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768 – Carloman I and Charlemagne are crowned Kings of The Franks.
1238 – James I of Aragon conquers Valencia and founds the Kingdom of Valencia.
1264 – The Kingdom of Castile conquers the city of Jerez that was under Muslim occupation since 711.
1446 – The hangul alphabet is published in Korea.
1514: Mary Tudor, the 18-year-old sister of Henry VIII, became Queen consort of France upon her marriage to 52-year-old King Louis XII, who died less than three months later.
1557 – Trujillo is founded in Venezuela.
1558 – Mérida is founded in Venezuela.
1582 – Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar, this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
1594 – The army of the Portuguese Empire is annihilated by the Kingdom of Kandy on Sri Lanka, bringing an end to the Campaign of Danture.
1595 – The Spanish army captures Cambrai.
1604 – Supernova 1604, the most recent supernova to be observed in the Milky Way.
1635: Roger Williams is banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony by the General Court of Massachusetts as a religious dissident after he speaks out against punishments by civil authorities for religious offenses, and the unfair confiscation of Native American land, which had become common place.
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1708 – Peter the Great defeats the Swedes at the Battle of Lesnaya.
1740 – Dutch colonists and various slave groups begin massacring ethnic Chinese in Batavia, eventually killing 10,000 and leading to a two-year-long war throughout Java.
1760 – Seven Years' War: Russian forces occupy Berlin.
1771 – The Dutch merchant ship Vrouw Maria sinks near the coast of Finland.
1776: A group of Spanish missionaries settled in present-day San Francisco.
1781 – The last battle of the American Revolutionary War begins as French and American troops, under leadership of George Washington and comte de Rochambeau, bombard Yorktown.
1799 – Sinking of HMS Lutine with the loss of 240 men and a cargo worth £1,200,000.
1804 – Hobart, capital of Tasmania, is founded.
1806 – Prussia declares war on France.
1812 – War of 1812: In a naval engagement on Lake Erie, American forces capture two British ships: HMS Detroit and HMS Caledonia.
1820 – Guayaquil declares independence from Spain.
1824 – Slavery is abolished in Costa Rica.
1831 – Ioannis Kapodistrias, the first head of state of independent Greece is assassinated.
1834 – Opening of the Dublin and Kingstown Railway, the first public railway on the island of Ireland.
1845 – The eminent and controversial Anglican, John Henry Newman, is received into the Roman Catholic Church.
1854 – Crimean War: The siege of Sebastopol begins.
1861 – American Civil War: Battle of Santa Rosa Island: Union troops repel a Confederate attempt to capture Fort Pickens.
1864 – American Civil War: Union cavalry in the Shenandoah Valley deal a humiliating defeat to Confederate forces at the Battle of Tom's Brook, Virginia.
1865 – In Pennsylvania the first underground pipeline for oil is laid.
1872: The Great Boston Fire of 1872 destroyed nearly 800 buildings.
1873 – A meeting at the U.S. Naval Academy establishes the U.S. Naval Institute.
1874 – General Postal Union is created as a result of the Treaty of Berne.
1888: The public was first admitted to the Washington Monument.
1900 – The Cook Islands become a territory of the United Kingdom.
1907 – Las Cruces, New Mexico is incorporated.
1911 – An accidental bomb explosion in Hankou, Wuhan, China leads to the ultimate fall of the Qing Empire
1913 – The steamship SS Volturno catches fire in the mid-Atlantic.
1914 – World War I: Siege of Antwerp: Antwerp, Belgium falls to German troops.
1915: World War I: Austro-Hungarian forces capture the Serbian capital of Belgrade, assisted in their defeat of Serbian forces by German troops under the command of General August von Mackensen.
1919 – Black Sox Scandal: The Cincinnati Reds defeat the Chicago White Sox to win the World Series, later eight players from the White Sox were accused of throwing the series in exchange for money.
1934 – Regicide at Marseille: The assassination of King Alexander I of Yugoslavia and Louis Barthou, Foreign Minister of France.
1936 – Generators at Boulder Dam (later renamed to Hoover Dam) begin to generate electricity from the Colorado River and transmit it 266 miles to Los Angeles.
1940: World War II: During the Battle of Britain, the German Luftwaffe launches a heavy nighttime air raid on London. The dome of St. Paul's Cathedral was pierced by a Nazi bomb, leaving the high altar in ruin.
1941 – A coup in Panama declares Ricardo Adolfo de la Guardia Arango the new president.
1942 – Statute of Westminster 1931 formalises Australian autonomy.
1942 – The last day of the October Matanikau action on Guadalcanal as United States Marine Corps forces withdraw back across the Matanikau River after destroying most of the Imperial Japanese Army's 4th Infantry Regiment.
1944: British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin begin a nine-day conference in Moscow, during which the war with Germany and the future of Europe are discussed.
1945 – Parade in NYC for Fleet Admiral Nimitz and 13 USN/USMC Medal of Honor recipients.
1950 – Goyang Geumjeong Cave massacre started.
1962 – Uganda becomes an independent Commonwealth realm.
1963 – In northeast Italy, over 2,000 people are killed when a large landslide behind the Vajont Dam causes a giant wave of water to overtop it.
1966 – Vietnam War: Binh Tai Massacre
1966 – Vietnam War: Diên Niên - Phước Bình massacre
1967 – A day after being captured, Marxist revolutionary guerrilla leader Ernesto "Che" Guevara is executed by the Bolivian army for attempting to incite a revolution in Bolivia.
1969 – In Chicago, the United States National Guard is called in for crowd control as demonstrations continue in connection with the trial of the "Chicago Eight" that began on September 24.
1970: The Khmer Republic is proclaimed in Cambodia.
1974: German businessman Oskar Schindler, credited with saving 1,200 Jews from the Holocaust, dies at the age of 66.
1980 – Pope John Paul II shakes hands with the Dalai Lama during a private audience in Vatican City.
1980 – Princess Caroline of Monaco divorces Philippe Junot.
1981 – Abolition of capital punishment in France.
1983 – Rangoon bombing: Attempted assassination of South Korean President Chun Doo-hwan during an official visit to Rangoon, Burma. Chun survives but the blast kills 17 of his entourage, including four cabinet ministers, and injures 17 others. Four Burmese officials also die in the blast.
1986 – The musical The Phantom of the Opera receives its first performance at Her Majesty's Theatre in London.
1989 – An official news agency in the Soviet Union reports the landing of a UFO in Voronezh.
1991 – Ecuador becomes a member of the Berne Convention.
1992 – A 13 kilogram (est.) fragment of the Peekskill meteorite lands in the driveway of the Knapp residence in Peekskill, New York, destroying the family's 1980 Chevrolet Malibu.
1995 – An Amtrak Sunset Limited train is derailed by saboteurs near Palo Verde, Arizona.
1999 – The last flight of the SR-71.
2001 – Second mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attacks.
2003 – Mission: Space opens to the public in the Epcot park at Walt Disney World. The opening ceremony included several astronauts from all eras of space exploration.
2006 – North Korea allegedly tests its first nuclear device.
2009 – First lunar impact of the Centaur and LCROSS spacecrafts as part of NASA's Lunar Precursor Robotic Program.
2012 – Members of the Pakistani Taliban make a failed attempt to assassinate Malala Yousafzai on her way home from school.
Saints' Days and Holy Days
Traditional Western
Denys, Biship of Paris, Rusticus, and Eleutherius, Martyrs. Semi-double.
Contemporary Western
Saint Denis
Dionysius the Areopagite
Ghislain
Giovanni Leonardi
Innocencio of Mary Immaculate and Martyrs of Asturias
John Henry Newman
Luis Beltran
Dionysius the Areopagite
Ghislain
Giovanni Leonardi
Innocencio of Mary Immaculate and Martyrs of Asturias
John Henry Newman
Luis Beltran
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
Robert Grosseteste (Anglicanism)
Wilfred Grenfell (Episcopal Church (USA))
Wilfred Grenfell (Episcopal Church (USA))
Eastern Orthodox
Holy Apostle James, son of Alphaeus (1st century)
Saint Andronicus and his wife St. Athanasia of Egypt (500)
Righteous Forefather Abraham and his nephew righteous Lot (2000 B.C.)
Martyrs Juventius and Maximus at Antioch (4th century)
Saint Publia the Confessor of Antioch (360)
Saint Peter of Galatia (9th century)
Saint Stephen the New of Serbia (1427)
Saint Demetrius, Patriarch of Alexandria (231)
Hieromartyr Denis, Bishop of Paris (258)
Saint Stephen the Blind, King of Serbia (1468)
New hieromartyr Peter, priest (1918)
New hieromartyr Constantine, priest (1937)
Saint Andronicus and his wife St. Athanasia of Egypt (500)
Righteous Forefather Abraham and his nephew righteous Lot (2000 B.C.)
Martyrs Juventius and Maximus at Antioch (4th century)
Saint Publia the Confessor of Antioch (360)
Saint Peter of Galatia (9th century)
Saint Stephen the New of Serbia (1427)
Saint Demetrius, Patriarch of Alexandria (231)
Hieromartyr Denis, Bishop of Paris (258)
Saint Stephen the Blind, King of Serbia (1468)
New hieromartyr Peter, priest (1918)
New hieromartyr Constantine, priest (1937)
Icons of the Most Holy Theotokos "Korsun" (Cherson) and "Assuage My Sorrow"
Glorification (1989) of Tikhon of Moscow (1925)
Coptic Orthodox
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