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, 480,912 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 ‘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
- 308 –At Carnuntum, Emperor emeritus Diocletian confers with Galerius, Augustus of the East, and Maximianus, the recently returned former Augustus of the West, in an attempt to restore order to the Roman Empire.
- 1215 –The Fourth Lateran Council meets, defining the doctrine of transubstantiation, the process by which bread and wine are, by that doctrine, said to transform into the body and blood of Christ.
- 1620 –The Mayflower Compact is signed in what is now Provincetown Harbor near Cape Cod.
- 1675 –Gottfried Leibniz demonstrates integral calculus for the first time to find the area under the graph of y = ƒ(x).
- 1750 –riots break out in Lhasa after the murder of the Tibetan regent.
- 1911 –Many cities in the Midwestern United States break their record highs and lows on the same day as a strong cold front rolls through.
- 1918 –Emperor Charles I of Austria relinquishes power.
- 1924 –Prime Minister Alexandros Papanastasiou proclaims the first recognized Greek Republic.
- 1942 –World War II: Nazi Germany completes its occupation of France.
- 1975 –Independence of Angola.
Who were born on November 11?
- 1872 –David I. Walsh, 46th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1947)
- 1914 –Howard Fast, American author (d. 2003)
- 1928 –Carlos Fuentes, Mexican writer
- 1951 –Kim Peek, American megasavant (d. 2009)
- 1962 –James Morrison, Australian musician
- 1964 –Calista Flockhart, American actress
- 1974 –Leonardo DiCaprio, American actor
- 1975 –Denisa Legac, sex therapist and hypnotherapist, active in Austria, Croatia and the United States of America
- 1978 –Lou Vincent, New Zealand cricketer
- 1986 –Victor Cruz, American football player
Who died on November 11?
- 1831 –Nat Turner, American slave rebel (b. 1800)
- 1919 –Pavel Chistyakov, Russian painter (b. 1832)
- 1939 –Jan Opletal, Czech student and anti-Nazi demonstrator (b. 1915)
- 1953 –Princess Irene of Hesse and by Rhine (b. 1866)
- 1977 –Greta Keller, Austrian cabaret singer and actress (b. 1903)
- 1994 –Tadeusz Żychiewicz, Polish journalist, art historian and publicist (b. 1922)
- 1997 –Rod Milburn, American athlete (b. 1950)
- 1998 –Frank Brimsek, American ice hockey player (b. 1913)
- 2005 –Keith Andes, American actor (b. 1920)
- 2005 –Peter Drucker, American management theorist (b. 1909)
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