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November 11

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November 11 is the 315th day of the year (316th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 50 days remaining until the end of the year.

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[edit] 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 Gaul.
1215 - The Fourth Lateran Council meets, defining the doctrine of transubstantiation, the process by which 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. (Old Style date; November 21 per New Style date.)
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 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 = ƒ(x).
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.
1750 - The F.H.C. Society, also known as the Flat Hat Club, was formed at Raleigh Tavern, Williamsburg, Virginia. It was the first college fraternity.
1778 - Cherry Valley Massacre: an attack by Loyalists and Seneca Indian forces on a fort and village in eastern New York during the American Revolutionary War, killing more than forty civilians and soldiers.
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) this is annually honoured with two-minutes of silence.
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.
1919 - Lāčuplēšu day - Latvian forces defeat the Freikorps at Riga in the Latvian War of Independence.
1921 - The Tomb of the Unknowns is dedicated by US President Warren G. Harding at Arlington National Cemetery.
1924 - Prime Minister Alexandros Papanastasiou proclaims the first Greek Republic.
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.
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.
1960 - A military coup against President Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam was crushed.
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.
2001 - Journalists Pierre Billaud, Johanne Sutton and Volker Handloik are killed in Afghanistan during an attack on the convoy they were traveling on top of.
2004 - New Zealand Tomb of the Unknown Warrior dedicated at the National War Memorial, Wellington.
2004 - Yasser Arafat is confirmed dead by the Palestine Liberation Organization, of unidentified causes. Mahmoud Abbas is elected chairman of the PLO minutes later.
2006 - The New Zealand war memorial monument was unveiled by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in London, United Kingdom, commemorating the loss of soldiers from the New Zealand Army and the British Army.

[edit] Births

995 - Gisela of Swabia, Holy Roman Empire Empress (d. 1041)
1050 - Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1106)
1154 - King Sancho I of Portugal (d. 1212)
1155 - King Alfonso VIII of Castile (d. 1214)
1220 - Alphonse of Toulouse, son of Louis VIII of France (d. 1271)
1493 - Paracelsus, doctor (d. 1541)
1493 - Bernardo Tasso, Italian poet (d. 1569)
1569 - Martin Ruland the Younger, German physician and alchemist (d. 1611)
1599 - Prince Octavio Piccolomini, Duke of Amalfi, Austrian field marshal (d. 1656)
1599 - Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg, Queen of Sweden (d. 1655)
1633 - George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax, British statesman (d. 1695)
1668 - Johann Albert Fabricius, German scholar and bibliographer (d. 1736)
1743 - Carl Peter Thunberg, Swedish naturalist (d. 1828)
1744 - Abigail Adams, First Lady of the United States (d. 1818)
1748 - King Charles IV of Spain (d. 1819)
1791 - Josef Munzinger, Swiss Federal Councillor (d. 1855)
1792 - Mary Anne Evans, English wife of Benjamin Disraeli (d. 1872)
1821 - Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russian novelist (d. 1881)
1836 - Thomas Bailey Aldrich, American poet and novelist (d. 1907)
1852 - Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf, Austro-Hungarian field marshal (d. 1925)
1858 - Marie Bashkirtseff, Russian painter (d. 1884)
1863 - Paul Signac, French painter (d. 1935)
1864 - Alfred Hermann Fried, Austrian pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1921)
1869 - Gaetano Bresci, Italian-American anarchist (d. 1901)
1869 - King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy (d. 1947)
1872 - David I. Walsh, 46^th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1947)
1882 - King Gustav VI Adolf of Sweden (d. 1973)
1883 - Ernest Ansermet, Swiss conductor (d. 1969)
1885 - George Smith Patton, Jr., American general (d. 1945)
1887 - Roland Young, American actor (d. 1953)
1891 - Rabbit Maranville, American baseball player (d. 1954)
1898 - Rene Clair, French film director (d. 1981)
1899 - Pat O'Brien, American film actor (d. 1983)
1900 - Halina Konopacka, Polish athlete (d. 1989)
1901 - F. Van Wyck Mason, American author (d. 1978)
1901 - Magda Goebbels, wife of Nazi minister of propaganda, Josef Goebbels (d. 1945)
1901 - Sam Spiegel, Austrian-born American film producer (d. 1985)
1904 - Alger Hiss, American government official and spy (d. 1996)
1904 - J. H. C. Whitehead, British mathematician (d. 1960)
1909 - Robert Ryan, American actor (d. 1973)
1912 - Thomas C. Mann, American diplomat (d. 1999)
1914 - Howard Fast, American author (d. 2003)
1914 - Henry Wade, American lawyer (d. 2001)
1915 - William Proxmire, American politician (d. 2005)
1918 - Stubby Kaye, American comic actor (d. 1997)
1919 - Kalle Päätalo, Finnish novelist (d. 2000)
1920 - Roy Jenkins, British politician (d. 2003)
1921 - Terrell Bell, American politician (d. 1996)
1922 - Kurt Vonnegut, American novelist (d. 2007)
1925 - June Whitfield, British comedian
1925 - Jonathan Winters, American comedian and actor
1926 - Harry Lumley, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1998)
1927 - Mose Allison, American jazz pianist and singer
1928 - Carlos Fuentes, Mexican writer
1928 - Gracita Morales, Spanish actress (d. 1995)
1929 - Hans Magnus Enzensberger, German writer
1929 - LaVern Baker, American singer (d. 1997)
1930 - Hank Garland, American guitar virtuoso (d. 2004)
1930 - Hugh Everett, American physicist (d. 1982)
1930 - Vernon Handley, English conductor
1934 - Jim Perry, Canadian-American television personality.
1936 - Jack Keller, American songwriter (d. 2005)
1937 - Stephen Lewis, Canadian politician and diplomat
1938 - Ants Antson, Estonian speed skater
1938 - Haruhiro Yamashita, Japanese gymnast
1939 - Denise Alexander, American actress
1940 - Barbara Boxer, American politician
1941 - Jesse Colin Young, American singer and songwriter (The Youngbloods)
1943 - Doug Frost, Australian swimming coach
1944 - Kemal Sunal,Turkish actor
1945 - Daniel Ortega, President of Nicaragua
1945 - Vince Martell, American guitarist (Vanilla Fudge)
1946 - Chris Dreja, British musician (The Yardbirds)
1946 - Al Holbert, American race car driver and team owner (d. 1988}
1950 - Mircea Dinescu, Romanian poet
1950 - Jim Peterik, American musician and songwriter (Survivor)
1950 - Ed Ordynski, Australian rally driver
1951 - Kim Peek, American megasavant
1951 - Marc Summers, American game show host
1953 - Marshall Crenshaw, American musician
1953 - Andy Partridge, English musician (XTC)
1953 - Kostas Skandalidis, Greek politician
1954 - Mary Gaitskill, American novelist
1955 - Dave Alvin, American songwriter and guitarist
1958 - Luz Casal, Spanish singer
1958 - Carlos Lacamara, Cuban-born American Actor
1959 - Lee Haney, American bodybuilder
1960 - Chuck Hernandez, American baseball coach
1960 - Peter Parros, American actor
1960 - Stanley Tucci, American actor and director
1961 - Jan Kuehnemund, American guitarist
1962 - Mic Michaeli, Swedish keyboardist
1962 - Demi Moore, American actress
1962 - James Morrison, Australian musician
1964 - Anabel Alonso, Spanish actress
1964 - Calista Flockhart, American actress
1965 - Max Mutchnick, American TV writer and producer
1966 - Alison Doody, Irish actress
1967 - Gil de Ferran, Brazilian race car driver
1968 - David L. Cook, American singer and comedian
1969 - Carson Kressley, American television personality
1969 - Kristen Wilson, American actress
1970 - Lee Battersby, Australian author
1971 - Jennifer Celotta, American TV producer and writer
1971 - Paul Chaloner, English TV e-sports commentator
1972 - Adam Beach, Canadian actor
1972 - Tyler Christopher, American actor
1972 - Leslie Mann, American actress
1973 - Jason White, American musician (Green Day)
1974 - Leonardo DiCaprio, American actor
1974 - Static Major, American singer (d. 2008)
1974 - Wajahatullah Wasti, Pakistani cricketer
1975 - Angelica Vale Mexican actress
1976 - Lisa Gleave, American actress and model
1976 - Jason Grilli, American baseball player
1976 - Jesse F. Keeler, Canadian musician
1977 - Ben Hollioake, English cricketer (d. 2002)
1977 - Maniche, Portuguese footballer
1978 - Lou Vincent, New Zealand cricketer
1980 - Willie Parker, American football player
1981 - Natalie Glebova, Russian/Canadian beauty pageant contestant
1981 - Guillaume, Hereditary Grand Duke of Luxembourg
1983 - Brittny Gastineau, American socialite
1983 - Matt Garza, American baseball player
1983 - Philipp Lahm, German footballer
1984 - Hilton Armstrong, American basketball player
1985 - Jessica Sierra, American singer
1985 - Robin Uthappa, Indian cricketer
1986 - François Trinh-Duc, French rugby player
1987 - Yuya Tegoshi, Japanese singer (NEWS, Tegomass)
1988 - Alexandra Kyle, American actress
1989 - Reina Tanaka, Japanese pop singer (Morning Musume)
1991 - Christa B. Allen, American actress
1992 - Trey Smith, American actor

[edit] Deaths

397 - Martin of Tours, French saint
405 - Arsacius, intruding archbishop of Constantinople
537 - Pope Silverius, saint
826 - Theodore the Studite, saint (b. 759)
865 - Petronas the Patrician, Byzantine General
1623 - Philippe de Mornay, French writer (b. 1549)
1638 - Cornelis Corneliszoon van Haarlem, Dutch painter (b. 1562)
1675 - Guru Teg Bahadur Ji, 9th sikh guru (b. 1621)
1686 - Louis II de Bourbon, Prince de Condé, French general (b. 1621)
1686 - Otto von Guericke, German scientist, inventor, and politician (b. 1602)
1724 - Joseph Blake (alias Blueskin), English highwayman (executed) (b. c. 1700)
1812 - Platon Levshin, Metropoitan of Moscow (b. 1737)
1831 - Nat Turner, American slave rebel (b. 1800)
1855 - Søren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher (b. 1813)
1862 - James Madison Porter, American politician (b. 1793)
1880 - Ned Kelly, Australian bushranger (hanged) (b. c. 1855)
1880 - Lucretia Mott, American feminist and abolitionist (b. 1793)
1884 - Alfred Brehm German zoologist (b. 1827)
1887 - Haymarket defendants:
- - George Engel (b. 1836)
- - Adolph Fischer (b. 1858)
- - Albert Parsons (b. 1848)
- - August Spies (b. 1855)
1917 - Liliuokalani of Hawaii, Queen of Hawaii (b. 1838)
1918 - George Lawrence Price, Canadian soldier, last person to be killed in W.W.I. (b. 1892)
1931 - Shibusawa Eiichi, Japanese industrialist (b. 1840)
1938 - Typhoid Mary, carrier of the typhoid disease (b. 1869)
1939 - Jan Opletal, Czech student, victim of Nazi violence in Prague (b. 1915)
1945 - Jerome Kern, American composer (b. 1885)
1972 - Berry Oakley, Bass Player and founder, Allman Brothers Band (b. 1948)
1973 - David "Stringbean" Akeman, American banjo player (b. 1915)
1973 - Artturi Ilmari Virtanen, Finnish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1895)
1974 - Alfonso Leng, Chilean composer (b. 1894)
1976 - Alexander Calder, American artist (b. 1898)
1977 - Greta Keller, Vienna-born cabaret singer and actress (b. 1903)
1977 - Abraham Sarmiento, Jr., Filipino journalist & political activist (b. 1950)
1979 - Dimitri Tiomkin, Ukrainian-born composer (b. 1894)
1988 - William Ifor Jones, Welsh conductor & organist (b. 1900)
1990 - Alexis Minotis, Greek actor (b. 1898)
1990 - Yiannis Ritsos, Greek poet, proposed nine times for the Nobel Prize for Literature, winner of the Lenin Peace Prize (b. 1909)
1990 - Attilio Demaría, Argentinian footballer (b. 1909)
1993 - Erskine Hawkins, American trumpet player and big band leader (b. 1914)
1994 - John A. Volpe, 61^st and 63^rd Governor of Massachusetts, 2^nd United States Secretary of Transportation (b. 1908)
1994 - Pedro Zamora, Cuban-American AIDS activist (b. 1972)
1994 - Tadeusz Żychiewicz, Polish journalist, art historian and publicist (b. 1922)
1997 - Rodney Milburn, American athlete (b. 1950)
1998 - Frank Brimsek, American ice hockey player (b. 1913)
1999 - Mary Kay Bergman, American voice actress (b. 1961)
1999 - Jacobo Timmerman, Argentine writer and journalist (b. 1923)
2004 - Yasser Arafat, Palestinian leader, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1929)
2004 - Richard Dembo, French director and screenwriter (b. 1948)
2005 - Patrick Anson, 5th Earl of Lichfield, British photographer (b. 1939)
2005 - Peter Drucker, American management theorist (b. 1909)
2005 - Moustapha Akkad, Syrian-American film producer and director (b. 1930)
2006 - Belinda Emmett, Australian actress (b. 1974)
2006 - Harry Lehotsky, pastor and activist (b. 1957)
2007 - Delbert Mann, American film director (b. 1920)

[edit] Holidays and observances

Angola - Independence Day (1975)
Maldives - Republic Day (1968)

Several nations celebrate, in some way, the end of World War I, the ceasefire of which went into effect at 11:00am CET on this day in 1918.

Armistice Day in New Zealand, France and Belgium
Independence Day in Poland
Lāčplēsis Day (1919) in Latvia: the official date for commemoration of Latvian soldiers, who had died for the country's freedom.
Remembrance Day in the Commonwealth of Nations, including Australia and Canada.
Veterans Day in the United States (called Armistice Day until 1954, when the name was changed, and the holiday was re-geared toward all military veterans)

Feast day of:

Bartholomew of Grottaferrata in the Roman Catholic Church
Martinmas in English-speaking countries, Feast of St. Martin of Tours
Martin of Tours in the Roman Catholic Church
St. Martin's Day in Croatia, the Netherlands, Germany, Flanders, Austria, Slovenia, Portugal and Malta
Saint Menas in the Roman Catholic Church
Soren Kierkegaard in the Lutheran Church

Popular culture:

Opening of carnival season in Germany ("Karneval"/"Fasching" on 11-11, at 11:11), the Netherlands, and other countries
Pepero Day in South Korea
Singles Day in China
Women's Day (1972) in Belgium

The things of my own that I have currently in mind can't be said here yet..
so instead, here's some Pygmy Hippo Info (or P.H.I.)

The pygmy hippopotamus (Choeropsis liberiensis) is a large mammal native to the forests and swamps of western Africa (the scientific species classification means "of Liberia", as this is where the vast majority live). The pygmy hippo is reclusive and nocturnal. It is one of only two extant species in the Hippopotamidae family, the other being its much larger cousin the common hippopotamus.

The pygmy hippopotamus displays many terrestrial adaptations, but like its larger cousin, it is semi-aquatic and relies on proximity to water to keep its skin moisturized and its body temperature cool. Behaviors such as mating and giving birth may occur in water or on land. The pygmy hippo is herbivorous, feeding on whatever ferns, broad-leaved plants, grasses and fruits it finds in the forests.

A rare nocturnal forest creature, the pygmy hippopotamus is a difficult animal to study in the wild. Pygmy hippos were unknown outside of West Africa until the 19th century. Introduced to zoos in the early 20th century, they breed well in captivity and the vast majority of research is derived from zoo specimens. The survival of the species in captivity is more assured than in the wild: the World Conservation Union estimates that there are fewer than 3,000 pygmy hippos remaining in the wild.^[1] Pygmy hippos are primarily threatened by loss of habitat, as forests are logged and converted to farm land, and are also vulnerable to poaching, hunting, natural predators and war.