Today in History, English
Today in History, English


IDTimeCategoryEvent
128971November 11Death2014 – John Doar, American lawyer and activist (b. 1921)
128972November 11Death2014 – Big Bank Hank, American rapper (The Sugarhill Gang) (b. 1956)
128973November 11Death2014 – Philip G. Hodge, American engineer and academic (b. 1920)
128974November 11Death2014 – Harry Lonsdale, American chemist, businessman, and politician (b. 1932)
128975November 11Death2014 – Jim Rogers, American academic and politician (b. 1935)
128976November 11Death2014 – Carol Ann Susi, American actress (b. 1952)
128977November 11Holiday and observanceBirthday of King Jigme Singye Wangchuck (Bhutan)
128978November 11Holiday and observanceChildren's Day (Croatia)
128979November 11Holiday and observanceChristian feast day:Bartholomew of Grottaferrata (Roman Catholic Church)Martin of Tours (Roman Catholic Church)St. Martin's DayMenasSøren Kierkegaard (Lutheran Church)Theodore the StuditeNovember 11 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
128980November 11Holiday and observanceEnd of World War I-related observances:Armistice Day (New Zealand, France, Belgium and Serbia)Independence Day, commemorates the anniversary of Poland's assumption of independent statehood in 1918 (Poland)Remembrance Day (United Kingdom and the Commonweal
128981November 11Holiday and observanceIndependence of Cartagena (Colombia)
128982November 11Holiday and observanceLāčplēsis Day, celebrates the victory over the Bermontians at the Battle of Riga in 1919. (Latvia)
128983November 11Holiday and observanceOpening of carnival ("Karneval"/"Fasching"), on 11-11, at 11:11. (Germany, the Netherlands, and other countries)
128984November 11Holiday and observancePocky Day and Pretz Day (Japan)
128985November 11Holiday and observancePepero Day (South Korea)
128986November 11Holiday and observanceRepublic Day (Maldives)
128987November 11Holiday and observanceSingles Day (China)
128988November 12Event1028 – Future Byzantine empress Zoe takes the throne as empress consort to Romanos III Argyros.
128989November 12Event1330 – Battle of Posada, Wallachian Voievode Basarab I defeats the Hungarian army in an ambush.
128990November 12Event1439 – Plymouth, England, becomes the first town incorporated by the English Parliament.
128991November 12Event1555 – The English Parliament re-establishes Catholicism.
128992November 12Event1793 – Jean Sylvain Bailly, the first Mayor of Paris, is guillotined.
128993November 12Event1892 – William "Pudge" Heffelfinger becomes the first professional American football player on record, participating in his first paid game for the Allegheny Athletic Association.
128994November 12Event1893 – The treaty of the Durand Line delineating the border between present day Pakistan and Afghanistan is signed by Sir Mortimer Durand, a British diplomat in British India, and the Afghan Amir Abdur Rahman Khan the Durand Line has gained international
128995November 12Event1905 – Norway holds a referendum in favor of monarchy over republic.
128996November 12Event1912 – King George I of Greece makes a triumphal entry into Thessaloniki after its liberation from 482 years of Ottoman rule.
128997November 12Event1912 – The frozen bodies of Robert Scott and his men are found on the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica.
128998November 12Event1918 – Austria becomes a republic.
128999November 12Event1920 – Italy and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes sign the Treaty of Rapallo.
129000November 12Event1927 – Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Soviet Communist Party, leaving Joseph Stalin in undisputed control of the Soviet Union.

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