Hendry wins Dubai Classic title
1990 - The six-time world champion Steve Davis suffered his heaviest defeat in eight years at the hands of the new king of snooker, 21-year old Stephen Hendry. Hendry, who took over from Davis as World No. 1 only this year, outclassed Davis 9-1 in the final of the Dh1.4 million Dubai Duty Free Classic. In doing so, he notched up a record fourth consecutive title and his 25th successive victory in world ranking tournaments. A crowd of 1,500 witnessed history in the making and a display of total authority as Hendry moved in for the kill, taking just 33 more minutes to dispatch his one-time hero. The winner’s cheque for Dh250,000 was presented by Shaikh Ahmad Bin Saeed Al Maktoum, President of Dubai Civil Aviation and Chairman and CEO of Emirates airline and Group.
November 11
1836 - Chile declares war on Peru-Bolivia Federation.
1889 - Washington becomes the 42nd state of the United States.
1895 - British Bechuanaland is annexed to Cape Colony.
1918 - First World War ends with Germany and the Allies signing an armistice in a railroad car at Compiegne, France.
1951 - Juan Peron is elected for his second of three presidential terms in Argentina.
1965 - Ian Smith declares Rhodesian (Zimbabwe) independence, and Britain says the regime is illegal.
1972 - United States turns over its big base at Long Binh to South Vietnamese.
1975 - Australian Governor General Sir John Kerr dismisses prime minister Gough Whitlam and dissolves parliament.
1979 - Basaam Shaka, Mayor of Nablus, is taken to a maximum security prison by Israeli authorities.
1987 - UAE restores diplomatic relations with Egypt.
1986 - Two French hostages, Camille Sontag and Marcel Coudari, are freed in Beirut.
1992 - The Church of England votes to ordain women as priests.
1993 - At least 15 people are killed when 52 vehicles are involved in a blazing pileup on a highway in western France.
1995 - An avalanche buries a Japanese trekking group in the Mount Everest region in Nepal, killing 26.
1996 - Guatemalan President Alvaro Arzu makes peace with a guerrilla movement, ending 36 years of fighting.
2000 - Some 170 people are killed when an inferno engulfs a funicular train in a tunnel in the Austrian Alps.
2002 - A Fokker-27 aircraft crashes into Manila Bay, killing 16 people.
