752 BC Romulus celebrates the first Roman triumph, for the defeat of Caenina

509 BC Triumph of Publius Valerius Publicola for the defeat of deposed king Lucius Tarquinius Superbus

86 BC Sulla captures Athens, deposing the tyrant Aristion, but refrains from slaughtering thousands or making away with lots of loot, though he does take Aristotle's library

350 Troops at Mursia (Pannonia) proclaim the magister militum Vetranio emperor (Mar 1-Dec 25, 350), abdicates, retires comfortably, d. c. 356

1244 The Crusaders take Montsegur from the Albigensians amid a great slaughter

1260 Hulagu Khan, grandson of Genghis, takes Damascus amid a great slaughter

1324 Naval Battle of Lutocisterna: The Aragonese defeat the Pisans

1382 Charles VI suppresses the Maillotin Rising at Paris with great slaughter

1634 Battle of Smolensk: Poland's Wladyslaw IV defeats the Russians

1652 Vassy Massacre: The Duc de Guise slaughters c. 1000 Huguenots, initiating the French "First War of Religion"

1780 Pennsylvania adopts "gradual emancipation" of slaves

1781 Continental Congress adopts the "Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union."

1793 Republican France declares war on Britain & the Dutch Republic

1811 Egyptian Pasha Mehemet Ali initiates a widespread massacre of the Mamlukes

1812 Jose de San Martin returns to Argentina after long service in the Spanish Army

1815 Napoleon returns to France after his escape from Elba

1836 Texas Convention meets at Washington-on-the-Brazos to consider Independence from Mexico

1854 SS 'City of Glasgow' sinks in Liverpool harbor, 373 die

1896 Battle of Adwa: 80,000 Ethiopians defeat 20,000 Italo-African troops

1920 Arabs attack the Jewish settlement of Tel Mai

1921 Anti-communist sailors' revolt in Kronstadt; suppressed with great bloodshed by the 19th

1923 French & Belgian troops occupy the Rhineland, in an effort to force Germany to make reparations payments

1934 Henry Pu Yi crowned as Emperor Kang Teh of Manchukuo (1934-1945)

1939 Explosion at a Japanese Army ammunition dump at Hirakata, near Osaka, 94 die.

1941 German troops enter Bulgaria

1941 Himmler inspects the Auschwitz concentration camp

1941 Kufra, Libya: Italians surrender to Leclerc's Free French (besieged since Feb 7)

1942 Action South of Java: Supported by dive bombers, Japanese battleships 'Hiei' & 'Kirishima' & their escorts sink USS 'Edsall' (DD-219), after a fight of nearly three hours

1942 Battle of Bali Strait: US destroyers 'Ford', 'Paul Jones', 'Edwards', & 'Alden' escape a Japanese DesDiv

1942 Battle of Sunda Strait: Cruisers USS 'Houston' & HMAS 'Perth', and destroyer HNMS 'Evertsen' go down fighting around 0100

1942 Battle off Borneo: HMS 'Exeter' & destroyers HMS 'Encounter' and USS 'Pope' sunk by Japanese heavy cruisers

1943 Amsterdam: Jewish old age home raided by the Nazis

1944 Speaking on Radio Berlin, Mohammad Amin al-Husayni, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, calls upon Moslems to "Kill the Jews."

1945 Chinese 30th division liberates Hsenwi

1945 Ryukyu Islands: U.S. Navy surface and air raids on Japanese positions

1950 British sentence Klaus Fuchs to 14 years for atomic espionage

1954 Bikini: the US detonates 15 megaton hydrogen bomb

1954 Puerto Rican nationalists open fire in Congress, 5 wounded

1954 Rioting in Khartoum, 30 die

1955 Israeli attacks on Gaza, 48 die

1970 Rhodesia: White settlers declare independence from Britain to preserve the racial supremacy

1971 Washington: Bomb goes off in a men's room in the Capitol, apparently set by the Weather Underground

1981 Irish Nationalist Bobby Sand begins a hunger strike in the Maze Prison

2008 USS 'New York' (LPD-21), incorporating steel from the World Trade Center, is christened at New Orleans