At A Glance

11 November 2022 at a glance

Day of the week
11 November 2022 was a Friday.
UK Number One
The UK Number One single was “Anti-Hero” by Taylor Swift.
Top Film of 2022
The highest-grossing film worldwide released in 2022 was Avatar: The Way of Water.
Star sign
The star sign for 11 November is Scorpio.
Chinese zodiac
In the Chinese zodiac, 11 November 2022 fell in the Year of the Tiger.
Birthstone
The birthstone for November is Topaz.
Moon phase
The moon phase on 11 November 2022 was Waning Gibbous.

On this day: 11 November

  • 1999 The House of Lords Act is given Royal Assent, restricting membership of the British House of Lords by virtue of a hereditary peerage.
  • 2002 Russian mathematician Grigori Perelman posts the first of three preprint texts with his proof of the Poincaré 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.
  • 2004 New Zealand Tomb of the Unknown Warrior is dedicated at the National War Memorial, Wellington.
  • 2006 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.
  • 2022 Russo-Ukrainian War: Ukrainian armed forces enter the city of Kherson following a successful two-month southern counteroffensive.

Famous people born on 11 November

  • Leonardo DiCaprio, American actor and producer (born 1974)
  • Demi Moore, American actress, director, and producer (born 1962)
  • Stanley Tucci, American actor and director (born 1960)
  • Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, and philosopher (1821–1881)

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Events of 2022 in the United Kingdom

A selection from Wikipedia's '2022 in the United Kingdom'. Not a complete list.

  • 6 February – The Platinum Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II marks the 70th anniversary of her accession to the throne as Queen of the United Kingdom.
  • 8 April – The home secretary, Priti Patel, apologises for delays in accepting Ukrainian refugees, with only a quarter of the 41,000 granted visas having entered the UK so far.
  • 4 May – 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine: A new set of sanctions is announced by the government, with Russia banned from using British management consulting, accounting and PR services.

Life in 2022

Prime Minister

Rishi Sunak

Monarch

Charles III

Pint of Beer

£4.50

Loaf of Bread

£1.80

Average House

£283,615

Weekly Wage

£975.00

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