World War I ends
At 5:00 am on this day in 1918, the Allied powers and Germany signed an armistice document in the railway carriage of Ferdinand Foch, the commander of the Allied armies, and six hours later World War I came to an end. 1918.
Yasser Arafat—who was president (1996–2004) of the Palestinian Authority (PA), chairman (1969–2004) of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), and leader of Fatah, the largest of the constituent PLO groups—died in Paris. 2004.
The Church of England voted to ordain women as priests; the first ordination took place two years later. 1992.
Angola declared independence after the Portuguese withdrew. 1975.
Gemini 12, the last spacecraft in the Gemini series and the first to make an automatically controlled reentry into Earth‘s atmosphere, was launched. 1966.
Australian outlaw Ned Kelly, who was the most famous of the bushrangers (bandits of the Australian outback), was hanged in Melbourne. 1880.
Enslaved Black American Nat Turner was hanged after leading a slave rebellion that resulted in the deaths of some 60 white people; in addition, many innocent enslaved people were massacred in the accompanying hysteria. 1831.
Leonardo DiCaprio (born November 11, 1974, Los Angeles, California, U.S.) is an American actor and producer who emerged in the early 1990s as a promising child actor and by the decade’s end had become a superstar heartthrob, most notably through his starring role in the box-office smash Titanic (1997). Since then DiCaprio has cemented himself as one of Hollywood’s most critically acclaimed and commercially bankable leading performers. He is especially known for his frequent collaborations with director Martin Scorsese, with whom he has made six movies.
