1027 Pope John XIX crowns Holy Roman Emperor Conrad II (1027-1039)
1199 King Richard I "Lionheart" is mortally wounded by a crossbow bolt at Chalus
1351 The Battle of the Thirty: 30 French knights under Charles de Blois defeat 30 English knights under Jean de Montfort
1804 Congress orders removal of Indians east of the Mississippi to the Louisiana Territory
1812 Earthquake levels Caracas, c. 20,000 die
1862 Battle of La Glorieta Pass, NM - "The Gettysburg of the West"
1885 Battle of Duck Lake (Sask): Louis Riel's rebels defeat Canadian forces
1913 First Balkan War: The Bulgarians capture Adrianople from the Turks, ending the war
1917 First Battle of Gaza: The Turks hold the British.
1941 Suda Bay, Crete: Italian torpedo boats sink the British heavy cruiser HMS 'York'
1942 The first "Eichmann transport" to Auschwitz & Birkenau
1943 Battle of Komandorski Islands: USN squadron defeats a superior Japanese one
1943 First woman awarded the Air Medal: Army Nurse Elsie Ott
1944 Malfunctioning torpedo sinks USS 'Tullibee' (SS 287), one survivor
1945 Okinawa: Kamikaze attack on the US fleet
1945 Philippines: U.S. troops land on Cebu
1945 Seventh Army attacks Worms on the Rhine
1945 Winston Churchill pisses in the Rhine, near Ginsberg, with great satisfaction, cheered on by observing Allied troops
1951 USAF flag approved
1958 Army launches 3rd successful US satellite, Explorer III
1960 Iraq sentences 30 to death after an attack on Pres Kassem
1970 500th nuclear explosion since 1945 announced by the US
2008 California court ruling gives the heirs of Jerome Siegel and Joseph Shuster, creators of 'Superman', serious compensation from the corporate descendants of Detective Comics for copyright violations
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Today in Military History (26 March)
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