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| 1715 | "The Fifteen" - The first Jacobite Rebellion begins |
| 1776 | David Bushnell's Turtle attempts a submarine attack on HMS Eagle, NY |
| 1808 | Gioacchino Murat lands at Gaeta to assume the throne of Naples |
| 1862 | Stonewall Jackson occupies Fredrick, Maryland |
| 1863 | Confederates evacuate Ft Wagner, SC, ending 59 day Union siege |
| 1886 | Queen Victoria establishes Distinguished Service Order (DSO) |
| 1900 | Anglo-Boer War: Buller captures Lydenburg |
| 1901 | Leon Czologosz shoots President McKinley in Buffalo, NY |
| 1914 | Battle of Marne; Germans prevented from occupying Paris |
| 1918 | US Navy 14-inch rail guns open fire on the Western Front |
| 1924 | Mussolini evades assassination atempt |
| 1928 | USSR signs Briand-Kellogg Pact, agrees war is naughty |
| 1939 | South Africa declares war on Germany |
| 1939 | First German air attack on Great Britain in WW II |
| 1940 | Charles F. Hughes (DD-428) commissioned (LtCdr. G. L. Menocal) |
| 1940 | Crown prince Michael succeeds Carol II as king of Romania |
| 1941 | Nazis restrict Jews of Vilna, Poland, to a ghetto |
| 1941 | All Jews over age 6 in German territories ordered to wear a star |
| 1942 | Japanese occupy Efogi on the Kokoda Trail, 50 miles from Port Moresby |
| 1943 | Japanese CA Nachi survives torpedo from Halibut off Japan. |
| 1944 | Netherlands: German Fifteenth Army evacuates Zealand |
| 1944 | 16 U.S. carriers strike Japanese held islands in the western Carolines |
| 1976 | Russian pilot defects to Japan in a Mig 25 |
| 1983 | USSR admits to shooting down KAL 007 on 9/2 |
| 1988 | Crippled Soviet Soyuz TM-5 lands safely with 2 cosmonauts aboard |
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| 1303 | The Colonna capture Pope Boniface VIII, a Caetani, at Anagni |
| 1664 | Peter Stuyvesant surrenders Nieuw Amsterdam to the English fleet |
| 1714 | Treaty of Baden: French retain Alsace, Austria gets right bank of Rhine |
| 1776 | David Bushnell's sub Turtle tries to destroy HMS Asia, in New York harbor |
| 1812 | Battle at Borodino: Napoleon gains a Phyrric victory over Kutusov |
| 1814 | USS Wasp captures HMS Avon |
| 1822 | Pedro I, son of King Joao VI of Portugal, declares Brazil independent |
| 1860 | Garibaldi and "The Army of the South" enter Naples |
| 1862 | Stonewall Jackson writes a pass so he can attend divine services. |
| 1901 | Anglo-Boer War: Smuts cuts up 17th Lancers at Elands River Poort |
| 1940 | German Air Force begins first of 57 nights of raids on London |
| 1942 | Battle of Alam Halfa, Rommel's attempt to reach the Nile is frustrated. |
| 1943 | Heavy fighting on Vella Lavella. |
| 1943 | Heavy fighting around Lae. |
| 1947 | Hindus & Muslims battle in New Delhi |
| 1950 | Communist government closes all monasteries in Hungary |
| 1956 | Bell X-2 sets unofficial manned aircraft altitude record 126,000'+ |
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| 1141 | Battle of Samarkand |
| 1380 | Russians defeat Tatars at Kulikovo, beginning decline of Tatars |
| 1495 | Ferrantino II lays siege to French-held Gaeta (falls Nov 18) |
| 1565 | Turkish siege of Malta broken by a Spanish squadron from Naples |
| 1664 | Peter Stuyvesant surrenders Niewe Amsterdam to the English |
| 1760 | French surrender Montreal to General Jeffrey Amherst |
| 1796 | Battle of Bassano: French beat Austrians |
| 1855 | Crimean War: Assault on the Malakof Bastion |
| 1863 | Texans repel Federal invasion force at Sabine Pass, TX |
| 1863 | Battle of Telford's Depot,TN |
| 1923 | 7 USN DDs ground at Point Honda, Ca, due to a navigational error |
| 1939 | German panzers reach outskirts of Warsaw |
| 1939 | FDR declares "limited national emergency" due to war in Europe |
| 1941 | Entire Jewish community of Meretsch, Lithuania, is exterminated |
| 1942 | Japanese open 5 battalion attack on Aussies at Egofi, the Kokoda Trail |
| 1942 | Japanese destroyer squadron shells Tulagi. |
| 1942 | 700 Marine Raiders raid Tasimboko, Guadalcanal, in the Japanese rear |
| 1943 | U.S. destroyers bombard Lae to support Australian 9th Div. |
| 1943 | Italy surrenders to Allies in WW II |
| 1944 | Russian troops reach Bulgaria, which promptly declares war on Germany |
| 1945 | US troops land in Korea to assume occupation duties |
| 1948 | British De Havilland 08 fighter flies faster than sound |
| 1951 | Japan signs peace treaty with 48 countries at San Francisco |
| 1954 | Southeast Asia Treaty Organization formed by the Treaty of Manila |
| 1954 | SE Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) formed |
| 1962 | Chinese troops invade India |
| 1991 | Macedonia declares independence from Yugoslavia |
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