Year 1675
Aurangzeb executes Sikh Guru Tegh Bahadur thus beginning the Sikh-Muslim feud that continues to this day.
NOVEMBER 11
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11 November: What Happened On This Day in History
Curated historical timeline of momentous political pacts, freedom struggle uprisings, constitutional developments, scientific breakthroughs, and prominent birthdays recorded on 11 November.
Observances & Special Days
National Education Day (India)
Year 1778
Cherry Valley massacre: Loyalists and Seneca Indian forces attack a fort and village in eastern New York during the American Revolutionary War, killing more than forty civilians and soldiers.
Year 1793
English pioneer missionary William Carey, 32, reached Calcutta five months after setting sail for India. Later, Carey founded the Baptist Missionary Society, the first of the British Protestant missions agencies.
Year 1913
Gandhi was sentenced to nine months imprisonment in South Africa.
Year 1921
Gandhi urges Hindus to remove the statue of ex-Viceroy Lord Lawrence.
Year 1918
Poland declared itself an independent country.
Year 1926
Streets in the United States were named after numbers.
Year 1930
Albert Einstein and Leo Szilard were granted patents for inventing the Einstein refrigerator.
Year 1947
The Vitthal Temple at Pandharpur is opened to the public. Temple of Vithoba in Pandharpur opened for Harijans. Ganpatrao Tapase was the first harijan to enter the temple.
Year 1958
Inauguration of 'Indian', first one in Indian Explosive Ltd's factory at Gomia.
Year 1962
Kuwait adopted a new constitution.
Year 1966
US space agency NASA launched spacecraft ‘Gemini-12’.
Year 1973
India's first International Philatelic Exihibition started in New Delhi.
Year 1975
Angola gained independence.
Year 1979
President N. Sanjiva Reddy declares the opening of the first International Trade Fair of India.
Year 1980
The Hindustan Times says the 'British have reverted to what they basically are & a small, little people with small, little minds inhabiting a small, little island in the Atlantic'.
Year 1981
Antigua and Barbuda joined the United Nations.
Year 1982
60 killed in gas explosion at Israeli military headquarters.
Year 1991
Supreme Court declares the Anti-Defection Law as constitutional but holds that decisions of Presiding Officers under the law could be subjected to judicial review.
Year 1992
S.Bangarappa resigns as the CM of Karnataka.
Year 1994
The Supreme Court stays Karnataka Reservation Act.
Year 1996
A.P. cyclone toll may cross 2,500.
Year 1998
India objects to Washington's discrimination in easing sanctions against New Delhi and Islamabad, clamped in the wake of the nuclear tests by the two countries.
Year 1998
V. M. Devaraj (78), DMK leader and former MLA, passed away after a brief illness. He represented Vellore in 1980, 1984 and 1989. He was a close associate of the DMK founder, C. N. Annadurai.
Year 1999
Mr. Vajpayee, Prime Minister, leaves for Durban summit of the Commonhealth Heads of Government meeting (CHOGM).
Year 2000
Mohun Bagan wins the Durand Cup in New Delhi.
Year 2000
Harin Pathak, Union Minister of State for Defence, resigns after being chargesheeted by a sessions court in Ahmedabad in a case relating to the murder of a head constable at the height of the anti-reservation agitation in 1985.
Year 2004
Following the death of Yasser Arafat, Mahmoud Abbas was appointed President of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).
Born 1821
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian novelist, and philosopher.
Born 1851
Rajaramshastri Bhagwat, Indian scholar, and social reformer.
Born 1866
Patthe Bapurao (Shridhar Krishna Kulkarni), famous poet Shahir, was born.
Born 1872
Ustad Abdul Karim Khan, Indian singer, founder of Kirana Gharana, and Guru of Sawai Gandharva.
Born 1888
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, Indian activist, scholar, and politician, Indian Minister of Education (d. 1958). He was an outspoken champion of rationalism and progressiveness in all spheres of Indian life.
Born 1888
Jivatram Bhagwandas Acharya Kepalani, Indian freedom fighters, Gandhian, socialists, and environmentalists.
Born 1904
J. H. C. Whitehead, Indian-American mathematician and academic (d. 1960)
Born 1906
Chetput Ramaswami Pattabhi Raman, politician and social worker, was born at Madras.
Born 1923
Shamasunder Gururaj Mudgal, great educationist, was born at Bijapur, Bagalkot.
Born 1918
Krishna Kumar Birla, an Indian industrialist of the Birla family.
Born 1924
Rusi Sheriyar Modi, cricketer (Indian batsman in post-War years), was born in Surat, Gujarat.
Born 1924
SunderLal Munnalal Patwa was born in Kukdeshwar, Distt. Neemuch (Madhya Pradesh).
Born 1926
(Badruddin Jamaluddin Qazi) Johnny Walker, Indian actor, and comedian.
Born 1936
Mala Sinha, a Hindi, Nepali, and Bengali film actress.
Born 1943
Anil Kakodkar, an Indian nuclear physicist, and mechanical engineer.
Born 1955
Boney Kapoor, an Indian film producer.
Born 1955
Vinita Bali, an Indian businesswoman. She was formerly the Managing Director of Britannia Industries Limited.
Born 1959
Dhananjaya Y. Chandrachud, a Judge of the Supreme Court of India.
Born 1962
Demi Moore, American actress, producer, director, songwriter, and model.
Born 1974
Leonardo DiCaprio, an American actor, producer, philanthropist, and environmentalist.
Born 1985
Robin Uthappa, Indian cricketer
Born 1994
Sanju Samson, Indian cricketer
Died 1675
Guru Tegh Bahadur, the ninth of ten Gurus of the Sikh religion.
Died 1831
Nat Turner, a black American slave who led the only effective, sustained slave rebellion in U.S. history.
Died 1973
Artturi Ilmari Virtanen, a Finnish chemist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Died 1984
Martin Luther King Sr., an African American Baptist pastor, missionary, and an early figure in the Civil Rights Movement.
Died 1994
Kupalli Venkatappagouda Puttappa (Kuvempu), Indian-Kannada poet.
Died 1998
V. M. Devaraj (78), DMK leader and former MLA, passed away after a brief illness. He represented Vellore in 1980, 1984 and 1989. He was a close associate of the DMK founder, C. N. Annadurai.
Died 1999
Arvind Mestri, Indian sculptor.
Died 2004
Yasser Arafat, Palestinian leader, and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.
Died 2005
Peter Drucker, Austrian-American management expert, and author.