Question

What event occurred specifically on November 6, 1918?

Answer 1

• German Revolution – German Parliament leader Friedrich Ebert urged Kaiser Wilhelm to abdicate the throne and allow a different monarch to take his place, warning, "If the Kaiser does not abdicate, the social revolution is inevitable. But I do not want it, I even hate it like sin."

• The Polish Soviet of Delegates in Lublin, Poland established the Provisional People's Government of the Republic of Poland as the governing body of the newly independent nation, with Ignacy Daszyński as Prime Minister.

• A massive demonstration of 30,000 Polish peasants led by communist activist Tomasz Dąbal took control of the town of Tarnobrzeg, Galicia in the former Austro-Hungarian Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria and proclaimed the region as the Republic of Tarnobrzeg.

• Meuse–Argonne offensive – French and American forces captured Sedan and much of the surrounding German-held territory around the River Meuse.