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| 1710 | British troops capture Port Royal, Nova Scotia |
| 1775 | Portland, Maine, burned by British |
| 1808 | King Joachim Murat of Naples seizes Capri from King Ferdinand IV of Naples |
| 1813 | Battle at Leipzig: Napoleon loses to Prussia, Austria, and Russia |
| 1834 | "Second" Great Fire of London burns much of the city, including Parliament |
| 1859 | John Brown captures the arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Va |
| 1861 | Skirmish at Warsaw, Mo |
| 1861 | Skirmish at Bolivar Heights, WVa |
| 1863 | U.S. Grant is named commander of Union forces in the West |
| 1885 | Capt Alfred Thayer Mahan becomes Superintendent of the Naval War College |
| 1891 | Valparaiso, Chile: Riot between US sailors and local citizens |
| 1925 | Locarno Pact, European nations agree to accept boundaries as they are |
| 1926 | Mohammed Nadir Khan begins coup in Afghanistan, 1,200 killed |
| 1926 | Chinese troop ship sinks in Yangtze River, 1,200 die |
| 1940 | Warsaw Ghetto established |
| 1940 | First WW II draft lottery; #158 drawn first |
| 1940 | First black American promoted to general: Benjamin Oliver Davis, Sr. |
| 1942 | USAAF sinks a Japanese destroyer near Kiska, off Alaska. |
| 1943 | Philippines "independent under temporary Japanese supervision." |
| 1943 | New Guinea: the Japanese begin major counterattacks at Finschhafen |
| 1943 | Anti-Jewish riot in Rome |
| 1946 | Ten Nazi leaders hanged as war criminals after the Nuremberg trials |
| 1953 | Batista regime sentences Fidel Castro sentenced to 15 years for rebellion |
| 1962 | Missile Crisis: JFK learns of Soviet missiles in Cuba |
| 1964 | China becomes world's fifth nuclear power |
| 1973 | Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Henry A Kissinger & Le Duc Tho |
| 1978 | Polish Resistance worker Karol Wojtyla elected pope as John Paul II |
| 1990 | US forces in the Persian Gulf reach 200,000 |
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| 1483 | Pope Sixtus IV authorizes the Spanish Inquisition |
| 1651 | Battle of Worcester, King Charles II, defeated, tries to flee to France |
| 1777 | British General John Burgoyne surrenders at Saratoga |
| 1781 | British General Lord Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown |
| 1815 | Napoleon arrives at St Helena |
| 1861 | Skirmishing begins, vicinity Frederickstown/Ironton, Mo (to 21st) |
| 1862 | Battles of Leetown & Thoroughfare Gap, VA |
| 1894 | Ohio National Guard kills 3 while rescuing a black man from a lynch mob |
| 1912 | First Balkan War: Bulgaria, Greece , Serbia exchange declarations with Turkey |
| 1916 | USS Arizona commissioned at the Brooklyn Navy Yard |
| 1917 | British bomb Germany for the first time |
| 1922 | Virgil C. Griffin makes the first US carrier take-off, in a Langley VE-7SF |
| 1933 | Albert Einstein arrives in US, a refugee from Nazi Germany |
| 1941 | U-568 damages Kearny (DD-432) near Iceland, 11 killed and 22 injured. |
| 1942 | Heavy fighting on the Kokoda Trail, at Eorea Creek, in Papua. |
| 1943 | U.S sub Tarpon sinks the German raider Michel in the Bonin Islands. |
| 1943 | Japanese sub I-37 scouts Kilindini, East Africa, with a small plane. |
| 1943 | Japanese sub I-36 scouts Pearl Harbor with a reconnaissance plane. |
| 1943 | 9th Australian Div beats off Japanese at Finschhafen |
| 1945 | Juan Peron becomes dictator of Argentina |
| 1967 | Pete Knight in X-15 reaches 85 km altitude |
| 1977 | West German commandos storm hijacked Lufthansa jet in Mogadishu, Somalia |
| 1978 | Congress restores Jefferson Davis' rights as an American citizen |
| 1979 | Mother Teresa awarded the Nobel Peace Prize |
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| 1016 | Danes defeat Saxons at Battle of Assandun |
| 1469 | Ferdinand of Aragon marries Isabella of Castile |
| 1685 | Louis XIV revokes the Edict of Nantes, outlaws Protestantism |
| 1748 | Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, ends War of Austrian Succession |
| 1767 | The Mason-Dixon Line, between Maryland and Pennsylvania, agreed upon |
| 1776 | Col John Glover & the Marblehead Regiment fight the British in the Bronx |
| 1790 | Little Turtle begins attacks on Josiah Harmer's Army (See Oct 29) |
| 1812 | U.S. sloop of war Wasp captures HM brig Frolic. |
| 1862 | Morgan's raiders capture Federal garrison at Lexington, KY |
| 1863 | Battle of Charlestown, WVa |
| 1867 | Alaska if formally transferred from Russia to the US |
| 1912 | Italo-Turkish War ends |
| 1915 | Third Battle of the Isonzo begins (to Nov 4) |
| 1918 | Czechoslovakia declares Independence from Austro-Hungarian Empire |
| 1925 | French Gen Sarrail begins three day bombardment of Damascus |
| 1934 | Red Chinese begin the Long March |
| 1941 | Russian spy Richard Sorge arrested in Tokyo |
| 1942 | VAdm Ghormley replaced by Halsey as SW Pacific commander |
| 1942 | US sub damages a "Tokyo Express" light cruiser off Guadalcanal. |
| 1944 | Rangers begin landing on outlying islands in Leyte Gulf. |
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