TODAY IN MILITARY HISTORY

1258		Naval Battle of Acre: Venetians defeat the Genoese
1287		Battle of the Counts: Ruggiero di Lauria's Aragonese-Sicilian fleet defeats the Angevins off Naples, taking many noble prisoners
1495		The French take Gaeta from the Neapolitans amid great slaughter
1532		Peace of Nuremburg: HRE Charles V secures peace in Germany by making concessions to the Protestants
1606		Treaty of Vienna: The Habsburgs grant religious freedom to Protestants
1757		Battle of Plassey: Clive's 2,800 troops defeat 50,000 Sirajis
1758		Battle of Krefeld: Anglo-Hanoverians defeat the French
1760		Battle of Landshut: Austrians defeat the Prussians
1784		Edward Warrern, 13, takes the first balloon flight in the US
1865		Stand Watie surrenders the last Confederate force still in the field
1898		Spanish blockade runners escape US ships off Havana
1902		Germany, Austria-Hungary, & Italy renew the Triple Alliance for 12 years
1915		First Battle of the Isonzo begins (to Jul 7)
1917		Ammunition factory explosion in Boleweg, Bohemia, c. 1000 die
1917		Japanese DD 'Matsu' is sunk by a German u-boat in the Mediterranean.
1933		USS 'Macon' (ZRS-5) is commissioned, the last Navy rigid airship, crashes 1935
1939		France turns the Sanjak of Alexandretta over to Turkey
1940		Hitler orders preparations for an invasion Switzerland
1942		Rommel breaks the Gazala Line and drives on Egypt
1943		Off San Cristobal Island, Japanese sub 'Ro-103' sinks transport 'Aldura' (AK-72) & damages 'Deimos' (AK-78), which has to be scuttled
1943		Trobriand Is: 158th RCT lands on Kirwina
1956		Gamal Abdel Nasser becomes president of Egypt (1956-1970)
1960		US-Japan security treaty signed
1961		Antarctic Treaty goes into effect
1961		USAF Maj Robert M White takes X-15 to 32,830 m
1964		Maxwell Taylor appointed ambassador to South Vietnam
1985		Air India Flight 182 is destroyed by a terrorist bomb off Ireland, 329 die
1990		Moldava declares independence from the Soviet Union

BORN

47	BC	Ptolemy XV Caesarion, apparent son of Cleopatra & Caesar, executed 30 BC
1534		Oda Nobunaga, Japanese warlord, d. 1582
1763		Josephine Beauharnais Bonaparte, Empress of the French (1804-10), d. 1814
1801		Daniel Smith Donelson, Maj Gen, C.S.A., d. 1863
1822		Young Marshall Moody, Brig Gen, C.S.A., d. 1866
1838		Edwin Henry Stoughton, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1868
1894		Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David, sometime King Edward VIII (Jan 20 - Dec 11, 1936), The Duke of Windsor (1937-1972) -- Learn More
1903		King Tribhuwan Bir Bikram Shah of Nepal (1911-1955), in exile 1950-1951
1912		Alan Turing, mathematician, cryptologist, d. 1954
1917		Peter Brunt, historian ("Italian Manpower, 225 BC - AD 14"), d. 2005.
1921		Grand Duke Jean of Luxembourg (1964-), last absolute monarch in Europe
1923		Giuseppina Tuissi, later known as "Gianna," Italian partisan leader [See: Deaths]
1924		Prince Bayezid Effendi -- Osman Bayezid Osmanoglu, sometime U.S. soldier, Heir to the Ottoman Throne (2009-17)
1938		The U.S. Maritime Service

DIED

79		Roman Emperor Vespasian (69-79), becoming a god at 69
840		King Louis I "the Pious" King of Aquitaine (781-840) and Holy Roman Emperor (814-833, 834-840), at c. 62
1290		Henryk IV Probus, c. 32, Silesia at Wroclaw (1266-1290), and High Duke of the Polish Seniorate Province of Kraków (1288-1290), poisoned
1514		Henry IV "the Elder" or "the Evil", 51, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg & Prince of Wolfenbüttel (1491-1514)
1565		Turgut Reis, c. 80, Ottoman sea dog, Admiral and Commander-in-Chief, Bey of Algiers and Djerba, Pasha of Tripoli
1691		Ottoman Sultan Suleiman II (1687-1691), 49 [possibly June 22]
1779		Mikael Sehul, c. 88, Ethiopian warlord, Ras of Tigray (1748-1771 & 1772-1779)
1945		Giuseppina Tuissi, on her 22nd birthday, "Gianna," Italian partisan leader who helped capture Mussolini, murdered, possibly by Stalinists
1980		Sanjay Gandhi, 33, son of Indira Gandhi, engineer, PM of India (Jan. 18-June 23, 1980), in an air crash
2009		Ed McMahon, Marine with 85 combat air missions, WW II & Korea, TV personality, at 86