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What happened on 11 November?
7 events from the Ever-When timeline, ranked by how much they mattered.
1480
Ivan III ends Tatar yoke
Russian principalities throw off Mongol tribute at the Great Stand on the Ugra River.
1918
Armistice of 11 November 1918
Fighting on the Western Front ends; basis for Remembrance Day.
1918
Poland regains independence
As the partitioning empires collapse, Piłsudski takes command in Warsaw and an independent Poland returns to the map after 123 years.
1975
Dismissal of the Whitlam government
Governor-General Sir John Kerr dismisses Prime Minister Gough Whitlam amid a Senate supply deadlock, Australia's gravest constitutional crisis.
1914
Battle of Lódz
Eastern Front battle between Germans and Russians.
1940
The raid on Taranto
Twenty-one obsolete Swordfish biplanes off HMS Illustrious cripple half the Italian battle fleet in its own harbour by night — the first all-aircraft naval attack in history. Among
1572
Tycho Brahe observes a supernova
Tycho records a new star in Cassiopeia, showing the heavens beyond the moon do change.
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