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Today, November 11, 2025
November 11: Veterans Day: -- A federal
holiday in the United States observed annually on November 11, for
honoring military veterans, that being persons who have served in
the United States Armed Forces (and were discharged under
conditions other than dishonorable). It coincides with other
holidays including Armistice Day and Remembrance Day which are
celebrated in other countries that mark the anniversary of the end
of World War I. Major hostilities of World War I were formally
ended at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918,
when the Armistice with Germany went into effect. At the urging of
major U.S. veteran organizations, Armistice Day was renamed
Veterans Day in 1954. Veterans Day is distinct from Memorial Day,
a U.S. public holiday in May. Veterans Day celebrates the service
of all U.S. military veterans, while Memorial Day honors those who
have died while in military service. There is another military
holiday, Armed Forces Day, a U.S. remembrance that also occurs in
May, which honors those currently serving in the U.S. military. On
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Today, November 11, 2025
November 11: Armistice Day (Remembrance
Day, Death/Duty Day, Veterans Day): -- An annual commemoration of
the armistice signed between the Allies of World War I and Germany
at Compiegne, France, at 5:45 am for the cessation of hostilities
on the Western Front of World War I, which took effect at 11:00 am
- the "eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh
month" of 1918 (although, according to Thomas R. Gowenlock,
an intelligence officer with the U.S. First Division, shelling
from both sides continued for the rest of the day, ending only at
nightfall). The armistice initially expired after a period of 36
days and had to be extended several times. A formal peace
agreement was reached only when the Treaty of Versailles was
signed the following year. The date is a national holiday in
France, and was declared a national holiday in many Allied
nations. However, many Western countries and associated nations
have since changed the name of the holiday from Armistice Day,
with member states of the Commonwealth of Nations adopting
Remembrance Day, and the United States government opting for
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Today, November 11, 2025
November 11, 1918: The European Civil
War: World War I: The First European War (The European Theater Of
World War I): The Armistice Of 11 November 1918 (The Armistice Of
Compiegne): -- At 5 a.m., in Marshal Foch's railway car at Le
Francport in the Forest of Compiegne near Compiegne, an armistice
was signed between the Allies and Germany, the last of the Central
Powers still at war with the Allies and their last remaining
opponent, ending the First World War effective at 11 a.m that
morning. In many places in Europe, an annual moment of silence in
memory of the fallen soldiers is observed at the 11th hour of the
11th day of the 11th month. It is commemorated worldwide by
various names such as Armistice Day (European Allied nations),
Remembrance Day (British Commonwealth nations), Veterans Day
(United States), and in Poland, it is National Independence Day.
The Armistice of November 11, 1918 ended all land, sea and air
combat of World War I. Previous armistices had been agreed with
Bulgaria, the Ottoman Empire and the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Also
known as the Armistice of Compiegne from the place where it was
signed at 5:45 a.m. by the Allied Supreme Commander, French
Marshal Ferdinand Foch, it came into force at 11:00 a.m. Paris
time on November 11, 1918 and marked a victory for the Allies and
a defeat for Germany, although not formally a surrender. The
actual terms, largely written by Foch, included the cessation of
hostilities, the withdrawal of German forces to behind the Rhine,
Allied occupation of the Rhineland and bridgeheads further east,
the preservation of infrastructure, the surrender of aircraft,
warships, and military materiel, the release of Allied prisoners
of war and interned civilians, eventual reparations, no release of
German prisoners and no relaxation of the naval blockade of
Germany. Although the armistice ended the fighting on the Western
Front, it had to be prolonged three times until the Treaty Of
Versailles, which was signed on June 28, 1919, took effect on
January 10, 1920. Fighting continued up to 11 o'clock, with 2,738
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Today, November 11, 2025
November 11, 11 AM: Fasching (Rhenish
Carnival, Rheinischer Karneval, Fasnacht, Fasnet, Fastabend,
Fastelovend, Fasteleer, Fasching) -- A traditional German festival
that begins at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of
the year. Fasching is an annual religious festival that - while it
brings joy, fun, parades, costumes, and an opportunity to break
free from the rut - also has a darker hue to it, as it celebrates
the beginning of the darkest, coldest months that are Winter, and
was likely an unspoken reason that the Western Allies of World War
I chose to have the Armistice that ended World War I go into
effect at exactly that time and exactly at that hour. This
"Rheinische" Carnival is held in the west of Germany,
mainly in the states of North Rhine-Westphalia and
Rhineland-Palatinate, but also in Hesse (including Upper Hesse).
Similar forms of the festival occur in Bavaria, and other states.
Some cities are more famous for celebrations such as parades and
costume balls. The Cologne Carnival, as well as those in Mainz,
Eschweiler and Dusseldorf, are the largest and most famous. Other
cities have their own, often less well-known celebrations,
parades, and parties, such as Aachen, Bonn, Worms am Rhein,
Speyer, Kaiserslautern, Frankfurt, Darmstadt, Duisburg, Dortmund,
Essen, Mannheim, Munster, Krefeld, Ludwigshafen, Monchengladbach,
Stuttgart, Augsburg, Munich, and Nuremberg. The biggest German
carnival club is located in the relatively small town of Dieburg
in South Hesse. Festivities start as early as 11 November at
11:11am for some carnival organizations, but the main events
usually take place after the Christmas season. On Carnival
Thursday (called "Old Women Day" or "The Women's
Day" in commemoration of an 1824 revolt by washer-women),
women storm city halls, cut men's ties, and are allowed to kiss
any passing man. Special acrobatic show dances in mock uniforms
are a traditional contribution to most festive balls. They may or
may not have been a source of inspiration to American
cheerleading. The Fasching parades and floats make fun of
individual politicians and other public figures. Many speeches do
the same. Traditions often also include the "Faschingssitzung"
- a sit-only party with dancing and singing presentations, and
often many speeches given that humorously criticize politics.
Starting in mid-November, Fasching goes on till February and ends
with a bang. And yes, by that we are referring to a Karneval where
people go all out with the celebrations. On the day of the
Karneval, you can dress up fancy and wear a mask, dance on the
streets, be a part of a comical skit, or attend a masquerade ball!
The idea is to stand up against the rulers that you feel oppress
you in any way by enjoying the day as much as you can. The German
Carnival period known as Fasching is also called the 'fifth
season,' and in today's time, it is considered to be a festival
where people celebrate the end of winter. However, this is not why
Fasching was originally celebrated. The festival has existed since
the pre-Roman era and was considered a time when people could be
free and enjoy their lives. This means all that they had to do was
host activities that were all about having fun. But the 'fun'
factor did not just mean conducting carnivals. During medieval
times, the festival was used to make fun of the oppressive rulers
of the region and point out all their flaws. This is why all
carnival-goers dressed up and wore masks to hide their identity.
If they were caught making fun of the rulers, the death penalty
was inevitable. Some intriguing customs of the festival include
handing over the keys of the city to a council of fools or letting
women rule for the day. In some regions, a parade to honor women
started to be held. Officially, the festival begins on the 11th
hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of the year. However, the
festivities occur once winter ends. While Fasching has several big
days, the Rose Monday parade is among the most important. The
final parade for Mardi Gras in New Orleans is on Tuesday. It is
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Today, November 11, 2025
November 11: National Independence Day
(Poland): November 11, 1918: The European Civil War: World War I:
The First European War (The European Theater Of World War I): The
Eastern Front Of World War I: National Independence Day (Poland):
-- The anniversary of the restoration of Poland's sovereignty as
the Second Polish Republic in 1918 from the German,
Austro-Hungarian and Russian Empires is observed. National
Independence Day (Polish: Narodowe Swieto Niepodleglosci) is a
non-working day national day of observance in Poland simultaneous
to celebrations of the World War I armistice in the Allied
countries. Following the partitions in the late 18th century,
Poland ceased to exist for 123 years until the end of World War I,
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Today, November 11, 2025
November 11: Armistice Day: -- November
11, 1921: Military Monuments And Memorials: Military Monuments And
Memorials In The United States: -- The Tomb Of The Unknowns is
dedicated by US President Warren G. Harding at the Memorial
Amphitheater at Arlington National Cemetery when he officiates at
the interment ceremonies of the World War I Unknown who had lain
in state in the Capitol Rotunda from his arrival from France to
the United States some days prior until Armistice Day 1921. During
the ceremony, the World War I Unknown was awarded the Victoria
Cross by British Admiral of the Fleet Lord Beatty, on behalf of
King George V of the United Kingdom. The United Kingdom Victoria
Cross was placed with the soldier. Other Allied nations also
awarded the American Unknown Soldier with decorations, including
the Legion of Honour, Medaille Militaire, and Croix de Guerre from
France, the War Cross from Czechoslovakia, the Gold Medal for
Bravery from Italy, the Virtuti Militari from Poland, and the
Virtutea Militara from Romania. The Tomb Of The Unknowns, also
known as The Tomb Of The Unknown Soldier (although the monument
has no officially designated name) is a monument dedicated to
deceased U.S. service members whose remains have not been
identified. It is located in Arlington National Cemetery in
Virginia, United States. The World War I "Unknown" is a
recipient of the Medal of Honor, the Victoria Cross, and several
other foreign nations' highest service awards. The U.S. Unknowns
who were interred are also recipients of the Medal of Honor,
presented by U.S. presidents who presided over their funerals. On
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Today, November 11, 2025
November 11, 1821: #BOTD: #HBD! Fyodor
Dostoyevsky, sometimes transliterated Dostoevsky, Russian
novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist and philosopher
(d. February 9, 1881) is #born Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky in
Moscow to a noble Russian Orthodox Christian family. Dostoyevsky's
literary works explore human psychology in the troubled political,
social, and spiritual atmospheres of 19th-century Russia, and
engage with a variety of realistic philosophical and religious
themes. His most acclaimed works include Crime and Punishment
(1866), The Idiot (1869), Demons (1872) and The Brothers Karamazov
(1880). Dostoyevsky's oeuvre consists of 11 novels, three
novellas, 17 short stories and numerous other works. Many literary
critics rate him as one of the greatest psychologists in world
literature. His 1864 novella Notes from Underground is considered
to be one of the first works of existentialist literature.
Arrested in 1849 for belonging to a literary group that discussed
banned books critical of "Tsarist Russia", he was
sentenced to death but the sentence was commuted at the last
moment. He spent four years in a Siberian prison camp, followed by
six years of compulsory military service in exile. In the
following years, Dostoyevsky worked as a journalist, publishing
and editing several magazines of his own and later A Writer's
Diary, a collection of his writings. He began to travel around
western Europe and developed a gambling addiction, which led to
financial hardship. For a time, he had to beg for money, but he
eventually became one of the most widely read and highly regarded
Russian writers. His books have been translated into more than 170
languages. Dostoyevsky was influenced by a wide variety of
philosophers and authors including Pushkin, Gogol, Augustine,
Shakespeare, Dickens, Balzac, Lermontov, Hugo, Poe, Plato,
Cervantes, Herzen, Kant, Belinsky, Hegel, Schiller, Solovyov,
Bakunin, Sand, Hoffmann, and Mickiewicz. His writings were widely
read both within and beyond his native Russia and influenced an
equally great number of later writers including Russians like
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Anton Chekhov as well as philosophers
such as Friedrich Nietzsche and Jean-Paul Sartre. Fyodor
Dostoyevsky died of a pulmonary hemorrhages (hemorrhages of the
lung). His last words to his wife Anna were: "Remember, Anya,
I have always loved you passionately and have never been
unfaithful to you ever, even in my thoughts!" He is interred
in the Tikhvin Cemetery at the Alexander Nevsky Convent, near his
favourite poets, Nikolay Karamzin and Vasily Zhukovsky. It is
unclear how many attended his funeral. According to one reporter,
more than 100,000 mourners were present, while others describe
attendance between 40,000 and 50,000. His tombstone is inscribed
with lines from the New Testament: "Verily, verily, I say
unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it
abideth alone: but if it dies, it bringeth forth much fruit."
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Today, November 11, 2025
November 11, 1864: The American Civil War
(The Civil War, The War Between The States): The Eastern Theater
Of The American Civil War: The Atlanta Campaign: The Fall Of
Atlanta: Sherman's March To The Sea (The Savannah Campaign,
Sherman's March): The Burning Of Atlanta: -- General William
Tecumseh Sherman begins burning Atlanta to the ground in
preparation for his march to the sea. The city of Atlanta,
Georgia, in Fulton County, was an important rail and commercial
center during the American Civil War. Although relatively small in
population, the city became a critical point of contention during
the Atlanta Campaign in 1864 when a powerful Union Army approached
from Union-held Tennessee. The Fall Of Atlanta was a critical
point in the Civil War, giving the North more confidence, and
(along with the victories at Mobile Bay and Winchester) leading to
the re-election of President Abraham Lincoln and the eventual
surrender of the Confederacy. The capture of the "Gate City
of the South" was especially important for Lincoln as he was
in a contentious election campaign against the Democratic opponent
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November 11, 1885: #BOTD: #HBD! George S.
Patton, general in the United States Army who commanded the
Seventh United States Army in the Mediterranean theater of World
War II, and the Third United States Army in France and Germany
after the Allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944 (d. December
21, 1945) is #born George Smith Patton Jr. in San Gabriel,
California to a family with an extensive military background (with
members having served in both the United States Army and
Confederate States Army), Patton attended the Virginia Military
Institute and the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. He studied
fencing and designed the M1913 Cavalry Saber, more commonly known
as the "Patton Sword", and partially due to his skill in
the sport, he competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm,
Sweden. Patton first saw combat during the Pancho Villa Expedition
in 1916, taking part in America's first military action using
motor vehicles. He later joined the newly formed United States
Tank Corps of the American Expeditionary Forces and saw action in
World War I, commanding the U.S. tank school in France before
being wounded while leading tanks into combat near the end of the
war. In the interwar period, Patton remained a central figure in
the development of armored warfare doctrine in the U.S. Army,
serving in numerous staff positions throughout the country. Rising
through the ranks, he commanded the 2nd Armored Division at the
time of the American entry into World War II. Patton led U.S.
troops into the Mediterranean theater with an invasion of
Casablanca during Operation Torch in 1942, where he later
established himself as an effective commander through his rapid
rehabilitation of the demoralized U.S. II Corps. He commanded the
U.S. Seventh Army during the Allied invasion of Sicily, where he
was the first Allied commander to reach Messina. There he was
embroiled in controversy after he slapped two shell-shocked
soldiers under his command, and was temporarily removed from
battlefield command for other duties such as participating in
Operation Fortitude's disinformation campaign for Operation
Overlord. Patton returned to command the Third Army following the
invasion of Normandy in June 1944, where he led a highly
successful rapid armored drive across France. He led the relief of
beleaguered American troops at Bastogne during the Battle Of The
Bulge, and advanced his Third Army into Nazi Germany by the end of
the war. After the war, Patton became the military governor of
Bavaria, but he was relieved of this post because of his
statements trivializing denazification. He commanded the United
States Fifteenth Army for slightly more than two months. Patton
died in Germany following a car accident. He had been injured on
December 9 near Mannheim and was taken to a hospital in
Heidelberg, where he died. He is buried in The Luxembourg American
Cemetery And Memorial, a Second World War American military war
grave cemetery located in Hamm, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg.
Patton's colorful image, hard-driving personality and success as a
commander were at times overshadowed by his controversial public
statements. His philosophy of leading from the front and his
ability to inspire troops with vulgarity-ridden speeches, such as
a famous address to the Third Army, attracted favorable attention.
His strong emphasis on rapid and aggressive offensive action
proved effective. While Allied leaders held sharply differing
opinions on Patton, he was regarded highly by his opponents in the
German High Command. A popular, award-winning biographical film
released in 1970 helped transform Patton into an American hero. On
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Today, November 11, 2025
November 11, 1923: The Interwar Period
(The Aftermath Of World War I, The Interbellum, Between The Wars):
Political Violence In Germany (1918-1933): The Beer Hall Putsch
(The Munich Putsch, The Hitler Putsch, The
Hitler-Ludendorff-Putsch) (German: Der Hitlerputsch, Der
Hitler-Ludendorff-Putsch): -- Adolf Hitler is arrested in Germany
after the failed Beer Hall Putsch. On November 8, 1923, Hitler's
Beer Hall Putsch took place in the Buergerbraukeller in Munich.
Also known as the Munich Putsch, and, in German, as the
Hitlerputsch or Hitler-Ludendorff-Putsch, it was a failed coup
attempt by the Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler, along with
Generalquartiermeister Erich Ludendorff, Herman Goering, Rudolf
Hess and other Kampfbund leaders, to seize power in Munich,
Bavaria, during November 8-9, 1923. About two thousand Nazis
marched to the centre of Munich, where they confronted the police,
which resulted in the death of 16 Nazis and four police officers.
Hitler himself was not wounded during the clash, although he
locked his left arm with the right arm of Max Erwin Von
Scheubner-Richter who, when he was shot and killed, pulled Hitler
to the pavement with him. Hitler escaped immediate arrest and was
spirited off to safety in the countryside. On November 12, Hitler
was arrested and charged with treason. From Hitler's perspective,
there were three positive benefits from this putsch: 1) it brought
Hitler to the attention of the German nation and generated front
page headlines in newspapers around the world, as his arrest was
followed by a 24-day trial, which was widely publicized and gave
Hitler a platform to publicize his nationalist sentiment to the
nation, which resulted in being found guilty of treason and
sentenced to five years in Landsberg Prison; 2) He wrote Mein
Kampf, which was dictated to his fellow prisoners Emil Maurice and
Rudolf Hess; 3) the path to power was now possible through
legitimate means rather than revolution or force. The most
significant outcome of the putsch was Hitler's decision to change
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Today, November 11, 2025
( #JCKaelin here: I first heard
"Struttin' With Some Barbecue", one of the recordings
celebrated below, in the basement of a house whose backyard was
two lots down and adjacent to Carl Sagan's boyhood home's backyard
in Rahway, New Jersey where I was living at the age of 25 in 1986.
I was so stunned by the song's beauty and brilliance that I
instantly played it again, and then again; by the third playing, I
found that a tear of joy had run down from my right eye, and I was
overcome with two strong emotions: elation that I had turned on to
this music, and deep anger than I had been deprived my whole prior
half century of life for not having enjoyed this music. I've been
an enthusiast jazz fan ever since - most especially, for the hot
Jazz I was hearing Louis Armstrong play that day! :D ) =========
November 11, 1925: Aesthetics: The Performing Arts: Music: Music
History: Music Of The United States: African-American Aesthetics:
Jazz: The History Of Jazz: The Louis Armstrong Hot Five and Hot
Seven Sessions: -- Cornetist Louis Armstrong, along with singer
Hociel Thomas, clarinetist Johnny Dodd, pianist Hersal Thomas and
banjoist Johnny St. Cyr (pronounced "Johnny Sincere"),
record the first six songs of what was to become known as The
Louis Armstrong Hot Five and Hot Seven Sessions: "Gambler's
Dream", "Sunshine Baby", "Adam And Eve Had The
Blues", "Put It Where I Can Get It", "Wash
Woman Blues", and "I've Stopped My Man". The Louis
Armstrong Hot Five and Hot Seven Sessions were recording sessions
held between 1925 and 1928 by Louis Armstrong with a continually
changing lineup of musicians collectively known at any one session
as his Hot Five or Hot Seven groups, recordings considered to be
the most foundational, influential and important jazz recordings
ever made, recordings that were a seminal influence on the
direction of jazz thereafter. They established Louis Armstrong as
jazz's first great soloist, and as one of America's most important
and influential musical figures. These sessions generally, and his
solos in particular, set a standard musicians still strive to
equal today in terms of their beauty, spontaneity, innovation and
brilliance. These recordings radically changed jazz's focus away
from collective ensemble playing towards Armstrong's style of
spectacular instrumental (and vocal) solo improvisations,
redefining the form and content of jazz. Armstrong helped
popularize scat singing in one of its first recorded forms of the
genre in the song "Heebie Jeebies", and his solo on
"Potato Head Blues" is still widely considered the
greatest solo ever recorded by any musiciean in any musical genre,
a solo which also helped establish the stop-time technique in
jazz. The Louis Armstrong Hot Five and Hot Seven Sessions, 30 in
number (6 latterly by Columbia Records, the rest by OKeh Records)
produced 79 tracks (plus 3 rejected tracks); all tracks were
recorded at each label's recording studios in Chicago, Louisiana,
and all sessions utilized musicians jazz musicans exlusively from
New Orleans -- Louis Armstrong (cornet, voice, trumpet), Hociel
Thomas (voice), Hersal Thomas (piano), Joe and Susie Edwards
(Butterbeans and Susie) (voice), Clarence Babcock (voice), May
Alix (voice), Henry Clark (trombone), Johnny St. Cyr (banjo), Bill
Wilson (cornet), Honore Dutrey (trombone), Boyd Atkins (clarinet,
alto saxophone, soprano saxophone), Joe Walker (alto saxophone,
baritone saxophone), Albert Washington (tenor saxophone), Rip
Bassett (banjo, guitar), Tubby Hall (drums), John Thomas
(trombone), Pete Briggs (tuba), Baby Dodds (drums), Kid Ory
(trombone), Johnny Dodds (clarinet), Lil Hardin Armstrong (piano),
Johnny St. Cyr (banjo, guitar), Lillie Delk Christian (voice),
Jimmy Noone (clarinet), Jimmy Strong (tenor saxophone, clarinet),
Dave Wilborn (banjo, guitar), Jimmy Strong (clarinet), Fred
Robinson (trombone), Jimmy Strong (clarinet, tenor saxophone), Don
Redman (clarinet, alto saxophone), Earl Hines (piano), Mancy Carr
(banjo), Zutty Singleton (drums), Albert Nicholas, Jack Teagarden
(trombone), Happy Caldwell (tenor saxophone), Joe Sullivan
(piano), Eddie Lang (guitar), Kaiser Marshall (drums), Louis
Armstrong (trumpet, voice), J.C. Higginbotham (trombone), Albert
Nicholas (alto saxophone), Charlie Holmes (alto saxophone), Teddy
Hill (tenor saxophone), Luis Russell (piano), Eddie Condon
(banjo), Lonnie Johnson (guitar), Pops Foster (bass), and Paul
Barbarin (drums). The songs recorded (both accepted and rejected
tracks) are, in order -- "Gambler's Dream", "Sunshine
Baby", "Adam And Eve Had The Blues", "Put It
Where I Can Get It", "Wash Woman Blues", "I've
Stopped My Man", "My Heart", "Yes! I'm In The
Barrel", "Gut Bucket Blues", "Come Back, Sweet
Papa", "Georgia Grind", "Heebie Jeebies",
"Cornet Chop Suey", "Cornet Chop Suey" (in
E?), "Oriental Strut", "You're Next", "Muskrat
Ramble", "Don't Forget To Mess Around", "I'm
Gonna Gitcha", "Droppin' Shucks", "Who'sit",
"He Likes It Slow", "The King of the Zulus",
"Big Fat Ma and Skinny Pa", "Lonesome Blues",
"Sweet Little Papa", "Jazz Lips",
"Skid-Dat-De-Dat", "Big Butter and Egg Man",
"Sunset Cafe Stomp", "You Made Me Love You",
"Irish Black Bottom", "Leave Mine Alone",
"Willie the Weeper", "Wild Man Blues",
"Chicago Breakdown", "Alligator Crawl",
"Potato Head Blues", "Melancholy Blues",
"Weary Blues", "Twelfth Street Rag", "Keyhole
Blues", "S.O.L. Blues", "Gully Low Blues",
"That's When I'll Come Back to You", "Put 'Em Down
Blues", "Ory's Creole Trombone", "The Last
Time", "Struttin' With Some Barbecue", "Got No
Blues", "Once in a While", "I'm Not Rough",
"Hotter Than That", "Savoy Blues", "You're
A Real Sweetheart", "Too Busy", "Was It A
Dream", "Last Night I Dreamed You Kissed Me",
"Fireworks", "Skip the Gutter", "A Monday
Date", "Don't Jive Me", "West End Blues",
"Sugar Foot Strut", "Two Deuces", "Squeeze
Me", "Knee Drops", "No, Papa, No", "Basin
Street Blues", "No One Else But You", "Save
It, Pretty Mama", "Beau Koo Jack", "Weather
Bird", "Muggles", "Hear Me Talkin' To Ya",
"St. James Infirmary", "Tight Like This", "I'm
Gonna Stomp, Mr. Henry Lee", "Knockin' A Jug", "I
Can't Give You Anything But Love" (common take), "I
Can't Give You Anything But Love" (alternate take), and
"Mahogany Hall Stomp". These recordings were added to
the National Recording Registry in 2002, the first year of the
institution's existence. The recording dates, thirty in number,
were 11/11/25, 11/12/25, 2/22/26, 2/26/26, 6/16/26, 6/18/26,
6/23/26, 11/16/26, 11/27/26, 5/07/27, 5/09/27, 5/10/27, 5/11/27,
5/13/27, 5/14/27, 9/02/27, 9/06/27, 12/09/27, 12/10/27, 12/13/27,
6/26/28, 6/27/28, 6/28/28, 6/29/28, 7/05/28, 12/04/28, 12/05/28,
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Today, November 11, 2025
November 11, 1934: Military Monuments And
Memorials: Military Monuments And Memorials In Australia : -- The
Shrine of Remembrance is officially dedicated and opened in
Melbourne, Australia. The Shrine of Remembrance (commonly referred
to as The Shrine) is a war memorial in Melbourne, Victoria,
Australia, located in Kings Domain on St Kilda Road. It was built
to honour the men and women of Victoria who served in World War I,
but now functions as a memorial to all Australians who have served
in any war. It is a site of annual observances for Anzac Day (25
April) and Remembrance Day (11 November), and is one of the
largest war memorials in Australia. Designed by architects Phillip
Hudson and James Wardrop, both World War I veterans, the Shrine is
in classical style, based on the Tomb of Mausolus at Halicarnassus
and the Parthenon in Athens, Greece. The crowning element at the
top of the ziggurat roof references the Choragic Monument of
Lysicrates. Built from Tynong granite, the Shrine originally
consisted only of the central sanctuary surrounded by the
ambulatory. The sanctuary contains the marble Stone of
Remembrance, upon which is engraved the words "Greater love
hath no man" (John 15:13); once per year, on 11 November at
11 a.m. (Remembrance Day), a ray of sunlight shines through an
aperture in the roof to light up the word "Love" in the
inscription. Beneath the sanctuary lies the crypt, which contains
a bronze statue of a soldier father and son, and panels listing
every unit of the Australian Imperial Force. The Shrine went
through a prolonged process of development, which began in 1918
with an initial proposal to build a Victorian memorial. Two
committees were formed, the second of which ran a competition for
the memorial's design. The winner was announced in 1922. However,
opposition to the proposal, led by Keith Murdoch and the Herald
Sun, forced the governments of the day to rethink the design. A
number of alternatives were proposed, the most significant of
which was the Anzac Square and cenotaph proposal of 1926. In
response, General Sir John Monash used the 1927 Anzac Day march to
garner support for the Shrine, and finally won the support of the
Victorian government later that year. The foundation stone was
laid on 11 November 1927, and the Shrine was officially dedicated
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Today, November 11, 2025
November 11, 1940: The European Civil
War: World War II: The Second European War (The European Theater
Of World War II): Aviation: Military Aviation: Air Warfare Of
World War II:The Mediterranean And Middle East Theater Of World
War II (The Mediterranean Theater Of War) The Battle Of Taranto:
-- The Royal Navy launches the first all-aircraft ship-to-ship
naval attack in history when during the overnight hours of
November 11-12 a small number of obsolescent Fairey Swordfish
biplane torpedo bombers from the British aircraft carrier HMS
Illustrious (R87) under the command of Admiral Andrew Cunningham
launch an attack while sailing in the Mediterranean Sea against
the battle fleet of the Regia Marina under the command of Admiral
Inigo Campioni while they were at anchor in the harbour of
Taranto, launching aerial torpedoes at the Italian fleet despite
the shallowness of the water in the harbor. The devastation
wrought by these British carrier-launched aircraft on the large
Italian warships marked the beginning of the ascendancy of naval
aviation over the big guns of battleships. According to Admiral
Cunningham, "Taranto, and the night of November 11-12, 1940,
should be remembered for ever as having shown once and for all
that in the Fleet Air Arm the Navy has its most devastating
weapon.". The success of the attack and the tactics and
methods used inspired the Japanese to attack Pearl Harbor in
similar manner, and indeed the attack occured on the same day that
the German auxiliary cruiser Atlantis captured a top secret
British report from the cargo ship SS Automedon that declared that
Britain was too weak to risk war with Japan, a report the Germans
sent to Japan and which is believed to have played an important
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Today, November 11, 2025
November 11, 1940: The Road To War: The
European Civil War: World War II: The Second European War (The
European Theater Of World War II): The Battle Of The Atlantic: The
Sinking Of SS Automedon -- The German auxiliary cruiser Atlantis
captures top secret British mail from the Blue Funnel Line cargo
ship SS Automedon, and sends it to Japan, the capture of which is
thought by some to have played a prominent part in the Japanese
decision to enter World War II; indeed, the capture occurred on
the same day that The Battle Of Taranto occurred, which battle
became a model for the attack the Japanese made upon Pearl Harbor
which initiated Japan's entry into the war. At about 07:00,
Atlantis encountered Automedon in the Indian Ocean about 250 mi
(400 km) northwest of Sumatra. At 08:20, Atlantis fired a warning
shot across Automedon's bow, and her radio officer at once began
transmitting a distress call of "RRRR - Automedon - 0416N"
("RRRR" meant "under attack by armed raider").
At a range of around 2,000 yd (1,800 m), Atlantis shelled
Automedon, ceasing fire after three minutes in which she had
destroyed her bridge, accommodation, and lifeboats. Six crew
members were killed and twelve injured. The Germans boarded the
stricken ship and broke into the strong room, where they found
fifteen bags of Top Secret mail for the British Far East Command,
including a large quantity of decoding tables, fleet orders,
gunnery instructions, and naval intelligence reports. After
wasting an hour breaking open the ship's safe only to discover "a
few shillings in cash", a search of the Automedon's chart
room found a small weighted green bag marked "Highly
Confidential" containing the Chief Of Staff's report to the
Commander in Chief Far East, Robert Brooke Popham. The bag was
supposed to be thrown overboard if there was risk of loss, but the
personnel responsible for this had been killed or incapacitated.
The report contained the latest assessment of the Japanese
Empire's military strength in the Far East, along with details of
Royal Air Force units, naval strength, and notes on Singapore's
defences. It painted a gloomy picture of British land and naval
capabilities in the Far East, and declared that Britain was too
weak to risk war with Japan. Automedon was sunk at 15:07. Rogge
soon realised the importance of the intelligence material he had
captured and quickly transferred the documents to the recently
acquired prize vessel Ole Jacob, ordering Lieutenant Commander
Paul Kamenz and six of his crew to take charge of the vessel.
After an uneventful voyage they arrived in Kobe, Japan, on 4
December 1940. The mail reached the German Embassy in Tokyo on
December 5. The German Naval attache Paul Wenneker had the summary
of the British plan wired to Berlin, while the original was
hand-carried by Kamenz to Berlin via the Trans-Siberian railway. A
copy was given to the Japanese, to whom it provided valuable
intelligence prior to their commencing hostilities against the
Western Powers. Rogge was rewarded for this with an ornate katana;
the only other Germans so honoured were Hermann Goring and Field
Marshal Erwin Rommel. After reading the captured Chief Of Staff
report, on January 7, 1941 Japanese Admiral Yamamoto wrote to the
Naval Minister asking whether, if Japan knocked out America, the
remaining British and Dutch forces would be suitably weakened for
the Japanese to deliver a death blow; the Automedon intelligence
on the weakness of the British Empire is thus credibly linked with
the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the attack leading to the
Fall Of Singapore. Atlantis was commanded by Kapitan zur See
Bernhard Rogge, one of the few German flag rank officers who was
not arrested by the Allies after the war due to his humanity and
chivalrous conduct of his military engagements, who received the
Oak Leaves to the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. She was sunk
on November 22, 1941 by the British cruiser HMS Devonshire. A
version of the story of Atlantis is told in the film Under Ten
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EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: The
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Today, November 11, 2025
November 11, 1972: Veterans Day: -- The
Aftermath Of World War II: The Cold War: The Cold War In Asia: The
Indochina Wars: The Vietnam War (The Second Indochina War, The
Vietnam Conflict, The Resistance War Against America): The United
States In The Vietnam War: Vietnamization: -- The United States
hands over its Long Binh Post military base at Long Binh in in the
Dong Nai Province of Vietnam to South Vietnam's Army Of The
Republic Of Vietnam, symbolizing the end of direct American
military participation in the Vietnam War. Long Binh is a ward of
Bien Hoa in the Dong Nai Province of Vietnam. During the Vietnam
War, Long Binh Post was a the headquarters of the United States
Army Vietnam (USARV), a corps-level support command and logistics
center of the United States Army in the Vietnam War, created on
July 20, 1965 out of the U.S. Army Support Command, Vietnam.g Binh
Post. By mid-1967, United States Army, Vietnam (USARV), 1st
Logistical Command, and many other Army units dispersed in Saigon
were moved to Long Binh Post to resolve centralization, security,
and troop billeting issues. Long Binh Post was a sprawling
logistics facility and the largest U.S. Army base in Vietnam with
over 50,000 women and men. USARV controlled the activities of all
U.S. Army service and logistical units in South Vietnam until May
15, 1972, when its structure was merged with the Military
Assistance Command, Vietnam (MACV) to become USARV/MACV Support
Command, which was disbanded on March 28, 1973 after completion of
withdrawal of all combat and support units. It was turned over the
South Vietnamese on Veterans Days, 1972, symbolizing the end of
direct American military participation in the Vietnam War. USARV
controlled ten major support commands in Vietnam, and also
supervised 71 smaller units under the organizational titles
"offices", "agencies", "groups",
"facilities", "centers", "depots",
"teams", "activities", "elements",
"companies", and "detachments". As of 2008,
Long Binh is largely given over to industrial use as a complex
known as Long Binh Techno Park. It features a shopping complex
that includes a large Cora hypermarket, one of the Cora retail
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Today, November 11, 2025
November 11: National Metal Day: - In
honor of the classic metal mockumentary "This Is Spinal Tap"
declaration "These go to 11", Metal declares
independence day from the mundane and conventional on this day
every year, while insanity, alienation, and death are the
foundation for gloomy introspection, which is all part of the
culture! However, it's not all doom and gloom; in fact, some metal
can even be uplifting! The famous This Is Spinal Tap scene
explaining how the band's amps go up to "one louder"
than 10 is the basis for National Metal Day's unique date . The
day was first celebrated in 2011 (11-11-11) by 24-hour music
network VH1 Classic. The celebrations began on November 1,
allowing more time for the network to focus on airing metal
concerts, specials, movies, and videos each night - leading up to
the grand finale on 11-11-11, when VH1 Classic premiered the film
"Metal Evolution." Metal is a subcategory of hard rock,
and is one of the most controversial and complex genres of music.
It's not made for those light of heart and modest, but is made to
be enjoyed in excess through its music, aesthetic, and lifestyle.
The genre originated from industrial working class areas within
the UK, specifically in northern and midland England, where a
number of factories process actual metal and steel. Early metal
bands would reference the sound of these factories as a direct
influence on their sound - Judas Priest's Glenn Tipton had
remarked on how the steel mill was always within audible distance.
But metal comes from more than just factories, it has a strong
British blues rock influence, with heavy impact from acts like The
Rolling Stones, The Animals, and The Kinks. There is also
influence from guitar legends Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton. Metal
began owning its title as a genre in the late 1960s early 1970s,
with Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, and Deep Purple sharing
ownership as the first metal bands. Metal has since spread into
many different sub-genres such as thrash, death, black, doom,
Christian, and the oft-reviled nu-metal. Some of the biggest names
in music are metalheads, like Metallica, Anthrax, Megadeth,
Motorhead, and Pantera. So, if you can properly answer this
question: "Who would win in a fight, Lemmy Kilmister or god?
(it's a trick question. Lemmy IS god), this day may just be the
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Today, November 11, 2025
November 11: Saint Martin's Day (The
Feast Of Saint Martin, Martinmas, Old Halloween, Old Hallowmas
Eve): -- The feast day of Saint Martin of Tours, a baptized Roman
soldier who became the bishop of a French town. He's known for
cutting his cloak in half to share it with a beggar during a
snowstorm. On the same night, he dreamed of Jesus, dressed in a
half-cloak, saying to angels, "Here is Martin, the Roman
soldier who is now baptized; he has clothed me." Saint Martin
died on November 8, 397, and was interred three days later. Saint
Martin's Day began in France and proliferated to the Low Countries
- the British Isles, Galicia, Germany, Scandinavia, and Eastern
Europe. Also known as Martinmas, it is the day when Martin is
honored in Mass and marks the beginning of natural winter in the
agricultural calendar and the end of autumn in the economic
calendar. At this time, plenty of brewed beer and wine becomes
available, signaling the end of winter preparations, including
animal butchering. Just as during Michaelmas on September 29,
devotees eat goose to mark the occasion. The feast is similar to
the American Thanksgiving as it celebrates the earth providing for
humans. Martinmas celebrations in some countries begin on the 11th
minute of the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month - or at
11:11 a.m. on November 11. Others start the celebrations on St.
Martin's Eve on November 10. In the sixth century, Church councils
began requiring fasting through the 56 days, except Saturdays and
Sundays, between Saint Martin's Day and the Epiphany on January 6.
This fasting period was known as 'Quadragesima Sancti Martini,' or
Saint Martin's Lent, and was similar to the 40 days of fasting
during Lent. It was rarely observed before it evolved into the
current Advent practice. Saint Martin's Day now often involves
feasts, dances, and bonfires. After dark, children carry lanterns
through the streets, singing songs that earn them candy rewards.
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: This Is
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Today, November 11, 2025November 11, 1938: Armistice Day: --
Irving Berlin's revised version of God Bless America was first
performed. "God Bless America" is an American patriotic
song written by Irving Berlin during World War I in 1918 and
revised by him in the run up to World War II in 1938. The later
version was notably recorded by Kate Smith, becoming her signature
song. "God Bless America" takes the form of a prayer
(with introductory lyrics noting that "as we raise our
voices, in a solemn prayer") for God's blessing and peace for
the nation ("...stand beside her and guide her through the
night..."). He wrote the revised version of the song
especially for radio entertainer Kate Smith who sang it during her
regular radio broadcast. It soon became a patriotic favorite of
Americans and was one of Smith's most requested songs. Berlin had
written the song in 1918 while serving in the U.S. Army at Camp
Upton in Yaphank, New York, but decided that it did not fit in a
revue called Yip Yip Yaphank, so he set it aside. The lyrics at
that time included the line "Make her victorious on land and
foam, God bless America..." as well as "Stand beside her
and guide her to the right with the light from above". Music
critic Jody Rosen says that a 1906 Jewish dialect novelty song,
"When Mose with His Nose Leads the Band," contains a
six-note fragment that is "instantly recognizable as the
opening strains of 'God Bless America'". He interprets this
as an example of Berlin's "habit of interpolating bits of
half-remembered songs into his own numbers." Berlin, born
Israel Baline, had himself written several Jewish-themed novelty
tunes. In 1938, with the rise of Adolf Hitler, Irving Berlin, who
was Jewish and had arrived in the U.S. from Russia at the age of
five, felt it was time to revive it as a "peace song",
and it was introduced on an Armistice Day broadcast in 1938, sung
by Kate Smith on her radio show. Berlin had made some minor
changes; by this time, "to the right" might have been
considered a call to the political right, so he substituted
"through the night" instead. He also provided an
introduction that is now rarely heard but which Smith always used:
"While the storm clouds gather far across the sea / Let us
swear allegiance to a land that's free / Let us all be grateful
for a land so fair, / As we raise our voices in a solemn prayer."
(In her first broadcast of the song, Kate Smith sang "that
we're far from there" rather than "for a land so fair".)
This was changed when Berlin published the sheet music in March
1939. Woody Guthrie criticized the song, and in 1940 he wrote
"This Land Is Your Land," originally titled "God
Blessed America For Me," as a response. Anti-Semitic groups
such as the Ku Klux Klan also protested against the song due to
its authorship by a Jewish immigrant. In 1943, Smith's rendition
was featured in the patriotic musical This is the Army along with
other Berlin songs. The manuscripts in the Library of Congress
reveal the evolution of the song from victory to peace. Berlin
gave the royalties of the song to The God Bless America Fund for
redistribution to Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts in New York City.
Smith performed the song on her two NBC television series in the
1950s. "God Bless America" also spawned another of
Irving Berlin's tunes, "Heaven Watch The Philippines,"
during the end of World War II after he heard the Filipinos sing a
slightly revised version of the song replacing "America"
with "The Philippines." The song was used early in the
Civil Rights Movement as well as at labor rallies. During the
1960s, the song was increasingly used by Christian conservatives
in the US to signal their opposition to secular liberalism and to
silence dissenters who were speaking in favor of communism or in
opposition to the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. Later, from
December 11, 1969, through the early 1970s, the playing of Smith
singing the song before many home games of the National Hockey
League's Philadelphia Flyers brought it renewed popularity as well
as a reputation for being a "good luck charm" to the
Flyers long before it became a staple of nationwide sporting
events. The Flyers even brought Smith in to perform live before
Game 6 of the 1974 Stanley Cup Finals on May 19, 1974, and the
Flyers won the Cup that day.
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Today, November 11, 2025November 11, 1960: The Aftermath Of World
War II: The Cold War: The Cold War In Asia: The Indochina Wars:
The Vietnam War (The Second Indochina War, The Vietnam Conflict,
The Resistance War Against America): The United States In The
Vietnam War: The 1960 South Vietnamese Coup Attempt: --- A
military coup against President Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam led
by Lieutenant Colonel Vuong Van Dong and Colonel Nguyen Chanh Thi
of the Airborne Division of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam
(ARVN) is crushed. The rebels launched the coup in response to
Diem's autocratic rule and the negative political influence of his
brother Ngo Dinh Nhu and sister-in-law Madame Nhu. They also
bemoaned the politicization of the military, whereby regime
loyalists who were members of the Ngo family's covert Can Lao
Party were readily promoted ahead of more competent officers who
were not insiders. Dong was supported in the conspiracy by his
brother-in-law Lieutenant Colonel Nguyen Trieu Hong, whose uncle
was a prominent official in a minor opposition party. The main
link in the coup was Dong's commanding officer Thi, whom he
persuaded to join the plot. The coup caught the Ngo family
completely off-guard, but was also chaotically executed. The
plotters neglected to seal the roads leading into the capital
Saigon to seal off loyalist reinforcements, and they hesitated
after gaining the initiative. After initially being trapped inside
the Independence Palace, Diem stalled the coup by holding
negotiations and promising reforms, such as the inclusion of
military officers in the administration. In the meantime,
opposition politicians joined the fray, trying to exploit Diem's
position. However, the president's real aim was to buy time for
loyalist forces to enter the capital and relieve him. The coup
failed when the 5th and 7th Divisions of the ARVN entered Saigon
and defeated the rebels. More than four hundred people-many of
whom were civilian spectators-were killed in the ensuing battle.
These included a group of anti-Diem civilians who charged across
the palace walls at Thi's urging and were cut down by loyalist
gunfire. Dong and Thi fled to Cambodia, while Diem berated the
United States for a perceived lack of support during the crisis.
Afterwards, Diem ordered a crackdown, imprisoning numerous
anti-government critics and former cabinet ministers. Those that
assisted Diem were duly promoted, while those that did not were
demoted. A trial for those implicated in the plot was held in
1963. Seven officers and two civilians were sentenced to death in
absentia, while 14 officers and 34 civilians were jailed. Diem's
regime also accused the Americans of sending Central Intelligence
Agency members to assist the failed plot. When Diem was
assassinated after a 1963 coup, those jailed after the 1960 revolt
were released by the new military junta.
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Today, November 11, 2025November 11, 1942: The European Civil
War: World War II: The Second European War (The European Theater
Of World War II): The North African Campaign: The Western Desert
Campaign (The Desert War): Case Anton (Operation Anton, Fall
Anton)): -- France's Zone Libre (French: Free Zone) is occupied by
German forces the day after Germany and Italy invaded Vichy France
in response to French Admiral Francois Darlan's agreement to an
armistice with the Allies in North Africa. The Zone Libre was a
partition of the French metropolitan territory during World War
II, established at the Second Armistice at Compiegne on 22 June
1940. It lay to the south of the demarcation line and was
administered by the French government of Marshal Philippe Petain
based in Vichy, in a relatively unrestricted fashion. To the north
lay the zone occupee ("occupied zone") in which the
powers of Vichy France were severely limited. In November 1942,
the zone libre was invaded by the German and Italian armies in
Case Anton, as a response to Operation Torch, the Allied landings
in North Africa. Thenceforth, the zone libre and zone occupee were
renamed the zone sud (southern zone) and zone nord (northern zone)
respectively. From then on both were under German military
administration. The invasion and occupation marked the end of the
Vichy regime as a nominally-independent state and the disbandment
of its army (the severely-limited Armistice Army), but it
continued its existence as a puppet government in Occupied France.
One of the last actions of its armed forces before their
dissolution was the scuttling of the French fleet in Toulon to
prevent it from falling into Axis hands.
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Winston
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Today, November 11, 2025November 11, 1942: The European Civil
War: World War II: The Second European War (The European Theater
Of World War II): The North African Campaign: The Western Desert
Campaign (The Desert War): The Battles Of El Alamein: The Second
Battle Of El Alamein: -- The much-contested port city of Tobruk in
Libya is at last captured from General Rommel's Afrika Korp forces
by the British Eighth Army under General Montgomery, with the city
remaining in Allied hands thereafter; Winston Churchill would
later say in THE HINGE OF FATE "It may almost be said,
'Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had
a defeat'". Seven days prior, on November 4, the British
Eighth Army troops led by Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery
defeated the German Afrika Korps troops under General Field
Marshal Erwin Rommel at El Alamein in northern Egypt after a
twelve-day battle, a critical offensive to expel the Axis armies
from Egypt; disobeying a direct order by Adolf Hitler, Rommel then
led his forces on a five-month retreat.
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The Yom
Kippur War: The 1973 Arab-Israeli War MP4 Video Download DVD
Today, November 11, 2025November 11, 1973: The Cold War: The Cold
War (1962-1979): The Cold War Era Of Stagnation (1964-1982): The
Arab Cold War (July 23, 1952 - February 11, 1979): The
Arab-Israeli Conflict: The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: The Yom
Kippur War (The Ramadan War, The October War, The 1973
Arab-Israeli War, The Fourth Arab-Israeli War): -- Egypt and
Israel sign a formal cease-fire agreement sponsored by the United
States. This was followed the with a disengagement agreement on
January 18 the next year. Hostilities between Israel and Syria
continued, and on February 4. 1974, 500 Cubans joined a Syrian
tank division at Mount Hermon in an attack against Israeli forces,
sparking a war of attrition in the Golan Heights. It ended only on
May 31 with a ceasefire between Israel and Syria. The Yom Kippur
War started on October 6, 1973 as Egypt and Syria launched attacks
on Israeli positions on the East Bank of the Suez and the Golan
Heights. The Yom Kippur War, Ramadan War, or October War, also
known as the 1973 Arab-Israeli War, was a war fought by a
coalition of Arab states led by Egypt and Syria against Israel
from October 6 to 25, 1973. The fighting mostly took place in the
Sinai and the Golan Heights, territories that had been occupied by
Israel since the Six-Day War of 1967. Egyptian President Anwar
Sadat wanted also to reopen the Suez Canal. Neither specifically
planned to destroy Israel, although the Israeli leaders could not
be sure of that. On October 25, 1973, The Yom Kippur War ended
when Egypt and Israel accepted the October 22 United Nations
Security Council Resolution order to bring a ceasefire in the Yom
Kippur War. The resolution called for the return of the combatant
forces of both sides to the position they held on October 22, when
the first of two cease fires came into effect, and a further
contained a request from the United Nations Secretary-General to
undertake measures toward the placement of observers to supervise
the cease fire. The resolution was adopted with 14 votes to none;
the People's Republic Of China did not participate in the voting.
By October 24, the Israelis, who had improved their positions
considerably and completed their encirclement of the Egyptian
Third Army and Suez City, came within 100 kilometres (62 mi) of
the Egyptian capital of Cairo. This development led to dangerously
heightened tensions between the United States and the Soviet
Union, and a second ceasefire was imposed cooperatively on that
date, a ceasefire that became official on October 25, 1973,
officially ending the war.
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Today, November 11, 2025November 11, 1869: #BOTD: Victor Emmanuel
III Of Italy (Italian: Vittorio Emanuele III, Albanian: Viktor
Emanueli III, Amharic: Vitoriyo Amanu'eli), the last king of Italy
(d. December 28, 1947) is #born Vittorio Emanuele Ferdinando Maria
Gennaro di Savoia in Naples, Kingdom of Italy. Victor Emmanuel III
reigned as King of Italy from July 29 1900 until his abdication on
May 9 1946. He also held the thrones of Ethiopia and Albania as
Emperor of Ethiopia (1936-1941) and King of the Albanians
(1939-1943). During his reign of nearly 46 years, which began
after the assassination of his father Umberto I, the Kingdom of
Italy became involved in two world wars. His reign also
encompassed the birth, rise, and fall of Italian Fascism and its
regime. During the First World War, Victor Emmanuel III accepted
the resignation of Prime Minister Paolo Boselli and named Vittorio
Emanuele Orlando (the premier of victory) in his place. Following
the March on Rome, he appointed Benito Mussolini as Prime Minister
and later deposed him in 1943 during the Allied invasion of Italy
of the Second World War. Victor Emmanuel abdicated his throne in
1946 in favour of his son Umberto II, hoping to strengthen support
for the monarchy against an ultimately successful referendum to
abolish it. He then went into exile to Alexandria, Egypt, where he
died and was buried the following year in Saint Catherines's
Cathedral of Alexandria. In 2017 his remains were returned to rest
in Italy, following an agreement between Italian President Sergio
Mattarella and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. Victor
Emmanuel was also called by some Italians Sciaboletta ("little
saber"), due to his height of 1.53 m (5 ft 0 in), and il Re
soldato (the Soldier King), for having led his country during both
world wars. Victor Emmanuel III died on December 28, 1947 of
pulmonary congestion while in exile in Alexandria, Egypt at the
age of 45.
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The
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Today, November 11, 2025November 11: National Independence Day
(Poland): -- November 11, 1918: Marshal Jozef Pilsudski assumes
supreme military power in Poland. Jozef Klemens Pilsudski, Polish
statesman who served as the Chief of State (1918-1922) and First
Marshal of Poland (from 1920) was considered the de facto leader
(1926-35) of the Second Polish Republic as the Minister of
Military Affairs until his death. November 11 was a day of
military ceremony since 1920. The holiday was constituted in 1937
and was celebrated only twice before World War II. After the war,
the communist authorities of the People's Republic removed
Independence Day from the calendar, though reclamation of
independence continued to be celebrated informally on November 11.
The holiday was officially replaced by the National Day of
Poland's Revival as Poland's National Day, celebrated on July 22
anniversary of the communist PKWN Manifesto under Joseph Stalin.
In particular, during the 1980s, in many cities, including Warsaw,
informal marches and celebrations were held, with the outlawed
Solidarity Movement supporters participating. Typically these
marches were brutally dispersed by the communist militarized
police forces, with many participants arrested by the security
police. During this time November 11 Independence Day marches,
alongside the Constitution Day on May 3 celebration gatherings,
also banned by the communist authorities, were the customary dates
of demonstrations by the opponents of the communist regime. As
Poland emerged from communism in 1989, the original holiday, on
its original November 11 date, was restored.
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Japan:
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Today, November 11, 2025November 11: Pocky Day (Japan): -- An
opportunity for fans of Pocky - a delicious, slightly sweet
biscuit in a coating of easily-snackable flavored icing - to
gather and show their appreciation for the treat. Pocky is one of
the most popular treats in Japan and is even served in bars
alongside a glass of ice water. Pocky is made of a breadstick
coated in chocolate and served in boxes. The treat was created by
Ezaki Glico, a food corporation, in 1963. Though It became popular
almost instantly, it was messy to eat, often leading to rivers of
chocolate running down the fingers. So, to satisfy their
customers, Glico went back to the drawing board and came up with
several solutions for their popular candy. In a burst of
inspiration, the company came up with the genius idea of removing
chocolate from a portion of the candy and leaving it with a
handle. From that one decision, a sensation named Rocky was born.
However, in 2014, Rocky was changed to Pocky, the name we know and
love. Pocky comes in many unusual flavors, such as honey and
kiwifruit mango. The Men's Pocky is a mature, bittersweet version
of milk chocolate Pocky. The regional flavors of Pocky include
Yubari melon, Kobe wine, grape, giant Mikan, powdered tea azuki
bean, and five-fusion berry. Other flavors like banana, coffee,
lychee, caramel, melon, marble royal milk tea, Daim bar, milk,
honey and milk, cream cheese, berry, sweet potato, coconut, crush,
corn on the cob, pineapple, pumpkin, kinako, Brazilian pudding,
marron, tomato, cherry, and green tea are also available. Pocky
Day was created by Ezaki Glico in 1999 to celebrate the worldwide
sensation. The holiday is an excellent time for Pocky lovers to
eat as much Pocky as they want.
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Today, November 11, 2025November 11, 1911: Natural Disasters:
Natural Disasters In The United States: The Great Blue Norther Of
November 11, 1911 (The Great Blue Norther Of 11/11/11, 11/11/11):
-- In what is widely considered to be the strangest and most
anomalous weather event in American history, many cities in the
Midwestern United States break their record highs and lows on the
same day as a strong cold front rolls through on a Saturday. The
Great Blue Norther affected the Central and Midwestern 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. This is the only day in many midwest cities' weather bureau
jurisdictions where the record highs and lows were broken for the
same day. Some cities experienced tornadoes on Saturday and a
blizzard on Sunday. A blizzard even occurred within one hour after
an F4 tornado hit Rock County, Wisconsin. The front produced
severe weather and tornadoes across the upper Mississippi Valley,
a blizzard in Ohio, and the windy conditions upon front passage
caused a dust storm in Oklahoma. Alongside the dramatic
temperature swings, the cold front brought a destructive tornado
outbreak to parts of the Midwest. At least 12 tornadoes touched
down across five states as the system moved through, resulting in
13 fatalities. Hundreds of structures were destroyed by the storms
and many areas had to conduct search and rescue missions amidst
blizzard conditions. According to Thomas P. Grazulis, this
outbreak was one of the worst on record in November for the
north-central States.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The
Iron Major 1943 Pat O'Brien Ruth Warrick Robert Ryan MP4 Video DVD
Today, November 11, 2025November 11, 1909: #BOTD: #HBD! Robert
Ryan, American stage, film and television actor, voice actor,
World War II Marine drill instructor, pascifism and civil rights
activist, best known for his portrayals of hardened cops and
ruthless villains (d. July 11, 1973) is #born Robert Bushnell Ryan
in Chicago, Illinois. Ryan performed for over three decades. He
was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for
his role in the film noir drama Crossfire (1947), which deals with
the theme of anti-Semitism and is the first B movie to receive a
best picture nomination. He was the narrator of the CBS News
production World War 1, shown on the CBS television network during
the 1964-1965 television season to commemorate the fiftieth
anniversary of the start of the war. Though Ryan served as a
Marine drill instructor, he came to share the pacifist views of
his wife Jessica, who was a Quaker. In the late 1940s, as the
House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) intensified its
anti-Communist attacks on Hollywood, he joined the short-lived
Committee for the First Amendment. Throughout the 1950s, he
donated money and services to civic and religious organizations
such as the American Civil Liberties Union, American Friends
Service Committee, and United World Federalists. In September
1959, he and Steve Allen became founding co-chairs of The
Committee for a SANE Nuclear Policy's Hollywood chapter. By the
mid-1960s, Ryan's political activities included efforts to fight
racial discrimination. He served in the cultural division of the
Committee to Defend Martin Luther King Jr., and helped organize
the short-lived Artists Help All Blacks, with Bill Cosby, Robert
Culp, Sidney Poitier, and several other actors. Ryan often spoke
about the dichotomy of his personal beliefs and his acting roles.
At a screening of Odds Against Tomorrow, he appeared before the
press to discuss "the problems of an actor like me playing
the kind of character that in real life he finds totally
despicable." Ryan's roles as cynical, prejudiced, violent
characters, often ran counter to the causes he embraced. He was a
pacifist who starred in war movies, westerns, and violent
thrillers. He was an opponent of McCarthyism, but appeared in the
anti-communist propaganda film I Married a Communist, playing a
nefarious communist agent. In socially progressive films such as
Crossfire, Bad Day at Black Rock, Odds Against Tomorrow and
Executive Action, he played bigoted villains or conspirators.
Robert Ryan died of lung cancer in New York City, aged 63, a year
after the death of his beloved wife Jessica, also of cancer. He
remains were cremated, and the ashes scattered at a location not
publicly known.
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Today, November 11, 2025November 11, 1899: #BOTD: #HBD! Pat
O'Brien, American stage, film, radio and television actor with
more than 100 screen credits (d. October 15, 1983) is #born
William Joseph Patrick O'Brien to an Irish-American Catholic
family in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He often played Irish and
Irish-American characters and was referred to as "Hollywood's
Irishman in Residence" in the press. One of the best-known
screen actors of the 1930s and 1940s, he played priests, cops,
military figures, pilots, and reporters. He is especially
well-remembered for his roles in Knute Rockne, All American
(1940), Angels with Dirty Faces (1938), and Some Like It Hot
(1959). He was frequently paired onscreen with Hollywood legend
James Cagney. O'Brien also appeared on stage and television.
O'Brien also appeared in 1971 as "The General" in an
episode of Alias Smith and Jones called "Shootout at Diablo
Station". Pat O'Brien died of a heart attack in Santa Monica,
California, at age 83, following minor prostate surgery. President
Ronald Reagan released a White House statement noting his sadness
over his old friend's death. The president had called the actor at
the hospital just days before his death. He is buried at Holy
Cross Cemetery in Culver City, Los Angeles County, California.
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Today, November 11, 2025November 11, 1901: #BOTD: #HBD! Richard
Lindner, German-American painter (d. April 16, 1978) is #born in
Hamburg, Germany. His mother Mina Lindner was American and born in
New York as daughter of German Jewish parents. In 1905 the family
moved to Nuremberg, where Lindner's mother was owner of a
custom-fitting corset business and Richard Lindner grew up and
studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule (Arts and Crafts School), now
the Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg. From 1924 to 1927 he lived in
Munich and studied there from 1925 at the Kunstakademie. In 1927
Lindner moved to Berlin and stayed there until 1928, when he
returned to Munich to become art director of a publishing firm. He
remained in Munich until 1933, when as a Jew he was forced to flee
the Nazis to Paris. Once in Paris, Lindner became politically
engaged, sought contact with French artists and earned his living
as a commercial artist. He was interned when World War II broke
out in 1939 and later served in the French Army. In 1941, Lindner
moved to the United States and worked in New York City as an
illustrator of books and magazines. There he made contact with New
York artists and German emigrants such as Albert Einstein, Marlene
Dietrich, and Saul Steinberg. In 1948, Lindner became an American
citizen. In 1952, Lindner started teaching at the Pratt Institute,
Brooklyn. In 1957 Lindner received the William and Norma Copley
Foundation-Award. In 1965, he became Guest Professor at the
Hochschule fur bildende Kunste in Hamburg, Germany. His paintings
at this time used the sexual symbolism of advertising and
investigated definitions of gender roles in the media. In 1967,
Lindner moved to Yale University School of Art and Architecture,
New Haven. Richard Lindner died in 1978. He was buried at
Westchester Hills Cemetery in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York. One of
Lindner's paintings, "Boy With Machine," 1954, appears
on the cover-leaf of French philosopher Gilles Deleuze's 1972 book
Anti-Oedipus, and thus the image has formed part of many readers'
introduction to Deleuze's later and more accessible philosophy.
Richard Lindner's Boy with Machine is the first quote of Gilles
Deleuze's Anti-Oedipus. Richard Lindner appeared in the second row
on The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album cover.
Richard Lindner died of undisclosed causes in New York at the age
of 76. He is buried at Westchester Hills Cemetery in
Hastings-on-Hudson, New York.
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Today, November 11, 2025November 11, 1904: #BOTD: Alger Hiss,
American lawyer and convicted spy for the Soviet Union (d.
November 15, 1996) is #born in Baltimore, Maryland. He was an
American government official who was accused of being a Soviet spy
in 1948 and convicted of perjury in connection with this charge in
1950. Before he was tried and convicted, he was involved in the
establishment of the United Nations both as a U.S. State
Department official and as a U.N. official. In later life he
worked as a lecturer and author. On August 3, 1948, Whittaker
Chambers, a former U.S. Communist Party member, testified under
subpoena before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)
that Hiss had secretly been a Communist, while in federal service.
Called before HUAC, Hiss categorically denied the charge. Richard
Nixon first gained national attention in August 1948 when, as a
HUAC member, his persistence helped break the Alger Hiss spy case;
while many committee members doubted Chambers' allegations, Nixon
believed them, and received secret information from the FBI about
the matter, and pressed for the committee to continue its
investigation. When Chambers repeated his claim on nationwide
radio, Hiss filed a defamation lawsuit against him. During the
pretrial discovery process, Chambers produced new evidence
indicating that he and Hiss had been involved in espionage, which
both men had previously denied under oath to HUAC. A federal grand
jury indicted Hiss on two counts of perjury; Chambers admitted to
the same offense but, as a cooperating government witness, was
never charged. Although Hiss' indictment stemmed from the alleged
espionage, he could not be tried for that crime because the
statute of limitations had expired. After a mistrial due to a hung
jury, Hiss was tried a second time. In January 1950, he was found
guilty on both counts of perjury and received two concurrent
five-year sentences, of which he eventually served three and a
half years. Hiss maintained his innocence until his death.
Arguments about the case and the validity of the verdict took
center stage in broader debates about the Cold War, McCarthyism,
and the extent of Soviet espionage in the United States. Since
Hiss' conviction, statements by involved parties and newly exposed
evidence have added to the dispute. Author Anthony Summers argued
that since many relevant files continue to be unavailable, the
Hiss controversy will continue to be debated. In 2001, James
Barron, a staff reporter for The New York Times, identified what
he called a "growing consensus that Hiss, indeed, had most
likely been a Soviet agent.". Alger Hiss died of emphysema at
Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City, four days after his 92nd
birthday. His body was cremated, and his ashes were scattered in
East Hampton, Long Island, New York. Hiss' friends and family
continue to insist on his innocence, though a growing body of
evidence refutes this, including revelations by KGB double agent
Oleg Gordievsky that Hiss was a World War II Soviet agent whose
codename was ALES.
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Today, November 11, 2025November 11, 2004: #DOTD: Yasser Arafat,
Palestinian engineer and politician, Chairman of the Palestine
Liberation Organization (PLO) from 1969 to 2004 and President of
the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) from 1994 to 2004, 1st
President of the Palestinian National Authority, Nobel Prize
laureate (b. August 24, 1929) #dies; he was pronounced dead at
03:30 UTC at the age of 75 of what French doctors called a massive
hemorrhagic cerebrovascular accident (hemorrhagic stroke);
however, Arafat's medical records were initially withheld by
senior Palestinian officials, and Arafat's wife refused an autopsy
because they were Muslim. The Palestine Liberation Organization
confirmed the death of Yasser Arafat, but did not unidentify the
cause. The Palestinian people went into a state of mourning, with
Qur'anic mourning prayers emitted from mosque loudspeakers
throughout the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, and tires burned in
the streets. The Palestinian Authority and refugee camps in
Lebanon declared 40 days of mourning. Mahmoud Abbas was elected
chairman of the PLO minutes later. Yasser Arafat is buried in a
concrete mausoleum at The Muqataa , the Palestinian Authority
headquarters in Ramallah, West Bank, Palestine. Yasser Arafat was
born Mohammed Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf al-Qudwa al-Husseini in
Cairo, Egypt. Ideologically an Arab nationalist and a socialist,
he was a founding member of the Fatah political party, which he
led from 1959 until 2004. Arafat was born to Palestinian parents
in Cairo, Egypt, where he spent most of his youth and studied at
the University of King Fuad I. While a student, he embraced Arab
nationalist and anti-Zionist ideas. Opposed to the 1948 creation
of the State of Israel, he fought alongside the Muslim Brotherhood
during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. Following the defeat of Arab
forces, Arafat returned to Cairo and served as president of the
General Union of Palestinian Students from 1952 to 1956. In the
latter part of the 1950s Arafat co-founded Fatah, a paramilitary
organization seeking the removal of Israel and its replacement
with a Palestinian state. Fatah operated within several Arab
countries, from where it launched attacks on Israeli targets. In
the latter part of the 1960s Arafat's profile grew; in 1967 he
joined the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) and in 1969
was elected chair of the Palestinian National Council (PNC).
Fatah's growing presence in Jordan resulted in military clashes
with King Hussein's Jordanian government and in the early 1970s it
relocated to Lebanon. There, Fatah assisted the Lebanese National
Movement during the Lebanese Civil War and continued its attacks
on Israel, resulting in it becoming a major target of Israel's
1978 and 1982 invasions. From 1983 to 1993, Arafat based himself
in Tunisia, and began to shift his approach from open conflict
with the Israelis to negotiation. In 1988, he acknowledged
Israel's right to exist and sought a two-state solution to the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In 1994 he returned to Palestine,
settling in Gaza City and promoting self-governance for the
Palestinian territories. He engaged in a series of negotiations
with the Israeli government to end the conflict between it and the
PLO. These included the Madrid Conference of 1991, the 1993 Oslo
Accords and the 2000 Camp David Summit. The success of the
negotiations in Oslo led to Arafat being awarded the Nobel Peace
Prize, alongside Israeli Prime Ministers Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon
Peres, in 1994. At the time, Fatah's support among the
Palestinians declined with the growth of Hamas and other militant
rivals. In late 2004, after effectively being confined within his
Ramallah compound for over two years by the Israeli army, Arafat
fell into a coma and died. While the cause of Arafat's death has
remained the subject of speculation, investigations by Russian and
French teams determined no foul play was involved. Arafat remains
a controversial figure. Palestinians generally view him as a
martyr who symbolized the national aspirations of his people.
Israelis regarded him as a terrorist. Palestinian rivals,
including Islamists and several PLO leftists, frequently denounced
him as corrupt or too submissive in his concessions to the Israeli
government.
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Today, November 11, 2025November 11, 1930: Great Inventions: --
Patent number US1781541 is awarded to Albert Einstein and and his
former student Leo Szilard for their invention, The
Einstein-Szilard Refrigerator, also known as The Einstein
Refrigerator, invented in 1926. This refrigerator is an absorption
refrigerator which has no moving parts, operates at constant
pressure, and requires only a heat source to operate. The three
working fluids in this design are water, ammonia, and butane. The
Einstein refrigerator is a development of the original three-fluid
patent by the Swedish inventors Baltzar Von Platen and Carl
Munters. From 1926 until 1934 Einstein and Szilard collaborated on
ways to improve home refrigeration technology. The two were
motivated by contemporary newspaper reports of a Berlin family who
had been killed when a seal in their refrigerator failed and
leaked toxic fumes into their home. Einstein and Szilard proposed
that a device without moving parts would eliminate the potential
for seal failure, and explored practical applications for
different refrigeration cycles. Einstein had worked in the Swiss
Patent Office, and used his experience to apply for valid patents
for their inventions in several countries. The two were eventually
granted 45 patents in six countries for three different models. It
has been suggested that most of the actual inventing was done by
Szilard, with Einstein merely acting as a consultant and helping
with the patent-related paperwork, but others assert that Einstein
contributed design work to the project. The refrigerator was less
efficient than existing appliances, although having no moving
parts made it more reliable; the introduction of Freon to replace
refrigerant gases toxic to humans made it even less attractive
commercially. The Great Depression of 1929 dried up funding for
development, and the widespread political violence in Nazi
Germany, where the inventors lived, particularly towards Jews such
as Einstein and Szilard, contributed to the device's lack of
commercial success. (The inventors fled Germany in the early
1930s.) It was not immediately put into commercial production,
although the most promising of the patents were quickly bought up
by the Swedish company Electrolux. Einstein and Szilard earned 750
USD (the equivalent of 10K USD in 2017). A few demonstration units
were constructed from other patents. One variant, the
Einstein-Szilard electromagnetic refrigerator used a
Einstein-Szilard electromagnetic pump to compress a working gas,
pentane. Although the refrigerator was not a commercial success,
the Einstein-Szilard pump was later used for cooling breeder
reactors, where its inherent reliability and safety were
important. In 2008, electrical engineers at Oxford University's
Energy and Power Group, part of the university's Department of
Engineering Science, revived the Einstein refrigerator as an
attempt to produce a refrigerator suitable for use in rural areas
without electricity. The group, led by Malcolm McCulloch noted
that the design was still "nowhere near commercialised",
but might allow the efficiency of the original Einstein-Szilard
design to be quadrupled.
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Today, November 11, 2025November 11, 1831: #DOTD: #RIP: Nat
Turner, African American slave who led a two-day rebellion of
slaves and free blacks in Southampton County, Virginia on August
21, 1831 (b. October 2,1800) #dies by execution, having been
tried, convicted, and sentenced to death, for leading Nat Turner's
Slave Rebellion, also known as The Southampton Insurrection, on
August 21, when black slaves and free blacks joined in a rebellion
in Southampton County, Virginia. His burial details are unknown.
Nat Turner's Rebellion, also known as the Southampton
Insurrection, caused the death of approximately sixty white men,
women and children. Whites organized militias and called out
regular troops to suppress the uprising. In addition, white
militias and mobs attacked blacks in the area, killing an
estimated 120, many of whom were not involved in the revolt; no
one was arrested, tried or executed for these crimes. The rebels
went from plantation to plantation, gathering horses and guns,
freeing other slaves along the way, and recruiting other blacks
who wanted to join their revolt. During the rebellion, Virginia
legislators targeted free blacks with a colonization bill, which
allocated new funding to remove them, and a police bill that
denied free blacks trials by jury and made any free blacks
convicted of a crime subject to sale and relocation. In the
aftermath, the state tried those accused of being part of Turner's
slave rebellion, 18 were executed, 14 were transported out of
state and several were acquitted. Turner hid successfully for two
months. When found, he was tried, convicted, sentenced to death,
hanged and possibly beheaded. Across Virginia and other southern
states, state legislators passed new laws to control slaves and
free blacks. They prohibited education of slaves and free blacks,
restricted rights of assembly for free blacks, withdrew their
right to bear arms (in some states), and to vote (in North
Carolina, for instance), and required white ministers to be
present at all black worship services.
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Today, November 11, 2025November 11, 1993: #DOTD: #RIP: Erskine
Hawkins, African American jazz trumpet player and bandleader from
Birmingham, Alabama, known by the monniker "The 20th Century
Gabriel", most remembered for composing the jazz standard
"Tuxedo Junction" (1939) with saxophonist and arranger
Bill Johnson (b. July 26, 1914) #dies at his home in Willingboro
Township, New Jersey in November 1993, after a brief visit with
his sister in Alabama before he was able to return to resume
playing with his band at the Concord at the age of 79. He is
buried in Elmwood Cemetery, alongside his sister, in Birmingham,
Alabama. Erskine Hawkins was born Erskine Ramsay Hawkins in
Birmingham, Alabama, named after Alabama industrialist Erskine
Ramsay, who was rewarding parents with savings accounts for them
for doing so, in Birmingham, Alabama. Erskine Hawkins is most
remembered for composing the jazz standard "Tuxedo Junction"
(1939) with saxophonist and arranger Bill Johnson. The song became
a popular hit during World War II, rising to No. 7 nationally
(version by the Erskine Hawkins Orchestra) and to No. 1 nationally
(version by the Glenn Miller Orchestra). Vocalists who were
featured with Erskine's orchestra include Ida James, Delores
Brown, and Della Reese.
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: TV
Commercials: The Classics Vol. 4 DVD, Video Download, USB Drive
Today, November 11, 2025November 11, 1925: #BOTD: #HBD! Jonathan
Winters, American comedian, actor, author, artist and screenwriter
American (d. April 11, 2013) is #born Jonathan Harshman Winters
III in Dayton, Ohio. Beginning in 1960, Winters recorded many
classic comedy albums for the Verve Records label. He also had
records released every decade for over 50 years, receiving 11
Grammy nominations for Best Comedy Album during his career and
winning a Grammy Award for Best Album for Children for his
contribution to an adaptation of The Little Prince in 1975 and the
Grammy Award for Best Spoken Comedy Album for Crank(y) Calls in
1996. With a career spanning more than six decades, Winters also
appeared in hundreds of television show episodes/series and films
combined, including eccentric characters on The Steve Allen Show,
The Garry Moore Show, The Wacky World of Jonathan Winters
(1972-74), Mork and Mindy, Hee Haw, and It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad
World. He also voiced Grandpa Smurf on The Smurfs TV series from
1986 to the show's conclusion in 1989. Over twenty years later,
Winters was introduced to a new generation through voicing Papa
Smurf in The Smurfs (2011) and The Smurfs 2 (2013). Winters died
nine days after recording his dialogue for The Smurfs 2; the film
was dedicated in his memory. In 1991, Winters won the Primetime
Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series for
playing Gunny Davis in the short-lived sitcom Davis Rules. 1999
saw Winters became the 2nd recipient of the prestigious Mark Twain
Prize for American Humor. In 2002, he was nominated for the
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy
Series for his performance as Q.T. Marlens on Life with Bonnie.
Winters was presented with a Pioneer TV Land Award by Robin
Williams in 2008. Winters also spent time painting and presenting
his artwork, including silkscreens and sketches, in many gallery
shows. He authored several books. His book of short stories,
titled Winters' Tales (1988), made the bestseller lists. Jonathan
Winters died of natural causes during a Montecito, California
evening, at the age of 87. He was survived by his two children,
Jonathan ("Jay") Winters IV and Lucinda Winters, and
five grandchildren. He was cremated and his ashes were given to
his family.
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Today, November 11, 2025November 11, 2004: #DOTD: #RIP: Dayton
Allen, comedian and voice actor (b. September 24, 1919) #dies in
Hendersonville, North Carolina aged 85 of complication from a
stroke. His burial details are not publicly disclosed. Dayton
Allen was born Dayton Allen Bolke in New York City. He was best
known as one of the "men in the street" on The Steve
Allen Show, where his catchphrase was a drawn-out "Why not!".
He is also famous for his children's television work on Winky Dink
And You and Howdy Doody in the 1950s. In the 1960s he was best
known for the cartoons he voiced, such as Deputy Dog and Heckle
And Jeckle, as well as the live action chimpanzee show Lancelot
Link, Secret Chimp. Like Art Carney, Allen began his career in
radio. In 1937-1938 WINS (AM) hired him as a disc jockey. His "Why
Not?" gag began when he joined the cast of the NBC Sunday
night variety show that Allen began hosting to compete against Ed
Sullivan on CBS. It was a stalling ad-lib to an interview
question; then it caught on. Allen used it for television
commercials and saw novelty toys, a book and a record spin off
from the "Why not?" phenomenon. In its day, fans were
shouting "Why not?" as often as Mad Magazine's famous
"What? Me Worry?" After his show business career ended,
Allen became a wealthy real estate agent, operating out of an
office in Dobbs Ferry, New York, where he refused offers to return
to the entertainment industry.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: America
At War With Robert Vaughn 13 Episodes + Bonus MP4 Download DVD
Today, November 11, 2025November 11, 2016: #DOTD: #RIP: Robert
Vaughn, American actor noted for his stage, film and television
work, best-known for TV roles include suave spy Napoleon Solo in
the 1960s series The Man from U.N.C.L.E.; wealthy detective Harry
Rule in the 1970s series The Protectors; Morgan Wendell in the
1978-79 mini series "Centennial"; formidable General
Hunt Stockwell in the 5th season of the 1980s series The A-Team;
and grifter and card sharp Albert Stroller in the British
television drama series Hustle (2004-2012), for all but one of its
48 episodes (b. November 22, 1932) #dies in a hospice in Danbury,
Connecticut, eleven days before his 84th birthday, after a
year-long treatment for leukemia. His remains were cremated, and
the ashes given to his widow Linda Staab. Robert Vaughn was born
Robert Francis Vaughn in New York City. He also appeared in the
British soap opera Coronation Street as Milton Fanshaw, a love
interest for Sylvia Goodwin between January and February 2012. In
film, he portrayed quiet, skittish gunman Lee in The Magnificent
Seven, Major Paul Krueger in The Bridge at Remagen, the voice of
Proteus IV, the computer villain of Demon Seed, Walter Chalmers in
Bullitt, Ross Webster in Superman III, and war veteran Chester A.
Gwynn in The Young Philadelphians which earned him a 1960 Academy
Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. He has narrated
numerous television documentary series such as Reaching for the
Skies and America At War.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Outer
Space Films 2: Project Gemini DVD, Video Download, USB Drive
Today, November 11, 2025November 11, 1966: Rocket Launches: The
History Of Rocketry: The History Of Spaceflight: The Aftermath Of
World War II: The Cold War: The Space Age: The Space Race: Space
Programs Of The United States: Human Spaceflight Programs: Project
Gemini: Gemini 12 (Gemini XII): -- Gemini 12 begins the 10th and
final mission of the Gemini program when its Atlas/Agena Target
Vehicle is launched at 2:07:59 PM EST, and the Gemini SC12 atop
its Titan II GLV rocket lifts off from the Cape Kennedy LC-19
launch site. All launch vehicle systems performed nominally during
powered flight, but at staging there was a recurrence of the first
stage oxidizer tank rupture first seen on Gemini 10's launch. On
Gemini 12, the fuel tank appeared to have also ruptured as a white
cloud was seen emitting from the spent stage along with the orange
nitrogen tetroxide. Another episode of a Gemini Program nuisance
problem code named "Green Man" also occurred at SECO,
referring to momentary pitch oscillations of the Titan second
stage following engine cutoff caused by pressure buildup in the
second stage protective skirt. Gemini 12 (officially Gemini XII)
was the 18th crewed American spaceflight, and the 26th spaceflight
of all time, including X-15 flights over 100 kilometers (54 nmi).
Commanded by Gemini VII veteran James A. Lovell, the flight
featured three periods of extravehicular activity (EVA) by rookie
Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, lasting a total of 5 hours and 30
minutes. It also achieved the fifth rendezvous and fourth docking
with an Agena target vehicle. With this successful conclusion of
the Gemini program, the mission achieved the last of the program's
goals by successfully demonstrating that astronauts can
effectively work outside of spacecraft. This was instrumental in
paving the way for the Apollo program to achieve its goal of
landing a man on the Moon by the end of the 1960s.
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Today's
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Records Presents Theodore (Brother Theodore) MP3, CD, USB Stick
Today, November 11, 2025November 11, 1906: #BOTD: #HBD! Brother
Theodore, German-American comedian, actor, screenwriter and
monologuist (d. April 5, 2001) is #born Theodore Isidore Gottlieb
into a wealthy Jewish family in Dusseldorf, Rhine Province, German
Empire. Brother Theodore was known for rambling,
stream-of-consciousness dialogues which he called "stand-up
tragedy". He was a man described as "Boris Karloff,
surrealist Salvador Dali, Nijinsky and Red Skelton -
simultaneously". Gottlieb was born into a wealthy Jewish
family in Dusseldorf, in the Rhine Province, where his father was
a magazine publisher. He attended the University of Cologne. At
age 32, under Nazi rule, he was imprisoned at the Dachau
concentration camp until he signed over his family's fortune for
one Reichsmark. After being deported for chess hustling from
Switzerland, he went to Austria where Albert Einstein, a family
friend and alleged lover of his mother, helped him escape to the
United States. He worked as a janitor at Stanford University,
where he demonstrated his prowess at chess by beating 30
professors simultaneously, and later became a dockworker in San
Francisco. He played a bit part in Orson Welles' 1946 movie The
Stranger. This was one of the several movie appearances he made
beginning in the 1940s and continuing into the 1990s. These were
mostly small parts in B-movies, although he did provide the voice
of Gollum in the 1977 made-for-television animated version of The
Hobbit and the follow-up adaptation of The Return of the King
(1980). He also voiced Ruhk, Mommy Fortuna's assistant and
carnival barker in The Last Unicorn (1982). Theodore's career as a
monologuist began in California in the late 1940s, with dramatic
Poe recitals. He moved to New York City, and by the 1950s, his
monologues, now darkly humorous, had attracted a cult following.
In 1958, he presented a one-man show that promoted the idea that
human beings should walk on all fours. Jay Landesman booked him at
St. Louis' Crystal Palace during the 1960s. In the early 1960s, he
frequently performed at the Cafe Bizarre in New York's Greenwich
Village (106 W 3rd Street). He reached a wider audience through
television, with 36 appearances on The Merv Griffin Show in the
1960s and '70s, and was also a guest on The Tonight Show Starring
Johnny Carson, The Dick Cavett Show, and The Joey Bishop Show.
After his nightclub and TV appearances in the 1950s and '60s
waned, he retired in the mid-1970s. He was pulled out of
retirement and booked by magician Dorothy Dietrich and Dick Brooks
in the Magic Towne House on the affluent Upper East Side of
Manhattan for special weekend midnight performances. Years
earlier, Brooks had remembered seeing Brother Theodore drawing
packed crowds at small, funky and eclectic clubs all across the
Lower East Side (Greenwich and the East Village) and sought him
out for his new club. This resulted in a resurgence of interest in
Brother Theodore that brought him success in his later years
starting with Tom Snyder's Tomorrow Show in 1977 followed by more
TV appearances and movies. According to Brooks, it took multiple
calls to Theodore to convince him to make a comeback. Theodore's
attitude was very bleak, and he felt his career was over. Brooks
wanted to charge ten or more dollars, but Theodore insisted on
four dollars, so as not to scare people away. The show was a
success and ran for three years. A picture of the Magic Towne
House ad appeared in local New York newspapers such as the Village
Voice and The New York Post. Theodore made 16 appearances on NBC's
Late Night with David Letterman in the 1980s. In the early 1980s,
he was a regular on the Billy Crystal Comedy Hour. He also did
voice work, including the voice-over to the American trailer for
Lucio Fulci's The House by the Cemetery in 1981. In 1989 he
appeared in the Joe Dante comedy film The 'Burbs. Up until the
late 1990s, he was a guest actor in several episodes of Joe Frank:
Work in Progress radio show on National Public Radio (NPR). Just
prior to his death from pneumonia, he recorded several monologues
for the controversial documentary series, Disinfo Nation. He
appeared in Billy Crystal's mockumentary Don't Get Me Started and
voiced the character of an ointment expert on NPR's Weekend
Edition Saturday version of Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer
in 1995. Theodore died in New York City on April 5, 2001, at the
age of 94. He is buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Hawthorne,
New York. His headstone reads: Known as Brother Theodore / Solo
Performer, Comedian, Metaphysician / "As Long as There Is
Death, There Is Hope".
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Mister
Rock And Roll (1957) Alan Freed Chuck Berry DVD Download USB
Today, November 11, 2025November 11, 1929: #BOTD: #HBD! LaVern
Baker, American R & B singer who had several hit records on
the pop chart in the 1950s and early 1960s, the most successful
records being "Soul on Fire" (1953), "Tweedle Dee"
(1955), "Jim Dandy" (1956), and "I Cried a Tear"
(1958) (d. March 10, 1997) is #born Delores Evans in Chicago,
Illinois. Some sources refer to Delores LaVern Baker as Delores
Williams, the name by which she was known during her early
marriage to Eugene Williams. Baker began singing in Chicago clubs
such as the Club DeLisa around 1946, often billed as Little Miss
Sharecropper, and first recorded under that name in 1949. She
changed her name briefly to Bea Baker when recording for Okeh
Records in 1951 and then was billed as LaVern Baker when she sang
with Todd Rhodes and his band in 1952. In 1953 she signed with
Atlantic Records as a solo artist, her first release being "Soul
on Fire". Her first hit came in early 1955, with the
Latin-tempo "Tweedle Dee", which reached number 4 on the
R & B chart and number 14 on the national US pop chart.
Georgia Gibbs recorded a note-for-note cover of the song, which
reached number 1; subsequently Baker made an unsuccessful attempt
to sue her and petitioned Congress to consider such covers
copyright violations. Baker had a succession of hits on the R &
B charts over the next couple of years with her backing group, the
Gliders, including "Bop-Ting-a-Ling" (number 3 R &
B), "Play It Fair" (number 2 R & B), and "Still"
(number 4 R & B). At the end of 1956 she had another hit with
"Jim Dandy" (number 1 R & B, number 17 pop), which
sold over one million copies and was certified as a gold disc.
Further hits followed for Atlantic, including the follow-up "Jim
Dandy Got Married" (number 7 R & B), "I Cried a
Tear" (number 2 R & B, number 6 pop in 1958, with sax by
King Curtis), "I Waited Too Long" (number 5 R & B,
number 3 pop, written by Neil Sedaka), "Saved" (number
17 R & B, written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller), and "See
See Rider" (number 9 R & B in 1963). In addition to
singing, she did some work with Ed Sullivan and Alan Freed on TV
and in films, including Rock, Rock, Rock and Mr. Rock & Roll.
In 1964, she recorded a Bessie Smith tribute album. She then left
Atlantic for Brunswick Records, for which she recorded the album
Let Me Belong to You. Baker toured Australia in 1957 as part of
Lee Gordon's Big Show, performing with a number of rock 'n' roll
bands including Bill Haley and the Comets. She appeared in the
film Rock, Rock, Rock! (1956). In 1966, Baker recorded a duet
single with Jackie Wilson. The controversial song, "Think
Twice", featured raunchy lyrics considered inappropriate for
airplay at that time or even today. Three versions were recorded,
one of which is the version with the raunchy lyrics. Baker and the
comedian Slappy White were married in 1959. After the couple was
divorced in 1969, Baker signed on for a USO tour. She became
seriously ill with bronchial pneumonia after a trip to Vietnam.
While recovering at the U.S. naval base at Subic Bay, in the
Philippines, a friend recommended that she stay on as the
entertainment director at the Marine Corps Staff NCO club there.
She remained there for 22 years, returning to the United States
after the base was closed in 1988. In 1988 she performed at
Madison Square Garden for Atlantic Records' 40th anniversary. She
then worked on the soundtracks of the films Shag (1989), Dick
Tracy (1990) and A Rage in Harlem (1991), all of which were issued
on CD. She performed a song for Alan Parker's film Angel Heart
(1987), which appeared on the original vinyl soundtrack album but
was not included on the later CD issue "for contractual
reasons". In 1990, she made her Broadway debut, replacing
Ruth Brown as the star of the hit musical Black and Blue. In 1991,
Rhino Records released a new album, Live in Hollywood, recorded at
the Hollywood Roosevelt Cinegrill, and a compilation of her
greatest Atlantic hits, Soul on Fire. In 1992, she recorded a
well-received studio album, Woke Up This Morning, for DRG Records.
She continued performing after both legs were amputated because of
complications due to diabetes in 1994. Baker made her last
recording, "Jump into the Fire," for the 1995 Harry
Nilsson tribute CD, For the Love of Harry, on the Music Masters
label. In 1990 Baker was among the first eight recipients of the
Pioneer Award from the Rhythm and Blues Foundation. In 1991, she
became the second female solo artist inducted into The Rock And
Roll Hall Of Fame, following Aretha Franklin in 1987. Her song
"Jim Dandy" was named one of The Rock And Roll Hall Of
Fame's 500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll and was ranked number
343 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of
All Time. Baker died of cardiovascular disease on March 10, 1997,
at the age of 67. She was buried in an unmarked plot in Maple
Grove Cemetery, in Kew Gardens, New York. Local historians raised
funds for a headstone, which was erected on May 4, 2008.
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