November 11 in history — What Happened Today in History

The House of Lords Act is given Royal Assent, restricting membership of the British House of Lords by virtue of a hereditary peerage.

A sculpture honoring women who served in the Vietnam War is dedicated at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.

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

Space Shuttle Columbia launches from the Kennedy Space Center on STS-5, the first operational mission of the Space Shuttle program.

Antigua and Barbuda joins the United Nations.

A munitions explosion at a train station in Iri, South Korea kills at least 56 people.

Australian constitutional crisis of 1975: Australian Governor-General Sir John Kerr dismisses the government of Gough Whitlam, appoints Malcolm Fraser as caretaker Prime Minister and announces a general election to be held in early December.

Independence of Angola.

Vietnam War: Vietnamization: The United States Army turns over the massive Long Binh military base to South Vietnam.

Vietnam War: Operation Commando Hunt initiated. The goal is to interdict men and supplies on the Ho Chi Minh trail, through Laos into South Vietnam.

Vietnam War: In a propaganda ceremony in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, three American prisoners of war are released by the Viet Cong and turned over to "new left" antiwar activist Tom Hayden.

NASA launches Gemini 12.

Southern Rhodesia's Prime Minister Ian Smith unilaterally declares the colony independent as the unrecognised state of Rhodesia.

United Air Lines Flight 227 crashes at Salt Lake City International Airport, killing 43.

Kuwait's National Assembly ratifies the Constitution of Kuwait.

Thirteen Italian Air Force servicemen, deployed to the Congo as a part of the UN peacekeeping force, are massacred by a mob in Kindu.

A military coup against President Ngô Đình Diệm of South Vietnam is crushed.

The People's Liberation Army Air Force is founded.

World War II: France's zone libre is occupied by German forces in Case Anton.

The Turkish parliament passes the Varlık Vergisi, a capital tax mostly levied on non-Muslim citizens with the unofficial aim to inflict financial ruin on them and end their prominence in the country's economy.

World War II: In the Battle of Taranto, the Royal Navy launches the first all-aircraft ship-to-ship naval attack in history.

World War II: The German auxiliary cruiser Atlantis captures top secret British mail from the Automedon, and sends it to Japan.

The Shrine of Remembrance is opened in Melbourne, Australia.

Patent number US1781541 is awarded to Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd for their invention, the Einstein refrigerator.

The United States Numbered Highway System is established.

Adolf Hitler is arrested in Munich for high treason for his role in the Beer Hall Putsch.

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

The Industrial Workers of the World attack an Armistice Day parade in Centralia, Washington, ultimately resulting in the deaths of five people.

Sofía Luini, Argentine tennis player

Jean-Gabriel Pageau, Canadian ice hockey player

Christa B. Allen, American actress

Kaho Onodera, Japanese curler

Tom Dumoulin, Dutch road bicycle racer

James Segeyaro, Papua New Guinean rugby league player

Georginio Wijnaldum, Dutch footballer

Nick Blackman, English-Israeli footballer

Joe Ragland, American basketball player

Adam Rippon, American figure skater

Reina Tanaka, Japanese singer

Lewis Williamson, Scottish race car driver

David Depetris, Argentinian-Slovak footballer

Carol Ann Susi, American actress (born 1952)

John Barnhill, American basketball player and coach (born 1938)

Domenico Bartolucci, Italian cardinal and composer (born 1917)

Bob Beckham, American singer-songwriter (born 1927)

John S. Dunne, American priest and theologian (born 1929)

Atilla Karaosmanoğlu, Turkish economist and politician, 33rd Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey (born 1931)

Lam Adesina, Nigerian educator and politician, Governor of Oyo State (born 1939)

Joe Egan, English rugby player and coach (born 1919)

Rex Hunt, English lieutenant, pilot, and diplomat, Governor of the Falkland Islands (born 1926)

Victor Mees, Belgian footballer (born 1927)

Harry Wayland Randall, American photographer (born 1915)

Francisco Blake Mora, Mexican lawyer and politician, Mexican Secretary of the Interior (born 1966)

Marie Osborne Yeats, American actress and costume designer (born 1911)