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November 11

1215. The Fourth Lateran Council meets to discuss Transubstantiation, the process by which wine and bread are, by that doctrine, turned into the blood and body of Christ.

(let me pause here to say, and I apologize for the heresy but....ewwwww)

1831. Nat Turner is hanged after inciting a large slave rebellion.

1864. General Sherman cuts the telegraph wires connecting Atlanta to the rest of the Union, prepatory to beginning his March to the Sea.

1918. At the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of the year, Germany signs an armistice with the Allies, ending the deadliest conflict (until then) in human history.

1921. The Tomb of the Unknowns is dedicated at Arlington National Cemetary by President Harding.

1926. The "Mother Road", US Route 66, is established.

1940. The Battle of Taranto occurs. This is a strike by the British off aircraft carriers on the Italian fleet stationed at the harbor of Taranto. This is the first aircraft carrier strike on warships in history. It was previously thought that the harbor was too shallow to allow effective torpedo attack, but the British proved them wrong. The Japanese paid close attention to what had happened here and would repeat the strike, with devatating effectiveness, 13 months later, at Pearl Harbor.