36BC Naval Battle of Naulochus: Agrippa defeats Sextus Pompey0 Feast of St. Marinus,
590 Consecration of Pope St Gregory I "the Great" (590-604)
1189 Richard I "Lionheart" is crowned King of England (1189-1199)
1190 Richard I "Lionheart" and his Crusaders reach Messina, Sicily.
1260 Battle of Ain Jaluit: Egyptian Mamluks defeat the Mongols in Palestine
1390 Geoffrey Chaucer is robbed of £20 of the King's money while traveling in Kent -- today easily £1.3 million
1459 Battle of Bloreheath: The Earl of Salisbury defeats the Lancastrians.1529 Ottoman Sultan Suleiman "The Magnificent" captures Buda, Hungary.
1632 Battle of Nuremburg: Sweden's Gustavus Adolphus and the Empire's Wallentsein fight to a draw
1650 Battle of Dunbar: Cromwell defeats the Scots Covenanters under David Leslie
1651 Battle of Worcester: Cromwell defeats Prince Charles (II) & the Royalists; final battle of the English Civil Wars
1700 Battle of the Narva: Swedes defeat Peter the Great
1782 Battle of Trincomalee: British fleet defeats the French off India
1782 The US gives its only ship-of-the-line, the 80 gun 'America', to France.
1783 Treaty of Paris ends the Revolutionary War, as Britain recognizes American independence
1833 Frederick Douglass steals Frederick Douglass
1848 Messina: Rebellious citizens defeat a Borbon attempt to retake the city
1852 Anti-Semitic rioting in Stockholm
1858 The first Atlantic cable ceases to function, after only 12 days in service
1861 Confederates under Leonidas Polk invade Kentucky, insuring its adherence to the Union
1864 Battle of Berryville, Va
1885 First Naval War College class convenes
1914 The British Army enlists 33,304 men, the largest number of volunteers accepted for service in a single day ever
1917 German troops capture Riga, Latvia
1917 Imperial German Air Service conducts its first night bombing of London
1918 Five black soldiers are hanged on charges of "mutiny" for a riot protesting racism in Houston in 1917
1925 USN airship 'Shenandoah' (ZR 1) crashes near Caldwell, Ohio, 13 die
1939 Britain and France declare war on Germany
1939 Morocco offers troops to French to fight in World War II
1940 The Anglo-American "Destroyers for Bases" Deal: US gives Britain 50 old destroyers in exchange for basing rights in the Empire
1943 Italy and the Allies secretly agree to a cease-fire
1943 Japanese sub 'I-20' sunk off Spiritu Santo by 'Patterson' (DD-392) & 'Ellet' (DD-398)
1944 Britain's Guards Armored Division liberates Brussels
1944 US Navy shells the Japanese on Wake Island.
1945 Japanese forces in the Philippines surrender to the US
1954 Red China begins artillery bombardment of the Natinoalist-held offshore island-fortress of Quemoy
1967 Nguyen Van Thieu elected president of Vietnam (1967-75)
