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Anti-globalization protests in Prague (some 20,000 protesters) turn violent during the IMF and World Bank summits.
World War I: The Meuse-Argonne Offensive began which would last until the total surrender of German forces.
World War I: The Battle of Polygon Wood begins.
World War II: The Kassel Mission results in the largest loss by a USAAF group on any mission during the war.
World War II: Last day of the Matanikau action on Guadalcanal as United States Marines barely escape after being surrounded by Japanese forces.
World War II: The Greek National Liberation Front is established with Georgios Siantos as acting leader.
World War II: The Tripartite Pact is signed in Berlin by Germany, Japan and Italy.
World War II: Soviet Army troops liberate Klooga concentration camp in Estonia.
World War II: The Drama uprising against the Bulgarian occupation in northern Greece begins.
World War II: Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union agree on a division of Poland.
World War II: The siege of Warsaw comes to an end.
During World War II, German forces, with the aid of local Ukrainian collaborators, begin the two-day Babi Yar massacre.
World War I: Bulgaria signs the Armistice of Salonica ending its participation.
World War I: The Hindenburg Line is broken by an Allied attack.
World War I: Germany's Supreme Army Command tells Kaiser Wilhelm II and Imperial Chancellor Georg Michaelis to open negotiations for an armistice to end the war.
The Philippine port of Iloilo is opened to world trade by the Spanish administration.
World War II: the Germans commence a counter offensive to retake the Nijmegen salient, this having been captured by the allies during Operation Market Garden.
World War II: The Babi Yar massacre comes to an end.
World War II: General Władysław Sikorski becomes prime minister of the Polish government-in-exile.