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Today in History: November 11

308
The Congress of Carnuntum: Attempting to keep peace within the Roman Empire, the leaders of the Tetrarchy declare Maxentius and Licinius to be Augusti, while rival contender Constantine I is declared Caesar of Britain and Gaul.

1499
Pretender to the throne Perkin Warbeck is executed.

1675
German mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz demonstrates integral calculus for the first time to find the area under the graph of y = f(x) function

1909
Construction begins on the naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.

1918
WWI armistice signed by the Allies and Germany comes into effect and World War I hostilities end at 11am, "the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month"

1919
The first two-minutes' silence is observed in Britain to commemorate those who died in the Great War.

1921
The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington Cemetery is dedicated.

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.

1938
Irving Berlin's "God Bless America" is performed for the first time by singer Kate Smith.

1944
Private Eddie Slovik is convicted of desertion and sentenced to death for refusing to join his unit in the European Theater of Operations.

1970
U.S. Army Special Forces raid the Son Tay prison camp in North Vietnam but find no prisoners.

1993
Sculpture honoring women who served in the Vietnam War dedicated at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, DC.

2020
UK becomes the first European country to record over 50,000 COVID-19 related 50,000; 5fth country, after the US, Brazil, India, and Mexico

2022
Advertisement poster for ill-fated "Winter Dance Party" concert featuring Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper, and Ritchie Valens on February 3, 1959 - the day they died in a plane crash - sells at auction for $447K

2022
Cypto currency FTX, founded by Sam Bankman-Fried files for bankruptcy, amid accusations of financial mismanagement and criminal misconduct

Today in History: Born on November 11

1885
George S. Patton, U.S. Army commander in World War II.

1925
Jonathan Winters, comedian.

1962
Demi Moore, actress (Ghost, A Few Good Men); in 1996 became highest-paid actress in film history when she received $12.5 million to star in Striptease.

1974
Leonardo DiCaprio, actor; (Titanic, The Great Gatsby) won Golden Globe for Best Actor (The Aviator, 2004).

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