Historical Events -  November 11

1918 : Poland declared itself an independent country.

1926 : Streets in the United States were named after numbers.

1930 : Albert Einstein and Leo Szilard were granted patents for inventing the Einstein refrigerator.

1947 : The Vitthal Temple at Pandharpur is opened to the public.

1962 : Kuwait adopted a new constitution.

1966 : US space agency NASA launched spacecraft ‘Gemini-12’.

1975 : Angola gained independence.

1981 : Antigua and Barbuda joined the United Nations.

1982 : 60 killed in gas explosion at Israeli military headquarters.

2004 : Following the death of Yasser Arafat, Mahmoud Abbas was appointed President of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).

 

Famous Birthdays   – November 11  

1821: Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian novelist, and philosopher.

1851: Rajaramshastri Bhagwat, Indian scholar, and social reformer.

1872: Ustad Abdul Karim Khan, Indian singer, founder of Kirana Gharana, and Guru of Sawai Gandharva.

1888: Jivatram Bhagwandas Acharya Kepalani, Indian freedom fighters, Gandhian, socialists, and environmentalists.

1888: Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, a leader of the Indian freedom movement, India’s first Minister of Education.

1904: J. H. C. Whitehead, Indian-American mathematician and academic.

1918: Krishna Kumar Birla, an Indian industrialist of the Birla family.

1926: (Badruddin Jamaluddin Qazi) Johnny Walker, Indian actor, and comedian.

1936: Mala Sinha, a Hindi, Nepali, and Bengali film actress.

1943: Anil Kakodkar, an Indian nuclear physicist, and mechanical engineer.

1955: Boney Kapoor, an Indian film producer.

1955: Vinita Bali, an Indian businesswoman. She was formerly the Managing Director of Britannia Industries Limited.

1959: Dhananjaya Y. Chandrachud, a Judge of the Supreme Court of India.

1962: Demi Moore, American actress, producer, director, songwriter, and model.

1974: Leonardo DiCaprio, an American actor, producer, philanthropist, and environmentalist.

1985: Robin Uthappa, Indian cricketer.

 

Death Anniversaries   – November 11

1675: Guru Tegh Bahadur, the ninth of ten Gurus of the Sikh religion.

1831: Nat Turner, a black American slave who led the only effective, sustained slave rebellion in U.S. history.

1973: Artturi Ilmari Virtanen, a Finnish chemist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

1984: Martin Luther King Sr., an African American Baptist pastor, missionary, and an early figure in the Civil Rights Movement.

1994: Kupalli Venkatappagouda Puttappa (Kuvempu), Indian-Kannada poet.

1999: Arvind Mestri, Indian sculptor.

2004: Yasser Arafat, Palestinian leader, and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.

2005: Peter Drucker, Austrian-American management expert, and author.