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| 480 | -BC- "Go, tell the Spartans, we lie here in obedience to their orders." |
| 1191 | Crusaders under King Richard I kill 3,000 Muslims in Akko |
| 1648 | Battle of Lens |
| 1781 | George Washington begins march south to fight Cornwallis at Yorktown |
| 1794 | Gen Mad Anthony Wayne routes Indians at Fallen Timbers, Ohio |
| 1847 | Battle of Contreras: Brig Gen Franklin Pierce breaks the Mexican front |
| 1861 | Skirmish at Jonesboro MI |
| 1861 | Skirmish at Hawk's Nest, Wva |
| 1866 | Pres Andrew Johnson formally declares the Civil War over |
| 1888 | Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture" first performed, in Moscow |
| 1914 | German forces occupy Brussels |
| 1915 | Italy declares war on Turkey |
| 1918 | Britain opens offensive on Western Front |
| 1926 | Uprising against Reza Shah Pahlawi in Persia |
| 1935 | Coup by General Pons & President Ibarra in Ecuador |
| 1940 | Leon Trotsky attacked in Mexico City by Stalinist agent, dies next day |
| 1940 | "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few" |
| 1942 | Wartime dim-out begins in San Francisco |
| 1942 | Japanese order landing of 1500 troops at Milne Bay, southeastern Papua. |
| 1942 | 31 Marine Corps fighters land on Guadalcanal from CVE Long Island. |
| 1943 | Kiska secured, as Japanese had left priot to Allied landing on the 15th. |
| 1943 | Baanga I, at a cost of 52 Americans killed and 110 wounded |
| 1944 | Russian offensive at Iasi & Kishinev, Romania |
| 1944 | Charles de Gaulle returns to France |
| 1944 | Biak I., off New Guinea, is cleared of Japanese forces after 3 months |
| 1945 | Russian troops capture Harbin & Mukden, Manchuria |
| 1945 | Red Chinese forces occupy Kalgan, northwest of Peking . |
| 1945 | Japanese suppress 2nd anti-armistice coup attempt |
| 1945 | Japanese forces in China cease fire. |
| 1945 | Br recon a/c in Burma are fired upon by Japanese antiaircraft batteries. |
| 1955 | Hundreds killed in anti-French rioting in Morocco & Algeria |
| 1959 | Belgium shortens conscription to 12 months |
| 1968 | 650,000 Warsaw Pact troops invade CzechoslovaKIA |
| 1978 | Gunmen open fire on an El Al Airline bus in London |
| 1982 | US Marines land in Beirut Lebanon |
| 1990 | Iraq moves Western hostages to military installations as human shields |
| 1991 | Estonia declares independence from the USSR |
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| 1321 | 160 Jews of Chinon, France, burned at stake |
| 1680 | Pueblo Indians capture Santa Fe from the Spanish |
| 1800 | First public concert by the U.S. Marine Corps Band, Washington, D.C. |
| 1861 | James A. Garfield enrolls as LtCol of the new 42nd Ohio |
| 1863 | Raid at Lawrence, Ks, by Confederate brigands under William Quantrill |
| 1864 | Battle of Summit Point, VA |
| 1864 | Battle of Grubbs Crossroads, KY |
| 1938 | Italy bars Jewish teachers in public education |
| 1942 | U.S. DDs and LPDs resupply Guadalcanal, with loss of one destroyer. |
| 1942 | On New Guinea the Japanese land reinforcements at Basabura |
| 1942 | German alpine troops plant Nazi flag on Mt. Elbruz, the Caucasus |
| 1942 | Tenaru River: Ichiki Detachment is crushed on Guadalcanal |
| 1942 | Australian 18th Brigade reinforces Milne Bay. |
| 1943 | Japanese a/c hit shipping off Vella Lavella, with little effect. |
| 1943 | Heavy Allied air raids on Wewak, New Guinea. |
| 1943 | Gromyko named Soviet ambassador in Washington |
| 1944 | B-29s from Ceylon begin raids on Japanese installations on Sumatra. |
| 1945 | Pres Truman ends Lend-Lease program |
| 1953 | Sultan Sidi Mohammed Am Joessoef V of Morocco deposed |
| 1983 | South Korean 747 airliner is shot own by Russian aircraft, 269 die |
| 1991 | Latvia declares independence from the USSR |
| 1991 | Communist coup is crushed in USSR after two days |
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| 1454 | Jews are expelled from Bruno, Moravia by order of King Ladislaus |
| 1485 | Battle of Bosworth Field: Henry VII defeats Richard III |
| 1642 | English Civil War begins: King Charles I takes up arms against Parliament |
| 1707 | Daun's Austrians invest Gaeta (stormed, September 30) |
| 1775 | King George III proclaims his American colonies to be in open rebellion |
| 1791 | Haitian Slave Revolution begins under voodoo priest Boukman |
| 1848 | U.S. Grant marries Julia Dent, with James Longstreet as best man. |
| 1851 | First America's Cup Race, won by the schooner America |
| 1862 | Santee Sioux Indians attack Fort Ridgely |
| 1862 | Battle of Catlett's Station, Va |
| 1864 | Geneva Convention: 12 nations establish the International Red Cross |
| 1877 | Nez Perce Indians flee to Yellowstone National Park |
| 1910 | Japan annexes Korea |
| 1942 | Army P-400s land at Henderson field from New Caledonia. |
| 1942 | Savo: Japanese DD Kawakaze torpedoes US DD Blue, towed to Tulagi. |
| 1942 | Brazil declares war on Germany, Japan, & Italy |
| 1943 | U.S. destroyers shell Finschhafen, in eastern New Guinea. |
| 1943 | Soviet troops free Karkov |
| 1943 | Marines occupy undefended Nukufetau in the Ellice Islands. |
| 1944 | Japanese counterattack the Salween, Burma, but repelled by Chinese. |
| 1944 | Japanese abandon Ulithi in the Carolines. |
| 1962 | Failed assassination attempt agains Charles De Gaulle |
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