TODAY IN MILITARY HISTORY

58	BC	Caesar arrived at Geneva, from which he began the conquest of Gaul
47	BC	Battle of the Nile: Caesar & Pharnaces defeat an Egypto-Optimate Army
19	BC	Triumph of Lucius Cornelisu Balbus the Younger, for victories in Africa; the last triumph held for anyone not a member of the imperial family -- Learn More
0		Armed Forces Day in Myanmar
0		Feast of St. Rupert of Salzburg, Patron of Salzburg and of Salt Miners
1555		Marcello Cervini degli Spannochi elected Pope as Marcellus II (Mar 27-May 6 1555)
1599		Elizabeth names her favorite, the Earl of Essex, Lt-Gen of Ireland
1625		Charles I ascends the English and Scottish thrones, deposed and executed 1649
1794		Congress approves construction of 6 frigates, including USS 'Constitution'
1799		USS 'Constitution' recaptures the American sloop 'Neutrality' from the French
1802		the Wars of the French Revolution ended with the Treaty of Amiens -- Learn More
1814		Andrew Jackson defeated the Muscogee/Creek Indians in the Battle of Horseshoe Bend - Learn More
1863		Confederate President Jefferson Davis declares a day of fasting & prayer
1865		Lincoln, generals Grant and Sherman, and admiral Porter met on the steamer 'River Queen' to plan the end of the Civil War -- Learn More
1865		Battle of Mobile/Spanish Fort/Fort Morgan/Fort Blakely
1933		Japan leaves the League of Nations
1937		Pope Pius XI publishes anti-Nazi encyclical "Mit brennender Sorge"
1940		Himmler orders building of the Auschwitz concentration camp
1941		Britain leases bases in Trinidad to US for 99 years
1941		Coup in Yugoslavia ousts Prince Paul's pro-Nazi regime, prompting Hitler to order an invasion
1941		Takeo Yoshikawa begins spying on US installations on Oahu
1942		Ceylon: Adm. James Somerville takes over the British Far Eastern Fleet
1942		following heavy air attacks, the Royal Navy & the Commandos raided St. Nazaire, France -- Learn More
1943		US troops attack Fonduk Pass, Tunisia
1944		The Nazis murders 40 Jewish policemen in Riga, deport the Jewish children of Lovno, murder 2,000 Jews in Kauna, and transport 1,000 Jews from Drancy, France. to Auschwitz
1945		B-29s begin mining Japanese waters
1945		Wiesbaden falls to the US XX Corps
1945		The last German V-2 rocket attack on Britain: 134 people, many of them Jewish, are killed Whitechapel, London
1952		Attempted assassination of West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer
1958		First Secretary of the CP (since 1953) Nikita Khrushchev becomes premier of the USSR (1958-1964)
1964		UN peacekeeping troops arrive on Cyprus

BORN

972		King Robert II "the Pious" or "the Wise" of France (996-1031)
1196		Sviatoslav Vsevolodovich of Vladimir, Prince of Novgorod (1200-1205, 1207-1210), Grand Prince of Vladimir-Suzdal (1246-1248), deposed, d. 1252)
1746		Carlo Maria Buonaparte, Corsican lawyer who had a famous son, d. 1785
1785		Louis-Charles, Prince Royal of France, who didn't become King Louis XVII of France, d. 1795.
1799		Alessandro Ferrero La Marmora, Italian soldier, founder of the Bersaglieri, d. 1855
1823		Samuel Kosciusko Zook, Brig Gen, U.S., d/w, Gettysburg, 1863
1893		Dragoljub "Draza" Mihailovic, Chetnik and Nazi collaborator, executed 1946
1894		René Paul Fonck, Allied WW I "Ace of Aces" (74 confirmed kills, >30 more possibles), d. 1953
1895		Roland Aubrey Leighton, British soldier-poet, friend to Vera Britten, d/w in the Worcesters 1915
2007		Charlotte Winters, last surviving WW I "Yeomanette", at 109

DIED

47	BC	Ptolemy XIII of Egypt (c. 15), brother and husband to Cleopatra, drowned in the Nile fleeing Caesar's troops
965		Count Arnulf I "Le Vieux" of Flanders, c. 75
1211		King Sancho I of Portugal (1185-1211), at 56
1350		King Alfonso XI of Castile, León, and Galicia (1311-1350), c. 48, of Plague at Gibraltar
1378		Pope Gregory XI - Pierre Roger de Beaufort (1371-1378), c. 42, who ended the "Babylonian Captivity" of the Papacy in Avignon
1701		Anne Hilarion de Cotentin, the Count of Tourville, French Admiral, at 58
1729		Duke Leopold of Lorraine and Bar (1690-1729), 49
1834		John Shipp, British soldier and military reformer, died at c. 50 -- Learn More
1836		James Walker Fannin, Jr. (c. 32), inept commander, and c. 320 other Texians, executed at Goliad
1854		Duke Carlo III Ferdinando of Parma & Piacenza (1848-1854), 31, assassinated
1900		Pieter Joubert, Boer Commander, at 69
1942		John W. Wilcox, Jr., 60, Rear Adm, USN, washed overboard from the stern of the battleship 'Washington' (BB 56) in the North Atlantic
1947		Brig. Gen. Oliver Lyman Spaulding, American soldier-scholar, at 71 -- Learn More
1968		Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the first person in space, at 31 in an airplane crash
1991		Aldo Ray (Aldo Da Re), 64, veteran, actor ("What Did You Do in the War, Daddy")