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Thursday, October 24, 2019
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| 4004 | -BC- Traditional date of the Creation, at 0900 Greenwich |
| 1086 | Battle of Zalaka: Alfonso VI vs. the Almoravids |
| 1642 | Edgehill, first battle of the English Civil War |
| 1679 | Meal Tub Plot against James II of England |
| 1775 | Continental Congress approves resolution barring blacks from army |
| 1790 | Slave revolt in Haiti |
| 1861 | Combat at West Liberty, Ky |
| 1864 | Westport, Mo.: S.R. Curtis defeats Confederate Stirling Price |
| 1942 | Edson's Ridge: Japanese assault against the Guadalcanal beachhead halted |
| 1942 | British Eighth Army begins an offensive at El Alamein |
| 1944 | Greatest naval battle in history begins: Leyte Gulf, for 3 days. |
| 1956 | Hungarian Revolution begins (crushed by the Soviets by 4 November) |
| 1957 | Vanguard satellite launch vehicle TV-3 test fired |
| 1962 | USAF Major Robert A Rushworth takes X-15 to 40,800 meters |
| 1983 | Suicide terrorist truck bomb kills 243 US personnel in Beirut |
| 1989 | "Velvet Revolution" in Hungary ousts the Communists |
| 1989 | US 62nd manned space mission STS 34 (Atlantis 5) returns from space |
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| 1648 | Peace of Westphalia ends the Thirty Years' War |
| 1795 | Third partition of Poland, between Austria, Prussia & Russia |
| 1806 | Fra Diavolo defeated by the French near Sora |
| 1871 | Los Angeles mob lynches 18 Chinese |
| 1917 | 12th Battle of the Isonzo (Caporetto): Austro-German Offensive (to Nov 9). |
| 1943 | Japanese DD Mochizuki is sunk by Marine aircraft southwest of Rabaul. |
| 1944 | Leyte Gulf: carrier Princeton sinks |
| 1945 | United Nations Charter becomes effective |
| 1948 | Bernard Baruch coins the term "Cold war" |
| 1956 | Soviet troops invade Hungary as Imre Nagy becomes prime minister |
| 1960 | Disaster at the Baikonoer launch pad, kills 165 in Soviet space program |
| 1973 | Yom Kippur War ends: Israelis 65 miles from Cairo, 26 from Damascus |
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| 0 | Feast of SS Crispin and Crispinus, Patrons of Shoemakers |
| 1131 | Louis VII the Young is crowned King of France |
| 1415 | Battle of Agincourt: Henry V routs the flower of French chivalry |
| 1555 | Charles V abdicates as Holy Roman Emperor (quits as King of Spain later) |
| 1760 | George III ascends British throne |
| 1812 | Stephen Decatur's United States takes HMS Macedonian. |
| 1854 | Crimean War: The Light Brigade and The Thin Red Streak |
| 1864 | Skirmish at Mine Creek, KS & Turkeytown, AL |
| 1864 | Battle of Marais Des Cygnes River, MO (Mine Creek) |
| 1900 | Anglo-Boer War: Britain annexes Transvaal |
| 1932 | Mussolini promises to remain dictator for 30 years |
| 1938 | Japanese troops occupy Hankou & Wuhan |
| 1942 | Lunga Point: Japanese ships tangle with allied surface and air units |
| 1943 | USAAF bombers in China make 1st raid on Japanese airfields in Formosa. |
| 1943 | Japanese open the Burma railroad ("The Bridge on the River Kwai") |
| 1943 | Cape St. George: 6 U.S. DDs sink 3 of 6 Japanese DDs . |
| 1944 | Leyte Gulf: Remnants of Japanese fleet retire |
| 1945 | Japanese surrender Taiwan to Chiang Kai-shek |
| 1951 | Peace talks aimed at ending Korean War resumed in Panmunjom |
| 1958 | Marines leave Lebanon (in occupation since July) |
| 1983 | US and West Indian forces occupy Grenada |
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