46 BC Day 2 of Caesar's Triumph, for the Alexandrian War

1057 Battle of Dunsinane Hill ("The Seven Sleepers"): Earl Siward defeats King Macbeth of Scotland

1214 First Battle of Bouvines: King Philip II of France defeats Holy Roman Emperor Otto IV

1230 Treaty of San Germano: Pope Gregory IX & Emperor Frederick II agree to an [temporary] end to hostilities between Church and Emperor

1276 Pedro III "the Great" ascends the throne of Aragon (1276-1285)

1298 Albert I, son of Rudolf of Hapsburg, crowned Holy Roman Emperor (1298-1308)

1361 Battle of Visby: Waldemar IV of Denmark defeats the Gotlanders

1365 Princess Isabella of England marries Enguerrand de Coucy at Windsor

1597 Battle of Amiens: Spanish defeat the French

1643 Battle of Gainsborough: Cromwell defeats Royalists at

1689 Battle of Killiecrankie: Viscount Dundee defeats the Scots Jacobites under General Mackay

1778 First Battle of Ushant: British and French fleets fight to a draw

1794 Coup of Thermidor - the fall of Robespierre

1809 Battle of Talavera de la Reina: Wellesley's Anglo-Spanish defeat the French

1813 Battle of Burnt Corn Creek: Red Stick Creek Indians carrying supplies from Spanish Florida defeat an ambush by American militiamen.

1830 Revolution against Charles X breaks out in Paris

1839 Chartist riots break out in Birmingham, England

1848 Combat at Cerlungo: Piedmontese defeat the Austrians

1861 Combat at Ft Fillmore, NM: Confederate victory

1861 McClellan replaces McDowell in command of Union forces around Washington

1861 Skirmish at St. Augustine Springs, NM

1864 Battle of Darbytown/Deep Bottom/ Newmarket Road/Strawberry Plains, Va

1870 Lt. Gen Philip Sheridan sails from New York to observe the Franco-Prussian War

1880 Battle of Maiwand; Dr. Watson is wounded

1897 Grand Review of the Royal Navy off Spithead marking Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee

1900 Kaiser Wilhelm II's "Huns" speech to troops departing to fight the Boxers in China

1909 Orville Wright demonstrates a plane for the Army, flying 72 minutes

1919 Chicago race riot: 38 killed (23 blacks & 15 whites) and 537 injured (c. 65% blacks), several blacks, no whites are convicted of riot-related charges

1941 Japanese forces land in Indo-China

1942 Australian forces cling to Deniki, south of Kokoda in Papua, against fierce Japanese pressure.

1943 Battle of the Pips: USN fires 100s of rounds at false radar blips, off Kiska.

1943 China Seas: USS 'Sawfish' (SS-276) sinks two Japanese ships

1943 Japanese DDs 'Ariake' & 'Mikazuki' sunk off New Britain by U.S. Army a/c.

1943 Stalin issues Order No. 227: "Panic makers and cowards must be liquidated on the spot. Not one step backward . . . !"

1944 First British jet fighter enters combat, the Gloster Meteor

1944 Marines clear northern Tinian and begin rebuilding the airfield

1944 Soviets liberate Majdanek Concentration Camp

1945 Japan's cities are "bombed" with leaflets demanding surrender

1953 North Korea & UN sign armistice

1954 Armistice divides Vietnam in two

1955 Bulgaria shoots down an Israeli passenger plane, 58 die

1990 Belarus declares independence from the USSR

1995 Korean War Veterans Memorial dedicated in Washington