1098 Crusaders defeat the Prince of Aleppo at Antioch
1258 Hulagu Khan's Mongols sack Baghdad and end the Abbasid Caliphate
1355 The Oxford St Scholastica Day Riots: A tavern brawl becomes a town-gown riot, leving c. 100 over two days
1417 King Henry V of England orders that six-wing feathers be plucked from every goose in 20 counties and sent to the Tower of London, to be used to fletch arrows for the royal campaigns in France.
1519 Cortez sails from Cuba with c. 550 men bound for Mexico1
563 Peace of Amboise: Truce between French Catholics and Huguenots
1620 Battle of Ponts de Ce: Supporters of Queen-Regent Marie de Medici of France are defeated by her son King Louis XIII of France
1676 Battle of Lancaster: Massachusetts militia attack & defeat the Wampanoag Indians
1763 Treaty of Paris ends the French & Indian/Seven Years' War
1798 Revolutionary France invades the Papal States, to establish a puppet kleptocratic "Roman Republic"
1807 Congress establishes the US Coast Survey
1814 Battle of Champaubert: Napoleon defeats the Russians
1824 Peruvian Congress grants Bolivar dictatorial powers
1840 Queen Victoria weds her beloved Albert
1846 Battle of Sobran: British defeat Sikhs
1853 Taiping rebels capture Nanking
1885 Battle of Kirkeban: British defeat Mahdists
1906 HMS 'Dreadnought' is launched, initiating a naval arms race
1910 The "Emperor of Ethiopia" hoax on HMS 'Dreadnought'
1942 After burning for nearly 24 hours, the liner 'Normandie' capsizes in the slip between Piers 88 and 90 on the North River, Manhattan
1942 Wavell visits besieged Singapore, orders continued resistance.
1943 Guadalcanal: Marine and Army troops mop up Japanese stragglers
1943 Battle of Krasny Bor: The Soviets attempt to break the siege of Leningrad, but defending German and Spanish troops hold
1944 Arakan, Burma: Japanese offensive isolates some British and Indian units
1944 Aussies seize the Huon Peninsula, make contact with U.S. forces near Saidor
1945 Baltic: German ship 'Stüben' torpedoed, over 3,000 die
1945 Tokyo is hit by a severe earthquake & 100 B-29s.
1947 Italy cedes most of Venezia-Giulia to Yugoslavia
1947 Province of Petsamo returned to the Soviet Union by Finland
1948 Greek Gen Markos' Communist guerrillas detonate bombs in Saloniki
1954 Eisenhower warns against US intervention in Vietnam
1962 USSR swaps U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers for spy Rudolph Abel
1964 Australian carrier 'Melbourne' collides with the destroyer 'Voyager', which sinks, 82 die
1991 Lithuania votes for independence from USSR
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