1918 – U.S. Corporal Alvin C. York almost single-handedly killed 25 German soldiers and captured 132 in the Argonne Forest in France. York had originally tried to avoid being drafted as a conscientious objector. After this event his was promoted to sergeant and was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor.
0314 – Roman Emperor Licinius is defeated by his colleague Constantine I at the Battle of Cibalae, and loses his European territories
0876 – Battle at Andernach: East Frankish king Louis the Younger heavily defeats the West Frankish king Charles the Bald
1075 – Dmitar Zvonimir is crowned king of Croatia.
1275 – Scottish forces put down a Manx rebellion in the Battle of Ronaldsway, Isle of Man
1480 – Great standing on the Ugra river, a standoff between the forces of Akhmat Khan, Khan of the Great Horde, and the Grand Duke Ivan III of Russia, which resulted in the retreat of the Tataro-Mongols and eventual disintegration of the Horde.
1604 – The supernova called “”Kepler’s nova”” is First sighted
1645 – First hospital in Montreal, Quebec founded, the Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal by nurse Jeanne Mance
1769 – Captain James Cook lands in New Zealand at Poverty Bay on the East Coast of the North Island
1775 – Officers decide to bar slaves and free blacks from Continental Army
1818 – 2 English boxers are the first to use padded gloves
1856 – The Second Opium War between several western powers and China begins with the Arrow Incident on the Pearl River.
1871 – Four major fires break out on the shores of Lake Michigan in Chicago, Peshtigo, Wisconsin, Holland, Michigan, and Manistee, Michigan. The Great Chicago Fire is the most famous of these, having left nearly 100,000 people homeless, although the Peshtigo Fire killed as many as 2,500 people making it the deadliest fire in United States history.
1879 – War of the Pacific: the Chilean Navy defeats the Peruvian Navy in the Battle of Angamos, Peruvian Admiral Miguel Grau is killed in the encounter
1895 – Eulmi incident- Queen Min of Joseon, the last empress of Korea, is assassinated and her corpse burnt by the Japanese in Gyeongbok Palace.
1912 – First Balkan war begins – Montenegro started the conflict by declaring war on the Ottoman Empire. A few days later Greece, Bulgaria, and Serbia joined the war and created the Balkan League.
1915 – During World War I, the Battle of Loos concluded.
1918 – U.S. Corporal Alvin C. York almost single-handedly killed 25 German soldiers and captured 132 in the Argonne Forest in France. York had originally tried to avoid being drafted as a conscientious objector. After this event his was promoted to sergeant and was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/u-s-soldier-alvin-york-displays-heroics-at-argonne
1929 – The suspension of Billy Coutu was lifted so that the former Boston Bruins defenseman could play in the minor leagues. In Game 4 of the 1927 Stanley Cup, Coutu started a brawl, punching referee Jerry LaFlamme. As a result, Coutu became the first player to be suspended for life from the NHL
1934 – Bruno Hauptmann is indicted for murder of Lindbergh’s son
1938 – The cover of “The Saturday Evening Post” portrayed Norman Rockwell.
1941 – World War II: In their invasion of the Soviet Union, Germany reaches the Sea of Azov with the capture of Mariupol.
1944 – “The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet” debuted on CBS radio.
1945 – U.S. President Truman announced that only Britain and Canada would be given the secret to the atomic bomb.
1948 – World’s first internal pacemaker implanted – A 43-year-old man called Arne Larsson was the recipient of the pacemaker which worked only for a few hours. However, Larsson lived long after the pacemaker stopped working. He died in 2001 at the age of 86.
1950 – U.N. forces crossed into North Korea from South Korea.
1953 – Birmingham, Alabama, bars Jackie Robinson’s Negro-White All-Stars from playing there Robinson gives in & drops white players from his group
1955 – World’s most powerful aircraft carrier, Saratoga (US), launched
1956 The first perfect game in Major League Baseball World Series – New York Yankees’ Don Larsen pitched the only no-hitter game against the Brooklyn Dodgers in the history of the World Series.
1957 – Turkish and Syrian border guards exchange fire
1962 – N Korea reports 100% election turnout, 100% vote for Workers’ Party
1963 – Sultan of Zanzibar cedes his mainland possessions to Kenya
1966 – The U.S. Government declared that LSD was dangerous and an illegal substance.
1967 – Guerrilla leader Che Guevara and his men are captured in Bolivia.
1969 – The opening rally of the Days of Rage occurs, organized by the Weather Underground in Chicago, Illinois.
1970 – Vietnam War: In Paris, a Communist delegation rejects US President Richard Nixon’s October 7 peace proposal as “a maneuver to deceive world opinion.”
1973 – Yom Kippur War: Gabi Amir’s armored brigade attacks Egyptian occupied positions on the Israeli side of the Suez Canal, in hope of driving them away. The attack fails, and over 150 Israeli tanks are destroyed.
1974 – Franklin National Bank collapses due to fraud and mismanagement; at the time it was the largest bank failure in the history of the United States.
1981 – U.S. President Reagan greeted former Presidents Carter, Ford and Nixon to the White House. The group was preparing to leave for Egypt to attend the funeral of Anwar Sadat.
1982 – In Poland, all labor organizations, including Solidarity, were banned.
1990 – Israeli police kill 17 Palestinian rioters
1991 – A slave burial site was found by construction workers in lower Manhattan. The “Negro Burial Ground” had been closed in 1790. Over a dozen skeletons were found.
1993 – The U.S. government issued a report absolving the FBI of any wrongdoing in its final assault in Waco, TX, on the Branch Davidian compound. The fire that ended the siege killed as many as 85 people.
1998 – Taliban forces attacked Iranian border posts. Iran said that three border posts were destroyed before the Taliban forces were forced to retreat. The Taliban of Afghanistan denied the event occurred.
2001 – Tom Ridge, former Governor of Pennsylvania, was sworn in as director of the new U.S. department of Homeland Security.
2002 – A federal judge approved U.S. President George W. Bush’s request to reopen West Coast ports, to end a caustic 10-day labor lockout. The lockout was costing the U.S. economy an estimated $1 billion to $2 billion a day.
2003 – Vietnam and the United States reached a tentative agreement that would allow the first commercial flights between the two countries since the end of the Vietnam War.
2004 – The first-ever direct presidential elections were held in Afghanistan.
2012 – 35 people are killed by a Nigerian military bomb struck a convoy in Maiduguri
2016 – 140 people are killed in an air strike during a wake in Sanaa, Yemen
2018 – Major climate report by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for the UN says planet will warm 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit (1.5 degrees Celsius) by 2040 with dire results
2019 – FBI confirm Samuel Little is America’s most prolific serial killer, after verifying more than half of his 93 confessed murders
2020 – FBI charge 13 men with plotting to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer and storm the Michigan Capitol
2022 – The Kerch bridge built by Russia to link Crimea to Russia and symbol of Russia’s illegal occupation of Ukraine is partly blown up, allowing only light traffic to cross
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
