11-11-2006, 08:54 AM
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November 11th
1821 ~ Birthday of Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russian novelist.
1855 ~ Death of Søren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher.
1880 ~ Australian bushranger and bank robber Ned Kelly was hung in Melbourne.
1885 ~ Birthday of George Patton, American general.
1904 ~ Birthday of Alger Hiss, Spy.
1918 ~ The end of World War I: Germany signed an armistice agreement with the Allies.
1965 ~ Rhodesia proclaimed its independence from Britain.
1992 ~ The Church of England voted to allow women to become priests.
2000 ~ A cable car full of skiers and snowboarders, many of them children, caught fire in Austria, killing 155 people.
2004 ~ Death of Yasser Arafat, President of the Palestinian Authority.
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