In memory of all the fallen. RIP.Richard Frost wrote: ↑Fri Nov 11 2022 9:00am11 November 1918
WWI armistice signed by the Allies and Germany comes into effect and World War I hostilities end at 11am, “the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month”.
Also on this day
1493 - Christopher Columbus sighted an island which he named St. Martin, now called Nevis.
1499 - Pretender to the throne Perkin Warbeck was executed.
1675 - Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz demonstrates integral calculus for the first time.
1745 - Bonnie Prince Charlie's army crosses into England
1831 - Nat Turner was hanged after leading a slave rebellion in
1834 The Ugly Duckling was first published by Hans Christian Andersen.
1880 - Ned Kelly, Australian bushranger, was executed by hanging in Melbourne
1919 - The first2 minutes' silence was observed in Britain to commemorate those who died in WW1.
1920 - Anniversary of WW1 was marked by the burial of unknown soldiers in Paris and London.
1940 – The Royal Navy attacked the Italian fleet at Taranto.
1965 - Rhodesia declared UDI under Ian Smith. 14 years later it became the Republic of Zimbabwe.
1975 - Angola declared independence after the Portuguese withdrew.
1992 - The Church of England voted to ordain women as priests.
1998 - Queen Elizabeth II and Irish president, Mary McAleese, commemorated the Irish dead in WW1.
1999 - House of Lords Act was given Royal Assent, removing the right to hereditary seats.
2004 - Yasser Arafat, ex-president of Palestine and leader of the PLO and Fatah, died in Paris.
2008 - RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 (QE2) set sail on her final voyage, bound for Dubai.