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- 0308 The Congress of Carnuntum: Attempting to keep peace within the Roman Empire, the leaders of the Tetrarchy declare Maxentius and Licinius to be Augusti, while rival contender Constantine I is declared Caesar of Britain and Gaul.
- 0537 St Silverius ends his reign as Catholic Pope
- 1215 4th Lateran Council (12th ecumenical council) opens in Rome
- 1215 The Fourth Lateran Council meets, defining the doctrine of transubstantiation, the process by which bread and wine are transformed into the body and blood of Christ.
- 1500 Treaty of Granada Louis XII of France and Ferdinand II of Aragon agree to divide the Kingdom of Naples between them.
- 1620 41 pilgrims land in Massachusetts, sign Mayflower Compact (just and equal laws)
- 1620 In what is now Provincetown Harbor near Cape Cod, the Mayflower Compact is signed on the Mayflower, establishing the basic laws for the Plymouth Colony. (Old Style date, 21 November in New Style date.)
- 1634 Following pressure from Anglican bishop John Atherton, the Irish House of Commons passes "An Act for the Punishment for the Vice of Buggery".
- 1648 Dutch and French agree to divide St Maarten, Leeward Islands
- 1673 Second Battle of Khotyn in the Ukraine, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth forces under the command of Jan Sobieski. defeat the Ottoman army. In this battle, rockets of Kazimierz Siemienowicz were successfully used.
- 1675 Gottfried Leibniz demonstrated integral calculus for the first time to find the area under the graph of y = f(x) function.
- 1724 Joseph Blake, alias Blueskin, a highwayman known for attacking "Thief-Taker General" (and thief) Jonathan Wild at the Old Bailey, is hanged in London.
- 1750 The F.H.C. Society, also known as the Flat Hat Club, was formed at Raleigh Tavern, Williamsburg, Virginia. It was the first college fraternity.
- 1778 Cherry Valley Massacre: an attack by Loyalists and Seneca Indian forces on a fort and village in eastern New York during the American Revolutionary War, killing more than forty civilians and soldiers.
- 1778 Iroquois Indians in NY kill 40 in Cherry Valley Massacre
- 1790 Chrysanthemums are introduced into England from China
- 1811 Cartagena Colombia declares independence from Spain
- 1831 In Jerusalem, Virginia, Nat Turner is hanged after inciting a violent slave uprising.
- 1839 The Virginia Military Institute is founded in Lexington, Virginia.
- 1864 Sherman's troops destroy Rome, Georgia
- 1865 Mary Edward Walker, the first female Army surgeon, awarded Medal of Honor
- 1865 Treaty of Sinchula is signed in which Bhutan ceded the areas east of the Teesta River to the British East India Company.
- 1880 Australian Bushranger Ned Kelly is hanged at Melbourne Gaol.
- 1887 Anarchist Haymarket Martyrs August Spies, Albert Parsons, Adolph Fischer and George Engel are executed.
- 1887 Construction of the Manchester Ship Canal starts at Eastham.
- 1889 Washington admitted as 42nd state
- 1889 Washington is admitted as the 42nd U.S. state.
- 1895 Bechuanaland becomes part of the Cape Colony
- 1911 Many cities in the U.S. Midwest broke their record highs and lows on the same day as a strong cold front rolls through.
- 1918 Armistice Day-WW I ends (at 11 AM on Western Front)
- 1918 Emperor Charles I of Austria relinquishes power.
- 1918 Jzef Pisudski comes to Warsaw and assumes supreme military power in Poland. Poland regains its independence.
- 1918 World War I ends: Germany signs an armistice agreement with the Allies in a railroad car outside of Compigne in France. The war officially stops at 11:00 (The eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month).
- 1919 The Centralia Massacre in Centralia, Washington results the deaths of four members of the American Legion and the lynching of a local leader of the IWW.
- 1921 President Harding dedicates Tomb of Unknown Soldier
- 1921 The Tomb of the Unknowns is dedicated by US President Warren G. Harding at Arlington National Cemetery.
- 1922 Largest US flag displayed (150' X 90') expanded in 1939 (270' X 90')
- 1924 Palace of Legion of Honor dedicated (San Francisco)
- 1924 Prime Minister Alexandros Papanastasiou proclaims the first Greek Republic.
- 1925 Robert Millikan announces discovery of cosmic rays
- 1926 U.S. Route 66 is established.
- 1930 Patent number US1781541 was awarded to Albert Einstein and Le Szilrd for their invention, the Einstein refrigerator.
- 1933 "Great Black Blizzard",the first great dust storm of the depression arrives on the Great Plains
- 1933 Dust Bowl: In South Dakota, a very strong dust storm strips topsoil from desiccated farmlands.
- 1935 Explorer 2 balloon sets altitude record of 72,000 feet over SD
- 1939 Visitor posting - Nancy Robinson was born - USA
- 1940 Armistice Day Blizzard: An unexpected blizzard kills 144 in U.S. Midwest.
- 1940 Blizzard strikes midwestern US killing over 100
- 1940 The German cruiser Atlantis captures top secret British mail, and sends it to Japan.
- 1941 Opening of the Australian War Memorial
- 1942 During WW II Germany completes their occupation of France
- 1956 Visitor posting - Kevin was born
- 1962 Kuwait's National Assembly ratifies the Constitution of Kuwait.
- 1962 Visitor posting - born & raised in Amman-Jordan, worked as business manager in projects - Jordan
- 1965 In Rhodesia (modern-day Zimbabwe), the white-minority government of Ian Smith unilaterally declares independence.
- 1965 Rhodesia proclaimed independence from Britain by PM Ian D Smith
- 1966 Gemini 12 launched on 4-day flight
- 1966 NASA launches spaceship Gemini 12.
- 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.
- 1968 A second republic is declared in the Maldives.
- 1968 John Lennon and Yoko Ono appear nude on cover of "2 Virgins" album
- 1968 Maldives (in Indian Ocean) become a republic
- 1969 Visitor posting - Martin Cano Was Born - USA
- 1972 Number one hit on UK music charts - Gilbert O'Sullivan - Clair
- 1972 US Army turns over Long Bihn base to South Vietnamese army
- 1975 Angola gains independence from Portugal (National Day)
- 1975 Australian PM removed by crown (1st elected PM removed in 200 years)
- 1975 Australian constitutional crisis of 1975: Australian Governor-General Sir John Kerr dismisses the government of Gough Whitlam and commissions Malcolm Fraser as caretaker Prime Minister, and announces a general election to be held in early December.
- 1977 Visitor posting - In Oklahoma, Misty Dawn Mouser was born - USA
- 1978 Visitor posting - Jodie Tingle-Willis was born in 11/11/78 - USA
- 1979 Visitor posting - Scott Quincey was born in Killeen, Texas - USA
- 1980 Crew of Soyuz 35 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 37
- 1983 President Reagan became first US President to address Japan's legislature
- 1984 Visitor posting - Ray Leonard and Terri Patterson were married - USA
- 1986 Visitor posting - A legend by the name Eddie Kormah was born who would go on to draw and design some of the greatest architectural designs ever! - Liberia
- 1987 Van Gogh's paining the "Irises" sells for record $53.6 M at auction
- 1987 Visitor posting - Teresa Gonzales is born in San Antonio, Tx - USA
- 1987 Visitor posting - sri born. my pet is sabi - India [email protected]
- 1988 Oldest known insect fossils (390 million years) reported in Science
- 1989 Number one hit on UK music charts - Lisa Stansfield - All Around The World
- 1990 Visitor posting - faizan ali khan sandy born - India [email protected]
- 1991 Visitor posting - Zak was born on this day. - USA
- 1993 Entombment at the Australian War Memorial of the remains of an Unknown Australian Soldier from a World War One cemetery in France
- 1993 Visitor posting - George Baker was born - United Kingdom
- 1993 Visitor posting - michael thornton was born - USA
- 1994 Visitor posting - Colin Campbell was born in Glasgow Scotland - United Kingdom
- 1998 Visitor posting - Camern Ott is born in Kingston, New York - USA
- 2000 In Kaprun, Austria, 155 skiers and snowboarders die when a cable car catches fire in an alpine tunnel.
- 2004 New Zealand Tomb of the Unknown Warrior dedicated at the National War Memorial, Wellington.
- 2004 Yasser Arafat is confirmed dead by the Palestine Liberation Organization, of unidentified causes. Mahmoud Abbas is elected chairman of the PLO minutes later.
- 2006 Last sailing of the Star Ferry from the Edinburgh Place Ferry Pier, Hong Kong
- 2006 The New Zealand war memorial monument was unveiled by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in London, United Kingdom, commemorating the loss on soldiers from the New Zealand Army and the British Army.
- 2007 Kerch Strait Oil Spill. Very strong storm Black Sea, four sank, six ran aground on a sandbank and two tankers were damaged in provoking a major pollution and the dead of 23 sailors. 2000 tonnes of crude oil spilt into the Kerch Strait.
- 2007 Slovak website Beo.sk came into existence, replacing the former Nrodn pozorovate (National Observer).
- 2008 Visitor posting - Nolan Rupp Fell in love with Kelly Bruessow - USA
- 2009 A Russian-born German man is sentenced to life imprisonment for fatally stabbing Marwa El-Sherbini in a court, an attack that caused uproar in the Muslim world.
- 2009 A gold mining operation is investigated by Chinese authorities after allegations it has damaged part of the Great Wall of China in Inner Mongolia.
- 2009 Anti-monarchy protesters and riot police clash in Montreal, Quebec during a tour by Prince Charles.
- 2009 Cambodia rejects a request by Thailand to extradite ousted Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra.
- 2009 For the first time since World War I, the leaders of Germany and France appear together at a ceremony on Remembrance Day to commemorate the end of the conflict.
- 2009 Iran protests to Oxford University's Queen's College over a scholarship in memory of the slain Iranian student Neda Agha Soltan.
- 2009 Local government offices in southern Nepal shut in protest after a senior local official is slapped by Deputy Agriculture Minister Karima Begam.
- 2009 Officials in Brazil investigate the cause of a massive power cut which may have affected a fifth of the population and neighbouring Paraguay.
- 2009 Raymond Jessup is sentenced to 10 years in prison for sexual assault of an underage girl after the April 2008 raid of the YFZ Ranch in Eldorado, Texas.
- 2009 South Korean troops are put on high alert for possible retaliation after a naval clash with North Korea yesterday.
- 2009 The classic Yahoo homepage retired today.
- 2009 The discovery of a new dinosaur species, named Aardonyx celestae, in South Africa is announced.
- 2009 Two bloggers from Azerbaijan, Emin Milli and Adnan Hajizade, are sentenced by a court for "hooliganism" in a restaurant scuffle linked to the posting of a satirical video dressed as a donkey on Youtube that mocked government restrictions on civil liberties.
- 2009 Visitor posting - Zander Plumos is born in Oakley, California - USA
- 2009 Yemen criticises "interference" by Iran in the conflict with Houthi rebels in the country, after Iran criticised Saudi Arabian intervention in the conflict.
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