| 0 | | ANZAC Day -- http://trevorcollens.photoshelter.com/gallery-image/ANZAC/G0000iSxO1u6UcAE/I0000WwIbO5gxg6g |
| 404 | BC | BC - Athens surrenders to Sparta, ending the Peloponnesian War (431-404 BC) |
| 1283 | | Siege of Bere Castle: The English defeat the Welsh |
| 1464 | | War of the Roses - Battle of Hedgeley Moor: Marquess of Montague's Yorkists defeat the Duke of Somerset's Lancastrians |
| 1591 | | The Moroccans take Timbuktu |
| 1607 | | Battle of Gibraltar Bay: the Dutch fleet defeats the Spanish & Portuguese |
| 1626 | | Battle of the Dessauer Bridge: Albrecht von Wallenstein defeats Graf von Mansfeld |
| 1707 | | Battle of Almansa: Borbonists defeat the Hapsburgists to secure the control of Spain |
| 1792 | | First execution by guillotine in France |
| 1861 | | 7th NY & 8th Massachusetts arrive in Washington |
| 1861 | | Battle of Lavaca, TX |
| 1861 | | Pvt Samuel Young enlists, to retire Jan 9, 1904, as Lt Gen. |
| 1862 | | Farragut occupies New Orleans, La |
| 1864 | | Battle of Marks' Mill, Arkansas (Camden Expedition) |
| 1875 | | Combat on the Pecos: Lt. John L. Bullis and Black Seminole Indian Scouts SGT John Ward, Trumpeter Isaac Payne, & PVT Pompey Factor rout c. 25-30 Lipan Indian raiders, for which the Scouts are awarded the Medal of Honor |
| 1881 | | 250,000 sign petitions to bar foreign Jews from entering Germany |
| 1914 | | First USN air combat mission: Lt. Patrick Bellinger conducts a reconnaissance over Veracruz, receiving some damage from machine gun fire. |
| 1915 | | Gallipoli Campaign: 78,000 British & ANZAC troops undertake an amphibious landing -- Learn More |
| 1925 | | Paul von Hindenburg becomes president of Germany (1925-1934) |
| 1926 | | Coronation of Reza Pahlavi as Shah of Persia (1925-1941) |
| 1927 | | Spain sends 20,000 reinforcements to Morocco to battle the Riffian Rebels |
| 1942 | | Burma: Chinese troops fail to the halt Japanese before Lashio. |
| 1942 | | Doolittle Mission: CVs Hornet & Enterprise return to Pearl Harbor |
| 1944 | | New Britain: 1st Marine Div relieved by the 40th Infantry Div |
| 1945 | | First UN Session: 45 countries convene in San Francisco |
| 1945 | | Japanese rout Chinese forces at Wuking. |
| 1945 | | Last Boeing B-17 attack against Nazi Germany |
| 1945 | | The Red Army completely surrounds Berlin |
| 1945 | | US & Soviet forces meet at Torgau on the Elbe River |
| 1951 | | Korean War: After an heroic four day defense of Hill 235, 39 survivors of the Gloucestershire Regiment reach safety |
| 1960 | | USS Triton completes first submerged circumnavigation of the globe |
| 1962 | | Christmas Island: US resumes above ground nuclear testing |
| 1974 | | Portuguese strongman Antonio Salazar (1932-1974) ousted |
| 1975 | | Stockholm: Terrorist attack on the West German embassy |
| 1982 | | Israel completes Sinai withdrawal, in accordance with Camp David accords |
| 1993 | | Boris Yeltsin elected President of Russia (1993-1999) |
| 1214 | | King Louis IX of France (1226-70) - "Saint Louis" |
| 1228 | | Holy Roman Emperor Conrad IV (1237-54) |
| 1284 | | King Edward II of England (1307-27) |
| 1599 | | Oliver Cromwell, "Lord Protector" of England (1653-58), d. 1658, general, dictator, & genocider |
| 1725 | | Admiral Viscount Augustus Keppel, RN (1726-1786) |
| 1840 | | James Dearing, Brig Gen, C.S.A., the last Confederate general kia, 1865 |
| 1914 | | Marcos Perez Jimenez, general, dictator of Venezuela (1952-1958), d. 2001 |
| 1295 | | King Sancho IV ?the Brave? Castille & Leon (1287-1295), c. 38 |
| 1553 | | Fabio Malvizzi, Patrician of Bologna, executed |
| 1607 | | Adm. Don Juan Álvarez de Ávila, of Spain, drowned, Battle of Gibraltar |
| 1607 | | Jacob van Heemskerck, 40, Dutch admiral, cannon balled, Battle of Gibraltar |
| 1644 | | Emperor Chongzhen of China (1627-1644), 33, the last Ming, suicide |
| 1792 | | Nicolas Jacques Pelletier, Fench highwayman, the first man to date Mdm. Guillotine |
| 1928 | | Baron Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel, 49, Russian "White" general |
