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On This Date: November 2012

NOVEMBER 1, 1949: No. 2 (M) Operational Training Unit is formed at Greenwood, N.S., with Lancaster aircraft. NOVEMBER 2, 1936: English-language CBC radio goes on air nationwide for the first time. NOVEMBER 3, 2004: George W. Bush celebrates after winning the Nov. 2 U.S. presidential election.

NOVEMBER 1, 1949: No. 2 (M) Operational Training Unit is formed at Greenwood, N.S., with Lancaster aircraft.

 

NOVEMBER 2, 1936: English-language CBC radio goes on air nationwide for the first time.

 

NOVEMBER 3, 2004: George W. Bush celebrates after winning the Nov. 2 U.S. presidential election.

 

NOVEMBER 4, 1985: Canadian blood donations are tested for HIV antibodies.

 

Adolph Hitler

Adolph Hitler
PHOTO: LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES CANADA—C011452

NOVEMBER 5, 1937: Hitler announces his plans to create more “living space” for his people.

 

HMCS Ottawa

HMCS Ottawa
PHOTO: NAVAL MUSEUM OF MANITOBA

NOVEMBER 6, 1940: His Majesty’s Canadian Ship Ottawa and His Majesty’s Ship Harvester open fire on a surfaced submarine as it attacks a merchant ship southwest of Ireland. The Italian U-boat dives and Ottawa drops 21 depth charges in four attacks. Harvester launches five attacks. Two explosions are heard and a large oil patch is spotted, however the kill is not confirmed until many years later.

 

Donald A. Smith drives the Last Spike. [PHOTO: LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES CANADA—C003693]

Donald A. Smith drives the Last Spike.
PHOTO: LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES CANADA—C003693

NOVEMBER 7, 1885: Donald A. Smith drives the Last Spike at Craigellachie, B.C., to complete the Canadian Pacific Railway.

 

HMCS Rainbow

HMCS Rainbow
PHOTO: CANADIAN WAR MUSEUM—19790602-053

NOVEMBER 8, 1910: His Majesty’s Canadian Ship Rainbow, the second cruiser acquired under Laurier’s Naval Act, arrives at Esquimalt, B.C.

NOVEMBER 9, 2001: The fall of the town of Mazar-i-Sharif clears the land logistics route Uzbekistan into Afghanistan.

NOVEMBER 10, 1975: Nearly 30 perish in the sinking of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald on Lake Superior.

NOVEMBER 11, 1813: A small force of regulars, militia and First Nations defeat American forces along the St. Lawrence River in the Battle of Crysler’s Farm.

NOVEMBER 12, 1944: Royal Air Force bombers sink the massive German battleship Tirpitz in the Norwegian fjord of Tromso. More than 1,200 sailors perish.

 

NOVEMBER 13, 2006: In Afghanistan, a report from the Joint Co-ordination and Monitoring Board states that approximately 3,700 lives were lost in 2006 to militant violence.

 

NOVEMBER 14, 1940: German bombs devastate Coventry, England.

 

Bomb detection team.

Bomb detection team.
PHOTO: DND—AR2009-0040-01

NOVEMBER 15, 2009: Operation Hydra is launched. It is a Canadian-Afghan operation aimed at clearing insurgents from Nakhonay and Hajji Baba villages in the Panjwaii district of Afghanistan.

Louis Riel addressing the jury during his trial for treason.

Louis Riel addressing the jury during his trial for treason.
PHOTO: LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES CANADA—C001879

NOVEMBER 16, 1885: French-Canadian Métis leader Louis Riel is hanged at Regina.

 

NOVEMBER 17, 1913: The first ship sails through the Panama Canal.

German prisoners captured by Canadians in the storming of Regina Trench.

German prisoners captured by Canadians in the storming of Regina Trench.
PHOTO: LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES CANADA—PA000823

NOVEMBER 18, 1916: After capturing Regina Trench on the Somme, 4th Canadian Division attacks Desire Trench.

NOVEMBER 19, 1969: Second Apollo mission lands on moon.

NOVEMBER 20, 1940: Hungary, Romania and Slovakia join forces with the Axis power.

 

NOVEMBER 21, 2002: Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia are invited to join NATO.

 

NOVEMBER 22, 1963: John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas.

NOVEMBER 23, 1985: Nearly 60 die when Egyptian forces storm a hijacked plane in Malta.

 

NOVEMBER 24, 1940: The first graduates from the Canadian-based British Commonwealth Air Training Plan arrive in the United Kingdom.

 

NOVEMBER 25, 1950: The 2nd Battalion of the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry sets sail for Korea. The PPCLI would arrive in December and enter the front line in mid-February under the command of the 27th British Commonwealth Infantry Brigade.

NOVEMBER 26-29, 2008: Well orchestrated gun and grenade attacks kill dozens and injure many more at popular tourist destinations in Mumbai, India. Luxury hotels, a railway station and restaurant are among the targeted locations. Members of a Pakistani militant organization claim responsibility.

NOVEMBER 30, 1939: Russian forces invade Finland.

 

For ON THIS DATE December Events, come back to legionmagazine.com on December 1st, 2012

 

 


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