19 | BC | Triumph of Lucius Cornelius Balbus the Younger for the defeat of the Garamantes of North Africa, the last private citizen to be awarded a triumph until Belisarius in AD 534 |
0 | | Feast of St. Joseph, Patron of the Church, of Poland and Canada, and of fathers, carpenters, and fireworks. |
607 | | Consecration of Pope Boniface III (19 Feb-12 Nov 607) |
1148 | | Second Crusade (led by Louis VII of France & his wife Eleanor of Aquitaine) reaches Antioch |
1227 | | Count Ugolino di Conti de Segni elected Pope as Gregory IX (1227-1241) |
1279 | | Battle of Yamen: Mongols oust China's Song Dynasty |
1452 | | German King Frederick IV of Hapsburg is crowned Holy Roman Emperor as Federick III (1452-1493) |
1563 | | Peace of Amboise: ends the French First War of Religion (1562-1563) |
1571 | | The Spanish capture Manila |
1793 | | Battle of Le-Pont-Charron: Vendean rebels rout French Revolutionary troops by singing "La Marseillaise" |
1815 | | Louis XVIII flees Paris, as Napoleon nears |
1823 | | Abdication of Emperor Agustin I of Mexico (May 19, 1822-March 19, 1823), executed 1824 |
1865 | | Battle of Bentonville: Last major Civil War engagement in the East |
1898 | | USS 'Oregon' (BB 3) began an epic 14,000 mile voyage from San Francisco around South America to Key West -- Learn More |
1920 | | The US Senate rejects the Treaty of Versailles for the second time |
1923 | | New York Republican Congressmen Albert B. Rossdale and Andrew N. Petersen were arrested by the Shore Patrol at Balboa, Panama -- Learn More |
1925 | | Former Sgt Angelo Roncalli is made a bishop, a stepping-stone to the papacy as John XXIII |
1927 | | Bloody Nazi-Communist street brawls in Berlin |
1940 | | Daladier Cabinet falls in France, as the "Phony War" continues |
1942 | | Central Burma: Japanese attack the Chinese 200th Div |
1942 | | FDR orders men between 45 & 64 to register for non-military duty |
1942 | | William Slim takes command of the British Burma Corps. |
1942 | | Mexico declared war on Germany and Japan -- Learn More |
1945 | | Adolf Hitler orders total destruction of German infrastructure |
1945 | | Burma: British 36th Division captures Mogok |
1945 | | USS 'Franklin' (CV 13) is hit by Japanese air attack, 724 die, 265 wounded |
1945 | | Kure Naval Base: USN air raids destroy last of the IJN. |
1947 | | Chiang Kai-Shek's forces captures Jenan from the Communists |
1951 | | Herman Wouk's novel "The Caine Mutiny" is published |
1965 | | Nicolae Ceausescu becomes 1st Secretary of Romanian CP |
1989 | | Maiden flight of the Boeing V-22 Osprey VTOL aircraft |
1990 | | Art theft at the Isabell Stuart Gardner Museum, Boston: The largest unsolved art haul in history |
2003 | | Operation Iraqi Freedom begins (2003-) |