63 BC Catiline flees Rome
694 Edict of Toledo: King Egica of the Visigoths sentences all Jews to slavery.
1282 Pope Martin IV excommunicates King Peter III of Aragon.
1313 Battle of Gamelsdorf: Louis the Bavarian defeats his cousin Frederick I of Austria
1330 Battle of Posada: Voievode Basarab I of Wallachia ambushes the Hungarian army
1492 Peace of Etaples between Henry VII of England and Charles VIII of France
1519 Cortez captures Motecuhzoma at his palace in Tenochtitlan
1720 Arab rioters in Jerusalem burn down the Yehudah he-Hasid synagogue and expel the Jews from the city
1729 Treaty of Seville: Spain makes peace with England & France
1799 "Coup de 18 de Brumaire" - Bonaparte seizes power
1813 Battle of Taladega: Tennessee militiamen under Andrew Jackson defeat Creek Red Stick warriors
1835 Battle of Lipantitlan: Texians defeat the Mexicans
1860 Piedmontese Army invests Gaeta, held by the Neapolitan Royalists
1861 Action at Gauley Bridge, WVa
1861 Combat at Piketown/Fry Mountain, Ky
1872 Great Fire of Boston; 13 die, over 776 buildings burn, for damages of $75 million
1895 The liner 'Etruria' docks in NY, and Winston Churchill begins his first visit to the US
1914 HMAS 'Sydney' destroys the German raiding cruiser SMS 'Emden' in the Cocos Is.
1916 Munitions disaster at Bakaritsa, near Arkhangel, Russia -- 30,000 tons explode, thousands die
1917 Battle of Caporetto [12th Isonzo] ends (from Oct 24)
1918 Bavarian radicals proclaim a socialist republic
1918 Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicates due to Germany's defeat in WW I
1921 Mussolini forms the Partito Nazionalista Fascista
1921 The Unknown Soldier arrives at Washington aboard USS 'Olympia'
1925 Hitler forms the SS within the Brown Shirts
1937 The Japanese capture Shanghai
1938 Crystal Night: Nazis begin two nights of anti-Semitic rioting
1938 The First Sadie Hawkins Day [now observed on the Saturday nearest the 9th]
1939 Germans capture two British officers at Venlo, violating Netherlands neutrality
1944 Red Cross wins Nobel peace prize
1950 First jet air combat victory, Navy LCDR William T. Amen, in a 'Grumman F9F-2B Panther, downed Mikhail Fedorovich Grachev's, MiG-15
1961 USAF Major Robert White takes X-15 to 30,970 m
1979 NORAD goes on full alert when a computer glitch indicates a massive wave of incoming Soviet missiles
1984 "Three Servicemen" Statue added to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial
1989 The Berlin Wall comes down
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