Today in history, Nov 11th!

Some of the great historical events that happened today in history, on November 11th!

Today’s historical facts are from various sites including, but not limited too: the History Channel, The New York Times, WHG Historynet.com, HistoryOrb.com, and On This Day blogs from my blogroll
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1499	Pretender to the throne Perkin Warbeck is executed.
1620	Forty-one Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower, anchored off Massachusetts, signed a compact calling for a “body politick.”
1778	Indians, led by William Butler, massacre the inhabitants of Cherry Valley, N.Y.
1831	Nat Turner, a slave who led a revolt against slave owners, is hanged in Jerusalem, Virginia.
1889
1909	Construction begins on the naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.
1918	The German leaders sign the armistice ending World War I.
1919	The first two-minutes’ silence is observed in Britain to commemorate those who died in the Great War.
1921	President Warren G. Harding dedicated the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery.
1922	Canada’s Vernon McKenzie urges to fight U.S. propaganda with taxes on U.S. magazines.
1933	The first of the great dust storms of the 1930s hits North Dakota.
1935	Albert Anderson and Orvil Anderson set a new altitude record in South Dakota, when they float to 74,000 feet in a balloon.
1940	Britain’s Royal Navy attacks the Italian fleet at Taranto.
1944	Private Eddie Slovik is convicted of desertion and sentenced to death for refusing to join his unit in the European Theater of Operations.
1953	The polio virus is identified and photographed for the first time in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1965	Rhodesia proclaimed its independence from Britain.
1966	The United States launches Gemini 12, a two-man orbiter, into orbit.
1970	U.S. Army Special Forces raid the Son Tay prison camp in North Vietnam but find no prisoners.
1972	The U.S. Army turned over its base at Long Binh to the South Vietnamese army, symbolizing the end of direct U.S. military involvement in the Vietnam War.
1973	Israel and Egypt sign a cease-fire.
1973	The Soviet Union is kicked out of World Cup soccer for refusing to play Chile.
1987	An unidentified buyer buys Vincent Van Gogh’s painting “Irises” from the estate of Joan Whitney Payson for $53.9 million at Sotheby’s in New York.
1992	The Church of England voted to ordain women as priests.
1998	Israel’s Cabinet narrowly ratified a land-for-peace agreement with the Palestinians.
2000	Republicans went to court seeking an order to block manual recounts from continuing in Florida’s presidential election.
2000	A cable car crammed with skiers and snowboarders caught fire while being pulled through an Alpine tunnel in Austria, killing 155 people.
2004	Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat died in Paris at age 75.