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Notable anniversaries in history for today: November 11
- 90th: 1934 - First penalty shot versus Toronto Maple Leafs, Mondou (Montreal Canadiens) unsuccessful.
- 90th: 1934 - Birth of Bibi Andersson in Sweden; actress (Scenes From a Marriage).
- 90th: 1934 - Birth of Paula Myers-Pope; American platform diver, two silver, one bronze (Olympic 1952, 1960).
- 80th: 1944 - Birth of Jesse Colin Young in New York, USA; rocker (The Youngbloods - "Soul of a City Boy").
- 80th: 1944 - New York Rangers set NHL record of 25 games without a win (0-21-4).
- 70th: 1954 - Birth of Gail Marquis; Women's Professional Basketball League forward (New York Stars, Olympic-silver-1976).
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Philip McKeon in Westbury, New York, USA; actor (Tommy - Alice, Return to Horror High).
- 50th: 1974 - Birth of Leonardo DiCaprio in Louisiana, USA; actor (Luke - Growing Pains).
- 50th: 1974 - Death of Jane Ace at age 74; actress (Easy Aces radio show).
- 40th: 1984 - Reverend Martin Luther King Sr dies in Atlanta, Georgie, USA at age 84.
- 30th: 1994 - Buena Vista Pictures releases the Walt Disney Pictures live-action feature film The Santa Clause to theaters in the USA.
- 30th: 1994 - Bill Gates pays US$30.8 million at auction in New York for Leonardo da Vinci's notebook, the Leicester Codex. The price paid is a record for a manuscript.
- 25th: 1999 - A six-story apartment building collapses in Italian city of Foggia killing more than 60 residents.
- 20th: 2004 - Death of Yasser Arafat, Palestinian leader, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (born 1929).
- 15th: 2009 - At the Greensville Correctional Center in In Jarratt, Virginia, USA, John Allen Muhammad is executed by lethal injection. Muhannad was convicted of sniper shootings that killed 10 people and terrified the Washington, D.C., region in 2002.
- 5th: 2019 - A transit of Mercury occurs.
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