Today in Military History
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Born
| 1800 | John Brown, abolitionist. Hanged, 1859 | | 1824 | William Edmonson "Grumble" Jones, Brig Gen, C.S.A. | | 1843 | Belle Boyd, Confederate spy | | 1882 | Henry J. Kaiser, master ship builder | | 1892 | Zita, last Empress of Austria & Queen of Hungary | | 1907 | Baldur von Schirach, Nazi youth leader | | 1921 | Sophie Scholl, “White Rose” anti-Nazi, executed 1943 | | 1925 | Peter Leng, Master General of the Ordnance |
Died
| 480 | Roman Emperor Julius Nepos (474-475/480) | | 1280 | King Magnus VI of Norway (1263-80), at 42 | | 1688 | Frederick William “The Great” Elector of Brandenburg, at 67 | | 1766 | The Comte de Lally, executed at Paris | | 1864 | Maj. Gen. John Sedgwick, kia at 50, though smaller than an elephant | | 1949 | Prince Louis II Onorato of Monaco (1921-1949), French soldier & general, at 78 | | 1992 | Marlene Dietrich, anti-Nazi, at 91 |
Event
| 48 | BC Caesar retreats from Dyracchium | | 1386 | Treaty of Windsor: England & Portugal initiate the world’s most enduring alliance | | 1609 | Dutch & Spanish conclude the "Twelve Years' Truce" | | 1671 | Col. Thomas Blood attempts to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London | | 1812 | Napoleon leaves Paris to join his army for the invasion of Russia | | 1846 | Mexican War: Battle of Resaca de la Palma | | 1849 | Battle of Palestrina: The Garibaldini defeat the Neapolitans | | 1861 | US Naval Academy moves from Annapolis to Newport, aboard the USS Constitution | | 1862 | Battle of Farmington, Ms | | 1862 | Confederates evacuate Ft Pickens, Pensacola | | 1864 | Battle of Cloyd's Mt | | 1864 | Battle of Dalton, Ga | | 1864 | Battle of Swift Creek/Drewery's Bluff/Ft Darling, Va | | 1864 | Naval battle of Helgoland: Tegethoff’s Austrians defeat the Danes | | 1898 | Havana: US ships & Spanish batteries exchange fire | | 1911 | Mexican Revolutionaries invest Ciudad Juarez (to May 11) | | 1915 | Battle of Artois begins | | 1916 | Sykes-Picot Agreement: Brits & French divide up the Ottoman Empire | | 1926 | Lt Cdr Richard Byrd & CMM Floyd Bennett fly over the North Pole | | 1936 | Italian troops occupy Addis Abeba, securing Ethiopia | | 1942 | USS Wasp launches 47 RAF Spitfires to reinforce Malta | | 1944 | Japanese capture Lushan & the Peking-Hankow RR | | 1945 | Czechoslovakia liberated from Nazi occupation | | 1945 | Isle of Jersey liberated from the Nazis | | 1946 | Victor Emmanuel III of Italy abdicates in favor of his son Umberto II, who reigns one month | | 1949 | Foreign Legion veteran Rainier III becomes Prince of Monaco | | 1955 | German Federal Republic joins NATO | | 1964 | Khrushchev visits Egypt |
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