TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT Nov. 11, 1918

Fighting in World War I ended as the Allies and Germany signed an armistice in the Forest of Compiegne.

ALSO ON THIS DATE 1620

41 Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower, anchored off Massachusetts, signed a compact calling for a “body politick.”

1778

British redcoats, Tory rangers and Seneca Indians in central New York killed more than 40 people in the Cherry Valley Massacre.

1831

Former slave Nat Turner, who’d led a violent insurrection, was executed in Jerusalem, Virginia.

1917

Liliuokalani, Hawaii’s first and only queen and its last monarch, died in Honolulu at age 79.

1921

The remains of an unidentified American service member were interred in a Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery in a ceremony presided over by President Warren G. Harding.

1966

Gemini 12 blasted off on a four-day mission with astronauts James A. Lovell and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin Jr. aboard; it was the tenth and final flight of NASA’s Gemini program.

1972

The U.S. Army turned over its base at Long Binh to the South Vietnamese, symbolizing the end of direct U.S. military involvement in the Vietnam War.