October 20, 201411 yr Author 20 October 1818 The Convention of 1818 establishes the boundary line between the United States and Canada, along the 49th parallel.
October 21, 201411 yr Author 21 October 1905 The Royal Navy's Diadem class cruiser HMS Niobe is transferred to the newly established Royal Canadian Navy, becoming HMCS Niobe and its first warship.
October 22, 201411 yr Author 22 October 2007 Tamil Tiger rebels carry out a raid against Anuradhapura Air Force Base, in Sri Lanka. They destroy eight aircraft of the Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF), and damage 10 others.
October 23, 201411 yr Author 23 October 1944 The Battle of Leyte Gulf, the largest naval battle of World War II, begins with submarine action in the Palawan Passage.
October 24, 201411 yr Author 24 October 1960 At the Baikonur complex, a test launch of the R-16 (NATO SS-7 Saddler) ICBM goes horribly wrong when the second stage engines accidentally ignite, causing an explosion that kills dozens, including Chief Marshal of Artillery Mitrofan Ivanovich Nedelin, commanding officer of the Soviet Union's Strategic Rocket Forces (who was sitting less than 20 meters away). His death is reported as having been a plane crash.
October 27, 201411 yr Author 27 October 1981 Soviet Project 613 (NATO Whiskey) class patrol submarine S-363 (hull number 137) runs aground on rocks near the naval base at Karlskrona, Sweden, in the Baltic Sea, sparking a Cold War incident now known as "Whiskey on the Rocks".
October 28, 201411 yr Author 28 October 1962 Soviet President Nikita Krushchev orders the removal of Soviet medium range ballistic missiles from Cuba, effectively ending the Cuban Missile Crisis.
October 29, 201411 yr Author 29 October 1956 Israel launches Operation Kadesh, invading the Egyptian Sinai and sparking the Suez Crisis.
October 30, 201411 yr Author 30 October 1961 The Soviet Union drops its 'Tsar Bomba' hydrogen bomb from a Tu-95V test aircraft over the Novaya Zemya archipelago. The bomb explodes at an altitude of about 4 km, with a yield of between 50 and 58 megatons, and creating a fireball visible from nearly 1,000 km away.
October 31, 201411 yr Author 31 October 1958 In one of three incidents involving RB-47s in the fall of 1958, a US Air Force RB-47 Stratojet is bounced by Soviet fighters over the Black Sea. The aircraft was able to return to base safely.
November 3, 201411 yr Author 3 November 1982 A fire caused by an exploding fuel tanker inside the Salang Tunnel, in Afghanistan, causes a major traffic jam between two Soviet convoys. Smoke and carbon monoxide kill as many as 700 Soviet soldiers and 2,000 Afghan civilians.
November 4, 201411 yr Author 4 November 1979 A mob of Iranian students storm the US Embassy in Tehran and take 90 hostages, including more than 60 American diplomats and citizens who would be held captive for 444 days.
November 5, 201411 yr Author 5 November 1925 Sidney Reilly, the first 'super spy' of the 20th century and one of several claimed inspirations for Ian Fleming's James Bond, is executed by the Soviet OGPU.
November 6, 201411 yr Author 6 November 1917 Troops of the 1st and 2nd Canadian Divisions finally take Passchendaele, in Belgium, after three months of bitter fighting in appalling conditions, at the conclusion of the Third Battle of Ypres.
November 7, 201411 yr Author 7 November 1917 British troops of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force (EEF) capture Gaza from the Ottoman Empire, at the conclusion of the Third Battle of Gaza.
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