810 Rendezvous of Charlemagne's army in Saxony for a campaign against the pagans

827 Arab conquest of Sicily begins Asad ibn al-Furat lands with c. 15,000 troops.

1053 Battle of Civitate: Normans defeat a Papal-Lombard army

1245 Battle of San Lucia: Guelf-Ghibbeline clash in the Romagna

1291 Moslems recover Acre, after nearly 200 years of Crusader control

1397 Union of Kalmar established among Denmark, Sweden & Norway

1497 Battle of Blackheath/Deptford Bridge: King Henry VII defeats Cornish rebels

1744 Battle of Velletri I: Neapolitans under Charles VII raid Austrian lines

1745 American colonials capture Louisburg, Cape Breton I, from French

1755 James Cook joins the Royal Navy as an able seaman

1775 Battle of Bunker Hill

1799 Three day Battle of the Trebbia begins: Austro-Russians defeat the French

1815 Stephen Decatur captured the Algerian frigate 'Mashouda'

1848 Battle of Governolo: Piedmontese defeat the Austrians

1861 Battle of Boonville, Miss

1861 Lincoln witnesses Dr. Thaddeus Lowe's balloon flight over the White House

1861 Skirmish at Vienna, Va

1863 Cavalry action at Aldie, Virginia

1863 Naval Skirmish in Warsaw Sound, Ga: USS 'Weehawken' clashes with CSS 'Atlanta'

1864 Washington Arsenal: blast kills 21 women munitions workers

1864 Battle of Lynchburg Va

1870 USS 'Mohican' destroys the Mexican pirate ship 'Forward'

1876 Battle of the Rosebud: Crazy Horse fights Crook to a draw

1916 Pershing leads a Punitive Expedition into Mexico in an unsuccessful attempt to kill Pancho Villa

1940 France asks Germany for terms of surrender

1940 Operation Ariel: Last British & Allied troops evacuated from France

1940 German dive bombers sink the liner 'Lancastria' off St. Nazaire, c. 4,000 British and French troops and civilians perish

1944 Iceland declares independence; King Christian X of Denmark expresses his regrets but offers his congratulations

1944 U.S. Navy airstrikes against Iwo Jima and the Bonin Islands

1945 Final Japanese defensive line on Okinawa breached

1965 Vietnam: First B-52 raid, 50 km north of Saigon

1967 China becomes the world's fourth thermonuclear power

1972 Watergate: Republican operatives break into Democratic Party offices at the Watergate Hotel in Washington

1998 USS 'Missouri' (BB-63) is dedicated as a war memorial, Pearl Harbor.