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November 14, 1916 (Tuesday) H.H. Munro, aka Saki. After being expelled from the Australian Labor Party, Australian Prime Minister Billy Hughes formed the National Labor Party with 24 other former Labor Party members, but merged with another political next year to become the Nationalist Party of Australia.
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Hollywood Mogul Samuel Goldwyn. Nov 21 HMHS Britannic sinks in the Aegean Sea after a mine explodes, killing 30 people. Nov 24 Mexican and US representatives sign a protocol at Atlantic City, under which Pershing's troops will withdraw and each nation's army will guard the border.
Fighting on the Ancre heights. 1. French forces recapture Fort Vaux near Verdun. 5. Germany and Austria declare an "independent state of Poland". 7. Woodrow Wilson is re-elected as President of the United States of America. 12. British forces occupy Shiraz in western Persia.
DateEvents1Battle of the Somme continues. Fighting ...1French forces recapture Fort Vaux near ...5Germany and Austria declare an ...7Woodrow Wilson is re-elected as President ...Battle of the Somme. Credit: Canada. Dept. of National Defence/Library and Archives Canada; (MIKAN no. 3521804) First World War. Date. 13 - 18 November 1916. Geographical parameters. The Bapaume road to La Boisselle: thence road to Aveluy - Martinsart - Englebelmer - Mailly-Maillet - Colincamps - Hébuterne - Puisieux-au-Mont. Context.
July 1 – November 18: Battle of the Somme between British and German. July 1 – November 18 – WWI: Battle of the Somme, opening with explosion of the British Y Sap and Lochnagar mines and the Battle of Albert: More than one million soldiers die, with 57,470 British Empire casualties on the first day, 19,240 of them killed, the British Army ...
