11 November

The **11t o November** is the 315t day o the year (316t in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 50 days bidin.

## Events

* 1417 - Pape Martin V is electit.
* 1648 - Fraunce an the Netherlands agree tae divide the Caribbean isle o Saunt Martin atween them.
* 1855 - A yirdquauk in Edo (nou Tokyo) kills 6,000 fowk.
* 1880 - Australian outlaw Ned Kelly is executit.
* 1889 - Washington becomes the 42nt state o the Unitit States.
* 1917 - Liliuokalani, the last Hawaiian monarch, dees agit 79, awmaist 25 year efter her forced abdication.
* 1918 - The Airmistice endin Warld War I is signed at the 11t hour, on the 11t day o the 11t month. It is commemoratit as Remembrance Day, Armistice Day an Veterans Day.
* 1918 - Jozef Pilsudski taks control in Poland.
* 1960 - A coup attempt is made in Sooth Vietnam against Ngo Dinh Diem.
* 1965 - Rhodesie unilaterally declares unthirldom frae the Unitit Kinrick.
* 1975 - Angolae gains unthirldom frae Portugal.
* 1975 - Governor-General o Australie John Kerr dismisses Prime meenister Gough Whitlam an replaces him wi Malcolm Fraser.
* 1981 - Antigua an Barbuda jyn the Unitit Naitions.
* 1992 - The Kirk o Ingland allows female priests.
* 1997 - Mary McAleese becomes Preses o the Republic o Ireland.
* 2000 - A cable car catches fire in an alpine tunnel in Kaprun, Austrick, killin 155 fowk.
* 2004 - Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat dies in Paris, agit 75.
* 2011 - Michael D. Higgins becomes Preses o the Republic o Ireland.
* 2014 - 58 fowk are kilt in a bus crash in the Sukkur District in Sindh, Soothren Pakistan.
* 2018 - Ceremonies tak place warldwide tae mairk 100 year syne the Warld War I Airmistice; Frank-Walter Steinmeier becomes the first German Heid o State tae tak pairt in the Lunnon Cenotaph Remembrance commemorations.

## Births

* 1050 - Henry IV, Haly Roman Emperor (d. 1106)
* 1493 - Paracelsus, Swiss-German physeecian, botanist, astrologer an occultist (d. 1541)
* 1748 - Charles IV o Spain (d. 1819)
* 1821 - Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Roushie writer (d. 1881)
* 1863 - Paul Signac, French penter (d. 1935)
* 1864 - Alfred Hermann Fried, Austrick pacifist (d. 1921)
* 1869 - Victor Emmanuel III o Italy (d. 1947)
* 1882 - Gustaf VI Adolf o Swaden (d. 1973)
* 1885 - George S. Patton, American general (d. 1945)
* 1919 - Hamish Henderson, Scots poet (d. 2002)
* 1920 - Roy Jenkins, Welsh politeecian (d. 2003)
* 1922 - Kurt Vonnegut, American writer (d. 2007)
* 1925 - June Whitfield, Inglis actress (d. 2018)
* 1925 - Jonathan Winters, American actor, comedian an screenwriter (d. 2013)
* 1928 - Carlos Fuentes, Panamanian-Mexican writer (d. 2012)
* 1940 - Barbara Boxer, American politeecian
* 1945 - Daniel Ortega, Preses o Nicaragua
* 1955 - Jigme Singye Wangchuck, umwhile Keeng o Bhutan
* 1960 - Stanley Tucci, American actor an director
* 1962 - Demi Moore, American actress
* 1964 - Calista Flockhart, American actress
* 1966 - Benedicta Boccoli, Italian actress
* 1974 - Leonardo DiCaprio, American actor
* 1983 - Philipp Lahm, German fitbawer
* 1990 - Tom Dumoulin, Dutch cyclist
* 1990 - Georginio Wijnaldum, Dutch fitbawer
* 1991 - Nick Ross, Scots fitbawer

## Daiths
* 1855 - Soren Kierkegaard, Dens philosopher (b. 1813)
* 1880 - Ned Kelly, Australian outlaw (b. 1855)
* 1880 - Lucretia Mott, American feminist an activist (b. 1793)
* 1917 - Liliuokalani, Queen o Hawaii (b. 1838)
* 1945 - Jerome Kern, American componer (b. 1885)
* 1973 - Artturi Ilmari Virtanen, Finnish scientist (b. 1895)
* 2004 - Yasser Arafat, Palestinian leader (b. 1929)
* 2014 - Jim Storrie, Scots fitbawer (b. 1940)

## Halidays

* Remembrance Day in Canadae an the Unitit Kinrick
* Armistice Day (Fraunce, Belgium)
* Veterans' Day (Unitit States)
* Independence Day (Poland, Angolae)
* Saunt Martin's Day
* Women's Day (Belgium)
* Singles Day (Fowkrepublic o Cheenae)

## Ootside airtins
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