Today In History

Today is Friday, Nov. 11, the 316th day of 2016. There are 50 days left in the year. This is Veterans Day in the U.S., Remembrance Day in Canada.

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT 1918:

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

ON THIS DATE

1620: Forty-one Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower, anchored off Massachusetts, signed a compact calling for a “body politick.” 1831: Former slave Nat Turner, who’d led a violent insurrection, was executed in Jerusalem, Virginia.

1889: Washington became the 42nd state.

1916: “Mountain Interval,” a collection of Robert Frost poems, including “The Road Not Taken” and “Out, Out” was published by Henry Holt and Co.

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.

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. ›

1996: Phan Thi Kim Phuc, who as a 9-yearold girl was captured in a famous Associated Press photograph running naked and severely burned down a Vietnamese highway while fleeing a napalm attack, laid a wreath at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS

Jazz singer-musician Mose Allison is 89. Actress Bibi Andersson is 81. Country singer Narvel Felts is 78. The president of Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega, is 71. Rock singer Jim Peterik (Ides of March, Survivor) is 66. Golfer Fuzzy Zoeller is 65. Pop singer-musician Paul Cowsill (The Cowsills) is 65. Rock singer-musician Andy Partridge (XTC) is 63. Actress Demi Moore is 54. Actress Calista Flockhart is 52. Actor Philip McKeon is 52. Rock musician Scott Mercado is 52. Actor Frank John Hughes is 49. TV personality Carson Kressley is 47. Actor David DeLuise is 45. Actor Adam Beach is 44. Actor Tyler Christopher is 44. Actor Leonardo DiCaprio is 42. NFL quarterback Mark Sanchez is 30. Actress Christa B. Allen is 25. Actor Tye Sheridan is 20. Actor Ian Patrick is 14.