Born
| 1 | 846 | King Louis II "the Stutter" of France (877-79) | | | 1500 | Benvenuto Cellini, musketeer, artist, author, rake | | | 1757 | Antonio Canova, sculptor ("Pauline Bonaparte") | | | 1776 | King Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden (1792-1809), deposed, d. 1837 | | | 1815 | Douglas Hancock Cooper, Brig Gen, C.S.A., d. 1879 | | | 1825 | Joseph Benjamin Palmer, Brig Gen, C.S.A., d. 1890 | | | 1835 | Godfrey Weitzel, Maj Gen, U.S., d. 1884 | | | 1853 | Jose Santos Zelaya, Dictator of Nicaragua (1893-1910) | | | 1871 | Stephen Crane, novelist ("The Red Badge of Courage"), d. 1900 | | | 1878 | Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Nobel Peace Prize (1936) | | | 1889 | Philip John Noel-Baker, Nobel Peace Prize (1959); | | 2 | 1734 | Daniel Boone, militiaman, frontiersman | | | 1755 | Marie-Antoinette, Queen of France (1774-1792), shortened 1793 | | | 1795 | James K Polk, militiaman, president (1845-1849) | | | 1810 | Andrew Atkinson Humphreys, Maj Gen, U.S., d. 1883 | | | 1826 | Robert Hopkins Hatton, Brig Gen, C.S.A., d. 1862 | | | 1826 | William Haines Lytle, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1863 | | | 1828 | Byron Grimes, Maj Gen, C.S.A., d. 1880 | | | 1865 | Warren G. Harding, president (1921-1923) | | | 1938 | Queen Sofia of Spain | | | 1944 | Jeffrey A. Hoffman, Brooklyn astronaut | | 3 | 39 | Marcus Annaeus Lucanus - Lucan, poet ("Bellum Civile"), d. AD 65 | | | 1470 | Edward V of England (Apr 9-Jun 25 1483), deposed by Uncle Richard, 1483 | | | 1604 | Sultan Osman II of Turkey (1618-22) | | | 1718 | John Montague, the Fourth Earl of Sandwich, naval officer, inventor, d. 1792 | | | 1793 | Stephen F. Austin, the "Father of Texas" | | | 1816 | Jubal A. Early, Lt Gen, C.S.A., the only man Lee ever sacked, d. 1894 | | | 1818 | Gustavus Adolphus DeRussy, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1891 | | | 1826 | Jasper Adalmorn Maltby, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1867 | | | 1833 | Edward Dorr Tracy, Brig Gen, C.S.A., d. 1863 | | | 1844 | Sultan Mohammed V Resjad of Turkey (1909-18) | | | 1852 | Mutsuhito, the Meiji - 122nd Emperor of Japan (1867-1912) | | | 1901 | Andre Malraux, resistance fighter, novelist, radical | | | 1901 | King Leopold III of Belgium, collaborator | | | 1912 | Alfredo Stroessner, dictator of Paraguay | | | 1954 | Kevin P Chilton, USAF, Astronaut | | 4 | 1615 | Sultan Ibrahim of the Ottomans (1640-48) | | | 1650 | William III of Orange, King of England (1689-1702) | | | 1816 | William Polk Hardeman, Brig Gen, C.S.A., d. 1898 | | | 1818 | Alexander Robert Lawton, Brig Gen, C.S.A., d. 1896 | | | 1820 | Robert Vinkler Richardson, Brig Gen, C.S.A., d. 1870 | | | 1835 | Lunsford Lindsay Lomax, Maj Gen, C.S.A., d. 1913 | | | 1842 | William Barker Cushing, naval hero, U.S., d. 1874 | | | 1916 | Walter Cronkite, war correspondent, Cold Warrior | | 5 | 1271 | Mahmud Ghazan, Mongol Il-Khan of Persia | | | 1818 | Benjamin Butler, Maj. Gen., US; who proved the women of New Orleans were all ladies, d. 1893 | | | 1825 | Julius Stahel-Szamvald, Maj Gen, U.S. | | | 1832 | William Woods Averell, Maj Gen, U.S., d. 1900 | | | 1895 | Will Durant, historian ("The Story of Civilization") | | | 1902 | Strom Thurmond, D-Day veteran, segregationist | | 6 | 15 | Julia Agrippina – “Agrippinilla” – daughter of Germanicus, sister to Caligula, niece and wife to Claudius, mother of Nero | | | 1479 | Queen Juana "la Loca" of Castille (1504-06) | | | 1494 | Sultan Suleiman I “the Magnificent” of Turkey (1520-66) | | | 1661 | Charles II, the last Spanish Habsburg (1665-1700) | | | 1754 | King Frederick I of Wurttemberg (1806-16) | | | 1822 | Gordon Granger, Maj Gen, U.S., d. 1876 | | | 1838 | John Grant Mitchell, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1894 | | | 1854 | John Phillip Sousa, "The March King," Soldier, Sailor, & Marine | | | 1856 | Tsar Nicholas I of Russia, murdered 1918 | | | 1900 | Heinrich Himmler, mass murderer | | | 1921 | James Jones, soldier, novelist ("From Here to Eternity") | | | 2948 | BC Noah, pioneer navigator [Traditional] | | 7 | 1797 | Silas Horton Stringham, naval officer, U.S., d. 1876 | | 8 | 35 | Marcus Cocceius Nerva, Roman Emperor (96-98) | | | 1572 | Duke Johan Sigismund of Prussia | | | 1622 | King Charles X Gustav of Sweden (1654-1660) | | | 1817 | Claudius Wistar Sears, Brig Gen, C.S.A. d. 1891 | | | 1829 | Samuel Wylie Crawford, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1892 | | | 1830 | Oliver Otis Howard, Maj Gen, U.S., historian, d. 1909 | | | 1900 | Margaret Mitchell, novelist("GWTW"), who had a grandfather at Gettysburg | | 9 | 1414 | Duke Albrecht III Achilles of Brandenburg | | | 1600 | King Charles I of England (1625-1649), beheaded 1649, at 48 | | | 1823 | William Henry Forney, Brig Gen, C.S.A., d. 1894 | | | 1825 | Ambrose P Hill, Lt Gen, C.S.A., | | | 1841 | King Edward VII of England (1901-10) | | 10 | 1433 | Duke Charles "the Rash" of Burgundy, noted thickhead | | | 1483 | Martin Luther, Revolutionary, Anti-Semite | | | 1566 | Robert Devereux, Second Earl of Essex, soldier, Gloriana’s favorite, beheaded, 1601 | | | 1683 | King George II (1727-60), Victor of Dettingen, 1742 | | | 1827 | Alfred Howe Terry, Maj Gen, U.S., Indian fighter, d. 1890 | | | 1830 | Albert Gallatin Jenkins, Brig Gen, C.S.A., d. 1864 | | | 1888 | Andrej N Tupolev, Russian aircraft designer | | | 1895 | John Knudsen Northrop, American aircraft designer | | | 1919 | Mikhail Kalishnikov, weapons designer | | | 1925 | Richard Burton, airman, actor ("Where Eagles Dare") | | 11 | 1050 | Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor (1036-1106) | | | 1154 | King Sancho I of Portugal (1185-1212) | | | 1155 | King Alfonso VIII of Castille | | | 1657 | Count Guido von Starhemberg, Austrian field marshal | | | 1744 | Abigail Adams, Founding Mother, d. 1818 | | | 1748 | King Charles IV of Spain (1788-1808), d. 1821 | | | 1811 | Ben McCulloch, Brig Gen, C.S.A., KIA, 1862 | | | 1852 | Franz Conrad von Hotzendorf, inept Austro-Hungarian general, d. 1925 | | | 1864 | Alfred Hermann Fried, German pacifist, Nobel Peace Prize, 1911 | | | 1869 | King Victor Emmanual III of Italy (1900-46), d. 1947 | | | 1885 | George S. Patton, Jr., d. 1945 | | | 1920 | James Bond, fictional espionage agent | | 12 | 1528 | Qi Jiguang, Chinese general, d 1588 | | | 1729 | Louis Antoine de Bougainville, French explorer, d 1811 | | | 1755 | Gerhard von Scharnhorst, Prussian military reformer, d. 1813 | | | 1866 | Sun Yat-sen, first President of the Republic of China, d 1925 | | | 1911 | William Patrick Hitler, who fought Uncle Adolf in the USN (1944-1947), d. 1987 | | 13 | 354 | St. Augustine of Hippo | | | 1312 | King Edward III of England (1327-77) | | | 1504 | Count Philip "the Generous" of Hesse | | | 1809 | John Adolph Bernard Dahlgren, naval officer, gun founder, d. 1870 | | | 1813 | John Wolcott Phelps, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1885 | | | 1813 | Prince Peter II Petrovic of Montenegro (1830-51) | | | 1814 | Joseph Hooker, Maj Gen, U.S., d. 1879 | | 14 | 1765 | Robert Fulton, inventor | | | 1814 | Michael Kelly Lawler, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1882 | | | 1822 | William Harrow, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1872 | | | 1827 | Isaac Wistar, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1905 | | | 1828 | James Birdseye MacPherson, Maj Gen, U.S., KIA 1864 | | | 1909 | Joseph R McCarthy, Mavy veteran, demagogic Senator | | | 1948 | Charles, the Prince of Wales | | | 1954 | Condolezza Rice, presidential advisor | | 15 | 1316 | Jean I “the Posthumous”, born King of France, d. 20 Nov 1316 | | | 1397 | Tommaso Parentucelli - Pope Nicholas V (1447-1455) | | | 1708 | William Pitt the Elder, the "Great Commoner", PM (1756-1761, 1766-1768) | | | 1814 | Pleasant Adam Hackleman, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1862 | | | 1816 | Joseph Bennett Plummer, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1862 | | | 1836 | Pierce Manning Butler Young, Maj Gen, C.S.A., d. 1896 | | | 1891 | Erwin "the Desert Fox" Rommel, forced suicide 1944 | | | 1906 | Curtis E Le May, American "Bomber Baron" | | | 1907 | Count Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg, anti-Nazi conspirator, k. 1944 | | 16 | 42 | BC Tiberius, Roman general and Emperor (AD 14-37) | | | 1603 | Taddeo Barberini, Prince of Palestrina, inept general, art collector, d. 1647. | | | 1822 | Charles Smith Hamilton, Maj Gen, U.S., d. 1891 | | | 1835 | Elliott Warren Rice, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1887 | | | 1896 | Oswald Mosley, self-styled British "Führer" | | | 1950 | Carl J Meade, astronaut (STS 38, STS 50) | | 17 | 9 | Titus Flavius Vespasianus – Vespasian, Roman Emperor (69-79) | | | 1755 | King Louis XVIII of France (1814-24); "Louis the Unavoidable" | | | 1794 | John Barrien Montgomery, naval officer, U.S., d. 1873 | | | 1814 | Joseph Finegan, Brig Gen, C.S.A., d. 1885 | | | 1826 | John McArthur, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1906 | | | 1834 | Stephen Hinsdale Weed, Brig Gen, U.S.; kia Gettysburg, 1863 | | | 1887 | Field Marshal Viscount Bernard Law Montgomery of Alamein | | 18 | 1810 | Benjamin Stone Roberts, Brig Gen, U.S., of "Roberts' Rules", d. 1875 | | | 1812 | Jesse Johnson Finley, Brig Gen, C.S.A., d. 1904 | | | 1824 | Franz Sigel, Maj Gen, U.S., d. 1902 | | | 1824 | Isham Nicholas Hayne, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1868 | | | 1835 | Americus Vespucius Rice, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1904 | | | 1836 | Maximo Gomez, Cuban revolutionary | | | 1916 | Shelby Foote, author ("The Civil War: A Narrative") | | | 1923 | Alan B Shepard, Jr., USN, astronaut | | | 1941 | David Hemmings, actor ("The Charge of the Light Brigade"), d. 2003 | | 19 | 1600 | King Charles I of England (1625-49), who lost his head | | | 1752 | George Rogers Clark, frontiersman, soldier | | | 1810 | August von Willich, Brig Gen, U.S., friend to Marx, d. 1878 | | | 1811 | John Ancrum Winslow, naval officer, U.S., d. 1873 | | | 1827 | Isaac Munroe St John, Brig Gen, C.S.A., d. 1880 | | | 1831 | James A Garfield, Maj Gen, U.S., president (Mar 4-Sept 19, 1881) | | | 1835 | Fitzhugh Lee, Maj Gen, C.S.A., d. 1905 | | | 1893 | Mao Tse-Tung, Chinese visionary, with a high body count | | | 1897 | Quentin Roosevelt, airman, kia July 14, 1918 | | | 1917 | Indira Gandhi, Indian PM (1966-1977, 1980-1984), murdered 1984 | | 20 | 270 | Maximinus Daia, Roman Emperor (308-314) | | | 1761 | Francesco Xaverio Castiglione - Pope Pius VIII (1829-1830) | | | 1797 | Gaetano Maria Donizetti, composer ("La fille du régiment") | | | 1802 | James Lawrence Lardner, naval officer, d. 1881 | | | 1830 | Patrick Henry Jones, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1900 | | | 1836 | John Thomas Croxton, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1874 | | | 1872 | Joseph Mason Reeves, Adm., U.S.N., "Father of Carrier Aviation," d. 1948 | | | 1895 | William V.S. Tubman, Liberian President (1943-1970), murdered 1970 | | | 1932 | Jacques Chirac, President of France | | 21 | 1817 | Richard B Garnett, Brig Gen, C.S.A., KIA, July 3, 1863 | | | 1828 | William McComb, Brig Gen, C.S.A., d. 1918 | | | 1831 | John Franklin Miller, Brig Gen, U.S., in 1886 | | | 1834 | Joseph Jackson Bartlett, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1893 | | | 1854 | Giacomo Della Chiesa - Pope Benedict XV , d. 1922 | | | 1914 | Michael Grant, historian (“Gladiators”), d. 2004 | | 22 | 1535 | Count John "the Old" of Nassau | | | 1805 | Benjamin Hugur, Maj Gen, C.S.A., d. 1877 | | | 1818 | Samuel Gibbs French, Maj Gen, C.S.A., d. 1910 | | | 1823 | Nathan Kimball, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1898 | | | 1832 | George Henry Chapman, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1882 | | | 1835 | Frank Crawford Armstrong, Brig Gen, C.S.A. | | | 1881 | Enver Pasha, Young Turk, in Constantinople | | | 1888 | Tarzan, ficitonally [alternte] | | | 1890 | Charles de Gaulle, d 1970 | | | 1930 | Owen K Garriott, astronaut (Skylab 3, STS-9) | | | 1942 | Guion S Bluford, Jr., USAF, astronaut | | 23 | 912 | Otto I the Great, King of the Germans, Holy Roman Emperor (962-73) | | | 1221 | King Alfonso X “the Wise” of Castille & Leon (1252-84) | | | 1740 | Edward Rutledge, Signer of the Declaration of Independence, d. 1800 | | | 1804 | Franklin Pierce, volunteer, President (1853-1857) | | | 1809 | Horatio Phillips Van Cleve, Brig Gen, U.S., | | | 1819 | Benjamin Mayberry Prentiss, Maj Gen, U.S., d. 1901 | | | 1859 | Henry McCarty, "Billy the Kid" (aka Henry Antrim, William Boney), in New York, k. 1881 | | 24 | 1655 | King Charles XI of Sweden (1660-97) | | | 1784 | Zachary Taylor, Maj Gen, U.S., and President (1849-1850) | | | 1829 | William Passmore Carlin, Brig Gen, U.S., diarist, d. 1903 | | | 1921 | John V. Lindsay, naval officer, Mayor of NY (1965-1973) | | 25 | 1823 | Joseph Alexander Cooper, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1910 | | | 1825 | Edward Augustus Wild, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1891 | | | 1881 | Angelo Roncalli, Sergeant of Infantry (1915-1918), Pope John XXIII (1958-63) | | | 1895 | Anastas I Mikoyan, Stalin's henchman | | | 1915 | Augusto Pinochet, Dictator of Chile (1973-1990) | | 26 | 1816 | William Henry Talkbot Walker, Maj Gen, C.S.A. | | | 1827 | Alfred Moore Scales, Brig Gen, C.S.A., d. 1892 | | | 1937 | Boris Yegorov, cosmonaut (Voskhod 1) | | 27 | 1808 | Hugh Weedon Mercer, Brig Gen, C.S.A., d. 1877 | | | 1907 | L Sprague de Camp, naval officer, wargamer, author, d. 2000 | | | 1952 | James D Wetherbee, USN, astronaut (STS 32, 52) | | 28 | 1811 | King Maximilian II Josef of Bavaria (1848-64) | | | 1820 | Friedrich Engels, exploiter of the workers & peasants | | | 1820 | Lawrence O'Bryan Branch, Brig Gen, C.S.A., d. 1862 | | | 1857 | King Alfonso XII of Spain (1874-85) | | | 1887 | Ernst Rohm, Nazi, murdered by Hitler, 1934 | | | 1902 | Philippe Le Clerc, Liberator of Paris (see Deaths) | | 29 | 1229 | Duke Louis II "the Strange" of Bavaria | | | 1330 | Count Louis van Male of Flanders, Nevers, & Rethel | | | 1815 | Stephen Augustus Hurlbut, Maj Gen, U.S., d. 1882 | | | 1833 | Louis Douglass Watkins, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1868 | | | 1834 | Thomas Edward Greenfield Ransom, Brig Gen, U.S. | | | 1856 | Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg, German Chancellor, who scorned a "mere scrap of paper" in 1914 | | | 1949 | Kenneth D Cameroon, USMC, astronaut | | 30 | 1373 | King Ferdinand I of Aragon and Sicily | | | 1427 | King Casimir IV of Poland (1447-92) | | | 1466 | Andrea Doria, Genoese statesman, admiral, condottiero, d. 1560 | | | 1699 | King Christian VI of Denmark and Norway | | | 1810 | Oliver Fisher Winchester, gunsmith | | | 1826 | George Washington Deitzler, Brig Gen, U.S. | | | 1828 | Jedediah Hotchkiss, military engineer, C.S.A., d. 1899 | | | 1835 | Samuel Clemens (“Mark Twain”), Confederate deserter | | | 1863 | Andres Bonifacio, Filipino nationalist, killed 1896 | | | 1874 | Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill | | | 1885 | Albrecht Kesselring, German field marshal |
Died
| 1 | 1700 | King Charles II of Spain (1665-1700) | | | 1734 | Louisa de Kerouaille, Duchess of Portsmouth, sometime numbered among the mistresses of Charles II | | | 1793 | Lord George Gordon, English anti-Catholic agitator (“Gordon Riots” of 1780) | | | 1903 | Theodore Mommsen, historian, Literature Nobelist, at 85 | | | 1963 | Ngo Dinh Diem, South Vietnamese strongman, in a coup | | | 1972 | Ezra Pound, Fascist collaborator, poet ("Cantos"), at 87 | | | 2007 | Brig Gen Paul W. Tibbets Jr., who commanded the Enola Gay, at 92 | | 2 | 472 | Roman Emperor Olybrius (11 Jul-2 Nov 472), natural causes | | | 678 | Pope Donus [Dominus] (676-678) | | | 1475 | Bartolomeo Colleoni, condottiero, at c. 75, Captain-General of Venice, but he had to pay for his own statue | | | 1483 | Henry Stafford, Earl of Buckingham, Constable of England, beheaded at 49 | | | 1917 | James Gressham, US Army, kia in France | | | 1917 | Merle Hay, US Army, kia in France | | | 1917 | Thomas Enright, US Army, kia in France | | | 2004 | Theo Van Gogh, Dutch film maker, murdered by an Islamic fanatic | | 3 | 361 | Roman Emperor Constantius II (337-361), at 44 | | | 1254 | Emperor of Nicaea St. John III Ducas Vatatzes (1222-1254), at c.60 | | | 1428 | Thomas Montacute, Earl of Salisbury, the first English gentleman slain by gunfire | | | 1493 | Antonio Malvizzi, Patrician of Bologna, assassinated | | | 1873 | Chief Kintpuash "Captain Jack" of the Modoc | | | 1926 | Annie Oakley, sharpshooter | | | 1970 | King Peter II Karadjordjevic of Yugoslavia (1934-1945), in exile in the US | | 4 | 644 | Caliph Umar, assassinated at Medina by Uthman, his successor | | | 1203 | Count Dirk VII of Holland | | | 1702 | Adm. John Benbow, English admiral, c. 52, of wounds in Jamaica | | | 1918 | Wilfred Owen, war poet ("Anthem for Doomed Youth"), KIA at 25 | | | 1921 | Takashi Hara, premier of Japan, murdered | | | 1940 | Manuel Azana y Diez, President, Spanish Republic (1936-39), at 60 | | 5 | 1370 | King Casimir III the Great of Poland (1333-70), at 61 | | | 1944 | Lord Moyne, assassinated by the Stern Gang in Cairo | | | 1990 | Meir Kahane, radical Jewish nationalist, assassinated by an Islamist | | | 2005 | Peter A. Brunt, historian ("Italian Manpower, 225 BC - AD 14), b. 1917 | | 6 | 1003 | Pope John XVII [XVIII] (13 June-6 Nov 1003) | | | 1406 | Pope Innocent VII - Cosimo de' Migliorati (1404-1406) | | | 1632 | King Gustavus Aldophus of Sweden, kia, Lutzen | | | 1632 | Marquis Girolamo Pallavicino, Captain of Imperial Cuirassiers, kia, Lutzen | | | 1656 | Joao IV, Duke of Braganca, King of Portugal (1640-56) | | | 1836 | King Charles X of France (1824-30) | | | 1944 | Hannah Senesh, Jewish poet, murdered by the Nazis in Budapest | | 7 | 8 | BC Maecenas, friend to Augustus, patron of Vergil & Horace | | | 1225 | St. Engelbert I, Archbishop of Cologne, murdered | | | 1307 | Hermann Gessler, Hapsburg Governor of Switerland, shot by William Tell | | | 1837 | Elijah P Lovejoy, publisher, murdered at 34 by a pro-slavery mob | | | 1944 | Richard Sorge & Ozaki, Soviet spies, hanged in Tokyo | | | 1962 | Eleanor Roosevelt, FLOTUS (1933-1945), at 78 | | | 1980 | Steve McQueen, actor ("The Sand Pebbles", "The Great Escape"), at 50 | | 8 | 1226 | King Louis VIII "the Lion" of France (1223-26) | | | 1555 | Gian Giacomo Medici “Il Medeghino” – condottiero, poisoned at c. 60 | | | 1653 | Tideo Marescotti, Patrician of Bologna, assassinated | | | 1933 | Mohammed Nadir Shah of Afghanistan, assassinated | | | 1945 | FM August von Mackensen, Conqueror of Romania in 1916, Nazi stooge | | | 1986 | Vyacheslav M. Molotov, the Oldest Old Bohlshevik, at 96 | | 9 | 959 | Byzantine Emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus (913-959) | | | 1806 | Fra Diavolo (Michele Pezza), guerrilla warrior, hanged by the French in the Piazza del Mercato, Naples | | | 1836 | King Charles X of France (1824-1830), brother of Louis XVI & XVII; deposed 1830 | | | 1888 | Mary Jane Kelly, 25, Jack the Ripper’s fifth, and probable last, victim | | | 1952 | Chaim Weizmann, first President of Israel (1948-1952), at 57 | | | 1953 | Abdul-Aziz ibn Sa'ud, founder of Saudi Arabia, c. 73 | | 10 | 461 | Pope St. Leo I “The Great” (440-461) | | | 1143 | Count Fulk V of Anjou (1109-1143), King of Jerusalem (1131-1143), hunting accident at 50 | | | 1241 | Pope Celestine IV - Gofredo Castiflioni (25 Oct-10 Nov 1241) | | | 1285 | King Pedro III of Aragon | | | 1299 | Count Jean I of Holland and Zeeland | | | 1444 | King Ladislas III of Poland (1434-1444)/Laszlo I of Hungary (1440-1444), kia at Varna | | | 1549 | Pope Paul III - Alexander Farnese | | | 1567 | Anne de Montmorency, Marshal of France, killed at St. Denis | | | 1865 | Henry Wirz, C.S.A, superintendent of Andersonville, executed | | | 1938 | Mustafa Kemal Attaturk, at 57 | | | 1940 | Neville Chamberlain, hapless British PM (1937-40), at 71 | | | 1954 | Hussein Fatemi, Iranian Foreign minister, executed | | | 1970 | Charles de Gaulle, at 79 | | | 1982 | Pres Leonid Brezhnev of the USSR | | 11 | 1285 | King Pedro III "The Great" of Aragon (1276-1285) | | | 1331 | King Stefanus VIII of Serbia (1322-31) | | | 1549 | Pope Paul III - Alessandro Farnese (1534-1549) | | | 1831 | Nat Turner, leader of the "Great Southampton Slave Revolt", hanged | | | 1861 | King Pedro V d'Alcantara of Portugal (1853-61), 24 | | | 2004 | Yasir Arafat, inept Palestinian leader, at 75 | | 12 | 607 | Pope Boniface III (19 Feb-12 Nov 607) | | | 1035 | King Canute the Great of Denmark (1014-1035) & England (1016-1035), c. 40 | | | 1353 | Ferrandino Malatesta, Lord of Rimini (1316-1353), condottiero, in bed at 95, rare in his family & profession | | | 1567 | Duke Anne of Montmorency, Marshal of France, at 75, of wounds from the Battle of St. Denis, Nov 10th. | | | 1671 | Thomas Fairfax, parliamentary general, b 1612 | | | 1684 | Admiral Edward Vernon – “Old Grog” | | | 1989 | Dolores "La Pasionaria" Ibarruri, Communist stooge, 93 | | 13 | 867 | Pope St. Nicholas I “the Great” (858-867) | | | 1319 | King Erik VI of Denmark (1286-1319) | | | 1359 | Grand Duke Ivan II of Moscow & Vladimir | | | 1460 | Prince Henry "the Navigator" of Portugal, 66 | | | 1942 | RAdm Daniel Callaghan, U.S.N, kia at Guadalcanal | | | 1942 | RAdm Norman Scott, U.S.N., kia at Guadalcanal | | | 1942 | The Sullivan Brothers; George (27), Frank (26), Joe (24), and Al (20); Madison (23) on the 18th or 19th | | | 1985 | c. 23,000 people in Armero, Columbia, buried in a mudslide following the eruption of Nevado del Ruiz. | | 14 | 565 | Roman Emperor Justinian I (527-565), 82 | | | 976 | Emperor Chao K'uang-yin (T'ai-Tsu), the first Sung | | | 1263 | Grand Duke Alexander Nevski of Novgorod (1252-1263), 43 | | | 1673 | King Michael Wisniowieki of Poland | | | 1687 | Nell Gwyn, Charles I's favorite mistress | | | 1969 | Maj Gen Bruno Arthur Hochmuth, 3rd MarDiv, kia, Vietnam | | 15 | 1463 | Giannantonio Orsini, Prince of Taranto, Grand Constable of Naples, strangled at c. 82 | | | 1712 | Lord Mohun, in a duel with the Duke of Hamilton | | | 1712 | The Duke of Hamilton, in a duel with Lord Mohum | | | 1908 | Tsu-tsi, Dowager Empress, of China | | | 1958 | Tyrone Power, veteran, actor ("Captain from Castille"), heart attack at 44 | | 16 | 498 | Pope Anastasius II (496-498) | | | 1271 | King Henry III of England (1216-71), executed | | | 1797 | King Frederik Willem II of Prussia (1786-97), at 53 | | | 1808 | Sultan Mustafa IV of Turkey (1807-08) | | | 1831 | Karl von Clausewitz, of cholera | | | 1885 | Louis Riel, Canadian revolutionary, executed for high treason at 41 | | | 1960 | Clark Gable, Captain, USAAF, actor ("GWTW"), at 59 | | 17 | 375 | Roman Emperor Valentinian I (364-375), c. 54, of apoplexy when visited by some arrogant barbairans | | | 474 | Byzantine Emperor Leo II (18 Jan-17 Nov 474), natural causes at c. 7. | | | 1558 | Queen "Bloody" Mary I of England (1553-1558) | | 18 | 1170 | Albrecht I “the Bear” Margraf of Brandenburg | | | 1247 | Robin Hood, reportedly poisoned by a nun | | | 1329 | Alberghetto I Manfredi, Lord of Faenza (1327-1328), beheaded at Bologna | | | 1664 | Miklos Zrinyi, Hungarian general and military thinker, at 44 | | | 1851 | Ernst August, Duke of Cumberland, King of Hanover (1837-51), at 80 | | | 1886 | Chester A Arthur, militiaman, president (1881-85), at 56 | | 19 | 496 | Pope St. Gelasius I (492-496) | | | 1495 | King Alfonso II of Naples (1494-95) | | | 1594 | Prince Ivan of Russia, killed by his father, Ivan the Terrible | | | 1703 | "The Man in the Iron Mask," of natural causes, after decades in prison | | | 1798 | Wolf Tone, Irish patriot, self-inflicted wound to cheat the hangman | | | 1911 | Pres Ramon Caceres of the Dominican Republic, murdered | | | 1924 | Lee Stack, Sirdar of Egypt, Governor General of the Sudan, murdered | | | 1936 | Buenaventura Durruti, Spanish anarchist, kia outside Madrid, under suspicious circumstances | | 20 | 1316 | King Jean I “the Posthumous” of France (15-20 Nov 1316), born a king | | | 1347 | Stefano Colonna, Roman noble, patron of Petrarch, kia at c. 60, Porta San Lorenzo, Rome | | | 1347 | Camillo Colonna, son of Stefano, kia at c. 18, Porta San Lorenzo | | | 1347 | Cyno Caetani, brother of Count Niccolo of Fondi, kia, Porta San Lorenzo | | | 1347 | Giordano Orsini, Lord of Marino, Roman noble, kia, Porta San Lorenzo | | | 1347 | Giovanni Colonna, Co-Lord of Capranica, Roman Senator, cousin to Stefano, kia, Porta San Lorenzo | | | 1347 | Giovanni Colonna, son of Stefano, kia at c. 18, Porta San Lorenzo | | | 1347 | Petruccio Frangipani, Roman noble, kia, Porta San Lorenzo | | | 1347 | Pietro Colonna, Co-Lord of Capranica, Senator of Rome, kia, Porta San Lorenzo | | | 1861 | Henry Fry & Jacob M. Henshaw, lynched, Greeneville, Tn, suspicted of being Union agents | | | 1924 | Giacomo Puccini, composer ("Madama Butterfly") | | | 1936 | Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera, executed by the Spanish Republic | | | 1944 | Sekio Nishina, inventor of the kaiten weapon | | | 1975 | El Caudillo - Francisco Franco y Bahamonde, at 82 | | 21 | 53 | BC Marcus Licinius Crassus, probably not by molten gold poured down his throat | | | 1910 | Count Leo Tolstoy, veteran, in a train station | | | 1916 | Franz Joseph, Emperor of Austria & King of Hungary (1848-1916) | | 22 | 950 | King Lothar of Italy (947-50) | | | 1617 | Sultan Ahmed I of Turkey (1603-17) | | | 1718 | Edward "Blackbeard" Teach, of 25 wounds during a battle with the Royal Navy | | | 1902 | Friedrich A Krupp, cannon manufacturer, suicide | | | 1938 | Prince Giuseppe Borghese de Borbone y Parma, kia, Battle of the Ebro, earning a Medaglia d’oro | | | 1963 | John F. Kennedy, sailor, President (1961-1963), assassinated at 46 | | | 1980 | Mae West, Kentucky Colonel, at 87 | | | 1989 | Pres Rene Moawad of Lebanon (for c. 28 days), by a bomb | | 23 | 955 | King Edred of England (955-959), at c. 20 | | | 1407 | Louis, Duke of Orleans, brother of King Charles VI of France, assassinated at Paris by order of the Duke of Burgundy | | | 1457 | King Ladislaus V "the Posthumus" of Hungary and Bohemia, at 17 | | | 1616 | Richard Haklyut, Historian of the voyages of the English | | | 1871 | Mariano Melgarejo, sometime Dictator of Bolivia (1865-1870), murdered | | | 1890 | King Willem III of the Netherlands (1849-1890) | | | 1902 | Walter Reed, US military bacteriologist | | | 1920 | Mohammed ibn Addoellah, the "Mad Mullah" of Somalia | | | 1974 | Cornelius Ryan, war correspondent, historian ("A Bridge too Far"), at 54 | | | 1976 | Andre Malraux, resistance fighter, author ("The Conquerors"), at 75 | | 24 | 1647 | Taddeo Barberini, Prince of Palestrina, inept general, art collector, b. 1603. | | | 1922 | Erskine Childers, author ("The Riddle of the Sands"), naval aviator, Irish patriot, executed by the Irish Republic | | | 1929 | Georges Clemenceau, Premier of France (1906-09, 1917-20), at 88 | | | 1943 | RAdm Henry Maston Mullinnix, Dorie Miller, & c. 600 shipmates, in CVE Lipscombe Bay | | | 1963 | Lee Harvey Oswald, assassin of JFK, shot by Jack Ruby | | 25 | 1120 | Prince William, only legitimate son of Henry I of England, drowned at 17 in the Channel when his ship sinks | | | 1185 | Pope Lucius III - Ubaldo Allucingoli (1181-1185) | | | 1760 | King George II, at 77 | | | 1885 | King Alfonso XII of Spain (1874-85), at 27 | | | 1957 | Adm William Veazie Pratt (CNO, 1930-1933), b. 1869. | | | 1970 | Yukio Mishima, fasicistic author, harakiri | | 26 | 399 | Pope St. Siricius (385-399) | | | 1126 | Emir Al-Borsoki of Aleppo and Mosul, assassinated | | | 1504 | Queen Isabella I of Castilla and Aragon (1474-1504), Columbus’ friend, at 53 | | | 1865 | Spanish RAdm. Juan Manuel Pareja, suicide, having lost a ship to the Chileans | | | 1926 | John M Browning, gunsmith | | | 1970 | Benjamin O. Davis, Sr., the first black American general, at 93 | | 27 | 8 | BC Horace, soldier, poet, satirist | | | 511 | Clovis, the first King of France | | | 602 | East Roman Emperor Maurice, beheaded at Chalcedon by Phocas | | | 1796 | Catherine "the Great", in bed, alone, without a horse | | | 1868 | Chief Black Kettle of the Cheyenne | | 28 | 741 | Pope Gregory III (731-741) | | | 1058 | Duke Casimir I "the Restorer" of Poland (1034-58) | | | 1405 | Astorgio I Manfredi, Lord of (1379-1404), condottiero, poet, beheaded at Faenza | | | 1468 | Dunois, the Bastard of Orleans | | | 1499 | Edward Plantagenet, Earl of Warwick, beheaded | | | 1721 | Cartouche, noted highwayman, executed at Paris | | | 1794 | Maj Gen Baron Friederich Wilhelm Ludorf Gerhard Augustin von Steuben | | | 1870 | Frédéric Bazille, impressionist, friend to Monet & Renoir, kia, Beaune-la-Rolande | | | 1899 | Countess Virginia Oldoini de Castiglione, seducer of emperors & kings, in Paris at 62 | | | 1947 | Philippe Le Clerc, Liberator of Paris, plane crash, on his 45th birthday | | | 1962 | Wilhelmina, retired Queen of the Netherlands (1890-1948), at 82 | | | 1971 | Wasfi Tal, Jordanian prime minister, assassinated by Black September | | 29 | 1268 | Pope Clement IV - Guy le Gros (1265-1268) | | | 1314 | King Philippe IV "the Fair" of France (1285-1314) | | | 1378 | Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor | | | 1382 | Philip Van Artevelde, Flemish commander-in-chief, KIA | | | 1530 | Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, Chief Minister to King Henry VIII | | | 1632 | King Frederik V of Bohemia, at 36 | | | 1643 | Claudio Monteverdi, veteran of the Turkish Wars, composer | | | 1780 | Empress-Queen Maria Teresa, at 63 | | 30 | 1016 | King Edmund II “Ironsides” of the Saxons (1016), at 27 | | | 1526 | Giovanni degli Bande Neri, of wounds received on the 25th | | | 1718 | King Charles XII of Sweden, of wounds |
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| 1 | 36 | Major fire devastates part of Rome | | | 264 | BC Triumph of Consul M. Fulvius Flaccus, for conquering Volsinii | | | 630 | Mohammed captures Mecca | | | 866 | Battle of York: Danish raiders defeat the Yorkists | | | 1210 | King John of England begins imprisoning Jews | | | 1592 | Battle of Busan: Korean fleet defeats the Japanese | | | 1765 | Stamp Act goes into effect in British colonies, which object | | | 1784 | Maryland grants citizenship to Lafayette & his descendants | | | 1806 | Fra Diavolo taken at Baronissi by French Col Sigisbert Hugo (Victor's father) | | | 1821 | Greeks capture Missolonghi from the Turks | | | 1835 | Texians begin siege of San Antonio (it falls Dec 4) | | | 1860 | Neapolitan 3rd Div occupies defensive positions at Itri | | | 1861 | George McClellan named General-in-Chief of the US Army, as Bvt LtGen Winfield Scott retires. | | | 1869 | Red River Rebellion: Louis Riel seizes Fort Garry, Winnipeg | | | 1904 | Army War College opens, with Capt. John J. Pershing in the first class | | | 1911 | Italian Lt. Garetti drops a hand-held bomb from 600 feet on the Tanguira Oasis, Libya, from an Etrich monoplane, initiating a 20th century custom | | | 1914 | Battle of Coronel: Von Spee's German cruisers annihilate a weaker British squadron | | | 1914 | Paul von Hindenburg is named commander-in-chief of the Eastern Front | | | 1916 | Ninth Battle of the Isonzo begins (to Nov 4) | | | 1918 | Italian UDT sink Austrian BB Viribus Unitis, which is in Yugoslav hands | | | 1922 | Ottoman Empire abolished | | | 1928 | Graf Zeppelin sets an airship distance record, 6384 km | | | 1932 | Wernher von Braun named head of German liquid-fuel rocket program | | | 1933 | German Army creates its first panzer unit, | | | 1936 | Mussolini coins the phrase "The Axis" | | | 1939 | First jet plane demonstrated, a Heinkel He 178 | | | 1940 | Fleetwood, Pa.: 1st US air raid shelter opens | | | 1940 | The Netherlands: Nazis establish a 2400-0400 curfew | | | 1941 | Japanese Navy changes call signs for all ships | | | 1942 | Guadalcanal: Marines attack across the Matanikau River | | | 1943 | Bougainville: 3rd Marine Div lands at Cape Torokina, Empress Augusta Bay | | | 1943 | U-405 is rammed & sunk off the Azores by USS Borie (DD-215), which also sinks | | | 1943 | USN raids Japanese installations at Buin and Buka. | | | 1948 | Chinese PLA captures Mukden, Manchuria | | | 1950 | Puerto Rican nationalists try to kill Pres Truman at Blair House | | | 1951 | First atomic explosion with troops present, NM | | | 1952 | First hydrogen device exploded, Eniwetok Atoll | | | 1954 | Algeria begins rebellion against France | | | 1954 | General Fulgencio Batista elected president of Cuba | | | 1955 | Bomb destroys a UAL DC-6 above Longmont, Colorado, 44 die | | | 1956 | The Imre Nagy government of Hungary withdraws from the Warsaw Pact | | | 1959 | Nationalist Patrice Lumumba arrested in Belgian Congo | | | 1960 | Benelux Treaty goes into effect | | | 1963 | South Vietnam: Coup against the Ngo Dinhm Diem gov't | | | 1966 | William Dana reaches 93 km altitude in the X-15 | | 2 | 1355 | Edward III's army lands at Calais | | | 1389 | Piero Tomacelli elected Pope as Boniface IX (1389-1404) | | | 1519 | Cortes meets Motecuhzoma in Tenochtitlan | | | 1642 | Battle of Breitenfeld: Swedes defeat the Imperialists | | | 1648 | 12,000 Jews massacred by Marshal Chmielnicki’s order, Narol, Podlia | | | 1783 | Washington’s “Farewell Address to the Army,” at Rocky Hill, near Princeton | | | 1789 | French National Assembly confiscates Church property | | | 1835 | Sam Houston is chosen C-in-C of the Texas Army | | | 1835 | Second Seminole War begins | | | 1841 | Akbar Khan ousts Shah Shuja in Afghanistan | | | 1852 | Brig. Gen. Franklin Pierce elected President of US | | | 1880 | Maj Gen James A Garfield elected President | | | 1914 | Great Britain annexes Cyprus | | | 1916 | Verdun: The French recapture Ft Vaux | | | 1917 | Balfour Declaration: Britain supports a Jewish homeland in Palestine | | | 1917 | First US troops kia in France | | | 1930 | Ras Tafari crowned Emperor of Ethiopia as Haile Selassie | | | 1942 | Aussie 25th Bde captures Kokoda, and its airfield, from the Japanese | | | 1942 | British breakthrough at El Alamein | | | 1942 | Guadalcanal: "Tokyo Express" lands c. 1500 troops at Tetere | | | 1943 | Casa Nofi, Itri, has an unfortunate encounter with US fighter-bombers | | | 1943 | Empress Augusta Bay: Ineffective Japanese air raids on U.S. ships | | | 1943 | USN raids Japanese installations at Buin and Buka. | | | 1944 | Army clears Japanese troops from the central valley on Leyte. | | | 1947 | Howard Hughes’ “Spruce Goose” makes its only flight, c. 8 minutes | | | 1956 | Israel captures Gaza & Sheham | | | 1962 | JFK announces Soviets are dismantling their missile bases in Cuba | | | 1982 | Fire in Salung tunnel, Afghanistan, over 1,000 Soviet troops die | | 3 | 0 | Feast of St. Hubert, Patron of Hunters | | | 82 | BC Sulla issues the first "Proscription List" | | | 1354 | Battle of Modon/Sapienza: Venetian fleet defeats the Genovese off the Pelopnessos | | | 1394 | Charles VI expels the Jews from France | | | 1755 | Massachusetts offers bounties for Indian scalps: £30 for Warriors, £20 for women & boys | | | 1762 | Spain acquires Louisiana from France (returns it in 1800) | | | 1783 | The Continental Army is mustered out of service, Rocky Hill, NJ | | | 1812 | Battle of Fiordoroivskoy: Russians defeat the French | | | 1813 | US troops under Gen Coffee destroy Indian village at Talladega, Ala | | | 1839 | First Opium War: British frigates engage several Chinese junks | | | 1853 | USS Constitution seizes the slaver H.N. Gambrill | | | 1860 | Neapolitan Royalists retire from the Garigliano towards Mola | | | 1863 | Battle of Grand Coteau, Ga. | | | 1935 | George II is restored to the Greek throne (1922-1924, deposed; 1935-1947) | | | 1942 | Guadalcanal: Marines clear Japanese from Point Cruz. | | | 1944 | Japanese begin releasing 9,000 incendiary balloon to drift to America. | | | 1957 | USSR launches Sputnik 2 with the dog Laika, the first animal in orbit | | | 1970 | Salvador Allende inaugurated as president of Chile | | | 1979 | Teheran: Iranians storm the US embassy to take 63 hostages | | | 1984 | Three days of anti-Sikh rioting begin in India, 3,000 die | | | 1988 | Neo-Nazis break Geraldo Rivera's nose, on the air | | 4 | 0 | Feast of St. Laurent, Parton of Armories | | | 644 | Uthman becomes Caliph, having assassinated his predecessor | | | 1354 | Naval Battle of Soplegno: Geonese defeat the VenetiansS | | | 1576 | Spanish capture Antwerp from the Dutch | | | 1619 | Frederik V crowned king of Bohemia | | | 1677 | William of Orange marries Mary Stuart (William & Mary of England) | | | 1760 | Battle of Torgau: Frederick the Great defeats the Austrians | | | 1791 | Battle of Kekionga: Little Turtle's Miamis almost annihilate the U.S. Army, c. 600 die | | | 1840 | British, Turkish, Austrian fleets capture Acre, Palestine, from the Egyptians | | | 1860 | Skirmish at Mola: Piedmontese-Italians drive Neapolitan Royalists back on Gaeta | | | 1861 | Skirmish at Port Royal, SC | | | 1862 | Richard J. Gatling receives a patent for a clever device | | | 1864 | Naval Engagement at Reynoldsburg Island | | | 1866 | Kingdom of Italy annexes Venetia | | | 1903 | US Naval Academy defeats New York Naval Militia in football, 28-0 | | | 1915 | Third Battle of the Isonzo ends (from Oct 18) | | | 1916 | Ninth Battle of the Isonzo ends (from Nov 1) | | | 1918 | Austria-Hungary concludes an armistice with Italy. | | | 1918 | Kiel, Germany, falls into the in hands of revolutionary sailors | | | 1939 | Neutrality Act of 1939 is passed, to allow “cash-and-carry” arms sales to belligerents | | | 1940 | The Netherlands: Nazis begin rationing eggs & cake | | | 1942 | Australian 16th Brigade begins an attack on Oivi, on the Kokoda Trail. | | | 1944 | Japanese air attacks on Saipan and Tinian. | | | 1950 | US troops retreat from Pyongyang, North Korea | | | 1956 | Israel captures Straits of Tiran and reach Suez Canal | | | 1956 | Russian troops attack Budapest, to suppres the Hungarian Revolution | | | 1958 | Former Sergeant of Infantry Angelo Roncalli crowned Pope as John XXIII (1958-1963) | | | 1966 | Arno floods Florence, 113 die, countless treasures destroyed | | 5 | 1556 | Battle of Panipat: The Moghuls defeat the Lodi | | | 1605 | Gunpowder Plot: Catholics try to blow up Parliament | | | 1688 | King William III invades England, initiating the "Glorious Revolution" | | | 1757 | Seven Years' War: Frederick the Great's victory at Rossbach | | | 1775 | Commo Esek Hopkins named C-in-C of the Continental Navy. | | | 1800 | Britain’s privy council drops “King of France” from the royal titles, claimed since 1368 | | | 1808 | Battle of Valmaceda: Spanish defeat the French | | | 1811 | El Salvador rises against Spain | | | 1838 | Honduras declares independence from the Central American Federation | | | 1860 | Piedmontese-Italian forces occupy Itri | | | 1862 | Ambrose Burnside replaces McClellan as head of Army of the Potomac | | | 1911 | Italy declares war on Turkey | | | 1913 | Ludwig III crowned king of Bavaria | | | 1914 | Britain, France, & Russia declare war on Turkey | | | 1914 | Indian 6th Div lands at Basra, securing the oil fields | | | 1915 | First US shipboard catapult launch: LT CDR Henry Mustin, off North Carolina (ACR-12) in a Curtiss AB-ZF | | | 1916 | Germany and Austria-Hungary proclaim an "independent" Kingdom of Poland | | | 1917 | German submarine torpedoes USS Alcedo off France | | | 1917 | Maj. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr, leads the first American patrol into “No Man’s Land” | | | 1942 | Madagascar: Vichy French surrender to the British at Fort Dauphin | | | 1943 | Massive U.S. air raids on Rabaul damage six cruisers and several DDs. | | | 1944 | B-29s from China bomb Singapore. | | | 1952 | French Mystere 4 flies 1,100 kph | | | 1956 | Suez Crisis: British and French troops begin landings in Egypt | | 6 | 0 | Memorial of St. Leonard of Noblac, Patron of Prisoners-of-War | | | 63 | BC Catiline & his henchmen meet to plot against the Republic | | | 1282 | Battle of Menai Straits: Pr. Llewellyn of Gwynedd defeats Luc de Tany | | | 1362 | Guillaume de Grimoard consecrated as Pope as Urban V (1362-1370), later beatified | | | 1632 | Battle of Lutzen: Swedes defeat the Imperialists | | | 1792 | Battle of Jamappes: The French defeat the Austrians | | | 1813 | Congress of Chilpancingo declares Mexico independent of Spain | | | 1844 | Spain grants Dominican Rep independence | | | 1860 | Former militiaman and volunteer Abrham Lincoln elected President | | | 1861 | Jefferson Davis elected to a six year term as Confederate President | | | 1863 | Battle of Rogersville, Tn. | | | 1864 | Battle of Cane Hill, Ak. | | | 1864 | Battle of Droop Mountain, WVa. (Averell's Raid) | | | 1917 | Bolshevik Revolution: The Storming of the Winter Palace | | | 1943 | Soviet forces recapture Kiev from the Germans | | | 1945 | First jet carrier landing: Ryan FR "Fireball" on USS Wake Island | | | 1978 | The Shah places Iran under military rule | | 7 | 63 | BC “O Tempora, O Mores!” - Cicero denounces Catiline in the Senate | | | 1307 | William Tell reputedly does his thing [Old Style] | | | 1500 | Cesare Borgia captures Brighella | | | 1637 | Anne Hutchinson is banished from Massachusetts for heresy | | | 1659 | Peace of the Pyrennes between France & Spain; Italian Wars (1494-1559) finally end | | | 1793 | French Revolution abolishes Christianity in favor of "Reason" | | | 1811 | Battle of Tippecanoe: William Henry Harrison defeats Tecumseh | | | 1861 | Battle of Port Royal Bay/Ft Walker/Ft Beauregard, SC | | | 1861 | Grant's First Battle: Belmont, Mo. | | | 1863 | Battle of Rappahannock Station & Kelly's Ford, Va. | | | 1865 | CSS Shenandoah surrenders to British authorities at Liverpool, seven months after Appomattox | | | 1872 | Ship Marie Celeste sails from New York, bound for mystery | | | 1914 | Japan attacks German concession at Tsing-tao, China | | | 1917 | Battle of Beersheba: British take Gaza from the Turks, on the third try | | | 1918 | United Press erroneously reports an armistice has been signed | | | 1931 | Mao Tse-Tung proclaims the Chinese People's Republic | | | 1936 | Spanish Civil War: Battle for Madrid begins | | | 1942 | FDR broadcasts to the French; first presidential address in a foreign language | | | 1944 | Chinese New 22nd Div takes Shwego in northern Burma. | | | 1954 | US spy plane shot down by Russians over Sea of Japan | | | 1973 | The War Powers Act becomes law | | | 1983 | Bomb explodes in US Capitol, causing heavy damage but no injuries | | 8 | 392 | Emperor Theodosius bans pagan worship and ends the Olympic Games | | | 641 | The Arabs capture Alexandria | | | 1443 | Battle of Monteluro: Muzio Attendolo Sforza defeats the League of the Porta Giovia | | | 1519 | Hernan Cortez enters Tenochtitlan and meets Motecuhzoma | | | 1620 | Battle of White Mountain: Bohemians defeated by the Imperialists | | | 1789 | Elijah Craig brews something interesting, Bourbon County, Ky | | | 1805 | Battle of Maria Zell: French defeat the Austrians | | | 1805 | The Lewis & Clark Expedition reaches the Pacific Ocean | | | 1861 | Battle of Mount Ivy, Ky | | | 1861 | Capt Charles Wilkes removes Confederate agents from British steamer Trent | | | 1923 | Hitler's “Munich Beer Hall Putsch" | | | 1924 | Austria chancellor Ignaz Seipel, resigns after assassination attempt | | | 1939 | Hitler escapes assassination at the Burgerbraukeller, Munich | | | 1940 | The RAF bombs Munich | | | 1942 | Hitler proclaims the fall of Stalingrad, somewhat permaturely | | | 1942 | Operation Torch: U.S. and British forces land in northwestern Africa | | | 1944 | Hungary "lends" 25,000 Jews to the Germans for forced labor | | | 1950 | Lt. Russell J. Brown's F-86 scores a North Korean MiG-15 in history’s first jet combat: | | | 1956 | UN demands the USSR leave Hungary, and is ignored | | | 1990 | President GHW Bush orders 100,000 additional US troops to the Persian Gulf | | 9 | 63 | BC Catiline flees Rome | | | 1492 | Peace of Etaples between Henry VII of England and Charles VIII of France | | | 1519 | Cortez takes Motecuhzoma prisoner at Tenochtitlan | | | 1526 | Maria of Hapsburg expels the Jews from Pressburg | | | 1729 | Treaty of Seville: Spain makes peace with England & France | | | 1799 | "Coup de 18 de Brumaire" - Bonaparte seizes power | | | 1835 | Battle of Lipantitlan: Texians defeat the Mexicans | | | 1860 | Piedmontese Army invests Gaeta, held by the Neapolitan Royalists | | | 1861 | Action at Gauley Bridge, WVa | | | 1861 | Combat at Piketown/Fry Mountain, Ky | | | 1872 | Great Fire of Boston; 13 die, over 776 buildings burn, for dasmages of $75 million | | | 1895 | The liner Etruria docks in NY, and Winston Churchill begins his first visit to the US | | | 1917 | Battle of Caporetto [12th Isonzo] ends (from Oct 24) | | | 1918 | Bavarian radicals proclaim a socialist republic | | | 1918 | Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicates after German defeat in WW I | | | 1921 | Mussolini forms the Partito Nazionalista Fascista | | | 1921 | The Unknown Soldier arrives at Washington aboard USS Olympia | | | 1925 | Hitler forms the SS within the Brown Shirts | | | 1937 | Japanese capture Shanghai | | | 1938 | Crystal Night: Nazis begin two nights of anti-Semitic rioting | | | 1938 | The First Sadie Hawkins Day [now ‘celebrated’ on the Saturday nearest the 9th] | | | 1939 | Germans illegally capture two British officers at Venlo. the Netherlands | | | 1944 | Red Cross wins Nobel peace prize | | | 1961 | USAF Major Robert White takes X-15 to 30,970 m | | | 1984 | "Three Servicemen" Statue added to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial | | 10 | 846 | Moslem raiders ambush Lothair I's Frankish army at Itri, Italy | | | 911 | Conrad I elected King of the Germans | | | 1444 | Battle of Varna: The Ottomans defeat the Poles & Hungarians | | | 1500 | Cesare Borgia lays siege to Faenza (Falls, Apr 26, 1501) | | | 1567 | Battle of St. Denis: French Catholics defeat French Protestants | | | 1674 | The Dutch cede New Netherlands to England, for the second - and final - time | | | 1775 | Congress establsihes a Marine Corps | | | 1782 | Chillicote, Ohio, George Rodgers Clark defeats Indians and Tories; the final battle of the Revolutionary War. | | | 1801 | Kentucky outlaws dueling | | | 1808 | Battle of Espinosa: The French defeat the Spanish | | | 1808 | US-Osage Treaty signed | | | 1814 | Congress enacts a draft; War of 1812 ends before it is implemented | | | 1836 | Louis Napoleon banished to America | | | 1861 | Skirmish at Guyandott, WVa | | | 1864 | Austrian Archduke Maximilian becomes Emperor of Mexico (shot in 1867) | | | 1864 | Kingston, Ga, burns during Sherman's March to Sea | | | 1871 | Stanley presumes to meet Livingston in Ujiji, Central Africa | | | 1898 | Racist “coup” overthrows elected government in Wilmington, NC; scores die | | | 1915 | Fourth Battle of the Isonzo begins (to Dec 2) | | | 1918 | German Emperor Wilhelm II flees to the Netherlands | | | 1928 | Hirohito enthroned as Emperor of Japan | | | 1937 | Brazilian dictator Gaetulio Vargas proclaims a fascistic "Estado novo" | | | 1942 | French North African forces cease resisting the Allies | | | 1943 | Fifth Air Force makes a major attack on Rabaul. | | | 1944 | China: Japanese capture the U.S. air bases at Kweilin and Liuchow | | | 1945 | General Enver Hoxha becomes Communist leader of Albania | | | 1945 | Nazi concentration camp at Buchenwald liberated by US | | | 1954 | Lt Col John Strapp attains 632 MPH on a rocket sled | | | 1954 | USMC [“Iwo Jima”] Memorial dedicated in Arlington | | | 1989 | The Berlin Wall comes down | | 11 | 0 | Feast of St Martin of Tours, Patron of Soldiers | | | 0 | Armistice Day / Veterans’ Day / Remembrance Day | | | 1236 | Emperor Frederick II razes Vicenza | | | 1285 | Alfonso III ascends the throne of Aragon (1285-1291) | | | 1417 | Oddone Colonna elected Pope as Martin V (1417-1431) | | | 1500 | Louis XII of France and Ferdinand of Spain agree to divide Naples | | | 1606 | Peace of Zsitva-Torok: Ends Turko-HRE War of 1593-1606 | | | 1630 | The “Day of Dupes”: Coup by Cardinal Riechlieu puts Louis XIII & France in his power | | | 1673 | Battle of Choczim: Poles defeat the Turks | | | 1778 | Cherry Valley Massacre: Pro-British Iroquois slay 40 | | | 1839 | Virginia Military Institute opens | | | 1861 | Skirmish at Little Blue, Mo | | | 1864 | Sherman's March: Burning of Rome, Georgia | | | 1864 | Skirmish at Shoal Creek, Al | | | 1865 | Surgeon Mary Edward Walker is awarded the Medal of Honor, for some reason | | | 1909 | USN begins construction of a base at Pearl Harbor | | | 1918 | The Armistice ending modern German’s first bid for world domination. | | | 1920 | “The Unknown Warrior” is interred in Westminster Abbey | | | 1920 | Navy Nurse Lenah S. Higbee awarded the Navy Cross for service in the influenza pandemic | | | 1921 | The Unknown Soldier is laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery | | | 1923 | Eternal flame lit at the Tomb of the Unknown Solder at the Arc de Triomphe | | | 1940 | British air attack injures Italian fleet at Taranto | | | 1940 | Raider Atlantis captures liner Automedon, with Singapore defense plans | | | 1942 | Germany occupy Vichy France | | | 1942 | Japanese aircraft raid Henderson Field. | | | 1943 | 41 Japanese a/c from Rabaul attack U.S. carriers, only 8 return to base. | | | 1944 | Japan commissions carrier Shinano | | | 1961 | Congolese rebels murder 13 Italian airmen in UN service | | | 1961 | Stalingrad is renamed Volgagrad | | | 1983 | US cruise missiles arrive in Great Britain | | 12 | 764 | Tibetan troops begin a 15 day occupation of the T’ang Chinese capital, Chang'an | | | 1642 | Battle of Brentford: Lord Forth & Prince Rupert defeat Col Holles’ Parliamentarians | | | 1796 | First Battle of Caldiero: Bonaparte defeats the Austrians | | | 1847 | Battle of Geltwil: Swiss federal army defeats the Sonderbund | | | 1860 | Piedmontese troops skirmish with Neapolitans before Gaeta | | | 1861 | Skirmish at Occoquan Creek, Va | | | 1921 | Washington Conference for Limitation of Armaments convenes | | | 1927 | Leon Trotsky is expelled from the CP-USSR, leaving Stalin in control of Russia | | | 1933 | Nazis receive 92% of the vote in Germany | | | 1938 | Hermann Göring proposes a Jewish homeland in Madagascar | | | 1939 | Nazis order the Jews of Lodz to wear yellow armbands | | | 1941 | Battle of Moscow: the Red Army holds the Germans | | | 1942 | Guadalcanal: Japanese aircraft raid Henderson field. | | | 1942 | New Guinea: Australians take Gorari, on the Kokoda Trail | | | 1944 | RAF sinks the German BB Tirpitz, in a Norwegian fjord. | | | 1945 | Cordell Hull receives the Nobel Peace Prize for creating the UN | | | 1960 | Unsuccessful coup against South Vietnam strongman Ngo Dinh Diem | | | 1982 | Yuri V. Andropov elected general secretary of the CPUSSR | | | 2001 | The Taliban abandons Kabul, as Northern Alliance forces approach | | 13 | 0 | Sadie Hawkins' Day | | | 36 | BC Ovation for Octavian for the defeat of Sextus Pompeius in Sicily by Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa (who only got the corona rostrata) | | | 1002 | St. Brice's Day Massacre: King Ethelred II initiates the slaughtr of all Danes in England | | | 1093 | Battle of Alnwick: Earl Robert of Northumbria defeats King Malcolm III of Scotland | | | 1239 | Battle of Gaza: Ayyubids defeat the Crusaders | | | 1474 | Swiss defeat Charles the Bold at Hericourt, near Belfort | | | 1775 | American Maj Gen Richard Montgomery captures Montreal | | | 1776 | John Paul Jones captures British transport Mellish | | | 1830 | Oliver Wendell Holmes’ poem "Old Ironsides" is published | | | 1862 | Battle of Holly Spring, Ms | | | 1918 | German veterans form the ultra-nationalist Stahlhelm | | | 1935 | Anti-British riots in Egypt | | | 1942 | Minimum US draft age reduced from 21 to 18 | | | 1942 | Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, Day 1: Nocturnal naval clash | | | 1943 | B-24s from Funafuti and Canton bomb Tarawa and Makin, in the Gilberts. | | | 1944 | TF 38 begins two days of air raids on Japanese on Luzon | | | 1970 | Lt Gen Hafez al-Assad becomes PM of Syria in a coup | | | 1982 | Vietnam War Memorial dedicated | | | 1995 | Islamist terrorists bomb the US Office of Program Management for Saudi Arabian National Guard Modernization in Riyhad, 7 die | | 14 | 0 | Annual parade of the Equites at Rome | | | 565 | Justin II becomes Byzantine Emperor | | | 1380 | King Charles VI of France crowned at age 12 | | | 1683 | Battle of Kalenberg: Poles & Imperialists defeat the Turks | | | 1812 | Second Battle of Polotsk: French defeat the Russians | | | 1863 | Bedford Forrest is assigned command of West Tennessee | | | 1863 | Skirmish at Danville, Mississippi | | | 1906 | TR lands in Panama; the first presidential visit to a foreign country | | | 1910 | First airplane takeoff from a ship: Eugene Ely in a Curtiss Flyer, off USS Birmingham (CL-2) | | | 1919 | Red Army captures Omsk, Siberia, from the Whites | | | 1935 | Nazis deprive German Jews of their citizenship | | | 1935 | The Philippine Commonwealth is established | | | 1940 | Luftwaffe "coventryizes" Coventry | | | 1942 | Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, Day 2: intense air and naval action | | | 1944 | Chinese New 22nd Div takes Mantha, in northern Burma | | | 1956 | Hungarian Revolution finally crushed by overwhelming Soviet forces | | | 1968 | "Turn in Your Draft Card Day" | | | 1975 | Spain abandons Spanish Sahara | | 15 | 1202 | The Fourth Crusaders take Zara | | | 1283 | Ghibellines defeat the Guelfs in faction-fighting at Treviso | | | 1325 | Battle of Zappollino: The Modenese defeat the Bolognese | | | 1533 | Francisco Pizarro arrives at Cuzco | | | 1763 | Surveying of the Mason-Dixon Line is completed | | | 1793 | Battle of Wattignies, Day 1: French v. Austrians | | | 1796 | Battle of Arcola, Day 1: Bonaparte's French v. Austrians | | | 1805 | The Lewis and Clark epedition reaches the Pacific Ocean | | | 1864 |
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