Today in History in 1921 The Tomb of the Unknowns is dedicated by US President Warren G. Harding at Arlington National Cemetery; and in 1954 US Congress passed the bill that President Eisenhower signed proclaiming November 11 as Veterans Day (previously Armistice Day).

The On This Day In History archives at “Simple English Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia” contains over 200,000 events, birthdays and deaths from 6,000 years of history. Here is a roundup of a few of them:

November 11 is the 315th day of the year (316th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 50 days remaining until the end of the year.

EVENTS

1100 - Henry I of England marries Matilda of Scotland, daughter of Malcolm III of Scotland.

1417 - Pope Martin V is elected.

1500 - Treaty of Granada: Louis XII of France and Ferdinand III of Aragon agree to divide the Kingdom of Naples.

1620 – In what is now Provincetown Harbor near Cape Cod, the Mayflower Compact is signed on the Mayflower, establishing the basic laws for the Plymouth Colony.

1648 – France and the Netherlands agree to divide the island of Sint Maarten/Saint Martin.

1675 – Gottfried Leibniz demonstrated integral calculus for the first time to find the area under the y=x function.

1675 – Guru Gobind Singh becomes the Tenth Guru of the Sikhs.

1750 - Riots break out Lhasa after the murder of the Tibetan regent.

1839 – The Virginia Military Institute is founded in Lexington, Virginia.

1855 - An earthquake near Edo, now Tokyo, kills 6,000 people.

1864 – American Civil War: Union General William Tecumseh Sherman begins burning Atlanta, Georgia to the ground in preparation for his march south.

1865 - The Treaty of Sinchula is signed: Bhutan gives areas east of the Teesta River to the British East India Company.

1880 – Australian bushranger and bank robber Ned Kelly is hung in Melbourne.

1887 - Haymarket trials: August Spies, Albert Parsons, Adolph Fischer and George Engel are executed.

1887 - Building work begins on the Manchester Ship Canal.

1889 – Washington is admitted as the 42nd U.S. state.

1918 – World War I ends: Germany signs an armistice agreement with the Allies in a railroad car outside of Compiègne in France.

1918 – Józef Piłsudski comes to Warsaw and assumes supreme military power in Poland.

1918 – Emperor Charles I of Austria abdicates.

1919 - Latvian forces defeat the Freikorps at Riga in the Latvian War of Independence.

1921 – The Tomb of the Unknowns is dedicated by US President Warren G. Harding at Arlington National Cemetery.

1926 - The US numbered Highway system is introduced.

1930 - Patent number US1781541 is given to Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd for their invention, the Einstein refrigerator.

1934 - The Shrine of Remembrance is opened in Melbourne, Australia.

1940 – World War II: The Royal Navy launches the first aircraft carrier strike in history, on the Italian fleet at Taranto.

1940 - The Armistice Day Blizzard kills 144 people in the Midwestern United States.

1942 - World War II: Germany completes its occupation of France.

1954 - The Two Towers, part of the trilogy of The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien, is released in the UK.

1954 – US Congress passed the bill that President Eisenhower signed proclaiming November 11 as Veterans Day.

1960 - In South Vietnam, a coup against Ngo Dinh Diem is crushed.

1965 – Rhodesia (now called Zimbabwe) was declared independent by the white minority regime of Ian Smith.

1966 – NASA launches spaceship Gemini 12.

1967 – Vietnam War: In a propaganda ceremony in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, three American prisoners of war are released by the NLF and turned over to "new left" antiwar activist Tom Hayden.

1968 – Vietnam War: Operation Commando Hunt initiated. The goal was to interdict men and supplies on the Ho Chi Minh Trail, through Laos into South Vietnam.

1968 – A second republic is declared in Maldives.

1972 – Vietnam War: Vietnamization – The United States Army turns over the massive Long Binh military base to South Vietnam.

1975 – Angola becomes independent from Portugal, with Agostinho Neto as president.

1975 – Australian Governor-General Sir John Kerr dismisses the government of Gough Whitlam and commissions Malcolm Fraser as Prime Minister.

1978 – Maumoon Gayoom succeeds Ibrahim Nasir as the President of the Republic of the Maldives.

1978 – A renovated Hollywood sign is unveiled, replacing the older version that was built in 1923.

1981 - Antigua and Barbuda joins the UN.

1986 – Sperry Rand and Burroughs merge to form Unisys. They become the second largest computer company.

1992 – The Church of England votes to allow women to become priests.

1997 – Mary McAleese was inaugurated as the eighth President of Ireland.

2000 – In Kaprun, Austria, 155 skiers and snowboarders die when a cable car catches fire in an alpine tunnel.

2004 – New Zealand Tomb of the Unknown Warrior dedicated at the National War Memorial, Wellington

2004 – Mahmoud Abbas is elected chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization minutes after the death of Yasser Arafat.

2004 – Official Guided by Voices Day in San Diego, California.

2004 – Mary McAleese was inaugurated for a second term as President of Ireland.

2006 - Queen Elizabeth II unveils the New Zealand War Memorial in London.

2008 – The ship RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 sets sail for its last voyage.

2008 – Mohamed Nasheed succeeds Maumoon Gayoom as President of the Maldives.

2011 – Michael D. Higgins is inaugurated as President of Ireland.

2014 - 58 people are killed in a bus crash in Sukkur District in Pakistan's southern province of Sindh.

2018 - Ceremonies take place worldwide to mark 100 years since the end of World War I; several political leaders gather in France, while Frank-Walter Steinmeier becomes the first German Head of state to take part in the official Remembrance Day commemorations in London.

2022 - Kherson (city) was liberated after an Ukrainian counteroffensive and the bridge connecting over the Dniper River was destroyed.