mine off Cape Otway, Australia (the first United States Merchant Marine loss of the war). November 9 – Joaquín Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez premieres in Barcelona, Spain. November 10 – 1940 Vrancea earthquake: An earthquake in Romania kills 1,000. November 11 WWII: The British Royal Navy launches the first aircraft carrier strike in history, on the Italian battleship fleet anchored at Taranto Naval Base. WWII: captures top secret British mail intended for the British Far East Command from the , and sends it to Japan. Armistice Day Blizzard: An unexpected blizzard kills 144 in the Midwestern United States. November 13 – The Walt Disney animated film Fantasia, the first commercial film shown in stereophonic sound, has its world premiere at the Broadway Theatre in New York City. It is the first box office failure for Disney, though it recoups its cost years later and becomes one of the most highly regarded of Disney's films. November 14 – WWII: Coventry Blitz: The city centre of Coventry, England is destroyed by 500 Luftwaffe bombers; 150,000 fire bombs, 503 tons of high explosives, and 130 parachute mines level 60,000 of the city's 75,000 buildings; 568 people are killed. The city's cathedral is gutted. November 15 – Abbott and Costello make their film debut, in One Night in the Tropics. November 16 WWII: In response to Germany levelling Coventry 2 days before, the Royal Air Force begins to bomb Hamburg (by war's end, 50,000 Hamburg residents will have died from Allied attacks). An unexploded pipe bomb is found in the Consolidated Edison office building (only years later is the culprit, George Metesky, apprehended). The Jamaica Association of Local Government Officers is founded. November 17 – The Tartu Art Museum is established in Tartu, Estonia. November 18 – WWII: German leader Adolf Hitler and Italian Foreign Minister Galeazzo Ciano meet to discuss Benito Mussolini's disastrous invasion of Greece. November 20 – WWII: Hungary, Romania and Slovakia join the Axis powers. November 25 Patria disaster: As British authorities attempt to deport Jewish refugees (originating from German-occupied Europe) from Mandatory Palestine to Mauritius, aboard the requisitioned emigrant liner at Haifa, the Jewish paramilitary organization Haganah sinks the ship with a bomb, killing around 250 refugees and crew. The de Havilland Mosquito and Martin B-26 Marauder military aircraft both make their first flights. Woody Woodpecker makes his debut in the animated short, Knock Knock. It is not until