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The battle of Megiddo begins in which British forces attack the right flank of the Ottoman army during World War I.
World War I: British forces capture Haifa, Acre, and Es Salt from the Ottoman Empire.
The 2020 World Expo in Dubai begins. Its opening was originally scheduled for 20 October 2020 but was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
EPCOT Center (Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow) opens at Walt Disney World in Florida.
World War II: After the Four Days of Naples, Allied troops enter the city.
World War II: USS Grouper torpedoes Lisbon Maru, not knowing that she is carrying British prisoners of war from Hong Kong.
World War II: After a one-month siege, German troops occupy Warsaw.
World War I: The Egyptian Expeditionary Force captures Damascus.
World War II: German troops end the Warsaw Uprising.
World War II: Ocean Liner RMS Queen Mary accidentally rams and sinks HMS Curacoa, killing over 300 crewmen aboard Curacoa.
World War II: German forces murder 92 civilians in Lingiades, Greece.
World War I: An explosion kills more than 100 people and destroys a Shell Loading Plant in New Jersey.
World War I: The Battle of Broodseinde is fought between the British and German armies in Flanders.
World War II: Pacific Theater: Ninety-eight American POWs are executed by Japanese forces on Wake Island.
The Wright brothers pilot the Wright Flyer III in a new world record flight of 24 miles in 39 minutes.
World War II: Units of the 1st Czechoslovak Army Corps enter Czechoslovakia during the Battle of the Dukla Pass.
World War II: Thirteen civilians are burnt alive by a paramilitary group in Crete during the Nazi occupation of Greece.
World War II: American troops force the Japanese from their positions east of the Matanikau River during the Battle of Guadalcanal.
World War II: The Battle of Kock is the final combat of the September Campaign in Poland.