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** WWI: is torpedoed and sunk off the east coast of Ireland by German submarine U-55 ; 218 of the 223 on board are rescued.
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** Dr. Karl Muck, music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, is arrested under the Alien Enemies Act and imprisoned for the duration of WWI.
** WWI: Austria-Hungary enters an armistice with the Allies.
** British battleship HMS Britannia is sunk by German submarine U-50 off Trafalgar with the loss of around fifty lives, the last major naval engagement of WWI.
** WWI ends: Germany signs an armistice agreement with the Allies between 5: 12 AM and 5: 20 AM in Marshal Foch ’ s railroad car in Compiègne Forest in France.
** WWI: The Nivelle Offensive commences.
** WWI: Arabian troops led by T. E. Lawrence capture Aqaba from the Turks.
** WWI: A conscription crisis in Canada leads to passage of the Military Service Act.
** WWI: Battle of Passchendaele: After 3 months of fierce fighting, Canadian forces take Passchendaele in Belgium.
** WWI: Third Battle of Gaza: United Kingdom forces capture Gaza from the Ottoman Empire.
** WWI: Action of 17 November 1917: United States Navy destroyers USS Fanning and USS Nicholson capture Imperial German Navy U-boat SM U-58 off the south-west coast of Ireland, the first combat action in which U. S. ships take a submarine ( which is then scuttled ).
** WWI: Battle of Cambrai: British forces, using tanks, make early progress in an attack on German positions but are soon beaten back.
** WWI: The battleship HMS Formidable is sunk off Lyme Regis, Dorset, England, by a German U-Boat.
** WWI: Off the coast of Chile, the Royal Navy force SMS Dresden to scuttle.
** Harry Patch, British WWI soldier, last Tommy Atkins ( d. 2009 )
** WWI Document Archive > St. Petersburg Declaration Renouncing the Use, in Time of War, of Certain Explosive Projectiles
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** Eunectes murinus, the green anaconda, the largest species, is found east of the Andes in Colombia, Venezuela, the Guianas, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil and on the island of Trinidad.
** Eunectes notaeus, the yellow anaconda, a smaller species, is found in eastern Bolivia, southern Brazil, Paraguay and northeastern Argentina.
** Eunectes deschauenseei, the dark-spotted anaconda, is a rare species found in northeastern Brazil and coastal French Guiana.
** Eunectes beniensis, the Bolivian anaconda, the most recently defined species, is found in the Departments of Beni and Pando in Bolivia.
** Tarski's theorem: For every infinite set A, there is a bijective map between the sets A and A × A.
** The Cartesian product of any family of nonempty sets is nonempty.
** König's theorem: Colloquially, the sum of a sequence of cardinals is strictly less than the product of a sequence of larger cardinals.
** Hausdorff maximal principle: In any partially ordered set, every totally ordered subset is contained in a maximal totally ordered subset.
** For every non-empty set S there is a binary operation defined on S that makes it a group.
** Tychonoff's theorem stating that every product of compact topological spaces is compact.
** In the product topology, the closure of a product of subsets is equal to the product of the closures.
** If S is a set of sentences of first-order logic and B is a consistent subset of S, then B is included in a set that is maximal among consistent subsets of S. The special case where S is the set of all first-order sentences in a given signature is weaker, equivalent to the Boolean prime ideal theorem ; see the section " Weaker forms " below.
** Any union of countably many countable sets is itself countable.
** If the set A is infinite, then there exists an injection from the natural numbers N to A ( see Dedekind infinite ).
** Every infinite game in which is a Borel subset of Baire space is determined.
** The Vitali theorem on the existence of non-measurable sets which states that there is a subset of the real numbers that is not Lebesgue measurable.
** The Lebesgue measure of a countable disjoint union of measurable sets is equal to the sum of the measures of the individual sets.
** The Nielsen – Schreier theorem, that every subgroup of a free group is free.
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** British liner becomes the first civilian casualty of the war when she is torpedoed and sunk by in the eastern Atlantic.
** WWII: The destroyer USS Reuben James is torpedoed by a German U-boat near Iceland, killing more than 100 United States Navy sailors.
** Dutch submarine HNLMS K XVI is the first Allied ship to sink a Japanese warship, sinking the destroyer Sagiri near Sarawak ; K XVI is herself torpedoed the following day by Japanese submarine I 66.
** The SS Sussex is torpedoed, resulting in the Sussex pledge.
** Spanish Civil War: Spanish ship Ciudad de Barcelona is torpedoed.
** WWII: British destroyer is torpedoed and sunk by an Italian submarine.
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** The steamer Danae () carrying 350 Cretan Jews and 250 Cretans on the first leg of their way to Auschwitz was sunk without survivors off the shore of Santorini.
** The Wilhelm Gustloff, with over 10, 000 mainly civilian Germans from Gotenhafen ( Gdynia ) in the Gdansk Bay, is sunk by three torpedoes from the Soviet submarine S-13 in the Baltic Sea ; up to 9, 400 are thought to have died – the greatest loss of life in a single ship sinking in war action in history.
** The Japanese battleship Yamato is sunk north of Okinawa while enroute on a suicide mission.
** The prison ships Cap Arcona, Thielbek and Deutschland are sunk by the RAF in Lübeck Bay.
** The Japanese Navy launches an air raid on Trincomalee in Ceylon ( Sri Lanka ); the Royal Navy aircraft carrier and Royal Australian Navy destroyer are sunk off the country's East Coast.
** Twenty-four ships are sunk by German bombers and submarines after Convoy PQ 17 to the Soviet Union is scattered in the Arctic Ocean to evade the German battleship Tirpitz.
** The Australian Hospital Ship Centaur is sunk off the coast of Queensland, by a Japanese submarine.
** Nuclear testing: In the first underwater test of the atomic bomb, the surplus USS Saratoga is sunk near Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, when the United States detonates the Baker device during Operation Crossroads.
** WWII: Bismarck is sunk in the North Atlantic, killing 2, 300.
** Falklands War: HMS Ardent is sunk by Argentine aircraft, killing 22 sailors.
** The is accidentally rammed and sunk in Lake Michigan ; hundreds drown.
** Essex ( whaleship ), sunk by a sperm whale in 1820
** Montevideo Maru, a Japanese ship sunk in World War II, resulting in the loss of large numbers of Austalian prisoners of war and civilians and Australia's worst maritime disaster
** No. 23 Nittō Maru, a patrol boat sunk after it encountered the USS Hornet ( CV-8 ), causing the early launch of the Doolittle Raid
** Ryō Un Maru, a Japanese fishing boat washed away from her moorings after the 2011 Tōhoku tsunami, and was deliberately sunk on 5 April 2012 after entering U. S. waters off the coast of Alaska.
** Tatsuta Maru, a Japanese troopship sunk in 1943
** USS Eagle Boat No. 56, later USS PE-56, an Eagle boat commissioned in 1919 and sunk in 1945
** 22 November 1941 — the Atlantis is sunk by
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