11 Mehr 1397

Events

• 52 BC Gallic Wars: Vercingetorix, leader of the Gauls, surrenders to the Romans under Julius Caesar, ending the siege and battle of Alesia.
• 1789 (237 years ago) George Washington proclaims Thursday November 26, 1789 as Thanksgiving Day.
• 1863 (163 years ago) The last Thursday in November is declared as Thanksgiving Day by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln.
• 1943 (83 years ago) World War II: German forces murder 92 civilians in Lingiades, Greece.
• 1986 (40 years ago) TASCC, a superconducting cyclotron at the Chalk River Laboratories in Canada, is officially opened.
• 1990 (36 years ago) The German Democratic Republic is abolished and becomes part of the Federal Republic of Germany; the event is afterwards celebrated as German Unity Day.
• 2009 (17 years ago) Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Turkey join in the Turkic Council.
• 2015 (11 years ago) Forty-two people are killed and 33 go missing in the Kunduz hospital airstrike in Afghanistan.

Births

• 1889 (137 years ago) Carl von Ossietzky, German journalist and activist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1938)
• 1895 (131 years ago) Sergei Yesenin, Russian poet (died 1925)
• 1897 (129 years ago) Louis Aragon, French author and poet (died 1982)
• 1925 (101 years ago) Gore Vidal, American novelist, screenwriter, and critic (died 2012)
• 1969 (57 years ago) Gwen Stefani, American singer-songwriter, actress, and fashion designer
• 1973 (53 years ago) Lena Headey, British actress
• 1981 (45 years ago) Zlatan Ibrahimović, Swedish footballer
• 1988 (38 years ago) Alicia Vikander, Swedish actress

Deaths

• 1226 (800 years ago) Francis of Assisi, Italian friar and saint (born 1181 or 1182)
• 1896 (130 years ago) William Morris, English author and poet (born 1834)
• 1929 (97 years ago) Gustav Stresemann, German politician, Chancellor of Germany, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1878)
• 1931 (95 years ago) Carl Nielsen, Danish violinist, composer, and conductor (born 1865)
• 1967 (59 years ago) Woody Guthrie, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1912)
• 1987 (39 years ago) Jean Anouilh, French playwright and screenwriter (born 1910)
• 1988 (38 years ago) Franz Josef Strauss, Bavarian lieutenant and politician, Minister President of Bavaria (born 1915)
• 2004 (22 years ago) Janet Leigh, American actress (born 1927)

All 387 events, births and deaths of October 3