November 11 in American history, placed on the globe.

From the battlefield to the launch pad — the day's stories, pinned where they happened. Spin the earth; not every story stays inside the fifty states.

• 1921Harding buries an unnamed soldier at Arlington as the country falls silent for two minutesArlington National Cemetery, Virginia
• 1620Aboard the Mayflower, 41 passengers bind themselves into a "civil Body Politick"Provincetown Harbor, Massachusetts
• 1982Columbia lifts off with four aboard, the biggest crew yet, and two commercial satellites in the bayKennedy Space Center, Florida

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