EST. DECEMBER 1994 β’ 30+ YEARS ONLINE
yow.com π―
Owned continuously since 1994
TODAY IN HISTORY
November 11
Wednesday, November 11, 2026
Day 315 of 2026 | Week 46 | 44 days until Christmas π
HISTORIC EVENTS
A vehicle-ramming attack in Zhuhai, China, kills 38 people and injures 48.
Russo-Ukrainian War: Ukrainian armed forces enter the city of Kherson following a successful two-month southern counteroffensive.
Typhoon Vamco makes landfall in Luzon and several offshore islands, killing 67 people. The storm causes the worst floods in the region since Typhoon Ketsana in 2009.
A strong earthquake with the magnitude 6.8 hits northern Burma, killing at least 26 people.
A helicopter crash just outside Mexico City kills seven, including Francisco Blake Mora the Secretary of the Interior of Mexico.
Queen Elizabeth II unveils the New Zealand War Memorial in London, United Kingdom, commemorating the loss of soldiers from the New Zealand Army and the British Army.
New Zealand Tomb of the Unknown Warrior is dedicated at the National War Memorial, Wellington.
The Palestine Liberation Organization confirms the death of Yasser Arafat from unidentified causes. Mahmoud Abbas is elected chairman of the PLO minutes later.
A Fokker F27 Friendship operating as Laoag International Airlines Flight 585 crashes into Manila Bay shortly after takeoff from Ninoy Aquino International Airport, killing 19 people.
Russian mathematician Grigori Perelman posts the first of three preprint texts with his proof of the PoincarΓ© conjecture. It remains the only of the Millennium Prize Problems in mathematics to be solved. He later refused both the prize money from Clay Mathematics Institute as well as the Fields Medal for his work.
FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS
American murderer (FBI Most Wanted List)
American TV writer and producer (Will & Grace)
Spanish actress (7 Vidas)
American actor (Tommy-Alice
Puerto Rican pitcher (Chicago White Sox)
American R&B
Swedish keyboardist (Europe)
Iranian-American greco-roman wrestler (Olympic silver 1992
Russian physicist and entrepreneur
American actor (As the World Turns
American bodybuilder (8x Mr. Olympia)
Cuban-American actor (The Brothers Garcia
Spanish singer
American country singer (Billy & Terry Smith)
Zambian lawyer
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