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On October 10, 1471, the Swedish Wall Elder troops defeated the Danes at the Battle of Brunckberg. This was the most important episode of the protracted conflict in which the Swedes tried to consolidate their independence from the Danes and break the Kalmar Union, concluded in 1397.
1666 - Right-Bank colonels chose Doroshenko as interim hetman of Right-Bank Ukraine.
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1865 - American John Wesley Hyatt patented a billiard ball. He was the first to find material that can replace the ivory used by that time.
1901 - The first and last time American car builder Henry Ford took part in car races and won them.
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1911 - The Uchane Uprising broke out in China, which became a catalyst for the Xinhai Revolution.
1918 - the passenger ship Leinster was torpedoed by the German submarine SM UB-123, killing more than 500 people. This disaster to this day is the largest scale in the number of victims in the Irish Sea.
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1932 - The first phase of the Dnieper Hydroelectric Station (DneproGES) was commissioned in Zaporozhye, the construction of which lasted five years.
1943 - The Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR adopted a decree establishing the Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky of I, II and III degrees.
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1964 - The 18th Summer Olympic Games began in Tokyo, which lasted until October 25. In the team event the winner was the Soviet team.
1970 - Fiji declared independent state within the British Commonwealth of Nations.
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1990 - Kiev students went on a hunger strike demanding independence of Ukraine.
2000 - American Jack Kilby, one of the creators of the computer chip, and American Herbert Creamer for his work in the field of high-speed transistors and low-power lasers became the Nobel Prize winner in physics.