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Today in Military History
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Born
| 35 | Marcus Cocceius Nerva, Roman Emperor (96-98) | | 1572 | Duke Johan Sigismund of Prussia | | 1622 | King Charles X Gustav of Sweden (1654-1660) | | 1817 | Claudius Wistar Sears, Brig Gen, C.S.A. d. 1891 | | 1829 | Samuel Wylie Crawford, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1892 | | 1830 | Oliver Otis Howard, Maj Gen, U.S., historian, d. 1909 | | 1900 | Margaret Mitchell, novelist("GWTW"), who had a grandfather at Gettysburg |
Died
| 1226 | King Louis VIII "the Lion" of France (1223-26) | | 1555 | Gian Giacomo Medici “Il Medeghino” – condottiero, poisoned at c. 60 | | 1653 | Tideo Marescotti, Patrician of Bologna, assassinated | | 1933 | Shah Mohammed Nadir of Afghanistan, assassinated | | 1945 | FM August von Mackensen, Conqueror of Romania in 1916, Nazi stooge | | 1986 | Vyacheslav M. Molotov, the Oldest Old Bohlshevik, at 96 |
Event
| 392 | Emperor Theodosius bans pagan worship and ends the Olympic Games | | 641 | The Arabs capture Alexandria | | 1443 | Battle of Monteluro: Muzio Attendolo Sforza defeats the League of the Porta Giovia | | 1519 | Hernan Cortez enters Tenochtitlan and meets Motecuhzoma | | 1620 | Battle of White Mountain: Bohemians defeated by the Imperialists | | 1789 | Elijah Craig brews something interesting, Bourbon County, Ky | | 1805 | Battle of Maria Zell: French defeat the Austrians | | 1805 | The Lewis & Clark Expedition reaches the Pacific Ocean | | 1861 | Battle of Mount Ivy, Ky | | 1861 | Capt Charles Wilkes removes Confederate agents from British steamer Trent | | 1923 | Hitler’s “Munich Beer Hall Putsch" | | 1924 | Austria chancellor Ignaz Seipel, resigns after an assassination attempt | | 1939 | Hitler escapes assassination at the Burgerbraukeller, Munich | | 1940 | The RAF bombs Munich | | 1942 | Hitler proclaims the fall of Stalingrad, somewhat permaturely | | 1942 | Operation Torch: U.S. and British forces land in northwestern Africa | | 1944 | Hungary "lends" 25,000 Jews to the Germans for forced labor | | 1950 | Lt. Russell J. Brown's F-86 scores a North Korean MiG-15 in history’s first jet-on-jet combat | | 1956 | The UN demands the USSR leave Hungary, and is ignored | | 1990 | President GHW Bush orders 100,000 additional US troops to the Persian Gulf |
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