This date in history

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1914 Off Cocos Island, near Sumatra, the Australian cruiser 'Sydney' sinks German cruiser 'Emden', which has been attacking ships in the Pacific.

1918 Emperor Wilhelm II abdicates after German defeat in World War I

1923 Beer Hall Putsch's second day in Munich; Nazis fail to overthrow government, 16 die and Adolf Hitler flees.

1925 German NSDAP (Nazi party) forms Schutzstaffel (SS)

1979 False alarm of a Soviet ballistic missile attack by US NORAD system after technician fails to code a test properly.

1998 Capital punishment in the United Kingdom, already abolished for murder, is completely abolished for all remaining capital offences.

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1871 Henry Morton Stanley encounters David Livingstone at Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika in Central Africa, with the immortal words 'Dr Livingstone, I presume?'

1918 German Emperor Wilhelm II flees to Netherlands.

1918 Western Union Cable Office in North Sydney, Nova Scotia receives a top-secret coded message from Europe stating on November 11, 1918 all fighting would cease on land, sea and in the air.

1923 German ex-crown prince flees Netherlands for Germany.

1928 Emperor Hirohito of Japan's possession of the Imperial Regalia is publicly confirmed,

1938 Second day of Kristallnacht: pogrom against the Jews in Germany and Austria after assassination of a German diplomat in Paris.

1940 Walt Disney begins serving as an informer for the Los Angeles office of the FBI; his job is to report back information on Hollywood subversives.

1944 US 9th Army takes Margraten cemetery.

1989 Germans begin demolishing the Berlin Wall.

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1880 Australian Bushranger and outlaw Ned Kelly is hanged at Melbourne Gaol.

1918 WWI 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.

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

1923 Eternal flame lit for the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier under the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.

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

1961 Congolese soldiers murder 13 Italian UN pilots.

1983 1st US cruise missiles arrive in Great Britain.

2006 New Zealand war memorial monument unveiled by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in London, United Kingdom, commemorating the loss of soldiers from the New Zealand Army and the British Army.

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

1923 In Germany, Adolf Hitler is arrested for attempt to seize power during "Beer Hall Putsch" coup.

1926 The first recorded aerial bombing on US soil took place in Williamson County, Illinois, during a feud between rival liquor gangs, the Sheltons and the Birgers.

1927 Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Soviet Communist Party, paving the way for Joseph Stalin to consolidate complete power.

1933 First known photo of so-called Loch Ness monster is taken by Hugh Gray.

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

1942 WWII Naval Battle of Guadalcanal begins between Allied and Japanese forces in Solomon Islands.

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

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

1969 US army announces investigating William Calley for alleged massacre of civilians at Vietnamese village of My Lai.

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1941 U-81 torpedoes British aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal near Gibraltar.

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.

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1920 The Russian Bolshevik army occupies Sebastopol, ending anti-communist attempts to regain the government of Russia.

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

1993 Puerto Rico votes against becoming the 51st US state.

1994 1st trains for public run in Channel Tunnel under English Channel.

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1898 David Beatty is promoted to commander.

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

1904 King C. Gillette patents the Gillette razor blade.

1919 US Senate first invokes cloture to end a filibuster (Versailles Treaty)

1942 First flight of the Heinkel He 219.

1960 USS G Washington, first submarine with nuclear ballistic missiles, launched.

1961 UN bans nuclear arms.

1971 Intel advertises 4004-processor.

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

1948 Operation Magic Carpet begins with first plane from Yemen carrying Jews to Israel.

1969 1968 Mỹ Lai massacre of between 347 and 504 unarmed South Vietnamese civilians by US soldiers is first reported.

1998 Monica Lewinsky signs a deal for the North American rights to a book about her affair with US President Clinton.

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1998 Monica Lewinsky signs a deal for the North American rights to a book about her affair with US President Clinton.

the signed book leaf of the copy she sent her former POTUS read: Bill; U gave me a thrill! Now I'm rakin' it in; at the till! Oy vey! MonicaBBY

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1869 Suez Canal in Egypt opens, linking Mediterranean and Red seas.

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

1973 US President Richard Nixon tells AP "...people have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook"

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

1916 British General Douglas Haig finally calls off the first Battle of the Somme in World War I after more than 1 million soldiers had been killed or wounded.

1943 444 British bombers attack Berlin.

1943 U-211 sinks in Atlantic Ocean.

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

1956 Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev says the phrase "we will bury you!" to Western ambassadors at a reception at the Polish embassy in Moscow.

1983 Argentina announces its ability to produce enriched uranium for nuclear weapons.

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1863 US President Abraham Lincoln delivers his Gettysburg address beginning; "Four score and seven years ago..."

1919 US Senate rejects the Treaty of Versailles by a vote of 55 to 39; Congress two years later approves resolution ending hostilities with Germany and Austria-Hungary.

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

1943 U-536 sinks in Atlantic Ocean.

1944 World War II: U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt announces the 6th War Loan Drive, aimed at selling $14 billion USD in war bonds to help pay for the war effort.

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

1952 North American F-86 Sabre sets world aircraft speed record, 1124 KPH

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1815 Second Treaty of Paris: France and her allies agree France will pay indemnities after Battle of Waterloo, ending the Napoleonic Wars.

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 Admiral Nomura & Kurusu hands over Japanese last diplomatic note.

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

1943 U-538 sinks in Atlantic Ocean.

1944 First Japanese suicide submarine attack (Ulithi Atoll, Carolines)

1945 The Nuremberg war trials begin as 24 Nazi leaders are put on trial before judges representing the Allied powers.

1986 World Health Organization announces first global effort to combat AIDS.

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

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.

1942 Adolf Hitler names field marshal Erich von Manstein commander of the newly-created Army Group Don (Heeresgruppe Don)

1943 7 Belgian ministers in London criticise King Leopold III for surrendering to Germany.

1963 US President John F. Kennedy flies to Texas (assassinated the next day)

1967 Vietnam War: American General William Westmoreland tells news reporters: "I am absolutely certain that whereas in 1965 the enemy was winning, today he is certainly losing."

2017 Robert Mugabe's resignation after 37 years in power is read out in Zimbabwe's parliaments during impeachment proceedings.

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1905 British, Italian, Russian, French and Austro-Hungarian fleet attacks Lesbos.

1941 British cruiser Devonshire sinks German auxiliary cruiser Atlantis.

1942 Adolf Hitler orders Rommel's Africa Korps to fight to the last man.

1963 US President John F. Kennedy assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald while riding in an open-topped motorcade in Dallas, Texas.

1963 Lyndon B. Johnson sworn in as the 36th US President after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

1968 First interracial TV kiss (Star Trek - Captain Kirk and Uhura)

1990 Margaret Thatcher announces her resignation as British Prime Minister.

2005 Angela Merkel becomes the first female Chancellor of Germany.