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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

1215 - The fourth lateran council meets, adopting the doctrine of transubstantiation, meaning that bread and wine are transformed into the body and blood of Christ.

1620 - In what is now Provincetown Harbor near Cape Cod, the Mayflower Compact is signed on the Mayflower, establishing the basic laws for the Plymouth Colony.

1634 - Following pressure from Anglican bishop John Atherton, the Irish House of Commons passes "An Act for the Punishment for the Vice of Buggery" (anal sex).

1648 - France and the Netherlands agree to divide the island of Sint Maarten/Saint Martin.

1675 - Gottfried Leibniz demonstrated integral calculus for the first time to find the area under the y=x function.

1675 - Guru Gobind Singh becomes the Tenth Guru of the Sikhs.

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 in which Bhutan ceded the areas east of the Teesta River to the British East India Company.

1880 - Australian bushranger and bank robber Ned Kelly is hung in Melbourne.

1889 - Washington is admitted as the 42nd U.S. state.

1911 - Many cities in the midwest broke their record highs and lows on the same day as a strong cold front rolls through. (see The 11/11/11 cold wave).

1918 - World War I ends: Germany signs an armistice agreement with the Allies in a railroad car outside of Compiègne in France.

1918 - Józef Piłsudski comes to Warsaw and assumes supreme military power in Poland.

1918 - Emperor Charles I of Austria abdicates.

1921 - The Tomb of the Unknowns is dedicated by US President Warren G. Harding at Arlington National Cemetery.

1930 - Patent number US1781541 was awarded to Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd for their invention, the Einstein Refrigerator.

1933 - Dust Bowl: In South Dakota, a very strong dust storm strips topsoil from desiccated farmlands.

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 U.S. Midwest.

1942 - 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 - NASA launches spaceship 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.

1968 - A second republic is declared in the Maldives.

1969 - Jim Morrison (The Doors) is arrested by the FBI after repeatedly prodding a stewardess.

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.

1975 - Australian constitutional crisis of 1975: Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam is sacked by the Australian Governor General, Sir John Kerr.

1978 - Maumoon Abdul Gayoom succeeded Ibrahim Nasir as the president of the Republic of Maldives. He has since been re-elected for six consecutive 5-year terms.

1978 - A renovated Hollywood sign is unveiled, replacing the older version that was built in 1923.

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 .

1992 - The Church of England votes to allow women to become priests.

1997 - Mary McAleese inaugurated the eighth President of Ireland.

1997 - Marianne Biancuzzo is charged for drowning her newborn baby in a toilet and hiding the remains in a coffee can in Tucson, Arizona.

2000 - In Kaprun, Austria, 155 skiers and snowboarders die when a cable car catches fire in an alpine tunnel.

2004 - New Zealand Tomb of the Unknown Warrior dedicated at the National War Memorial, Wellington

2004 - Mahmoud Abbas is elected chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization minutes after the death of Yasser Arafat.

2004 - Official Guided by Voices Day in San Diego, California.

2004 - Mary McAleese inaugurated for a second term as President of Ireland.