November 11: Veterans Day in the United States
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Shrine of Remembrance, Melbourne
- 1215 – The Fourth Lateran Council convened, during which it was declared that belief in the Roman Catholic doctrine of transubstantiation was obligatory.
- 1500 – During the Italian War of 1499–1504, Louis XII of France and Ferdinand II of Aragon signed a secret treaty to divide the Mezzogiorno between themselves.
- 1934 – The Shrine of Remembrance (pictured), a memorial to all Australians who have served in war, opened in Melbourne.
- 1940 – Second World War: The Royal Navy launched the first all-aircraft ship-to-ship naval attack in history against the Italians in the Battle of Taranto.
- 1999 – The House of Lords Act was given royal assent, removing most hereditary peers from the British House of Lords.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky (b. 1821) · Nat Turner (d. 1831) · Leonardo DiCaprio (b. 1974)
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