THE DAY IN HISTORY · NOVEMBER 11
November 11 in history
What happened on November 11: 4 moments from the Maps of History atlases, in 1918, 1940, 1975 and 1983, each linked to the map that shows it.
At the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, the guns of the First World War fall silent.
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— Raid on Taranto
11 Nov 1940 — Twenty-one British biplanes strike Italian battleships in Taranto harbor, crippling part of Italy’s battle fleet. Japan’s navy studies the raid.
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— Independence of Angola
11 Nov 1975 — The Portuguese flag comes down in Angola, but three liberation movements are fighting for the capital. Cuban troops and South African columns are already in the country. Independence and civil war arrive together.
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— Able Archer 83
2–11 Nov 1983 — NATO conducts a nuclear command exercise so realistic that Soviet intelligence, already primed to expect a first strike, puts forces on alert. Only when the archives open do the two sides grasp how close this was.
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