It became internationally notorious when, on November 18, 1978, 918 people died in the settlement as well as in a nearby airstrip and in Georgetown, Guyana's capital. 909 Temple members died in Jonestown, all but two from apparent cyanide poisoning, in an event termed "revolutionary suicide".
The canal is 192 km and it was opened on November 1869. The excavation took some 10 years. Over 30,000 people were working on the canal at any given period, that altogether more than 1.5 million people from various countries were employed and that thousands of laborers died on the project.
A railway track in the forest was the site of two armistices. The treaty between the Allies and Germany at the end of hostilities on the Western Front (World War I), November 11, 1918 also known as the Armistice with Germany.
The treaty between Nazi Germany and France during World War II on June 22, 1940, also known as the Armistice with France.
Fort Hood is a US Army post located in Texas. As of the census of 2000, there were 33,711 people, 5,819 households, and 5,679 families residing in the CDP.
The Gunpowder Conspiracy of 1605 intended to kill the King and most of the Protestant aristocracy by blowing up the Houses of Parliament during the State Opening on 5 November 1605.
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