217 BC Battle of Raphia: Egypt's Ptolemy IV defeats Syria's Antiochus III; only major engagement of African vs. Asian elephants

168 BC Battle of Pydna: Lucius Aemilius Paulus defeats Perseus of Macedon

816 Election of Pope Stephen IV [V] (22 June 816-24 Jan 817)

1402 Battle of Nesbit Moor: the English defeat Scots raiders

1402 Battle of Pilleth/Bryn Glas: Owain Glen Dwyr's Welch beat Edward Mortimer'sEnglish

1476 Battle of Morat: The Swiss defeat the Burgundians

1487 Lorenzo the Magnificent's Florentines capture Sarzana

1558 The French liberate Thionville from the English

1559 Jewish quarter of Prague looted & burned

1560 Battle of Okehazama: Oda defeats Imagawa

1593 Battle of Sisak: Imperialists defeat the Turks

1611 Henry Hudson set adrift by mutineers in Hudson's Bay

1636 Battle of Tornavento: Charles de Crequi's Franco-Savoyard army defeats the Spanish

1645 Battle of Llorens: The French defeat the Spanish in Catalonia

1670 Battle of Bothwell Bridge: The Duke of Monmouth defeats the Scots Covenanters

1760 Battle of Landshut: The Austrians whack the Prussians

1772 A judicial ruling effectively abolishes slavery in England

1807 HMS 'Leopard' makes an unprovoked attack on USS 'Chesapeake'

1808 First Air Combat (Balloon): M. de Grandpre duels with M. le Pique over Paris

1815 Napoleon I abdicates for the second time, after Waterloo

1884 Ellesmere I.: Cdr W S Schley rescues Lt A.W. Greely's marooned arctic expedition

1898 Naval Skirmish off San Juan: US blockaders vs Spanish warships.

1898 Action at Santiago: US ships and Spanish batteries exchange fire

1898 As US warships bombard Aguadores, the V Corps commences landing at Siboney and Daiquiri, Cuba

1906 Coronation of Haakon VII as King of Norway (1905-1957), the first since 1314

1911 Coronation of George V asKingof Great Britain

1914 Fleet Week Opens at Kiel: The German Imperial Navy hosts Britain's Royal Navy to a congenial round of reviews, parties, & parades

1915 Battle of Lemberg: Austro-German forces capture the city from the Russians1918Ivanhoe, Ill: Troop train rams a circus train, 68 die

1938 Joe "the Brown Bomber" Louis KOs Max "Hitler's Heavyweight" Schmeling at 2:04 into their rematch, in Yankee Stadium

1940 France signs an armistice with Nazi Germany at Compiegne

1941 Operation Barbarossa Begins: Hitler invades the Soviet Union

1942 The US introduces "V-Mail" for military personnel

1942 the Japanese prisoner-of-war ship 'Montevideo Maru' leaves Rabaul and later would be sunk by the American submarine 'Sturgeon' (SS 187) in the South China Sea. The heaviest single day’s loss of life in Australian military history; 845 soldiers and 208 civilians aboard.

1944 Russians begin "Operation Bagration", the Destruction of German Army Group Center

1944 FDR signs the "Servicemen's Readjustment Act", better known as "the GI Bill of Rights"

1944 Italian & British UDT sink German-held CA 'Bolzano', La Spezia

1944 Relief of Imphal: British and Indians break at 10-week Japanese siege.

1945 Okinawa secured: 110,000 Japanese troops, 100,000 civilians, 17,520 US troops died

1955 Soviets shoot down US patrol plane over the Bering Sea

1992 Yekaterinburg: Remains of Tsar Nicholas II & his wife identified