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Events:C/P.
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 restore order to the Roman Empire.
1215 The Fourth Lateran Council 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.
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 = (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 Dόrenstein 8000 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.
1864 American Civil War: Sherman's March to the Sea Union General William Tecumseh Sherman begins burning Atlanta, Georgia to the ground in preparation for his march south.
1865 Treaty of Sinchula is signed by which 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 Anarchist Haymarket Martyrs August Spies, Albert Parsons, Adolph Fischer and George Engel are executed.
1887 Construction of the Manchester Ship Canal begins at Eastham.
1889 The State of Washington is admitted as the 42nd State of the United States.
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.
Front page of The New York Times on Armistice Day, November 11, 1918.1918 World War I: Germany signs an armistice agreement with the Allies in a railroad car in the forest of Compiθgne, France. The fighting officially ends at 11:00 (The eleventh hour in the eleventh month on the eleventh day) and this is annually honoured with a two-minute silence. The war officially ends on the signing of the Treaty of Versailles on June 28th 1919.
1918 Jσzef Piłsudski assumes supreme military power in Poland - symbolic first day of Polish independence.
1918 Emperor Charles I of Austria relinquishes power.
1919 The Centralia Massacre in Centralia, Washington results the deaths of four members of the American Legion and the lynching of a local leader of the Industrial Workers of the World.
1919 Lāčplēa day Latvian forces defeat the Freikorps 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.
1924 Prime Minister Alexandros Papanastasiou proclaims the first recognized Greek Republic.
1926 U.S. Route 66 is established.
1930 Patent number US1781541 is awarded to Albert Einstein and Leσ Szilαrd for their invention, the Einstein refrigerator.
1934 The Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne, Australia is opened.
1940 World War II: Battle of Taranto 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 the U.S. Midwest.
1942 World War II: Nazi Germany completes its occupation of France.
1942 World War II: The Second Battle of El Alamein is won by the British in El Alamein, Egypt.
1944 Dr. jur. Erich Gφstl, a member of the Waffen SS, is presented with the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross, to recognise extreme battlefield bravery, after losing his face and eyes during the Battle of Normandy.
1960 A military coup against President Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam is crushed.
1962 Kuwait's National Assembly ratifies the Constitution of Kuwait.
1965 In Rhodesia (modern-day Zimbabwe), the white-minority government of Ian Smith unilaterally declares independence.
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.
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 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.
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: 155 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.
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.
2008 RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 (QE2) sets sail on her final voyage to Dubai
End of C/P.
Events:C/P.
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 restore order to the Roman Empire.
1215 The Fourth Lateran Council 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.
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 = (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 Dόrenstein 8000 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.
1864 American Civil War: Sherman's March to the Sea Union General William Tecumseh Sherman begins burning Atlanta, Georgia to the ground in preparation for his march south.
1865 Treaty of Sinchula is signed by which 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 Anarchist Haymarket Martyrs August Spies, Albert Parsons, Adolph Fischer and George Engel are executed.
1887 Construction of the Manchester Ship Canal begins at Eastham.
1889 The State of Washington is admitted as the 42nd State of the United States.
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.
Front page of The New York Times on Armistice Day, November 11, 1918.1918 World War I: Germany signs an armistice agreement with the Allies in a railroad car in the forest of Compiθgne, France. The fighting officially ends at 11:00 (The eleventh hour in the eleventh month on the eleventh day) and this is annually honoured with a two-minute silence. The war officially ends on the signing of the Treaty of Versailles on June 28th 1919.
1918 Jσzef Piłsudski assumes supreme military power in Poland - symbolic first day of Polish independence.
1918 Emperor Charles I of Austria relinquishes power.
1919 The Centralia Massacre in Centralia, Washington results the deaths of four members of the American Legion and the lynching of a local leader of the Industrial Workers of the World.
1919 Lāčplēa day Latvian forces defeat the Freikorps 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.
1924 Prime Minister Alexandros Papanastasiou proclaims the first recognized Greek Republic.
1926 U.S. Route 66 is established.
1930 Patent number US1781541 is awarded to Albert Einstein and Leσ Szilαrd for their invention, the Einstein refrigerator.
1934 The Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne, Australia is opened.
1940 World War II: Battle of Taranto 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 the U.S. Midwest.
1942 World War II: Nazi Germany completes its occupation of France.
1942 World War II: The Second Battle of El Alamein is won by the British in El Alamein, Egypt.
1944 Dr. jur. Erich Gφstl, a member of the Waffen SS, is presented with the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross, to recognise extreme battlefield bravery, after losing his face and eyes during the Battle of Normandy.
1960 A military coup against President Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam is crushed.
1962 Kuwait's National Assembly ratifies the Constitution of Kuwait.
1965 In Rhodesia (modern-day Zimbabwe), the white-minority government of Ian Smith unilaterally declares independence.
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.
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 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.
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: 155 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.
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.
2008 RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 (QE2) sets sail on her final voyage to Dubai
End of C/P.