405 BC Battle of Aegospotami: Spartans crush the Athenian fleet, ending the Peloponnesian War.
115 Devastating earthquake at Antioch: cities as far as Palestine are ruined, Caesarea Maritima is destroyed by a tsunami, many die, Emperor Trajan is among the survivors
1545 Opening session of the Council of Trent (1545-1563)
1577 Sir Francis Drake sets sail from England to go around the world
1636 First muster of the militia at Salem, Massachusetts - Birthday of the National Guard
1643 Battle of Alton: Parliamentary forces (c. 5,000) execute a surprise attack on a Royalist garrison (c. 1000)
1774 John Sullivan's militiamen take Ft William & Mary, NH, from the British
1861 Combat at Buffalo Mountain/Camp Allegheny/Allegheny Summit, WVa
1862 Battle of Fredericksburg, VA; Mismanaged Union attacks lead to a devastating defeat
1864 Battle of Ft McAllister, GA
1916 Avalanches killed 10,000 Austrian & Italian troops in 24 hrs in the Tyrol
1916 French chief of staff Josef Joffre replaced by Robert Nivelle
1918 The first US occupation troops cross the Rhine to enter Germany
1918 Pres. Wilson arrives at Brest on the former German liner 'George Washington', to start the first visit to Europe by a sitting president, for the Paris Peace Conference
1931 Winston Churchill is struck by a car while exiting a cab on Fifth Avenue between 76th and 77th Streets
1939 Battle of the Rio de La Plata: three British cruisers defeat the German pocket battleship 'Graf Spee'
1941 British and Canadian troops abandon the mainland portions of Hong Kong
1942 British advance cautiously in the Arakan region of Burma
1942 Japanese survivors at Buna (c. 100 men) escape across the Giruwa River
1942 U.S. aircraft bomb Munda
1943 Burma: the Chinese New 38th Div reaches Bhamo
1943 Massacre of Kalavryta: German troops kill c. 500 Greek men and boys
1944 USS 'Nashville' (CL-43) struck by a kamikaze off the Philippines, 138 die
1966 First US bombing of Hanoi
1967 Unsuccessful coup against Greek King Constantine II
1981 Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski seizes power in Poland
2001 Islamic terrorist attack on the Indian Parliament: 9 die & 18 are wounded, five attackers are killed lain
2003 US troops find Iraqi Dictator Saddam Hussein in a hole in the ground
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