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Born
1817 Richard B Garnett, Brig Gen, C.S.A., KIA, July 3, 1863
1828 William McComb, Brig Gen, C.S.A., d. 1918
1831 John Franklin Miller, Brig Gen, U.S., in 1886
1834 Joseph Jackson Bartlett, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1893
1854 Giacomo Della Chiesa - Pope Benedict XV , d. 1922
1914 Michael Grant, historian (“Gladiators”), d. 2004

Died
53 BC Marcus Licinius Crassus, probably not by molten gold poured down his throat
1910 Count Leo Tolstoy, veteran, in a train station
1916 Franz Joseph, Emperor of Austria & King of Hungary (1848-1916)

Event
235 Accession of Pope St. Anterus (21 Nov 235-3 Jan 236)
1338 Robin Hood is enrolled as an archer in the Isle of Wight garrison.
1521 Battle of Bicocca: Prospero Colonna's Italo-Spanish army crushes the French & Swiss
1818 Tsar Alexander I proposes a Jewish state in Palestine
1914 Battle of the Kolubara begins: Serbs defeat the second Austrian invasion by Dec 15th, routing two armies
1918 German ammunition trains explode in Hamont, Belgium, 1,750 die
1918 The German High Seas Fleet is interned at Scapa Flo, Scotland
1920 Mussolini's Blackshirts kill 11 political opponents in Bologna
1942 ALCAN Highway official opened
1943 Operation Galvanic: Marines in heavy fighting on Tarawa, National Guardsmen advance on Makin, while Marines land on Abemama, 75 mi SE of Tarawa.
1981 Amsterdam: 400,000 demonstrate for Peace through Disarmament
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