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, 1,762,819,200 seconds 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

• 1750 –
  The F.H.C. Society, also known as the Flat Hat Club, is formed at Raleigh Tavern, Williamsburg, Virginia. It is the first college fraternity.
• 1750 –
  riots break out in Lhasa after the murder of the Tibetan regent.
• 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.
• 1869 –
  The Victorian Aboriginal Protection Act is enacted in Australia, giving the government control of indigenous people’s wages, their terms of employment, where they could live, and of their children, effectively leading to the Stolen Generations.
• 1887 –
  Anarchist Haymarket Martyrs August Spies, Albert Parsons, Adolph Fischer and George Engel are executed.
• 1918 –
  Józef Piłsudski assumes supreme military power in Poland - symbolic first day of Polish independence.
• 1918 –
  World War I: Germany signs an armistice agreement with the Allies in a railroad car in the forest of Compiègne, France. The fighting officially ends at 11:00 a.m., (the eleventh hour in the eleventh month on the eleventh day) and this is annually honoured with a two-minute silence. The war officially ends on the signing of the Treaty of Versailles on 28th June, 1919.
• 1924 –
  Prime Minister Alexandros Papanastasiou proclaims the first recognized Greek Republic.
• 1940 –
  The German cruiser Atlantis captures top secret British mail, and sends it to Japan.
• 1992 –
  The General Synod of the Church of England votes to allow women to become priests.

Who were born on November 11?

• 1836 –
  Thomas Bailey Aldrich, American poet and novelist (d. 1907)
• 1904 –
  Alger Hiss, American government official and spy (d. 1996)
• 1909 –
  Robert Ryan, American actor (d. 1973)
• 1930 –
  Hugh Everett, American physicist (d. 1982)
• 1940 –
  Barbara Boxer, American politician
• 1951 –
  Kim Peek, American megasavant (d. 2009)
• 1956 –
  Ian Craig Marsh, British musician
• 1964 –
  Anabel Alonso, Spanish actress
• 1971 –
  Jennifer Celotta, American TV producer and writer
• 1987 –
  Yuya Tegoshi, Japanese singer (NEWS, Tegomass)

Who died on November 11?

• 1675 –
  Guru Tegh Bahadur, Indian religious figure (b. 1621)
• 1861 –
  King Pedro V of Portugal (b. 1837)
• 1938 –
  Mary Mallon, Irish-born American carrier of typhoid (b. 1869)
• 1949 –
  Loukas Kanakaris-Roufos, Greek politician (b. 1878)
• 1976 –
  Alexander Calder, American artist (b. 1898)
• 1999 –
  Mary Kay Bergman, American voice actress (b. 1961)
• 2005 –
  Moustapha Akkad, Syrian-American film producer and director (b. 1930)
• 2006 –
  Belinda Emmett, Australian actress (b. 1974)
• 2007 –
  Delbert Mann, American film director (b. 1920)
• 2009 –
  Dhanpat Rai Nahar, Indian labour leader (b. 1919)