1688 - Prince William of Orange's invasion fleet sails to England
1946 - New York Knicks play their first Basketball Association of America (BAA) home game at Madison Square Garden, losing 78-68 to the Chicago Stags in overtime
1966 - NASA Gemini 12 launches on a four-day flight with Jim Lovell and Buzz Aldrin
2000 - 12th College Football Holy War: Notre Dame beats Boston College, 28-16 in South Bend
2023 - Icelandic town of Grindavík on Reykjanes peninsula evacuated after thousands of earthquakes and rising magna point to an imminent eruption
1907 - Joseph G. Hamilton, American physician who was a pioneer of using radioactive isotopes in disease treatment and diagnosis, born in Waverley, Massachusetts (d. 1957)
1962 - Demi Moore [Guynes], American actress (Ghost, Striptease, GI Jane), born in Roswell, New Mexico
1970 - Lee Parkin Starkey, English fashion designer, and daughter of Ringo Starr and his first wife Maureen, born in London
1976 - Lisa Gleave, American actress and model (The Price is Right), born in Queensland, Australia
1978 - Lou Vincent, New Zealand cricketer, born in Warkworth, New Zealand
1150 - Hartbert, bishop of Utrecht (1140-50), dies
1973 - Artturi Ilmari Virtanen, Finnish Chemist, 1945 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for inventing AIV silage and a preservation method for butter, dies at 78
1982 - Gösta Törner, Swedish hot jazz and session trumpeter and bandleader, dies at 70
2007 - Delbert Mann, American television and film director (Marty, Separate Tables, A Gathering of Eagles), dies from pneumonia at 87
2010 - William Edwin Self, American actor and television producer (b. 1921)
At the 11th hour on the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, World War I ends. At 5 a.m. that morning, Germany signed an armistice agreement with the Allies near Compiégne, France.