366 The Allamanni invade the Roman Empire across the Rhine [which may have been frozen, or maybe not]

1492 Sultan Muhammad XI surrenders Granada to Ferdinand & Isabella, ending the 781 year war to liberate Spain from the Moors

1570 Tsar Ivan the Terrible begins the conquest of Great Novgorod

1602 Spanish forces in Ireland surrender to the English at Kinsale

1631 England & Spain ally against the Dutch Republic

1777 Battle of the Assunpink Creek: George Washington's army defeats the British near Trenton, New Jersey

1861 South Carolinian forces seize inactive Ft Johnson in Charlestown Harbor

1870 Construction of the Brooklyn Bridge begins

1904 Draft dodger and radical socialist Benito Mussolini reports for conscription into the Italian Army under an amnesty

1905 Russians surrender Port Arthur to the Japanese after a five-month sieve

1933 US Marines withdraw from Nicaragua after a 20-year occupation

1942 28 Allied nations pledge to make no separate peace with the Axis

1942 German troops in Bardia surrender

1942 Japanese occupy Manila and Cavite

1942 Malaya: Japanese occupy Kampar.

1943 Papua: U.S. I Corps captures Buna Mission

1944 New Guinea: Allies land on Saidor, isolating 12,000 Japanese troops.

1945 USN convoys depart Leyte to invade Luzon while beating off Kamikaze.

1954 The premiere of the film "The Caine Mutiny" in New York

1964 Assassin fails to kill President Nkrumah of Ghana

1967 Operation Bolo: In the largest air combat action of the Vietnam War, 28 F-4C Phantoms engage 9 MiG-21s; the US a/c down 7-9 MiGs with no loss