Daily Calendar – November 11

The 315th day of the year; 50 days remain until the New Year.

Church Calendar

Commemoration of the Venerable Serapion the Great, the Wonderworker, of Zarzma (900)*; the Venerable Martyr Anastasia the Roman (3rd century); the Venerable Abraham the Recluse and his niece, the Blessed Mary (360); the Martyrs Claudius, Asterius, Neon, and their sister Neonilla (285); and the Venerable Anna (826).

Born:

1524 – Pierre de Ronsard, French poet.

1729 – Louis Antoine de Bougainville, the first French navigator to circumnavigate the globe.

1821 – Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian writer. Died in 1881.

1898 – René Clair, French film director; died in 1962.

1899 – Alfred Hitchcock, American film director and producer.

1928 – Carlos Fuentes, Mexican writer.

1939 – Besik Kharanauli, poet. 1946 – Giuli Alasania, Georgian historian and specialist in historical sources.

1975 – Valerian Shiukashvili, Georgian pianist.

1974 – Leonardo DiCaprio, American film actor.

Died:

565 – Justinian I, Byzantine Emperor.

1884 – Alfred Edmund Brehm, German scientist, author of the six-volume work Animal Life (*Tierleben*).

1946 – Nikolai Burdenko, prominent Russian surgeon.

1983 – Arno Babajanyan, composer.

1986 – Vyacheslav Molotov, Soviet-era political figure.

1996 – Vanga, Bulgarian clairvoyant.

Events:

1790 – Chrysanthemums were brought to England from China for the first time.

1905 – A mutiny by sailors of the Sevastopol garrison began, led by Lieutenant Schmidt.

1919 – A two-minute silence was observed for the first time in Great Britain to honor the memory of those who died in the war. 1925 – The famous American singer Louis Armstrong recorded his first phonograph record.

1942 – During World War II, the Germans occupied southern France.

1965 – Ian Smith, the Prime Minister of Rhodesia (modern-day Zimbabwe), unilaterally declared independence.

1975 – Portugal granted independence to Angola.

1987 – Van Gogh’s painting "Irises" was sold for a record price of $53.6 million.

1997 – A law on the abolition of the death penalty was adopted in Georgia.

Notable Days:

International Week of Science and Peace.

Poland – Independence Day.

USA – Veterans Day.

Finland – Father’s Day.

Canada – Remembrance Day.