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This day in History
11 Nov 2011 at 06:59hrs | Views
Friday November 11 is the 315th day of the year. There are 50 left.
Today its 11-11-11 and at 11:11 on 11.11.11 some people expect somwthing awesome to happen.
11-11-11 in America today the surviving veterans of the Vietnam War celebrate this day . The Americans suffered many casualties in this useless war check some figures here. The memorial wall has 58267 names. 997 killed on their first day in Vietnam. 1448 on the last day. 31 sets of brothers died 28 women died there. 15yrs was the youngest soldier. May 1968 recorded 2415 deaths
World:
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.
1634 - Following pressure from Anglican bishop John Atherton, the Irish House of Commons passes "An Act for the Punishment for the Vice of Buggery".
1675 – Gottfried Leibniz demonstrates integral calculus for the first time to find the area under the graph of y = ƒ(x).
1869 – The 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, effectively leading to the Stolen Generations.
1880 - Ned Kelly, an Australian bushranger is hanged.
1918 – 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 (The eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month) and this is annually honoured with a two-minute silence. The war officially ends on the signing of the Treaty of Versailles on June 28th 1919.
1921 - The Tomb of the Unknowns is dedicated by US President Warren G. Harding at Arlington National Cemetery.
1930 – Patent number US1781541 is awarded to Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd for their invention, the Einstein refrigerator.
1940 - The UK Royal Navy launches the first aircraft carrier strike in history, on the Italian fleet at Taranto.
1940 - The Jeep made its debut.
1992 - The Church of England votes to allow women to become priests.
1998 - Israel's Cabinet narrowly ratified a land-for-peace agreement with the Palestinians.
2004 - Yasser Arafat is confirmed dead by the Palestine Liberation Organization, of unidentified causes. Mahmoud Abbas is elected chairman of the PLO minutes later.
Southern Africa:
1961 - Congolese soldiers murder 13 Italian UN pilots.
1965 - Ian Smith unilaterally declared the independence (UDI) of Rhodesia from the United Kingdom.
1970 - South Africa's last diamond rush rook place at Koster when 167 diggers lined up and raced one another to stake their claims.
1972 - Joseph Lekganyane, leader of the St Engenas Zion Christian Church (the Dove) with support spanning rural and urban areas, died in Warmberg, Pietersburg district.
1975 - Angola gains independence from Portugal (National Day)
1993 - The South African multiparty negotiating forum agreed to repeal section 29 of the Internal Security Act, which allowed for detention without trial. This measure had been one of the most hated pieces of apartheid legislation and had been used against tens of thousands of anti-apartheid protesters.
2003 - The Supreme Court of Zambia ruled that former Zambian president, Frederick Chiluba should stand trial for corruption.
2003 – At 0900 today, 1 napkin cost Z$15,000, 1 pair mens shoes was Z$150,000, a pair of pata pata Z$3,000, rafters were Z$30,000. Happy walking because fuel was Z$3000 a litre!
2006 – The Standard claimed that the RBZ succumbed to "pressure" from bankers and scrapped the seven-year economic stabilisation bond.
2008 – The Zimbabwe Times alleged that the Minister of Information Sikhanyiso Duke Ndlovu ordered the Chronicle and Sunday News to stop publishing articles on the conflict that has split the national ex-combatants association or on the intensifying moves to revive the now defunct PF-Zapu.
2009 – PM Tsvangirai and ministers from his party attended a cabinet meeting following their 're-engagement' with Zanu-PF.
Birthdays:
1821 – Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russian novelist.
1962 – Demi Moore, American actress.
1964 – Calista Flockhart, American actress.
1974 – Leonardo DiCaprio, American actor.
Today its 11-11-11 and at 11:11 on 11.11.11 some people expect somwthing awesome to happen.
11-11-11 in America today the surviving veterans of the Vietnam War celebrate this day . The Americans suffered many casualties in this useless war check some figures here. The memorial wall has 58267 names. 997 killed on their first day in Vietnam. 1448 on the last day. 31 sets of brothers died 28 women died there. 15yrs was the youngest soldier. May 1968 recorded 2415 deaths
World:
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.
1634 - Following pressure from Anglican bishop John Atherton, the Irish House of Commons passes "An Act for the Punishment for the Vice of Buggery".
1675 – Gottfried Leibniz demonstrates integral calculus for the first time to find the area under the graph of y = ƒ(x).
1869 – The 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, effectively leading to the Stolen Generations.
1880 - Ned Kelly, an Australian bushranger is hanged.
1918 – 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 (The eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month) and this is annually honoured with a two-minute silence. The war officially ends on the signing of the Treaty of Versailles on June 28th 1919.
1921 - The Tomb of the Unknowns is dedicated by US President Warren G. Harding at Arlington National Cemetery.
1930 – Patent number US1781541 is awarded to Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd for their invention, the Einstein refrigerator.
1940 - The UK Royal Navy launches the first aircraft carrier strike in history, on the Italian fleet at Taranto.
1940 - The Jeep made its debut.
1992 - The Church of England votes to allow women to become priests.
1998 - Israel's Cabinet narrowly ratified a land-for-peace agreement with the Palestinians.
2004 - Yasser Arafat is confirmed dead by the Palestine Liberation Organization, of unidentified causes. Mahmoud Abbas is elected chairman of the PLO minutes later.
Southern Africa:
1961 - Congolese soldiers murder 13 Italian UN pilots.
1965 - Ian Smith unilaterally declared the independence (UDI) of Rhodesia from the United Kingdom.
1970 - South Africa's last diamond rush rook place at Koster when 167 diggers lined up and raced one another to stake their claims.
1972 - Joseph Lekganyane, leader of the St Engenas Zion Christian Church (the Dove) with support spanning rural and urban areas, died in Warmberg, Pietersburg district.
1975 - Angola gains independence from Portugal (National Day)
1993 - The South African multiparty negotiating forum agreed to repeal section 29 of the Internal Security Act, which allowed for detention without trial. This measure had been one of the most hated pieces of apartheid legislation and had been used against tens of thousands of anti-apartheid protesters.
2003 - The Supreme Court of Zambia ruled that former Zambian president, Frederick Chiluba should stand trial for corruption.
2003 – At 0900 today, 1 napkin cost Z$15,000, 1 pair mens shoes was Z$150,000, a pair of pata pata Z$3,000, rafters were Z$30,000. Happy walking because fuel was Z$3000 a litre!
2006 – The Standard claimed that the RBZ succumbed to "pressure" from bankers and scrapped the seven-year economic stabilisation bond.
2008 – The Zimbabwe Times alleged that the Minister of Information Sikhanyiso Duke Ndlovu ordered the Chronicle and Sunday News to stop publishing articles on the conflict that has split the national ex-combatants association or on the intensifying moves to revive the now defunct PF-Zapu.
2009 – PM Tsvangirai and ministers from his party attended a cabinet meeting following their 're-engagement' with Zanu-PF.
Birthdays:
1821 – Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russian novelist.
1962 – Demi Moore, American actress.
1964 – Calista Flockhart, American actress.
1974 – Leonardo DiCaprio, American actor.
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