1863 International conference begins in Geneva aimed at improving medical conditions on battlefields - beginning of the Red Cross.
1881 Gunfight at the OK Corral: The most famous shootout in the Wild West occurs, between lawmen (including Wyatt Earp) and the Cowboys, with Tom and Frank McLaury and Billy Clanton killed.
1918 Germany's supreme commander General Eric Ludendorff resigns, protesting the terms to which the German Government has agreed in negotiating an armistice.
1940 The P-51 Mustang makes its maiden flight.
1943 First flight of the Dornier Do 335 "Pfeil".
1951 Winston Churchill re-elected British Prime Minister at the age of 76.
1957 USSR fires defense minister Marshal Georgi Zhukov.
1962 JFK warns Russia that the USA will not allow Soviet missiles to remain in Cuba.
1962 Nikita Khrushchev sends note to JFK offering to withdraw his missiles from Cuba if US closed its bases in Turkey: offer is rejected.
1966 US aircraft carrier Oriskany catches fire at Gulf on Tonken, 43 die.
2002 Moscow Theatre Siege ends: Approximately 50 Chechen rebels and 150 hostages die when Russian Spetsnaz storm a theater building in Moscow, which had been occupied by the rebels during a musical performance three days before.
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