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On this day in . . .

• 425, Valentinian III is elevated as Roman Emperor, at the age of 6

• 1642, Battle of Edgehill: first major battle of the First English Civil War

• 1812, Claude François de Malet, a French general, begins a conspiracy to overthrow Napoleon Bonaparte, claiming that the Emperor died in Russia and that he was now the commandant of Paris. de Malet is executed on October 29

• 1855, Kansas Free State forces set up a competing government under their Topeka, Kansas, constitution, which outlaws slavery in the United States territory

• 1861, President Abraham Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus in Washington, D.C., for all military-related cases

• 1911, first use of aircraft in war: an Italian pilot takes off from Libya to observe Turkish army lines during the Turco-Italian War

• 1915, woman's suffrage: In New York City, 25,000-33,000 women march on Fifth Avenue to advocate their right to vote

• 1929, after a steady decline in stock market prices since a peak in September, the New York Stock Exchange begins to show signs of panic. ALSO: The first North American transcontinental air service begins between New York City and Los Angeles, California

• 1930, the first miniature golf tournament was completed in Chattanooga, Tennessee

• 1941, Field Marshal Georgy Zhukov takes command of Red Army operations designed to prevent the further advance into Russia of German forces and to prevent the German armies from capturing Moscow

• 1942, the Second Battle of El Alamein, in northern Egypt, starts; the British Eighth Army under Field Marshal Montgomery begin a critical offensive to expel the Axis armies from Egypt, never to return

• 1944, the Battle of Leyte Gulf begins. It was the largest naval battle in history begins in the Philippines; and also, the Soviet Red Army enters Hungary

• 1946, the United Nations General Assembly convened for the first time, at an auditorium in Flushing Meadow, New York

• 1956, a student-sparked revolt against Hungary's Communist rule began; as the revolution spread, Soviet forces started entering the country, and the uprising was put down within weeks

• 1973, President Richard M. Nixon agrees to turn over subpoenaed audio tapes of his Oval Office conversations about the scandal. ALSO: A United Nations sanctioned cease-fire officially ends the Yom Kippur War between Israel and Syria

• 1983, practitioners of that "religion of peace" use a a truck bomb to attack the U.S. Marines barracks in Beirut, killing 241 U.S. Marines. Also: A French army barracks in Lebanon is also hit that same morning, killing 58 troops

• 1989, Hungarian Republic is officially declared by president Matyas Szu"ros, replacing the communist Hungarian People's Republic

• 1992, Emperor Akihito becomes the first Emperor of Japan to stand on Chinese soil

• 1998, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Chairman Yasser Arafat, ym"sh, reach a "land for peace" agreement

• 1999, 16 members of the Ku Klux Klan held a silent rally in New York City as thousands of counter-demonstrators jeered them

• 2001, the Provisional Irish Republican Army of Northern Ireland commences disarmament after peace talks

• 2002, Chechen rebels seize the House of Culture theater in Moscow and take approximately 700 theater-goers hostage

• 2007, evacuations due to out-of-control wildfires in Southern California topped 500,000; President Bush declared a federal emergency for seven counties

• 2008, badgered by lawmakers on the House Oversight Committee, former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan denied the nation's economic crisis was his fault but conceded the meltdown had revealed a flaw in a lifetime of economic thinking and left him in a "state of shocked disbelief."

• 2012, a father in Hangzhou, China, was sentenced to five years in prison for selling his 27-day-old baby for $10,300 to pay off debts. ALSO: Former Penn State football assistant Jerry Sandusky was transferred to a Pennsylvania state prison from the county jail where he'd been held since his conviction on child molestation charges t

• 2013, two days after a 12-year-old boy with a gun killed a teacher, wounded two children and then killed himself at a middle school in Nevada, a 24-year-old math teacher at Danvers High School in Massachusetts, Colleen Ritzer, was found dead in woods near the school. (A 14-year-old boy was arrested on charges including aggravated 'violation' and murder.)

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