891 Battle of Louvain: East Franks defeat the Danish Vikings
1054 Battle of Atapuerca: King Ferdinand I "the Great" of Castile & León defeats his brother King García V of Navarre
1285 Naval Battle of Las Rosas: Catalans defeat the French
1597 Battle of Longpre: French defeat the Spanish
1644 Battle of Tippermuir: Montrose's Roundheads defeat the Scots Covenanters.
1651 Battle of Dundee: The English under Oliver Cromwell & George Monck defeat the Scots
1701 Battle of Chiari: Imperialists defeat the French
1774 Boston: British seize Massachusetts Bay Colony's store of powder & cannon
1807 Former VP Aaron Burr found innocent of treason
1814 USS 'Wasp' sinks HMS 'Avon'
1848 Troops loyal the King of the Two Sicilies begin a bombardment of Messina, Sicily (which surrenders the 7th)
1861 Brig. Gen. U.S. Grant assumes command of Federal forces at Cape Girardeau, Mo
1861 Skirmish at Bennett's Mills, Mo
1862 Battle of Chantilly, Virginia
1862 Congress abolishes the daily issue of grog in the US Navy
1863 Atlanta Campaign: Sherman wins the Battle of Jonesborough, causing the Confederates to evacuate & burn Atlanta
1863 Union fleet bombards Fort Sumter
1863 Union troops capture Fort Smith, Arkansas
1866 Manuelito surrenders at Fort Wingate, last resisting Navaho chief
1870 Napoleon III surrenders himself and his army to the Prussians at Sedan
1916 Bulgaria declares war on Romania
1918 US troops land in Vladivostok, Siberia, stay until 1920
1928 President Ahmet Zogu of Albania (1925-1928) Proclaims himself King Zog I (1928-1939)
1934 Coup installs José María Velasco Ibarra as President of Ecuador, the first of his five terms (1934-1935, 1944-1947, 1952-1956, 1960-1961, 1968-1972)
1938 Mussolini cancels the civil rights of Italian Jews
1939 George C. Marshall becomes Chief-of-Staff of the Army, serves until November 18, 1945
1939 Hitler orders "Close your hearts to pity," invades Poland, initiating World War II, and also orders the extermination of the mentally ill
1939 Adm. Isoruku Yamamoto is appointed Commander-in-Chief of Japan's Combined Fleet
1942 "Tokyo Express" mission to Guadalcanal evades B-17s.
1942 A Federal court upholds detention of Japanese-Americans
1942 German troops land on the Taman Peninsula, USSR
1943 Espiritu Santo: Japanese sub 'I-182' is sunk by USS 'Wadsworth' (DD-516)
1943 USN makes air and gunnery attacks on Marcus I
1944 King George VI promotes Bernard Law Montgomery to field marshal
1948 Communists form the North China People's Republic
1950 13 North Korean divisions assault UN lines
1951 The Mossad, Israel's secret service, begins operations
1951 US, Australia, & New Zealand sign the ANZUS treaty
1969 King Idris of Libya (1951-1969) is deposed in a coup by Col Murramar Gadhafi, who rules until 2012
1983 Soviets shoot down Korean Air Flight 007, a Boeing 747 that had strayed over Kamchatka
