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Monday, October 22, 2018
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| 1096 | Sultan Kilidj Arslan of Nicea defeats the First Crusaders |
| 1639 | Battle of the Dunes: Dutch Tromp defeats Spanish fleet under Oquendo |
| 1797 | USS Constitution -- Old Ironsides -- is launched in Boston |
| 1805 | Trafalgar: Nelson's Last and Greatest Victory |
| 1861 | Skirmishing ends, vicinity Frederickstown/Ironton, Mo (began 17th) |
| 1861 | Ball's Bluff/Harrison's Landing/Leesburg, Va: Confederate Victory |
| 1864 | Battle of Westport, Mo |
| 1899 | Anglo-Boer War: Battle of Elandslaagte |
| 1914 | Battle of Warsaw ends |
| 1934 | Red Chinese "Long March" begins (ends Oct 19, 1935) |
| 1937 | Spanish Nationalists capture Gijon |
| 1941 | Germans massacre 7,000 people in "reprisals" at Kragujevac, Yugoslavia |
| 1950 | Chinese forces occupy Tibet |
| 1960 | HMS Dreadnought, the first British nuclear submarine, is launched |
| 1967 | Thousands opposing Vietnam War try to storm Pentagon |
| 1971 | Nobel prize for literature awarded to KGB agent Pablo Neruda |
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| 1202 | Walter of Brienne beats Dietpoldo di Acerro to becomes Lord of Puglia |
| 1734 | Duke Charles of Bourbon-Parma captures Capua from the Austrians |
| 1764 | Bakshar: English defeat the Moguls |
| 1797 | Andre-Jacques Garnerin parachutes from a balloon at 3,000 feet |
| 1836 | Sam Houston inaugurated as 1st elected President of the Republic of Texas |
| 1846 | Lavinia Watson becomes the first woman sponsor of a US ship, Germantown |
| 1861 | Skirmish at Hodgeville, Ky |
| 1861 | Combat at Buffalo Mills, Mo |
| 1875 | Sons of American Revolution organized |
| 1899 | Anglo-Boer War: Battle of Rietfontein |
| 1899 | Anglo-Boer War: British troops begin retreat from Dundee |
| 1904 | Russian fleet shoots up British fishing trawlers in the North Sea |
| 1928 | China expels all Soviet instructors and advisors |
| 1937 | History's most useless couple, the Windsors, visit Hitler in Obersalzburg |
| 1942 | Australians land on Goodenough Island, against c. 300 Japanese troops. |
| 1943 | Archibald Wavell made Viceroy of India. |
| 1944 | Japanese naval forces converge on Leyte. |
| 1946 | Two British ships mined off Albania |
| 1954 | West Germany joins North Atlantic Treaty Organization |
| 1962 | JFK imposes naval blockade on Cuba, as Missile Crisis deepens |
| 1979 | Deposed Shah of Iran arrives in NY for medical treatment |
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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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