This date in history

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1918 Armistice signed by the Allies and Germany comes into effect and World War I hostilities end at 11am, "the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month"

1920 Great Britain's monument to her war dead, the Cenotaph in Whitehall, designed by Edwin Lutyens, unveiled.

1920 The burials of unknown soldiers take place simultaneously in Westminster Abbey, London, and at the Arc de Triomphe, Paris.

1921 US President Warren G. Harding dedicates Tomb of Unknown Soldier at Arlington Cemetery.

1923 Eternal flame lit for tomb of unknown solder, Arc de Triumph.

1940 Thousands of Paris students lay a wreath at the Grave of the Unknown Soldier.

1940 British Fleet Air Arm attack destroys half of Italian fleet at Taranto.

1940 Willys unveiled its General Purpose vehicle ("Jeep").

1942 Last German offensive in Stalingrad.

1983 First US cruise missiles arrive in Great Britain.

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1912 British explorer Robert Scott's diary & body found in Antarctica.

1938 Hermann Goering announces he wants Madagascar as a Jewish homeland.

1941 Germany's drive to take Moscow halted.

1944 RAF sinks German battleship "Tirpitz" at Tromso Fjord, Norway.

1948 Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo sentenced to death by war crimes tribunal.

1966 Buzz Aldrin takes the first 'space selfie', a photo of himself performing extravehicular activity in space during the Gemini program.

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1982 Vietnam Veterans Memorial opens in Washington D.C., featuring the names of over 58,000 US soldiers killed or missing in the Vietnam War.

2001 War on Terrorism: In the first such act since World War II, US President George W. Bush signs an executive order allowing military tribunals against foreigners suspected of connections to terrorist acts or planned acts on the United States.

2015 Terror attacks in Paris at 3 locations leave at least 129 dead. Isis claim responsibility.

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1941 British aircraft carrier Ark Royal sank in Mediterranean, having been torpedoed by a German submarine the day before.

1969 Apollo 12 (Conrad/Gordon/Bean) launched for second manned Moon landing.

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1910: the US military took its first step toward linking flight and naval operations when Eugene Ely made the first carrier takeoff, guiding a Pusher biplane off the deck of the light cruiser USS Birmingham in the waters of Norfolk, Virginia. The cruiser was equipped with an 83-foot runway on its deck, but that length meant Ely only had 57 feet to take off.
The original plan was to steam into the Chesapeake Bay and launch the plane while underway, which would provide extra lift, but it was foiled by the weather.
That afternoon, Ely launched his biplane from Birmingham's deck while the ship was as anchor.
After his wheels left the deck, Ely guided the plane toward the water to build up speed. But he misjudged, and witnesses watched as the plane smacked into the water and bounced back into the air. (GADZOOKS A SULLENBERGER on the Hudson! AHEAD OF IT'S TIME!) The collision damaged the propeller and sprayed Ely's goggles with saltwater.
After less than five minutes in the air, Ely touched down on a nearby beach. 11 months later: Ely continued flying at sites around the country, earning acclaim. But his life was ended by a crash at the Georgia State Fair on October 19, 1911. Though he was a civilian flier, Ely was posthumously awarde the Distinguished Flying Cross by the Navy in 1933

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1899 Morning Post reporter Winston Churchill captured by Boers in Natal.

1916 Canadian pilot William George Barker flying over Ancre River, spots concentration of German troops massing for counter-attack on Beaumont Hamel, sends emergency Zone Call to break up German infantry apart. Barker later receives Military Cross.

1942 First flight of the Heinkel He 219.

1967 The only fatality of the X-15 program occurs during the 191st flight when Air Force test pilot Michael J. Adams loses control of his aircraft descending from 81km, causing its mid air destruction over the Mojave Desert.

1971 Intel advertises 4004-processor.

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1776 First gun salute for an American warship in a foreign port - US Andrew Doria at Fort St Eustatius (Dutch Caribbean isalnd).

1940 In response to Germany's leveling of Coventry, England two days before, the Royal Air Force bombs Hamburg.

1948 Operation Magic Carpet - First plane from Yemen carrying Jews to Israel.

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1855 David Livingstone becomes the first European to see Victoria Falls, in what is now Zambia and Zimbabwe.

1951 Britain reports development of the world's first nuclear-powered heating system.

1965 General Meeting of UN refuses admittance of People's Republic of China.

1970 Douglas Engelbart receives the patent for the first computer mouse.

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1852 State funeral of Duke of Wellington (St Paul's Cathedral, London).

1916 General Douglas Haig finally calls off first Battle of the Somme (WWI) - over 1 million killed or wounded.

1949 The U.S. Air Force grounds B-29s after two crashes and 23 deaths in three days.

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1919 US Senate rejects (55-39) Treaty of Versailles & League of Nations.

1942 Operation Uranus: Soviet offensive begins during Battle of Stalingrad, 1 million Soviet soldiers encircle the German Sixth Army.

1950 US General Eisenhower becomes supreme commander of NATO-Europe.

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1917 First successful tank use in battle, at the Battle of Cambrai in World War I as Britain uses the new technology to break through German lines.

1941 Adm Nomura & Kurusu hands over Japanese last diplomatic note.

1941 German "auxiliary cruiser" (armed merchant raider) Kormoran sinks near Australia.

1944 First Japanese suicide submarine attack (Ulithi Atol, Carolines).

1945 24 Nazi leaders put on trial at Nuremberg, Germany.

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1791 Colonel Napoléon Bonaparte is promoted to 1st Lieutenant and appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Armies of the French Republic.

1916 HMHS Britannic sinks in the Aegean Sea after a mine explodes, killing 30 people.

1918 2 German ammunition trains explode in Hamont Belgium, 1,750 die.

1918 The German High Seas Fleet of 5 battlecruisers, 9 battleships, 7 cruisers and 49 destroyers surrendered to the British Grand Fleet and were shepherded into the Firth of Forth.

1946 Harry Truman becomes first US President to travel in a submerged submarine.

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1941 British cruiser Devonshire sinks German auxiliary cruiser Atlantis.

1963 American President John F. Kennedy assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas, Texas.

2005 Angela Merkel becomes the first female Chancellor of Germany.

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1869 In Dumbarton, Scotland, the clipper Cutty Sark is launched - one of the last clippers ever built, and the only one still surviving.

1942 German 4th & 6th Army surrounded at Stalingrad.

1942 Chinese steward Poon Lim begins 133 days adrift after British ship SS Benlomond torpedoed by german U-boat and he is the sole survivor.

1963 Debut of "Doctor Who" the long-running British sci-fi series.

1991 Freddie Mercury, 45, confirms he has AIDS the day before he dies.

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1889: We know that one of the first music-for-money playing devices was invented by Louis Glass in San Francisco. Thomas Edison had invented the phonograph in the late 1870’s, and a decade later Glass took over the reigns of Pacific Phonograph Co. as well as some other phonograph companies in the coastal states of Washington, Oregon and of course the aforementioned California. But it was in the city by the bay that he had the big idea — the one that would be forever in our hearts and become a massive icon, still revered by avid “Jukebox” collectors today.
The 44 year-old Glass, with his partner William S. Arnold, presented a device that would play a song from a wax cylinder phonograph but here’s the catch; only if you put a nickel in the machine. That first machine was called the “The nickel-in-the-slot phonograph”!
The first machine was installed at Palais Royal Saloon in San Francisco on November 23, 1889 — exactly 124 years ago today. San Francisco went bonkers for the thing: These were the days before radio and movies, and by May the following year there were 15 jukeboxes installed either in local bars or on Oakland-San Francisco ferries. Glass got a patent, and at Chicago's first annual Convention of Local Phonograph Companies of the United States, he announced that he had made just over $4,000. In nickels. Do the math: In 1913 -- as far back as the Federal Reserve Bank's online calculator goes -- $4,000 would be worth about $67,000 today. The machine was originally called the “nickel-in-the-slot player” by the entrepreneur who installed it at the Palais Royale. (A nickel then had the buying power of $1.08 today.) It came to be known as the jukebox only later, although the origin of the word remains a bit vague. It may derive from “juke house,” a slang reference to bawdy house, where music was not unknown. (FOUR 'FRISCO PEOPLE COULD LISTEN TO IT AT A TIME AND TAP THEIR TOES....IN UNISON!IT WAS SHORTLY UPGRADED....TO TEN??!!