1016 Battle of Ashingdon/Assandun: Danes defeat the Saxons
1080 Battle of Dyrrachium: Robert the Weasel defeats the Byzantines, and invests the city
1244 Battle of La Forbie: Ayyubids defeat the Kingdom of Jerusalem
1685 Louis XIV revokes the Edict of Nantes, outlaws Protestantism
1748 Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle: ends War of Austrian Succession
1767 Completion of the survey of the Mason-Dixon Line, defining the mutual borders of Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Delaware
1776 Col John Glover & his Marblehead Regiment fight the British in the Bronx
1790 In the Ohio country, Little Turtle began attacks on Josiah Harmer's Army (See Oct 29)
1812 USS 'Wasp' takes HMS 'Frolic' off Virginia, but then strikes to HMS 'Poictiers,' a 74
1813 Battle of Leipzig, Day 3: Austrians, Russians, Prussians, v. Napoleon
1859 US Marines under Robert E. Lee capture John Brown & his party at Harper’s ferry
1862 Morgan's raiders capture Federal garrison at Lexington, Ky
1863 Battle of Charlestown, WVa
1867 Alaska formally transferred from Russia to the US
1870 Prussians capture Chateaudun after a day-long fight with French volunteers
1905 Pogroms began across Russia, causing hundreds of Jewish deaths over the next week
1912 Italo-Turkish War ends
1913 Austro-Hungarian C/S Conrad von Hotzendorf suggests a preemptive war on Serbia to Kaiser Wilhelm II, who says "I am with you."
1915 Third Battle of the Isonzo begins (to Nov 4)
1918 Czechoslovakia declares independence from Austria-Hungary
1921 "The Night of Blood," three moderate Portuguese political leaders are murdered by persons still unknown
1925 French Gen Sarrail begins three-day bombardment of Damascus
1941 Russian spy Richard Sorge arrested in Tokyo
1942 Guadalcanal: US sub damages a "Tokyo Express" light cruiser
1942 VAdm Ghormley replaced by VAdm Halsey as commander of the South Pacific Theatre
1944 Rangers begin landing on outlying islands in Leyte Gulf.
1977 German special forces storm a hijacked airliner in Somalia, 4 hijackers die, 86 hostages freed
2008 The Royal Armouries Museum at Leeds holds a day-long conference on the military career of Sir Harry Flashman VC, as a tribute to the late George MacDonald Fraser, creator of the fictional Victorian rogue.
