Daily Calendar for Saturday, November 11, 2023
Born
- Abigail Adams (U.S. First Lady) β
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky (author) β
- Maude Adams (actress) β
- George S. Patton, Jr. (army general) β
- Pat O'Brien (actor) β
- Howard Fast (author) β
- Kurt Vonnegut (author) β
- Jonathan Winters (actor) β
- Carlos Fuentes (author) β
- Fuzzy Zoeller (golfer) β
- Stanley Tucci (actor) β
- Demi Moore (actress) β
- Calista Flockhart (actress) β
- Leslie Mann (actress) β
- Leonardo DiCaprio (actor) β
- Christa B. Allen (actress) β
Died
- Nat Turner (A deeply religious enslaved man who in August 1831 led a violent rebellion of enslaved people in Southampton County, Virginia
) β
- SΓΈren Kierkegaard (philosopher) β
- Mary Kay Bergman (voice actress) β
- Yasser Arafat (Palestinian leader who sought a homeland for his people) β
- Delbert Mann (director) β
- Douglas Rain (Canadian actor) β
Events
- The founding grant for Stanford University was signed, Palo Alto, California β
- Washington admitted to the Union as the 42nd state β
- Tomb of the Unknown Soldier dedicated, Arlington, Virginia β
- The Vietnam Women’s Memorial was dedicated, Washington, D.C. β
- George Bowering became the first Parliamentary Poet Laureate in Canada β
- Transit of Mercury. β
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 β
- The Armistice Day Storm killed more than 100 people and dumped 17 inches of snow on Iowa and nearly 29 inches on Duluth, Minnesota β
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