634 "Battle of the Euphrates Bridge" - The Persians annihilated a Moslem Arab army

1161 Battle of Caishi: A Song fleet defeats a Jin fleet on the Yangtze river

1648 Peace of Westphalia

1703 The Great Storm of 1703: The Royal Navy lost 15 warships at Milford Haven and Goodwin Sands

1741 French General Maurice de Saxe captures Prague from the Hapsburgs

1812 Battle of the Berezina: Napoleon's troops begin constructing a bridge as they hold off the Russians

1835 The Grass Fight: Texians defeat Mexicans outside San Antonio

1861 Skirmish at Little Blue, Mo

1862 Lincoln meets ". . . the little lady who started this big war," Harriet Beecher Stowe

1863 Union Gen. George Meade initiates the abortive Mine Run Campaign, VA (ends Dec 2)

1914 Battleship HMS 'Bulwark' explodes at Sheerness, 788 die

1940 Nazis force 500,000 Warsaw Jews to live in a walled ghetto

1941 Japanese First Air Fleet sorties from Tankan Bay, bound for Pearl Harbor

1942 "Casablanca" premiers at the Hollywood Theatre, NYC

1943 British troop transport 'Rohna' is sunk in the Mediterranean by a Luftwaffe Henschel Hs 293 guided glide bomb; nearly 1,200 die, including c. 1,050 US troops

1944 Himmler orders destruction of Auschwitz & Birkenau crematoria

1990 Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev tells Iraq to get out of Kuwait

2008 Islamist Attack on Mumbai: Terrorists seize several buildings before all the jihadis are killed or arrested c. 180 citizens and security personnel die