Today in History – Veterans Day

TODAY IN HISTORY - 11/11:

1918 - Armistice signed by the Allies and Germany comes into effect, WW I hostilities end at 11.00 am
1939 - Kate Smith 1st sings Irving Berlin's "God Bless America"
2009 - 43rd Country Music Association Award: Taylor Swift & Brad Paisley wins 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY / ANNIVERSARY TO:

1885 - George S Patton, San Gabriel, California, US general (Sicily/Italy/Normandy) "Old Blood & Guts", (d. 1945)
1922 - Kurt Vonnegut Jr, Ind, author (Slaughterhouse Five, Sirens of Titan)
1962 - Demi Moore, [Guynes], Roswell NM, actress (Ghost, Striptease, GI Jane)
1974 - Leonardo DiCaprio, Los Angeles California, American actor (The Departed, Inception, The Wolf of Wall Street)
1964 - Calista Flockhart, American actress 

GOODBYE TO:

2004 - Yasser Arafat, co-founder and Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, revolutionary and nobel prize winner dies in Paris at 75
To see more historical events that happened this date, visit:  http://www.historyorb.com/day/november/11

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