stadium in San Francisco is demolished 1961 Congolese soldiers murder 13 Italian United Nations pilots 1961 Stalingrad is renamed Volgograd 1963 Brian Epstein and Ed Sullivan sign a three show contract for the Beatles 1963 Hockey great Gordie Howe ties Rocket Richard's lifetime 544 goal record 1965 Heavyweight Cassius Clay KOs Floyd Patterson in Las Vegas 1965 Rhodesia proclaimed its independence from Britain 1968 John Lennon and Yoko Ono appear nude on the cover of "2 Virgins" album 1968 Maldives becomes a republic 1969 Jim Morrison is arrested on an airplane by the FBI for drunkenness 1971 A man-made earth slide at Kawasaki Japan kills 15 people 1972 The Dow Jones Index moves above 1,000 for first time 1972 The U.S. Army turns over Long Bihn base to South Vietnamese army 1975 Angola gains its independence from Portugal 1978 Maumoon Abdul Gayoom becomes president of Maldives 1979 A Boston court issues an occupancy permit for the Cambridge Buddhist Center 1982 A gas explosion in an Israeli army headquarters kills 60 people 1982 Solidarity leader Lech Walesa is released from jail in Poland 1983 The first U.S. cruise missiles arrive in Great Britain 1983 President Reagan became the first U.S. President to address Japan's legislature 1985 The first AIDS theme TV movie - "An Early Frost" airs 1985 Yonkers is found guilty of segregating schools and housing 1987 Judge Anthony M. Kennedy is nominated to the Supreme Court 1987 Moscow party secretary Boris Jerusalem resigns 1987 Van Gogh's "Irises" painting sells for a record $53.6 Million at auction 1988 Oldest known insect fossils, 390 million years old, are reported in Science 1992 Anglican Church and Church of England approve of female priests 1993 Pope John Paul II is hospitalized for 2 days for a fractured shoulder 1994 Bill Gates buys Leonardo da Vinci's "Codex" for $30,800,000.00 1999 The last upside down date until January 1, 6000 |
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