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1918 - The Western Union Cable Office in North Sydney, NS received a top-secret coded message from Europe (that would be sent to Ottawa, ON and Washington, DC) that said on November 11, 1918 all fighting would cease on land, sea and in the air.

1918-Fighting in World War One ceases with the signing of an armistice between Germany and the Allies at 11 am.

1940-The Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm cripples or sinks nine Italian warships in a surprise attack at Taranto.

1992-The Church of England votes by a narrow margin to allow women to be ordained as priests.

1909 - Construction of US navy base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, begins.

1918-Austria declares itself a republic, rejecting the Habsburg dynasty that had dominated Europe since 1267.

1944-The last great German battleship, 'Tirpitz', is sunk by RAF bombers in Tromso fjord, Norway.

1948-Former Japanese prime minister Hikedi Tojo and seven other wartime leaders are sentenced to death.

1990 - Tim Berners-Lee publishes a formal proposal for the World Wide Web.

1964 - Asahi Pentax releases one of their iconic cameras. The Spotmatic!

After 4 years of R&D; the stunning success of this SLR was testament to its build quality, ergonomics, and simplicity of design!
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/231/4...c2b86afce3.jpg:woot:

1558: Queen Mary I, the Cathlic monarch of England and Ireland dies and is succeeded by her 25-year-old half-sister, Elizabeth a Protestant. By her death in 1603, England will have become a major world power in every respect, and Queen Elizabeth I passed into history as one of England's greatest monarchs. Her reign is referred to properly as THE Golden Age! Still like that drink named after her sister though...the Bloody Mary http://bestbloodymaryrecipe.com/wp-c...er-150x150.jpg1914: the German 15th Corps makes a final, desperate attempt to advance against Allied positions in the Ypres Salient, the much-contested region in Flanders, Belgium. As the weather grows colder and more windy, the attempt by the 15th Corps on November 17--which Allied forces repulsed--is the last movement of the battle, as the Germans then only offer intermittent artillary blasts against the Allied lines. Five days later, amid high winds and blizzards, fighting is suspended completely, and the First Battle of Ypres comes to an halt: taking the lives of more than 10,000 British and German soldiers. headlines the next day>http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...ber18_1914.jpg

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

1477 - First English dated printed book "Dictes & Sayengis of the Phylosophers" by William Caxton.

Get out the popcorn BBY! Action on the water

1928: Walt Disney's first sound-sunchronized animated cartoon and a naval theme!!! premiers: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBgghnQF6E4 http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...oat_Willie.jpg 1959: Ben-Hur premiers-Talk about pigboats My favorite scene for those :subsim:ers who admit to ramming the target!-talk about crankn' up the "jumbos"!!:nope::http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXh1tW16V-8 http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...959_poster.jpg C'mon! it could've happened! http://www.dutchsubmarines.com/speci...bbel_cover.jpg:arrgh!:

1794 - Britain's King George III signed the Jay Treaty. It resolved the issues left over from the Revolutionary War

1998 - Vincent van Gogh's "Portrait of the Artist Without Beard" sold at auction for more than $71 million.

1985 - US President Reagan & Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet for first time.

Brevity is eloquence... and immortality

1863: Abraham Lincoln delivers a two minute speech to dedicate a battlefield cemetery at Gettysburg PA. his startlingly short speech is almost overshadowed by Edward Everett, the principal speaker, who delivers a two hour oratory-typical of the times ...but knows too what he has just heard: In a letter to Lincoln written the following day, Everett praises the President for his eloquent and concise speech, saying, "I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I came as near to the central idea of the occasion, in two hours, as you did in two minutes." Lincoln replied that he was glad to know the speech was not a "total failure". Lincoln at Gettysburg>http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...gettysburg.jpg<as depicted on my morning coffee mug! PS: that is really him! The short speech Lincoln thought he'd flubbed: "Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived, and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives, that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate, we can not consecrate – we can not hallow – this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, :nope: but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us, the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here, have, thus far, so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us – that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here gave the last full measure of devotion – that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain – that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom – and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." The world notes and remembers: it is on his monument and in every Federal building I ever worked in...

1943-US Marines began their landing on Tarawa and Makin atolls in the Gilbert Islands.

1945 - 24 Nazi leaders went before an international war crimes tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany.

1947 - Britain's Princess Elizabeth married Philip Mountbatten, Duke of Edinburgh in Westminster Abbey.

1962 - The Cuban Missile Crisis ended. The Soviet Union removed its missiles and bombers from Cuba and the US ended its blockade of the island.

1969 - Pele scores his 1,000th soccer goal.