11 November
Notable Births
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
Lily Miyazaki
b. 1995
British tennis player (born 1995)
Lio Rush
b. 1994
American professional wrestler (born 1994)
Sanju Samson
b. 1994
Indian cricketer (born 1994)
Ellie Simmonds
b. 1994
British Paralympic swimmer
Jamaal Lascelles
b. 1993
English footballer
Jean-Gabriel Pageau
b. 1992
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1992)
Tom Dumoulin
b. 1990
Dutch road cyclist
James Segeyaro
b. 1990
PNG international rugby league footballer (born 1990)
Georginio Wijnaldum
b. 1990
Dutch footballer (born 1990)
Nick Blackman
b. 1989
Barbadian footballer (born 1989)
Joe Ragland
b. 1989
American-Liberian basketball player
Adam Rippon
b. 1989
American figure skater (born 1989)
Reina Tanaka
b. 1989
Musical artist
Lewis Williamson
b. 1989
British racing driver (born 1989)
Notable Deaths
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)
Big Bank Hank
d. 2014
American hip hop artist (1956–2014)
Philip G. Hodge
d. 2014
American engineer
Harry Lonsdale
d. 2014
American scientist, businessman, and politician
Carol Ann Susi
d. 2014
American actress (1952–2014)
John Barnhill (basketball)
d. 2013
American basketball player
Domenico Bartolucci
d. 2013
Roman Catholic cardinal (1917–2013)
Bob Beckham
d. 2013
American country music publisher and singer (1927–2013)
John S. Dunne
d. 2013
American priest and theologian
Joe Egan (rugby league)
d. 2012
Former Great Britain and England international rugby league footballer
Rex Hunt (diplomat)
d. 2012
Governor, Falkland Islands, 1926–2012
Victor Mees
d. 2012
Belgian footballer (1927–2012)
Harry Wayland Randall
d. 2012
American soldier and photographer (1915–2021)
Francisco Blake Mora
d. 2011
Mexican politician
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
2002
A Fokker F27 Friendship operating as Laoag International Airlines Flight 585 crashes into Manila Bay shortly after takeoff from Ninoy Aquino International Airport, killing 19 people.
Fokker F27 Friendship
2002
Russian mathematician Grigori Perelman posts the first of three preprint texts with his proof of the Poincaré conjecture. It remains the only of the Millennium Prize Problems in mathematics to be solved. He later refused both the prize money from Clay Mathematics Institute as well as the Fields Medal for his work.
Grigori Perelman
2001
Journalists Pierre Billaud, Johanne Sutton and Volker Handloik are killed in Afghanistan during an attack on the convoy they are traveling in.
Pierre Billaud
2000
Kaprun disaster: One hundred fifty-five skiers and snowboarders die when a cable car catches fire in an alpine tunnel in Kaprun, Austria.
Kaprun disaster
1999
The House of Lords Act is given Royal Assent, restricting membership of the British House of Lords by virtue of a hereditary peerage.
House of Lords Act 1999
1993
A sculpture honoring women who served in the Vietnam War is dedicated at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.
Vietnam War
1992
The General Synod of the Church of England votes to allow women to become priests.
General Synod of the Church of England
1982
Space Shuttle Columbia launches from the Kennedy Space Center on STS-5, the first operational mission of the Space Shuttle program.
Space Shuttle Columbia
1981
Antigua and Barbuda joins the United Nations.
Antigua and Barbuda
1977
A munitions explosion at a train station in Iri, South Korea kills at least 56 people.
Iri station explosion
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 Australian constitutional crisis
1975
Independence of Angola.
Angola