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Independence Day in Angola (1975) | Angola: unreferenced section |
; Remembrance Day in the Commonwealth of Nations | refimprove section, unreferenced section |
St. Martin's Day in various Europe nations; | refimprove section |
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 |
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. | refimprove section |
1839 – The Virginia Military Institute, currently the oldest state military college in the United States, was founded. | refimprove section |
1880 – Australian bank robber and bushranger Ned Kelly was hanged in Melbourne. | refimprove section, Featured on June 28 |
1889 – Washington, named in honor of the first U.S. president, was admitted to the United States as the 42nd state. | refimprove section |
1926 – Route 66, the "Main Street of America" running from Chicago to Los Angeles, was established. | refimprove section |
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. | refimprove section |
Nat Turner (d. 1831) | outdated |
November 11: National Independence Day in Poland (1918); Veterans Day in the United States
Arsacius of Tarsus (d. 405) · David I. Walsh (b. 1872) · Charles Groves Wright Anderson (d. 1988)