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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