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On This Day (November 11): Your quick daily trip back in time.
Fatih Taskiran
November 11, 2025
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🌟 Editor's Note
Good morning — it’s Tuesday, November 11. Today we’re exploring integral calculus, Atlanta's destruction, Armistice Day, Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Louis Armstrong’s debut, and much more — quick and sharp!
Oh, if you missed last week's Strange Times story, you can read it here — guaranteed to blow your mind.
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🚀 Time Machine
-1620 | The Mayflower Compact was signed at Cape Cod, creating the first government framework in what is now the USA. |
-1675 | Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz demonstrated integral calculus for the first time to find the area under the graph of y = f(x) |
-1745 | Bonnie Prince Charlie's Jacobite army invades England in an attempt to restore the House of Stuart. |
-1864 | Union soldiers began destroying all railroads, factories, and commercial buildings in Atlanta, Georgia. |
-1918 | World War I Armistice signed by the Allies and Germany at 11 a.m., "the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month." |
-1921 | Three years after World War I, President Warren G. Harding dedicated the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington Cemetery. |
-1925 | Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five start recording at Okeh Records in Chicago. |
-1942 | Congress lowers the draft age to 18 and raises the upper limit to 37. |
-1942 | Germans launch Operation Case Anton, occupying Vichy France, previously free of Axis military presence |
-1946 | The New York Knicks lose their first BAA home game at Madison Square Garden, 78-68, to the Chicago Stags in overtime. |
-1992 |
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🏆 FlashQuiz
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