1. The False Armistice resulted in celebrations throughout the Allied nations as a false report that Germany had entered into an Armistice circulated and was widely reported.
A couple of Wyoming's newspapers, including the Casper Daily Tribune, did note the reports, but were hesitant about reporting them as fully accurate. They would turn out not to be.
The Bavarian Royal Family.
There was some irony to his being the first German monarch to fall. He was already in his upper years at the time he had become king, in 1913, and therefore was not a long reigning German monarch. He was additionally a staunch supporter of the direct right to vote, thereby putting him in sympathy with democratic aims. Indeed, he'd run, unsuccessfully, as a candidate for the Reichstag and there was some belief that if the German Emperor were an elected position, he would likely have been the Emperor.
He was not in the direct line of succession for the Bavarian crown and also came to it by way of a change in the Bavarian constitution which allowed for the regent to declare himself king upon the incompetency of the rightful occupant, which he then did, thereby ending his regency for the severely mentally ill King Otto.
Ludwig was a direct descendant of both the French King Louis XIV and the Norman Duke and English King William of Normandy.
3. The UK and France issued (maybe. . .it might have been November 9) the Anglo French Declaration retroactively declaring their war aims in the fight against the Ottoman Empire to have been the "complete and final" liberation of nations that had been part of the Ottoman Empire.
4. The U.S. Third Army was established at Chaumont, France. It would not see a mission until after the Armistice.
5. The English fishing smack Conster hit a mine and sank.
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