27 BC Octavian "Restores the Republic" - rules for 41 more years.

532 The Nika Riots: The people of Constantinople rise against Justinian and Theodora, initiating five days of bloody rioting, c. 30,000 die

858 Battle of Aclea: Danes wax Wessex

888 Accession of Odo as King of the West Franks (888-898)

1099 Crusaders burn Mara, Syria

1631 Treaty of Barwalde: France buys Swedish military support for five years.

1649 The Fronde rebels storm the Bastille

1830 Third Great Fire of New Orleans: a hearth fire goes out of control, many buildings burn, blamed on a slave conspiracy

1842 Battle of Gandamak: Afghans overwhelm the 44th Foot, completing the destruction of the British Army in their country

1865 US Army/Navy begins a siege of Ft Fisher, NC; falls Jan 15

1874 Battle between jobless & police in NYC, 100s injured

1874 US troops land in Honolulu to protect King Lunalilo of Hawaii

1881 Battle of Chorillos: Chileans defeat the Peruvians and begin an offensive against Lima, which falls on the 17th

1894 Revolution in Sicily is crushed by government troops

1895 Battle of Coatit: Italians defeat the Abyssinians

1898 Publication of "J'Accuse!", Emile Zola's defense of Dreyfus, in Paris

1917 Munitions disaster at Ekonomia, near Arkhangel, Russia -- c. 10,000 tons explode, 1,500 die

1942 Elms Br 18th Div reach Singapore, as Japanese close in

1942 Heavy fighting on Bataan, as Philippine troops counterattack

1943 Guadalcanal: the 25th Inf Div captures the Galloping Horse, as the 2nd Mar Div attacks westward along the coast

1943 Hitler declares Germany must wage "Total War"

1943 Submarine 'Guardfish' (SS-217) torpedoes a Japanese patrol vessel off New Ireland.

1943 Three "Jewish transports" arrive at Auschwitz, from Berlin, the Netherlands, and Zambrów, totaling some 3,960 people, of whom 2,446 are immediately gassed

1944 Northern Burma: Chinese forces secure the Tarung river line.

1945 Luzon: Heavy fighting

1945 As Sergei Prokofiev mounts the podium for the premiere of his Fifth Symphony, the silence in the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory is interrupted by the firing of hundreds of artillery pieces in celebration of the crossing of the Vistula by the Red Army.

1958 9,000 scientists from 43 nations petition the UN for a nuclear test ban

1967 Military coup in Togo

1986 Bloody coup overthrows the government of South Yemen