98 Trajan becomes Roman Emperor (98-117)

630 Battle of Hunayn: Meccan Moslems defeat the pagan, Christian, & Jewish Arab tribes

1302 Dante is expelled from Florence by the Black Guelfs

1524 Giovanni Degli Bande Nere captures Robecco d'Oglio

1556 Akbar becomes Mogul Emperor of India (1556-1605)

1593 Battle of Byeokjegwan: The Japanese win the first major engagement of their invasion of Korea

1614 Tokugawa Ieyasu outlaws Christianity in Japan

1695 Accession of Mustafa II as Ottoman Sultan and Caliph of Islam (1695-1703), abdicates

1864 Battle of Fair Gardens, TN

1864 Skirmish at Kelly's Ford, Va.

1868 The Battle of Toba-Fushimi: The "Boshin War" begins in Japan, ultimately leading to the fall of the Shogunate

1915 US Marines begin occupation of Haiti

1928 Airship 'Los Angeles' (ZR-3) moors to 'Saratoga' (CV-3) in rough seas off Rhode Is.

1942 HMS 'Indomitable' flys off 48 aircraft to reinforce the defense of Java

1942 USS 'Gudgeon' (SS-211) becomes the first US boat to sink an enemy sub, the Japanese 'I-173'.

1942 U.S. submarines begin supply runs to Corregidor

1943 First USAAF raid on Germany, as nearly 100 B-17s & B-24s bomb submarine construction yards at Wilhelmshaven

1943 USS 'Whale' (SS-239) sinks 'Shoan Maru' (c. 5,600 grt)

1944 Soviets lift the German Siege of Leningrad after 880 days: perhaps 1,000,000 dead

1944 U.S. issues a report on "The Bataan Death March"

1945 1st Cav and 32nd Inf Divs, and 122nd Cav Regt land on Luzon

1945 The Soviet 322nd Rifle Division liberates the Auschwitz Concentration Camp

1945 USS 'Higbee' (DD-806) commissioned, first US warship named after a Navy woman

1945 At Stalag IXA, near Ziegenhain: when the Germans try to identify the Jewish men among the American P/Ws, Master Sgt. Roddie Edmonds says, "We are all Jews"

1967 Disastrous fire aboard Apollo 1

1967 Treaty signed banning military use of nuclear weapons in space

1969 Nine Jews publicly executed as "spies" in Damascus

1973 US and North Vietnam sign cease-fire

1977 Pres Carter pardons most Vietnam War draft evaders (c. 10,000)

2002 Ammo dump explosion at Lagos, Nigeria, c. 1,100 die