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 or picture of the day.

To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors. Please remember that this list defers to the supporting articles, so it is best to achieve consensus and make any necessary changes there first.

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Ian Smith of Rhodesia
Gottfried Leibniz
Bernard Montgomery
Signatories of the armistice ending World War I
Shrine of Remembrance, Melbourne

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
St. Martin's Day in various Europe nations	refimprove section
; Remembrance Day in the Commonwealth	refimprove
1215 – The Fourth Lateran Council, which defined the Roman Catholic doctrine of transubstantiation, convened.	original research
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
1880 – Australian bank robber and bushranger Ned Kelly was hanged in Melbourne.	refimprove section, Featured on June 28
1926 – Route 66, the "Main Street of America" running from Chicago to Los Angeles, was established.	refimprove section, {{prose}}

Eligible

1620 – The Mayflower Compact, the first governing document of the Plymouth Colony, was signed by 41 of the Mayflower's passengers while the ship was anchored in what is now Provincetown Harbor.
1778 – American Revolutionary War: British forces and their Seneca allies attacked a fort and the village of Cherry Valley, New York, killing 14 soldiers and 30 civilians.
1813 – War of 1812: A British–Canadian force repelled an American attack in the Battle of Crysler's Farm, forcing the latter to give up their attempt to capture Montreal.
1918 – Józef Piłsudski was appointed Commander in Chief of Polish forces by the Regency Council and was entrusted with creating a national government for the newly independent country.
1918 – The armistice treaty between the German Empire and the Allies was signed in a railway carriage in the Forest of Compiègne of France.
1920 – The Unknown Warrior was buried in Westminster Abbey, London, beginning the modern trend of establishing Tomb of the Unknown Soldier memorials across the world.
1926 – The plan for the United States Numbered Highway System was approved by the American Association of State Highway Officials.
1940 – World War II: The German auxiliary cruiser Atlantis captured top secret documents from SS Automedon that would later influence Japan's decision to enter the war.
1940 – World War II: The Royal Navy launched the first all-aircraft ship-to-ship naval attack in history against the Italians in the Battle of Taranto.
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.
1960 – A coup attempt by the Army of the Republic of Vietnam against President Ngo Dinh Diem was crushed after Diem falsely promised reform, allowing loyalists to rescue him.
1965 – Rhodesia (or Southern Rhodesia), led by Prime Minister Ian Smith, unilaterally declared independence from the United Kingdom.
1975 – During a constitutional crisis in Australia, Governor-General John Kerr dismissed the government of Prime Minister Gough Whitlam and dissolved Parliament for a double dissolution election.

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 in Belgium, France, New Zealand and Serbia; Independence Day in Angola (1975) and Poland (1918); Veterans Day in the United States

1805 – War of the Third Coalition: French, Austrian and Russian units all suffered heavy losses in the Battle of Dürenstein.
1839 – The Virginia Military Institute, currently the oldest state military college in the United States, was founded.
1889 – Washington, named in honor of the first U.S. president, was admitted to the United States as the 42nd state.
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.

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