217 BC Battle of Lake Trasimenus: Hannibal defeats Rome

1128 Battle of Hackespol: The French defeat the Alsatians

1495 Battle of Seminara I: The French defeat the Neapolitans

1498 Emperor Maximillian orders Jews expelled from Nuremberg

1502 Cesare Borgia captures Urbino, aided by Leonardo's siege engines

1655 Battle off the Dardanelles: Venetian fleet defeats the Turks

1776 A conspiracy to assassinate George Washington uncovered in King's County

1813 Battle of Vitoria: Wellington ousts the French from Spain

1814 The Anti-French Allies annexed Belgium to the Kingdom of the Netherlands

1824 Turks-Egyptians storm Psara, Greece, slay or enslave the inhabitants

1876 Brig. Gen. Alfred Terry orders Lt. Col. George Custer's 7th Cav to scout the Little Bighorn River

1898 Skirmish at Santiago, Cuba: US ships and Spanish batteries exchange fire

1915 Anti-British revolt in South Africa ends with arrest of Boer commander De Law

1919 Scapa Flow: Germans scuttle over 400,000 tons of warships

1942 Rommel takes Tobruk

1943 New Georgia: Marine 4th Raider Bn lands at Segi Point

1943 New Guinea: 112th Cavalry (dsmtd) lands on Woodlark Island

1948 Berlin Airlift begins

1962 USAF Maj Robert M White takes X-15 to 75,190 m

1993 Madrid: Basque terrorist bombing, 7 killed, 24 injured