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, 28,854,720 minutes 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.
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
- 1675 –Gottfried Leibniz demonstrates integral calculus for the first time to find the area under the graph of y = ƒ(x).
- 1778 –Cherry Valley Massacre: Loyalists and Seneca Indian forces attack a fort and village in eastern New York during the American Revolutionary War, killing more than forty civilians and soldiers.
- 1813 –War of 1812: Battle of Crysler’s Farm – British and Canadian forces defeat a larger American force, causing the Americans to abandon their Saint Lawrence campaign.
- 1919 –Lāčplēša day – Latvian forces defeat the Freikorps at Riga in the Latvian War of Independence.
- 1926 –U.S. Route 66 is established.
- 1930 –Patent number US1781541 is awarded to Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd for their invention, the Einstein refrigerator.
- 1940 –Armistice Day Blizzard: An unexpected blizzard kills 144 in the U.S. Midwest.
- 1944 –Dr. jur. Erich Göstl, a member of the Waffen SS, is presented with the Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross, to recognise extreme battlefield bravery, after losing his face and eyes during the Battle of Normandy.
- 1962 –Kuwait’s National Assembly ratifies the Constitution of Kuwait.
- 1992 –The General Synod of the Church of England votes to allow women to become priests.
Who were born on November 11?
- 1744 –Abigail Adams, First Lady of the United States (d. 1818)
- 1863 –Paul Signac, French painter (d. 1935)
- 1911 –Roberto Matta, Chilean painter (d. 2002)
- 1926 –Harry Lumley, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1998)
- 1953 –Marshall Crenshaw, American musician
- 1954 –Mary Gaitskill, American novelist
- 1964 –Anabel Alonso, Spanish actress
- 1973 –Melissa Stark, American sportscaster/journalist
- 1975 –Angelica Vale Mexican actress
- 1991 –Christa B. Allen, American actress
Who died on November 11?
- 1862 –James Madison Porter, American politician (b. 1793)
- 1919 –Pavel Chistyakov, Russian painter (b. 1832)
- 1977 –Abraham Sarmiento, Jr., Filipino journalist and political activist (b. 1950)
- 1988 –William Ifor Jones, Welsh conductor and organist (b. 1900)
- 1990 –Alexis Minotis, Greek actor (b. 1898)
- 1990 –Attilio Demaría, Argentinian footballer (b. 1909)
- 1993 –Erskine Hawkins, American trumpeter and big band leader (b. 1914)
- 1994 –Pedro Zamora, Cuban-born American TV personality and AIDS activist (b. 1972)
- 2005 –Moustapha Akkad, Syrian-American film producer and director (b. 1930)
- 2005 –Patrick Anson, 5th Earl of Lichfield, British photographer (b. 1939)
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