Nov. 11 (UPI) -- On this date in history: In 1831, Nat Turner, who led fellow slaves on a bloody uprising in Virginia, was hanged. Turner, an educated minister, believed he was chosen by God to lead people out of slavery. Advertisement In 1889, Washington was admitted to the union as the 42nd state. In 1918, World War I ended with the signing of the Armistice of November 11, 1918 , in a railroad car in a forest in France. In 1921, U.S. President Warren Harding dedicated the Tomb of the Unknowns