TODAY IN MILITARY HISTORY

89	BC	Social War: Sulla captures Stabiae from the Italiotes
58	BC	Cicero sails into exile from Brindisium
0		Feast of St. Catherine of Siena, Patron of Italy and the U.S.A.
711		Tariq ibn Ziyad’s Moorish army landed at Gibraltar, to overthrow the Visigothic Spain, initiating and a multigenerational conflict that ended in 1492 -- Learn More
1091		Battle of Monte Levunium: Byzantine Emperor Alexius I Comnenus defeats the Pechenegs
1289		Sultan Quala'un of Egypt captures Tripoli, Lebanon, from the Crusaders
1429		Joan of Arc breaks the English siege of Orleans
1524		Battle of Sesia Romagnano: Spanish defeat the French
1616		Naval Battle of Euboea: Tuscans defeat the Turks
1661		China invaded and occupied Taiwan
1670		Emilio Altieri elected Pope as Clement X (1670-1676)
1814		USS 'Peacock' captures HMS 'Epervier'
1861		Maryland House of Delegates votes against secession
1863		Battle of Chancellorsville begins
1898		Cienfuegos, Cuba: US and Spanish warships exchange fire
1901		Anti-Semitic riots in Budapest
1916		The Irish "Easter Rebellion" ends (from the 24th)
1926		Franco-American accord on WW I war debts
1932		Navy Lt., j.g., Thomas Massie, mother-in-law Grace Hubbard Fortescue, and two accomplices were convicted of murder in Hawaii -- Learn More
1935		Fleet Problem XVI began in the "North Pacific Triangle -- Learn More
1940		Norwegian King Haakon flees to England as the Nazis occupy his country
1942		Burma: Japanese capture Lashio
1942		Dutch and French Jews ordered to wear a yellow star
1943		Dietrich Bonhoffer is arrested by Nazis
1943		Teop, Solomon Is: USS 'Gato' (SS-212) lands coastwatchers & evacuates missionaries.
1945		Adolf Hitler married Eva Braun -- Learn More
1945		Burma: Japanese army evacuates Rangoon
1945		RAF drops food to isolated areas in the Netherlands
1945		US liberates the Nazi concentration camp at Dachau
1946		Tokyo: 28 former Japanese leaders indicted as war criminals
1970		US & South Vietnamese troops invade Cambodia
1975		Last US personnel pull out of Vietnam
1991		Croatia declares independence from Yugoslavia

BORN

1665		James FitzJames Butler, later the Second Duke of Ormonde, Anglo-Irish soldier, later Commander-in-Chief and Captain-General, charged with treason, fled abroad and joined the Jacobites, d. 1745
1762		Jean-Baptiste Jourdan was born, French soldier who rose from private to Marshal of the Empire, d. 1833 -- Learn More ("I didn't")
1815		Abram Duryee, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1890
1818		Tsar Alexander II of Russia (1855-81), blown up 1881
1837		Georges Ernest Jean-Marie Boulanger, 54, French general, frustrated putchist, suicide in 1891, on the grave of his mistress
1873		Francis John William Harvey was born, Royal Marine who received a posthumous Victoria Cross at Jutland -- Learn More
1875		Rafael Sabatini, author ("The Sea Hawk", "Captain Blood"), d. 1950
1876		Zewditu, daughter of Menelik, first Empress Regnant of Ethiopia (1916-1930)
1901		Hirohito, the "Showa" Emperor of Japan (1926-89), amateur biologist, unindicted war criminal
1932		Alexei A Gubarev, Czech cosmonaut (Soyuz 17, 28)
1953		Nikolai Nikolayevich Budarin, Russia, cosmonaut

DIED

1380		St. Catherine of Siena (33), who wasn't afraid of anyone, Patron of Italy
1630		Théodore-Agrippa d'Aubigné, 78, French Huguenot soldier-poet, in exile
1676		Dutch Adm. Michael Ruyter, cannonballed at 69, Naval Battle of Syracuse
1688		Frederick William, 68, "The Great Elector" of Brandenburg & Duke of Prussia (1640-1688), father of the Prussian Army
1862		Timothy Webster (40), American patriot, executed by the Confederacy as a spy
1918		Gavrilo Princip, assassin of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914, in jail at 23 of TB
1926		Benno Alexandrovich von Siebert, Russian diplomat, German spy, at 59 -- Learn More
1956		Wilhelm Josef Franz Ritter von Leeb, 79, German soldier, field marshal, defensive theoretician