128611 | November 11 | Event | 1673 – 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. |
128612 | November 11 | Event | 1675 – Gottfried Leibniz demonstrates integral calculus for the first time to find the area under the graph of y = ƒ(x). |
128613 | November 11 | Event | 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. |
128614 | November 11 | Event | 1750 – Riots break out in Lhasa after the murder of the Tibetan regent. |
128615 | November 11 | Event | 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. |
128616 | November 11 | Event | 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. |
128617 | November 11 | Event | 1805 – Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Dürenstein – 8000 French troops attempt to slow the retreat of a vastly superior Russian and Austrian force. |
128618 | November 11 | Event | 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. |
128619 | November 11 | Event | 1831 – In Jerusalem, Virginia, Nat Turner is hanged after inciting a violent slave uprising. |
128620 | November 11 | Event | 1839 – The Virginia Military Institute is founded in Lexington, Virginia. |
128621 | November 11 | Event | 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. |
128622 | November 11 | Event | 1865 – Treaty of Sinchula is signed by which Bhutan cedes the areas east of the Teesta River to the British East India Company. |
128623 | November 11 | Event | 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. |
128624 | November 11 | Event | 1880 – Australian bushranger Ned Kelly is hanged at Melbourne Gaol. |
128625 | November 11 | Event | 1887 – Anarchist Haymarket Martyrs August Spies, Albert Parsons, Adolph Fischer and George Engel are executed. |
128626 | November 11 | Event | 1887 – Construction of the Manchester Ship Canal begins at Eastham. |
128627 | November 11 | Event | 1889 – The State of Washington is admitted as the 42nd state of the United States. |
128628 | November 11 | Event | 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. |
128629 | November 11 | Event | 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 of the eleventh day of the eleventh month) and this is commemorat |
128630 | November 11 | Event | 1918 – Józef Piłsudski assumes supreme military power in Poland - symbolic first day of Polish independence. |
128631 | November 11 | Event | 1918 – Emperor Charles I of Austria relinquishes power. |
128632 | November 11 | Event | 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 Industrial Workers of the World. |
128633 | November 11 | Event | 1919 – Lāčplēša day – Latvian forces defeat the Freikorps at Riga in the Latvian War of Independence. |
128634 | November 11 | Event | 1921 – The Tomb of the Unknowns is dedicated by US President Warren G. Harding at Arlington National Cemetery. |
128635 | November 11 | Event | 1926 – The United States Numbered Highway System, including U.S. Route 66, is established. |
128636 | November 11 | Event | 1930 – Patent number US1781541 is awarded to Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd for their invention, the Einstein refrigerator. |
128637 | November 11 | Event | 1934 – The Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne, Australia is opened. |
128638 | November 11 | Event | 1940 – World War II: Battle of Taranto – The Royal Navy launches the first aircraft carrier strike in history, on the Italian fleet at Taranto. |
128639 | November 11 | Event | 1940 – The German cruiser Atlantis captures top secret British mail, and sends it to Japan. |
128640 | November 11 | Event | 1940 – Armistice Day Blizzard: An unexpected blizzard kills 144 in the U.S. Midwest. |