1140 The "Faithful Wives" of Weinsberg save their men as the city surrenders to Holy Roman Emperor Conrad III

1598 Battle of Curalaba, Chile: Mapuche Indians defeat the Spanish

1798 Neapolitan Royal Family flees to Sicily as the French invade

1832 The Battle of Konya: Ibrahim Pasha's outnumbered Egyptians defeat the Turks in Anatolia

1861 Combat at Hudson, Mo

1866 Battle of Lodge Trail Ridge: Crazy Horse wipes out Capt. William Fetterman's 82-man column

1925 Sergei Eisenstein's film "Battleship Potemkin" premiers in Moscow

1941 Japanese land on Mindanao, rapidly occupy Davao

1941 Japanese renew their attempt to capture Wake Island1941 Siam allies itself with Japan

1942 Papua: Australians make major gains in the Sanananda area

1942 Guadalcanal: Americal Div attack on Mt. Austen falters1942 U.S. aircraft bomb Munda

1943 3rd Marine Div begins pulling out of the Bougainville beachhead

1943 Burma: Stilwell assumes personal direction of operations at Ledo

1944 British troops in Burma capture Kawlin

1944 Henry H. Arnold is promoted to five-star rank as a General of the Army

1971 UN Security Council elects former Nazi Kurt Waldheim as Secretary-General

1982 Puerto Rican nationalists detonate three bombs in New York, causing considerable damage and several injuries

1988 Lockerbie: A Libyan-sponsored terrorist bomb explodes on board Pan Am flight 103, 270 die.

2012 Domesday by some interpretations of the Maya Calendar (or maybe the 23rd, or maybe not at all)