1354 Naval Battle of Soplegno: Geonese defeat the Venetians

1429 Liberation of Saint-Pierre-le-Moûtier: Joan of Arc recovers the town for King Charles VII

1576 Spanish capture Antwerp from the Dutch

1619 Frederik V s crowned king of Bohemia (1619-1620), the "Winter King", having initiated the Thirty Years' War

1677 William of Orange marries Mary Stuart (William & Mary of England), on his birthday

1760 Battle of Torgau: Frederick the Great defeats the Austrians

1780 Túpac Amaru II (Jose Gabriel Condorcanqui) initiates a rebellion against Spanish rule in Peru (1780-1782)

1791 Battle of the Wabash - St. Clair's Defeat: Little Turtle's Miamis almost annihilate the U.S. Army, c. 600 die

1794 Battle of Warsaw: Suvarov's Russians defeat the Poles amid great slaughter, and capture the city

1840 After a two-day bombardment, a British-Turkish-Austrian fleet captures Acre, Palestine, from the Egyptians

1860 Skirmish at Mola: Piedmontese-Italians drive Neapolitan Royalists back on Gaeta

1861 Skirmish at Port Royal, SC

1862 Richard J. Gatling receives a patent for a clever device

1864 Battle of Johnsonville/Reynoldsburg Island: Confederate gunboats, batteries, and raiders attack a Union supply base on the Tennessee River, inflicting extensive damage, and causing three gunboats to be destroyed

1866 Kingdom of Italy annexes Venetia

1903 US Naval Academy defeats New York Naval Militia in football, 28-0

1915 Third Battle of the Isonzo ends (from Oct 18)

1916 Ninth Battle of the Isonzo ends (from Nov 1)

1918 Austria-Hungary concludes an armistice with Italy.

1918 Kiel, Germany, falls into the in hands of revolutionary sailors

1921 Interment of the "Soldato Ignoto" in the Victor Emmanuel monument in Rome

1923 The tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun is discovered in the Valley of the Kings

1939 Neutrality Act of 1939 is passed, to allow "cash-and-carry" arms sales to belligerents

1940 The Netherlands: Nazis begin rationing eggs & cake

1942 Australian 16th Brigade begins an attack on Oivi, on the Kokoda Trail.

1944 Japanese air attacks on Saipan and Tinian.

1950 US troops retreat from Pyongyang, North Korea

1956 Israeli troops capture the Straits of Tiran and reach the Suez Canal

1956 Russian troops attack Budapest, to suppress the Hungarian Revolution