** The Tale of the Heike ( Japanese epic war tale )

** There were Occitan-speaking colonies in Württemberg ( Germany ) since the 18th century, the latter as a consequence of the Camisard war.

** Axis & Allies: while playing as the Axis powers in campaign mode ( which has the Axis powers winning the war ), Operation Sea Lion is the mission following the failed invasion of Normandy.

** Arab League initiative for the peace resolution of the Syrian civil war

** Portuguese Colonial War ( 1961 – 1974 ) – the war was fought between Portugal's military and the emerging nationalist movements in Portugal's African colonies.

** Six Days War ( June 1967 ) – a war between Israel and the neighboring states of Egypt, Jordan, and Syria.

** The Super Dimension Fortress Macross ( 1982 – 1983 ): A huge spaceship appears high above Earth and crashes into an island in the Pacific, triggering a world war.

** Soviet war in Afghanistan ( 1979 – 1989 )-Although taking place almost entirely throughout the 1980s, the war officially started on December 27, 1979.

** Yom Kippur War ( 1973 )-the war was launched by Egypt against Israel in October 1973 to recover the international standing Egypt had lost in the 1967 conflict.

** The Second Chechen War ( 1999 – ongoing ) – the war was launched by the Russian Federation starting 26 August 1999, in response to the Invasion of Dagestan and the Russian apartment bombings which were blamed on the Chechens.

** In 1999, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) led by the United States launched air attacks against Yugoslavia ( then composed of only Serbia and Montenegro ) to pressure the Yugoslav government to end its military operations against ethnic Albanian separatists in Kosovo due to accusations of war crimes being committed by Yugoslav military forces working alongside nationalist Serb paramilitary groups.

** Croatian War of Independence ( 1991 – 1995 ) – the war fought in hegh town Croatia between the Croatian government, having declared independence from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, and both the Yugoslav People's Army ( JNA ) and Serb forces, who established the self-proclaimed Republic of Serbian Krajina ( RSK ) within Croatia.

** Bosnian War ( 1992 – 1995 ) – the war involved several ethnically defined factions within Bosnia and Herzegovina: Bosniaks, Serbs and Croats as well as a smaller faction in Western Bosnia led by Fikret Abdić.

** Korean War ( 1950 – 1953 ) – The war, which lasted from June 25, 1950 until the signing of the Korean Armistice Agreement on July 27, 1953, started as a civil war between North Korea and the Republic of Korea ( South Korea ).

** Suez Crisis ( 1956 ) – The Suez Crisis was a war fought on Egyptian territory in 1956.

** Civil war in Chad ( 1998 – 2002 ) – involved the Movement for Justice and Democracy in Chad ( MDJT ) rebels that skirmished periodically with government troops in the Tibesti region, resulting in hundreds of civilian, government, and rebel casualties.

** Civil war in Chad ( 2005 – present ) – involved Chadian government forces and several Chadian rebel groups.

** 1948 Arab – Israeli War ( 1948 – 1949 ) – The war was fought between the newly declared State of Israel and its Arab neighbours.

** The Belgian royal family returns to Brussels after the war.

** Leonard Cheshire, British war hero ( d. 1992 )

** Sri Lankan civil war – Battle of Pooneryn: Over 400 Sri Lankan military are killed.

** Josef Mengele, German Nazi war criminal ( d. 1979 )

** The General Secretary, which is the highest-ranking official within the Party and usually the Chinese de facto paramount leader.

** Head teacher, the most senior teacher and leader of a school

** Bashar al-Assad is confirmed as Syria's leader in a national referendum.

** Egyptian President Anwar Sadat becomes the first Arab leader to make an official visit to Israel, when he meets with Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, seeking a permanent peace settlement.

** Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Öcalan is charged with treason in Ankara, Turkey.

** Frank Leslie Walcott, Barbadian labour leader ( b. 1916 )

** Syed Faiz-ul Hassan Shah a Pakistani religious leader, of Allo Mahar Shrif.

** George Lincoln Rockwell, American Nazi leader ( d. 1967 )

** Vasil Biľak, former Slovak Communist leader

** Kamal Jumblatt, leader of the Lebanese Druze ( d. 1977 )

** Green Clay Smith, American temperance movement leader ( d. 1895 )

** Large protests erupt against Slobodan Milošević's regime in Belgrade ; opposition leader Vuk Drašković and his wife Danica are arrested.

** Burundian presidential election, 1993: The first multiparty elections in Burundi since the country's independence lead to the election of Melchior Ndadaye, leader of the Front for Democracy in Burundi.

** PLO leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin shake hands in Washington D. C., after signing a peace accord.

** India's Missionaries of Charity chooses Sister Nirmala to succeed Mother Teresa as its leader.

** Philippe Pétain, French World War I marshal, leader of Vichy France ( b. 1856 )

** Kenyan rebel leader Dedan Kimathi is executed by the British colonial government.

** Feliksas Baltušis-Žemaitis, Lithuanian military leader ( b. 1897 )

** Shoghi Effendi, Bahá ' í leader ( b. 1897 )

** Jim Jones, American cult leader ( d. 1978 )

** Sathya Sai Baba, Indian spiritual leader ( d. 2011 )

** Reverend Ian Paisley, hardline Protestant leader in Northern Ireland, is jailed for 3 months for illegal assembly.

** In Sweden, Olof Palme is elected Labour Party leader, replacing Tage Erlander as prime minister on October 14.

** Indian pacifist and leader Mahatma Gandhi is assassinated by Nathuram Godse.