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Armistice Day celebrations in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on 11 November 1918. Armistice Day, later known as Remembrance Day in the Commonwealth and Veterans Day in the United States, is commemorated every year on 11 November to mark the armistice signed between the Allies of World War I and Germany at Compiègne, France, at 5:45 am [1] for the cessation of hostilities on the Western Front of ...
The Transamerica Pyramid in San Francisco; Several buildings in downtown Cleveland including Terminal Tower, the Anthony J. Celebrezze Federal Building and Key Tower [16] The U.S. Steel Tower in Pittsburgh; The Renaissance Center in Detroit; The IDS Tower in Minneapolis; Bank of America and Wachovia headquarters towers in Uptown Charlotte
On Saturday, November 11, 1911, a cold snap, known as the Great Blue Norther of 11/11/11, affected the Central United States. Many cities broke record highs, going into the 70s and 80s early that afternoon. By nightfall, cities were dealing with temperatures in the teens and single-digits on the Fahrenheit scale.
11•11•11 is the first live album by American rock band MGMT, released on 11 November 2022. The album contains original music performed at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in Manhattan, New York City. It marked the first major release by the band since 2018's Little Dark Age.
2011 – A helicopter crash just outside Mexico City kills seven, including Francisco Blake Mora the Secretary of the Interior of Mexico. [16] 2012 – A strong earthquake with the magnitude 6.8 hits northern Burma, killing at least 26 people. 2014 – Fifty-eight people are killed in a bus crash in the Sukkur District in southern Pakistan's ...
St Martin's Day Kermis by Peeter Baltens (16th century), shows peasants celebrating by drinking the first wine of the season, and a horseman representing the saint. Saint Martin's Day or Martinmas (obsolete: Martlemas), [1] [2] and historically called Old Halloween [A] or All Hallows Eve, [B] [3] [4] is the feast day of Saint Martin of Tours and is celebrated in the liturgical year on 11 November.
Stock exchanges closed between September 10, 2001 and September 17, 2001. After the initial panic, the DJIA quickly rose for only a slight drop.. On Tuesday, September 11, 2001, the opening of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) was delayed after the first plane crashed into the World Trade Center's North Tower, and trading for the day was canceled after the second plane crashed into the South ...
1654 – Arauco War: A Spanish army is defeated by local Mapuche-Huilliches as it tries to cross Bueno River in Southern Chile. [7]1759 – The first American life insurance company, the Corporation for Relief of Poor and Distressed Presbyterian Ministers and of the Poor and Distressed Widows and Children of the Presbyterian Ministers (now part of Unum Group), is incorporated in Philadelphia ...