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What happened on 11 November?

7 events from the Ever-When timeline, ranked by how much they mattered.

  1. 1480 Ivan III ends Tatar yoke Russian principalities throw off Mongol tribute at the Great Stand on the Ugra River.
  2. 1918 Armistice of 11 November 1918 Fighting on the Western Front ends; basis for Remembrance Day.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 1914 Battle of Lódz Eastern Front battle between Germans and Russians.
  6. 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
  7. 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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