41st year - Nr 315 Wednesday, 11 November 2026

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41st year - Nr 315 Wednesday, 11 November 2026

11 November / Today's 26 Events:

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(+) 533 years ago He Was Next to Celsus Saturday 11th of November 1493 Physician, botanist, alchemist, astrologer and occultist Paracelsus, originally Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim is born in Egg, Einsiedeln, Schwyz, Switzerland.

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(-) 302 years ago Saturday 11th of November 1724 Highwayman Joseph Blake aka Blueskin is executed by hanging at the age of 24 in Tyburn Tree, Tyburn, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(+) 205 years ago Sunday 11th of November 1821 Writer Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky is born in Ul. Dostoevskogo 2, Moscow, Central Federal District, Russia.

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(-) 171 years ago Sunday 11th of November 1855 Philosopher, theologian and social critic Søren Aabye Kierkegaard dies of Pott disease at the age of 42 in Frederiks Hospital, Bredgade, Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark.

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(-) 146 years ago It Came to This Thursday 11th of November 1880 Bushranger, outlaw and gang leader Ned Edward Kelly is executed by hanging at the age of 26 in Melbourne Gaol, Russell Street, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Kelly's last words were "Ah, well, I suppose it has come to this".

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(+) 141 years ago Wednesday 11th of November 1885 War leader George Smith Patton aka Old Blood and Guts is born in San Gabriel, California, United States.

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(+) 125 years ago Wurde ein Engel Geboren Monday 11th of November 1901 Wife of Joseph Goebbels Magda Johanna Maria Magdalena Ritschel aka Engelchen is born in Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

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(+) 122 years ago Friday 11th of November 1904 Government official and presumed Soviet spy Alger Hiss is born in Baltimore, Maryland, United States.

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(+) 104 years ago Saturday 11th of November 1922 Writer Kurt Vonnegut is born in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States.

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(+) 97 years ago Monday 11th of November 1929 Writer and poet Hans Magnus Enzensberger known for his essay ‘Versuch über den Radikalen Verlierer’ is born in Kaufbeuren, Bayern, Germany.

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(-) 88 years ago Friday 11th of November 1938 Asymptomatic carrier of the pathogen associated with typhoid fever Mary Mallon aka Typhoid Mary dies of pneumonia at the age of 69 in Riverside Hospital, North Brother Island, New York, New York, United States. Mallon spent her life in quarantine at the Riverside Hospital since 27 March 1915. Six years before her death she was paralyzed by a stroke. An autopsy found evidence of live typhoid bacteria in her gallbladder.

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(+) 55 years ago Thursday 11th of November 1971 Murderer Ron Scott Shamburger is born in Longview, Texas, United States.

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(x) 53 years ago Sunday 11th of November 1973 25-year-old Serial killer Edmund Emil Kemper aka The Co-ed Killer is sentenced to 8 life-sentences to be served in in California Medical Facility, Vaccaville, California, United States.

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(-) 51 years ago Tuesday 11th of November 1975 Postal worker and would-be assassin Richard Paul Pavlick dies of natural causes at the age of 88 in Veterans Administration Hospital, 718 Smyth Road, Manchester, New Hampshire, United States.

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(+) 50 years ago Thursday 11th of November 1976 Double murderer Ryan Heath Dickson is born in Little Rock, Arkansas, United States.

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(-) 50 years ago Thursday 11th of November 1976 Sculptor Alexander 'Sandy' Calder dies of a heart attack at the age of 78 in New York City, New York, United States.

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(-) 49 years ago Friday 11th of November 1977 Mary Muldoon is beaten, shot and drowned by serial killer Gerald Stano aka Blind Fury in Daytona Beach, Florida, United States.

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(x) 44 years ago Thursday 11th of November 1982 33-year-old Member of the Rote Armee Fraktion and Sozialistisches Patientenkollektiv Brigitte Margret Ida Mohnhaupt is arrested in Dietzenbacher Straße, Heusenstamm, Hessen, Germany. Mohnhaupt was caught along with Adelheid Schulz entering a Rote Armee Fraktion arms cache which had been staked out by GSG 9 policemen for three weeks.

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(x) 40 years ago Tuesday 11th of November 1986 180 die in Oklele ferry sinking in Gonâve Island, Haiti.

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(-) 37 years ago Saturday 11th of November 1989 Frances 'Franny' Brown is raped, beaten and strangled by serial killer Arthur Shawcross aka The Genesee River Killer in Seth Green Drive, Rochester, New York, United States.

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(x) 29 years ago Tuesday 11th of November 1997 56-year-old Besun Yu and 46-year-old Jun Gao are shot dead by 35-year-old Serial killer Louis James Peoples in the course of a robbery in Village Oaks Market, Stockton, California, United States.

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(x) 26 years ago Saturday 11th of November 2000 155 die in funicular railway fire in Gletscherbahn Kaprun 2, Kaprun, Salzburg, Austria. The Austrian Nobel Prize winner Elfriede Jelinek incorporated the disaster in her 2003 play 'In den Alpen'.

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(-) 22 years ago Thursday 11th of November 2004 Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, originally Mohammed Yasser Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa dies of a massive hemorrhagic cerebrovascular accident at the age of 75 in Hôpital d'instruction des Armées Percy, Clamart, Île-de-France, France. Numerous theories have appeared regarding Arafat's death, with the most prominent being poisoning by polonium and AIDS-related illnesses, as well as liver disease or a platelet disorder.

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20 years ago The Eyes had it Saturday 11th of November 2006 Some dirt from the Hole for an exhibition in Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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(x) 6 years ago Wednesday 11th of November 2020 61-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs 'The Chance Encounter of Donny Dostoyevsky and Kelly Ned on the Hospital Bed of Mary Mallon' with Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven aka AMVK in Salon Blanc, Romestraat 30, Oostende, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. A one hour performance/installation that was only to be seen as a live stream online on YouTube.

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(x) 2 years ago Monday 11th of November 2024 62-year-old Mass murderer Fan Weiqiu known for the Zhuhai car attack drives his Beijing BJ40 SUV into people on the exercise track at the sports center, killing 38 and injuring 48 more in Zhuhai Sports Center, Zhuhai, Guangdong, China. Police said that Fan entered a coma after he cut himself in the neck and chest with a knife.

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