Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/November 11

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November 11: Independence Day in Poland (1918) and Angola (1975); St. Martin's Day in the Netherlands; Remembrance Day in the Commonwealth, Armistice Day in Europe and Veterans Day in the United States.

• 1880 - Australian bank robber and bushranger Ned Kelly (pictured) was hanged in Melbourne.
• 1918 - Germany signs an armistice treaty with the Allies, ending World War I on the Western Front.
• 1965 - Ian Smith, Premier of the British Crown Colony of Southern Rhodesia, issued the Unilateral Declaration of Independence.
• 1975 - The Australian constitutional crisis of 1975 came to a head as Prime Minister Gough Whitlam was dismissed from office by Governor-General Sir John Kerr.
• 1978 - Maumoon Abdul Gayoom began his first term as President of the Maldives.

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