680 Battle of Kerbala: Mohammed's grandson, the Shia Imam Huseyn Ali is defeated by the Caliph Yazid I ibn Muawiyah
732 Battle of Tours/Poitiers: Franks defeat Moslem invaders
881 Arab raiders destroy the Monastery of San Vincenzo al Volturno, burning precious manuscripts
1471 Battle of Brunkeberg, Stockholm
1500 Pandolfo Malatesta surrenders Rimini to Cesare Borgia
1547 Battle of Pinkie: English defeat the Scots
1571 Battle of Tillyangus: Clan Gordon defeats Clan Forbes
1573 Spanish capture Tunis
1578 Count Johan Casimir occupies Ghent with 500 horsemen
1739 War of Jenkins' Ear begins: Britain against Spain (1739-1742, when it merges into the War of the Austrian Succession to 1748)
1794 Austro-Russian Army crushes Kosciuzko's Polish liberation army
1800 "Conspiracy of the Daggers" to murder Napoleon uncovered in France
1806 Battle of Saalfeld: French defeat the Prussians
1868 Cuban revolutionaries initiate the "Ten Years' War" with Spain
1905 Ens Ernest J. King, USN, weds Martha L. Egerton, in the Cadet Chapel at West Point
1911 "Double Ten Day": Republican Officers & NCOs of the 8th Division shoot Manchu loyalists in their ranks and initiate the Chinese Revolution
1914 Belgians evacuate Antwerp
1916 Eighth Battle of the Isonzo ends (from Oct 8)
1918 British Gen. Sir Edmund Allenby enters Jerusalem, on foot
1920 Italy annexes South Tirol (Alto Adige)
1935 League of Nations denounces Italian invasion of Abyssinia
1944 17 US carriers raid the Ryukyus
1944 Over 800 Gypsy children are murdered at Auschwitz
1944 Soviet forces isolate Germans in the Baltic States
1962 Federal troops secure entry of black veteran James Meredith to "Ole Miss"
