63 BC Catiline begins concentrating an army at Faesulae
1096 Battle of Drakon: The Seljuks defeat the "Beggars' Crusade"
1600 Battle of Sekigahara: With the help of a little treachery, Tokugawa Ieyasu defeats the Toyotomi under Ishida Mitsunari, to secure the shogunate for his family for more than 250 years
1639 Battle of the Dunes: Tromp's Dutch fleet defeats Quendo's Spaniards
1797 USS 'Constitution' - 'Old Ironsides' - is launched at Boston
1805 Trafalgar - Greatest battle in the Age of Sail, Nelson's last victory
1861 Ball's Bluff/Harrison's Landing/Leesburg, Va: Confederate Victory
1861 Skirmishing ends, vicinity Frederickstown/Ironton, Mo
1892 Pres Grover Cleveland unveils the Soldiers' & Sailors' Arch at Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn
1914 Battle of Warsaw: Germans defeat the Russians
1934 Red Chinese "Long March" begins (to Oct 19, 1935)1937 Spanish Nationalists capture Gijon
1940 President Roosevelt proposes converting merchant ships to auxiliary aircraft carriers, claiming it could be done in 90 days: the first, 'Long Island' (CVE-1), is completed in 88 days
1941 Germans massacre 7,000 people in "reprisals" at Kragujevac, Yugoslavia
1950 Red Chinese forces invade Tibet
1960 HMS 'Dreadnought' is launched, Britain's 1st nuclear submarine
1966 The Aberfan Disaster: Thousands of tonnes of mining spoil bury a Welsh village; 116 children, 28 adults die
1967 Thousands of Vietnam War protestors allegedly levitate the Pentagon with positive vibes
1971 Nobel prize for literature awarded to Soviet apologist Pablo Neruda
