does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain
* 1806, during the Napoleonic Wars: Forces of the British Empire lay
siege to the port of Boulogne in France by using Congreve rockets,
invented by Sir William Congreve
* 1871, the Great Chicago Fire erupted; fires also broke out in
Peshtigo, Wis., and in the Michigan communities of Holland, Manistee and
Port Huron
* 1918, Sgt. Alvin C. York almost single-handedly killed 25 German
soldiers and helped capture 132 in the Argonne Forest in France
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