Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/November 11

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This is a list of selected November 11 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article, featured list or picture of the day.

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Ian Smith of Rhodesia
Gottfried Leibniz
Bernard Montgomery
Signatories of the armistice ending World War I
Józef Piłsudski
The Cenotaph, London
John Kerr
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
Independence Day in Poland (1918) and Angola (1975)	Poland: unreferenced section, expansion; Angola: refimprove section
St. Martin's Day in various Europe nations;	refimprove section
1500 – During the Italian Wars of 1499–1504, Louis XII of France and Ferdinand II of Aragon signed a secret treaty to divide the Mezzogiorno between themselves.	no citation for this fact
1675 – German polymath Gottfried Leibniz employed integral calculus for the first time to find the area under the graph of the function $y = f (x)$ .	refimprove sections
1839 – The Virginia Military Institute, currently the oldest state military college in the United States, was founded.	refimprove section
1889 – Washington, named in honor of the first U.S. president, was admitted to the United States as the 42nd state.	too many images, expansion, refimprove section
1926 – Route 66, the "Main Street of America" running from Chicago to Los Angeles, was established.	refimprove section
1940 – World War II: The German auxiliary cruiser Atlantis captured top-secret documents from SS Automedon that later influenced Japan's decision to enter the war.	missing citations
1942 – World War II: The Allies defeated the Axis at the Second Battle of El Alamein, Egypt, turning the tide in the North African Campaign by ending Axis hopes of taking control of the Suez Canal and thus gaining access east to the Middle Eastern oil fields.	refimprove section
Jeanne Demessieux \|d\|1968	lead too short, unreferenced sections

Eligible

1805 – War of the Third Coalition: French, Austrian and Russian units suffered heavy losses at the Battle of Dürenstein.
1880 – Australian bushranger and outlaw Ned Kelly was hanged in Melbourne, in spite of sympathizers holding rallies for his reprieve.
1918 – The armistice between the German Empire and the Allies was signed in a railway carriage in the Forest of Compiègne of France (signatories pictured).
1918 – Józef Piłsudski, appointed the commander-in-chief of Polish forces by the Regency Council, was entrusted with the creation of a national government for the newly independent Poland.
1920 – In London, the Cenotaph was unveiled and the Unknown Warrior was buried in Westminster Abbey in remembrance of the First World War.
1926 – The plan for the United States Numbered Highway System was approved by the American Association of State Highway Officials.
1940 – Second World War: The Royal Navy launched the first all-aircraft ship-to-ship naval attack in history against the Italians in the Battle of Taranto.
1960 – A coup attempt by the Army of the Republic of Vietnam against President Ngô Đình Diệm was crushed after he falsely promised reform, allowing loyalists to rescue him.
1965 – Rhodesia, led by Prime Minister Ian Smith, unilaterally declared independence from the United Kingdom.
1975 – During a constitutional crisis, Governor-General John Kerr (pictured) dismissed Prime Minister Gough Whitlam's government and dissolved the Parliament of Australia for a double-dissolution election.

Born/died: | Arsacius of Tarsus |d|405| Yazid I |d|683| Antony the Younger |d|865| Fyodor Dostoevsky |b|1821| Marion L. Brittain |b|1866| David I. Walsh |b|1872| George S. Patton |b|1885| Ben Gascoigne |b|1915| Jeanne Demessieux|d|1968| Abraham Sarmiento Jr. |d|1977| Charles Groves Wright Anderson |d|1988| Francisco Blake Mora |d|2011

Notes

1963 South Vietnamese coup featured on November 1, Arrest and assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem on November 2, and Nguyen Ngoc Tho on November 6; including 1960 coup, ideally only one of these should be used per year to avoid topic fatigue.
Altare della Patria appears on November 4 so The Unknown Warrior should not appear in the same year.

November 11: Armistice Day (known as Remembrance Day in the Commonwealth of Nations and Veterans Day in the United States); Singles' Day in China and Southeast Asia

Shrine of Remembrance

1778 – American Revolutionary War: British forces and their Iroquois allies attacked a fort and the village of Cherry Valley, New York, killing 14 soldiers and 30 civilians.
1813 – War of 1812: British–Canadian forces repelled an American attack at the Battle of Crysler's Farm, forcing the United States to give up their attempt to capture Montreal.
1934 – The Shrine of Remembrance (pictured), a memorial to all Australians who have served in war, opened in Melbourne.
1999 – The House of Lords Act was given royal assent, removing most hereditary peers from the British House of Lords.
2008 – After 30 years in power, Maumoon Abdul Gayoom was succeeded by Mohamed Nasheed as president of the Maldives.

Martha Annie Whiteley (b. 1866)
Édouard Vuillard (b. 1868)
Maria Teresa de Filippis (b. 1926)
Leonardo DiCaprio (b. 1974)

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