11 Aban 1387

Events

• 1555 (471 years ago) French Huguenots establish the France Antarctique colony in present-day Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
• 1861 (165 years ago) American Civil War: U.S. President Abraham Lincoln appoints George B. McClellan as the commander of the Union Army, replacing General Winfield Scott.
• 1914 (112 years ago) World War I: The first British Royal Navy defeat of the war with Germany, the Battle of Coronel, is fought off of the western coast of Chile, in the Pacific, with the loss of HMS Good Hope and HMS Monmouth.
• 1945 (81 years ago) The official North Korean newspaper, Rodong Sinmun, is first published under the name Chongro.
• 1991 (35 years ago) President of the Chechen Republic Dzhokhar Dudayev declares sovereignty of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria from the Russian Federation.
• 2000 (26 years ago) Serbia and Montenegro joins the United Nations.
• 2001 (25 years ago) Turkey, Australia, and Canada agree to commit troops to the invasion of Afghanistan.
• 2012 (14 years ago) A fuel tank truck crashes and explodes in the Saudi Arabian capital Riyadh, killing 26 people and injuring 135.

Births

• 1530 (496 years ago) Étienne de La Boétie, French philosopher and judge (died 1563)
• 1636 (390 years ago) Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, French poet and critic (died 1711)
• 1880 (146 years ago) Alfred Wegener, German meteorologist and geophysicist (died 1930)
• 1924 (102 years ago) Süleyman Demirel, Turkish engineer and politician, 9th President of Turkey (died 2015)
• 1935 (91 years ago) Edward Said, Palestinian-American theorist, author, and academic (died 2003)
• 1950 (76 years ago) Robert B. Laughlin, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1960 (66 years ago) Tim Cook, American businessman and engineer, current CEO of Apple Inc.
• 1973 (53 years ago) Aishwarya Rai, Indian model and actress

Deaths

• 1700 (326 years ago) Charles II of Spain,
• 1888 (138 years ago) Nikolay Przhevalsky, Russian geographer and explorer (born 1838)
• 1894 (132 years ago) Alexander III of Russia,
• 1903 (123 years ago) Theodor Mommsen, German archaeologist, journalist, and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1817)
• 1907 (119 years ago) Alfred Jarry, French author and playwright (born 1873)
• 1955 (71 years ago) Dale Carnegie, American author and educator (born 1888)
• 1972 (54 years ago) Ezra Pound, American poet and critic (born 1885)
• 1993 (33 years ago) Severo Ochoa, Spanish-American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1905)

All 430 events, births and deaths of November 1