Major Events
- 1620 Mayflower Compact is signed by Pilgrims at Cape Cod, establishing the first framework of government in the territory that is now the USA [N.S. Nov 21]
- 1675 German mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz demonstrates integral calculus for the first time to find the area under the graph of the function y = f(x)
- 1745 Bonnie Prince Charlie‘s Jacobite army invades England in an attempt to restore the House of Stuart to the British throne
- 1918 World War I Armistice signed by the Allies and Germany comes into effect, with hostilities ending at 11 a.m., “the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month”
- 1975 Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam is removed from office by Governor-General Sir John Kerr, the first elected Prime Minister removed in Australian history
- 1992 The Church of England approves the ordination of female priests
- 2004 Yasser Arafat‘s death from unidentified causes is confirmed by the Palestine Liberation Organization, and Mahmoud Abbas is elected PLO chairman shortly after
Nov 11 in Film & TV
- 1985 First AIDS-themed TV movie “An Early Frost” screens in the US on NBC
Nov 11 in Music
- 1925 Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five begin their first recording session at Okeh Records in Chicago
Nov 11 in Sport
- 1946 New York Knicks play their first Basketball Association of America (BAA) home game at Madison Square Garden, losing 78-68 to the Chicago Stags in overtime
Famous Weddings
- 1100 English King Henry I marries Princess Matilda of Scotland at Westminster Abbey in London
- 1710 Anna Ivanovna (future Empress of Russia) (17) marries Frederick William, Duke of Courland (18). Frederick dies two months later.
- 1838 Emma Wedgwood accepts English naturalist Charles Darwin‘s marriage proposal
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