Events1147 - The Portuguese, under
Afonso I, and Crusaders from England and Flanders conquer
Lisbon after a
four-month siege.1315 - Adam Banastre, Henry de Lea and William Bradshaw, led an attack on
Liverpool Castle.1415 - The army of
Henry V of England defeats the French at the
Battle of Agincourt.
1616 - Dutch sea-captain
Dirk Hartog makes second recorded landfall by a European on
Australian soil, at the later-named
Dirk Hartog Island off the
Western Australian coast.
1747 - British fleet under Admiral Sir
Edward Hawke defeats French at the
second battle of Cape Finisterre.
1760 -
George III becomes
King of Great Britain1813 -
War of 1812:
Canadians and
Mohawks defeat the
Americans in the
Battle of Chateauguay.
1828 - The
St Katharine Docks opened in
London.
1854 - The
Battle of Balaklava during the
Crimean War (
Charge of the Light Brigade).
1861 - The
Toronto Stock Exchange was created.
1875 - The first performance of the
Piano Concerto No. 1 by
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky is given in
Boston, Massachusetts with
Hans von Bülow as soloist.
1900 - The
United Kingdom annexes the
Transvaal.
1912 -
Richard Strauss' opera
Ariadne auf Naxos receives its debut performance at the
Vienna State Opera.
1917 -
The First Marxist revolution, involving the capture of the Winter Palace, Petrograd, Russia.
1924 - The forged
Zinoviev Letter is published in the
Daily Mail, wrecking the
British Labour Party's hopes of re-election.
1935 -
Hurricane floods
Haiti, killing over 2,000 people.
1936 -
Adolf Hitler and
Benito Mussolini create the
Rome-
Berlin Axis.
1938 - The
Archbishop of Dubuque,
Francis J. L. Beckman, denounces
Swing music as "a degenerated musical system... turned loose to gnaw away at the moral fiber of young people", warning that it leads down a "primrose path to
hell".
1944 -
Heinrich Himmler orders a crackdown on the
Edelweiss Pirates, a loosely organized
youth culture in
Nazi Germany that had assisted army deserters and others to hide from the
Third Reich1944 - The
USS Tang (SS-306) under
Richard O'Kane (the top submarine captain of World War II) is sunk by her own torpedo.1944 - The
Romanian Army liberates
Carei, the last
Romanian city under
Axis Powers' occupation.1944 -
Battle of Leyte Gulf, largest naval battle in history, takes place in and around the Philippines between Imperial Japanese Navy and US Third and Seventh Fleets.
1945 - The
Republic of China takes over administration of
Taiwan following Japan's surrender to
the Allies.
1962 -
Cuban missile crisis:
Adlai Stevenson shows photos at the
UN proving
Soviet missiles are installed in
Cuba1970 - The wreck of Confederate submarine
Hunley was found off
Charleston,
South Carolina, by pioneer
underwater archaeologist,
Dr. E. Lee Spence, then just 22 years old. Hunley was the first submarine to sink a ship in warfare.
1971 - The
United Nations seated the
People's Republic of China and expelled the
Republic of China (see
political status of Taiwan and
China and the United Nations)
1972 -
The Washington Post reports that
White House Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman was the fifth person to control a secret cash fund designed to finance illegal political
sabotage and
espionage during the 1972 presidential election campaign (see also
Watergate scandal)
1980 - Proceedings on the
Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction conclude at
The Hague 1983 -
Operation Urgent Fury: The
United States and its
Caribbean allies invade
Grenada, six days after
Prime Minister Maurice Bishop and several of his supporters were
executed in a
coup d'état.
1991 -
History of Slovenia: Three months after the end of the
Ten-Day War, the last soldier of the
Yugoslav People's Army leaves the territory of the
Republic of Slovenia.
1992 -
Lithuania holds
a referendum on its first
post-Soviet constitution.Curtis Baker is born.
1993 -
Jean Chrétien becomes
Prime Minister of Canada with a massive majority for his
Liberal Party in a
general election in which the governing
Progressive Conservatives, led by
Kim Campbell, lost 149 of 151 seats in the
parliament.
1996 - The "Days of Action", the largest one day strike in
Ontario, Canada's history, as over 250,000 protesters converged on the
Ontario Legislature and attempted to shut-down
Toronto, in protest to the
Mike Harris Government's budget cuts.
1997 - After a brief
civil war which has driven President
Pascal Lissouba out of
Brazzaville,
Denis Sassou-Nguesso proclaims himself the President of the
Republic of the Congo.
2001 -
Microsoft releases
Windows XP2004 -
Fidel Castro,
Cuba's President, announces that transactions using the American Dollar will be banned by
November 8.
2007 - The first
Airbus A380 flight, operating for
Singapore Airlines, with flight number SQ380.
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