128641 | November 11 | Event | 1942 – World War II: Nazi Germany completes its occupation of France. |
128642 | November 11 | Event | 1960 – A military coup against President Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam is crushed. |
128643 | November 11 | Event | 1961 – Thirteen Italian Air Force servicemen, deployed to the Congo as a part of the UN peacekeeping force are massacred by a mob in the course of the Kindu atrocity. |
128644 | November 11 | Event | 1962 – Kuwait's National Assembly ratifies the Constitution of Kuwait. |
128645 | November 11 | Event | 1965 – In Rhodesia (modern-day Zimbabwe), the white-minority government of Ian Smith unilaterally declares independence. |
128646 | November 11 | Event | 1966 – NASA launches Gemini 12. |
128647 | November 11 | Event | 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. |
128648 | November 11 | Event | 1968 – 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. |
128649 | November 11 | Event | 1968 – A second republic is declared in the Maldives. |
128650 | November 11 | Event | 1972 – Vietnam War: Vietnamization – The United States Army turns over the massive Long Binh military base to South Vietnam. |
128651 | November 11 | Event | 1975 – 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. |
128652 | November 11 | Event | 1975 – Independence of Angola. |
128653 | November 11 | Event | 1981 – Antigua and Barbuda joins the United Nations. |
128654 | November 11 | Event | 1992 – The General Synod of the Church of England votes to allow women to become priests. |
128655 | November 11 | Event | 1993 – A sculpture honoring women who served in the Vietnam War is dedicated at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. |
128656 | November 11 | Event | 1999 – The House of Lords Act is given Royal Assent, restricting membership of the British House of Lords by virtue of a hereditary peerage. |
128657 | November 11 | Event | 2000 – Kaprun disaster: 155 skiers and snowboarders die when a cable car catches fire in an alpine tunnel in Kaprun, Austria. |
128658 | November 11 | Event | 2001 – Journalists Pierre Billaud, Johanne Sutton and Volker Handloik are killed in Afghanistan during an attack on the convoy they are traveling in. |
128659 | November 11 | Event | 2004 – New Zealand Tomb of the Unknown Warrior is dedicated at the National War Memorial, Wellington. |
128660 | November 11 | Event | 2004 – The Palestine Liberation Organization confirms the death of Yasser Arafat from unidentified causes. Mahmoud Abbas is elected chairman of the PLO minutes later. |
128661 | November 11 | Event | 2006 – 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. |
128662 | November 11 | Event | 2008 – RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 (QE2) sets sail on her final voyage to Dubai. |
128663 | November 11 | Event | 2011 – Bethesda Softworks releases The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim to universal acclaim, becoming one of the fastest selling video games of all time. |
128664 | November 11 | Event | 2012 – A strong earthquake with the magnitude 6.8 hits northern Burma, killing at least 26 people. |
128665 | November 11 | Event | 2014 – 58 people are killed in a bus crash in the Sukkur District in southern Pakistan's Sindh province. |
128666 | November 11 | Birth | 1050 – Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1106) |
128667 | November 11 | Birth | 1154 – Sancho I of Portugal (d. 1212) |
128668 | November 11 | Birth | 1155 – Alfonso VIII of Castile (d. 1214) |
128669 | November 11 | Birth | 1220 – Alphonse, Count of Poitiers (d. 1271) |
128670 | November 11 | Birth | 1493 – Paracelsus, Swiss-German physician, botanist, astrologer, and occultist (d. 1541) |