November 11th: On This Day

Photograph was taken in the forest of Compiègne after reaching an agreement for the armistice that ended World War I.

It’s my birthday today, so I thought I’d post some events, births and deaths that I find interesting that occurred on this day historically, these I found on wikipedia and all the links go to that site.

Events:

1215 – The Fourth Lateran Council meets, defining the doctrine of transubstantiation, the process by which bread and wine are transformed into the body and blood of Christ.
1675 – Gottfried Leibniz demonstrated integral calculus for the first time to find the area under the graph of y = ƒ(x).
1831 – In Jerusalem, Virginia, Nat Turner is hanged after inciting a violent slave uprising.
1869 – Victorian Aboriginal Protection Act is enacted in Australia, giving the government control of Indigenous people’s wages, their terms of employment, where they could live, and of their children, leading to the Stolen Generations.
1880 – Australian Bushranger Ned Kelly is hanged at Melbourne Gaol.
1887 – Anarchist Haymarket Martyrs August Spies, Albert Parsons, Adolph Fischer and George Engel are executed.
1887 – Construction of the Manchester Ship Canal starts at Eastham.
1918 – World War I ends: Germany signs an armistice agreement with the Allies in a railroad car outside of Compiègne in France. The war officially stops at 11:00 (The eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month) this is annually honoured with two-minutes of silence.
1919 – The Centralia Massacre in Centralia, Washington results the deaths of members of the American Legion and the lynching of a member of the IWW.
1926 – U.S. Route 66 is established.
1992 – The Church of England votes to allow women to become priests.

Births:
Other than mine of course!

1821 – Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russian novelist (d. 1881)
1863 – Paul Signac, French painter (d. 1935)
1869 – Gaetano Bresci, Italian-American anarchist (d. 1901)
1888 – Abul Kalam Azad, Indian independence movement leader (d. 1958)
1922 – Kurt Vonnegut, American novelist (d. 2007)
1945 – Daniel Ortega, President of Nicaragua. Leader of Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional.
1966 – Alison Doody, Irish actress

Deaths:

1831 – Nat Turner, American slave rebel (hanged) (b. 1800)
1855 – Søren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher (b. 1813)
1880 – Ned Kelly, Australian bushranger (hanged) (b. c.1855)
1887 – Haymarket Martyrs:
– George Engel (hanged) (b. 1836)
– Adolph Fischer (hanged) (b. 1858)
– Albert Parsons (hanged) (b. 1848)
– August Spies (hanged) (b. 1855)
1918 – George Lawrence Price, Canadian soldier, last person to be killed in W.W.I. (b. 1892)
1976 – Alexander Calder, American artist (b. 1898)
2004 – Yasser Arafat, Palestinian leader (b. 1929)