November 11

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November 11 is the 315th day of the year (316th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 50 days remaining.

Events

1620 - Near what is now Provincetown Harbor near Cape Cod, the Mayflower Compact is signed on the Mayflower, establishing the basic laws for the Plymouth Colony.
1648 - France and Netherlands agree to divide the island of Sint Maarten/Saint Martin.
1831 - In Jerusalem, Virginia, Nat Turner is hanged after inciting a violent slave uprising.
1864 - American Civil War: Sherman's March to the Sea - Union General William Tecumseh Sherman begins burning Atlanta, Georgia to the ground.
1880 - Australian bushranger and bank robber Ned Kelly is hanged in Melbourne.
1889 - Washington is admitted as the 42nd U.S. state.
1918 - World War I ends: Germany signs an armistice agreement with the Allies in a railroad car outside of [[Compi�gne]] in France.
1918 - Poland is reestablished as a nation.
1921 - During an Armistice Day ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery, the Tomb of the Unknowns is dedicated by US President Warren G. Harding.
1933 - Dust Bowl: In South Dakota, a very strong dust storm strips topsoil from desiccated farmlands (this is just one of a series of disastrous dust storms that year).
1940 - World War II: The Royal Navy launches the first aircraft carrier strike in history, on the Italian fleet at Taranto.
1940 - The German cruiser Atlantis captures top secret British mail, and sends it to Japan.
1940 - Armistice Day Blizzard: An unexpected blizzard kills 144 in U.S. Midwest.
1942 - The Road to Morocco, starring Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, and Dorothy Lamour, premieres.
1965 - Rhodesia (now called Zimbabwe) was declared independent by the white minority regime of Ian Smith.
1966 - Gemini program: 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 of the operation is to interdict men and supplies on the Ho Chi Minh Trail, through Laos into South Vietnam (by the end of the operation, 3 million tons of bombs were dropped on Laos, which slowed but did not seriously disrupt trail operations).
1968 - A second republic is declared in the Maldives.
1972 - Vietnam War: Vietnamization - The United States Army turns over the massive Long Binh military base to South Vietnam.
1975 - Angola becomes independent from Portugal (a deadly civil war soon erupts).
1975 - Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam is sacked by the Australian Governor General, Sir John Kerr during the Australian constitutional crisis of 1975.
1986 - Sperry Rand and Burroughs merge to form Unisys, becoming the second largest computer company.
1988 - In Sacramento, California, police find a body buried in the lawn of 60-year-old boardinghouse landlady Dorothea Puente (seven bodies were eventually found and Puente was convicted of three murders and sentenced to life in prison).
1992 - The Church of England votes to allow women to become priests.
2000 - In Austria, 155 skiers and snowboarders die when a cable car catches fire in an alpine tunnel.