1929 "Black Thursday", start of stock market crash, Dow Jones down 12.8%
1944 US air raid on Japanese battleships and cruisers in Sibuya Sea: Musashi sinks.
1944 US aircraft carrier Princeton sinks at Philippines.
1944 US Captain David Mccampbell shoots down 9-11 Japanese planes in Gulf of Leyte.
1962 Cuban missile crisis: Soviet ships approach but stop short of the US blockade of Cuba.
2008 "Bloody Friday" saw many of the world's stock exchanges experienced the worst declines in their history, with drops of around 10% in most indices.
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