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Today Holidays
Burkina-Faso: Proclamation of the Republic
Angola: Independence Day
Bhutan: HM Jigme Singye Wangchuck’s Birthday
Maldives: Republic Day
Poland: Independence Day
France: Armistice Day
Belgium: Armistice Day
United-States: Veteran's Day
Canada: Remembrance Day
American-Samoa: Veteran's Day
French-Polynesia: Veteran's Day
Wallis-and-Futuna: Veteran's Day
New-Caledonia: Veteran's Day
Guam: Veteran's Day
Bermuda: Remembrance Day

Events

1215 - The Fourth Lateran Council meets, defining the doctrine of transubstantiation, the process by which bread and wine are transformed into the body and blood of Christ.
1500 - Treaty of Granada – Louis XII of France and Ferdinand II of Aragon agree to divide the Kingdom of Naples between them.
1634 - Following pressure from Anglican bishop John Atherton, the Irish House of Commons passes "An Act for the Punishment for the Vice of Buggery".
1673 - Second Battle of Khotyn in Ukraine, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth forces under the command of Jan Sobieski. defeat the Ottoman army. In this battle, rockets of Kazimierz Siemienowicz are successfully used.
1675 - Gottfried Leibniz demonstrated integral calculus for the first time to find the area under the graph of y = ƒ(x).
1724 - Joseph Blake, alias Blueskin, a highwayman known for attacking "Thief-Taker General" (and thief) Jonathan Wild at the Old Bailey, is hanged in London.
1750 - The F.H.C. Society, also known as the Flat Hat Club, is formed at Raleigh Tavern, Williamsburg, Virginia. It is the first college fraternity.
1778 - Cherry Valley Massacre: an attack by Loyalists and Seneca Indian forces on a fort and village in eastern New York during the American Revolutionary War, killing more than forty civilians and soldiers.
1805 - Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Dürenstein – 8000 French troops attempted to slow the retreat of a vastly superior Russian and Austrian force.
1831 - In Jerusalem, Virginia, Nat Turner is hanged after inciting a violent slave uprising.
1839 - The Virginia Military Institute is founded in Lexington, Virginia.
1864 - American Civil War: Sherman's March to the Sea – Union General William Tecumseh Sherman begins burning Atlanta, Georgia to the ground in preparation for his march south.
1865 - Treaty of Sinchula is signed in which Bhutan ceded the areas east of the Teesta River to the British East India Company.
1880 - Australian Bushranger Ned Kelly is hanged at Melbourne Gaol.
1887 - Anarchist Haymarket Martyrs August Spies, Albert Parsons, Adolph Fischer and George Engel are executed.
1887 - Construction of the Manchester Ship Canal starts at Eastham.
1889 - Washington is admitted as the 42nd U.S. state.
1911 - Many cities in the U.S. Midwest broke their record highs and lows on the same day as a strong cold front rolls through. (see The 11/11/11 cold wave).
1918 - World War I ends: Germany signs an armistice agreement with the Allies in a railroad car outside of Compiègne in France. The war officially stops at 11:00 (The eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month) this is annually honoured with two-minutes of silence.
1918 - Józef Piłsudski comes to Warsaw and assumes supreme military power in Poland. Poland regains its independence, celebrated each year on this day.
1918 - Emperor Charles I of Austria relinquishes power.
1919 - The Centralia Massacre in Centralia, Washington results the deaths of four members of the American Legion and the lynching of a local leader of the IWW.
1919 - Lāčuplēšu day – 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.
1924 - Prime Minister Alexandros Papanastasiou proclaims the first Greek Republic.
1926 - U.S. Route 66 is established.
1930 - Patent number US1781541 is awarded to Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd for their invention, the Einstein refrigerator.
1940 - World War II: Battle of Taranto – The Royal Navy launches the first aircraft carrier strike in history, on the Italian fleet at Taranto.
1940 - The German cruiser Atlantis captures top secret British mail, and sends it to Japan.
1940 - Armistice Day Blizzard: An unexpected blizzard kills 144 in U.S. Midwest.
1942 - World War II: Nazi Germany completed their occupation of France.
1960 - A military coup against President Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam is crushed.
1962 - Kuwait's National Assembly ratifies the Constitution of Kuwait.
1965 - In Rhodesia (modern-day Zimbabwe), the white-minority government of Ian Smith unilaterally declares independence.
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 Viet Cong and turned over to "new left" antiwar activist Tom Hayden.
1968 - Vietnam War: Operation Commando Hunt initiated. The goal is to interdict men and supplies on the Ho Chi Minh Trail, through Laos into South Vietnam.
1968 - A second republic is declared in the Maldives.
1972 - Vietnam War: Vietnamization – The United States Army turns over the massive Long Binh military base to South Vietnam.
1975 - Australian constitutional crisis of 1975: Australian Governor-General Sir John Kerr dismisses the government of Gough Whitlam and commissions Malcolm Fraser as caretaker Prime Minister, and announces a general election to be held in early December.
1992 - The Church of England votes to allow women to become priests.
2000 - In Kaprun, Austria, 155 skiers and snowboarders die when a cable car catches fire in an alpine tunnel.
2001 - Journalists Pierre Billaud, Johanne Sutton and Volker Handloik are killed in Afghanistan during an attack on the convoy they are traveling on top of.
2004 - New Zealand Tomb of the Unknown Warrior dedicated at the National War Memorial, Wellington.
2004 - Yasser Arafat is confirmed dead by the Palestine Liberation Organization, of unidentified causes. Mahmoud Abbas is elected chairman of the PLO minutes later.
2006 - The New Zealand war memorial monument is unveiled by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in London, United Kingdom, commemorating the loss of soldiers from the New Zealand Army and the British Army.
2008 - The RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 (QE2) set sail on her final voyage to Dubai.

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República de Angola
Republic of Angola - FlagRepublic of Angola - Coat of arms
Republic of Angola - Location
Capital: Luanda
Official languages: Portuguese
Government: Republic
Currency: Kwanza (AOA)
Population: 17 312 000
Area: 1 246 700 km²
Religion: Ethnic religion (47%), Catholicism (38%), Protestantism (15%)
Time Zone: UTC +1
Auto Code: ANG
Internet TLD: .ao
Calling code: +244
Corporate Income Tax: 35,00%
Personal Income Tax: 1-60%
Value Added Tax: 5-50%
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