105BC Battle of Arausio: the Teutones & Cimbri defeat two Roman armies in Provence
69BC Battle of Tigranocerta: Lucullus defeats Tigranes of Armenia, to capture and loot the city
1759 Carlo V/VII abdicates the thrones of Sicily & Naples (1734-1759) to become Carlos III of Spain (1759-1788), leaving the Italian kingdoms to his younger son Ferdinand III/IV (1759-1825)
1762 Manila surrenders to a British expedition after a short siege
1777 George Washington returns British General Sir William Howe's dog, "captured" at Germantown
1781 Americans & French begin siege of Cornwallis at Yorktown
1854 Great fire of Newcastle/Gateshead, UK: 53 die, hundreds injured.
1908 Austria annexes Bosnia & Herzegovina, occupied since 1878
1922 Allies end the occupation of Constantinople
1928 Chiang Kai-Shek becomes Chairman of the Kuomintang Party
1935 Italian troops capture Adua, Abyssinia
1939 Hitler announces he had no intention of making war on Britain and France
1943 Naval Battle of Vella Lavella: USN & IJN tangle, each losing a destroyer
1943 Himmler demands acceleration of the "Final Solution"
1944 Soviet troops enter Hungary and Czechoslovakia
1944 U.S. troops secure Anguar, but mopping up continues.
1949 Iva Toguri "Tokyo Rose" D'Aquino is sentenced to 10 years & fined $10,000
1951 Stalin announces Russia has the atom bomb
1958 The USS 'Seawolf' (SSN-575) completed 60 days under the polar ice
1961 JFK advises Americans to build bomb shelters
1973 Syria & Egypt attack Israel, initiating the "Yom Kippur War"
1987 Coup by Maj Gen Sitiveni Rabuka declares Fiji a republic
2002 French tanker 'Limburg' is attacked by terrorists off Yemen
