364 Brothers Valentinian I (364-375) & Valens (364-378) are proclaimed co-Emperors of Rome

493 Roman troops holding Ravenna surrender to Theoderic's Ostrogoths

1147 Crusaders massacre the Jews of Wurzburg

1266 Battle of Benevento: Angevins defeat the Hohenstaufen to secure the throne of Naples

1500 Triumphal reception at Rome for Cesare Borgia, to celebrate his conquest of the Romagna

1775 Battle of Salem, Mass.: British expedition to seize colonists' arms is turned back peacefully

1815 Napoleon Escapes from Elba

1832 Tsar Nicholas I abolishes the autonomous Duchy of Warsaw

1848 The French Second Republic is proclaimed at Paris (1848-1852)

1862 Combat of Woodburn, KY1863 Lincoln signs the National Currency Act, establishing greenbacks

1916 German U-Boat sinks the French liner 'Provence', 930 die

1916 Russian troops occupy Kermanshah, Persia

1918 Col. Douglas MacArthur accompanies a French patrol on a trench raid near Luneville, for which he is eventually awarded the Croix de guerre and the Silver Star

1924 Munich: Hitler goes on trial for the "Beer Hall Putsch"

1925 Islamic extremists declare Jihad against the Turkish Republic

1935 Germany announces the existence of the Luftwaffe under Herman Göring

1936 Hitler decrees production of the Volkswagen

1936 The February 26th Incident: Attempted coup by ultra-nationalist Japanese officers; suppressed with considerable bloodshed, by the 29th

1940 US Air Defense Command established at Mitchell Field, LI, NY

1942 Aircraft transport USS 'Langley' (AV-4/ex-CV-1) sunk off Java with 32 aircraft aboard.

1942 Burma: 17th Indian Div heavily engaged by the Japanese.

1942 German battleship 'Gneisenau' disabled by a British bomb

1942 USN aviator Don Mason signals, "Sighted sub, sank same"

1942 Werner Heisenberg informs Nazis of the possibility of nuclear weapons

1943 Royal Indian Navy engages a Japanese troop convoy off Burma

1944 First woman USN captain, Sue Dauser, Navy Nurse Corps

1944 USSs 'Bennington' (CV-20) and 'Steamer Bay' (CVE-87) are launched

1945 Burma: British open an offensive against Mandalay and Meiktila

1945 Very heavy bombing of Berlin

1946 Race riot, Columbia, Tn., 2 die, 10 injured

1949 USAF plane begins first nonstop around-the-world flight

1952 PM Winston Churchill announces that Britain has the atomic bomb

1980 Desi Bouterse stages a military coup in Suriname, initiating dictatorial rule until 1990.

1990 Moscow begins pulling 73,000 troops out of Czechoslovakia

1993 Islamist terrorists bomb the World Trade Center, 7 die

2001 The Taliban destroy the Great Buddhas of Bamiyan, in Afghanistan