TODAY IN MILITARY HISTORY

0		Navy Day in Argentina
0		Feast of St. Paschal Baylón, Patron of Cooks, Shepherds, Male Children, and much else
352		Accession of Pope Liberius (352-366)
884		Election of Pope Adrian III (884-885), later canonized
1102		Second Battle of Ramalah: Crusaders defeat the Fatimids
1198		Frederick II von Hohenstaufen, age 4, crowned King of Sicily (1198-1150)
1540		Battle of Kanauj: The Afghans defeat the Moghuls
1648		Battle of Zusmarshausen: Swedes defeat the Imperialists
1742		Battle of Chotusitz: Prussians defeat the Austrians
1756		Britain declared war on France, initiating the Seven Years' War -- Learn More
1790		Royal Navy Lt. John Poo Beresford helped capture the French ship 'Prevoyante' -- Learn More
1794		Battle of Tourcoing, Day 1: French v. Austro-English (ends 18th)
1797		Royal Navy's Sptihead "Mutiny" ends peacefully (from April 16)
1809		Napoleon annexes the Papal States to his Empire
1814		Denmark cedes Norway to Sweden
1849		Great Fire of St. Louis
1863		Battle of Big Black River Bridge: Grant begins sealing off Vicksburg
1864		Battle of Adairsville, Ga: Union forces Confederate retreat
1876		Rosebud Campaign: Custer & the 7th Cavalry leave Fort Lincoln
1890		Havana: Magazine explosion, 34 die, c. 100 injured
1900		The Boers besiege Mafeking
1905		Norway declares independence from Sweden
1938		Bound for California, Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan lands in Dublin
1940		Germans capture Brussels
1942		Japanese sub 'I-28' sunk by 'Tautog' (USS-198). 'I-164' by 'Triton' (SS-201)
1943		RAF 617 Squadron carried out “Operation Chastise,” destroying the Ruhr Valley dams during the wee hours, and earning the nickname “The Dam Busters”
1944		Burma: Merrill's Marauders take Myitkina airfield in a coup de main.
1944		The Royal Navy and USAF bombers conduct a nocturnal raid on Japanese positions Surabaya, Java
1945		British destroyers sank the Japanese cruiser 'Haguro' in the Malacca Str., the last notable surface action of World War II.
1974		Protestant Ulster "Unionist" terrorists detonate four bombs in the Irish Republic, 33 die, including children.
1980		Race riot in Miami, 16 killed, c. 300 injured
1987		USS 'Stark' (FFG-31) hit by Iraqi missiles, 37 sailors die
2006		USS 'Oriskany' (CV-34) is sunk as a reef in the Gulf of Mexico

BORN

1451		Count Engelbert II of Nassau-Dillenburg-Dietz, Viceroy of Luxembourg
1490		Albrecht von Hohenzollern, 37th Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights and, having converted to Lutheranism, the first Duke of Prussia (1525-1568)
1741		John Penn, Signer of the Declaration of Independence, d. 1788
1775		Ferdinand Franz, Freiherr von Geramb, Austrian nobleman, adventurer, and monk, d. 1848 -- Learn More
1812		Joseph Warren Revere, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1880
1858		Honoré IV Grimaldi, Prince of Monaco and Duke of Valentinois (title, 1795-1814, in fact 1814-1819)
1873		Henri Barbusse, French radical, poilu, author of 'Under Fire', d. 1935
1886		King of Spain from birth Alfonso XIII, deposed 1931, d. 1941
1891		Napoleon Zervas, Greek soldier & general (Balkan Wars, WW I, Anatolian War, WW II), hero of the resistance, d. 1957
1900		Ruhollah Khomeini, evil high priest, d. 1989
1928		Donald Cameron Watt, historian ("How War Came"), 2014
1928		Pol Pot, Cambodian mass murderer, d. 1998

DIED

290		Chin Wu-ti -- the Emperor Wu (265-290), c. 55, founder of the Jin Dynasty
1164		Héloïse d'Argenteuil, who loved Abelard, at c. 63
1536		Sir Francis Weston, c. 25, alleged lover of Anne Boleyn, beheaded
1606		the usurping tsar Grigory Otrepyev, "The False Dimitri" (July 21, 1605-May 17, 1606), was lynched in interesting ways at 23 by the Muscovites, who then fired his ashes from a cannon toward Poland, which supported
1727		Tsarina Catherine I of Russia (Feb 8, 1725-May 17, 1727), 43
1829		John Jay, 83, Founding Father, signer of the Treaty of Paris, first Chief Justice of the United States (1789–95)
1838		Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord, 84, effective if eelly French statesman
1917		Charles Brooke, 87, British adventurer, Rajah of Sarawak (1868-1917),
1951		William Riddell Birdwood, 85, British field marshal, veteran of the Boer War, Gallipoli
1977		Charles Emery Rosendahl, 85, Vice-Adm., US Navy airship & heavy cruiser commander, sometime 'Hindenburg' officer