1132 Battle of Nocera: Count Ranulf II of Alife defeats Roger II of Sicily

1148 Second Crusaders besiege Damascus (withdraw the 28th)

1192 Saladin captures Jaffa

1216 Cencio Savelli elected Pope as Honorius III (1216-1227)

1505 Portuguese fleet sacks and burns Kilwa, East Africa

1567 Deposition of Queen Mary of Scots (1542-1547) and installation of her son as King James VI (1567-1625)

1603 James VI of Scots is crowned as King James I of England (1603-1625)

1692 Battle of Steinkirk: The French defeat William III of England

1704 British Admiral George Rooke captured Gibraltar from Spain

1813 Elijah Mix, USN, tries to mine HMS 'Plantagenet', Cape Henry, Va

1848 Skirmish at Salionze: Austrians defeat the Piedmontese

1848 Skirmish at Staffalo: Piedmontese defeat the Austrians

1861 Skirmish at Blue Mills, Mo

1861 Skirmish at Taylor Mountain, WVa,

1864 Second Battle of Kernstown, Va: Jubal Early drives Union forces out of the Shenandoah into Maryland

1883 Arabi Pasha declares a holy war in Egypt against Britain and France

1900 Race riot in New Orleans

1915 Steamer 'Eastland' capsizes dockside in Chicago, 800 die

1919 Race Riot in Washington DC, 6 killed, 100 wounded

1923 Allied Powers & Turkey sign a peace treaty at Lausanne

1929 Pres Hoover proclaims Kellogg-Briand Pact, which declares war naughty

1936 Spanish Nationalists form a junta to conduct the civil war with the Spanish Republic

1942 Australian Maroubra Force is forced back from Alawa by the Japanese.

1942 U.S. submarines begin operating in the Kurile Islands.

1943 RAF bombs Hamburg, initiating a firestorm.

1943 U.S. destroyers land supplies at Bairoko, on Kula Gulf.

1943 U.S. subs ordered to deactivate defective magnetic torpedo exploders.

1943 'U-459' sank after shooting down an RAF Wellington that then crashed on her deck

1945 Over 1,500 Allied carrier aircraft raid Kure, sinking three battleships

1948 Soviets initiate a blockade of Berlin

1959 The Nick & Dick Show: VP Nixon's "Kitchen debate" with Soviet Premier Khrushchev at the US exhibition in Moscow

1969 Muhammad Ali is convicted of refusing induction in the US Army