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History on the 11th of November

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11 Nov 1215 RELIGIOUS The Fourth Lateran Council was convened by Pope Innocent III. It was the council which first defined "transubstantiation," the Catholic belief that the bread and wine of the Eucharist change invisibly into the body and blood of Christ.
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11 Nov 1620 RELIGIOUS The "Mayflower Compact" was signed by the 41 Separatists among the passengers of the "Mayflower," serving as the basis for combining themselves "into a civil body politic." Democratic in form, the Compact comprised the first written American constitution, and remained in force until 1691.
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11 Nov 1760 RELIGIOUS English founder of Methodism John Wesley wrote in a letter: 'You cannot live on what He did yesterday. Therefore He comes today.'
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11 Nov 1793 RELIGIOUS Five months after setting sail for India, English pioneer missionary William Carey, 32, reached Calcutta. (Later, Carey founded the Baptist Missionary Society, the first of the British Protestant missions agencies.)
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11 Nov 1914 WW2 Lieutenant General Falkenhayn, Chief of the General Staff of the German Army, seeing no immediate prospect of success, called off the battle on the Yser and around Ypres on the Western Front. 
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11 Nov 1918 WW2 The armistice between the Allies and Germany went into effect at 1100 hours, ending WW1. 
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11 Nov 1918 WW2 Friedrich Christiansen scored his 13th solo kill, bringing his total to 21 (which included shared victories). 
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11 Nov 1918 WW2 Henry Arnold arrived on the front lines in France as the war was coming to an end. 
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11 Nov 1918 WW2 The nation of Poland was established. 
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11 Nov 1919 WW2 British Admiralty approved carrier Eagle for flight trials. 
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11 Nov 1920 WW2 Walter Krupinski was born in Domnau, East Prussia, Germany. 
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11 Nov 1926 WW2 Captain Seishichi Yamaguchi was named the commanding officer of Tenryu. 
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11 Nov 1932 WW2 Joseph Goebbels noted in his diary that Nazi Party debts were piling up, and the presses for Nazi Party publications were in danger of being stopped. 
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11 Nov 1935 WW2 The keel of U-27 was laid down by AG Weser in Bremen, Germany. 
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11 Nov 1935 WW2 Greek Premiere Georgios Kondylis held a plebiscite for a return of the monarchy. 98% of the Greek voters supported the proposal. 
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11 Nov 1936 WW2 Viktor Abakumov was assigned to the Department of Guards of Camps and Places of Imprisonment of the GULAG of the Soviet NKVD. 
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11 Nov 1937 WW2 Chinese troops at Xinkou, Shanxi, China abandoned the city and fell back toward Taiyuan. 
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11 Nov 1937 WW2 The Japanese army began to advance on Nanjing, China. 
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11 Nov 1938 WW2 Hungarian Regent Miklós Horthy toured territory newly gained from Czechoslovakia. 
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11 Nov 1939 WW2 The funeral of Czech student Jan Opletal, killed earlier during the Czech independence celebrations, turned into a demonstration, which was crushed by German troops. Czech universities were closed; 1,200 students are sent to camps, and 9 are sentenced to death. 
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11 Nov 1939 WW2 Adolf Hitler attended the funeral of those killed in the staged 8 Nov 1939 assassination attempt in München, Germany. 
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11 Nov 1939 WW2 In a broadcast message to the nation, Queen Elizabeth called on English women to participate in the war effort. 
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11 Nov 1940 WW2 At 2300 hours, 21 Swordfish aircraft of British carrier HMS Illustrious flew over Taranto Italy, where the Italian fleet was harbored. 11 aircraft attacked with torpedoes, sinking battleship Conte di Cavour was sunk, and damaging battleships Littorio and Caio Duilio. 10 aircraft attacked the inner harbor, causing minor damage on shore facilities. 2 aircraft were shot down (2 killed, 2 captured). 
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11 Nov 1940 WW2 At 1330 hours, British radar at Essex, England picked up incoming aircraft, which turned out to be 12 Italian BR.20M bombers and 12 CR.42 biplane fighters heading for Harwich. Hurricane fighters from No. 257, No. 46, and No. 17 Squadrons RAF were launched to intercept over the Thames Estuary, shooting down 3 bombers and 3 fighters, while damaging 2 bombers, without incurring any losses. Winston Churchill would later quip that the Italian aircraft "might have found better employment defending the fleet at Taranto", referring to the successful British raid to take place later on the same day. 
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11 Nov 1940 WW2 British destroyer HMS Vega hit a mine and was badly damaged 5 miles north of Westgate-on-Sea, Kent, England, United Kingdom while escorting a convoy; she would later be towed to Sheerness, Kent for repairs. On the same day, British minesweeping trawler HMT Stella Orion hit a mine and sank in the Thames Estuary without any casualties. 
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11 Nov 1940 WW2 British corvette Rhododendron attacked German submarine U-103 with depth charges 200 miles northwest of Ireland; U-103 would be able to escape without any damage. 
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11 Nov 1940 WW2 German armed merchant cruiser Atlantis stopped British ship Automedon with gunfire in the Bay of Bengal, killing 7 crew and 1 gunner. The crew of Atlantis boarded Automedon, capturing 87 survivors, cargos of food and cigarettes, and top secret Royal Navy documents detailing military deployment in Asia and code schemes. 
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11 Nov 1940 WW2 The US army took delivery of its first Jeep. The origin of the name is still a mystery. Some say it is from the Army designation GP (General Purpose) but others prefer the reference to a character from the Popeye cartoon strip known as Eugene the Jeep. The character could walk through walls, climb trees, fly and go just about anywhere it wanted, and it is thought that soldiers at the time were so impressed with the new vehicle’s versatility that they named it after the Jeep. 
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11 Nov 1940 WW2 No. 640 Squadron RAF recorded the first Beaufighter "kill" when a German Ju 88A aircraft was shot down with the aid of the A.I.IV radar. 
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11 Nov 1941 WW2 I-68 joined the Advance Expeditionary Force for the Pearl Harbor attack; she departed Saeki, Japan for Kwajalein, Marshall Islands. 
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11 Nov 1941 WW2 German government report published on this date noted there were 700,000 Soviet prisoners of war employed as forced laborers. 
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11 Nov 1941 WW2 American Lend-Lease program expanded to include Free France based in Britain. 
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11 Nov 1941 WW2 American destroyer Edison, en route to escort Atlantic convoy ON 34, depth charged sound contact. 
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11 Nov 1941 WW2 American destroyer Decatur, escorting Atlantic convoy HX 159, depth charged sound contact off the Grand Banks, Newfoundland. 
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11 Nov 1941 WW2 German submarine U-580 collided with target ship Angelburg and sank 33 miles west of Klaipeda, Lithuania by accident; 12 were killed, 32 survived. 
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11 Nov 1941 WW2 British Hudson aircraft of No. 53 Squadron RAF damaged German submarine U-203 with four depth charges in the Bay of Biscay at 1415 hours. 
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11 Nov 1941 WW2 German submarine U-561 sank Panamanian ship Meridian at 2335 hours, killing all 26 aboard. 
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11 Nov 1941 WW2 After dark, Soviet destroyers Stoiki and Leningrad, minelayer Ural, troop transport Andrei Zhdanov, and three minesweepers departed the island of Gogland (known in Finnish as Suursaari) in the Gulf of Finland for the Hanko Peninsula in southern Finland. After Andrei Zhdanov was sunk by a mine (7 were killed, 66 survived) and Leningrad damaged by a mine, the convoy abandoned its mission to evacuate Soviet troops from Hanko and sailed back to Gogland. 
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11 Nov 1941 WW2 Ten Japanese submarines departed from Yokosuka Naval Base in Japan for Kwajalein of the Marshall Islands, where they would proceed for US Territory of Hawaii. 
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11 Nov 1941 WW2 Kaga entered the drydocks at Sasebo Naval Shipyard, Japan. 
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11 Nov 1941 WW2 Robert Johnson completed aviation cadet training and began his service with the US Army at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States. 
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11 Nov 1942 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru departed Buin, Bougainville. 
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11 Nov 1942 WW2 Germany withdrew 25 submarines from the North Atlantic to attack the Allied shipping off North Africa; on the same day, submarine U-173 damaged destroyer USS Hambleton, oiler USS Winooski and troopship USS Joseph Hewes near Casablanca, French Morocco, sinking Joseph Hewes and killing 100. On land, the French garrison at Casablanca officially surrendered to the Americans. 
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11 Nov 1942 WW2 German 13.Panzer Division managed to avoid encirclement near Ordshonikidse, Ukraine. 
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11 Nov 1942 WW2 Allied troops pushed all Axis troops out of Egypt. 
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11 Nov 1942 WW2 British 36th Infantry Brigade landed at Bougie, Algeria unopposed. 
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11 Nov 1942 WW2 Bernard Montgomery was made a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath. 
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11 Nov 1942 WW2 USS Enterprise departed Nouméa, New Caledonia with welders still working aboard. 
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11 Nov 1942 WW2 The Japanese force at Gavaga Creek, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, under a combined US Marine and US Army attack since 9 Nov, began to fall back toaward the Metapona River to avoid envelopment. Meanwhile, the US Army 182nd Infantry Regiment (less the 3rd Batalion) arrived at Guadalcanal. 
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11 Nov 1942 WW2 USS Skipjack attacked a Japanese transport off the Palau Islands; all four torpedoes missed. 
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11 Nov 1942 WW2 Chuichi Nagumo was named the commanding officer of the Sasebo Naval District. 
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11 Nov 1942 WW2 USS S-31 departed Dutch Harbor, US Territory of Alaska. 
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11 Nov 1942 WW2 USS Helena made rendezvous with a convoy of transports off San Cristobal, Solomon Islands and escorted the convoy to Guadalcanal. 
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11 Nov 1942 WW2 Vichy France became occupied by German and Italian troops in order to defend against a potential Allied invasion. The American embassy in Vichy was seized by German troops by force. 
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11 Nov 1942 WW2 Italian naval infantry landed on Corsica, France in Operation C2. 
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11 Nov 1942 WW2 Captain Takahiko Kiyota, commanding officer of Nachi, was promoted to the rank of rear admiral in preparation for assignment as a cruiser division commander. 
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11 Nov 1942 WW2 German 6.Armee succeeded in reaching the Volga River in Stalingrad, Russia, with a 600-yard frontage near the Red October steel factory. In Germany, Hitler announced during Beer Hall Putsch celebration that Stalingrad, Russia was almost in German hands, but that he did not want to keep the city just because of its name. 
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11 Nov 1942 WW2 USS Alabama began her shakedown cruise in the Chesapeake Bay on the east coast of the United States. 
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11 Nov 1943 WW2 US warships bombarded of Iwo Jima in the Bonin Islands. 
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11 Nov 1943 WW2 SB2C Helldiver aircraft saw combat for the first time in the Solomon Islands. 
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11 Nov 1943 WW2 USS Cero damaged a small Japanese boat southeast of Japan with her deck gun. 
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11 Nov 1943 WW2 In the morning, 276 US Navy carrier aircraft (78 from USS Saratoga, 29 from USS Princeton, 69 from USS Bunker Hill, 75 from USS Essex, and 25 from USS Independence), 23 land-based US Navy F4U-1 fighters, 1 squadron of land-based US Navy F6F fighters, and 23 US Army Air Forces B-24 bombers attacked Rabaul, New Britain. While the USAAF bombers did minimal damage on Lakunai airfield, the US Navy aircraft were able to sink destroyer Suzunami (148 killed including commanding officer Captain Masao Kamiyama), damage destroyer Naganami, and damage two other destroyers. 11 Japanese aircraft were lost in this engagement. The Americans lost 4 TBF and 5 F6F aircraft in combat; 1 TBF, 2 SB2C, and 4 F6F written off due to extensive damage; and 30 aircraft lightly damaged. In response to the attack, the Japanese launched 23 D3A, 14 B5N, 4 D4Y, and 33 A6M aircraft (32 Japanese Army fighters were also launched but they lost their way) to attack the American carrier fleet; they shot down 6 US aircraft at the cost of 33 aircraft lost (including famed pilot Lieutenant Masao Sato). 
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11 Nov 1943 WW2 Shokaku departed Truk, Caroline Islands for Yokosuka, Japan. 
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11 Nov 1943 WW2 USS Alabama departed Fiji in support of the Gilbert Islands operation. 
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11 Nov 1943 WW2 Martial law was proclaimed in Lebanon following the arrest of the President of the Republic, the Prime Minister and two other Ministers. 
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11 Nov 1943 WW2 USS Bluefish sank a Japanese patrol boat with her deck gun in the Sulu Sea. 
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11 Nov 1943 WW2 Liebehenschel became the new commandant of Auschwitz Concentration Camp as his predecessor, Höss, was promoted to become the chief inspector of concentration camps. A report dated on this date noted that the total number of prisoners in Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II-Birkenau Concentration Camps and all subcamps was 54,673 men and 33,179 women, for the total of 87,852 prisoners. 
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11 Nov 1944 WW2 US Third Army established 3 bridgeheads across the Moselle River in northern France. In response, German First Armee moved its headquarters out of Metz. 
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11 Nov 1944 WW2 The Aircraft Carrier USS Lexington (CV-16) was damaged by a kamikaze attack. 
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11 Nov 1944 WW2 US 83rd Infantry Division became part of the VIII Corps of the First Army of US 12th Army Group. 
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11 Nov 1944 WW2 Destroyer Yuzuki departed Manila, Luzon, Philippine Islands, escorting carrier Junyo and cruiser Tone. 
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11 Nov 1944 WW2 In Italy, 1st Brazilian Fighter Group (12th Air Force) commenced P-47 operations in squadrons formed exclusively by their own pilots and picking their own targets. 
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11 Nov 1944 WW2 USS Sennet departed northeastern United States for the Panama Canal Zone. 
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11 Nov 1944 WW2 USS Franklin departed Ulithi, Caroline Islands. 
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11 Nov 1944 WW2 USS Permit arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, ending her fourtheenth war patrol. 
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11 Nov 1944 WW2 The first Brazilian Fighter Squadron (flying P-47D Thunderbolt aircraft) commenced operations with the 12th Air Force in Italy. 
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11 Nov 1944 WW2 The US submarine Scamp was depth charged and sunk by Japanese aircraft whilst on patrol south of Tokyo Bay, Japan. 
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11 Nov 1944 WW2 Light carrier Ryuho departed Kure, Japan and arrived at Uji, Japan later on the same day. 
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11 Nov 1944 WW2 USS Ticonderoga launched Air Group 80 aircraft for strikes on Ormoc Bay, Leyte, Philippine Islands; 3 men and 1 aircraft were lost. 
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11 Nov 1944 WW2 Allied convoy RA-61A departed the Kola Inlet near Murmansk, Russia. 
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11 Nov 1944 WW2 German V-2 rocket hit Shooters Hill, London, England, United Kingdom at 1830 hours, killing 24. 
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11 Nov 1944 WW2 USS Wake Island departed Norfolk, Virginia, United States. 
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11 Nov 1944 WW2 USS Shamrock Bay departed Norfolk, Virginia, United States. 
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11 Nov 1945 WW2 Tito was elected the first president of the soon-to-be-established Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia. 
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11 Nov 1945 WW2 USS Miami arrived at Truk, Caroline Islands to survey bombing damage to the Japanese base. 
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11 Nov 1945 WW2 Joseph Rochefort was ordered to travel from California, United States to Washington DC, United States as a witness for a Pearl Harbor raid investigation. 
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11 Nov 1946 WW2 The United States removed all war time price controls. 
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11 Nov 1966 RELIGIOUS The Methodist Church and the Evangelical United Brethren voted to merge into one denomination in the U.S., afterward to be called the United Methodist Church. (The "declaration of union" took place officially on April 23, 1968.)
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