Major Events
- 1340 Battle of Rio Salado (or Tarifa): King Afonso IV of Portugal and King Alfonso XI of Castile defeat Sultan Abu al-Hasan ‘Ali of Morocco and Yusuf I of Granada in the last Marinid invasion of the Iberian Peninsula
- 1899 Battle of Ladysmith: Boers defeat the British, leading to the Siege of Ladysmith in Natal
- 1905 Russian Tsar Nicholas II grants civil liberties and accepts the first Duma (Parliament) in the “October Manifesto”
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- 1944 Aaron Copland‘s ballet score “Appalachian Spring” premieres in Washington, D.C., with Martha Graham dancing the lead role
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- 1974 Muhammad Ali KOs George Foreman in the 8th round in “The Rumble in the Jungle” in Kinshasa, Zaire, regaining the world heavyweight boxing title with the famous “rope-a-dope” tactic
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Soviet Union tests a 58 megaton hydrogen bomb named Tsar Bomba, the most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated
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