Events
In 1919 Britain commemorated the first anniversary of Armistice Day with the first two minutes’ silence; in 1953 the BBC television programme Panorama was first broadcast.
Births
Fyodor Dostoevsky, author of Crime and Punishment (1866) and The Idiot (1868), 1821; Paul Signac, painter, pioneer of pointillism, 1863; General George S. Patton, American general who carried out the landing on the Morocco Front, 1885.
Deaths
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Johann Zoffany, German-born painter, 1810; S?ren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher, 1855; Ned Kelly, Australian outlaw, 1880; Mary Mallon, known as Typhoid Mary, Irish cook and typhoid carrier, 1938.