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facts
1480 Great standing on the Ugra river, standoff between forces of Akhmat Khan, Khan of the Great Horde, and Ivan III Grand Prince of all Rus, Tataro-Mongols retreat, leds to disintegration of the Horde
1856 The Second Opium War or second Anglo-Chinese War: begins with the Arrow Incident on the Pearl River
1862 Otto von Bismarck becomes Chancellor of the German Empire
1915 Battle of Loos on WWI Western Front ends, German forces contain British attack (85,000 casualties)
1917 Leon Trotsky named chairman of the Petrograd Soviet as Bolsheviks gain control
2001 U.S. President George W. Bush announces the establishment of the Office of Homeland Security.
Deaths
976 Jelena of Zadar, Croatian queen
1317 Fushimi, Emperor of Japan (b. 1265)
1793 John Hancock, American merchant and statesman who was 1st to sign the Declaration of Independence, dies at 56
1869 Franklin Pierce, 14th US President (Democrat: 1853-57), dies at 64
1928 Larry Semon, comedian (b. 1889)
1967 Clement Attlee, British politician, Prime Minister of Great Britain (1945-51), dies at 84
1992 Willy Brandt, Chancellor of West Germany (1969-74, Nobel 1971), dies of cancer at 78
2008 Bob Friend (newscaster), British newscaster (b. 1938)
2015 Hugh Scully, British TV presenter (The Antiques Roadshow), dies at 72