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A§H»BierLKW wrote:29th September, 1938Munich Agreement: Germany is given permission from France, Italy, and Great Britain to seize the territory of Sudetenland, Czechoslovakia. The meeting takes place in Munich, and leaders from neither the Soviet Union nor Czechoslovakia attend (Czechoslovakian diplomats were not invited to the conference).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich_Agreement

Today, it is widely regarded as a failed act of appeasement toward Germany. And on 30th September, upon his return to U.K., British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain delivered his infamous "peace for our time" speech to crowds in London.
Those guys were like, "Germany... you see that country over there... the one that's not one of us? You can have it instead!"

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3rd October, 52 BCE – Vercingetorix, leader of the Gauls, surrenders to the Romans under Julius Caesar, thus ending the Celtic dominance of Western Europe. The Siege of Alesia is considered one of Caesar's greatest military achievements and established Roman dominance in Gaul for the next 500 years.

Battle of Alesia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Alesia

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A§H»BierLKW wrote:3rd October, 52 BCE – Vercingetorix, leader of the Gauls, surrenders to the Romans under Julius Caesar, thus ending the Celtic dominance of Western Europe. The Siege of Alesia is considered one of Caesar's greatest military achievements and established Roman dominance in Gaul for the next 500 years.

Battle of Alesia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Alesia

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October 4th, 1957: The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth, and thus starting the space race.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sputnik_1

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October 4th, 1993: Russian constitutional crisis- Russian tanks bombard and storm the White House.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House_(Moscow)
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October 7th, 2001: The U.S. invasion of Afghanistan begins with an air assault and covert operations on the ground.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Afg ... 93present)
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A§H»BierLKW wrote:October 7th, 2001: The U.S. invasion of Afghanistan begins with an air assault and covert operations on the ground.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Afg ... 93present)

" Invasion" is a strong word.
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October 9th, 1594: The Portuguese Empire army is completely annihilated by the Kingdom of Kandy in Sri Lanka. With this victory, the Kandyans under King Vimaladharmasuriya emerged as a major military power against Portuguese, Dutch, and British armies until 1815.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campaign_of_Danture

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October 9th, 1967: Marxist revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara is executed for attempting to incite a revolution in Bolivia for the past eleven months.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Che_Guevara#Bolivia

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A§H»BierLKW wrote:October 9th, 1594: The Portuguese Empire army is completely annihilated by the Kingdom of Kandy in Sri Lanka. With this victory, the Kandyans under King Vimaladharmasuriya emerged as a major military power against Portuguese, Dutch, and British armies until 1815.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campaign_of_Danture

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October 9th, 1967: Marxist revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara is executed for attempting to incite a revolution in Bolivia for the past eleven months.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Che_Guevara#Bolivia

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October 12th, 1960: Shoe-banging incident - Nikita Khrushchev pounds his shoe on a desk at United Nations General Assembly meeting in protest.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoe-banging_incident

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October 12th, 1979: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the first of five books in the comedy-science fiction series by Douglas Adams (1952-2001) is published.
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October 14th, 1861: 806 residents of Chincoteague Island, Virginia gathered and swore the oath of allegiance to the United States given by Lieutenant Alexander Murray of the USS Louisiana. Of the ~150 voters that were recorded to have taken the oath, my fourth great-grandfather was one of them.

The outbreak of the American Civil War in 1861 left Chincoteague residents with a stark choice. If they left the Union as Virginia sought to do, they might lose access to their seafood markets. Refusal to do so might isolate Chincoteague from the rest of its state. In the referendum on secession held in Virginia on May 23, 1861, the Commonwealth voted for secession from the Union. Nevertheless, the residents of Chincoteague, along with those on Tangier Island, chose not to leave the Union, in Chincoteague's case by a vote of 134 or 135 to 1 or 2—sources differ as to the exact tally.

Below are maps of the location of Chincoteague Island on the Eastern Shore of Virginia, along with a picture of the flagpole the residents of Chincoteague gathered around when they were given the oath of allegiance.

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Sources:
Civil War Daily Gazette article on Chincoteague's activities in the Civil War
History of Chincoteague, Virginia on Wikipedia
Official records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion. / Series I - Volume 6: Atlantic Blockading Squadron
Crash, of the Commonwealth of Virginia, Founder of the Armored Saints of Halo.
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