15th to 21st October

15th October
1904   The Russian fleet leaves Reval, Estonia, bound for Vladivostok
1946   Herman Goring poisons himself the night before his scheduled execution

16th October
1934   Chinese Communists start 'The Long March'
1962   President Kennedy sees the first pictures of Soviet missiles in Cuba

17th October
1244   Battle of La Forbie, Gaza, Egyptian forces defeat Crusader army
1346   Battle of Neville's Cross, English defeat Scottish army and capture David II

18th October
1016   Battle of Ashingdon, King Canute's Danes defeat the English

19th October
202bc  Battle of Zama, Romans defeat Hannibal's army near Carthage
1781   General Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown to General Washington
1864   Battle of Cedar Creek, Union forces defeat Confederate troops
1962   U2 spy planes identify 4 operational missile sites in Cuba

20th October
1944   Soviet troops and Yugoslav partisans liberate Belgrade
1944   General MacArthur returns to the Philippines when US troops land

21st October
1600   Battle of Sekigahara, Tokugawa defeats Western Japanese clans
1805   Battle of Trafalgar, Nelsons fleet defeats combined French and Spanish fleet
1854   Florence Nightingale and 38 nurses set sail for the Crimea
1944   HMAS Australia becomes the first Allied ship hit by a Kamikaze