81 BC Second Day of Sulla's Triumph, for the defeat of Mithridates

1098 Battle of Antioch: Crusaders defeat the Syrians

1119 Battle of Balat/Sarmada: Emir Ilghazi defeats the Principality of Antioch

1147 Afonso I of Portugal lays siege to Lisbon (falls Oct 24)

1389 Battle of Kosovo: Turks defeat the Serbs

1461 Edward IV crowned king of England (1461-1470, 1471-1483)

1495 Battle of Seminara II: Bernard Stuart's French defeat Gonzalo de Cordoba, micromanaged by King Ferdinand

1651 Battle of Berestechko, Day 1 of 3: Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky's c. 200,000 Ukrainian Cossacks & Crimean Tatars skirmish with Casimir II's c. 150,00 Polish-Lithuanian forces

1675 Battle of Fehrbellin: Brandenurgers under Frederick William "the Great Elector" defeat the Swedes

1776 Charleston repulses a British naval attack

1778 Battle of Monmouth: Washington ties the British in the largest battle of the Revolutionary War, with temps hovering near 100

1788 Naval Battle of Liman (Black Sea): John Paul Jones, commanding the Russian fleet, defeats the Turks

1794 Joshua Humphreys appointed master builder of the USN, at $2,000 a year

1812 Napoleon captures Vilna

1814 USS 'Wasp' captures HMS 'Reindeer'

1838 Coronation of Queen Victoria in Westminster Abbey

1863 Battle of Donaldsonville, LA

1865 CSS 'Shenandoah' takes 11 American whalers, two months after Appomattox

1909 1st French air show, Concours d'Aviation opens

1914 Gavrilo Princep does his thing in Sarajevo

1919 In Louis XIV's Hall of Mirrors, where the German Empire was proclaimed in 1871, a defeated Germany signs the Treaty of Versailles

1929 Venezuelan nationalist Rafael Simon Urbina captures Fort Amsterdam, Curacao, killing three Dutch soldiers before taking hostages and fleeing back to Venezuela

1940 Romania cedes Bessarabia to the Soviet Union

1945 Soviets set up a puppet "Polish Provisional Government"

1948 Berlin Airlift begins

1956 Two day anti-communist riots begin in Poznan, Poland, 38 die

1965 President Johnson orders US ground forces to Vietnam

1968 Daniel Ellsberg indicted for leaking the Pentagon Papers