| 1499 |
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Pretender to the throne Perkin Warbeck is executed. |
| 1778 |
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Indians, led by William Butler, massacre the inhabitants of Cherry Valley, N.Y. |
| 1831 |
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Nat Turner, a slave who led a revolt against slave owners, is hanged in Jerusalem, Virginia. |
| 1889 |
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Washington becomes the 42nd state of the Union. |
| 1909 |
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Construction begins on the naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. |
| 1918 |
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The German leaders sign the armistice ending World War I. |
| 1919 |
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The first two-minutes' silence is observed in Britain to commemorate those who died in the Great War. |
| 1921 |
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The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington Cemetery is dedicated. |
| 1922 |
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Canada's Vernon McKenzie urges to fight U.S. propaganda with taxes on U.S. magazines. |
| 1933 |
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The first of the great dust storms of the 1930s hits North Dakota. |
| 1935 |
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Albert Anderson and Orvil Anderson set a new altitude record in South Dakota, when they float to 74,000 feet in a balloon. |
| 1938 |
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Irving Berlin's "God Bless America" is performed for the first time by singer Kate Smith. |
| 1940 |
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Britain's Royal Navy attacks the Italian fleet at Taranto. |
| 1944 |
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Private Eddie Slovik is convicted of desertion and sentenced to death for refusing to join his unit in the European Theater of Operations. |
| 1953 |
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The polio virus is identified and photographed for the first time in Cambridge, Massachusetts. |
| 1966 |
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The United States launches Gemini 12, a two-man orbiter, into orbit. |
| 1970 |
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U.S. Army Special Forces raid the Son Tay prison camp in North Vietnam but find no prisoners. |
| 1973 |
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Israel and Egypt sign a cease-fire. |
| 1973 |
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The Soviet Union is kicked out of World Cup soccer for refusing to play Chile. |
| 1987 |
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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. |
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Born on November 11 |
| 1050 |
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Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor. |
| 1821 |
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Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky, Russian novelist and political revolutionary (The Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment). |
| 1885 |
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George S. Patton, U.S. Army commander in World War II. |
| 1898 |
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Rene Clair, French film director. |
| 1922 |
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Kurt Vonnegut, American novelist (Slaughterhouse Five). |
| 1925 |
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Jonathan Winters, comedian. |
| 1928 |
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Carlos Fuentes, Mexican novelist. |
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