11-12-2004, 06:14 AM
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November 11th
1634 ~ Following pressure from Anglican bishop John Atherton, the Irish House of Commons passed "An Act for the Punishment for the Vice of Buggery" (anal sex).
1675 ~ Gottfried Leibniz demonstrated integral calculus for the first time to find the area under the y=x function.
1821 ~ Birthday of Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russian novelist.
1880 ~ Australian bushranger and bank robber Ned Kelly was hung in Melbourne.
1885 ~ Birthday of George Patton, American general.
1904 ~ Birthday of Alger Hiss, American government official, spy.
1918 ~ World War I ends: Germany signed an armistice agreement with the Allies in a railroad car outside of Compiègne in France.
1922 ~ Birthday of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Novelist.
1992 ~ The Church of England voted to allow women to become priests.
2004 ~ Death of Yasser Arafat, President of the Palestinian Authority.
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