November 11 - Purple

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Happy Veterans Day!

This Day In History

1215

The Fourth Lateran Council meets, defining the doctrine of transubstantiation, the process by which bread and wine are, by that doctrine, said to transform into the body and blood of Christ.

1620

The Mayflower Compact is signed in what is now Provincetown Harbor near Cape Cod.

1675

Gottfried Leibniz demonstrates integral calculus for the first time to find the area under the graph of y = ƒ(x).

1880

Australian bushranger Ned Kelly is hanged at Melbourne Gaol.

1911

Many cities in the Midwestern United States break their record highs and lows on the same day as a strong cold front rolls through.

1921

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

1926

U.S. Route 66 is established.

1992

The General Synod of the Church of England votes to allow women to become priests.

2008

RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 (QE2) sets sail on her final voyage.

Famous Birthdays

1493

Paracelsus, physician (d. 1541)

1743

Carl Peter Thunberg, Swedish naturalist (d. 1828)

1821

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russian novelist (d. 1881)

1885

George Smith Patton, Jr., American general (d. 1945)

1904

J. H. C. Whitehead, British mathematician (d. 1960)

1914

James G. Baker, American astronomer and optician (d. 2005)

1922

Kurt Vonnegut Jr., American novelist (d. 2007)

1925

Jonathan Winters, American comedian and actor

1930

Hank Garland, American guitar virtuoso (d. 2004)

1951

Marc Summers, American game show host

1960

Stanley Tucci, American actor and director

1969

Carson Kressley, American television personality
1971
David DeLuise, American actor and director
1974
Leonardo DiCaprio, American actor