History Events on November 11

Emperor Charles I of Austria relinquishes power.

#Charles_I_of_Austria

Joseph Blake, alias Blueskin, a highwayman known for attacking "Thief-Taker General" (and thief) Jonathan Wild at the Old Bailey, is hanged in London.

#Joseph_Blake_(criminal)

The Industrial Workers of the World attack an Armistice Day parade in Centralia, Washington, ultimately resulting in the deaths of five people.

#Industrial_Workers_of_the_World

A sculpture honoring women who served in the Vietnam War is dedicated at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.

#Vietnam_War

The Fourth Council of the Lateran 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.

#Fourth_Council_of_the_Lateran

Latvian forces defeat the West Russian Volunteer Army at Riga in the Latvian War of Independence.

#West_Russian_Volunteer_Army

A strong earthquake with the magnitude 6.8 hits northern Burma, killing at least 26 people.

#2012_Shwebo_earthquake

World War I: Germany signs an armistice agreement with the Allies in a railroad car in the forest of Compiègne.

#World_War_I

NASA launches Gemini 12.

#NASA

Vietnam War: Vietnamization: The United States Army turns over the massive Long Binh military base to South Vietnam.

#Vietnamization

Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Dürenstein: Eight thousand French troops attempt to slow the retreat of a vastly superior Russian and Austrian force.

#Napoleonic_Wars

World War II: France's zone libre is occupied by German forces in Case Anton.

#Zone_libre

Tycho Brahe observes the supernova SN 1572.

#Tycho_Brahe

Kuwait's National Assembly ratifies the Constitution of Kuwait.

#Kuwait

Many cities in the Midwestern United States break their record highs and lows on the same day as a strong cold front rolls through.

#Midwestern_United_States

Patent number US1781541 is awarded to Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd for their invention, the Einstein refrigerator.

#Patent

Independence of Angola.

#Angola

Józef Pi?sudski assumes supreme military power in Poland - symbolic first day of Polish independence.

#Józef_Pi?sudski

World War II: The German auxiliary cruiser Atlantis captures top secret British mail from the Automedon, and sends it to Japan.

#German_auxiliary_cruiser_Atlantis

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.

#Cherry_Valley_massacre

Antigua and Barbuda joins the United Nations.

#Antigua_and_Barbuda

Henry I of England marries Matilda of Scotland, the daughter of Malcolm III of Scotland and a direct descendant of the Saxon king Edmund Ironside.

#Henry_I_of_England

Kaprun disaster: One hundred fifty-five skiers and snowboarders die when a cable car catches fire in an alpine tunnel in Kaprun, Austria.

#Kaprun_disaster

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 end the civil wars of the Tetrarchy.

#Carnuntum

Vietnam War: Operation Commando Hunt initiated. The goal is to interdict men and supplies on the Ho Chi Minh trail, through Laos into South Vietnam.

#Operation_Commando_Hunt

The Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne, Australia is opened.

#Shrine_of_Remembrance

The Palestine Liberation Organization confirms the death of Yasser Arafat from unidentified causes. Mahmoud Abbas is elected chairman of the PLO minutes later.

#Palestine_Liberation_Organization

The Mayflower Compact is signed in what is now Provincetown Harbor near Cape Cod.

#Mayflower_Compact

The House of Lords Act is given Royal Assent, restricting membership of the British House of Lords by virtue of a hereditary peerage.

#House_of_Lords_Act_1999

Constantine VIII died, ending his uninterrupted reign as emperor or co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire of 66 years.

#Constantine_VIII

Adolf Hitler was arrested in Munich for high treason for his role in the Beer Hall Putsch.

#Adolf_Hitler

Thirteen Italian Air Force servicemen, deployed to the Congo as a part of the UN peacekeeping force are massacred by a mob in Kindu.

#Italian_Air_Force

Dr Mary Edwards Walker receives the US Medal of Honor, becoming the first woman to receive the award.

#Mary_Edwards_Walker

The Virginia Military Institute is founded in Lexington, Virginia.

#Virginia_Military_Institute

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.

#Vietnam_War

Southern Rhodesia's Prime Minister Ian Smith unilaterally declares the colony independent as the unrecognised state of Rhodesia

#Southern_Rhodesia

The State of Washington is admitted as the 42nd state of the United States.

#Washington_(state)

August Spies, Albert Parsons, Adolph Fischer and George Engel are executed as a result of the Haymarket affair.

#August_Spies

Australian bushranger Ned Kelly is hanged at Melbourne Gaol.

#Bushranger

A military coup against President Ngô ?ình Di?m of South Vietnam is crushed.

#President_of_Vietnam

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.

#War_of_1812

World War II: In the Battle of Taranto, the Royal Navy launches the first all-aircraft ship-to-ship naval attack in history.

#World_War_II

Second Battle of Khotyn in Ukraine: Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth forces under the command of Jan Sobieski defeat the Ottoman army. In this battle, rockets made by Kazimierz Siemienowicz are successfully used.

#Battle_of_Khotyn_(1673)

American Civil War: General William Tecumseh Sherman begins burning Atlanta to the ground in preparation for his march to the sea.

#American_Civil_War

Fifty-eight people are killed in a bus crash in the Sukkur District in southern Pakistan's Sindh province.

Queen Elizabeth II unveils the New Zealand War Memorial in London, United Kingdom, commemorating the loss of soldiers from the New Zealand Army and the British Army.

New Zealand Tomb of the Unknown Warrior is dedicated at the National War Memorial, Wellington.

Journalists Pierre Billaud, Johanne Sutton and Volker Handloik are killed in Afghanistan during an attack on the convoy they are traveling in.

The General Synod of the Church of England votes to allow women to become priests.

An munitions explosion at a train station in Iri, South Korea kills at least 56 people.

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.

The United States Numbered Highway System is established.

The Tomb of the Unknowns is dedicated by US President Warren G. Harding at Arlington National Cemetery.

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.

Treaty of Sinchula is signed whereby Bhutan cedes the areas east of the Teesta River to the British East India Company.

In Jerusalem, Virginia, Nat Turner is hanged after inciting a violent slave uprising.

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.

Riots break out in Lhasa after the murder of the Tibetan regent.

Gottfried Leibniz demonstrates integral calculus for the first time to find the area under the graph of y = ƒ(x).

Following pressure from Anglican bishop John Atherton, the Irish House of Commons passes An Act for the Punishment for the Vice of Buggery.

Treaty of Granada: Louis XII of France and Ferdinand II of Aragon agree to divide the Kingdom of Naples between them.