This day in military history..

Oct 22
1633 Battle of the southern Fujian Sea
1707 Scilly Naval Disaster. 3 Royal Navy Ships-of-the-Line & a fireship run aground & sink with heavy casulties
1777 Battle of Red Bank
1790 Miami Indians defeat US troops near Ft. Wayne
1797 1st parachute jump
1862 Battle of Yanassee, S.C.
1950 Battle of Yongju ends
1957 1st US casulties in Vietnam
 
Oct 23
42 B.C. 2nd Battle of Philippi
1086 Battle of az-Zallaqah
1642 Battle of Edgehill
1864 Battle of Westport, Mo
1870 Siege of Metz ends
1911 1st use of aircraft in War. Italians fly recon mission
1912 Battle of Kumonsovo
1442 2nd Battle of El Alamein. Battle of Henderson Field begins
1944 Red Army invades Hungary. Battle of Leyte Gulf begins
1972 Vietnam: Operation Linebacker ends
1983 US Marine Barracks & French Army barracks bombed by Terrorists in Beirut
2002 Terrorists sieze Moscow theatre
 
Oct 25
1147 Siege of Lisbon ends. Battle of Dorylaeum.
1415 Battle of Agincourt
1747 2nd Battle of Cape Finisterre
1812 USS United States captures HMS Macedonian
1854 Battle of Balaklava(Charge of the Light Brigade)
1864 Battle of Marais des Cygnes, Mo
1917 Russia: October Revolution begins
1944 USS Tang sunk by own malfuntioning torpedo
1983 US invades Grenada
 
Oct 26
1597 naval Battle of Myeongnyung
1813 Battle of Chateauguay, Canada
1912 Greeks capture Thessilonika & Serbs capture Skopje
1917 Battle of Caporetto. Brazil declares War on the Central Powers
1940 1st flight P-51
1942 Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands
1944 Battle of Leyte Gulf ends
2002 Moscow theatre siege ends
 
Oct 27
710 Saracens invade Sardinia
1524 Siege of Pavia begins
1644 2nd Battle of Newbury
1806 French capture Berlin
1863 Siege of Chattanooga: Union troops suprise the garrison & capture Brown's Ferry, Al
1864 CSS Albemarle sunk by steam launch armed with spar torpedo. Battle of Hatcher's Run.
1870 A French Army surrenders @ Metz
1914 HMS Audacious sunk by mines
1916 Battle of Segale
1962 Cuban Missle Crisis: Cuba shoots down USAF U-2 with a SAM-2
1981 Soviet sub runs aground in Sweden.
 
Oct 28
312 Battle of Milvian Bridge
1516 Battle of Yaunis Khan
1531 Battle of Amba sel
1628 Siege of La Rochelle ends
1664 Royal Marines Est.
1776 Battle of White Plains
1834 Battle of Pinjarra
1863 Battle of Brown's Ferry begins. Rare night battle
1864 2nd Battle of Fair Oaks ends
1940 Italy invades Greece
 
Oct 29
969 Byzantines capture Antioch
1467 Battle of Brustem
1658 Battle of the Sound
1665 Battle of Ambuila
1863 Battle of Brown's Ferry ends
1918 Sailors of the German High seas Fleet mutiny
1955 Soviet Battleship Novorossiisk sunk by an explosion @ Sevastopol
1956 Israel invades Egypt
 
Oct 30
1137 Battle of Rignano
1270 Siege of Tunis ends
1340 Battle of Rio Salado
1918 Ottomans sign armistice.
1942 Enigma material captured from U-559
1961 Soviets detonate a 50 Meg nuclear device, largest explosive device to ever be detonated.
 
Nov 1
365 Alamanni invade Gual
1805 France invades Austria
1914 naval Battle of Coronel
1942 Guadalcanal: Matanikau offensive begins
1943 US invades Bouganville
1944 British invade Walcherin Island
 
Nov 6
1632 Battle of Lutzen
1863 Battle of Droop Mountain
1865 CSS Shenandoah surrenders in England after circumnavigating the World.
1917 3rd Battle of Ypres
1935 1st flight Hawker Hurricane
1942 Guadalcanal: Carlson's Patrol begins
1943 Red Army recaptures Kiev
1948 Chinese Civil War: Red Chinese Huaihai Campaign begins
 
Nov 7
1811 Battle of Tippecanoe
1861 US Navy captures Ft. Walker & Ft. Beauregard @ Hilton Head, S.C. Battle of Belmont, Mo.
1863 2nd Battle of Rapahannock Station
1900 Battle of Leliefontein
1914 Japanese capture Tsingtao from Germany
1917 3rd Battle of Gaza ends
1941 Germans sink Soviet hospital ship Armenia, evacuating wounded & hospital staff. 5,000-7,000 killed.
 
Nov 8
1620 battle of White Mountain
1745 Charles Stuart invades England
1861 Trent Affair begins
1936 Battle of Madrid begins
1942 Operation Torch
1950 Lt. Brown, USAF shoots down N.K Mig-15 in 1st jet to jet kill
1965 Battle of Gang Toi. Operation Hump
 
Nov 9
1313 Battle of Gamelsdorf
1330 Battle of Posada
1780 Battle of Fishdam Ford
1822 USS Alligator recaptures 7 ships from Pirates
1914 naval Battle of Cocos
1937 Japan takes control of Shanghai
 
Nov 10
1444 Battle of Varna
1659 Battle of Pratapgarh
1775 Continental Marines est.
1942 Germans invade Vichy France
1944 Ammo ship USS Mount Hood explodes in Seeadler Harbor @ Manus Island in the Admiralty Islands
 
Nov 11
1673 Battle of Khotyn
1778 Cherry Valley Massacre
1805 Battle of Durenstein
1813 Battle of Crysler's Farm, Canada
1864 Sherman destroys Rome, Ga & begins destroying Atlanta
1918 WWI ends
1919 Battle of Riga
1940 Toranto Air Raid. German Raider Atlantis captures British steamer Automadon with intelligence onboard that changes the course of the future War in the Pacific
1942 2nd Battle of El Alamein ends
1968 Vietnam: Operation Commando Hunt begins
 
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