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| 1825 | Erie Canal opens |
| 1860 | Garibaldi meets Victor Emanuel II at Teano, uniting Italy |
| 1861 | Last ride of the Pony Express |
| 1861 | Combat at Romney, WVa |
| 1863 | International Red Cross organized in Geneva |
| 1864 | Union troops ambush & kill 'Bloody' Bill Anderson in Richmond, MI |
| 1868 | White terrorists kill several blacks in St Bernard Parish, La |
| 1881 | Gunfight at the OK Corral, in Tombstone, Az |
| 1899 | Anglo-Boer War: Yule's troops from Dundee reach Ladysmith |
| 1905 | Union of Sweden & Norway ends; Swedes decline to resist secession |
| 1912 | First Balkan War: Serbian troops capture Skopje |
| 1913 | Huerta elects himself president of Mexico |
| 1917 | Communist Coup in Russia [Nov 7 N.S.] |
| 1922 | LtCdr Godfrey Chevalier makes first underway carrier landing, Langley |
| 1942 | Santa Cruz Islands: CV Hornet out of action, Japanese CVs damaged |
| 1942 | Espiritu Santo: liner President Coolidge hit mine, sinks: only 2 die |
| 1943 | Chandra Bose forms provisional Indian government, joins Axis. |
| 1944 | Leyte Gulf: Japan lost 34 major warships, the US six. |
| 1955 | Ngo Dinh Diem proclaims Vietnam a republic with himself as president |
| 1957 | USSR fires defense minister, Marshal Georgi Zhukov |
| 1966 | Fire aboard USS Oriskany in the Gulf of Tonkin, 43 die |
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| 0 | Navy Day |
| 1775 | US Navy formally established |
| 1787 | Publication of "The Federalist Papers" begins |
| 1795 | Treaty of San Lorenzo: US & Spain agree on freedom of navigating on the Mississippi |
| 1810 | U.S. annexes West Florida from Spain |
| 1830 | Belgian Revolution: Dutch under Baron Chasse bombard Antwerp |
| 1861 | Skirmish at Spring Hill, Mo |
| 1861 | Skirmish at Plattsburg, Mo |
| 1864 | Siege of Petersburg, VA |
| 1864 | Lt William Cushing sinks CSS Albemarle with a spar torpedo |
| 1864 | Battle of Fair Oaks, Va of Newtonia, MI |
| 1864 | Battle of Boydton Plank Road, VA (Burgess' Mill, Southside Railroad) |
| 1867 | Garibaldi attempts a march on Rome |
| 1914 | British battleship Audacious sunk by a mine |
| 1941 | Nazis establish a gypsy ghetto in Belgrade |
| 1942 | Battle of the Santa Cruz Is: USS Hornet sinks |
| 1943 | N.Z. 8th Bde (c. 8,000 men) occupies Mono and Stirling, Treasury Islands |
| 1943 | Marine 2nd Parachute Bn lands amphibiously on Choiseul |
| 1944 | Japanese initiate kamikaze attacks on U.S. ships off the Philippines. |
| 1948 | Israel recaptures Nizzanim in the Negev from Egyptian forces |
| 1954 | Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. becomes the first black general in USAF |
| 1962 | Cuban Missile Crisis: The Soviets blink |
| 1978 | Menachen Begin & Anwar Sadat awarded the Nobel Peace Prize |
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| 312 | Battle of the Milvian Bridge: Constantine defeats Maxentius |
| 1776 | Battle of White Plains; Washington retreats to New Jersey |
| 1793 | Eli Whitney applies for a patent on the cotton gin |
| 1835 | Mission Concepcion: c. 100 Texians route c. 250 Mexican troops |
| 1864 | Battle of Wauhatchie, TN |
| 1922 | Benito Mussolini becomes prime minister of Italy |
| 1940 | Italy invades Greece from Albania |
| 1940 | FDR, "Republicans . . . after opposing rearmament for years, are now protesting that the United States is too weak." |
| 1942 | "Tokyo Express" lands troops on Guadalcanal. |
| 1943 | Japanese evacuation of Kolombangara ends, 11,000 troops get away. |
| 1944 | Kamikaze draw first blood, U.S. cruiser is damaged. |
| 1958 | Angelo Roncalli, former Sergeant of Infantry, elected Pope as John XXIII |
| 1962 | Khrushchev orders missiles out of from Cuba, ending Missile Crisis |
| 1965 | Paul VI declares the Jewish do not bear collective guilt for the Crucifixion |
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