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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_11" title="November 11">November 11</a></b>: <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armistice_Day" title="Armistice Day">Armistice Day</a></b>; <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remembrance_Day" title="Remembrance Day">Remembrance Day</a></b> in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_of_Nations" title="Commonwealth of Nations">Commonwealth of Nations</a>; <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singles%27_Day" title="Singles' Day">Singles' Day</a></b> in China; <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veterans_Day" title="Veterans Day">Veterans Day</a></b> in the United States
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1778" title="1778">1778</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War" title="American Revolutionary War">American Revolutionary War</a>: British forces and their <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iroquois" title="Iroquois">Iroquois</a> allies <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherry_Valley_massacre" title="Cherry Valley massacre">attacked a fort and the village</a></b> of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherry_Valley_(village),_New_York" title="Cherry Valley (village), New York">Cherry Valley, New York</a>, killing 14 soldiers and 30 civilians.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1805" title="1805">1805</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_the_Third_Coalition" title="War of the Third Coalition">War of the Third Coalition</a>: French, Austrian and Russian units suffered heavy losses at the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_D%C3%BCrenstein" title="Battle of Dürenstein">Battle of Dürenstein</a></b>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960" title="1960">1960</a><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960_South_Vietnamese_coup_attempt" title="1960 South Vietnamese coup attempt">A coup attempt</a></b> by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army_of_the_Republic_of_Vietnam" title="Army of the Republic of Vietnam">Army of the Republic of Vietnam</a> against President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ngo_Dinh_Diem" title="Ngo Dinh Diem">Ngô Đình Diệm</a> was crushed after he falsely promised reform, allowing loyalists to rescue him.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975" title="1975">1975</a> – During <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Australian_constitutional_crisis" title="1975 Australian constitutional crisis">a constitutional crisis</a></b>, Governor-General <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kerr_(governor-general)" title="John Kerr (governor-general)">John Kerr</a> dismissed Prime Minister <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gough_Whitlam" title="Gough Whitlam">Gough Whitlam</a>'s government and dissolved the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliament_of_Australia" title="Parliament of Australia">Parliament of Australia</a> for a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_dissolution" title="Double dissolution">double-dissolution</a> election.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrimad_Rajchandra" title="Shrimad Rajchandra">Shrimad Rajchandra</a></b>  (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1867); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Gascoigne" title="Ben Gascoigne">Ben Gascoigne</a></b>  (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1915); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Teresa_de_Filippis" title="Maria Teresa de Filippis">Maria Teresa de Filippis</a></b>  (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1926)</p>