Battle of Agincourt in 1415. Battle of Balaclava in 1854. The Red Guard took the Winter Palace in 1914. The Zinoviev Letter was published in the Daily Mail in 1924. The US invaded Grenada in 1983.
Born today: Georges Bizet (1838-1875), Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) and Nancy Cartwright (1957).
It is Republic Day in Kazakhstan.
