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12 >> Events, deaths, births, of NOV 11 [For Nov 11 Julian go to Gregorian date: 1582~1699: Nov 21 — 1700s: Nov 22 — 1800s: Nov 23 — 1900~2099: Nov 24] |
On a November
11: 2003 World chess champion Garry Kimovich Kasparov [13 April 1963-], with White, ties with computer program X3D Fritz in the first game of a match which will end in a draw with its 4th game on 18 November 2003 (13 Nov Game 2 — 16 Nov Game 3). {to replay the games click here and then click the Archive tab} 2001 On the third day of its meeting in Doha, Qatar, the World Trade Organization votes to accept Taiwan as its 144th member. 2001 Lazaro Cardenas Batel, of the Partido Revolucionario Democratico (PRD) is elected governor of Michoacan. 2000 US Republicans go to court, seeking an order to block presidential election manual recounts from continuing in Florida. 2000 National elections in Bosnia.
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1991 The US station- its first diplomat in Cambodia in 16 years, to help the war-ravaged nation arrange democratic elections.
1987 Judge Anthony M Kennedy nominated to the Supreme Court 1987 An unidentified buyer buys Vincent Van Gogh's painting "Irises" from the estate of Joan Whitney Payson for $53.9 million at Sotheby's in New York. 1986 Sperry Rand and Burroughs merge to become Unisys. While the deal cost $15 million in "changeover" expenses, it paid immediate dividends: Unisys shot to the number-two spot on the list of the nation's biggest computer companies. |
1981 Stuntman Dan Goodwin scales the outside of the 100-story John Hancock Center in Chicago in nearly six hours. 1975 Angola gains independence from Portugal (National Day) 1975 Australian PM removed by crown (1st elected PM removed in 200 years) 1973 Israel and Egypt sign a cease-fire.
1968 Maldives (in Indian Ocean) become a republic (world's country most threatened by global warming).
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1944 Private Eddie Slovik is convicted of desertion and sentenced to death for refusing to join his unit in the European Theater of Operations. The Sad Story of Private Eddie Slovik 1942 During WW II Germany completes their occupation of France, violating the terms of the armistice. — Hitler declenche l'operation "Attila". En reponse au debarquement anglo-americain en Afrique du Nord, l'armee allemande franchit la ligne de demarcation qui separe la France occupee de la France dite "libre" depuis l'armistice de 1940. A Vichy, le gouvernement du marechal Petain et de Pierre Laval est place sous le controle direct de l'occupant. Il perd la fiction de son independance.
1922 Canada's Vernon McKenzie urges to fight US propaganda with taxes on US magazines. |
1895 Bechuanaland becomes part of the Cape Colony 1889 Washington admitted as 42nd US state 1872 Fire engulfs Boston. The impact of the fire could be felt in New York, where nervous traders sent stocks tumbling. Although the markets made a brief comeback in December, the Boston blaze cast a pall over Wall Street that stretched well into the new year. 1864 Sherman's troops destroy Rome, Georgia 1863 Skirmish in the Fouche-le-Faix Mountains of Arkansas |
1648 Dutch and French agree to divide St Maarten, Leeward Islands 1647 Massachusetts passes 1st US compulsory school attendance law . 1630 La "Journee des dupes" . Marie de Medicis deteste Richelieu, elle est determinee à le perdre. Au palais du Luxembourg, elle fait mander son fils Louis XIII et lui demande la disgrace du cardinal. Celui-ci apparait, elle l'injurie. Bouleverse, le roi se retire sans un regard pour son ministre. Richelieu se croit perdu. Les grands se pressent vers la reine, convaincus qu'elle vient de l'emporter. Le lendemain, le roi convoque le cardinal dans son pavillon de chasse de Versailles. Le cardinal se jette aux pieds du roi, qui le releve et le prie de rester. C'est à la reine que le roi ordonne de prendre le chemin de l'exil au chateau de Compiegne. Avant que sa mere ne parte, le roi lui dit à propos de Richelieu : "C'est le plus grand serviteur que jamais la France ait eu."
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Deaths which
occurred on a November 11:
1856 John Middleton, English painter and etcher born on 09 Jan 1827 (or in 1828?).
1778: 40 persons, killed by Iroquois Indians led by William Butler, in NY, in Cherry Valley Massacre. 1772 Jan Morits Quinckhardt, Dutch painter and dealer born on 28 January 1688. 1761 Jan Ten Compe, Dutch painter, draftsman, and dealer, born on 14 February 1713. — more 1681 (burial) Jacob Marell, German painter, active also in the northern Netherlands, born in 1614. 1638 Cornelis Corneliszoon van Haarlem, Dutch Mannerist painter and draftsman born in 1562. MORE ON CORNELIS AT ART 4 NOVEMBER with links to images. 1563 Francesco Rossi del Salviati il Cecchino, Italian Mannerist painter born in 1510. — MORE ON SALVIATI AT ART 4 NOVEMBER with links to images. 1499 Perkin Warbeck, executed, pretender to the throne. The curious career and uncertain past of Perkin Warbeck 0537 St Silverius, Pope 0397 Martin of Tours, founder of France's first monastery. |
Births which
occurred on a November 11: 1955 Jigme Singye Wangchuk king of Bhutan (1972- ) 1945 Daniel Ortega Saavedra President of Nicaragua (1984- ) 1928 Carlos Fuentes, Mexican novelist. 1922 Kurt Vonnegut, American novelist (Slaughterhouse Five). 1915 William Proxmire (Sen-D-WI) (Golden Fleece Awards) 1911 King Hussein of Jordan. 1911 Roberto Antonio Sebastian Matta Echauren, Chilean Surrealist painter, active mostly in France, who died on 23 November 2002. MORE ON MATTA AT ART 4 NOVEMBER with links to images. 1904 Alger Hiss, US State Department official, convicted of perjury after denying having been a Communist spy, as accused (first on 03 August 1948) by Whittaker Chambers [01 April 1901 – 09 July 1961]. Hiss died on 15 November 1996. Hiss wrote two books, In the Court of Public Opinion (1957) and Recollections of a Life (1988). 1904 Henry Whitehead, mathematician. 1888 Johannes Itten, Swiss Expressionist painter, lithographer, textile designer, teacher, writer, and theorist, who died on 25 March 1967. — more with links to two images.
1869 Victor Emmanuel III king of Italy (1900-46) / Ethiopia 1868 Edouard Vuillard, French Nabi and Post-Impressionist painter, draftsman, and printmaker, who died on 21 June 1940. MORE ON VUILLARD AT ART 4 NOVEMBER with links to images. 1864 Alfred Hermann Fried, Austrian journalist active in Germany, founder of Die Friedenswarte, who received the 1911 Nobel Peace Prize jointly with Tobias Michael Carel Asser (1838 - 1913). Having lost everything in the collapse of Austria-Hungary following WW I, Fried died in poverty on 05 May 1921. — MORE 1863 Paul Signac, Parisian pointilliste painter, printmaker, etcher, lithographer, who died on 15 August 1935. MORE ON SIGNAC AT ART 4 NOVEMBER with links to images.
1748 Charles IV king of Spain (1788-1808) 1738 Jean-Jacques-François Le Barbier, French Neoclassical painter, illustrator, and writer, who died on 07 May 1826 (1828?). MORE ON LE BARBIER AT ART 4 NOVEMBER with links to images. 1729 Bourgainville, mathematician — L'explorateur Louis Antoine de Bougainville est ne le 11 novembre 1729. 1579 Frans Snyders, Flemish painter who died on 19 August 1657. Antwerp-born Baroque artist who was the most noted 17th-century painter of hunting scenes and animals in combat. — MORE ON SNYDERS AT ART 4 NOVEMBER with links to images. 1050 Henry IV, Holy Roman emperor (1036-1106) |