480BC The Persians sack & burn Athens
1325 Battle of Altopascio: The Lucchese defeat the Florentines
1459 Battle of Blore Heath: the Earl of Salisbury's Yorkists beat Lord Audley's Lancastrians1
642 Battle of Powick Bridge: Prince Rupert of the Rhine defeats Col John Brown & the Earl of Essex
1700 Spanish crush the Prince of Macchia's coup in Naples (began Sep 20)
1751 Siege of Arcot: Rajah Chandra Sahib's Franco-Indian Army invests the city, held by Clive's Anglo-Indians; abandond the siege on Nov. 14th
1779 Celebrated frigate duel between John Paul Jones' 'Bonhomme Richard' & HMS 'Serapis'
1780 Maj. John Andre is captured, revealing Benedict Arnold's treason
1803 Battle of Assaye: Wellington's Anglo-Indian forces beat Maratha Army
1806 Frederick Marryat joins the Royal Navy, rises to captain, produces numerous novels, stories, and books, about the sea
1806 Lewis & Clark Expedition ends at St Louis
1846 Mexican uprising against American occupation at Los Angeles
1857 Russian warship 'Leffort' disappears in a storm off Finland, 826 die
1861 Combat at Romney, WVa
1862 Otto von Bismarck becomes Minister President of Prussia (1862-1890)
1863 Confederates begin investment of Chattanooga
1864 Battle of Athens VA
1865 Harney Lake Valley, Ore: Skirmish between US troops & Indians
1868 Grito de Lares: abortive Puerto Rican uprising against Spain
1915 Serbian troops begin retreating into Albania pursued by Austro-German-Bulgarian forces
1931 Navy tests its first rotary wing aircraft, an XOP-1 autogiro, on 'Langley' (CV-1)
1940 Dutch fascist leader Musserts meets Hitler for the first time
1941 Charles de Gaulle forms a French government-in-exile in London
1941 Kronstadt: German air raid sinks the Russian BB Marat
1942 Auschwitz begins experimental executions using poison gas
1942 Madagascar: British & Free French occupy Tananarive
1962 "Ensign O'Toole" premiers on NBC, runs for one season
1976 "Baa Baa Black Sheep" premieres on TV
1979 Jane Fonda & 200,000 attend anti-nuclear rally in Battery Park, NYC
1996 "JAG" premiers on NBC, later moves to CBS, runs for ten seasons
