Events
36 BC - In the
battle of Naulochus,
Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa,
admiral of
Octavian, defeats
Sextus Pompeius, son of
Pompey, thus ending
Pompeian resistance to the
Second Triumvirate.301 -
San Marino, one of the
smallest nations in the world and the world's oldest
republic still in existence, is founded by
Saint Marinus. 590 -
St. Gregory I becomes
Pope. 1189 -
Richard I of England (a.k.a. Richard "the Lionheart") is crowned at
Westminster. 1260 - The
Mamluks defeat the
Mongols at the
Battle of Ain Jalut in
Palestine, marking their first decisive defeat and the point of maximum expansion of the
Mongol Empire.1650 -
Third English Civil War:
Battle of Dunbar (1650)1651 -
Third English Civil War:
Battle of Worcester -
Charles II of England is defeated in the last main battle of the war. 1666 - The Royal Exchange burnt down in the
Great Fire of London1777 -
Cooch's Bridge - Skirmish of
American Revolutionary war in
New Castle County,
Delaware where the
Flag of the United States was flown in battle for the first time.
1783 -
American Revolutionary War: The war ends with the signing of the
Treaty of Paris by the
United States and the
Kingdom of Great Britain.
1798 - Weeklong battle of
St. George's Caye begun between
Spanish and
British off the coast of
Belize.
1838 - Dressed in a sailor's uniform and carrying identification papers provided by a
Free Black seaman, future
abolitionist Frederick Douglass boards a train in
Maryland on his way to freedom from
slavery.
1855 -
Indian Wars: In
Nebraska, 700 soldiers under
American General William S. Harney avenge the
Grattan Massacre by attacking a
Sioux village, killing 100 men, women, and children.
1861 -
American Civil War:
Confederate General Leonidas Polk invades neutral
Kentucky, prompting the state legislature to ask for
Union assistance.
1870 -
Franco-Prussian War: the
Siege of Metz begins, which will result in a decisive
Prussian victory on
October 23.
1874 - The congress of the
state of
México elevates
Naucalpan to the category of
Villa, with the title of "Villa de
Juárez".
1878 - Over 640 die when the crowded pleasure boat
Princess Alice collides with the
Bywell Castle in the
River Thames.
1892 - English
football club Nottingham Forest played their first league game, it was against
Everton FC and ended 2-2.
1914 -
Giacomo della Chiesa acceeds to the papacy as
Pope Benedict XV.1914 -
William, Prince of Albania leaves the country after just six months due to opposition to his rule.
1929 -
Dow Jones Industrial Average reached all time high at the time (381.17), which was shortly followed by the
Crash of 1929.
1933 -
Yevgeniy Abalakov reaches the highest point of the
Soviet Union -
Communism Peak (7495 m).
1935 -
Sir Malcolm Campbell reaches 304.331
miles per hour on the
Bonneville Salt Flats in
Utah, becoming the first person to drive an
automobile over 300 mph
1939 -
World War II begins when
France, the
United Kingdom,
New Zealand, and
Australia declare war on
Germany after the
invasion of Poland, starting the
Allies.
1942 -
World War II: Uprising of the
Jewish ghetto in
Lakhva occurs.
1943 -
World War II: Mainland
Italy is invaded by
Allied forces for the first time in the war.
1944 -
Holocaust:
Diarist Anne Frank and her family are placed on the last transport train from
Westerbork to
Auschwitz, arriving three days later.
1951 - The first long-running American television
soap opera,
Search for Tomorrow, airs its first episode on the
CBS network.
1954 - The
People's Liberation Army begin shelling the
ROC-controlled islands of
Quemoy.1954 - The
German U-Boat U-505 began its move from a specially constructed dock to its final site at
Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry.
1967 -
Dagen H in
Sweden: traffic changes from driving on the left to driving on the right overnight
1975 -
Genesis P-Orridge and
Monte Cazazza coin the term
industrial music.
1976 -
Viking program: The
Viking 2 spacecraft lands at
Utopia Planitia on
Mars.
1991 - In
Hamlet, North Carolina,
a grease fire breaks out at the Imperial Foods chicken processing plant, killing 25 people.
1994 -
Sino-Soviet Split:
Russia and the
People's Republic of China agree to de-target their
nuclear weapons against each other.
1995 -
eBay founded.
1997 - A
Vietnam Airlines Tupolev TU-134 crashes on approach into
Phnom Penh airport, killing 64.
2004 - The
Beslan school massacre ends in the deaths of approximately 344 people, mostly teachers and children.
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