Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/November 11

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 * 1778 – American Revolutionary War: British forces and their Iroquois allies attacked a fort and the village of Cherry Valley, New York, killing 14 soldiers and 30 civilians.
 * 1805 – War of the Third Coalition: French, Austrian and Russian units suffered heavy losses at the Battle of Dürenstein.
 * 1813 – War of 1812: A British–Canadian force repelled an American attack at the Battle of Crysler's Farm, forcing the United States to give up their attempt to capture Montreal.
 * 1918 – The armistice between the German Empire and the Allies was signed in a railway carriage in the Forest of Compiègne of France (signatories pictured).
 * 1920 – In London, the Cenotaph was unveiled and the Unknown Warrior was buried in Westminster Abbey in remembrance of the First World War.
 * 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.
 * 1960 – A coup attempt by the Army of the Republic of Vietnam against President Ngô Đình Diệm was crushed after he falsely promised reform, allowing loyalists to rescue him.
 * 1965 – Rhodesia, led by Prime Minister Ian Smith, unilaterally declared independence from the United Kingdom.
 * 1975 – During a constitutional crisis, Governor-General John Kerr (pictured) dismissed Prime Minister Gough Whitlam's government and dissolved the Parliament of Australia for a double-dissolution election.
 * 1999 – The House of Lords Act was given royal assent, removing most hereditary peers from the British House of Lords.
 * Born/died: | Arsacius of Tarsus |d|405| Antony the Younger |d|865| Fyodor Dostoevsky |b|1821| Martha Annie Whiteley |b|1866| |Édouard Vuillard |b|1868 David I. Walsh |b|1872| George S. Patton |b|1885| Ben Gascoigne |b|1915| Maria Teresa de Filippis |b|1926| Leonardo DiCaprio |b|1974| Abraham Sarmiento Jr. |d|1977 |Francisco Blake Mora |d|2011