Some of the great historical events that happened today in history, on November 11th!
| 1499 | Pretender to the throne Perkin Warbeck is executed. |
| 1620 | Forty-one Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower, anchored off Massachusetts, signed a compact calling for a “body politick.” |
| 1778 | Indians, led by William Butler, massacre the inhabitants of Cherry Valley, N.Y. |
| 1831 | Nat Turner, a slave who led a revolt against slave owners, is hanged in Jerusalem, Virginia.  |
| 1889 | Washington became the 42nd state.
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| 1909 | Construction begins on the naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. |
| 1918 | The German leaders sign the armistice ending World War I. |
| 1919 | The first two-minutes’ silence is observed in Britain to commemorate those who died in the Great War. |
| 1921 | President Warren G. Harding dedicated the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery.  |
| 1922 | Canada’s Vernon McKenzie urges to fight U.S. propaganda with taxes on U.S. magazines. |
| 1933 | The first of the great dust storms of the 1930s hits North Dakota. |
| 1935 | Albert Anderson and Orvil Anderson set a new altitude record in South Dakota, when they float to 74,000 feet in a balloon. |
| 1940 | Britain’s Royal Navy attacks the Italian fleet at Taranto. |
| 1944 | Private Eddie Slovik is convicted of desertion and sentenced to death for refusing to join his unit in the European Theater of Operations.  |
| 1953 | The polio virus is identified and photographed for the first time in Cambridge, Massachusetts. |
| 1965 | Rhodesia proclaimed its independence from Britain. |
| 1966 | The United States launches Gemini 12, a two-man orbiter, into orbit. |
| 1970 | U.S. Army Special Forces raid the Son Tay prison camp in North Vietnam but find no prisoners. |
| 1972 | The U.S. Army turned over its base at Long Binh to the South Vietnamese army, symbolizing the end of direct U.S. military involvement in the Vietnam War. |
| 1973 | Israel and Egypt sign a cease-fire. |
| 1973 | The Soviet Union is kicked out of World Cup soccer for refusing to play Chile. |
| 1987 | 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.  |
| 1992 | The Church of England voted to ordain women as priests. |
| 1998 | Israel’s Cabinet narrowly ratified a land-for-peace agreement with the Palestinians. |
| 2000 | Republicans went to court seeking an order to block manual recounts from continuing in Florida’s presidential election. |
| 2000 | A cable car crammed with skiers and snowboarders caught fire while being pulled through an Alpine tunnel in Austria, killing 155 people. |
| 2004 | Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat died in Paris at age 75. |
Today’s historical facts are from various sites including, but not limited too: the History Channel, The New York Times, WHG Historynet.com, HistoryOrb.com, and On This Day blogs from my blogroll
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wow! I wonder why they were so admanent (to go to court no less) to prevent a recount on elections? sounds like rotten fish to me. truth is not afraid of the light only lies are. did they say why the soldier refused to do those operations? was it on moral grounds? all this stuff is really intersting,
A recount would have cost Bush the election.(If the recount was in Gore’s favor.) If Florida had been overturned, Bush would not have had enough electoral college votes to win. This was a huge deal because Gore won the popular vote. I wrote an article about this the other day, if you want to check it out.
http://hankeringforhistory.com/2012/11/07/when-a-president-wins-the-electoral-college-but-not-the-popular-vote/