54 BC Battle of Bigbury: Caesar defeats the Britons

1124 Tyre surrenders to the Crusaders

1191 Battle of Rudiano: Brescians defeat the Bergamesci

1456 An ecclesiastical court clears Joan of Arc of witchcraft charges, posthumously

1460 Battle of the Sarno/Salmi: The Angevins defeat Ferrante I of Naples

1495 Ferrante II recovers Naples from Charles VIII's French

1498 Lucrezia Borgia (18) marries Alfonso d'Aragona (17)

1540 Francisco Vasquez de Coronado captures the Zuni Pueblo of Hawikul, NM

1647 Masaniello initiates a rebellion against Spanish rule in Naples

1674 Anti-Spanish uprising begins at Messina

1798 Congress rescinds treaties with France; Quasi-War begins

1798 US Frigate 'Delaware' captures French privateer 'Croyable'.

1801 Toussaint L'Ouverture declares Haitian independence

1807 Tilsit: Napoleon makes peace with Prussia & Russia

1838 Central American Federation is dissolved

1846 Commo John D. Sloat takes Monterey, claims California for the US

1861 Skirmish at Great Falls, Va

1864 Jubal's Raid: Skirmish at Middleton, MD

1898 German marines occupy Subic Bay, in the Philippines, annoying both the Filipino Nationalists and the United States.

1908 Great White Fleet leaves San Francisco Bay

1915 First Battle of the Isonzo ends (from Jun 23)

1916 Thomas Edison becomes head of Naval Consulting Board, to study new technology

1920 USN aircraft tests a "radio compass", Norfolk, Va

1937 Marco Polo Bridge: Japanese initiate the "China Incident"

1941 Iceland: US Marines relieve British forces on occupation duty, so they can fight elsewhere

1941 Nazis murder 5,000 Jews in Kovno, Lithuania

1943 Japanese ships sail from Paramushiro to evacuate the Kiska garrison.

1944 RAF drops 2,572 tons on Caen, to support ground attack

1944 Saipan: Japanese troops make a final "banzai" charge

1944 U.S. B-29s from China attack Japan.

1944 US troops capture Rosignano, NW of Rome

1948 First women sworn into the Naval Reserve

1956 Dynamite explosion, Cali, Columbia, over 1,000 die

1960 USSR shoots down a US aircraft over the Barents Sea

1966 Marines initiate "Operation Hasting" - to clear NVA from the DMZ

1999 Sierra Leone: Agreement between Pres Ahmad Tejan Kabbah & Foday Sankoh ends civil war.

2005 Islamist terrorists detonate 4 bombs on London subways and a bus, over 50 k, c. 700 injured.