Today in History
11 November
230 births · 115 deaths · 69 events recorded
Featured Birthday · Born 1937
Stephen Lewis
Canadian politician (born 1937)
Notable Births
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Ben Gannon-Doak
b. 2005
Scottish footballer (born 2005)
Oakes Fegley
b. 2004
American actor
X González
b. 1999
American activist and gun control advocate
Liudmila Samsonova
b. 1998
Russian tennis player (born 1998)
Tye Sheridan
b. 1996
American actor (born 1996)
Josh Aloiai
b. 1995
Samoa international rugby league footballer
Edmoore Takaendesa
b. 1980
Rugby player
Stephen Lewis
b. 1937
Canadian politician (born 1937)
Notable Deaths
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F. W. de Klerk
d. 2021
President of South Africa from 1989 to 1994
Chiquito de la Calzada
d. 2017
Spanish stand-up comedian
Victor Bailey (musician)
d. 2016
American bass guitar player (1960–2016)
Robert Vaughn
d. 2016
American actor (1932–2016)
Rita Gross
d. 2015
American Buddhist feminist scholar
Nathaniel Marston
d. 2015
American actor (1975–2015)
John Doar
d. 2014
American lawyer (1921–2014)
Vince Gair
d. 1980
Australian politician (1901–1980)
On This Day in History
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2024
A vehicle-ramming attack in Zhuhai, China, kills 38 people and injures 48.
2024 Zhuhai car attack
2022
Russo-Ukrainian War: Ukrainian armed forces enter the city of Kherson following a successful two-month southern counteroffensive.
Russo-Ukrainian war
2020
Typhoon Vamco makes landfall in Luzon and several offshore islands, killing 67 people. The storm causes the worst floods in the region since Typhoon Ketsana in 2009.
Typhoon Vamco
2012
A strong earthquake with the magnitude 6.8 hits northern Burma, killing at least 26 people.
2012 Shwebo earthquake
2011
A helicopter crash just outside Mexico City kills seven, including Francisco Blake Mora the Secretary of the Interior of Mexico.
2011 in Mexico
2006
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.
Elizabeth II
2004
New Zealand Tomb of the Unknown Warrior is dedicated at the National War Memorial, Wellington.
Tomb of the Unknown Warrior (New Zealand)
2004
The Palestine Liberation Organization confirms the death of Yasser Arafat from unidentified causes. Mahmoud Abbas is elected chairman of the PLO minutes later.
Palestine Liberation Organization