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 315^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 50 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is October 29, 2025 – a Tuesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 489,672 hours 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 ‘trihectadecapentagon’ day.

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 98 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 4,708 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

November 11 Historical Events

• 1634 –
  Following pressure from Anglican bishop John Atherton, the Irish House of Commons passes An Act for the Punishment for the Vice of Buggery.
• 1750 –
  riots break out in Lhasa after the murder of the Tibetan regent.
• 1865 –
  Treaty of Sinchula is signed by which Bhutan cedes the areas east of the Teesta River to the British East India Company.
• 1887 –
  Anarchist Haymarket Martyrs August Spies, Albert Parsons, Adolph Fischer and George Engel are executed.
• 1918 –
  Emperor Charles I of Austria relinquishes power.
• 1940 –
  The German cruiser Atlantis captures top secret British mail, and sends it to Japan.
• 1942 –
  World War II: The Second Battle of El Alamein is won by the British in El Alamein, Egypt.
• 1961 –
  thirteen Italian Air Force servicemen, deployed to the Congo as a part of the UN peacekeeping force are massacred by a mob in the course of the Kindu atrocity.
• 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.
• 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?

• 1493 –
  Paracelsus, physician (d. 1541)
• 1836 –
  Thomas Bailey Aldrich, American poet and novelist (d. 1907)
• 1901 –
  F. Van Wyck Mason, American author (d. 1978)
• 1926 –
  Harry Lumley, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1998)
• 1938 –
  Ants Antson, Estonian speed skater
• 1960 –
  Chuck Hernandez, American baseball coach
• 1975 –
  Angelica Vale Mexican actress
• 1980 –
  Willie Parker, American football player
• 1982 –
  Jeremy Williams, British Actor
• 1987 –
  Yuya Tegoshi, Japanese singer (NEWS, Tegomass)

Who died on November 11?

• 537 –
  Pope Silverius (date of birth unknown)
• 1812 –
  Platon Levshin, Metropoitan of Moscow (b. 1737)
• 1884 –
  Alfred Brehm German zoologist (b. 1827)
• 1918 –
  George Lawrence Price, Canadian WWI soldier (b. 1892)
• 1945 –
  Jerome Kern, American composer (b. 1885)
• 1972 –
  Berry Oakley, American musician (Allman Brothers Band) (b. 1948)
• 1973 –
  Artturi Ilmari Virtanen, Finnish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1895)
• 1990 –
  Attilio Demaría, Argentinian footballer (b. 1909)
• 1994 –
  Tadeusz Żychiewicz, Polish journalist, art historian and publicist (b. 1922)
• 1999 –
  Mary Kay Bergman, American voice actress (b. 1961)