11 November

Events

Pre-1600

* 308 – At Carnuntum, Emperor ''emeritus'' Diocletian confers with Galerius, ''Augustus'' of the East, and Maximianus, the recently returned former ''Augustus'' of the West, in an attempt to end the civil wars of the Tetrarchy.
* 1028 – Constantine VIII dies, ending his uninterrupted reign as emperor or co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire of 66 years.
*1100 – Henry I of England marries Matilda of Scotland, the daughter of Malcolm III of Scotland and a direct descendant of the Saxon king Edmund Ironside; Matilda is crowned on the same day.
*1215 – The Fourth Council of the Lateran meets, defining the doctrine of transubstantiation, the process by which bread and wine are, by that doctrine, said to transform 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.
*1572 – Tycho Brahe observes the supernova SN 1572.

1601–1900

*1620 – The Mayflower Compact is signed in what is now Provincetown Harbor near Cape Cod.
*1634 – Following pressure from Anglican bishop John Atherton, the Irish House of Commons passes ''An Act for the Punishment for the Vice of Buggery''.
*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.
*1675 – Gottfried Leibniz demonstrates integral calculus for the first time to find the area under the graph of ''y'' = ''ƒ''(''x'').
*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 – Riots break out in Lhasa after the murder of the Tibetan regent.
* 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.
*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.
*1805 – Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Dürenstein: Eight thousand French troops attempt to slow the retreat of a vastly superior Russian and Austrian force.
*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.
*1831 – In Jerusalem, Virginia, Nat Turner is hanged after inciting a violent slave uprising.
*1839 – The Virginia Military Institute is founded in Lexington, Virginia.
* 1865 – Treaty of Sinchula is signed whereby Bhutan cedes the areas east of the Teesta River to the British East India Company.
*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.
*1880 – Australian bushranger Ned Kelly is hanged at Melbourne Gaol.
*1887 – August Spies, Albert Parsons, Adolph Fischer and George Engel are executed as a result of the Haymarket affair.
*1889 – The State of Washington is admitted as the 42nd state of the United States.

1901–present

*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.
* 1918 – World War I: Germany signs an armistice agreement with the Allies in a railroad car in the forest of Compiègne.
* 1918 – Józef Piłsudski assumes supreme military power in Poland – symbolic first day of Polish independence.
* 1918 – Emperor Charles I of Austria relinquishes power.
*1919 – The Industrial Workers of the World attack an Armistice Day parade in Centralia, Washington, ultimately resulting in the deaths of five people.
* 1919 – Latvian forces defeat the West Russian Volunteer Army at Riga in the Latvian War of Independence.
* 1921 – The Tomb of the Unknowns is dedicated by US President Warren G. Harding at Arlington National Cemetery.
*1923 – Adolf Hitler is arrested in Munich for high treason for his role in the Beer Hall Putsch.
*1926 – The United States Numbered Highway System is established.
*1930 – Patent number US1781541 is awarded to Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd for their invention, the Einstein refrigerator.
*1934 – The Shrine of Remembrance is opened in Melbourne, Australia.
*1940 – World War II: In the Battle of Taranto, the Royal Navy launches the first all-aircraft ship-to-ship naval attack in history.
* 1940 – World War II: The German auxiliary cruiser ''Atlantis'' captures top secret British mail from the ''Automedon'', and sends it to Japan.
*1942 – World War II: France's ''zone libre'' is occupied by German forces in Case Anton.
*1960 – A military coup against President Ngô Đình Diệm of South Vietnam is crushed.
*1961 – Thirteen Italian Air Force servicemen, deployed to the Congo as a part of the UN peacekeeping force, are massacred by a mob in Kindu.
*1962 – Kuwait's National Assembly ratifies the Constitution of Kuwait.
* 1965 – Southern Rhodesia's Prime Minister Ian Smith unilaterally declares the colony independent as the unrecognised state of Rhodesia.
* 1965 – United Airlines Flight 227 crashes at Salt Lake City International Airport, killing 43.
* 1966 – NASA launches 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 – 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.
*1972 – Vietnam War: Vietnamization: The United States Army turns over the massive Long Binh military base to South Vietnam.
*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.
* 1975 – Independence of Angola.
*1977 – A munitions explosion at a train station in Iri, South Korea kills at least 56 people.
*1981 – Antigua and Barbuda joins the United Nations.
* 1992 – The General Synod of the Church of England votes to allow women to become priests.
*1993 – A sculpture honoring women who served in the Vietnam War is dedicated at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.
*1999 – The House of Lords Act is given Royal Assent, restricting membership of the British House of Lords by virtue of a hereditary peerage.
*2000 – Kaprun disaster: One hundred fifty-five skiers and snowboarders die when a cable car catches fire in an alpine tunnel in Kaprun, Austria.
* 2001 – Journalists Pierre Billaud, Johanne Sutton and Volker Handloik are killed in Afghanistan during an attack on the convoy they are traveling in.
* 2002 – A Fokker F27 Friendship operating as Laoag International Airlines Flight 585 crashes into Manila Bay shortly after takeoff from Ninoy Aquino International Airport, killing 19 people.
* 2004 – New Zealand Tomb of the Unknown Warrior is dedicated at the National War Memorial, Wellington.
* 2004 – The Palestine Liberation Organization confirms the death of Yasser Arafat from unidentified causes. Mahmoud Abbas is elected chairman of the PLO minutes later.
* 2006 – Her Majesty 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.
* 2011 – A helicopter crash just outside Mexico City kills seven, including Francisco Blake Mora the Secretary of the Interior of Mexico.
*2012 – A strong earthquake with the magnitude 6.8 hits northern Burma, killing at least 26 people.
*2014 – Fifty-eight people are killed in a bus crash in the Sukkur District in southern Pakistan's Sindh province.
*2020 – Typhoon Vamco makes landfall in Luzon and several offshore islands, killing 67 people. The storm causes the worst floods in the region since Typhoon Ketsana in 2009.

Births

Pre-1600

* 1050 – Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1106)
*1154 – Sancho I of Portugal (d. 1212)
* 1155 – Alfonso VIII of Castile (d. 1214)
*1220 – Alphonse, Count of Poitiers (d. 1271)
*1430 – Jošt of Rožmberk, Bishop of Breslau (d. 1467)
*1441 – Charlotte of Savoy, French queen (d. 1483)
*1449 – Catherine of Poděbrady, Hungarian queen (d. 1464)
* 1491 – Martin Bucer, German Protestant reformer (d. 1551)
*1493 – Paracelsus, Swiss-German physician, botanist, astrologer, and occultist (d. 1541)
*1512 – Marcin Kromer, Prince-Bishop of Warmia (d. 1589)
*1569 – Martin Ruland the Younger, German physician and chemist (d. 1611)
*1579 – Frans Snyders, Flemish painter (d. 1657)
* 1599 – Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg (d. 1655)
* 1599 – Ottavio Piccolomini, Austrian-Italian field marshal (d. 1656)

1601–1900

*1633 – George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax, English politician, Lord President of the Council (d. 1695)
*1668 – Johann Albert Fabricius, German author and scholar (d. 1736)
* 1696 – Andrea Zani, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1757)
*1743 – Carl Peter Thunberg, Swedish botanist, entomologist, and psychologist (d. 1828)
*1748 – Charles IV of Spain (d. 1819)
*1768 – Sikandar Jah, (d. 1829) 3rd Nizam of Hyderabad State
*1791 – Josef Munzinger, Swiss lawyer and politician, 3rd President of the Swiss Confederation (d. 1855)
*1821 – Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, and philosopher (d. 1881)
*1836 – Thomas Bailey Aldrich, American poet and author (d. 1907)
*1852 – Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf, Austrian-Hungarian field marshal (d. 1925)
*1855 – Stevan Sremac, Serbian author and activist (d. 1906)
* 1857 – Janet Erskine Stuart, English nun and educator (d. 1914)
*1860 – Thomas Joseph Byrnes, Australian politician, 12th Premier of Queensland (d. 1898)
*1863 – Paul Signac, French painter and educator (d. 1935)
* 1864 – Alfred Hermann Fried, Austrian journalist and activist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1921)
*1866 – Martha Annie Whiteley, English chemist and mathematician (d. 1956)
*1867 – Shrimad Rajchandra, a Jain philosopher, spiritual mentor of Mahatma Gandhi (d. 1901)
*1868 – Édouard Vuillard, French painter and academic (d. 1940)
*1869 – Victor Emmanuel III of Italy (d. 1947)
*1872 – Maude Adams, American actress (d. 1953)
* 1872 – David I. Walsh, American lawyer and politician, 46th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1947)
*1882 – Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden (d. 1973)
*1883 – Ernest Ansermet, Swiss conductor and academic (d. 1969)
* 1885 – George S. Patton, American general (d. 1945)
*1887 – Roland Young, English-American actor (d. 1953)
*1888 – Abul Kalam Azad, Indian activist, scholar, and politician, Indian Minister of Education (d. 1958)
* 1888 – J. B. Kripalani, Indian lawyer and politician (d.1982)
*1891 – Rabbit Maranville, American baseball player and manager (d. 1954)
* 1891 – Grunya Sukhareva, Ukrainian-Russian psychiatrist and university lecturer (d. 1981)
*1894 – Beverly Bayne, American actress (d. 1982)
*1895 – Wealthy Babcock, American mathematician and academic (d. 1990)
*1896 – Shirley Graham Du Bois, American author, playwright, composer, and activist (d. 1977)
* 1896 – Carlos Eduardo Castañeda, Mexican-American historian (d. 1958)
*1898 – René Clair, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1981)
*1899 – Pat O'Brien, American actor (d. 1983)
*1900 – Maria Babanova, Russian stage and film actress (d. 1983)

1901–present

*1901 – Sam Spiegel, American film producer (d. 1985)
* 1901 – F. Van Wyck Mason, American historian and author (d. 1978)
*1904 – Alger Hiss, American lawyer and convicted spy (d. 1996)
* 1904 – J. H. C. Whitehead, British mathematician and academic (d. 1960)
*1906 – Brother Theodore, German-American monologuist and comedian (d. 2001)
*1907 – Orestis Laskos, Greek director, screenwriter, and poet (d. 1992)
*1909 – Robert Ryan, American actor (d. 1973)
* 1909 – Piero Scotti, Italian race car driver (d. 1976)
*1911 – Roberto Matta, Chilean-Italian painter and sculptor (d. 2002)
* 1912 – Thomas C. Mann, American lawyer, politician, and diplomat, United States Ambassador to El Salvador (d. 1999)
*1914 – James Gilbert Baker, American astronomer, optician, and academic (d. 2005)
* 1914 – Taslim Olawale Elias, Nigerian academic and jurist, 2nd Chief Justice of Nigeria (d. 1991)
* 1914 – Howard Fast, American novelist and screenwriter (d. 2003)
* 1914 – Henry Wade, American soldier and lawyer (d. 2001)
* 1914 – Daisy Bates, American activist who played a leading role in the Little Rock Integration Crisis of 1957 (d. 1999)
*1915 – William Proxmire, American soldier, journalist, and politician (d. 2005)
* 1915 – Anna Schwartz, American economist and author (d. 2012)
*1916 – Robert Carr, English engineer and politician, Lord President of the Council (d. 2012)
* 1918 – Stubby Kaye, American entertainer (d. 1997)
*1919 – Kalle Päätalo, Finnish soldier and author (d. 2000)
* 1920 – Roy Jenkins, British politician, President of the European Commission (d. 2003)
* 1920 – Walter Krupinski, German captain and pilot (d. 2000)
* 1921 – Terrel Bell, American sergeant, academic, and politician, 2nd United States Secretary of Education (d. 1996)
*1922 – Kurt Vonnegut, American novelist, short story writer, and essayist (d. 2007)
*1925 – John Guillermin, English-American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2015)
* 1925 – June Whitfield, English actress (d. 2018)
* 1925 – Jonathan Winters, American actor and screenwriter (d. 2013)
*1926 – Harry Lumley, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1998)
* 1926 – Maria Teresa de Filippis, Italian race car driver (d. 2016)
*1927 – Mose Allison, American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 2016)
* 1927 – Martin Špegelj, Croatian general and politician, 2nd Croatian Minister of Defence (d. 2014)
*1928 – Ernestine Anderson, American singer (d. 2016)
* 1928 – Carlos Fuentes, Mexican novelist and essayist (d. 2012)
*1929 – LaVern Baker, American singer (d. 1997)
* 1929 – Hans Magnus Enzensberger, German author and poet (d. 2022)
* 1929 – Martin Jacomb, English lawyer, businessman, and academic
*1930 – Hugh Everett III, American physicist and mathematician (d. 1982)
* 1930 – Vernon Handley, English conductor (d. 2008)
* 1930 – Mildred Dresselhaus, American physicist and academic (d. 2017)
*1932 – Germano Mosconi, Italian journalist (d. 2012)
* 1933 – Martino Finotto, Italian race car driver (d. 2014)
* 1933 – Peter B. Lewis, American businessman and philanthropist (d. 2013)
* 1935 – Bibi Andersson, Swedish actress (d. 2019)
*1936 – Jack Keller, American songwriter and producer (d. 2005)
* 1937 – Vittorio Brambilla, Italian race car driver (d. 2001)
* 1937 – Stephen Lewis, Canadian politician and diplomat, 14th Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations
* 1937 – Alicia Ostriker, American poet and scholar
* 1939 – Denise Alexander, American actress
*1940 – Barbara Boxer, American journalist and politician
* 1940 – Dennis Coffey, American guitarist
*1942 – Jonathan Fenby, English journalist and businessman
* 1942 – Roy Fredericks, Guyanese-American cricketer and politician (d. 2000)
* 1942 – K. Connie Kang, Korean American journalist and author (d. 2019)
* 1942 – Diane Wolkstein, American author and radio host (d. 2013)
*1943 – Doug Frost, Australian swim coach
*1945 – Chris Dreja, English guitarist and songwriter
* 1945 – Vince Martell