festival
Austrian National Day
a major incident
1860: Unification of Italy: Garibaldi agrees to hand over his conquered Kingdom of the Two Sicilies to Vittorio Emanuele II, monarch of the Kingdom of Sardinia.
1864: The Qing dynasty government of China liberalizes its mining monopoly and allows private capital to mine copper in Yunnan.
1918: World War I: Erich Ludendorff is dismissed from all his duties by The German Emperor Wilhelm II for refusing to obey the peace orders.
1937: Lieutenant Colonel Xie Jinyuan of the Chinese National Revolutionary Army led more than 400 soldiers into the Sihang Warehouse in Zhabei, Shanghai to resist the Japanese army, and the Sihang Warehouse Defense War broke out.
1944: The U.S. Navy finally defeats the Japanese Navy after six days of fighting in the Battle of Leyte Gulf off Leyte Island in the Philippines.
1948: During the Liaoshen Campaign, the Chinese People's Liberation Army surrounded the National Revolutionary Army led by Liao Yaoxiang in the western part of Liaoning.
1958: Korean War: all Chinese Volunteers withdraw from Korea.