Daily Calendar for Monday, November 11, 2019
Born
- Abigail Adams (U.S. First Lady) –
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky (author) –
- Maude Adams (actress) –
- George S. Patton, Jr. (army general) –
- Pat O'Brien (actor) –
- Howard Fast (author) –
- Kurt Vonnegut (author) –
- Jonathan Winters (actor) –
- Carlos Fuentes (author) –
- Fuzzy Zoeller (golfer) –
- Stanley Tucci (actor) –
- Demi Moore (actress) –
- Calista Flockhart (actress) –
- Leslie Mann (actress) –
- Leonardo DiCaprio (actor) –
- Christa B. Allen (actress) –
Died
- Nat Turner (A deeply religious enslaved man who in August 1831 led a violent rebellion of enslaved people in Southampton County, Virginia
) –
- Søren Kierkegaard (philosopher) –
- Mary Kay Bergman (voice actress) –
- Yasser Arafat (Palestinian leader who sought a homeland for his people) –
- Delbert Mann (director) –
- Douglas Rain (Canadian actor) –
Events
- The founding grant for Stanford University was signed, Palo Alto, California –
- Washington admitted to the Union as the 42nd state –
- Tomb of the Unknown Soldier dedicated, Arlington, Virginia –
- The Vietnam Women’s Memorial was dedicated, Washington, D.C. –
- George Bowering became the first Parliamentary Poet Laureate in Canada –
- Transit of Mercury. –
Weather
- Oklahoma City reached a record high temperature of 83 degrees F, before plunging 66 degrees to a record low of 17 degrees F that evening –
- The Armistice Day Storm killed more than 100 people and dumped 17 inches of snow on Iowa and nearly 29 inches on Duluth, Minnesota –
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