Friday, November 11, 2011

This Day in History: November 11

-The Mayflower Compact is signed in what is now Provincetown Harbor near Cape Cod, 1620

-Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russian novelist, is born, 1821

-Nat Turner is hanged in Jerusalem, VA after inciting a violent slave uprising, 1831

-Nazi Germany completes its occupation of France, 1940

-Angola declares its independence, 1975

-Holidays: Veteran's Day (USA); Republic Day (Maldives); Singles Day (China); Women's Day (Belgium)

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