WHAT HAPPENED ON 11. NOVEMBER
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Anarchist Haymarket Martyrs August Spies, Albert Parsons, Adolph Fischer and George Engel are executed. (11. November 1887)

Construction of the Manchester Ship Canal begins at Eastham. (11. November 1887)

The State of Washington is admitted as the 42nd state of the United States. (11. November 1889)

Many cities in the Midwestern United States break their record highs and lows on the same day as a strong cold front rolls through. (11. November 1911)

World War I: Germany signs an armistice agreement with the Allies in a railroad car in the forest of Compiègne, France. The fighting officially ends at 11:00 a.m., (the eleventh hour in the eleventh month on the eleventh day) and this is annually honoured with a two-minute silence. The war officially ends on the signing of the Treaty of Versailles on 28th June, 1919. (11. November 1918)

Józef Piłsudski assumes supreme military power in Poland - symbolic first day of Polish independence. (11. November 1918)

Emperor Charles I of Austria relinquishes power. (11. November 1918)

The Centralia Massacre in Centralia, Washington results the deaths of four members of the American Legion and the lynching of a local leader of the Industrial Workers of the World. (11. November 1919)

Lāčplēša day – Latvian forces defeat the Freikorps at Riga in the Latvian War of Independence. (11. November 1919)

The Tomb of the Unknowns is dedicated by US President Warren G. Harding at Arlington National Cemetery. (11. November 1921)

The United States Numbered Highway System, including U.S. Route 66, is established. (11. November 1926)

Patent number US1781541 is awarded to Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd for their invention, the Einstein refrigerator. (11. November 1930)

The Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne, Australia is opened. (11. November 1934)

World War II: Battle of Taranto – The Royal Navy launches the first aircraft carrier strike in history, on the Italian fleet at Taranto. (11. November 1940)

The German cruiser Atlantis captures top secret British mail, and sends it to Japan. (11. November 1940)

Armistice Day Blizzard: An unexpected blizzard kills 144 in the U.S. Midwest. (11. November 1940)

World War II: Nazi Germany completes its occupation of France. (11. November 1942)

A military coup against President Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam is crushed. (11. November 1960)

Thirteen Italian Air Force servicemen, deployed to the Congo as a part of the UN peacekeeping force are massacred by a mob in the course of the Kindu atrocity. (11. November 1961)

Kuwait's National Assembly ratifies the Constitution of Kuwait. (11. November 1962)