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1 1798 Richard Delafield, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1873
  1824 Isaac Hardin Duval, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1902
  1829 James Conner, Brig Gen, C.S.A., d. 1883
  1875 Edgar Rice Burroughs, war correspondent, author (“Tarzan”), d. 1950
  1910 John Edward "Jack" Hawkins, Royal Welch Fusiliers, actor ("The Cruel Sea"), d. 1973
  1922 Melvin R Laird, Secretary of Defense (1969-73)
2 1837 James H. Wilson, Maj Gen, U.S., d. 1925
  1838 Lydia Kamekeha Liliuokalani, last sovereign and only Queen Regnant of Hawaii (1891-93), d. 1917
  1878 Werner von Blomberg, German field marshal and defense minister, d. 1946
  1948 Christa McAuliffe, teacher-astronaut, d. 1986, Challenger
3 1781 Eugène de Beauharnais, Josephine’s son, Vice-Roy of Italy, d. 1824
  1825 Armistead Lindsay Long, Brig Gen, C.S.A., d. 1891
  1825 William Wallace Burns, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1892
  1831 States Rights Gist, Brig Gen, C.S.A., d. 1864
  1835 William Gaston Lewis, Brig Gen, C.S.A., d. 1901
  1875 Ferdinand Porsche, German tank & car designer, d. 1951
  1913 Alan Ladd, IV-F actor (“All the Young Men”), d. 1964
  1923 Mort Walker, veteran, cartoonist (“Beetle Bailey”)
  1949 Petros Papapetrou -- Patriarch Petros VIII of Alexandria (1997-2004), k. 2004, helicopter accident
4 522 Pindar, Greek odist, d. 423 BC
  1241 Alexander III, King of Scotland (1249-1286).
  1249 Count Amadeo V of Savoy (1285-1323), d. 1323
  1383 Count Amadeo VIII of Savoy (1416-1434)- antipope Felix V (1439-1449), d 1451
  1809 Count Federico Luigi Menabrea, soldier, engineer, inventor, premier of Italy (1867–1869), d 1896
  1810 Donald McKay, clipper ship designer, d. 1880
  1902 Mary Renault, novelist ("The King Must Die"), d. 1983
5 1187 King Louis VIII of France (1223-26)
  1319 Pedro "the Ceremonious," King Pedro IV of Aragon, I of Sardinia and Corsica, I of Valencia (1336-1387), and I of Majorca (1346–1387)
  1638 King Louis XIV of France (1643-1715), who "loved war too much"
  1771 Karl Ludwig Johann Josef Lorenz, Archduke of Austria, d. 1847, Napoleon's greatest enemy
  1815 Tyree Harris Bell, Brig Gen, C.S.A., d. 1902
  1827 Geoffredo Mameli, Italian nationalist, soldier-composer (“Fratelli d'Italia”), d/w 1849
  1847 Jesse James, Confederate raider, outlaw, killed 1882
  1902 Darryl F Zanuck, underage Doughboy, film magnate ("The Longest Day"), d. 1979
  1905 Arthur Koestler, novelist ("Darkness at Noon"), suicide 1983
  1929 Andrian G Nikolayev, USSR, cosmonaut
6 1757 Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, The Marquis de La Fayette, international revolutionary hero, honorary American, d. 1834
  1797 William "Extra Billy" Smith, Maj Gen, C.S.A.
  1811 James Melville Gilliss, founded the Naval Observatory
  1815 John Richardson Liddell, Brig Gen, C.S.A., d. 1887
  1819 William Starke Rosecrans, Maj Gen, U.S., who attained "the edge of glory", d. 1898
  1827 John Morrison Oliver, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1872
  1860 Jane Addams, 1931 Peace Nobelist, d. 1935
  1923 King Peter II Karadjordjevic of Yugoslavia (1934-45), d. 1970
  1944 Swoosie Kurtz, actress named after her father's B-17
  1946 Bryan D O'Connor, USMC, astronaut
7 15 Aulus Vitellius, gourmand, Roman Emperor, 1 Jan/Apr 16-Dec 20, 69
  1388 Giovanni Maria Visconti I, Duke of Milan, assassinated 1412
  1471 King Frederik I of Denmark and Norway (1523-33)
  1533 "Gloriana" - Queen Elizabeth of England (1558-1603)
  1811 William Hamsley Emory, Maj Gen, U.S., d. 1887
  1815 Howell Cobb II, Maj Gen, U.S., d. 1868
  1913 Anthony Quayle, actor (“Lawrence of Arabia”), d. 1989
  1914 James Van Allen, co-inventor of the proximity fuze, with a belt named after him, d. 2006
  1923 Peter Lawford, veteran, actor (“The Longest Day”), d. 1984
  1930 King Baudouin I of Belgium (1951-1991)
8 15 Mary, the mother of Jesus [Trad-more probably c. 20 BC]
  1157 King Richard I “Lionheart" of England (1189-99)
  1207 King Sancho II of Portugal (1223-1247), deposed, d. 1248
  1474 Ludovico Ariosto, epic poet ("Orlando Furioso"), d. 1533
  1499 Diane de Poitiers, mistress of Henri II, d. 1566
  1592 Peter Stuyvesant, general, Dutch Director-General of the colony of New Netherland (1647-1664), d. 1672
  1621 Louis de Bourbon, Prince of Condé, le Grand Condé, Victor of Rocroi, d. 1686
  1765 Bartolomeo Alberto Cappellari - Pope Gregory XVI (1730-1746)
  1779 Ottoman Sultan Mustafa IV (1807-08), deposed and murdered
  1821 Henry Baxter, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1873
  1828 Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, Maj Gen, U.S.
  1829 George Crook, Maj Gen, U.S., noted Indian fighter, d. 1890
  1829 Seth Maxwell Barton, Brig Gen, C.S.A., d. 1900
  1886 Siegfried Sassoon, war poet, author (Memoirs of an Infantry Officer), d. 1967
9 214 Aurelian, Roman Emperor (270-275)
  384 Flavius Honorius, Roman Emperor (395-423)
  1585 Armand Jean du Plessis de Richelieu, Cardinal-Duc de Richelieu, d. 1642
  1754 William Bligh, of the Bounty, d. 1817
  1809 William Radford, naval officer, U.S., d. 1890
  1817 Speed Smith Fry, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1892
  1819 Martin Luther Smith, Maj Gen, C.S.A., d. 1866
  1826 Thomas John Lucas, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1908
  1828 Leo Tolstoy, veteran, novelist ("War and Peace"), d. 1910
  1834 William MacRae, Brig Gen, C.S.A., d. 1882
  1925 Cliff Robertson, actor ("PT-109"), warbird collector
  1956 Anatoli Pavlovich Artsebarsky, cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-12)
10 1487 Gianmaria Ciocchi del Monte - Pope Julius III (1550-1555)
  1731 Carter Braxton, Signer of the Declaration of Independence, d. 1797
  1771 Mungo Park, celebrated Scottish explorer (“Travels to the Interior Parts of West Africa”), drowned 1806
  1810 Albert Gallatin Blanchard, Brig Gen, C.S.A.
  1815 Eleazer Arthur Paine, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1882
  1832 Randall Lee Gibson, Brig Gen, C.S.A. d. 1892
  1836 Joseph Wheeler II, Maj Gen, C.S.A. & U.S., mediocre in either service, d. 1906
  1933 Yevgeny V Khrunov, USSR, cosmonaut, d. 2000
  1945 Richard M Mullane, USAF, astronaut
11 1525 Duke Johan Georg of Brandenburg (1571-1591)
  1806 Joshua Blackwood Howell, Brig Gen, U.S. d. 1864
  1813 Conrad Feger Jackson, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1862
  1835 William Wirt Allen, Brig Gen, C.S.A., d. 1894
  1877 Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky, Chekist, mass murderer, d. 1935
  1935 Gherman Titov, 1st man to spend a day in space, Vostok 2, d. 2000
  1937 Robert L Crippen, USN, astronaut
12 1494 François I of Valois, King of France (1515-1547), esthete, blockhead, and liar
  1659 PrFerdinand Willem, Duke of Wurttemberg-Neuenstadt, , Dutch general (Steenkerque, 1692), d 1701.
  1806 Andrew Hull Foote, naval officer, U.S., d. 1863
  1818 Richard Jordan Gatling, who invented a clever device, d.1903
  1852 Hubert H Asquith, premier Great Britain (1908-16), d. 1928
  1888 Maurice Chevalier, entertaining Nazi collaborator, d. 1972
  1891 Pedro Albizu Campos, Puerto Rican nationalist, d. 1965
  1913 James "Jesse" Owens, who spoiled Hitler's 1936 Olympics, d. 1980
13 1806 Joseph Lewis Hogg, Brig Gen, C.S.A., d. 1862
  1813 John Sedgwick, Major Gen, U.S., KIA 1864
  1817 John McAuley Palmer, Maj Gen, U.S., d. 1900
  1836 John McCausland, Brig Gen, C.S.A., d. 1927
  1851 Walter Reed, U.S.A., confirmed mosquitoes caused yellow fever, d. 1902
  1860 General of the Armies John J. Pershing, d 1948
  1863 Arthur Henderson, pacifist, 1934 Nobel Peace Prize, d. 1935
  1887 Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., who earned every American decoration for ground combat, d. 1944
  1895 Capt. Bernard A. Warburton-Lee, RN, winner of the first VC of World War II, Narvik, 1940, postumously
  1941 Oscar Arias Sanchez, President of Costa Rica, Nobel Peace Prize (1987)
14 208 Marcus Opellius Antoninus Diadumenianus, co-Roman Emperor with Macrinus, his father (May-June 218)
  1819 Henry Jackson Hunt, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1889
  1835 Joseph Hayes, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1912
  1838 John Pelham, Major, C.S.A., "The Gallant Pelham," KIA 1863
  1864 Edgar Algernon Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood , 1937 Peace Nobelist, d. 1958
  1900 Andrei Andreyevich Vlasov, Soviet general, traitor, executed 1946
  1913 Jacobo Arbenz, President of Guatemala (1951-54) overthrown by the CIA, d. 1971
15 1789 James Fenimore Cooper, naval officer, author (“History of the Navy of the United States of America”), d. 1851
  1830 Porfirio Diaz, general-president of Mexico (1877-1911), d. 1915
  1857 William Howard Taft, SecWar, President (1909-1913), Chief Justice (1921-30), d. 1930
  1904 King Umberto II of Italy (May 9, 1946-June 12, 1946), d. 1983
  1914 Creighton Abrams, soldier, d. 1974
  1941 Miroslaw Hermaszewski, 1st Pole in space (Soyuz 30)
  1946 Oliver Stone, Vietnam veteran, director (“Platoon”)
16 1387 King Henry V of England (1413-22)
  1745 Mikhail I. Kutusov, Russian marshal who defeated Napoleon, d. 1813
  1823 Francis Parkman, historian (“France and England in North America”), d. 1893
  1832 George Washington Custis Lee, Maj Gen, C.S.A., d. 1913
  1837 King Pedro V of Portugal (1853-61)
17 64 Julia Flavia, daughter of Titus, later emperor, d. AD 91
  879 King Charles III “the Simple” of France (893-923)
  1271 King Wenceslas II of Bohemia & Poland (1278-1305)
  1550 Camillo Borghese - Pope Paul V (1506-1621)
  1730 Friederich Wilhelm Ludorf Gerhard Augustin von Steuben, d. 1794
  1800 Franklin Buchanan, naval officer, C.S.A, d. 1874
  1820 Earl Van Dorn, Maj Gen, C.S.A., shot by a jealous husband, 1863, probably to the benefit of the Confederate war effort
  1857 Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, pioneer rocketeer & space scientist, d. 1935
18 52 Marcus Ulpius Traianus - Roman Emperor Trajan (98-117)
  1733 George Read, Signer of the Declaration of Independence, d. 1798
  1805 Robert Cowdin, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1874
  1815 Henry Constantine Wayne, Brig Gen, C.S.A., d. 1883
  1818 Marcellus Augustus Stovall, Brig Gen, C.S.A., d. 1895
  1932 Nikolai N Rukavishnikov, cosmonaut, d. 2002
19 86 Antoninus Pius, Roman Emperor (138-161)
  866 Leo VI the Wise, Byzantine Emperor (886-912)
  1551 Henry III, Duke of Anjou, King of Poland and France (1573-89)
  1737 Charles Carroll of Carrollton, d. 1832, the last surviving Signer of the Declaration of Independence
  1800 William Wister McKean, naval officer, U.S. d. 1865
  1802 Louis Kossuth, President of Hungary (1848-1849), d. 1887
  1822 Joseph Rodman West, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1898
  1919 Marek Edelman, hero of the Warsaw Ghetto & Warsaw uprisings, cardiologist, Polish nationalist, d. 2009
20 357 Alexander III "the Great" of Macedonia, ambitious drunkard, d. 323 BC
  1809 Sterling "Old Pap" Price, Maj Gen, C.S.A., d. 1867
  1810 Alpheus Starkey Williams, Brig Gen, U.S., d.1878
  1820 George Washington Morgan, Brig Gen, U.S.
  1820 John Fulton Reynolds, Maj Gen, U.S., kia Gettysburg, 1863
  1833 Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, 1907Nobel Peace Prize, d.1918
  1853 Rama V Chulalongkorn, King of Siam (1868-1910)
  1859 Yuan Shikai, Chinese general, President (1912-1916), Emperor (Jan 1-Mar 22, 1916), Ptresident (Mar 22-Jun 6, 1916), d. June 6, 1916
  1872 Maurice Gamelin, French generalissimo who lost the big one in 1940, d. 1958
21 1372 Frederik I von Hohenzollern of Brandenburg (1417-40) [see Deaths]
  1415 Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor (1440-1493)
  1452 Girolamo Savonarola, Florentine monk, preacher, radical, BBQed 1498
  1817 Carter Littlepage Stevenson, Maj Gen, C.S.A., d. 1888
  1820 Williams Carter Wickham, Brig Gen, C.S.A. d. 1888
  1824 Joseph Andrew Jackson Lightburn, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1901
  1827 Michael Corcoran, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1863
  1832 Samuel Sprigg Carroll, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1893
  1840 Ottoman Sultan Murad V (May30- Aug 31, 1876), d. 1904
  1866 H. G. Wells, wargamer, foresighted author ("The Land Ironclads", "Litte Wars"), d. 1946
  1867 Henry Stimson, NYNG Sqn A, WW I veteran, SecWar (1911-1913, 1940-1945), SecState (1929-1933), d. 1950
  1909 Kwame Nkrumah, inept President/Dictator of Ghana (1958-1966), d. 1972
22 1606 Li Zicheng/Li Tzu-ch'eng, sometime bandit who toppled the Ming, k 1645
  1796 Cornelius Kinchiloe Stribling, naval officer, U.S., d. 1880
  1822 Eppa Hunton, Brig Gen, C.S.A., d. 1908
  1827 John Grubb Parke, Maj Gen, U.S. d. 1900
  1829 William Worth Belknap, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1890
  1833 Stephen Dill Lee, Lt Gen, C.S.A., d. 1908
  1882 Wilhelm Keitel, German field marshal, war criminal, executed 1946
  1895 Paul Muni, actor ("Juarez"), d. 1967
23 63 Gaius Octavius – Augustus: first & greatest Roman Emperor (27 BC-14 AD)
  480 Euripides, dramatist (“Iphigenia at Aulis”), d. c. 405 BC
  1713 King Ferdinand VI of Spain (1746-1759)
  1791 Karl Theodor Körner, Prussian war poet, kia 1813
  1816 Julius White, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1890
  1820 Thomas Kilby Smith, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1887
  1890 riedrich Wilhelm Ernst Paulus, German FM, who had his Waterloo at Stalingrad, d. 1957
  1897 Walter Pidgeon, actor ("Mrs. Miniver"), d. 1984
  1910 Elliot Roosevelt, Brig Gen, USAAF, d. 1990
24 1583 Albrecht von Wallenstein, military entrepreneur, assassinated, 1634
  1739 Prince Grigori Alexandrovich Potyomkin-Tavricheski, soldier, statesman, Catherine the Great's lover, d. 1791
  1755 John Marshall, soldier, Chief Justice (1801-1835), d. 1835
  1824 Truman Seymour, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1891
  1827 Henry Warner Slocum, Maj Gen, U.S., d. 1894
  1829 James St Clair Morton, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1864
  1833 Henry Alanson Barnum, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1892
  1884 Mustafa Ismet Inonu, Turkish general, President (1938–1950), d. 1973
25 1657 Imre Thököly, Hungarian patriot, d. 1705
  1744 King Frederik Willem II of Prussia (1786-97)
  1822 Baron Adolph Wilhelm August Friedrich von Steinwehr, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1877
  1823 Thomas John Wood, Maj Gen, U.S., d. 1906
  1877 Plutarco Elias Calles, Mexican revolutionary and president (1924-28), d. 1945
  1906 Dmitri Shostakovich, composer ("The Leningrad Suite"), d. 1975
26 1750 Cuthbert, Admiral Lord Collingwood, Nelson’s friend, d. 1810
  1759 Johann David Ludwig Graf Yorck von Wartenburg, Prussian field marshal and reformer, d. 1830
  1821 Alvin Peterson Hovey, Brig Gen, U.S., 1891
  1870 King Christian X of Denmark (1912-47)
  1897 Giovanni Battista Montini - Pope Paul VI (1963-1978)
27 1601 King Louis XIII of France (1610-43)
  1657 Sophia Alekseyevna, Regent of Russia (1682-89), d. 1704
  1722 Samuel Adams, Signer of the Declaration of Independence, d. 1803
  1783 Agustín Cosme Damián de Iturbide y Aramburu, Emperor Agustín I of Mexico (May 19, 1822-Mar 19, 1823), d. 1824
  1803 Samuel Francis DuPont, naval officer, U.S., d. 1865
  1809 Raphael Semmes, naval officer, C.S.N., d. 1877
  1824 William Nelson, Maj Gen, U.S., murdered 1862
  1830 William Babcock Hazen, Maj Gen, U.S., d. 1887
  1835 John Murray Corse, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1893
  1840 Alfred Thayer Mahan, who influenced history, d. 1914
  1840 Thomas Nast, militiaman, cartoonist, bigot, d. 1902
28 106 Pompey the Great (see Events)
  551 Confucius/Kung Fuzi/K'ung-fu-tzu, d. 479 BC
  1573 Michelangelo da Caravaggio, Renaissance master, murderer, d. 1610
  1833 James Deering Fessenden, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1897
  1840 Alexander Swift "Sandie" Pendleton, Confederate staff officer, d/w 1864
  1841 Georges Clemenceau, French premier (1906-09, 1917-20), d. 1929
  1852 Field Marshal Sir John French, First GOC BEF, d. 1925
  1889 King Carlos of Portugal (1889-1908), assassinated
  1905 Max Schmeling, Hitler’s heavyweight, Fallschirmjaeger, d. 2005
  1940 Alexander Sergeyevich Ivanchenkov, cosmonaut
29 1276 King Christopher II of Denmark
  1547 Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, marine, author ("Don Quixote"), d. 1616
  1583 Count Johan VIII de Jongere of Nassau-Siegen
  1755 Robert Clive, office clerk, empire builder, d. 1774
  1758 Horatio Nelson, kia, 1805
  1829 Bradley Tyler Johnson, Brig Gen, C.S.A., d. 1903
  1829 Giles Alexander Smith, Maj Gen, U.S., d. 1876
  1830 John Parker Hawkins, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1914
  1831 John McAlister Schofield, Maj Gen, U.S., SecWar, d. 1906
  1901 Enrico Fermi, who discovered a new world, d. 1954
  1907 Gene Autry, CBI airman, cowboy, d. 1998
  1916 Trevor Howard, Royal Signalman, actor ("Mutiny on Bounty"), d. 1988
  1943 Lech Walesa, President of Poland (1990-1995)
30 1627 Robinson Crusoe
  1805 Samuel Peter Heintzelman, Maj Gen, U.S., d. 1880
  1827 Kenner Garrard, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1879
  1917 Chung Hee Park, general, Pres of Korea (1961-79), assassinated
  1934 Elie Wiesel, Survivor, Peace Nobelist (1986)

Died
1 1067 Count Baldwin V of Flanders (1035-1067)
  1159 Pope Adrian IV - Nicholas Breakspear (1152-1159), c. 59, the only English pope
  1557 Jacques Cartier, 65, French explorer
  1680 Elector Johan Georg II of Saxon (1656-80), at 67
  1715 Louis XIV "The Sun King" of France (1643-1715), at 76
  1838 William Clark, of the Lewis & Clark Expedition, at 68
  1862 Maj Gen Phil Kearny, 47, "the bravest man in the Union Army," kia, Chantilly
  1862 Maj. Gen. Isaac I. Stevens, U.S.A., 44, kia, Chantilly
  1864 Emmeran Bliemel, CSA, only Catholic chaplain kia in the Civil War
  1961 William Z Foster, Stalinist puppet, chairman CPUSA, 1945-57, at 80
  1981 Albert Speer, 78, Nazi, architect, con artist
2 1022 High-King Máel Sechnaill II mac Domnaill "the Great" of Ireland (980-1002, 1014-1022), kia
  1328 Castruccio Castracani degli Antelminelli, condottiero, Lord of Lucca (1316-1327), c. 74
  1482 Pietro Maria II “il Magnifico” of San Secondo, at 79
  1547 Hernán Cortés de Monroy y Pizarro, c. 61, conquistador, lawyer
  1813 Jean Victor Moreau, 49, former French General, d/w Dresden, while in Russian service
  1953 Gen. Jonathan Wainwright, b. 1883
3 175 King Seleucus IV Philopator of Syria (187-175 BC)
  1189 Rabbi Jacob of Orleans, killed in anti-Jewish riot in London
  1625 King James VI of Scotland (1567-1625) and I of England (1603-25), 58
  1658 Oliver Cromwell, dictator of England (1653-58), mass murderer, at 59
  1929 Owen Thomas Edgar, last known Mexican War veteran, at 98
  1948 Edvard Benes, 64, President of Czechoslovakia (1935-1938, 1940-1948), at
  1969 Ho Chi Minh/Nguyen Sinh Cung, Vietnamese revolutionary, President (1945-1969)
  1991 Frank Capra, 94, veteran, film maker ("Why We Fight")
4 422 Pope St Boniface I (418-422)
  1012 John III Docibilus, Duke of Gaeta (1008-1012), c. 25
  1402 Gian Galeazzo Visconti, first Duke of Milan (1395-1402), c. 51
  1804 Richared Somers, naval officer, kia at Tripoli, c. 24
  1864 Brig. Gen. John Hunt Morgan, C.S.A, kia, 39
  1974 Creighton W Abrams, soldier, at 59
  1986 Henry “Hammerin’ Hank” Greenberg, ball player, OSS agent, at 75
  1989 Sir Ronald Syme, 86, historian (“The Roman Revolution”)
5 1235 Duke Henri I of Brabant and Lorraine (1190-1235), at c. 70
  1566 Ottoman Sultan Suleiman I “the Magnificent” (1520-66), 72
  1571 Matthew Stewart, 4th Earl of Lennox, Regent of Scotland (1570-1571), kia at Stirling
  1599 Marchesa Costanza de Santa Croce, stabbed to death at 60 by her son, Paolo, for refusing to make him heir to her estates
  1683 Jean-Baptiste Colbert, 64, French Minister of Finance (1665-1683)
  1803 Pierre Ambrose Choderlos de Laclos, general, author (“Les Liaisons Dangereus”), at 61
  1877 Crazy Horse, 32-35, cavalryman, killed "trying to escape"
  1912 Lt Gen Arthur MacArthur, Jr., American soldier, b. 1845
  1997 Mother Teresa, Peace Nobelist, at 87
6 972 Pope John XIII (965-972)
  1433 Pier Gentile I da Varano, Co-Lord of Camerino (1424-1433), beheaded at Recanati at c. 33
  1634 Capt Silvio Pallavicino, Patrician of Siena & Firenze, kia at Nordlingen
  1634 Carlo Orsini, Count of Muro Lucano, kia Nordlingen
  1701 James II, sometime naval officer, King of England and Scotland (1685-1688), in exile at 68
  1945 Vice-Adm. John S. McCain, Sr., 61, four days after attending the Japanese surrender
  1966 Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd, South African PM (1985-1966) stabbed by a deranged man
  2005 1st Sgt Mark Matthews, at 111, the last “Buffalo Soldier”
7 355 Roman emperor-wannabe Claudius Silvanus (Aug 11-Sep 7, 355), murdered in the Rhineland
  1134 King Alfonso I of Aragon (1104-34), c. 60
  1151 Count Geoffrey V of Anjou (1129-1151), the first Plantagenet, at 38
  1298 Andrea Dandolo, Venetian Admiral, kia at Curzola
  1548 Catherine Parr, c. 36, Mrs. Henry VIII No. 6 (1543–1547), of natural causes
  1603 Marco Caltizzone, Pretender to the throne of Portugal, executed by the Spanish
  1741 Adm Blas de Lezo, 52, defender of Cartagena de las Indias (March 13–May 20, 1741)
  1997 Mobutu Sese Seku, Dictator of Zaire (1965-1997), at 66
  2002 Uzi Gal, Israeli weapons designer, at 79
8 701 Pope Sergius I (687-701)
  780 Byzantine Emperor Leo IV (775-80), 30
  1397 Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester, 42, smothered at Calais by agents of his nephew, Richard II
  1613 Prince Carlo Gesualdo of Venosa, musician, murderer, at 47
  1881 Prince Frederik of the Netherlands, general and admiral, at 84
  1888 Annie Chapman, c. 47, Jack the Ripper’s second victim
  1933 King Faisal I ibn Hussein ibn Ali of Iraq (1921-1933), at 50
  1935 Louisiana Senator Huey P. Long, 42, shot by Dr. Carl Austin Weiss, Jr.
  1935 Dr. Carl Austin Weiss, Jr, 28, shot by Long's bodyguards.
  1951 Jurgen Stroop, 56, Nazi commander of the Warsaw Ghetto, hanged
  2003 Bertha Helene Amalie “Leni” Riefenstahl, Nazi film maker, at 101
9 490 Kalimachos/ Callimachus, Polemarch of the Athenians and 191 other Athenian & Plataean heroes, plus c. 6,400 Persians, kia at Marathon
  490 Phidippides, c. 40, having run c. 250 KM in 3-4 days; Athens to Sparta & back, then to Marathon, to fight, & back to Athens with the good news
  1087 King William I “the Conqueror” of England (1066-1087), Duke William II "the Bastard" of Normandy (1035-1067), c. 58
  1488 Francis II, last Duke of Brittany (1458-1488), 55
  1976 Mao Tse-Tung, poet, scholar, mass murderer, at 82
  2001 Ahmad Shah Massood, 48, "The Lion of Panjshir" - Afghan resistance leader, assassinated by al Qaeda
  2003 Edward Teller, "Father of the H-Bomb," at 95
10 954 King Louis IV d'Outremer of France (936-954), kia, c. 34
  1067 Lady Godiva, Countess of Mercia, c. 85.
  1148 Roberto "il Magnifico" Malatesta, 40, Lord of Rimini (1468-1482), condottiero, murderer, natural causes - unusual in his trade & family
  1382 King Louis I "the Great" of Hungary and Poland (1342-1382), b. 1326
  1419 John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy (1404-1419), assassinated by the Dauphin, at 48
  1419 Duke John the Fearless of Burgundy (1404-1419), at 48
  1482 Federico III de Montefeltro, 60, Lord (1444-1474) and Duke (1474-1482) of Urbino, Condottiero and Patron of the Arts
  1547 Pier Luigi Farnese, 43, son of Pope Paul III, Duke of Parma, Piacenza, & Castro, Captain General of the Holy Church, murdered by recalcitrant subjects
  1598 Francesco Cenci, Roman nobleman, c. 50, bludgeoned to death with a hammer by his children & second wife for raping his daughter (See Sep 11th)
  1827 Ugo Foscolo, 49, Italian nationalist poet
  1862 Carlos Antonio Lopez, 71, Dictator/President of Paraguay (1844-1862)
  1977 Hamida Djandoubi, c. 27, having the honor of being the last person guillotined in France
  1990 Samuel Kanyon Doe, 39, Dictator/President of Liberia (1980-90), butchered
11 1599 Giacomo Cenci, nobleman, delimbed and beheaded, and his sister Beatrice Cenci, 22, and their step mother Lucrezia Petroni, both beheaded, for murdering Francesco Cenci a year and a day earlier
  1971 Nikita Khrushchev, 77, War Commissar, Stalingrad, 1942-1943, First Secretary, CPUSSR (1954-1964) & Premier of the USSR (1958-1964), heart attack
  1973 Chilean President Salvador Allende (1966–1969), 65, in a coup, probably suicide, but possibly shot to prevent capture
  2001 Nearly 3000 Americans and others, murdered by Islamist terrorists in the U.S.
  2003 Swedish Foreign Minister Ylva Anna Maria Lindh,46, having been stabbed by Mijailo Mijailovich, apparently derranged, on the 10th
  2004 Patriarch Petros VIII of Alexandria (1997-2004), 55, and 16 others, helicopter accident at Mt. Athos
12 1015 Lamert the Bearded, First Count of Louvain (????-1015), 65, kia at Florennes, by Duke Godfrey II of Lower Lorraine
  1185 Andronicus I Comnenus, 67, Byzantine Emperor (1183-85), torn to pieces by a mob
  1213 King Pedro II of Aragon (1196-1213), kia at Muret, at c. 39
  1362 Pope Innocent VI - Étienne Aubert (1352-1362), c. 70-80
  1500 Duke Albrecht III of Saxony (1464-1500), at 57
  1642 Henri Coiffier de Ruzé(22), Marquis of Cinq-Mars, favourite of Louis XIII, and François De Thou (35), decapitated by Richelieu at Lyon for conspiracy
  1683 King Afonso VI of Portugal (1656-67), at 40
  1691 Elector Johan Georg III of Saxony (1680-91), at 44
  1977 Stephen Biko, murdered at 30 by the South African apartheid regime
  2006 Joachim Fest, historian ("Hitler"), b. 1926
13 81 Roman Emperor Titus (79-81), at 41
  1321 Dante Alighieri, cavalryman, poet ("The Divine Comedy"), c. 56
  1438 Dom Duarte, King of Portugal (1433-1438), at 46
  1598 King Philip II of Spain (1556-98), at 71
  1759 James Wolfe, 32, British general, KIA on the Plains of Abraham
  1803 John Barry, c. 58, first commodore of the U.S. Navy
  1918 Fanya Kaplan, 28, Socialist Revolutionary Party member, shot for trying to kill Lenin on August 30th
  1921 Ludwig-Alexander Battenberg/Mountbatten, British admiral, at 67
14 786 Abbasid Caliph Abu Abdullah Musa ibn Mahdi al-Hadi of Baghdad (785-786), possbly murdered, possibly by his mother
  1146 Imad ad-Din Atabeg Zengi, Atabeg of Mosul, Aleppo, Hama, & Edessa (1127–1146), murdered
  1523 Pope Adrian VI - Adrian Dedel (1522-1523), 64; last non-Italian pope until 1978
  1759 French Gen. Louis Montcalm, 47, m/w, the Plains of Abraham, Sept 13th
  1852 The Duke of Wellington, at 83
  1899 Henry H. Bliss, 69, of injuries from being struck by a cab the previous evening at West 74th Street & Central Park West - America's first auto-fatality
  1901 Pres Wm. McKinley, 58, of gunshot wounds suffered on the 6th
  1911 Piotr Stolypin, 49, Russian premier (1908-1911), assassinated by Mordka Bogrov, and agent of the secret police
  1982 Bashir Gemayel, president-elect of Lebanon, a bomb
15 668 Byzantine Emperor Constans II Pogonatus (641-668), assassinated at c. 37
  1054 King García Sánchez III of Navarre (1035-1054), c. 40, kia fighting his brother, Ferdinand I of Leon Castile
  1231 Duke Louis I Wittelsbach of Bavaria (1183-1231), Count Palatine of the Rhine (1214-1231), 57
  1482 Condottiero Giacomo da Roccabianca, kia at San Secondo, the Romagna
  1859 Isambard Kingdom Brunel, naval architect, engineer (SS Great Eastern), at 53
  1973 King Gustav VI Adolfus of Sweden (1950-1973), at 90
  1982 Sadegh Ghotbzadeh, c.46, former Iranian foreign minister (1978-1980), executed by the Islamists he served
16 655 Pope St. Martin I (649-653), in exile
  1087 Pope Victor III (May 24, 1086-Sep 16, 1087), c. 60
  1380 King Charles V “the Wise” of France (1364-80), 42
  1394 Robert of Geneva - Anti-Pope Clement VII (1378 - 1394), c. 63, known as "The Butcher of Cesena."
  1498 Tomas de Torquemada, c. 78, Grand Inquisitor of Spain (1483-1498)
  1824 King Louis XVIII of France (1814-24), 68
  1862 Col. Dixon Standsbury Miles, US, 58, kia, Harper's Ferry
  1948 Ferdinand I, Prince (1887–1908) and Tsar (1908–1918) of Bulgaria, 87
  2006 Helene Deschamps Adams, Heroine of the Resistance, at 85
17 1312 King Ferdinand V of Castile (1295 - 1312) and León (1301-1312), at 26
  1322 Count Robert III of of Nevers (1273-1322) & of Flanders (1305-1322), C. 72 -- "The Lion of Flanders".
  1515 Chiappino Orsini, Lord of Monte Vitozzo, kia, Marignano
  1665 King Philip IV of Spain (1621-1665) and III of Portugal (1605–1640), 60
  1771 Tobias George Smollett, 50, soldier, sailor, novelist ("Roderick Random")
  1850 Jose de San Martin, Liberator, in exile in France at 72
  1868 Wiquini “Roman Nose”, c. 33, Cheyenne leader, kia, Battle of Beecher Island
  1879 Eugene Emmanuel Violletle-le Duc, 65, architect, historian ("Annals of a Fortress")
  1908 Lt. Thomas Selfridge, 26, first person to die in an airplane crash, Arlington, Va.
  1948 Count Folke Bernadotte, 53, UN mediator, assassinated by the Irgun
  1980 Anastasio Somoza, USMA 1946, Dictaor/President of Nicaragua (1967-1972, 1974-1979), assassinated
  2006 Dorothy Stratton, Director, the SPARS - Coast Guard Women's Reserve, 1942-1946, at 107
18 96 Roman Emperor Domitian (81-96), murdered at 44
  1100 Geoffrey of Bouillon, crusader, “Defender of the Holy Sepulcher”, at c. 40
  1137 King Erik II of Denmark (1134-1137), c. 47, murdered
  1180 King Louis VII the Young of France (1137-1180), 60
  1345 Prince Andreas of Hugnary (18), husband to Queen Giovanna I of Naples, murdered, perhaps by her order
  1872 King Charles XV of Sweden and IV Norway (1859-72), 46
  1961 UN SecGen Dag Hammarskjold (1953–1961), 56, plane crash, Rhodesia
19 1356 Walter VI/Gautier VI de Brienne, titular King of Athens (1311–1356), 52, Constable of France, kia at Poitiers
  1435 John of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Bedford (1389-1435), 46, brother to Henry V
  1528 Malatesta VI dei Malatesti, Captain General of Venice, shot during the siege of Pavia, at c. 50
  1864 Col. George S. Patton, kia leading the 22nd Virginia, Winchester
  1881 James A. Garfield, Maj Gen, U.S., and President (1881), of wounds from an assassin, at 49
20 451 King Theodoric I of the Visigoths (418-451), kia, Chalons-sur-Marne
  1384 Louis, Count and Duke of Anjou (1360-1384), titular King of Naples (1383-1384), while campaigning to make it real, at c. 45
  1803 Robert Emmet, 23, Irish nationalist, executed
  1944 John Grayburn, 26, KIA at Arnhem with 2nd Parachute Regiment, earning the Victoria Cross
  1947 Fiorello La Guardia, 64, bomber pilot (1917-18), Mayor of NY (1933-45)
  2005 Simon Wiesenthal, Survivor, Nazi Hunter, at 96
21 687 Pope Conon (21 Oct 686-21 Sep 687)
  1235 King Andres II Arpad of Hungary (1205-35), c. 58
  1327 King Edward II of England (1307-1327), murdered at 43
  1397 Richard FitzAlan, 11th Earl of Arundel and 10th Earl of Surrey (1376-1397), c. 50, beheaded for treason
  1440 Frederik I von Hohenzollern of Brandenburg (1417-40), on his 68th birthday
  1520 Ottoman Sultan Selim I Yavuz (1512-1520), c. 50-55, conqueror of Baghdad
  1558 Charles V, HR Emperor (1519-1555) & King Carlos I of Spain (1506-1555), and nearly 300 other titles, in retirement
  1796 Gen. François Séverin Marceau-Desgraviers, of wounds from Altenkirchen (19th), at 27
  1904 Hinmuuttu-yalatlat - Chief Joseph, 64, who once said "I will fight no more forever."
  1939 Premier Armand Calinescu of Romania (Mar 7, 1939–Sep 21, 1939), 46, murdered
  1957 Haakon VII, 86, first modern king of Norway (1905-57)
  1966 Paul Reynaud, premier France (1940) who wasn't tough enough
  1976 Marcos Orlando Letelier del Solar, 44, former Chilean politician, car bomb by Chilean agents, in Washington
22 19 Publius Vergilius Maro, who sang of arms, at 51
  1241 Snorri Sturlusson, Icelandic poet & historian, at c. 60
  1325 Andreuzzo Ferrucci, condottiero, kia, Altopascio at c. 35
  1408 John VII Palaeologus, Byzantine Emperor (1376-77, 1390, 1404-8),
  1774 Pope Clement XIV - Lorenzo Ganganelli (1769-1774), 68
  1914 "Alain-Fournier" - Henri Alban-Fournier, 27, French novelist, kia in Lorraine
  1943 Wilhelm Kube, 55, SS-Commissar of Belorus, blown up by a bomb in a hot water bottle in his bed
  1951 Jacob Horner, last 7th Cavalry veteran of the Little Big Horn
  1989 Irving Berlin, Doughboy, composer ("God Bless America"), at 101
  1999 George C. Scott, actor ("Patton"), at 71
23 775 Constantine V Copronymus, c. 57, Byzantine Emperor (720-75),
  1888 François Achille Bazaine, 77, the first Legionnaire to become a Marshal, who lost it big time at Metz in 1870
  1939 Sigmund Freud, 83, sometime soldier
  1947 Nikola Dimitrov Petkov, 54, Balkan Wars veteran, Bulgarian anti-fascist & peasant leader, hanged by the communists
  1973 Pablo Neruda, 69, poetical Soviet apologist
  2004 Nigel Nicholson, Guardsman, litterateur, b. 1917
24 768 King Pepin III "the Short” of France (751-768), at 53
  867 Byzantine Emperor Michael III (842 to 867), 27, assassinated
  911 Louis the Child - King Louis III or IV of East Francia, (899-911), c. 18 - the Last German Carolingian
  1143 Pope Innocent II - Gregorio Papereschi (1130-1143)
  1180 Byzantine Emperor Manuel I Comnenus (1143-1180), at c. 62
  1228 Grand Prince Stephen II of Rascia (1196 - 1217), King Stephen I Nemanjich of Serbia (1217-1228)
  1230 King Alfonso IX of Leon and Galicia (1188-1230), 59
  1776 Nathan Hale, 21, hanged by the British at 66th Street and Third Avenue
  1812 Prince Pyotr Ivanovich Bagration, c. 48, Russian general, d/w from Borodino
  1834 Emperor Pedro I of Brazil (1822-1831), King of Portugal (Mar 10–May 28, 1826, 35
25 1066 King Harold II Haardrada of Norway (c. 50), & Tostig Godwinson (c. 40), brother of Harold of England, traitor, kia, Stamford Bridge
  1396 Admiral of France Jean de Vienne, c. 55, and hundreds of other crusaders, kia against the Turks
  1506 King Philip I "the Handsome" of Spain (1504-06), 28
  1534 Pope Clement VII - Giulio de’Medici (1523-1534), 56
  1639 Ambrogio Spinola Doria, 1st Marquis of the Balbases, c. 60, condottiero, Imperial field marshal
  1642 Federico I Colonna, Prince of Butera, Viceroy & Captain General of Catalonia, kia at 41, the siege of Tarragona
  1840 Jacques-Etienne-Joseph-Alexandre Macdonald, Marshal of France, 74
  1849 Johann Baptist Strauss the Elder, composer ("The Radetzky March"), at 45
  1900 Elizabeth Van Lew, Union master spy, at 81.
  1970 Erich Maria Remarque, 72, Frontsoldat, novelist ("All Quiet on the Western Front")
  1983 King Leopold III of Belgium (1934-51), 81, collaborator
  1991 Klaus Barbie, Gestapo chief of Lyon, of cancer at 77
  2005 Don Adams (Donald James Yarmy), Guadalcanal veteran, actor (“Get Smart”), at 82
26 1371 Serb Prince Ugljesa of Serres, kia at the Maritsa
  1820 Daniel Boone, militiaman, frontiersman, at 85
  1959 Ceylon PM Sirimavo Bandaranaike (1956-1959), 60, mortally woudned by a Buddhist monk
  1989 Pavlos Bakoyannis, 54, liberal Greek parliamentary leader, murdered in Rome
  2007 Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema, the “Soldier of Orange,” at 90
27 48 Pompey the Great, murdered upon arriving in Egypt, one day short of his 58th birthday
  1590 Pope Urban VII - Giambattista Castagna (15 Sep-27 Sep 1590), 69
  1617 Count Johan Ernest of Nassau-Siegen
  1651 Duke & Elector Maximilian I Bavaria(1597–1651), at 78
  1700 Pope Innocent XII - Antonio Pignatelli (1691-1700). 85
  1868 Alexander Walewski, 58, Napoleon I's bastard, III's diplomat and minister
  1942 Douglas Munro, 22, USCG, kia at Guadalcanal, earning the Medal of Honor
  1956 Milburn Apt, 32, USAF st Pilot, crash after reaching 3370 kph in the X-2
  1981 Robert Montgomery, PT-boat skipper, actor, at 77
  1996 Pres Mohammad Najibullah of Afghanistan (1986-1992), hanged by the Taliban
28 1104 King Pedro I of Navarra & Aragon (1094–1104), c. 36
  1197 Henry VI von Hohenstaufen, King of the Germans (1190-1197), Holy Roman Emperor (1191-1197), King of Italy (1191–1197) & King of Sicily (1194-1197), father of "Supor Mundi"
  1891 Herman Melville, 72, sailor, war poet (“Cavalry Crossing a Ford”), author ("Typee”) – lover of Fayaway
  1902 Émile François Zola, 62, author and Dreyfusard
  1907 Grand Duke Frederich I of Baden (1856-1907), at 81
  1953 Edwin P Hubble, Doughboy, astronomer, at 63
  1970 Pres. Gamel Abdul Nasser of Egypt (1954-1970), heart attack at 52
  1978 Pope John Paul I - Albino Luciani (26 Aug-28 Sep 1978), at 65
  1989 Dictator/President Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines (1865-1986), in exile at 72
  2006 Iva Torguri d’Aquino – “Tokyo Rose”, at 90.
29 855 Lothair I, King of Italy (818 – 855) & Holy Roman Emperor (840 – 855), c. 60
  1298 Count Guido I of Montefeltro (1255-66, 1282-83, 1293-96), Lord of Cesena, Forli, Senigallia, Jesi, & the Guelf Romagna (1282-93), Lord of Pisa (1289-93), monk (1296-1298), c. 75
  1560 King Gustavus I Eriksson of Sweden (1523–1560), 64
  1833 King Ferdinand VII of Spain (1808-1833), 48, touching off the Carlist Wars
  1936 Prince Carlo Borbone delle Due Sicilie, kia at 28, Elgoibar, Spain
  1956 Anastasio Somoza, Dictator/President of Nicaragua (1937- 1947, 1950-1956), assassinated
30 1877 Toohoolhoolzote, prophet of the Nez Perce, kia
  1888 Elizabeth Stride (44) and Catherine Eddowes (46), Jack the Ripper’s third and fourth victims

Event
1 0 Feast of St. Therese of Lisieux, Patron of Aviators
  891 Battle of Louvain: East Franks defeat the Danish Vikings
  1054 Battle of Atapuerca: King Ferdinand I “the Great” of Castile & León defeats his brother King García V of Navarre
  1181 Ubaldo Allucingoli elected Pope as Lucius III (1181-1185)
  1271 Teobaldo Visconti elected Pope as Gregory X (1271-1276), later beatified
  1285 Naval Battle of Las Rosas: Catalans defeat the French 
  1597 Battle of Longpre: French defeat the Spanish
  1614 Jews expelled from Frankfurt-on-Main, Germany
  1644 Battle of Tippermuir: Montrose’s Roundheads defeat the Scots Covenanters.
  1651 Battle of Dundee: Gen Monck defeats the Scots 
  1661 First formal yacht race: King Charles II vs. his brother James
  1701 Battle of Chiari: Imperialists defeat the French
  1739 35 Jews sentenced to life in prison, Lisbon
  1774 Boston: British seize Massachusetts Bay Colony's store of powder & cannon
  1807 Former VP Aaron Burr found innocent of treason
  1814 USS Wasp sinks HMS Avon
  1848 Royal troops begin bombardment of Messina, Sicily (surrenders the 7th)
  1861 Grant assumes command of Federal forces at Cape Girardeau, Mo
  1861 Skirmish at Bennett's Mills, Mo
  1862 Battle of Chantilly, Virginia
  1863 Atlanta Campaign: Sherman wins the Battle of Jonesborough, causing the Confederates to evacuate & burn Atlanta
  1863 Union fleet bombards Fort Sumter
  1863 Union troops capture Fort Smith, Arkansas
  1866 Manuelito surrenders at Fort Wingate, last resisting Navaho chief
  1870 Napoleon III surrenders to the Prussians at Sedan
  1916 Bulgaria declares war on Romania
  1918 US troops land in Vladivostok, Siberia, stay until 1920
  1923 Great Kanto Plain Earthquake devastates Tokyo, over 100,000 die
  1928 Zog I proclaims himself king of Albania (1928-1939)
  1938 Mussolini cancels civil rights of Italian Jews
  1939 George C. Marshall becomes Chief-of-Staff of the Army
  1939 Hitler orders "Close your hearts to pity," invades Poland and initiates the extermination of the mentally ill
  1942 "Tokyo Express" mission to Guadalcanal evades B-17s.
  1942 Federal judge upholds detention of Japanese-Americans
  1942 German troops land on the Taman Peninsula, USSR
  1943 Espiritu Santo: Japanese sub I-182 is sunk by DD Wadsworth
  1943 USN makes air and gunnery attacks on Marcus I
  1944 King George VI promotes Bernard Law Montgomery to field marshal
  1948 Communists form the North China People's Republic
  1950 13 North Korean divisions assault UN lines
  1951 Israel's secret service, the Mossad, begins operations
  1951 US, Australia, & New Zealand sign the ANZUS treaty
  1969 Coup by Col Murramar Gadhafi deposes King Idris of Libya
  1983 Soviets shoot down Korean Boeing 747 that strayed over Siberia
  5509 The Creation, in the Byzantine Chronology
2 31 Battle of Actium: Octavian defeats Antony & Cleopatra
  44 Cicero delivers the first of 14 “Phillipics” against Marc Antony
  1057 Coronation of Issac Comnenus as Byzantine Emperor (1057-1059)
  1414 Republic of Gaeta and Count Giacomo II of Fondi conclude an armistice
  1628 Battle of Wolgast: Wallenstein’s Imperialists defeat Christian of Denmark
  1649 Pope Innocent X orders the city of Castro razed
  1666 Great Fire of London, ends the Great Plague
  1732 Pope Clement XII renews anti-Jewish laws in Rome
  1752 Britain adopts the Gregorian calendar, having delayed for 170 years late, to screw up chronology
  1777 Battle of Cooch's Bridge, NJ: First use of the "Stars and Stripes" in combat
  1792 Paris mob butchers nobles and clergymen held in jails
  1798 Karl Mack von Leiberich appointed commander of the Neapolitan Army
  1843 Neapolitan naval squadron visits Rio de Janeiro
  1861 Skirmish at Bethel's Mills, Va
  1861 Skirmish at Dallas, Mo
  1861 Skirmish at Dry Wood/Ft Scott, Mo
  1863 Burnside's Union troops capture Knoxville
  1863 The Alabama legislature suggests recruiting slaves for the Confederate Army
  1864 Lee suggests recruiting blacks for Confederate service "every place in the Army”
  1864 Union General William T Sherman captures Atlanta
  1898 Battle of Omdurman: Lord Kitchener retakes the Sudan for Egypt & Britain
  1901 VP Theodore Roosevelt cites the African proverb, "Speak softly and carry a big stick"
  1914 As the Germans drive on Paris, the French government flees to Bordeaux -- "Aux wagons citoyens!"
  1943 Truk: Japanese patrol vessel is torpedoed by U.S. sub Snapper
  1943 US a/c bomb Lae, in northeastern New Guinea, sinking a patrol vessel
  1944 Anne Frank is sent to Auschwitz
  1944 Lt jg George H.W. Bush bails out near Chichi Jima; soon rescued by Finback
  1944 Third Fleet raids the Bonins
  1944 USSR & Finland conclude an armistice
  1945 Douglas MacArthur says "These proceedings are closed," USS Missouri, Tokyo Bay.
  1945 Ho Chi Minh declares Vietnam independent of France
3 36 Naval Battle of Naulochus: Agrippa defeats Sextus Pompey
  590 Consecration of Pope St Gregory I “the Great” (590-604)
  1189 Richard I "Lionheart" is crowned King of England (1189-1199)
  1190 Richard I "Lionheart" and his Crusaders reach Messina, Sicily.
  1260 Battle of Ain Jaluit: Egyptian Mamluks defeat the Mongols in Palestine
  1390 Geoffrey Chaucer is robbed of £20 of the King’s money while traveling in Kent.
  1459 Battle of Bloreheath: The Earl of Salisbury defeats the Lancastrians.
  1529 Suliman "The Magnificent” and his Turks capture Buda, Hungary.
  1632 Battle of Nuremburg: Sweden's Gustavus Adolphus and the Empire's Wallentsein fight to a draw
  1650 Battle of Dunbar: Cromwell defeats the Scots Royalists
  1651 Battle of Worcester: Cromwell defeats Prince Charles (II) & the Royalists; final battle of the English Civil Wars
  1700 Battle of the Narva: Swedes defeat Peter the Great
  1782 Battle of Trincomalee: British fleet defeats the French off India
  1782 The US gives its only ship-of-the-line, America, to France.
  1833 Frederick Douglass steals Frederick Douglass
  1848 Messina: Rebellious citizens defeat a Borbon attempt to retake the city
  1852 Anti-Jewish riots break out in Stockholm
  1858 The first Atlantic cable ceases to function, after only 12 days in service
  1861 Confederates under Leonidas Polk invade Kentucky, insuring its adherence to the Union
  1864 Battle of Berryville, Va
  1885 First Naval War College class convenes
  1917 German troops capture Riga, Latvia
  1917 Imperial German Air Service conducts its first night bombing of London
  1918 5 black soldiers hanged for the Houston “mutiny” of 1917
  1925 USN airship Shenandoah crashes near Caldwell, Ohio, 13 die
  1939 Britain and France declare war on Germany
  1939 Morocco offers troops to French to fight in World War II
  1940 US gives Britain 50 old destroyers in exchange for basing rights in the Empire
  1943 Italy and the Allies secretly agree to a cease-fire
  1943 Japanese sub I-20 sunk off Spiritu Santo by DD Patterson & Ellet
  1944 Britain's Guards Armored Division liberates Brussels
  1944 US Navy shells the Japanese on Wake Island.
  1945 Japanese forces in the Philippines surrender to the US
  1954 Red China begins artillery bombardment of Quemoy & Amoy
  1967 Nguyen Van Thieu elected president of Vietnam (1967-75)
4 476 Odoacer deposes Emperor Romulus Augustulus (475-476): End of the Western Empire
  569 The Lombards capture Mediolanum [Milan] from the East Romans
  786 Harun al-Rashid becomes Caliph of Baghdad (786-809)
  883 Arab raiders sack the Monastery of Monte Cassino
  1187 Saladin captures Ascalon from the Crusaders.
  1260 Battle at Montaperti: Sienese Ghibellines rout the Florentine Guelfs
  1285 Battle of Les Formigues: Ruggiero di Lauria’s Aragonese-Sicilian fleet defeats the French
  1479 Peace of Alcacovas: Portugal cedes the Canaries to Castille in return for lands in Africa.
  1632 Battle of Burgstall: Imperialists defeat the Swedes
  1650 Battle of Dunbar: Oliver Cromwell defeats David Leslie 
  1796 Battle of Roveredo: The French defeat the Austrians
  1804 USS Intrepid blows up during an unsuccessful attack on Tripoli
  1864 Bread riot in Mobile, Alabama
  1870 Uprising at Paris deposes Napoleon the Little & proclaim the Third Republic
  1886 Geronimo surrenders to Gen Nelson A Miles at Skeleton Canyon, Ariz
  1916 Seventh Battle of the Isonzo begins (to Sep 17)
  1918 US troops land in Archangel, Russia, stay 10 months
  1936 Largo Caballero becomes Prime Minister and Minister of War of the Spanish Republic
  1936 Spanish Nationalist troops capture Irun and Talavera de la Reina
  1939 Netherlands & Belgium declare neutrality in World War II
  1941 U-652 unsuccessfully attacks USS Greer, which drops depth charges
  1942 Lunga Point, Guadalcanal: Japanese DDs sink two U.S. destroyer transports
  1944 1st Marine Div sails from the Solomons for Palau.
  1944 Brit 11th Armoured Div liberates Antwerp
  1944 Finland breaks diplomatic relations with erstwhile ally Nazi Germany
  1945 US reoccupies Wake Is
  1948 Dutch Queen Wilhemina (1890-1948) abdicates in favor of daughter Juliana (1948-1980)
  1950 First appearance of the comic strip "Beetle Bailey"
  1957 Arkansas Gov Fabus orders the National Guard to keep blacks out of Central High School
5 641 Battle of Maserfelth: King Penda of Mercia defeats King Oswald of Northumbria
  1689 Pietro Ottoboni elected Pope as Alexander VIII (1689-1691)
  1750 Paderborn, Germany, orders annual search of Jewish homes for stolen goods
  1757 Battle of Rossbach: Frederick the Great defeats the French
  1774 First Continental Congress assembles in Philadelphia
  1775 Continental Navy issues uniform regulations for officers
  1781 Battle of the Virginia Capes: de Grasse’s French fleet defeats the British, trapping Cornwallis at Yorktown
  1795 US pays Algiers $1 million to ransom 100 sailors
  1806 Fra Diavolo crushes a French column near Itri, Naples
  1813 USS Enterprise captures HM brig Boxer off Portland, Me
  1836 Sam Houston elected permanent president of Republic of Texas (1836-1838)
  1862 Antietam Campaign: Lee crosses the Potomac into Maryland
  1876 Powder River Campaign: Gen Crook defeats the Cheyenne & Sioux at Slim Buttes
  1905 Teddy Roosevelt engineers the Treaty of Portsmouth, ending the Russo-Japanese War and winning a Nobel Peace Prize
  1914 Britain, France, Belgium, and Russia formally ally against Germany
  1914 First Battle of the Marne begins, as French taxis rush troops to the front, meters ticking all the way
  1915 Anti-war conference in Zimmerwald, Switzerland
  1918 Due to WW I, the World Series begins a month early
  1918 USS Mount Vernon torpedoed by a German submarine off France
  1923 US Asiatic Fleet arrives at Tokyo to assist after the Great Kanto Plain earthquake
  1933 SGT Fulgencio Batista ousts Cuban dictator Carlos de Cespedes in a coup
  1939 FDR creates Neutrality Patrol, to defend hemispheric waters
  1942 British and American aircraft bomb Le Havre and Bremen
  1943 US airborne troops land at Nadzab, New Guinea
  1944 Chinese establish land link to India at the Kaolingkung Pass in Burma
  1961 US resumes nuclear testing after a temporary ban
  1968 Hijackers slay 21 on a Pan Am jet in Karachi, Pakistan
  1972 Palestinian terrorists murder 11 Israelis at the Munich Olympics
  1975 Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme tries to assassinate Pres Ford in Sacramento
  1978 Sadat, Begin, & Carter begin a peace conference at Camp David
  1984 Discovery completes 12th Space Shuttle mission
  2002 Attempt to assassinate Pres. Karzai of Afghanistan, c. 30 die
6 1634 Battle of Nordlingen: Spanish & Imperialists defeat the Swedes
  1643 Castro War: Battle of Mongiovino – Tuscans force Papal troops to retreat.
  1715 "The Fifteen" – Widespread Jacobite Rebellion begins in Scotland
  1808 Gioacchino Murat lands at Gaeta to assume the throne of Naples
  1813 Battle of Dennewitz: Prussians defeat the French
  1860 Triumphal entry of Giuseppe Garibaldi into Naples
  1861 Brig. Gen. U.S. Grant captures Paducah, Kentucky, without opposition
  1862 Stonewall Jackson occupies Fredrick, Maryland
  1863 Confederates evacuate Ft Wagner, SC, ending 59 day Union siege
  1886 Queen Victoria establishes the Distinguished Service Order (DSO)
  1901 Pres William McKinley, mortally wounded by Leon Czologosz in Buffalo (d. 14th)
  1918 US Navy 14-inch railroad guns open fire on the Western Front
  1928 USSR signs Briand-Kellogg Pact, agrees war is naughty
  1939 First German air attack on Great Britain in WW II
  1939 South Africa declares war on Germany
  1940 Charles F. Hughes (DD-428) commissioned by Lt Cdr. G. L. Menocal; GM Eugene Paulson
  1940 Former King Michael of Romania (1927-1930) succeeds his father, Carol II as king (1940-1947)
  1940 Mussolini turns down Hitler's offer of a panzer unit to support his forces in North Africa
  1941 Germany orders all Jews over 6 anywhere to wear a yellow Star of David
  1941 Nazis establish a ghetto in Vilna
  1942 Japanese occupy Efogi on the Kokoda Trail, 50 miles from Port Moresby
  1943 CA Nachi survives torpedo from Halibut off Japan.
  1944 Netherlands: German Fifteenth Army evacuates Zealand
  1944 Western Carolines: 16 U.S. carriers strike Japanese held islands
  1976 Soviet pilot Viktor Belenko defects to Japan with a MiG-25
  1983 USSR admits to shooting down KAL 007 on 9/2
  1986 Islamist terrorists kill 22 at the Neve Shalom Synagogue, Istanbul
  1988 Crippled Soviet Soyuz TM-5 lands safely with 2 cosmonauts aboard
  1991 Leningrad becomes St. Petersburg again
7 831 Arabs capture Palermo from the Byzantines
  871 Black Zanj Kharijite rebels capture and sack Basrah
  1101 First Battle of Ramalah: Crusaders defeat the Fatimids
  1158 Milan surrenders to Frederick Barbarossa
  1159 Orlando Bandinelli elected Pope as Alexander III (1159-81)
  1191 Battle of Arshouf: Richard Lionheart defeats Saladin
  1191 Battle of the Strymon: the Byzantines defeat William II of Sicily
  1298 Naval Battle of Curzola: Genoese defeat the Venetians, capture Marco Polo
  1303 The Colonna capture Pope Boniface VIII, a Caetani, at Anagni
  1664 Peter Stuyvesant surrenders the Nieuw Netherlands to the English fleet
  1706 Battle of Turin: Prince Eugene defeats the French
  1714 Treaty of Baden: French retain Alsace, Austria gets right bank of Rhine
  1776 David Bushnell's sub Turtle tries to sink HMS Eagle in New York harbor
  1812 Battle at Borodino: Napoleon gains a Phyrric victory over Kutusov
  1814 USS Wasp captures HMS Avon
  1815 Grand Review of 150,000 Russian troops outside Paris for Tasr Alexander I, Emperor Francis I of Austria, and King Frederick William III, on the anniversary of the Battle of Borodino.
  1822 Pedro, son of King João VI of Portugal, declares himself emperor of an independent Brazil (1822-1831)
  1848 Messina: The Borbons retake the city from rebels after two days’ fighting
  1860 Triumphal entry into Naples of Garibaldi and the Army of the South
  1862 Stonewall Jackson writes a pass so he can attend divine services
  1870 HMS Captain capsizes off Cape Finisterre, c. 500 die, 18 survive
  1927 Mao Tse-dung writes, “Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.”
  1940 Luftwaffe begins 57 consecutive nights of raids on London
  1942 Battle of Alam Halfa: Defeat of Rommel's attempt to reach the Nile
  1943 Heavy fighting around Lae
  1943 Heavy fighting on Vella Lavella
  1947 Hindus & Muslims battle in New Delhi
  1950 Communists close all monasteries in Hungary
  1956 Bell X-2 sets unofficial manned aircraft altitude record 126,000'
  1986 Unsuccessful attempt to assassinate Pres Augusto Pinochet of Chile
8 0 Memorial of St Adrian of Nicomedia, Patron of Arms Dealers
  1141 Battle of Samarkand
  1276 Election of Pope John XXI (Sep 8, 1276-May 20, 1277)
  1380 Battle of Kulikovo Pole: Dmitri Donskoi’s Russians defeat the Tatars
  1495 Ferrantino II lays siege to French-held Gaeta (falls Nov 18)
  1565 Italo-Spanish fleet begins landing troops on Malta to break the Turkish siege
  1625 Treaty of Southhampton: England and the Netherlands ally against Spain
  1628 Dutch sea dog Piet Heyn captures a Spanish treasure fleet, Matanzas, Cuba
  1755 Battle of Lake George: Sir William Johnson's 1,500 Colonials and 200 Mohawks defeat 1,500 French and Indians under the Baron de Dieskau
  1760 French surrender Montreal to Lord Jeffrey Amherst
  1796 Battle of Bassano del Grappa: Massena defeats the Austrians under Wurmser
  1848 Uprising at Bologna: The citizens oust the Austrians
  1855 Crimean War: Allied assault on the Malakof Bastion
  1863 Battle of Telford's Depot, TN
  1863 Texans repel Union invasion force at Sabine Pass, TX
  1919 Ticker tape parade on Broadway for General of the Armies John J. Pershing & 25,000 Doughboys
  1923 Seven USN destroyers ground at Point Honda, Ca., by a navigational error, 23 die
  1939 FDR declares a "limited national emergency" due to war in Europe
  1939 German panzers reach the outskirts of Warsaw
  1941 Nazis massacre the Jews of Meretsch, Lithuania
  1942 700 Marine Raiders hit Tasimboko, Guadalcanal, in the Japanese rear
  1942 Japanese destroyer squadron shells Tulagi
  1942 Japanese open 5 battalion attack on Aussies at Egofi, the Kokoda Trail
  1943 Italy secretly concludes an armistice with the Allies
  1943 U.S DD bombard Lae to support Australian 9th Div
  1943 US aircraft bomb targets near Rome, supported by Italian fighters
  1944 First V-2 attacks on London; 3 die in Cheswick
  1944 Russian troops enter Bulgaria, which promptly declares war on Germany
  1945 US troops land in Korea to assume occupation duties
  1948 British De Havilland 08 fighter flies faster than sound
  1951 Japan signs peace treaty with 48 countries at San Francisco
  1954 Manila: Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) formed
  1962 Chinese troops invade India
  1966 “Star Trek” debuts on NBC
  1991 Macedonia declares independence from Yugoslavia
9 9 Battle of the Teutoburg Forest -- “Quintilius Varus, Quintilius Varus, give me my three legions back.”
  337 Constantine II, Constantius II, and Constans I become co-Emperors in succession to their father Constantine the Great (d. May), after having eliminated several potential rivals.
  490 Battle of Marathon: Athenians & Plataeans defeat the Persians
  1303 Caetani troops liberate Pope Boniface VIII from the Colonna at Anagni
  1502 The Pact of Mugione: Cesare Borgia’s enemies conclude an alliance
  1505 A Florentine attempt to storm besieged Pisa fails, possibly due to bribes to the republic’s mercenary captains, Antonio Giacomini & Ercole Bentivogli
  1513 Battle of Flodden Field: English defeat James IV of Scotland
  1567 Invited by the Duke of Alba to a banquet in Brussels, the Dutch rebel Counts of Egmont and of Hoorn find themselves under arrest [See June 5]
  1609 Henry Hudson sails up his river
  1739 Slave revolt in Stono, SC: c. 25 whites, 50 blacks die
  1776 "The United Colonies" adopt the name "The United States of America"
  1825 Lafayette sails for France after a year-long visit to America
  1863 Battle of Cumberland Gap, TN
  1867 Luxembourg declared independent of the North German Confederation
  1870 French franc-tireurs blow up the arsenal at Laon, killing 40 Prussian soldiers, and wounding many others.
  1903 N.Y. Nat'l Guard wins the first National Rifle Matches; Sea Girt, N.J.
  1922 Turkish troops capture Smyrna from the Greeks
  1939 German 15th Mtzd Inf massacres 300 Polish P/Ws near Ciepielow
  1940 Congress passes the "Two Ocean Navy" Bill: 12 CVs, 7 BBs, c. 190 other ships authorized.
  1942 Aussie 25th Bde rushes up the Kokoda Trail to support Egofi
  1942 Sub-based pilot Nobuo Fujita firebombs Mt. Emily, Ore.
  1943 Operation Avalanche: Anglo-American forces land at Salerno, Italy
  1943 The Japanese seize the Italian subs Capellini, Giuliani, & Torelli at Sebang, Sumatra, but the sloop Eritrea escapes, to make for Ceylon
  1944 Allied troops liberate Luxembourg from the Germans
  1944 TF 38 carriers begin a 2-day raid on Japanese bases on Mindanao.
  1948 People's Democratic Republic of [North] Korea proclaimed
  1990 GHW Bush and Gorbachev meet in Helsinki & urge Iraq to leave Kuwait
  1999 Chechen terrorists bomb an apartment house in Moscow, c. 93 die
  2003 24 tons of steel from the World Trade Center are melted & poured at a steel mill in Louisiana to form the bow section of the new USS New York (LPD-21)
10 422 Election of Pope St. Celestine I (422-432)
  1349 Jews who survived a massacre in Constance, Germany, are burned to death
  1435 Battle of Piper Dene: The Earl of Angus beats the Earl of Northumberland & Sir Robert Ogle 
  1776 Nathan Hale volunteers for secret service against the British
  1813 Battle of Lake Erie: Commo Oliver Hazard Perry mets the enemy and they are his
  1823 Simon Bolivar is named President of Peru
  1861 Combat at Carnifex Ferry, Va
  1862 The men of the 1st Penna Cav appoint the US Army’s first Jewish chaplain, Rabbi Jacob Frankel
  1914 Battle of the Marne: The Germans begin falling back, ending the six-day fight.
  1939 Canada declares war on Germany
  1940 Buckingham Palace hit by a German bomb
  1942 British conduct landings on Vichy-French controlled Madagascar
  1943 British Eighth Army occupies Taranto, Italy
  1943 Germans occupy Rome & other Italian cities, against sometimes fierce resistance
  1944 Elms TF 38 raid the Palau Islands.
  1944 Sir Frederick Browning says "I think we might be going a bridge too far"
  1945 Norwegians sentence Nazi-collaborator Vidkun Quisling to death
  1976 Five Croatian terrorists capture TWA plane at La Guardia Airport, NY
  1992 Nathan E. Cook, last veteran of the Spanish-American War, at 106
  2004 Keel laid for USS New York (LPD-21) at Avondale, La
11 1297 Battle of Stirling Bridge: The Scots defeat the English
  1565 The Turks abandon the siege of Malta in th face of the Italo-Spanish landings
  1649 Massacre of Drogheda: Cromwell kills 3,000 royalists
  1697 Battle of Zenta: Eugene of Savory crushes the Turks
  1709 Marlborough defeats the French at the Battle of Malplaquet
  1773 Benjamin Franklin writes "There never was a good war or a bad peace"
  1777 Battle of Brandywine: Americans lose to British
  1812 USS Constitution captures and destroys brig Lady Warren
  1814 Battle of Plattsburgh/Lake Champlain: Americans defeat the British by land & lake – the decisive battle of the War of 1812
  1851 Armed black citizens help defend fugitive slaves from their owner, who is killed, near Christiana, Penna
  1857 Mountain Meadows Massacre: 120 colonists killed by Mormon extremists
  1860 Sardinian Army invades the Papal States
  1861 Skirmish at Lewisville, Va
  1918 Col. George S. Patton leads the first US tank attack, St. Mihiel, France
  1919 Gabriele d'Annunzio's "Legion" captures Fiume
  1921 First test of carrier arresting gear, at Hampton Roads.
  1926 Anarchist Gino Lucetti throws a bomb at Mussolini's car in the Porta Pia square in Rome, which fizzles; he gets 30 years.
  1926 Gino Lucetti attempts to assassinate Mussolini in Rome
  1939 "Former Naval Person" FDR writes an informal letter to First Lord of the Admiralty Winston S. Churchill, initiating the most important friendship of the twentieth century
  1940 Hitler orders Operation Sealion, the invasion of Britain
  1941 Charles A. Lindbergh charges that "the British, the Jews, and the Roosevelt administration" are trying to force the US into World War II
  1941 FDR orders the Navy to "shoot on sight" Axis warships in American waters
  1942 Australian forces fall back from Egofi, on the Kokoda Trail
  1943 Allied forces secure Salerno
  1943 Jewish ghettos of Minsk & Lida, Belorussia, liquidated
  1943 Makassar: Japanese minesweeper W-16 sinks trying to clear mines.
  1944 FDR & Churchill convene the Second Quebec Conference
  1944 Sub sinks two Japanese prison ships in China Sea, hundred of Allied troops die.
  1944 US 5th Armored Division enters Nazi Germany
  2001 Islamist terrorists crash two hijacked jetliners into the World Trade Center and one into the Pentagon, but heroic passengers die retaking a fourth aircraft
12 1213 Battle of Muret: Crusaders defeat the Albigensians
  1396 Crusaders under the Count of Nevers reach Nicopolis
  1609 Henry Hudson lands on a hilly island “as pleasant with grasse and flowers, and goodly trees, as ever they had seene, and very sweet smells came from them” -- Manhattan
  1683 Poland's John Sobieski lifts the Turkish siege of Vienna
  1733 War of the Polish Succession: Former King Stanislas Leszczynski of Poland (1706-1709), the father-in-law of Louis XV, is again elected king (1733-1736)
  1740 Voltaire and Frederick the Great meet
  1776 Nathan Hale leaves Wasington’s Harlem Heights camp (at 127th St) on a spy mission
  1814 Battle of North Point: Regulars & Militiamen prevent the British from capturing Baltimore
  1861 Confederates invest Lexington, Mo (Falls 20th)
  1861 Skirmish at Black River, Mo
  1861 Skirmish at Cheat Mtn, WVa
  1862 Battle of Harpers Ferry VA
  1901 Arabs attack Jewish settlement of Gedara, Palestine
  1917 Battle of the Bainsizza (11th Isonzo) ends (from Aug 19)
  1938 Hitler demands self-determination for Sudeten Germans of Czechoslovakia
  1940 Italian troops under Rudolfo Graziani invade Egypt
  1941 Coast Guardsmen capture the German trawler Busko in Greenland
  1942 Guadalcanal, Battle of Bloody Ridge: Marines repulse the Kawaguchi Detachment
  1943 New Guinea: Australian and U.S. troops capture Salamaua
  1943 Otto Skorzeny’s commandos liberate Benito Mussolini from the Gran Sasso
  1974 Coup overthrows Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie
  1983 USSR vetoes UN resolution deploring its downing of KAL Flight 007
  1990 US, Britain, France, & the USSR agree to reunification of Germany
  1995 Belarussian armed forces shoot down a balloon in an international race, 2 Americans die
13 0 Feast of St. Venerius, Patron of Lighthouse Keepers
  45 Caesar writes his will, adopting Octavius
  81 Domitian succeeds his brother Titus as Roman Emperor (81-96)
  122 Construction begins on Hadrian's Wall
  509 Dedication of the Temple of Jupiter, Juno, & Minerva, on the Capitoline
  533 Belisarius crushes the Vandals at Ad Decimum, North Africa
  604 Consecration of Pope Sabinianus (604-606)
  1276 Pedro Julião (Petrus Juliani) elected Pope as John XXI [XX] (Sept 13, 1276-May 20, 1277)
  1515 Battle of Marignano: Franco-Venetian victory over the Swiss
  1625 Jerusalem: Moslem authorities arrest Isiah Horowitz & 15 other rabbis
  1759 Wolfe defeats Montcalm on the Plains of Abraham; Canada becomes British
  1814 British commence an overnight bombardment of Fort McHenry, inspiring "The Star Spangled Banner"
  1847 US soldiers & marines storm Chapultepec Castle, Mexico City
  1861 Skirmish at Booneville, Mo
  1880 War of the Pacific: Chilean ships begin a two-day bombardment of Peruvian ports, during which, the Chilean Covadonga is sunk by a Peruvian explosive boat; 20 die, 43 captured
  1882 Britain invades Egypt to crush the Arabi Pasha "Revolution"
  1940 The Mitsubishi "Zero" debuts over Chungking; Japan 26, China 0.
  1942 German forces attack Stalingrad
  1942 Guadalcanal: Bloody Ridge - Marines probe the Japanese positions.
  1943 Chiang Kai-shek becomes president of China
  1943 German counter attack at Salerno
  1944 Palau Is: USN pounds Peleliu
  1961 Battles between UN & Katangan troops in Congo
  1971 New York National Guardsmen storm Attica Correctional Facility, to end 4-day uprising; 32 prisoners, 9 guards die
  1978 Maiden flight of the McDonnell Douglas F-18A Hornet
  1990 Iraqi troops storm residence of French ambassador in Kuwait
  1999 Islamist terror bombing in Moscow, c. 120 killed
14 786 Harun al-Rashid becomes Calif of Baghdad (786-809)
  1115 Battle of Tel-Danith: Principlaity of Antioch defeats the Seljuks
  1141 Battle of Winchester: The Empress Matilda defeats Queen Matilda 
  1146 Nur-ed-Din succeeds his father Zangi as Atabeg of Aleppo and Mosul
  1307 Battle of Paisley Forest: The English defeat the Scots
  1346 Battle of Itri: Count Nicola Caetani of Fondi ambushes the Neapolitans
  1402 Battle of Homildon Hill: Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland, defeats Archibald Douglas 
  1423 Venetians capture Thessaloniki
  1437 The Magyars, Székely, & Saxons form a united Transylvania (ignoring the Romanians)
  1522 Treaty of Moscow: ends Polish/Lithuanian war with Russia
  1655 Indian amphibious assault on Nieuw Amsterdam, scores die
  1812 Napoleon occupies Moscow
  1824 Following a referendum, Chiapas requests incorproation into Mexico
  1829 Peace of Adrianople: Russo-Turkish War ends
  1847 American troops under Winfield Scott capture Mexico City
  1856 Battle of San Jacinto: Nicaragua defeats American filibusters
  1861 Naval skirmish off Pensacola, Fl
  1862 Antietam Campaign: Battle of South Mountain
  1862 Antietam Campaign: Skirmish at Boonesboro/Crampton's Gap/Fox's Gap, Md.
  1862 Battle of Munfordsville, Ky
  1869 Explosion at the Aresenale of Venice, scores die
  1901 Theo. Roosevelt is sworn in as President, the youngest ever at 42
  1917 Provisional republican government established in Russia
  1923 Miguel Primo de River becomes dictator of Spain (1923-1930)
  1930 Nazis gain 107 seats in German elections
  1932 Arturo Alessandri stages a coup in Chile
  1938 Maiden flight of Graf Zeppelin II, world's largest airship
  1938 Navy N2C-2 radio drone makes a simulated dive-bombing attack on target ship Utah
  1940 FDR signs the first U.S. peacetime draft bill.
  1940 German bomb hits a shelter in Chelsea; 100s die
  1942 First US air raid on Kiska, from Adak
  1942 Guadalcanal, Bloody Ridge: Japanese retire
  1942 New Guinea: Aussies fall back on the Kokoda Trail, to the Imita Ridge.
  1943 New Guinea: Heavy fighting around Lae.
  1945 Ticker tape parade on Broadway for General Jonathan Wainwright.
  1957 UN resolution deplores and condemns Soviet invasion of Hungary
  1960 Coup by Col Joseph Desire Mobutu in the Congo, puts him in control until 1997
  1960 OPEC is formed: Iraq, Iran, Kuwait, Saudi-Arabia, & Venezuela unite to control oil prices
  1966 Vietnam: Operation Attleboro begins against VC sanctuaries on the Cambodian Border
  1973 Israel shoots down 13 Syrian MIG-21s
15 1054 Battle of Atapuerca: Leon-Castile defeats Navarre
  1448 Battle of Caravaggio: Muzio Attendolo Sforza defeats the Venetians
  1590 Giambattista Castagna elected Pope as Urban VII (15 Sep-27 Sep 1590)
  1596 The Earl of Essex sacks Cadiz
  1631 Tilly takes Leipzig
  1644 Giambattista Pamfili elected Pope as Innocent X (1644-1655)
  1694 Venetians capture Chios from the Turks
  1776 British troops land at Kip's Bay, New York (East River & 34th St)
  1784 Vincente Lunardi, a young Neapolitan, makes the first manned balloon ascent in England, from the Artillery Ground at Moorfields
  1821 Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, & El Salvador are declared independent of Mexico
  1861 Skirmish at Pritchard's Mills, Va
  1862 Antietam Campaign: Stonewall Jackson captures Harpers Ferry
  1862 Antietam Campaign: US troops find Lee's GO No. 191, wrapping some cigars
  1873 German occupation troops leave France, following the Franco-Prussian War
  1894 Battle of Ping Yang: Japan defeats China
  1914 Battle of the Aisne begins between Germans & French
  1914 US forces evacuate Vera Cruz, Mexico
  1916 Battle of the Somme: British send tanks into action for the first time
  1923 Gov. John Walton places Oklahoma under martial law to cope with KKK terrorism
  1926 Mussolini survives an assassination attempt, but is wounded in the nose
  1931 British naval mutinies at Invergordon over pay cuts
  1935 Nuremberg Laws deprive German Jews of citizenship
  1938 Br PM Neville Chamberlain visits Hitler at Berchtesgarden
  1940 Battle of Britain: The Luftwaffe loses 185 aircraft
  1940 Hitler’s second “D-Day” for Operation Sea Lion
  1941 Nazis kill 800 Jewish women at Shkudvil, Lithuania
  1942 Unarmed windjammer Edlu II forces a u-boat to submerge off Montauk Point
  1942 US carrier Wasp (CV-7) torpedoed and sunk off Guadalcanal
  1943 Concentration Camp Chew opens in Lithuania
  1943 Concentration Camp Vaivara opens in Estonia
  1943 Japanese sub Ro-101 is sunk by US DD Saufley & two aircraft.
  1944 Marines land on Peleliu, 450 miles east of Mindanao in the Philippines
  1944 RAF hits the German BB Tirpitz with Tallboy bombs
  1944 Sofia liberated by Bulgarian and Soviet troops
  1948 F-86 Sabre sets world aircraft speech record of 1080 kph
  1950 Inchon Landing: Marines lead the attack behind North Korean lines.
  1959 Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev begins 13 day tour of the US
  1963 White supremacists bomb a Birmingham Baptist church, 4 children die
  1990 France announces it will send 4,000 troops to Persian Gulf
16 1189 Siege of Acre: Crusaders defeat an Ayyubid assault
  1503 League of Perugia: Lords of the Romagna ally against Cesare Borgia
  1512 The Medici return to power in Florence after 18 years in exile
  1714 Elisabeth Farnese marries Philip V of Spain, and becomes the mother of three dynasties (Spain, Parma, Naples)
  1776 Battle of Harlem Heights: Washington ambushes the Brits north of 125th St.
  1795 British capture Capetown from the Dutch
  1810 Grito de Delores: Fr. Hidalgo proclaims Mexican independence
  1812 Great Fire of Moscow frustrates Napoleon's attempt to hold the city
  1831 Auber's "Fra Diavolo" has its American premiere, Philadelphia
  1854 Cdr David G. Farragut opens 1st Navy Yard on the Pacific, at Mare I.
  1861 Battle of Princeton, WVa
  1864 Battle of Coggin's Point, Va
  1864 Nathan Bedford Forrest begins a raid from Verona, Ms, into Alabama & Tennessee
  1917 Navy Department authorizes 16 naval air stations to be built abroad
  1919 American Legion incorporated by an act of Congress
  1922 A “wagon bomb” detonates in front of the New York Stock Exchange, c. 40 die, c. 300 injured – case never solved
  1922 Last Greek troops evacuate Asia Minor as Turks advance
  1940 Dutch SS is formed
  1941 Nazis confine the Jews of Vilna to Ghetto
  1941 Shah Riza of Iran abdicates in favor of his son, Mohammad Reza (1941-1979)
  1942 3rd Marine Div is activated at San Diego.
  1942 New Guinea: High Tide of the Japanese advance – the Aussies hold Imita Ridge, safeguarding Port Moresby
  1943 Australian troops capture Lae, in northeastern New Guinea.
  1943 US Fifth and British Eighth Armies unite in Italy
  1944 548th Night Fighter Squadron arrives in the Marianas
  1950 Eighth Army breaks out of the Pusan Perimeter, in support of the Inchon Landing.
  1950 Viet Minh begin offensive against French bases in Vietnam
  1955 Coup ousts Juan Peron as President of Argentina
  1957 Premier Songgram deposed by a coup in Thailand
  1958 Sub Grayback fires first Regulus II cruise missile, carrying mail
  1974 Pres Ford announces conditional amnesty for Vietnam War deserters
  1999 Chechen terrorists bomb an apartment house in Volgodnosk, Russia, 17 die
17 70 Titus captures Jerusalem amid great slaughter [See births]
  530 Election of Pope Boniface II (530-532)
  1176 Battle of Miriocefalo: The Seljuks defeat the Byzantines
  1394 Jews are expelled from France by King Charles VI
  1462 Battle of Puck/Swiecin/Zarnowiec: Casimir IV of Poland defeats the Teutonic Knights
  1631 Battle of Breitenfeld: King Gustavus Adolphus defeats General Tilly
  1745 Edinburgh occupied by Jacobites under the Young Pretender
  1776 The Spanish begin building the Presidio of San Francisco
  1787 The Constitutional Convention completes its work
  1810 King Joachim Murat of Naples attempts a nocturnal amphibious assault on Sicily near Messina, which is beaten off
  1833 A Zulu impi sacks and burns the Portuguese fort at Lourenço Marques, Mozambique
  1859 San Francisco: Norton I proclaims himself Emperor of America and Protector of Mexico (1859-1880)
  1861 Combat at Blue Mills, Mo
  1861 Skirmish at Morristown, Mo
  1862 Battle of Antietam: Bloodiest day of Civil War, over 3,000 die
  1862 Battle of Cumberland Gap, Tn
  1862 Battle of Mumfordville, Ky: US Col John Wilder surrenders
  1895 Second Class Battleship Maine commissioned, blows up, 1898
  1900 Battle of Mabitac: Filipinos defeat the Americans
  1916 Seventh Battle of the Isonzo ends (from Sep 4)
  1939 German U-boat sinks British aircraft carrier Courageous
  1939 Soviet Union invades Poland
  1943 Ammunition explosion at the Norfolk Naval Air Station
  1943 B-24s bomb Tarawa, Gilbert I, from Canton and Funafuti.
  1944 Dutch begin railroad strike against German occupiers
  1944 Elms 81st Div land on Anguar, near Peleliu.
  1944 Operation Market Garden begins: Allied Airborne invasion of the Netherlands
  1944 USAAF abandons airbase at Kweilin, China, as the Japanese close in.
  1947 James Forrestal sworn in as first Secretary of Defense
  1949 North Atlantic Council meets for the first time
  1965 Premiere of "Hogan's Heroes", on CBS-TV
  1972 Premiere of "M*A*S*H", on CBS-TV
  1978 Begin, Sadat, & Carter sign Camp David Accords
  1997 Dedication of a monument commemorating the horses and mules who died in military service during the Civil War, Virginia Historical Society, Richmond
18 0 First Day of the Mysteries at Athens & Eleusis
  0 Feast of St Joseph of Cupertino, Patron of Aviators and Astronauts
  96 Marcus Cocceius Nerva is proclaimed Roman Emperor (96-98)
  327 Battle of Chrysopolis: Constantine the Great defeats Licinius, to become sole emperor
  1454 Battle of Konitz: The Teutonic Knights defeat the Poles
  1494 Prospero Colonna captures Ostia for the French from his former overlord, the Pope
  1497 Two day Battle of Exeter ends: the Earl of Devonshire defeats Perkin Warbeck
  1544 Peace of Crepy: yet another temporary halt in the Franco-Spanish Italian Wars (1494-1559)
  1631 Battle of Breitenfeld: Swedes & Saxons defeat the Imperialists
  1649 Battle of Bologna: Papal forces defeat the Parmeggiani
  1738 Peace of Vienna: Ends the War of the Polish Succession (1733-1738)
  1739 Treaty of Belgrade: Austria cedes Belgrade to Turks
  1755 French complete Ft Carillon (Ticonderoga), NY
  1778 First US treaty with an Indian nation, the Delaware
  1806 Fra Diavolo defeated by the French near Itri, Naples
  1851 The New York Times begins publication
  1858 Andorra officially ends the state of war which it had declared against Germany in 1914
  1860 Battle of Castelfidardo: Italo-Piedmontese defeat the Papal Army
  1861 Skirmish at Barboursville, WVa
  1864 Battle of Martinsburg WVa
  1864 Confderate troops under Richard M. Gano and Stand Watie massacre black hay cutters near Wagoner, Oklahoma
  1873 The Panic of 1878 begins, as major banks fail when the Railroad Bubble bursts, initiating the first "Great Depression" (1873-1879)
  1914 Battle of the Aisne: the Germans hold the French, trench warfare begins
  1914 South African troops land in German South West Africa
  1918 Battle of Megiddo begins.
  1931 Japan occupies Manchuria
  1934 USSR admitted to League of Nations
  1939 Joint German-Soviet "Victory Parade" over Poland in Brest-Litovsk
  1940 Italian troops capture Sidi Barrani
  1942 British troops land at Tamatave, Madagascar.
  1943 B-24s bomb Tarawa, in the Gilbert Islands.
  1965 "The Wackiest Ship in the Army" premiers on NBC, runs for one season
  1969 Trimaran yacht Mianna goes down at 16° 48' N, 28° 21' W
  1982 Christian militia kills 600 Palestinians in Lebanon, the Jews are blamed
  1988 Coup in Haiti
19 1319 Battle of Myton - “The White Battle": Sir James Douglas beats Archbishop Melton
  1356 Battle of Poitiers: English defeat the French
  1676 Rebels under Nathaniel Bacon burn Jamestown, Va
  1734 War of the Polish Succession: Battle of Guastella - Franco-Piedmontese-Spanish forces defeat the Austrians, to capture Milan.
  1777 Battle of Freeman's Farm (1st Battle of Saratoga)
  1796 Battle of Altenkirchen: Desperate French rearguard action against the Austrians
  1860 Battle of Caiazzo: The Garibaldini defeat the Borbons
  1862 Battle of Iuka, Miss
  1863 Battle of Chickamauga begins
  1864 3rd Battle of Winchester (Opequon), Va
  1870 Franco-Prussian War: Germans invest Paris
  1890 Turkish frigate Ertogrul burns off Japan, 540 die
  1939 British Expeditionary Force reaches France
  1939 German Army murders 100 Jews in Lukov, Poland
  1940 Nazi decree forbids gentile woman from working in Jewish homes
  1943 U.S carrier aircraft and B-24s raid Tarawa.
  1945 London: Lord Haw Haw (William Joyce) sentenced to death
  1957 First underground nuclear explosion, Nevada
  1959 Nikita Khrushchev is denied access to Disneyland
  1973 Carl XVI Gustaf succeeds to the throne of Sweden
  1988 Israel launches 1st satellite, for secret military reconnaissance
20 451 Battle of Chalons-sur-Marne: Aetius’ Romans & Theoderic’s Visigoths defeat Attila’s Huns
  480 Battle of Salamis [Alt]
  622 Mohammad's Hegira [Alt]
  1066 Battle of Fulford: Harald Haardrada of Norway defeats Earls Morcar & Edwin
  1152 The Parmesans destroy Borgo San Donnino (Fidenza)
  1183 French massacre 7,000 Brabantois mercenaries at Chateaudun
  1187 Saladin besieges Jerusalem
  1378 Cardinal Robert of Geneva becomes Anti-Pope as Clement VII, d. 1394
  1565 Spaniards capture Fort Caroline, Fla, & massacre the French settlers
  1643 Battle of Newbury: Parliamentarians defeat Royalists
  1697 Peace of Ryswick/Saki: ends the War of the League of Augsburg/Nine Year's War/War of the English Succession/King William’s War (1688-1697)
  1700 Start of the Prince of Macchia’s anti-Spanish coup at Naples (fails Sep 23)
  1703 First Battle of Hochstadt: French & Bavarians defeat the Imperialists
  1792 The Battle of Valmy: French artillery throws back a Prussian invasion.
  1797 US frigate Constitution - "Old Ironsides" - launched in Boston
  1822 José de San Martin resigns the leadership of the Revolutionary movement in Peru and goes into volutnary exile
  1850 The slave trade is abolished in the District of Columbia
  1854 Battle of the Alma: British & French defeat the Russians
  1857 British retake Delhi from the Sepoy mutineers
  1860 The Prince of Wales visits New York, causing the Fighting 69th to "mutiny"
  1861 Confederates capture Lexington, Mo (invested on the 12th)
  1862 Otto von Bismarck says Germany needs "Blood and Iron”
  1863 Battle of Chickamauga ends in Confederate victory
  1863 Battle of Shepardstown, Va.
  1870 Italian troops capture Rome from Pope Pius IX
  1881 Former New York QM General Chester Arthur sworn in as president
  1912 Montenegro invades Turkey, igniting the First Balkan War
  1941 Italian UDT teams sink three ships in Gibraltar harbor
  1950 Omar Bradley is promoted to General of the Army
  1955 "Navy Log" premiers on CBS, later moves to ABC, runs for three seasons
  1955 "You'll Never Get Rich" premieres on CBS (“Sgt Bilko”)
  1979 Emperor Bokassa I of the Central African Empire ( Dec 4, 1976 - Sep 20, 1979)
  1984 Hezbollah suicide bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, 25 die
21 1096 Xerigordon [Nicaea] invested by the Seljuks (falls 29th)
  1348 Jews in Zurich are accused of poisoning wells
  1435 Peace of Arras: th Burgundians accept Charles VII as King of France
  1451 Cardinal Nicholas of Cusa orders Jews of Holland to wear a distinctive badge
  1499 Peace of Basel: The Hapsburgs recognize the autonomy of Switzerland
  1529 Austrians drive the Turks from the gates of Vienna
  1589 Battle of Arques: French Huguenots defeat the Catholics
  1676 Benedetto Odescalchi elected Pope as Innocent XI (1676-1689), later beatified
  1745 Battle of Preston Pans: Jacobites defeat the Hanoverians in ten minutes
  1776 Great Fire of New York: five days after the British occupy the city
  1780 Benedict Arnold gives British Major John Andre the plans to West Point
  1792 French National Convention abolishes the monarchy
  1821 Costa Rica, Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador declare independence of Spain
  1858 Sloop Niagara carries Black freedmen from Charleston, bound for Liberia
  1860 Battle of Balikiao: Anglo-French troops defeat the Chinese
  1861 Combat at Pappinsville, Mo
  1863 Union forces retreat to Chattanooga after defeat at Chickamauga
  1872 James H. Conyers becomes the first black USNA cadet
  1896 Lord Kitchener captures Dongala from the Mahdists
  1913 Turkey & Bulgaria sign peace treaty in Constantinople, ending the Second Balkan War
  1940 Initial D-Day for “Operation Sealion” - Hitler’s invasion of Britain
  1941 Launch of the first Liberty, SS Patrick Henry
  1942 Burma: Commonwealth offensive in the Arakan.
  1942 Maiden flight of the B-29
  1942 Nazis execute 116 hostages in Paris
  1943 Aussie raiders in 6 canoes sink two ships with mines in Singapore.
  1944 Last British paratroopers holding the bridge at Arnhem surrender
  1944 Luzon: air strikes from 12 TF 38 carriers against Japanese targets.
  1949 Federal Republic of Germany established
  1949 People's Republic of China proclaimed
  1950 George C. Marshall becomes Secretary of Defense
  1957 Olav V assumes the throne of Norway
  1964 Malta, G.C., gains its independence from Britain
  1972 Pres Ferdinand Marcos imposes martial law in Philippines
22 0 Feast of St. Maurice, veteran and Patron of Infantry
  0 Feast of St. Maurice, veteran and Patron of Infantry
  66 Nero forms the legio I Italica
  1236 Battle of Siauliai: Lithuanians & Semigallians defeat the Brothers of the Sword
  1460 Battle of San Fabiano: The Bracceschi defeat the Aragonese
  1503 Francesco Todeschini Piccolomini elected Pope as Pius III (22 Sep-18 Oct 1503)
  1609 Spain orders Moslems to convert or leave the country
  1776 John Paul Jones & USS Providence raid Br ships in Canso Bay, N.S.
  1793 The French Committee of Public Safety orders the Ministers of Marine, War, and Interior to prepare to land l00,000 men on the shores of England
  1861 Skirmish at Elliott's Mills/Camp Crittenden, Mo
  1862 President Lincoln issues preliminary Emancipation Proclamation
  1864 Battle of Fisher's Hill, Va: Gen Early Retreats to Brown's Gap
  1864 Sheridan sets up camp in Harrisonburg, Va
  1868 Race riots in New Orleans
  1905 Race riot in Atlanta, 10 blacks & 2 whites die
  1906 Race riot in Atlanta, 21 die
  1908 Bulgaria declares independence from the Ottoman Empire
  1914 German sub sinks British cruisers Aboukir, Cressy, & Hogue, 1,397 die
  1914 SMS Emden shells Madras in India
  1942 Madagascar: Vichyite troops abandon Tananarive and withdraw south
  1943 Br midget subs attack German BB Tirpitz in Norwegian waters
  1943 Kate Smith's 13 hour radio appeal sells $39 million in war bonds
  1944 Boulogne liberated by the Allies
  1949 First Russian atomic bomb explosion
  1950 Omar Bradley is promoted to General of the Army
  1958 Elvis arrives at the Brooklyn Army Terminal, to board a transport for Germany
  1961 The Peace Corps is established
  1964 Premiere of "The Man From U.N.C.L.E." on NBC-TV
  1975 Sarah Jane Moore attempts to assassinate Pres. Gerald Ford
  1980 Iraq invades Iran, beginning an eight year war
  1995 AWACS crashes on takeoff, Elmendorf AFB, 24 die
23 0 Feast of St. Phocas, Patron of Sailors
  480 Battle of Salamis [Alt]
  1122 Concordat of Worms: Pope Callistus II and HRE Henry V end the Investiture Controversy
  1325 Battle of Altopascio: The Luccans defeat the Florentines
  1459 Battle of Blore Heath: the Earl of Salisbury’s Yorkists beat Lord Audley’s Lancastrians
  1642 Battle of Powick Bridge: Prince Rupert of the Rhine defeats Col John Brown & the Earl of Essex 
  1700 Spanish crush the Prince of Macchia's coup in Naples (began Sep 20)
  1779 Celebrated duel bewtween John Paul Jones' Bonhomme Richard & HMS Serapis
  1780 Maj. John Andre is captured, revealing Benedict Arnold's treason
  1803 Battle of Assaye: Wellington's Anglo-Indian forces beat Maratha Army
  1806 Frederick Marryat joins the Royal Navy
  1806 Lewis & Clark Expedition ends at St Louis
  1846 Mexican uprising against American occupation at Los Angeles
  1857 Russian warship Leffort disappears in a storm off Finland, 826 die
  1861 Combat at Romney, WVa
  1862 Otto von Bismarck becomes Minister President of Prussia
  1863 Confederates begin investment of Chattanooga
  1864 Battle of Athens VA
  1865 Harney Lake Valley, Ore: Skirmish between US troops & Indians
  1868 Grito de Lares: abortive Puerto Rican uprising against Spain
  1915 Serbian troops begin retreating into Albania pursued by Austro-German-Bulgarian forces
  1931 Navy tests its first rotary wing aircraft, an XOP-1 autogiro, on Langley
  1940 Dutch fascist leader Musserts meets Hitler for the first time
  1941 Charles de Gaulle forms a French government-in-exile in London
  1941 Kronstadt: German air raid sinks the Russian BB Marat
  1942 Auschwitz begins experimental gassing executions
  1942 Madagascar: British & Free French occupy Tananarive
  1973 Juan Peron again becomes President of Argentina
  1979 Jane Fonda & 200,000 attend anti-nuclear rally in Battery Park, NYC
  1996 "JAG" premiers on NBC, later moves to CBS, runs for ten seasons
24 1066 Harald Haardrada’s Norwegians capture York
  1143 Guido del Castello elected Pope as Celestine II (1143-44)
  1180 Alexius II Comnenus becomes Byzantine Emperor (1180-1183)
  1258 Triumphal entry of Ezzelino da Romano into Brescia
  1400 Battle of Welshpool: Henry Burnell defeats Owen Glendower 
  1625 Spanish repulse Dutch attack on San Juan, Puerto Rico
  1664 The English capture Nieuw Amsterdam from the Dutch
  1683 King Louis XIV expels all Jews from French America
  1794 Pres Washington orders the militia out to suppress the Whiskey Rebellion.
  1864 Battle of Pilot Knob, Mo
  1864 Confederate general Sterling Price begins invasion of Missouri
  1918 Ens David S. Ingalls becomes the first USN ace, in a Sopwith Camel, while seconded to the Royal Air Force
  1929 Lt James H Doolittle makes the first all-instrument flight, Brooklyn
  1942 Valeriia Khomiakova, of the 586th Fighter Regiment, becomes the first women to down an enemy aircraft in combat, flying a Yak 1 on her first mission
  1942 "Chesty" Puller's Marines engage Japanese on Mt. Austen, Guadalcanal
  1943 Soviet forces liberate Smolensk
  1943 Sub Cabrilla damages Japanese escort carrier Taiyo near Japan.
  1944 San Marino declares war on Germany
  1948 Mildred "Axis Sally" Gillars pleads innocent in Washington
  1950 Operation Magic Carpet: the Jews of Yemen are taken to Israel
  1960 USS Enterprise (CVN-65) is launched, the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier
  1982 US, Italian, & French peacekeeping troops begin arriving in Lebanon
25 233 Triumph of the Emperor Severus Alexander for his victories over the Persians
  1066 Battle of Stamford Bridge: Harold of England defeats Harald of Norway
  1143 Election of Guido del Casetllo as Pope as Celestine II (1143-1144)
  1396 Battle of Nicopolis: Sultan Bayazid I defeats Crusaders
  1493 Columbus begins his second voyage to the New World
  1526 Battle of Governolo: Italians under Giovanni degli Bande Nere defeat the Imperialists
  1555 Peace of Augsburg: truce in Protestant-Catholic tensions in the HRE
  1598 Battle of Stangebro: Swedes defeat King Sigismund, ending union with Poland
  1839 France recognizes the Republic of Texas
  1846 Zachary Taylor's army occupies Monterrey, Mexico
  1857 Relief of Lucknow by Havelock & Outram
  1861 Combat at Chapmansville, WVa
  1861 SecNav Welles authorizes the enlistment of former slaves
  1911 French battleship Liberte blows up at Toulon, 226 die
  1937 Mussolini visits Berlin
  1939 German Luftwaffe fire bombs Warsaw
  1940 Vidkun Quisling establishes a quisling-government in Norway
  1942 Australian troops open an offensive along the Kokoda Trail
  1957 Little Rock: 300 troops escort nine black students to Central High School
  1983 Mass escape of 38 IRA prisoners from a British prison near Belfast
  1987 Fiji: Maj Gen Sitiveni Rabuka's second coup
  2002 Islamist gunmen kill 7 Christians in Karachi, Pakistan
26 266 Triumph of D. Iunius Pera for defeat of the Umbrians
  1371 Battle of the Maritsa: Turks defeat the Serbs
  1396 Sultan Bajezid I beheads hundreds of Crusaders
  1414 King Henry V prohibits the export of gunpowder from England
  1527 Battle of Tokay: Archduke Ferdinand of Hapsburg defeats King John Zapolya of Hungary
  1575 Cervantes is captured by Algerine pirates & held for ransom
  1580 Sir Francis Drake's 34 month circumnavigation ends at Plymouth
  1687 The Parthenon is partially destroyed during the Venetian siege of Turkish-held Athens
  1777 British troops occupy Philadelphia during the American Revolution
  1781 First Royal visit to America: Pr. William Henry [later King William IV], a Royal Navy officer, arrives at New York with the British fleet during the Revolution
  1799 Second Battle of Zurich: French defeat the Austro-Russians
  1815 Prussia, Russia, & Austria form the "Holy Alliance" to suppress liberalism
  1861 Skirmish at Lucas Bend, Ky
  1918 US begins Meuse-Argonne offensive against Germans
  1918 USCGC Tampa lost at sea with 118 men, probably to a German submarine
  1925 Italian submarine Sebastiano Veniero lost off Sicily, 54 die
  1940 Japanese troops occupy French Indo-China
  1941 Nazis initiate murder of about 34,000 Jews at Babi Yar, near Kiev
  1943 Japanese TB Kasasagi sunk off Flores, Netherlands East Indies
  1950 UN troops liberate Seoul
  1953 Polish communist government arrests Cardinal Wyszynski
  1953 US and Spain sign a mutual defense treaty
  1989 Last Vietnamese soldier leaves Cambodia
27 1130 Pope Innocent II grants Sicily to Count Ruggero II of Calabria, when he conquers it
  1414 Gaeta concludes an armistice with Count Giacomo of Fondi
  1540 Pope Paul III approves the formation of the Society of Jesus
  1604 Battle of Kircholm: Poles defeat Charles IX of Sweden
  1777 Battle of Germantown: Washington is defeated by the British in a close fight
  1779 John Adams negotiates Revolutionary War peace terms with Britain
  1810 Battle of Busaco: Wellesley's Anglo-Portuguese defeat the French
  1821 Mexico attains independence
  1863 Cavalry action at Moffat's Station, Arkansas
  1864 Centralia Massacre: “Bloody Bill” Anderson’s Rebel partisans massacre Union prisoners
  1866 “Empress” Carlotta of Mexico meets with Pope Pius IX, but fails to secure his support for her husband Maximilian, but does get to spend the night in the Vatican palace
  1923 Italian troops evacuate Corfu
  1935 Typhoon hits Japanese fleet during maneuvers, 52 die
  1936 Spanish Nationalists lift the siege of the Alcazar of Toledo
  1938 Jewish lawyers forbidden to practice in Germany
  1938 League of Nations declares Japan the aggressor in "China Incident"
  1939 Warsaw surrenders to Germans after 19 days of resistance
  1940 Black leaders protest discrimination in US armed forces
  1940 Tripartite Pact: Nazi Germany, Italy, & Japan sign a formal alliance
  1942 Japanese aircraft bomb Marine positions on Guadalcanal.
  1942 Papua: Japanese fall back from Ioribaiwa on the Kokoda Trail.
  1944 Jewish US Army Nurse Reba Tobiason is captured by Germans near Aachen; later exchanged, she is the only military woman captured in the ETO
  1957 The end of the world
  1962 US sells Hawk anti-aircraft missiles to Israel
  1991 Pres GHW Bush ends full-time airborne B-52 bomber alert
  1996 The Taliban capture Kabul, installing an Islamist theocracy in Afghanistan
28 61 First day of Pompey’s Third Triumph: For the defeat of Mithridates
  1066 William the Conqueror lands in England, with about 10,000 friends
  1238 King Jaime I of Aragon liberates Valencia from the Moors
  1322 Battle of Muhldorf: Duke Frederick von Hapsburg of Austria is defeated by his rival for the German crown, Duke Louis IV of Bavaria
  1484 Condottiero Obbietto Fieschi captures Bosco di Corniglio
  1687 The Turks surrender Athens to the Venetians
  1745 Battle of Bassignana: The French & Spanish defeat the Piedmontese
  1781 Siege of Yorktown begins: last major battle of the Revolutionary War
  1806 French defeat Fra Diavolo near Itri
  1822 US Sloop-of-war Peacock captures 5 pirate vessels in the Caribbean
  1823 Annibale della Genga elected Pope as Leo XII (1723-1729)
  1850 Congress outlaws flogging in the Navy and Merchant Marine
  1864 Battle of Fort Harrison/Chaffin's Farm/New Market Heights (ends 30th)
  1868 Battle of Alcolea: Queen Isabella II of Spain flees to France
  1868 Opelousa Massacre, St Landry Parish, Louisiana: 200 blacks killed by white supremacists
  1871 Chochise and the Chiricahua Apache make peace
  1889 Carlos I crowned King of Portugal (1889-1908)
  1901 Balangiga, Samar: 48 of 78 men of Co. C., 9th Inf, killed by Filipino insurgents
  1906 US troops occupy Cuba, stay until 1909
  1914 Germans occupy Antwerp, as Anglo-Belgian troops withdraw
  1918 Pte Henry Tandey fails to kill Adolf Hitler, while earning a VC near Marcoing
  1919 Pres Wilson has a stroke
  1922 Fascists stage the "March on Rome"
  1923 US Navy aircraft take first and second places in the Schneider Cup Race
  1924 Two US Army planes end around-world flight, Seattle to Seattle, 57 stops
  1943 Japanese minelayer Hoko is sunk east of Buka by U.S. Army aircraft
  1944 Burma: British XV Corps resumes the offensive in the Arakan
  1944 SS-Maj Reder supervises mass murders at Marzabotto, Italy
29 0 Feast of St Michael the Archangel, Patron of Soldiers & of St Gabriel the Archangel, Patron of Diplomats and Signalmen 
  61 Second Day of Pompey’s Third Triumph: for the defeat of the Pirates
  440 Consecration of Pope Leo I “The Great” (440-461), later canonized
  855 Consecration of Pope Benedict III (855-859)
  1096 Xerigordon [Nicaea], invested on the 21st, falls to the Seljuks, who slaughter all who refuse to convert to Islam
  1106 Battle of Tinchebrai: King Henry I of England defeats his brother Robert.
  1259 Battle of Cassano d’Adda: Ezzelino da Romano is captured by his numerous enemies
  1349 Jews of Krems, Austria, accused of poisoning wells
  1364 Battle of Auray: Anglo-Bretons defeat the Franco-Bretons
  1399 Richard II is coerced into abdicating in favor of his cousin Henry IV
  1744 Battle of Madonna dell'Olmo: The Spanish defeat the Piedmontese
  1813 William Henry Harrison recaptures Detroit from the British
  1860 Ancona surrenders to the Piedmontese
  1861 Skirmish at Munson's Hill, Va: 69th Pa accidentally fires on the 71st Pa, 9 die
  1864 Battle of Waynesboro & New Market Heights, Va
  1872 Kiowa chief Lone Wolf captures Satanta & Big Tree
  1918 NY’s 27th Div makes a decisive breakthrough of the Hindenburg Line at the San Quintin Tunnel
  1961 Syria secedes from the UAR
  1962 JFK authorizes use of federal troops to integrate Ole Miss
  1988 UN Peacekeepers win the Nobel Peace Prize
30 489 Battle of Verona: King Odoacer of Italy defeated by Theodoric the Ostrogoth
  1158 Battle of Galloway: Roland defeats Gilcolm
  1399 King Richard II of England abdicates, under pressure
  1659 Robinson Crusoe is shipwrecked, fictionally
  1691 The French capture Strassbourg
  1707 Austrians take Gaeta from the Spanish by storm
  1745 Battle of Soor: Prussians defeat the Austrians
  1777 Congress flees to York as the British advance in Pennsylvania
  1787 Ship Columbia leaves Boston to begin America’s first round-the-world voyage (returns three years later)
  1797 The Neapolitan Army libertes Rome from the French
  1835 Battle of Gonzales: Texians rout Mexicans, touching off Texas Revolution
  1857 US annexes Sand, Baker, Howland, & Jarvis Is, south of Hawaii
  1862 Battle of Newtonia, Ms
  1864 Battle of Preble's Farm/Poplar Springs Church, Va,
  1867 Midway Island formally declared a US possession
  1899 Tumultuous reception in New York for Admiral of the Navy George Dewey
  1914 The Army disbands the Seminole Negro Indian Scouts, after 44 years of service
  1936 USS Brooklyn (CL-40) commissioned, in Brooklyn (where else?)
  1938 Munich Agreement: Czechoslovakia surrenders Sudetenland to Germany
  1942 Japanese make their first airstrike against Adak, in the Aleutians.
  1944 Calais liberated by Allies
  1946 Judgement at Nuremberg: 22 Nazi leaders found guilty
  1949 Berlin Airlift ends after 277,000 flights
  1949 US officially disbands the Philippine Scouts
  1951 USS Monitor, sunk Dec 31, 1862, formally declared "out of commission"
  1954 USS Nautilus (SSN-571) is commissioned
  1966 Nazi war criminals Albert Speer & Baldur von Schirach released from Spandau prison after 20-years
  1993 Chairman of the JCS Gen. Colin Powell retires
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