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On this day — November 11

A hand-curated thread of what happened on this date, across centuries.

Observed today

Public holiday

Veterans Day

Veterans Day is observed in United States. Recognized nationally.

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Armistice Day

Armistice Day is observed in Canada. Regional observance.

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Remembrance Day

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2024

Milestone

A vehicle-ramming attack in Zhuhai

China, kills 38 people and injures 48.

2022

Politics

Russo-Ukrainian War

Ukrainian armed forces enter the city of Kherson following a successful two-month southern counteroffensive.

2020

Disaster

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

Disaster

A strong earthquake with the magnitude 6.8 hits northern Burma

killing at least 26 people.

2011

Milestone

A helicopter crash just outside Mexico City kills seven

including Francisco Blake Mora the Secretary of the Interior of Mexico.

2006

Politics

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

Politics

New Zealand Tomb of the Unknown Warrior is dedicated at the National War Memorial

Wellington.

2004

Milestone

The Palestine Liberation Organization confirms the death of Yasser Arafat from unidentified causes

Mahmoud Abbas is elected chairman of the PLO minutes later.

2002

Milestone

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

Milestone

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

Milestone

Journalists Pierre Billaud

Johanne Sutton and Volker Handloik are killed in Afghanistan during an attack on the convoy they are traveling in.

2000

Disaster

Kaprun disaster

One hundred fifty-five skiers and snowboarders die when a cable car catches fire in an alpine tunnel in Kaprun, Austria.

1999

Milestone

The House of Lords Act is given Royal Assent

restricting membership of the British House of Lords by virtue of a hereditary peerage.

1993

Politics

A sculpture honoring women who served in the Vietnam War is dedicated at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.

1992

Milestone

Observed today

Veterans Day

Armistice Day

Remembrance Day

A vehicle-ramming attack in Zhuhai

Russo-Ukrainian War

Typhoon Vamco makes landfall in Luzon and several offshore islands, killing 67 people

A strong earthquake with the magnitude 6.8 hits northern Burma

A helicopter crash just outside Mexico City kills seven

Queen Elizabeth II unveils the New Zealand War Memorial in London

New Zealand Tomb of the Unknown Warrior is dedicated at the National War Memorial

The Palestine Liberation Organization confirms the death of Yasser Arafat from unidentified causes

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.

Journalists Pierre Billaud

Kaprun disaster

The House of Lords Act is given Royal Assent

A sculpture honoring women who served in the Vietnam War is dedicated at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.

The General Synod of the Church of England votes to allow women to become priests.