1258 Battle of Anbar: The Mongols defeat the Abbasids

1493 Last day for all Jews to leave Sicily

1500 Cesare Borgia captures the citadel of Forli, and the great Caterina Sforza, taken weapons in hand

1559 Coronation of Elizabeth I "Gloriana" of England (1558-1603)

1598 Pope Clement VIII seizes the duchy of Ferrara

1779 The Battle of Wargaom: the Mahrattas defeat the British

1807 Gunpowder laden ship explodes at Leiden, Netherlands, 150 die

1809 British capture Cayenne from the French

1813 US Frigate 'Chesapeake' captures the British 'Volunteer'

1816 Louis XVIII bars the Bonapartes from France forever

1836 Seminole Wars: Battle of Wetumka, Fla.

1848 The Palermo Uprising: A liberal insurrection ignites revolutionary movements across all of Europe.

1848 Mexican forces attack US Sloop-of-War 'Lexington' off San Blas

1858 Felice Orsini & three henchmen attempt to blow up Napoleon III; 12 killed, 144 wounded

1861 Lt Adam Slemmer, USA, refuses to surrender Ft Pickens to Florida state troops

1863 President Jefferson Davis delivers his "State of the Confederacy" address

1942 Bataan: Heavy fighting

1942 Borneo: Dutch coast defense battery sinks two Japanese MSs off Tarakan

1942 British troops retake Sollum, Egypt

1942 Malaya: Japanese begin to advance on Malacca.

1942 National War Labor Board created

1943 Aleutians: 'Worden' (DD-352) lost to the hazards of the sea

1944 Churchill and de Gaulle confer in Marrakech

1945 Battle of the South China Sea: TF 38 sinks 41 Japanese ships

1946 The 82nd Airborne Division marches up Fifth Avenue to a tumultuous greeting

1950 Swedish tanker rams British sub 'Truculent' in the Thames, 64 die

1953 First landings on an American angled deck carrier, 'Antietam' (CV-36).

1964 One month after independence, a bloody uprising by the black majority ousts the Arab ruling minority of Zanzibar, installing a government that shortly unites with Tanganyika to form Tanzania

1987 Prince Edward resigns from the Royal Marines

2008 Wreckage of the French battleship 'Danton', sunk by a U-boat in 1917, is located off Sardinia