1938 – Orson Welles broadcasts a radio adaptation of H.1920 – The Communist Party of Australia is founded in Sydney.1918 – World War I: Lands of the Crown of Saint Stephen, a state union of Kingdom of Hungary and Triune Kingdom of Croatia, Slavonia and Dalmatia is abolished with decisions of Croatian and Hungarian parliaments.1918 – World War I : The Ottoman Empire signs the Armistice of Mudros with the Allies.1905 – Czar Nicholas II issues the October Manifesto, granting the Russian peoples basic civil liberties and the right to form a duma.1888 – The Rudd Concession is granted by Matabeleland to agents of Cecil Rhodes.1864 – The Treaty of Vienna is signed, by which Denmark relinquishes one province each to Prussia and Austria.1863 – Danish Prince Vilhelm arrives in Athens to assume his throne as George I, King of the Hellenes.1831 – Nat Turner is arrested for leading the bloodiest slave rebellion in United States history.1817 – Simón Bolívar becomes President of the Third Republic of Venezuela.1806 – War of the Fourth Coalition : Convinced that he is facing a much larger force, Prussian General von Romberg, commanding 5,300 men, surrenders the city of Stettin to 800 French soldiers.1657 – Anglo-Spanish War : Spanish forces fail to retake Jamaica at the Battle of Ocho Rios.1340 – Reconquista: Portuguese and Castilian forces halt a Muslim invasion at the Battle of Río Salado.1270 – The Eighth Crusade ends by an agreement between Charles I of Anjou (replacing his deceased brother King Louis IX of France ) and the Hafsid dynasty of Tunis, Tunisia.1137 – Ranulf of Apulia defeats Roger II of Sicily at the Battle of Rignano, securing his position as duke until his death two years later.758 – Guangzhou is sacked by Arab and Persian pirates.
637 – Arab–Byzantine wars : Antioch surrenders to the Rashidun Caliphate after the Battle of the Iron Bridge.
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