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Born
| 1 | 846 | King Louis II "the Stutter" of France (877-79) | | | 1500 | Benvenuto Cellini, goldsmith, sculptor, painter, soldier, musician, author, rake, d. 1571 | | | 1757 | Antonio Canova, sculptor ("Pauline Bonaparte"), d. 1822 | | | 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, President/Dictator of Nicaragua (1893-1910), d. 1919 | | | 1871 | Stephen Crane, novelist ("The Red Badge of Courage"), d. 1900 | | | 1878 | Carlos Saavedra Lamas, 1936 Peace Nobelist, d. 1959 | | | 1889 | Philip John Noel-Baker, 1959 Peace Nobelist, d. 1982 | | 2 | 1734 | Daniel Boone, militiaman, frontiersman, d. 1820 | | | 1755 | Marie-Antoinette, Queen of France (1774-1792), shortened 1793 | | | 1795 | James K Polk, militiaman, president (1845-1849), d. less than three months after leaving office | | | 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), d. 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 & murdered by his Uncle Richard, 1483 | | | 1604 | Ottoman Sultan Osman II (1618-22), | | | 1718 | John Montague, the Fourth Earl of Sandwich, naval officer, culinary innovator, d. 1792 | | | 1793 | Stephen F. Austin, the "Father of Texas", d. 1836 | | | 1816 | Jubal A. Early, Lt Gen, C.S.A., the only man in the Army of Northern Virginia that Lee openly 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 | Ottoman Mohammed V Resjad (1909-18) | | | 1852 | Mutsuhito, the Meiji - 122nd Emperor of Japan (1867-1912) | | | 1901 | André Malraux, airman, resistance fighter, novelist, radical, d. 1976 | | | 1901 | King Leopold III of Belgium (1934-1951), collaborator, d. 1983 | | | 1912 | Alfredo Stroessner Matiauda, Dictator/President of Paraguay (1954-1989), d. 2006 | | | 1954 | Kevin P Chilton, USAF, Astronaut | | 4 | 1615 | Ottoman Sultan Ibrahim I (1640-48) | | | 1650 | William III, Prince of Orange (1650-1702), Stadtholder of Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht, Guelders, and Overijssel in the Dutch Republic (1672-1702), King of England and Ireland, (1689-1702) and King William II of Scotland (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, d. 2009 | | 5 | 1271 | Mahmud Ghazan, Mongol Il-Khan of Persia (1295-1304) | | | 1818 | Benjamin Butler, Maj. Gen., US; who proved the women of New Orleans were all ladies, d. 1893 | | | 1825 | Julius H. Stahel-Számwald, Maj Gen, U.S., d. 1912 | | | 1832 | William Woods Averell, Maj Gen, U.S., d. 1900 | | | 1895 | Will Durant, historian ("The Story of Civilization"), lover of Ariel Durant neé Chaya Kaufman, d. 1981 | | | 1902 | Strom Thurmond, D-Day veteran, segregationist, d. 2003 | | 6 | 15 | Julia Agrippina the Younger – “Agrippinilla” – daughter of Germanicus, sister to Caligula, niece and wife to Claudius, mother of Nero, who murdered her in 59 | | | 1479 | Queen Juana "la Loca" of Castile (1504-06), d. 1555 | | | 1494 | Ottoman Sultan Suleiman I “the Magnificent” (1520-66) | | | 1661 | King Charles II, the last Spanish Habsburg (1665-1700) | | | 1754 | Duke Frederick III (1797-1806)/King Frederick I of Württemberg (1806-16), who stood 6' 11" | | | 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, d. 1932 | | | 1856 | Tsar Nicholas II of Russia (1894-1917), murdered 1918 | | | 1900 | Heinrich Himmler, mass murderer, suicide 1945 | | | 1921 | James Jones, soldier, novelist ("From Here to Eternity"), d. 1977 | | | 2948 | Noah, pioneer navigator [Trad] | | 7 | 630 | Constans II "the Bearded," Romano-Byzantine Emperor (641-668), last emperor to visit Rome | | | 1728 | Captain James Cook, intrepid navigator & explorer, k. 1779 | | | 1797 | Silas Horton Stringham, naval officer, U.S., d. 1876 | | | 1860 | Jean-Baptiste Eugène Estienne, French general, d. 1936 | | | 1867 | Maria Sklodowska-Curie, Polish nationalist, Nobelist in chemistry & physics, d. 1934 | | | 1875 | Mikhail Kalinin, Stalinist co-conspirator, d. 1946 | | | 1879 | Lev Bronstein, aka Leon Trotsky, intellectual mass murderer, k. 1940 | | | 1952 | David Petraeus, general | | 8 | 35 | Marcus Cocceius Nerva, Roman Emperor (96-98) | | | 1572 | Johan Sigismund, Elector of Brandenburg (1608-1619), Duke of of Prussia (1618-1619) | | | 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, d. 1949 | | 9 | 1414 | Prince-Elector Albrecht III Achilles of Brandenburg (1471-1476) | | | 1823 | William Henry Forney, Brig Gen, C.S.A., d. 1894 | | | 1825 | Ambrose P Hill, Lt Gen, C.S.A., kia 865 | | | 1841 | King Edward VII of England (1901-10) | | 10 | 1433 | Duke Charles "the Rash" of Burgundy (1467-1477), noted thickhead, kia 1477 | | | 1483 | Martin Luther, theologian, revolutionary, anti-Semite, d. 1546 | | | 1566 | Robert Devereux, Second Earl of Essex, soldier, Gloriana’s favorite, beheaded, 1601 | | | 1683 | George II Augustus (76), King of Great Britain and Ireland, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Archtreasurer and Prince-Elector of the Holy Roman Empire (1727-1760), 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 | Andrei Nikolayevich Tupolev, Russian aircraft designer, d. 1972 | | | 1895 | John Knudsen Northrop, American aircraft designer, d. 1981 | | | 1919 | Mikhail Kalishnikov, soldier, weapons designer | | | 1925 | Richard Burton, RAF cadet, actor ("Where Eagles Dare"), d. 1984 | | 11 | 1050 | Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor (1056-1106) | | | 1154 | King Sancho I of Portugal (1185-1212) | | | 1155 | King Alfonso VIII of Castille (1158-1214), 53, victor of Las Navas de Tolosa | | | 1657 | Guido Wald Rüdiger, Graf von Starhemberg;, Austrian field marshal, d. 1737 | | | 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 naval officer & secret agent | | 12 | 1528 | Qi Jiguang, Ming general, restorer of the Great Wall, 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, d. 430 | | | 1312 | King Edward III of England (1327-77) | | | 1504 | Landgraf Philip I "the Magnanimous" of Hesse (1509–1567) | | | 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, d. 1815 | | | 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, Navy veteran, dipsomaniacal demagogic senator, d. 1957 | | | 1948 | Charles, the Prince of Wales | | | 1954 | Condolezza Rice, presidential advisor | | 15 | 1316 | Jean I “the Posthumous”, King of France (Nov 11-20, 1316) | | | 1397 | Tommaso Parentucelli - Pope Nicholas V (1447-1455) | | | 1708 | William Pitt the Elder, the "Great Commoner", PM (1756-1761, 1766-1768), d. 1778 | | | 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", d 1990 | | | 1907 | Count Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg, anti-Nazi conspirator, executed 1944 | | | 1907 | Nicholas G.L. Hammond, historian (“The Genius of Alexander the Great”), d. 2001 | | 16 | 42 | Tiberius Claudius Nero, Tiberius, Roman Emperor (AD 14-37) | | | 1603 | Taddeo Barberini, Prince of Palestrina, inept general, art collector, d. 1647. | | | 1642 | Lieutenant-Admiral Cornelis Evertsen the Younger of Zealand, d. this date 1706 | | | 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", d. 1980 | | | 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, Viscount of Alamein, d. 1976 | | 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, "Red '48-er," 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, d. 1905 | | | 1916 | Shelby Foote, author ("The Civil War: A Narrative") | | | 1923 | Alan B Shepard, Jr., USN, astronaut, d. 1998 | | | 1941 | David Hemmings, actor ("The Charge of the Light Brigade"), d. 2003 | | 19 | 1503 | Pier Luigi Farnese, son of the later Pope Paul III, first Duke of Parma, Piacenza, & Castro (1545-1547), Captain General of the Holy Church, murdered 1547 | | | 1600 | King Charles I of England (1625-1649), beheaded 1649, at 48 | | | 1752 | George Rogers Clark, frontiersman, soldier, d. 1818 | | | 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), assassinateds | | | 1835 | Fitzhugh Lee, Maj Gen, C.S.A., d. 1905 | | | 1893 | Mao Tse-Tung/ Mao Zedong, poetically-inclined Chinese visionary, with a high body count, d. 1976 | | | 1897 | Quentin Roosevelt, airman, kia July 14, 1918 | | | 1917 | Indira Gandhi, Indian PM (1966-1977, 1980-1984), murdered 1984 | | 20 | 270 | Gaius Valerius Galerius Maximinus Daia, Roman Emperor (308-314) | | | 1761 | Francesco Xaverio Castiglione - Pope Pius VIII (1829-1830) | | | 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 (1995-2007) | | 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 VI "the Old" of Nassau-Dillenburg (1559-1606) | | | 1805 | Benjamin Huger, 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., d. 1909 | | | 1881 | Enver Pasha, Young Turk, kia, 1922 | | | 1888 | Tarzan, fictionally [Alt] | | | 1890 | Charles de Gaulle, d 1970 | | | 1922 | Sir Michael Howard, Guardsman, Military Cross, historian ("War in European History", "War & the Liberal Conscience", etc.) | | | 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) | | | 1402 | Jean de Dunois, Bastard of Orleans, illegitimate son of Duke Louis d'Orléans, comrade to Joan of Arc, d. 1468 | | | 1740 | Edward Rutledge, Signer of the Declaration of Independence, d. 1800 | | | 1804 | Franklin Pierce, militiaman, volunteer, President (1853-1857), d. 1869 | | | 1809 | Horatio Phillips Van Cleve, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1891 | | | 1819 | Benjamin Mayberry Prentiss, Maj Gen, U.S., d. 1901 | | | 1859 | Henry "Billy the Kid" McCarty (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), d. 2000 | | 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, d. 1978 | | | 1915 | Augusto Pinochet, Dictator of Chile (1973-1990) | | 26 | 1816 | William Henry Talbot Walker, Maj Gen, C.S.A., kia 1864 | | | 1827 | Alfred Moore Scales, Brig Gen, C.S.A., d. 1892 | | | 1937 | Boris Yegorov, cosmonaut (Voskhod 1), d. 1994 | | 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, d. 1895 | | | 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, died in a plane crash, this date in 1947 | | 29 | 1229 | Duke Louis II "the Strange" of Bavaria (1253-1294) | | | 1797 | Gaetano Maria Donizetti, composer ("La fille du régiment"), d. 1848 | | | 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., d. 1864 | | | 1856 | Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg, German Chancellor (1909-1917) who in 1914 scorned a "mere scrap of paper" | | | 1949 | Kenneth D Cameron, USMC, astronaut | | 30 | 1373 | King Ferdinand I "the Just" of Aragon, Valencia, Majorca, Sardinia, & Corsica, King of Sicily, Duke of Athens and Neopatria, Count of Barcelona, Roussillon, & Cerdanya (1412-1416), and Regent of Castile (1406-1416) | | | 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 (1730-1746). | | | 1810 | Oliver Fisher Winchester, gunsmith, d. 1880 | | | 1817 | Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen, historian, d. 1903 | | | 1826 | George Washington Deitzler, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1884 | | | 1828 | Jedediah Hotchkiss, military engineer, C.S.A., d. 1899 | | | 1835 | Samuel Langhorne Clemens (“Mark Twain”), Confederate deserter, author, d. 1910 | | | 1863 | Andres Bonifacio, Filipino nationalist, killed 1896 | | | 1874 | Winston Spencer Churchill, d. 1965 | | | 1885 | Albrecht Kesselring, German field marshal, d. 1960 |
Died
| 1 | 1700 | King Charles II of Spain (1665-1700), 38 | | | 1734 | Louisa de Kérouaille, Duchess of Portsmouth, 84, sometime numbered among the mistresses of Charles II | | | 1793 | Lord George Gordon, 42, English anti-Catholic agitator (“Gordon Riots” of 1780) | | | 1903 | Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen, historian, Literature Nobelist, at 85 | | | 1963 | Ngo Dinh Diem, 82, 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 Anicius Olybrius (11 Jul-2 Nov 472), c. 42, natural causes | | | 678 | Pope Donus [Dominus] (676-678) | | | 1241 | Pope Celestine IV - Gofredo Castiflioni (25 Oct-10 Nov 1241), c. 50 | | | 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 | | | 1916 | Queen Elisabeth of Romania, at 72 | | | 1917 | James Gressham, Merle Hay, & Thomas Enright, first U.S. soldiers kia in France during World War I | | | 2004 | Theo Van Gogh, 47, 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, 40, 4th Earl of Salisbury, of wounds from fragments of a door shattered by a cannonball on Oct 23rd during the siege of Orleans -- the first English gentleman slain by gunfire | | | 1493 | Antonio Malvizzi, Patrician of Bologna, assassinated | | | 1873 | Chief Kintpuash - "Captain Jack" of the Modoc, c. 35, hanged for the murder of Maj. Gen. Canby and the Rev. Eleazar Thomas | | | 1926 | Annie Oakley, sharpshooter, 66 | | | 1970 | King Peter II Karadjordjevic of Yugoslavia (1934-1945), 47, in exile in the US | | 4 | 644 | Umar ibn al-Khattab, c. 55-60, the second Caliph (635-644), assassinated at Medina by Uthman, who succeeded him | | | 1203 | Count Dirk VII of Holland (1190-1203), c. 40-45 | | | 1702 | Adm. John Benbow, English admiral, c. 52, of wounds in Jamaica | | | 1830 | Count Frédéric de Merode, 38, Belgian patriot, kia at Malines | | | 1918 | Wilfred Owen, war poet ("Anthem for Doomed Youth"), kia at 25 | | | 1921 | Hara Takashi, 65, Premier of Japan (1918-1921), assassinated | | | 1940 | Manuel Azaña y Diez, litterateur, war minister, premiere, & president of the Spanish Republic (1936-39), at 60 | | | 1958 | General of Infantry Hermann von Kuhl, b. 1856 | | 5 | 1370 | King Casimir III the Great of Poland (1333-70), at 61 | | | 1944 | Walter Edward Guinness, 1st Baron Moyne, 64, British minister for the Middle East, assassinated by the Stern Gang in Cairo | | | 1990 | Meir David Kahane, 58, radical Jewish nationalist, assassinated by an Islamist | | | 2005 | Peter A. Brunt, classical scholar ("Italian Manpower, 225 BC-AD 14"), b. 1917 | | 6 | 1003 | Pope John XVII [XVIII] - Giovanni Sicco (May 16-Nov 6, 1003) | | | 1406 | Pope Innocent VII - Cosimo de' Migliorati (1404-1406), c. 70 | | | 1632 | King Gustavus II Aldophus of Sweden (1611-1632), 37, kia, Lutzen | | | 1632 | Marquis Girolamo Pallavicino, Captain of Imperial Cuirassiers, kia, Lutzen | | | 1656 | João IV "The Restorer," 53, Duke of Braganca (1630-1656), estoration King of Portugal (1640-56) | | | 1836 | King Charles X of France (1824-30), 79 | | | 1944 | Hannah Szenes, 23, Jewish poet, SOE operative, murdered by the Nazis in Budapest | | 7 | 8 | Gaius Cilnius Maecenas, 62, friend to Augustus, patron of Vergil & Horace | | | 1225 | Count Engelbert II of Berg (1189-1225), c. 40, Archbishop Engelbert I of Cologne (1216-1225), murdered by his cousin Count Frederick of Isenberg, whom he had found stealing church funds. | | | 1307 | Hermann Gessler, Hapsburg Bailiff of Altdorf, shot by William Tell | | | 1837 | Elijah P Lovejoy, 34, abolitionist publisher, murdered in Illinois by a pro-slavery mob | | | 1944 | Richard Sorge (46), former Russian Imperial Guardsman, & Hotsumi Ozaki (43), journalist and politician, Soviet agents, 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), 39 | | | 1555 | Gian Giacomo Medici “Il Medeghino” – condottiero, poisoned at c. 60 | | | 1653 | Tideo Marescotti, Patrician of Bologna, assassinated | | | 1933 | Shah Mohammed Nadir of Afghanistan (1929-1933), 50, assassinated | | | 1945 | FM August von Mackensen, Conqueror of Romania in 1916, Nazi stooge, 95 | | | 1986 | Vyacheslav M. Molotov, Stalin's henchman and the Oldest Old Bohlshevik, at 96 | | 9 | 959 | Byzantine Emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus (908-959), 54 | | | 1806 | Fra Diavolo (Michele Pezza), 35, guerrilla warrior, hanged by the French in the Piazza del Mercato, Naples | | | 1836 | King Charles X of France (1824-1830), 79. 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), c. 60 | | | 1143 | Count Fulk V of Anjou (1109-1143), King of Jerusalem (1131-1143), hunting accident at 50 | | | 1285 | King Pedro "the Great" III of Aragon, King Pedro I of Valencia and of Majorca, and Count Pedro II of Barcelona (1276-1285), and King Pietro I of Sicily (1282-1285), c. 46 | | | 1299 | Count Jean I of Holland and Zeeland (1296-1299), 16 | | | 1444 | King Ladislas III of Poland (1434-1444)/Laszlo I of Hungary (1440-1444), 20, kia at Varna | | | 1549 | Pope Paul III - Alexander Farnese (1534-1549), 81 | | | 1865 | Henry Wirz, 42, former superintendent of Andersonville, executed | | | 1938 | Mustafa Kemal Attaturk, 57 | | | 1940 | Neville Chamberlain, hapless -- or wily -- British PM (1937-40), at 71 | | | 1944 | Wang Ching-Wei/Wang Jingwei, Premier of China (1932-35), President underr Japanese control (1940-1944), b. 1884 | | | 1954 | Hossein Fatemi, c. 35, Iranian Foreign minister, executed | | | 1970 | Charles de Gaulle, at 79 | | | 1982 | Pres Leonid Brezhnev of the USSR, 75 | | 11 | 1331 | King Stefan Uroš III Deshanski of Serbia (1322-31), c. 45-47 | | | 1831 | Nat Turner, 31, 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 (Feb19-Nov 12, 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 profession, unheard of in his family | | | 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 “Old Grog” Vernon, 70, inventor of grog | | | 1912 | José Canalejas y Méndez, Prime Minmister of Spain, 58, assassinated | | | 1989 | Dolores "La Pasionaria" Ibarruri, Communist stooge, 93 | | 13 | 867 | Pope St. Nicholas I “the Great” (858-867), c. 47 | | | 1319 | King Eric VI Menved of Denmark (1286-1319), c. 45 | | | 1359 | Grand Duke Ivan II "the Fair" of Moscow & Vladimir (1353-1359), 33 | | | 1460 | Prince Henry "the Navigator" of Portugal, 66 | | | 1942 | RAdm Daniel Callaghan (52), RAdm Norman Scott (53), and George (27), Frank (26), and Joe (24) Sullivan, as well as several hundred other American seamen | | | 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 [perhaps late on the 13th] | | | 976 | Emperor Chao K'uang-yin (960-976), 49, the first Sung | | | 1263 | Grand Duke Alexander Nevski of Novgorod (1252-1263), 43 | | | 1673 | King Michael Korybut Wilniowiecki of Poland-Lithuania (1669-1873), 33 | | | 1687 | Eleanor "Nell" Gwyn, 37, Charles I's favorite mistress | | | 1942 | Al Sullivan (20), drowned off Guadalcanal | | | 1969 | MajGen Bruno Arthur Hochmuth, 3rd MarDiv, 56, kia, Vietnam | | 15 | 1463 | Giannantonio Orsini, Prince of Taranto, Grand Constable of Naples, strangled at c. 82 | | | 1712 | Charles Mohun, 4th Baron Mohn (37), and James Hamilton, 4th Duke of Hamilton and 1st Duke of Brandon (54), having hacked each other to pieces in a duel | | | 1908 | Empress Dowager Cixi/Tz'u-Hsi T'ai-hou of China (1861-1908), 72 | | | 1958 | Tyrone Power, veteran, actor ("Captain from Castille"), heart attack at 44 | | 16 | 498 | Pope Anastasius II (496-498) | | | 1272 | King Henry III of England (1216-72), 65 | | | 1797 | King Frederik Willem II of Prussia (1786-97), at 53 | | | 1808 | Ottoman Sultan Mustafa IV (1807-08), 29, murdered upon being deposed | | | 1831 | Karl von Clausewitz, 52, 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 Mary I of England (1553-1558), 42, called "Bloody," though with lower body count than her father or sister | | | 1793 | French General Jean Nicolas Houchard (54), guillotined for not acting energetically enough after winning the Battle of Hondschoote in September | | 18 | 1170 | Albrecht I “the Bear”, first Margraf of Brandenburg (1157-1170) and Duke of Saxony (1138-1142), c. 70 | | | 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 (Jan 25, 1494-February 22, 1495), 47, abdicated | | | 1581 | Prince Ivan of Russia, 27, killed by his father, Ivan the Terrible | | | 1703 | "The Man in the Iron Mask," of natural causes, after 24 years in the Batille and other prisons | | | 1798 | Wolf Tone, 36, Irish patriot, leader of the United Irishmen, self-inflicted wound to cheat the hangman | | | 1911 | Pres Ramon Caceres of the Dominican Republic (1906-1911), murdered | | | 1924 | Major General Sir Lee Oliver Fitzmaurice Stack, 56, Sirdar of Egypt, Governor General of the Sudan, murdered | | | 1936 | Buenaventura Durruti, Spanish anarchist, kia at 40 outside Madrid, under suspicious circumstances | | 20 | 1316 | King Jean I “the Posthumous” of France (15-20 Nov 1316), born a king | | | 1347 | Stefano Colonna (c. 60), Roman noble, patron of Petrarch, his sons Camillo (c. 25) & Giovanni(18), his cousins Giovanni & Pietro Colonna, Co-Lords of Capranica, and Cyno Caetani of Fondi, Lord Giordano Orsini of Marino, Petruccio Frangipani, and many of their followers, kia, Battle of the Porta San Lorenzo | | | 1861 | Henry Fry & Jacob M. Henshaw, lynched in Greeneville, Tn, on suspicion of being Union agents | | | 1924 | Giacomo Puccini, composer ("Madama Butterfly"), 63 | | | 1936 | Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera, 33, executed by the Spanish Republic | | | 1944 | Lt, j.g., Sekio Nishina, in Ultihi Atoll, probably while sinking USS Mississinewa (AO-59) with the kaiten weapon, which he co-invented | | | 1975 | El Caudillo Francisco Franco y Bahamonde of Spain (1936-1975), at 82 | | 21 | 53 | Marcus Licinius Crassus, c. 60, beheaded vy the Parthians (not molten gold involved), but his head was later used as a prop in a play | | | 1910 | Count Leo Tolstoy, 82, veteran of Sebastopol, in a train station | | | 1916 | Franz Joseph, Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary, King of Bohemia, (1848-1916), 86 | | 22 | 950 | King Lothair II of Italy (947-50), c. 23 | | | 1617 | Ottoman Sultan Ahmed I (1603-17), 27 | | | 1718 | Edward "Blackbeard" Teach, c. 38, priate lord, havin gbeen wounded 25 times during a battle with the Royal Navy | | | 1902 | Friedrich A Krupp, 46, cannon founder, suicide | | | 1938 | Lt. Prince Giuseppe Borghese de Borbone e Parma, kia, Battle of the Ebro, earning a Medaglia d’oro with the 4th Bandere of the Spanish Legion | | | 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 | 101 | Pope St. Clement I (88-98), possibly martyred [or 102] | | | 955 | King Edred of England (946-955), at c. 20 | | | 1407 | Louis, 35, Duke of Touraine and Count of Valois (1386–1392), Duke of Oreans (1392-1407), Count of Blois (1397–1407), Angoulême (1404–1407), Périgord, Dreux and Soissons., 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 (1440-1457), at 17. | | | 1616 | Richard Hakluyt, 63-64, Historian of the voyages of the English | | | 1871 | Mariano Melgarejo, c. 50, sometime Dictator of Bolivia (1865-1870), murdered | | | 1890 | King William III of the Netherlands (1849-1890), 73, last male ruler of the Dutch | | | 1902 | Walter Reed, 51, US Army bacteriologist | | | 1920 | Sayyid Muhammad `Abd Allah al-Hasan, 66, the "Mad Mullah"/ nationalist leader 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 | 1468 | Jean de Dunois, 68 and one day, Bastard of Orleans, illegitimate son of Duke Louis d'Orléans, comrade to Joan of Arc | | | 1647 | Taddeo Barberini, Prince of Palestrina, inept general, noted art collector, b. 1603. | | | 1922 | Erskine Childers, 52, 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 (51), Dorie Miller (24), & c. 600 shipmates, in Liscome Bay (CVE-56) | | | 1963 | Lee Harvey Oswald, 24, former arine, 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), c. 85 | | | 1885 | King Alfonso XII of Spain (1874-85), at 27 | | | 1957 | Adm William Veazie Pratt (CNO, 1930-1933), b. 1869. | | | 1970 | Yukio Mishima, 45, fasicistic author, harakiri | | 26 | 399 | Pope St. Siricius (385-399) | | | 1504 | Queen Isabella I of Castila and Aragon (1474-1504), Columbus’ friend, at 53 | | | 1865 | Spanish RAdm. Juan Manuel Pareja, 53, suicide, having lost a ship to the Chileans | | | 1926 | John M Browning, 71, gunsmith | | | 1970 | Benjamin O. Davis, Sr., the first black American general, at 93 | | 27 | 8 | Quintus Horatius Flaccus -- Horace, 53, soldier, poet, satirist | | | 511 | Clovis, the first King of the Franks (481-511), c. 46 | | | 602 | Flavius Mauricius Tiberius Augustus -- Maurice, 63, soldier, author ("The Strategikon"), East Roman Emperor (582-602), beheaded at Chalcedon by the usurper Phocas | | | 1796 | Empress Catherine II "the Great" of Russia (1762-1796), 67, in bed, alone, without a horse | | | 1868 | Chief Black Kettle of the Cheyenne, c. 6, killed, Batle of the Washita | | 28 | 741 | Pope Gregory III (731-741) | | | 1058 | Duke Casimir I "the Restorer" of Poland (1034-58), 42 | | | 1405 | Astorgio I Manfredi, Lord of Faenza (1379-1404), condottiero, poet, beheaded | | | 1499 | Edward Plantagenet, 17th Earl of Warwick, 24, beheaded by Henry VII as a potential rival to the throne | | | 1721 | Louis Dominique Bourguignon, known as "Cartouche", 27-28. noted highwayman, broken on the wheel at Paris | | | 1794 | Maj Gen Baron Friederich Wilhelm Ludorf Gerhard Augustin von Steuben, 64 | | | 1870 | Frédéric Bazille, 28, impressionist, friend to Monet & Renoir, volunteer, kia, Beaune-la-Rolande | | | 1899 | Countess Virginia Oldoini de Castiglione, seducer of emperors & kings, in Paris at 62 | | | 1962 | Wilhelmina, retired Queen of the Netherlands (1890-1948), at 82 | | | 1971 | Wasfi al-Tal, 62, Jordanian prime minister (1962–1963, 1965–1967, 1970-1971), assassinated by Black September | | 29 | 1268 | Pope Clement IV - Guy le Gros (1265-1268), c. 73 | | | 1314 | King Philippe IV "the Fair" of France (1285-1314) | | | 1378 | Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor | | | 1382 | Philip Van Artevelde, Flemish patriot, kia, Battle of Roosebeke | | | 1530 | Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, c. 60, Chief Minister to King Henry VIII | | | 1632 | Elector Palatine Frederick of Bohemia(1610–23),, at 36, King Frederick I of Bohemia (1619–20) -- the "Winter King", 36 | | | 1643 | Claudio Monteverdi, 76, 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 di Giovanni de' Medici - Giovanni dalle Bande Nere, 26, condottiero, of wounds received on the 25th | | | 1718 | King Charles XII of Sweden (1697-1718), 36, d/w |
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| 1 | 36 | Major fire devastates part of Rome | | | 264 | Triumph of Consul M. Fulvius Flaccus, for defeating the 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 | Bvt LtGen Winfield Scott retires and George McClellan named General-in-Chief of the US Army | | | 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 | Flyiing an Etrich monoplane, Italian Lt. Garetti drops a hand-held bomb from 600 feet on the Tanguira Oasis, Libya, 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 | Maiden flight of the Heinkel He 178, the first jet | | | 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, Podolia | | | 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 | “Battle of the Bees”: A British attempt to capture Tanga in German Tangynika from the sea beings; totally defeated by the 5th | | | 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 | 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 | Battle of Tallasahatchee: US troops & Tennessee militiamen under BrigGen John Coffee defeat Creek Red Stick warriors | | | 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 | | | 1794 | Suvarov defeats the Poles amid great slaughter, to capture Warsaw | | | 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 consecrated as Pope John XXIII (1958-1963) | | | 1966 | Arno floods Florence, 113 die, countless treasures destroyed | | | 2008 | Barack Obama elected president | | 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 | | | 1854 | The Battle of Inkerman: British & French troops win a “Soldiers’ Battle” against the Russians | | | 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 | 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 Pope as Urban V (1362-1370), later beatified | | | 1632 | Battle of Lutzen: Swedes defeat the Imperialists | | | 1792 | The Battle of Jemappes: The French defeat the Austrians, to overrun Belgium | | | 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 | “O Tempora, O Mores!” - Cicero denounces Catiline in the Senate | | | 1307 | William Tell reputedly does his thing [Old Style] | | | 1500 | Cesare Borgia captures Brighella | | | 1559 | Peace of the Pyrennes between France & Spain; Italian Wars (1494-1559) finally end | | | 1637 | Anne Hutchinson is banished from Massachusetts for heresy | | | 1793 | French Revolution abolishes Christianity in favor of "Reason," initiating intellectual mass slaughter | | | 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 | | | 2009 | The USS New York (LPD-21) is commissioned in New York City, commemorating the casualties of 9/11 | | 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 an 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-on-jet combat | | | 1956 | The 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 | 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 | | | 1813 | Battle of Taladega: Tennessee militiamen under Andrew Jackson defeat Creek Red Stick warriors | | | 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 | | | 1914 | HMAS Sydney destroys the German raiding cruiser Emden in the Cocos Is. | | | 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 | The Japanese capture Shanghai | | | 1938 | Crystal Night: Nazis begin two nights of anti-Semitic rioting | | | 1938 | The First Sadie Hawkins Day [now observed 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 | | | 1989 | The Berlin Wall comes down | | 10 | 846 | Battle of Itri: Marching south on the Appia, Lothair I's Frankish army is ambushed by Moslem raiders under Musa | | | 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 | | 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 secretly agree to divide Naples | | | 1606 | Peace of Zsitva-Torok: Ends Turko-HRE War of 1593-1606 | | | 1630 | The “Day of Dupes”: Coup by Cardinal Richelieu puts Louis XIII & France in his power | | | 1673 | Battle of Choczim: Poles defeat the Turks | | | 1778 | Cherry Valley Massacre: Pro-British Iroquois slay 40 Americans | | | 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 | Navy Nurse Lenah S. Higbee awarded the Navy Cross for service in the influenza pandemic | | | 1920 | The “Unknown Warrior” is interred in Westminster Abbey & the “Soldat Inconnu” beneath the Arc de Triomphe | | | 1921 | The Unknown Soldier is laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery | | | 1923 | Eternal flame lit at the Tomb of the “Soldat Inconnu” at the Arc de Triomphe | | | 1940 | Noctunral British air attack inflicts grave damage on the Italian fleet at Taranto | | | 1940 | Raider Atlantis captures the liner Automedon, with Singapore defense plans, which Hitler sends to Japan | | | 1940 | Thousands of French students silently lay wreaths at the Tomb of the “Soldat Inconnu” to protest the German occupation | | | 1942 | German troops 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 Chang'an, the T’ang Chinese capital | | | 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 | | | 1899 | Anti-Jewish rioting in Tunis | | | 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 | | | 1954 | The Ellis Is Immigration Station closes, after welcoming some 12,000,000 new Americans | | | 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 | 36 | 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 slaughter 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 | Publication of Oliver Wendell Holmes’ poem "Old Ironsides" | | | 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, dies 2000. | | | 1982 | Vietnam War Memorial dedicated | | | 1995 | Islamist terrorists bomb the US Office of Program Management for Saudi Arabian National Guard Modernization in Riyadh, 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 visit by a sitting president 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 | | | 1938 | Pres. Roosevelt initiates a major expansion of the Army, including the Air Corps | | | 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 expedition reaches the Pacific Ocean | | | 1855 | Inkerman, Sebastopol: large store of ammuniton explodes with great loss of life among British & French troops | | | 1864 | Sherman burns what the Confederates have left of Atlanta | | | 1884 | Congress of Berlin carves up Africa among European powers | | | 1889 | Emperor Dom Pedro II is deposed as the Republic of Brazil is proclaimed | | | 1899 | Winston Churchill is captured by the Boers | | | 1914 | Benito Mussolini founds "Il popolo d'Italia", a pro-war newspaper | | | 1920 | League of Nations establishes the Free City of Danzig | | | 1938 | Farewell Parade of International Brigades in Barcelona | | | 1940 | Uncle Sam’s first 75,000 drafted nephews report for duty | | | 1942 | Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, Day 3: noctural surface action by BB Washington secures command of the seas | | | 1943 | US bombers from China attack harbor installations in Hong Kong. | | | 1957 | US sentences Soviet spy Rudolf Ivanovich Abel to 30 years | | | 1967 | Michael Adams in X-15 reaches 80 km | | | 1969 | Washington: 250,000 demonstrate against the Vietnam War | | | 1983 | Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus proclaimed | | 16 | 1532 | Pizarro seizes the Inca Atahualpa after victory at Cajamarca | | | 1621 | Catholics adopt Jan 1 as New Year's, most Protestants don't, confusing chronology | | | 1632 | Battle of Lutzen: Gustavus Adolfus's Swedes defeat Wallenstein's Imperials | | | 1776 | At St. Eustatius, a Dutch fort salutes the US Grand Union flag, worn by USS Andrew Doria | | | 1776 | British capture Fort Washington, Manhattan, with c. 2000 prisoners | | | 1778 | John Paul Jones writes, "I wish to go in harm's way." | | | 1793 | Battle of Wattignies, Day 2: French defeat the Austrians | | | 1796 | Battle of Arcola, Day 2: Bonaparte's French v. Austrians | | | 1805 | Battle of Hollabrunn: French defeat the Russians | | | 1856 | USN helps RN reduce the Barrier Forts at Canton, China (to Nov 20) | | | 1863 | Battle of Campbell's Station, TN | | | 1894 | Kurdistan: Turks massacre 6,000 Armenians | | | 1914 | Pope Benedict XV calls for an end to WW I, is lambasted by all sides | | | 1918 | Hungary secedes from the Hapsburg Empire | | | 1920 | Anti-Semitic rioting in Prague culminates in the sacking of the Jewish Rathhuas and the desecration of Torahs | | | 1933 | US and USSR establish diplomatic relations | | | 1939 | German U-boat torpedoes tanker Sliedrecht near Ireland | | | 1941 | US intelligence loses track of Japanese aircraft carriers | | | 1943 | Truk: U.S. SS Corvina sunk by Japanese submarine I-179 | | | 1947 | Brussels: 1,500 protest mild sentences given Nazi war criminals | | | 1950 | King Faruk demands departure of all British troops from Egypt | | | 1982 | Maiden voyage of the Space Shuttle Columbia | | | 1989 | Salvadorian troops kill 6 Jesuit priests | | 17 | 89 | Social War: Gn Pompey Strabo captures Asculum from the Italiots | | | 375 | Gratian suceeds his father Valentian I as Roman Emperor (375-383) | | | 1278 | England: 680 Jews arrested for "counterfeiting", 293 hanged | | | 1494 | Charles VIII of France occupies Florence | | | 1558 | Elizabeth I ascends English throne upon death of "Bloody" Mary | | | 1747 | Anti-impressment riot in Boston | | | 1796 | Battle of Arcola, Day 3: Bonaparte defeats the Austrians | | | 1812 | Battle of Krasnoe: French defeat the Russians | | | 1861 | Skirmish at Cyprus Bridge, Ky | | | 1863 | James Longstreet besieges Knoxville, TN (gives up Dec 4) | | | 1869 | Suez Canal opens | | | 1878 | Anarchist Giovanni Passannante stabs King Umberto I of Italy, who fights back with his saber, wounding his attacker | | | 1885 | Battle of the Slivnitza begins: the Bulgarians defeat the Serbs by Nov 19 | | | 1913 | Panama Canal opens | | | 1917 | First US ASW Victory: DDs Fanning and Nicholson sink U-58, in the Irish Sea | | | 1917 | Lenin announces "temporary" removal of freedom of the press | | | 1938 | Italy passes anti-Semitic laws | | | 1988 | Pakistan's Benazir Bhutto becomes PM - first woman to lead a modern Muslim state | | | 1997 | Islamist radicals kill 62 tourists at the Temple of Hatshepsut in Egypt | | 18 | 1495 | French-held Gaeta (besieged on Sep 8) falls to Ferrantino II of Naples | | | 1523 | Giulio de’Medici elected Pope as Clement VII (1523-1534) | | | 1755 | The Great Cape Ann Earthquake, New England | | | 1803 | Battle of Vertieres: Haitians defeat the French | | | 1861 | Skirmish at Palmyra, Mo | | | 1890 | Second Class Battleship/Armored Cruiser Maine is launched | | | 1903 | Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty gives US exclusive canal rights in Panama | | | 1905 | Prince Carl of Denmark becomes King Haakon VII of Norway (1905-1957) | | | 1912 | Albania declares independence from Turkey | | | 1914 | Russian Black Sea Fleet defeats a Turko-German squadron off Cape Sarych | | | 1936 | Germany & Italy recognized Franco government in Spain | | | 1941 | British troops open attack on Tobruk | | | 1941 | Last Italian forces in Ethiopia surrender to the British | | | 1942 | Madison Sullivan(23), drowned off Guadalcanal [posisbly the 19th] | | | 1943 | Philippines: Japanese DE Sanae is sunk by SS Bluefish | | | 1944 | British CVs raid oil facilities, bases, and ports in Sumatra | | | 1961 | JFK sends 18,000 military advisors to South Vietnam | | | 1968 | Military coup in Mali | | 19 | 0 | Artillery Day in Russia | | | 461 | Consecration of Pope St. Hilary I (461-468) | | | 1492 | Columbus lands in Puerto Rico | | | 1521 | Prospero Colonna captures Milan from the French by a coup de main | | | 1809 | Battle of Ocaña: The French defeat the Spanish | | | 1861 | Skirmish at Wirt Court House, Va | | | 1863 | Lincoln makes a little speech at Gettysburg | | | 1940 | Belgian King Leopold III visits Adolf Hitler | | | 1942 | Operation Saturn: Red Army counteroffensive at Stalingrad begins | | | 1944 | New Guinea: U.S. troops land on Asia Island | | | 1950 | Eisenhower becomes supreme commander of NATO | | | 1952 | North American F-86 Sabre sets world aircraft speed record, 1124 kph | | | 1969 | Apollo 12, Charles Conrad & Alan Bean make the second lunar landing | | | 1999 | USCG Capt Earl R. Fox, Public Health Service, retires; last WW II veteran on active service | | 20 | 63 | St. Paul is shipwrecked at Malta [By some calculations] | | | 284 | Diocletian becomes Roman Emperor (284-305), d. 313 | | | 869 | Battle of Thetford/Hoxne: Danes defeat King Edmund of East Anglia | | | 1256 | The Mongols under Hulugu Khan capture Maymum-Dis, cave fortress of the Assassins | | | 1272 | Edward I proclaimed King of England | | | 1347 | Battle of the Porta San Lorenzo: Cola di Rienzo’s Roman Republic defeats a coup by the Roman barons | | | 1426 | Brescia surrenders to the Venetians under Carmagnola | | | 1571 | Battle of Crabstane: Clan Gordon defeats Clan Forbes | | | 1617 | Indecisive Spanish-Venetian naval clash off Puglia | | | 1780 | Britain declares war on Holland, which is supporting the rebellious Americans | | | 1805 | Premiere of Beethoven's opera "Fidelio" in Vienna, with Napoleon sitting in the Hapsburg imperial box | | | 1829 | The Jews are expelled from Nikolayev & Sevastopol, Russia | | | 1856 | USN & RN complete reduction of Barrier Forts, Canton (begun Nov 16) | | | 1862 | Confederate Army of Tennessee formed under Gen Braxton Bragg | | | 1866 | First national convention of the Grand Army of the Republic | | | 1910 | Francisco Madero initates a Revolution in Mexico | | | 1917 | The first tank offensive: Cambrai - British tanks shatter the German lines on the Western Front. | | | 1920 | Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Woodrow Wilson | | | 1942 | British Eighth Army recaptures Banghazi, Lybia | | | 1943 | Operation Galvanic: the 2nd Mar Div lands on Betio, Tarawa, while 27th Inf Div lands on Makin | | | 1945 | General of the Army George C. Mashall steps down, after 2272 days as Chief-of-Staff | | | 1945 | Nuremberg: 24 Nazi leaders go on trial | | | 1953 | Scott Crossfield breaks Mach 2 in a Douglas Skyrocket | | | 1956 | USS Hartford, Farragut's Civil War flagship, sinks at her dockside, Norfolk, Va, the Navy being too cheap to preserve her | | | 1962 | US lifts naval quarantine of Cuba | | 21 | 235 | Accession of Pope St. Anterus (21 Nov 235-3 Jan 236) | | | 1338 | Robin Hood is enrolled as an archer in the Isle of Wight garrison. | | | 1521 | Battle of Bicocca: Prospero Colonna's Italo-Spanish army crushes the French & Swiss | | | 1818 | Tsar Alexander I proposes a Jewish state in Palestine | | | 1914 | Battle of the Kolubara begins: Serbs defeat the second Austrian invasion by Dec 15th, routing two armies | | | 1918 | German ammunition trains explode in Hamont, Belgium, 1,750 die | | | 1918 | The German High Seas Fleet is interned at Scapa Flo, Scotland | | | 1920 | Mussolini's Blackshirts kill 11 political opponents in Bologna | | | 1942 | ALCAN Highway official opened | | | 1943 | Operation Galvanic: Marines in heavy fighting on Tarawa, National Guardsmen advance on Makin, while Marines land on Abemama, 75 mi SE of Tarawa. | | | 1981 | Amsterdam: 400,000 demonstrate for Peace through Disarmament | | 22 | 498 | Election of Pope St Symmachus (498-514) | | | 845 | Battle of Ballon: Duke Nomenoe of Brittany defeats the French | | | 1221 | Pope Honorius III crowns Frederik II Hohenstaufen Holy Roman Emperor | | | 1497 | Vasco da Gama (28)leaves Lisbon with four ships, bound for India | | | 1629 | Imperial troops capture Goito from Venice | | | 1798 | The Neapolitan Army invades the French puppet "Roman Republic" | | | 1844 | The Royal Navy adopts "port" in lieu of "larboard"; the USN will wait 50 years to make the same change | | | 1906 | Enlisted men of USS Louisiana (BB-19) host "Comrade and Shipmate” Theodore Roosevelt | | | 1914 | Ypres burns under German bombardment | | | 1940 | First meeting between Adolf Hitler and Romanian Dictator Ion Antonescu | | | 1943 | FDR, Churchill, & Chiang meet to discuss ways to defeat Japan | | | 1943 | Operation Galvanic: on Makin, 27th Div advances slowly, while on Tarawa, the Marines defeat a nocturnal Japanese "Banzai" charge | | | 1990 | Pres. George H. W. Bush visits US troops in Saudi Arabia | | 23 | 625 | Nabopolassar becomes King of Babylon (625-605 BC) | | | 1248 | King Ferdinand III of Castilla-Leon liberates Seville from the Moors | | | 1459 | Battle of Blore Heath: The Yorkists defeat the Lancastrians | | | 1700 | Giovanni Grancesco Albani elected Pope as Clement XI (1700-1721) | | | 1783 | Congenial conversation between Benjamin Franklin and Giacomo Casanova in Paris | | | 1808 | Battle of Tuleda: French defeat the Spanish | | | 1832 | Belgian War for Independence: French capture Antwerp from the Dutch | | | 1861 | Combat at Ft Pickens, Fla | | | 1863 | Battle of Chattanooga & Orchard Knob, TN begins | | | 1915 | Battle of Ctesiphon: Turks defeat the British 6th Indian Div, after a two day fight | | | 1939 | Nazis compel Polish Jews to wear a yellow star | | | 1942 | Formation of the Coast Guard Women's Auxiliary (SPARS) is authorized | | | 1942 | Japanese bomb Port Darwin, Australia | | | 1942 | SS Ben Lomond is torpedoed in the S Atlantic; Poon Lim (1917-1991) begins 133 days adrift | | | 1943 | Operation Galvanic: US forces secure Tarawa & Makin | | | 1944 | Gen Patch’s Seventh Army captures Strassbourg | | | 1945 | Meat & butter rationing ends in US | | | 1946 | French Navy shells Haiphong, Vietnam, 6,000 die | | | 1983 | USSR leaves disarmament talks | | | 1985 | Egyptian commandos storm hijacked EgyptAir jet in Malta, 58 die | | 24 | 496 | Election of Pope Anastasius II (496-498) | | | 642 | Consecration of Pope Theodore I (642-649) | | | 1542 | Battle of Solway Moss: Sir Oliver Sinclair & Lord Wharton defeat King James V of Scotland | | | 1615 | King Louis XIII of France (14) marries Ann of Austria (14) | | | 1861 | Skirmish at Lancaster, Mo | | | 1863 | Battles of Chattanooga, Columbia, & Lookout Mt begin in Tennessee | | | 1870 | Agustin Morales ousts Mariano Melgarejo as dictator of Bolivia | | | 1871 | National Rifle Association organized in New York City | | | 1874 | Joseph F Glidden receives a patent for barbed wire | | | 1914 | Benito Mussolini leaves Italy's Socialist Party | | | 1918 | Bela Khun forms Hungarian Communist Party | | | 1922 | Italian parliament gives Mussolini dictatorial powers "for one year" | | | 1936 | Polliwog-in-Chief FDR becomes a Shellback, USS Indianapolis, 00º 00' N, 37º 00' W | | | 1937 | Chinese announce sinking of the Japanese battleship Nagato by air attack | | | 1941 | CNO warns fleet "surprise aggressive movement" by Japan imminent | | | 1943 | Operation Galvanic: CVE Lipscombe Bay sunk by submarine off Makin, hundreds die | | | 1944 | First B-29 raid from Saipan; 111 bombers hit Tokyo. | | | 1954 | France sends 20,000 soldiers to Algeria | | | 1965 | Gen. Joseph Mobutu seizes power in the Congo | | | 1977 | The tomb of Philip II of Macedon is discovered near Vergine, Macedonia | | | 1991 | US 75th manned space mission, Atlantis 10 | | 25 | 1177 | Battle of Montgisard: King Baldwin IV of Jerusalem & 200 knights defeat Saladin | | | 1185 | Uberto Crivelli is elected Pope as Urban III (1185-1187) | | | 1277 | Giovanni Gaetani Orsini is elected Pope as Nicholas III (1277-1280), ending a six month vacany | | | 1357 | Charles IV issues letter of protection to the Jews of Strasbourg | | | 1405 | Padua surrenders to the Venetians after a long siege | | | 1643 | Battle of Tuttlingen: Imperialists defeat the French | | | 1758 | The British capture Fort Duquesne from the French | | | 1760 | King George III ascends the throne | | | 1775 | Congress begins issuing Letters of Marque and Reprisal | | | 1783 | Evacuation Day: the British leave New York, their last base in the US, and Governor George Clinton of New York honors George Washington with a banquet at Fraunces’ Tavern, where thirteen toasts were offered, beginning with “The United States of America” | | | 1790 | The Veteran Corps of Artillery of the State of New York is organized at the City Arms Tavern, Broadway & Thames St | | | 1809 | Perleberg, Ger: diplomat Benjamin Bathurst vanishes, most likely snatched by Napoleon’s agents, but fueling numerous woo-woo theories | | | 1811 | Napoleon imprisons the Roman Marchese Giovanni Patrizi for refusing to send his sons, aged 12 and 9, to a military academy | | | 1863 | Battle of Missionary Ridge, Tennessee | | | 1864 | Confederate plot to burn NYC fails | | | 1865 | Guano War: Chilean Navy captures the Spanish sloop Covadonga | | | 1867 | Alfred Nobel invents dynamite | | | 1876 | Battle of Crazy Woman Fork/Dull Knife: the Army disperses a Sioux-Cheyenne encampment | | | 1922 | Crown Prince Hirohito, 22, appointed Prince-Regent of Japan | | | 1936 | Germany & Japan sign anti-Comintern pact | | | 1943 | Battle of Cape St. George: 5 U.S. DDs sink 3 Japanese DDs | | | 1944 | Kamikaze damage four US carriers off the Philippines | | | 1961 | USS Enterprise is commissioned, the first nuclear powered carrier | | | 1983 | Syria & Saudi Arabia announce cease-fire in PLO civil war in Lebanon | | | 2348 | The Flood begins [Alt] | | 26 | 579 | Consecration of Pope Pelagius II (579-590) | | | 624 | “Battle of the Bridge”: The Persians annihilate a Moslem Arab army on the Euphrates. | | | 1648 | Peace of Westphalia | | | 1703 | Royal Navy loses 15 warships in massive storm off Bristol, England | | | 1741 | French General Maurice de Saxe captures Prague from the Hapsburgs | | | 1835 | The Grass Fight: Texians defeat Mexicans outside San Antonio | | | 1861 | Skirmish at Little Blue, Mo | | | 1862 | Lincoln meets ". . . the little lady who started this big war," Harriet Beecher Stowe | | | 1863 | Geo. Meade initiaties the abortive Mine Run Campaign, VA (ends Dec 2) | | | 1914 | Battleship HMS Bulwark explodes at Sheerness, 788 die | | | 1922 | First US carrier landing, Langley. | | | 1940 | Nazis force 500,000 Warsaw Jews to live in walled ghetto | | | 1941 | Japanese First Air Fleet sorties from Tankan Bay, bound for Pearl Harbor | | | 1942 | "Casablanca" premiers at the Hollywood Theatre, NYC | | | 1943 | SS Rohna sunk by guided missile in the Med; over 1000 die, mostly US troops | | | 1944 | Himmler orders destruction of Auschwitz & Birkenau crematoria | | | 1990 | Mikhail Gorbachev tells Iraq to get out of Kuwait | | | 2008 | Islamist Attack on Mumbai: Terrorists seize several buildings, before all the jihadis are killed or arrested c. 180 citizens and security personnel die | | 27 | 43 | Reni Conference: Octavian, Lepidus, & Antony form the Second Triumvirate, to plunder the state | | | 602 | Phocas proclaims himself Roman Emperor (602-610) | | | 1095 | Council of Clermont: Pope Urban II calls for a Crusade | | | 1237 | Battle of Cortenuova: Emperor Frederik II defeats the Lombard League | | | 1382 | Battle of Roosbecke: The French defeat the Flemings | | | 1499 | Cesare Borgia captures Imola, save for the citadel, which he besieges | | | 1676 | Great Fire of Boston, 46 houses burn | | | 1789 | President George Washington proclaims the last Thursday in November a day of prayer and thanksgiving | | | 1798 | Neapolitan Army occupies Rome, as the French fall back | | | 1820 | Palermo: Royalist troops crush a Nationalist uprising | | | 1838 | The Pastry War: French troops occupy Vera Cruz to collect alleged damages | | | 1863 | Battle of Payne's Farm, VA | | | 1868 | Battle of the Washita: Custer defeats the Cheyenne | | | 1895 | Alfred Nobel establishes his prizes | | | 1901 | Army War College established in Washington | | | 1919 | Peace of Neuilly-sur-Seine: Allies & Bulgaria | | | 1926 | Army & Navy play to a 21 tie before 110,000 fans | | | 1941 | HMAS Parramatta is sunk off Tobruk by U-559 | | | 1941 | Joint Army-Navy signal to Hawaii ends with, "This dispatch is to be considered a war warning." | | | 1942 | French Fleet scuttled at Toulon to prevent Nazis capturing the ships | | | 1943 | Teheran Conference: Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin talk strategy | | | 1944 | B-29s from India hit Bangkok. | | | 1944 | B-29s from the Marianas hit Tokyo | | | 1945 | George C Marshall named special US envoy to China | | | 1951 | First successful surface-to-air missile test, White Sands | | | 1958 | USSR abrogates Allied war-time agreements on control of Germany | | | 1965 | c. 20,000 anti-war demonstraters gather in Washington | | | 1970 | Attempted assassination of Pope Paul VI, in Manila | | | 1989 | Narco-terrorists bomb Colombian airliner, 107 die | | 28 | 1340 | Battle of Salado: the last important Moorish victory in Spain | | | 1587 | Battle of Auneau: French Catholics defeat the Huguenots | | | 1627 | Naval Battle of Danzig/Oliwa: Polish fleet defeats the Swedes | | | 1745 | French troops attack Indians at Saratoga, NY | | | 1795 | US pays $800,000 & a frigate for “protection” from Algerian & Tunisian pirates | | | 1862 | Battle of Holly Spring, Ms | | | 1864 | Rosser's Raid: Battle of New Creek/Ft Kelly, WVa | | | 1870 | Battle of Beaune-la-Rolande: Prussians defeat French volunteers | | | 1904 | Germany defeats Hottentots at Warmbadm, Southwest Africa | | | 1916 | First German air raid on London | | | 1934 | Churchill tells Premier Baldwin not to underestimate German air power | | | 1939 | USSR revokes the Soviet-Finnish nonagression pact | | | 1941 | CNO signals the fleet "Hostile action is possible at any moment . . . ," prompting Halsey to issue Battle Order No. 1, ”Enterprise is now operating under war conditions . . . .” | | | 1941 | Mohammad Amin al-Husayni, Grand Mufti of Jerusalem meets Hitler, urges extension of the “Final Solution” to the Holy Land | | | 1944 | Allied troops clear the Schelde, permitting ships to reach Antwerp | | | 1951 | Military coup under Col Adib el-Shishakli in Syria | | | 1966 | Coup in Burundi | | | 1977 | Philip of Macedon’s tomb is discovered, near Pella | | 29 | 1382 | French defeat Flemings in the Battle of Westrozebeke | | | 1760 | Rogers' Rangers capture Detroit from the French | | | 1775 | US schooner Lee takes Br Nancy, loaded with munitions. | | | 1812 | Remnants of Napoleon's Grand Army cross the Berezina River | | | 1842 | The Somers Mutiny | | | 1861 | Skirmish at Sedalia/Black Walnut Creek | | | 1863 | Battle of Ft Sanders/Ft Loudon, Tn | | | 1864 | Battle of Spring Hill, Tn | | | 1864 | Sand Creek Massacre: Colorado militiamen kill c. 150 Cheyenne | | | 1887 | US receives basing rights at Pearl Harbor | | | 1890 | The first Army-Navy game, West Point: Navy 24, Army 0 | | | 1917 | The Women's Royal Naval Service (WRENS) is formed | | | 1932 | France and the USSR sign a non-aggression pact | | | 1939 | USSR severs diplomatic relations with Finland | | | 1941 | Hawaii: Army Intel states, "Our forces should be placed on the alert and stay there, due to the imminent possibility of an attack." | | | 1941 | Navy beats Army, 14-6. | | | 1942 | Coffee rationing begins in the US | | | 1944 | Archerfish sinks CV Shinano, c. 70,000 tons; largest submarine kill ever | | | 1947 | UN votes to partition Palestine between Jews and Arabs | | | 1949 | Nationalist Chinese retreat to Taiwan | | | 1951 | The first underground atomic explosion, Frenchman's Flat, Nevada | | | 1951 | Winston Churchill re-elected British premier | | | 1952 | President-elect Eisenhower visits Korea to assess the war | | | 1996 | U.N. war crimes tribunal sentences Bosnian Serb Drazen Erdemovic to 10 years for the massacre of 1,200 Muslims | | 30 | 1335 | Battle of Culblean: Sir Andrew Moray beats David of Strathbogie | | | 1406 | Angelo Corrario elected Pope as Gregory XII (1406-1417) | | | 1700 | King Charles XII of Sweden defeats Russia at the Narva | | | 1803 | Spain cedes Louisiana to France, in return for Tuscany | | | 1808 | Battle of Somosierra: Napoleon's French defeat the Spanish | | | 1838 | The Pastry War: Mexico declares war on France, which occupied Vera Cruz on the 27th | | | 1840 | Napoleon is entombed in the Invalides | | | 1864 | Battle of Franklin, Tennessee | | | 1864 | Battle of Honey Hill, SC | | | 1895 | Battle of Iguara: Cuban Rebels are defeated by Spanish forces, with whom Winston Chruchill is serving, in his first battle [See Births] | | | 1938 | Fascist coup in Romania fails | | | 1939 | USSR invades Finland | | | 1942 | Battle of Tassafaronga: Japanese DDs best U.S. cruisers and DDs | | | 1942 | German raider Thor accidentally burns at Yokohama | | | 1943 | Teheran Conference: FDR, Churchill, & Stalin agree that Operation Overlord will be launced in May of 1944 | | | 1947 | Arabs attack Jewish settlements (See Nov 29th) | | | 1949 | Chinese Communists capture Chungking |
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