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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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| 476 | Odoacer elected "King" of Italy by Germanic barbarians |
| 1268 | Conradin of Hohenstaufen defeated by the Angevins at Tagliacozzo |
| 1328 | King Philip VI of France, crowned |
| 1813 | Battle of Grossbeeren: Prussians under von Bulow repulse French |
| 1821 | Mexico declares independence from Spain |
| 1828 | Brazil defeats Argentina in the naval battle of Chico Bank |
| 1839 | British take Hong Kong |
| 1864 | Fall of Ft Morgan at Mobile, AL |
| 1866 | Treaty of Prague ends Austro-Prussian/Italian war |
| 1914 | Japan declares war on Germany in World War I |
| 1916 | Military court of Berlin sentences Karl Liebknecht to 4 years |
| 1929 | Arabs attack Jews in Israel |
| 1939 | Nazi-Soviet Pact: Hitler and Stalin form an alliance |
| 1940 | German Luftwaffe begins night raids on London |
| 1942 | U.S. recon a/c spot Japanese force intent on reinforcing Guadalcanal. |
| 1942 | U.S. destroyer Blue (damaged on the 22nd) is scuttled at Tulagi. |
| 1942 | The U.S. 40th Infantry Div begins leaving San Francisco for Hawaii. |
| 1942 | Japanese cruisers and destroyers shell Nauru. |
| 1942 | Battle of Stalingrad begins |
| 1942 | At night Japanese destroyers shell the Marines on Guadalcanal. |
| 1943 | Red army recaptures Karkow |
| 1943 | Japanese sub I-25 reconnoiters Espiritu Santo with a small scout plane. |
| 1944 | Romania liberated from Nazi occupation, King Michael abdicates |
| 1944 | 6th Marine Div begins forming on Guadalcanal. |
| 1945 | Soviet troops occupy Paramushiro, in the Kuriles. |
| 1948 | Count Bernadotte asks aid for fugitives to Palestine |
| 1990 | Armenia declares independence of the Soviet Union |
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| 79 | Mt Vesuvius erupts, burying Pompeii & Herculaneum |
| 410 | Alaric and the Visigoths being a three-day sack Rome |
| 1349 | Jews of Cologne set themselves on fire to avoid baptism |
| 1349 | Blamed for the plague, 6,000 Jews are killed in Mainz |
| 1391 | Jews of Palma, Majorca, massacred |
| 1412 | Venetians defeat the Hungarians at Matta, Friulia |
| 1572 | St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre; French Catholics slaughter Protestants |
| 1704 | Naval battle off Malaga |
| 1789 | 1st Battle of Ruotsinaslami/Svenksund: Russian fleets defeats Swedes |
| 1814 | British burn Washington. |
| 1814 | Sir George Cockburn eats Pres. Madison's dinner in the White House |
| 1904 | Battle of Liao-Yang; Japanese defeat Russians |
| 1921 | British airship R-38 crashes in the Humber; 44 die |
| 1921 | Battle of Sakara begins between Turkey & Greece |
| 1929 | Palestinians attack orthodox Jews in Jerusalem |
| 1937 | Spanish Republican offensive at Belchite |
| 1941 | British and Soviet troops invade pro-Axis Iran |
| 1942 | Nocturnal Japanese destroyer raid to Henderson Field |
| 1942 | SNLF troops land in the Goodenough Islands, off northeastern New Guinea. |
| 1942 | 11 Enterprise dive bombers reinforce Henderson Field. |
| 1942 | Eastern Solomons: Saratoga a/c sink Ryujo, Enterprise is damaged. |
| 1943 | Lord Louis Montbatten appoined Supreme Allied Commander, Southeast Asia. |
| 1944 | Br Far Eastern Fleet carriers raid Padang, in southwestern Sumatra. |
| 1945 | Red Chinese forces occupy Chefoo and Wei-hai-wei. |
| 1949 | North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) established |
| 1970 | Bomb kills one at U of Wisconsin's Army Math Research Center in Madison |
| 1991 | Ukraine declares independence from USSR |
| 1991 | Gorbachev resigns as head of Communist Party of the USSR |
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