1 November 1914
Four recent graduates of the Royal Naval College of Canada are among those lost when Germany’s Asiatic Squadron sinks HMS Good Hope. They are Canada’s first naval casualties of WW I.
2-3 November 1951
The Royal Canadian Regiment repels a Chinese attack on Hill 187 in Korea.
4 November 1914
Nurse Margaret Macdonald is appointed matron-in-chief of the Canadian Army Medical Corps. She is the first woman in the British Empire to reach the rank of major.
5 November 1914
Britain and France declare war on the Ottoman Empire.
6 November 1917
Canada and Britain launch an assault on the village of Passchendaele, which is captured by the 27th Battalion late that day.
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7 November 1900
Three Canadians are awarded Victoria Crosses for actions during the Battle of Leliefontein in the Boer War.
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11 November 1920
The Cenotaph, the United Kingdom’s official national war memorial, is unveiled. Two unknown soldiers are interred simultaneously in Westminster Abbey and at the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.
12 November 1981
Space shuttle Columbia launches, carrying the Canadarm.
13 November 1775
Montreal falls to the American Patriot’s Continental Army, led by General Richard Montgomery.
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16 November 1857
Under heavy fire, surrounded by dead crewmates, William Hall and his commander use a ship’s gun to free trapped British soldiers near Lucknow, India. Hall is awarded the Victoria Cross.
17 November 1997
Egyptian militants kill more than 60 and injure nearly 100 tourists at an ancient temple in Luxor.
18 November 1916
Canadian battalions capture Desire Trench on the Somme.
21 November 1916
The largest ship lost in the First World War, sister ship to RMS Titanic, the hospital ship Britannic strikes a naval mine near Greece, sinking within 55 minutes. Thirty die.
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23 November 2009
During a mortar attack in Afghanistan, Pte. Tony Harris and Pte. Philip Millar run to administer first aid while under fire. Each is awarded the Medal of Military Valour.
24 November 1904
Ross Tilley is born. During the Second World War, Tilley would help redefine plastic surgery while caring for burned and wounded Allied airmen, who called themselves the Guinea Pig Club.
25 November 1953
HMCS Cayuga sails for duty near Korea for the third and final time.
26 November 1940
The Toronto Scottish Regiment shoots down a German aircraft in Portslade, England.
28 November 1934
Ten new Atlas aircraft are taken on strength by Canada’s air force.
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