Events for November 2020

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WWII: Operation Clipper - Battle for Geilenkirchen

18th November 1944

Part of Operation Clipper, the Battle for Geilenkirchen was the first battle on German soil to be fought by the British since Minden in 1759. For them, it was just one more battle on the… Read more...

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Escape From Auschwitz

6th November 1942

On 6 November 1942, 70 captured Red Army soldiers staged an extraordinary mass escape from Auschwitz. Read more...

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German V-2 Rocket kills 168 shoppers in London

26th November 1944

At lunchtime on 26th November 1944, a German V-2 rocket fell on a packed Woolworths store in New Cross Road, killing 168 people (including 15 children), injuring 122 others and razing the building to the… Read more...

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The Gettysburg Address

19th November 1863

The Gettysburg Address is a speech by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln and is one of the most well-known speeches in United States history. It was delivered by Lincoln during the American Civil War, on the… Read more...

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Hitler survives assassination attempt!

8th November 1939

"On this day in 1939, on the 16th anniversary of Hitler’s Beer Hall Putsch, a bomb explodes just after Hitler has finished giving a speech. He was unharmed. Hitler had made an annual ritual on… Read more...

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WWII: Units of the British Army land at Walcheren in the Netherlands

1st November 1944

The Battle of Walcheren Causeway was an engagement of the Battle of the Scheldt between the 5th Canadian Infantry Brigade, elements of the British 52nd (Lowland) Infantry Division, notably the Glasgow Highlanders, and troops of… Read more...

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