About November 11
November 11, 2025 is the 315th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 50 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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Scorpio is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Topaz is the modern birthstone for this month. Pearl is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 98 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On November 11
- 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.
- 1839 –The Virginia Military Institute is founded in Lexington, Virginia.
- 1880 –Australian bushranger Ned Kelly is hanged at Melbourne Gaol.
- 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.
- 1918 –Józef Piłsudski assumes supreme military power in Poland - symbolic first day of Polish independence.
- 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.
- 1924 –Prime Minister Alexandros Papanastasiou proclaims the first recognized Greek Republic.
- 1926 –U.S. Route 66 is established.
- 1934 –The Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne, Australia is opened.
- 1940 –The German cruiser Atlantis captures top secret British mail, and sends it to Japan.
- 1940 –World War II: Battle of Taranto – The Royal Navy launches the first aircraft carrier strike in history, on the Italian fleet at Taranto.
- 1942 –World War II: The Second Battle of El Alamein is won by the British in El Alamein, Egypt.
- 1944 –Dr. jur. Erich Göstl, 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.
- 1961 –thirteen Italian Air Force servicemen, deployed to the Congo as a part of the UN peacekeeping force are massacred by a mob in the course of the Kindu atrocity.
- 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.
- 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 –A second republic is declared in the Maldives.
- 2004 –New Zealand Tomb of the Unknown Warrior is dedicated at the National War Memorial, Wellington.
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