1775: Guy Carleton, Lord Dorchester evacuated Montreal for Quebec as the American invaders landed at Île St-Paul, then the following day at Pointe St-Charles, capturing the city on the 13th

1813: Colonel Joseph Morrison and Royal Navy Captain William Mulcaster defeated an American invasion force of over 7,000 led by General James Wilkinson at the Battle of Crysler's Farm.

Wilkinson's flotilla left Sackett's Harbor in late October and landed on the Canadian side of the Long Sault rapids. With only 800 British regulars of the 49th and 89th Regiments, plus some Canadian militia and Indians, Morrison moved to attack 1,800 Americans of the 25th Infantry Regiment under Brown at Crysler's Farm 20 miles west of Cornwall; at the same time, Captain William Mulcaster's gunboats fired shrapnel and grapeshot on General John Park Boyd's flotilla of 4,000 American troops trying to descend the rapids toward Montreal, which helped Morrison land his troops at Crysler's Farm.

In the first skirmish, the Americans took 400 casualties to the British 200. Wilkinson could have pressed on against Morrison, but gots a message that General Wade Hampton and his army of 4,200 had been defeated at Châteauguay Oct. 26. He called off the invasion, since Hampton was supposed to meet him downstream for the attack on Montreal. Hampton later resigned when Wilkinson blamed him for the failure of the campaign; Wilkinson was then relieved of his command

1914: Captain Brodie of the Highland Light Infantry led a bayonet counter-attack after the Germans succeeded in capturing a British trench near Becelaere in Belgium. The charge killed 80 Germans and captured fifty. Brodie received the Victoria Cross.

1922: During the Munich Putsch, General Ludendorff and an Austrian former corporal named Adolph Hitler were arrested after a short parade proclaiming the overthrow of the government. Hitler was sent to Landsburg prison where he wrote Mein Kampf, a vicious harangue against democracy, communism, the Versailles "diktat" and of course, the Jews as the root of all evil. The book became the "Bible" of the Nazis, and was published in almost every major country. 3 years later Hitler become leader of the Nazi Party

1940: 21 Fleet Air Arm Swordfish biplanes from HMS Illustrious conducted an audacious night attack (Operation Judgement ) on the Italian battle fleet in Taranto harbour with torpedoes and bombs. Three Italian battleships received serious damage, sinking at their moorings. Despite formidable anti-aircraft defences, only two Swordfish were lost.

1942: The Royal Indian Navy minesweeper Bengal, armed with a single small 12 pounder gun, and the Dutch tanker Ondina, armed with a single 4" gun, won a remarkable victory over two heavily armed Japanese raiders, each carrying six 6" guns, torpedoes and aircraft. The raiders attacked the Allied ships in the Indian Ocean, but Bengal charged at them, setting one of the raiders on fire - she subsequently sank. Ondina was heavily shelled and hit by two torpedoes, but drove the other raider off. Although Ondina's crew then abandoned her, they later re-embarked, put out the fires and brought her into Fremantle.

Elsewhere, Admiral Halsey ordered Admiral Kincaid to get carrier USS Enterprise underway and to "be prepared to strike enemy targets in Cactus [Guadalcanal] area"

1966: NASA launched the Gemini 12 mission. The mission lasted 3 days, 22 hours and 34 minutes and included 59 orbits of the earth at an altitude of 162.7 nautical miles.