Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/November 11
November 11: Independence Day in Poland (1918) and Angola (1975); St. Martin's Day in the Netherlands; Remembrance Day in the Commonwealth, Armistice Day in Europe and Veterans Day in the United States.
- 1880 – Australian bank robber and bushranger Ned Kelly was hanged in Melbourne.
- 1918 – Germany and the Allies signed an armistice treaty in a railway carriage in France's Compiègne Forest (delegations pictured), ending World War I on the Western Front.
- 1965 – Ian Smith, Premier of the British Crown Colony of Southern Rhodesia, issued the Unilateral Declaration of Independence, a move that the British government and the United Nations condemned as illegal.
- 1975 – The Australian constitutional crisis came to a head as Prime Minister Gough Whitlam was dismissed from office by Governor-General Sir John Kerr.
- 2004 – Mahmoud Abbas was elected Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization after Yasser Arafat died from an unknown illness.
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