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• ... that the Boy Scouts of America celebrated their fortieth anniversary in 1950 with the theme of Strengthen the Arm of Liberty (Lady Liberty statue pictured)?
• ... that Captain Odd Isaachsen Willoch, an uncle of later Norwegian Prime Minister Kåre Willoch, was lost with his ship in 1940 during the Battles of Narvik?
• ... that in 2008, the biofuel company Mascoma received a US$26 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to develop a cellulosic fuel production facility?
• ... that Eugene Vaulot of the Waffen SS destroyed eight tanks during the Battle of Berlin in 1945, earning himself a Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross days before he was killed in action by a sniper?
• ... that one of the international polls on the 2008 U.S. presidential election found 22 percent of German women would have an affair with Barack Obama?
• ... that Nausicaä, the main character from the Hayao Miyazaki manga and film, is based on Nausicaa from the Odyssey and "The Princess Who Loved Insects", a Japanese folk hero?
• ... that when cellist George Sopkin auditioned for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at age 18, conductor Frederick Stock looked at him and remarked "so we're taking Boy Scouts now?"
• ... that Foggerty's Fairy by W. S. Gilbert included a plot device that anticipates modern fantasy and science fiction stories like the film Back to the Future?
• ...that B.P. Newman, a business entrepreneur from Laredo, began operations with a dairy distributorship but branched into restaurants, subdivisions, apartments, and ranches throughout much of Texas?
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• An accident aboard Russian submarine K-152 Nerpa kills 20, making it the worst Russian submarine disaster since Kursk.
• A shipment of cocaine, worth €750 million, is seized off the coast of Ireland in the largest such seizure in the country's history.
• A coalition consisting of the National Party (party leader John Key pictured), ACT and United Future wins a majority of seats in the Parliament of New Zealand.
• At least 94 are dead after a school collapses in Pétionville, Haiti.
• Johnson Toribiong is elected President of Palau following presidential elections.
• Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck, the world's youngest reigning monarch, is crowned the fifth Dragon King of Bhutan.
• Barack Obama of the Democratic Party becomes the first African American to be elected President of the United States.
• An airplane crashes amidst rush-hour traffic in Mexico City, killing Mexican Secretary of the Interior Juan Camilo Mouriño and 12 others.Wikinews – Recent deaths – More current events...

November 11: Independence Day in Poland (1918) and Angola (1975); St. Martin's Day in the Netherlands; Remembrance Day in the Commonwealth; Armistice Day in Europe; Veterans Day in the United States

• 1675 – German polymath Gottfried Leibniz employed integral calculus for the first time to find the area under the function y = x.
• 1918 – Germany and the Allies signed an armistice treaty