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World War II: The Second Philippine Republic, a puppet state of Japan, is inaugurated with José P. Laurel as its president.
World War II: The German submarine U-69 (1940) sinks the Canadian passenger ferry SS Caribou approximately 20 nautical miles southwest of Port aux Basques, Newfoundland.
World War II: The Balham underground station disaster kills sixty-six people during the London Blitz.
World War II: The German submarine U-47 sinks the British battleship HMS Royal Oak within her harbour at Scapa Flow, Scotland.
After the Irish Civil War the 1923 Irish hunger strikes were undertaken by thousands of Irish republican prisoners protesting the continuation of their internment without trial.
World War I: Bulgaria joins the Central Powers.
American Civil War: Confederate troops under the command of A. P. Hill fail to drive the Union Army completely out of Virginia.
Seven Years' War: Frederick the Great suffers a rare defeat at the Battle of Hochkirch.
Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to lessen Cold War tensions and open up his nation.
World War II: Germany replaces the Hungarian government after Hungary announces an armistice with the Soviet Union.
American Civil War: The Union garrison of Glasgow, Missouri surrenders to Confederate forces.
The Battle of Raft Swamp marks the last battle fought in North Carolina during the American Revolutionary War with a Patriot victory. It occurred four days before the British surrender at Yorktown.
Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau invokes the War Measures Act during the October Crisis.
The Greek Communist Party announces a "temporary cease-fire", thus ending the Greek Civil War.
Origins of the American Civil War: Abolitionist John Brown and his supporters launch a raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia (now West Virginia).
American Revolutionary War: The British-led Royalton raid is the last Native American raid on New England.
An explosion at Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza kills hundreds of Palestinians during the Gaza war.
Syrian civil war: The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) capture the last foothold of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Raqqa, marking the end of the Battle of Raqqa.
OPEC imposes an oil embargo against countries they deem to have helped Israel in the Yom Kippur War.
American Revolutionary War: British General Charles, Earl Cornwallis surrenders at the Siege of Yorktown.