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What happened on November 11?
November 11 is day 315 of the year, day 316 in leap years. On 11 November 1918, the Armistice of Compiègne ended the combat operations of the First World War. As early as 1842, beer brewed according to the Pilsner brewing method was served for the first time in Pilsen. In addition, television presenter Jochen Breyer was born in 1982.
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Events on November 11
- 1675 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz first formulates one of his fundamental theorems in an essay on inverse tangents, using the modern integral sign.
- 1842 In three inns in Pilsen, beer brewed according to the Pilsner brewing method is served for the first time in the history of beer, based on the wort invented by Josef Groll.
- 1918 The Armistice of Compiègne – signed on the German side by Erzberger on behalf of the new government – ends the combat operations in the First World War.
- 1952 Several weather services are merged to form the German Weather Service (DWD).
- 1954 In Great Britain, the second part of Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings is published as The Two Towers.
- 1966 With Gemini 12, the last spaceflight in NASA's Gemini program begins. Buzz Aldrin and James A. Lovell are on board.
- 1982 At an RAF underground depot monitored by the police in a wooded area near Heusenstamm in southern Hesse, the wanted Brigitte Mohnhaupt and Adelheid Schulz are arrested.
- 1988 German Bundestag President Philipp Jenninger resigns from the German Bundestag after his heavily criticized speech on 10 November 1988.
- 1993 Version 1.0 of the NCSA Mosaic web browser, for Microsoft Windows, is released.
- 2000 In a fire disaster in the tunnel of the Kaprun 2 glacier cable car to the Kitzsteinhorn in Kaprun, in the state of Salzburg, 155 people die, including many children and young people.
- 2000 Lennox Lewis wins his heavyweight world title bout against David Tua at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas.
- 2017 After a ten-year planning and construction phase, the Louvre Abu Dhabi is opened on Saadiyat Island in cooperation between the United Arab Emirates and France, a museum complex designed by the French architect Jean Nouvel with a particularly striking steel dome.
Born on November 11
- 1864 Alfred Hermann Fried, Austrian pacifist and publicist, Nobel laureate
- 1901 Magda Goebbels, wife of Joseph Goebbels
- 1901 Sam Spiegel, American film producer
- 1922 Kurt Vonnegut, American writer
- 1933 Edgar Bessen, German actor
- 1941 Helga Masthoff, German tennis player
- 1951 Kim Peek, American autistic savant
- 1960 Marcel Koller, Swiss football player and coach
- 1982 Jochen Breyer, German television presenter
- 1990 Georginio Wijnaldum, Dutch football player
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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „11. November“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.
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