Summary of the Day ✨ 11 November (11/11)
Multiple tragedies unfolded worldwide as a vehicle-ramming attack in China killed 38, while a devastating typhoon in the Philippines claimed 67 lives and an earthquake in Burma left 26 dead. In international conflict, Ukrainian forces entered Kherson following a successful counteroffensive, while Mexico mourned the death of its Interior Secretary in a helicopter crash.
Historical Events 📜
- 2024: A vehicle-ramming attack in Zhuhai, China, kills 38 people and injures 48.
- 2022: Russo-Ukrainian War: Ukrainian armed forces enter the city of Kherson following a successful two-month southern counteroffensive.
- 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.
- 2012: A strong earthquake with the magnitude 6.8 hits northern Burma, killing at least 26 people.
- 2011: A helicopter crash just outside Mexico City kills seven, including Francisco Blake Mora the Secretary of the Interior of 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.
- 2004: New Zealand Tomb of the Unknown Warrior is dedicated at the National War Memorial, Wellington.
- 2004: The Palestine Liberation Organization confirms the death of Yasser Arafat from unidentified causes. Mahmoud Abbas is elected chairman of the PLO minutes later.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2001: Journalists Pierre Billaud, Johanne Sutton and Volker Handloik are killed in Afghanistan during an attack on the convoy they are traveling in.
- 2000: Kaprun disaster: One hundred fifty-five skiers and snowboarders die when a cable car catches fire in an alpine tunnel in Kaprun, Austria.
- 1999: The House of Lords Act is given Royal Assent, restricting membership of the British House of Lords by virtue of a hereditary peerage.
- 1993: A sculpture honoring women who served in the Vietnam War is dedicated at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.
- 1992: The General Synod of the Church of England votes to allow women to become priests.
Famous Births 👶
- 2005: Ben Gannon-Doak, Scottish footballer
- 2004: Oakes Fegley, American actor
- 1999: X González, American activist
- 1998: Liudmila Samsonova, Russian tennis player
- 1996: Tye Sheridan, American actor and producer
- 1995: Josh Aloiai, New Zealand rugby league player
- 1995: Yuriko Miyazaki, British tennis player
- 1994: Lio Rush, American wrestler
- 1994: Sanju Samson, Indian cricketer
- 1994: Ellie Simmonds, English swimmer
- 1993: Jamaal Lascelles, English footballer
- 1992: Sofía Luini, Argentine tennis player
- 1992: Jean-Gabriel Pageau, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1991: Christa B. Allen, American actress
- 1991: Kaho Onodera, Japanese curler
Notable Deaths 🕊️
- 2024: Frank Auerbach, German-British painter (born 1931)
- 2024: John Robinson, American football player and coach (born 1935)
- 2021: F. W. de Klerk, South African lawyer and politician, former State President of South Africa, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1936)
- 2017: Chiquito de la Calzada, Spanish singer, actor and comedian (born 1932)
- 2016: Victor Bailey, American singer and bass player (born 1960)
- 2016: Robert Vaughn, American actor (born 1932)
- 2015: Rita Gross, American theologian and author (born 1943)
- 2015: Nathaniel Marston, American actor and producer (born 1975)
- 2014: John Doar, American lawyer and activist (born 1921)
- 2014: Big Bank Hank, American rapper (born 1956)
- 2014: Philip G. Hodge, American engineer and academic (born 1920)
- 2014: Harry Lonsdale, American chemist, businessman, and politician (born 1932)
- 2014: Carol Ann Susi, American actress (born 1952)
- 2013: John Barnhill, American basketball player and coach (born 1938)
- 2013: Domenico Bartolucci, Italian cardinal and composer (born 1917)
Holidays & Observances 🎉
- Birthday of King Jigme Singye Wangchuck (Bhutan)
- Children’s Day (Croatia)
- Christian feast day:
Bartholomew of Grottaferrata - Christian feast day:
Martin of Tours, and its related observances. - Christian feast day:
Menas - Christian feast day:
Mercurius (Coptic) - Christian feast day:
Søren Kierkegaard (Lutheran Church) - Christian feast day:
Theodore the Studite - Christian feast day:
November 11 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) - End of World War I-related observances:
Armistice Day (France, Belgium and Serbia) - End of World War I-related observances:
National Independence Day (Poland), commemorates the anniversary of Poland’s assumption of independent statehood in 1918 - End of World War I-related observances:
Remembrance Day (United Kingdom and the Commonwealth of Nations, including Australia and Canada) - End of World War I-related observances:
Veterans Day, called Armistice Day until 1954, when it was rededicated to honor American military (Army, Navy, Marine, and Air Force) veterans. (United States) - Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Angola from Portugal in 1975.
- Independence of Cartagena (Colombia)