On This Day: 11 November

11 November in Indian history

• 1865Treaty of Sinchula is signed whereby Bhutan cedes the areas east of the Teesta River to the British East India Company.India

11 November in world history

• 2022Russo-Ukrainian War: Ukrainian armed forces enter the city of Kherson following a successful two-month southern counteroffensive.
• 2002Russian 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 Mathemat
• 1999The House of Lords Act was given royal assent, removing most hereditary peers from the British House of Lords.
• 1982Space Shuttle Columbia launches from the Kennedy Space Center on STS-5, the first operational mission of the Space Shuttle program.
• 1975During a constitutional crisis, Governor-General Sir John Kerr dismissed Prime Minister Gough Whitlam's government and dissolved the Parliament of Australia for a double-dissolution election.
• 1972Vietnam War: Vietnamization: The United States Army turns over the massive Long Binh military base to South Vietnam.
• 1967Vietnam War: In a propaganda ceremony in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, three American prisoners of war are released by the Viet Cong and turned over to "new left" antiwar activist Tom Hayden.
• 1966NASA launches Gemini 12.
• 1965Rhodesia, led by Prime Minister Ian Smith, unilaterally declared independence from the United Kingdom.
• 1962Kuwait's National Assembly ratifies the Constitution of Kuwait.
• 1940Second World War: The Royal Navy launched the first all-aircraft ship-to-ship naval attack in history against the Italians in the Battle of Taranto.
• 1930Patent number US1781541 is awarded to Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd for their invention, the Einstein refrigerator.
• 1923Adolf Hitler is arrested in Munich for high treason for his role in the Beer Hall Putsch.
• 1920In London, the Cenotaph was unveiled and the Unknown Warrior was buried in Westminster Abbey in remembrance of the First World War.
• 1918The armistice between the German Empire and the Allies was signed in a railway carriage in the Forest of Compiègne of France.
• 1880Australian bushranger and outlaw Ned Kelly was hanged in Melbourne, in spite of sympathizers holding rallies for his reprieve.
• 1778American Revolutionary War: British forces and their Iroquois allies attacked a fort and the village of Cherry Valley, New York, killing 14 soldiers and 30 civilians.

Born on 11 November

• 1972Adam Beach, Canadian actor
• 1945Daniel Ortega, Nicaraguan politician, President of Nicaragua
• 1912Thomas C. Mann, American lawyer, politician, and diplomat, United States Ambassador to El Salvador (died 1999)
• 1888Abul Kalam Azad, Indian activist, scholar, and politician, Indian Minister of Education (died 1958)India
• 1888J. B. Kripalani, Indian lawyer and politician (died 1982)India
• 1867Shrimad Rajchandra, a Jain philosopher, spiritual mentor of Mahatma Gandhi (died 1901)India

Died on 11 November

• 2014Philip G. Hodge, American engineer and academic (born 1920)
• 1993John Stanley, American author and illustrator (born 1914)
• 1888Pedro Ñancúpel, Chilean pirate active in the fjords and channels of Patagonia. He was executed.
• 865Petronas, Byzantine general

Frequently asked questions

What happened on 11 November in history?

2022: Russo-Ukrainian War: Ukrainian armed forces enter the city of Kherson following a successful two-month southern counteroffensive. 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 Mathemat. 1999: The House of Lords Act was given royal assent, removing most hereditary peers from the British House of Lords. 1982: Space Shuttle Columbia launches from the Kennedy Space Center on STS-5, the first operational mission of the Space Shuttle program.

What happened on 11 November in Indian history?

1865: Treaty of Sinchula is signed whereby Bhutan cedes the areas east of the Teesta River to the British East India Company.

Which famous people were born on 11 November?

Adam Beach, Canadian actor (1972); Daniel Ortega, Nicaraguan politician, President of Nicaragua (1945); Thomas C. Mann, American lawyer, politician, and diplomat, United States Ambassador to El Salvador (died 1999) (1912); Abul Kalam Azad, Indian activist, scholar, and politician, Indian Minister of Education (died 1958) (1888).

Which day is observed on 11 November?

National Education Day; Birthday of King Jigme Singye Wangchuck (Bhutan); Children's Day (Croatia); 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 independe.