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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

NOVEMBER 18, 1916: After capturing Regina Trench on the Somme, 4^th 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 2^nd 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 27^th 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.

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