November 11
People born on this day are Scorpio.
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The House of Lords Act is given Royal Assent, restricting membership of the British House of Lords by virtue of a hereditary peerage.
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Kaprun disaster: One hundred fifty-five skiers and snowboarders die when a cable car catches fire in an alpine tunnel in Kaprun, Austria.
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Journalists Pierre Billaud, Johanne Sutton and Volker Handloik are killed in Afghanistan during an attack on the convoy they are traveling in.
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A Fokker F27 Friendship operating as Laoag International Airlines Flight 585 crashes into Manila Bay shortly after takeoff from Ninoy Aquino International Airport, killing 19 people.
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Russian mathematician Grigori Perelman posts the first of three preprint texts with his proof of the Poincaré conjecture. It remains the only of the Millennium Prize Problems in mathematics to be solved. He later refused both the prize money from Clay Mathematics Institute as well as the Fields Medal for his work.
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New Zealand Tomb of the Unknown Warrior is dedicated at the National War Memorial, Wellington.
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The Palestine Liberation Organization confirms the death of Yasser Arafat from unidentified causes. Mahmoud Abbas is elected chairman of the PLO minutes later.
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Queen Elizabeth II unveils the New Zealand War Memorial in London, United Kingdom, commemorating the loss of soldiers from the New Zealand Army and the British Army.
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A strong earthquake with the magnitude 6.8 hits northern Burma, killing at least 26 people.
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Typhoon Vamco makes landfall in Luzon and several offshore islands, killing 67 people. The storm causes the worst floods in the region since Typhoon Ketsana in 2009.
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Russo-Ukrainian War: Ukrainian armed forces enter the city of Kherson following a successful two-month southern counteroffensive.
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A vehicle-ramming attack in Zhuhai, China, kills 38 people and injures 48.
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2005Ben Gannon-Doak, Scottish footballer
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2004Oakes Fegley, American actor
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1999X González, American activist
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1998Liudmila Samsonova, Russian tennis player
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1996Tye Sheridan, American actor and producer
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1995Josh Aloiai, New Zealand rugby league player
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1995Yuriko Miyazaki, British tennis player
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1995Shin Seung-ho, South Korean actor and model
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1994Lio Rush, American wrestler
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1994Sanju Samson, Indian cricketer
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1994Ellie Simmonds, English swimmer
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1993Jamaal Lascelles, English footballer
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