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October 7, 2024

1571 – The Battle of Lepanto is fought, and the moslem Ottoman Navy suffers its first defeat.

1777 – American forces defeat British forces under general John Burgoyne in the Second Battle of Saratoga, also known as the Battle of Bemis Heights, compelling Burgoyne’s eventual surrender.

1780 – American militia defeat royalist irregulars led by British major Patrick Ferguson at the Battle of Kings Mountain in South Carolina.

2001 – The U.S. invasion of Afghanistan begins with an air assault and covert operations on the ground, starting the longest war in American history.

2023 – Hamas and several other Palestinian militant groups launch an attack into Israel, killing around 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and taking more than 240 hostages, including civilians and soldiers.

October 3, 2024

1990 – Tag der Deutschen Einheit. The German Democratic Republic is abolished and becomes part of the Federal Republic of Germany

1993 – An American attempt to capture a warlord in Mogadishu fails, resulting in 18 US soldiers being killed, and 1 taken prisoner.