533 Battle of Tricameron: Belisarius defeats the Vandals in Tunisia
1256 Hulagu Khan destroys the Assassins stronghold at Alamut, in modern Iran
1347 Cola di Rienzo flees the collapse of his Roman Republic (May 20-Dec 14, 1347)
1467 Battle of Baia: Stephen III of Moldavia defeats Matthias Corvinus of Hungary
1791 The "Bill of Rights" to the US Constitution goes into effect, as Virginia submits ist ratification
1840 Napoleon is entombed in Les Invalides with elaborate ceremonial
1864 Battle of Nashville: George Thomas crushes the Confederate Army of Tennessee
1871 International "Alabama" Commission meets on US Civil War claims against Britain
1899 Colenso, Third Battle of "Black Week": the Boers crush a British attempt to relieve Ladysmith
1914 Battle of Lodz ends, Russians retreat
1919 Poet Gabriele d'Annunzio and 2,000 volunteers capture Fiume from an Allied occupation force
1941 Congress votes $10.1 billion (c. $1.5 trillion today) to fight the Axis
1941 USS 'Swordfish' (SS-193) becomes 1st US sub to sink a Japanese ship
1942 U.S. aircraft bomb Munda
1943 Burma: the Chinese New 38th Div is driven back in the Bhamo area
1943 U.S. 112th Cavalry Rgt (dsmtd) lands at Arawe, New Britain
1944 US troops land on Mindoro, Philippines, as kamikaze sink two LSTs
1944 William D. Leahy is promoted to five-star rank as a Fleet Admiral
1989 The Panamanian National Assembly declares war on the US
1995 The Hanish Islands War: Yemen & Eritrea begin a three-day war over the Hanish Islands - after a truce, arbitration awards most of the islands to Yemen
2003 Bhutanese Army begins an offensive against Indian rebel invaders (win by Jan 3)
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