46 BC Day 4 of Caesar's Triumph, for the defeat of Numidia
1014 Battle of Cledon/Clidium/Kleidion/Bala Thistau/Belasitsa: Byzantine Emperor Basil II defeats the Bulgars, blinds 15,000 prisoners
1030 Battle of Stiklestad: Norwegian Christians triumph over pagans, in a fight punctuated by a solar eclipse
1187 Saladin captures Sidon
1364 Battle of Cascina: The Florentines under Galeotto Malatesta defeat the Pisans under John Hawkwood
1693 Battle of Neerwinden: The French defeat the English & Dutch
1813 Battle of Sorauren, Day 2: Anglo-Spanish v. the French (ends 30th)
1846 Landing party off USS 'Cyane' captures San Diego
1874 Maj. Walter Copton Wingfield patents a portable tennis court
1910 Slocum, Texas: White racists begin several days of attacks on African Americans, scores die as blacks are driven from the town
1915 A briefcase with German sabotage plans is found on the IRT subway in NYC
1918 First meeting between FDR & Winston Churchill, Gray's Inn, London
1937 China Incident: Japanese troops occupy Peking & Tientsin
1942 Buna: Japanese land reinforcements, despite losses to Allied a/c
1942 Japanese retake Kokoda from the Australians, who fall back on Deniki
1943 New Guinea: 43rd Div Cdr relieved, as his troops press on slowly.
1944 Marines take Orote airstrip on Guam against fierce Japanese resistance
1945 U.S. warships shell naval and air bases on Honshu.
1949 Berlin Airlift ends, as Soviets end blockade
1953 Soviets shoot down US patrol bomber northeast of Vladivostok
1967 Fire aboard USS 'Forrestal' (CV-59), Gulf of Tonkin, 134 die
1975 Military coup ousts Nigerian President/Dictator Yakubu Gowon (1966-1975)
