Today In Military History (28 May)

Biggles · 2020-05-28T14:32:35.759Z

Mathias Rust: the teenager who flew to Red Square • 585 BC Battle of the Hylas: The fighting between the armies of King Cyaxerxes of Media and King Alyattes of Lydia was ended by a solar eclipse, the same one that had been predicted by Thales • 640 Consecration of Pope Severinus, though elected in 638, d. Aug 2, 640 • 861 The Vikings sack and burn Paris • 1156 Naval Battle of Brindisi: William II's Norman-Sicilians defeat the Byzantines • 1349 Anti-Semitic outbreak at Breslau, 60 die • 1358 Saint-Leu starts France's "Jacquerie" peasant uprising • 1731 The Papal States order confiscation of all Hebrew books • 1754 Battle of Jumonville Glen: George Washington's small band of militiamen and Indians defeat the French and Indians near Ft Duquesne, but his Indian allies kill several prisoners • 1774 First Continental Congress convenes • 1813 Second Battle of Sackett's Harbor: Americans defeat a British attack from across Lake Ontario • 1813 USS 'Essex' and prize capture 5 British whalers in the Pacific • 1830 Congress authorizes Indian removal from the Eastern states • 1849 Spanish troops land at Gaeta, to campaign against the Roman Republic • 1900 Britain annexes the Orange Free State • 1910 Austrian Army Lt. Adolf Hofrichter gets life for using poison to speed up promotions • 1917 Tenth Battle of the Isonzo ends (from May 12) • 1926 Portugal: Military coup by Gen Manuel Gomes da Costa initiates nearly40 years of right-wing dictatorial rule • 1937 Neville Chamberlain becomes PM of Great Britain, to May 1940 • 1940 King Leopold III surrenders Belgium to the Germans • 1940 Norway: Anglo-French forces capture Narvik • 1945 Okinawa: c. 100 kamikaze raid Allied fleet, inflicting considerable damage but sinking only one destroyer • 1954 USAF Maj. Arthur Murray takes the Bell 'X-1A' to 90,440 feet • 1961 The American Republican Army (membership 2) blows up communications facilities in Nevada and Utah. • 1967 Sir Francis Chichester completes the first one-stop single-handed circumnavigation of the globe, at Plymouth, and is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II, with sword used by Elizabeth I to knight Francis Drake after his round-the-world voyage • 1971 USSR 'Mars 3' launched, the first spacecraft to make a soft landing on Mars • 1974 Neo-Fascist terror bombing in Brescia, 6 die • 1980 First 55 women graduate from the U.S. Naval Academy • 1987 German Mathias Rust, 19, lands a light plane in Red Square • 1991 Ethiopian rebels seize Addis Ababa

585 BC Battle of the Hylas: The fighting between the armies of King Cyaxerxes of Media and King Alyattes of Lydia was ended by a solar eclipse, the same one that had been predicted by Thales
640 Consecration of Pope Severinus, though elected in 638, d. Aug 2, 640
861 The Vikings sack and burn Paris
1156 Naval Battle of Brindisi: William II's Norman-Sicilians defeat the Byzantines
1349 Anti-Semitic outbreak at Breslau, 60 die
1358 Saint-Leu starts France's "Jacquerie" peasant uprising
1731 The Papal States order confiscation of all Hebrew books
1754 Battle of Jumonville Glen: George Washington's small band of militiamen and Indians defeat the French and Indians near Ft Duquesne, but his Indian allies kill several prisoners
1774 First Continental Congress convenes
1813 Second Battle of Sackett's Harbor: Americans defeat a British attack from across Lake Ontario
1813 USS 'Essex' and prize capture 5 British whalers in the Pacific
1830 Congress authorizes Indian removal from the Eastern states
1849 Spanish troops land at Gaeta, to campaign against the Roman Republic
1900 Britain annexes the Orange Free State
1910 Austrian Army Lt. Adolf Hofrichter gets life for using poison to speed up promotions
1917 Tenth Battle of the Isonzo ends (from May 12)
1926 Portugal: Military coup by Gen Manuel Gomes da Costa initiates nearly40 years of right-wing dictatorial rule
1937 Neville Chamberlain becomes PM of Great Britain, to May 1940
1940 King Leopold III surrenders Belgium to the Germans
1940 Norway: Anglo-French forces capture Narvik
1945 Okinawa: c. 100 kamikaze raid Allied fleet, inflicting considerable damage but sinking only one destroyer
1954 USAF Maj. Arthur Murray takes the Bell 'X-1A' to 90,440 feet
1961 The American Republican Army (membership 2) blows up communications facilities in Nevada and Utah.
1967 Sir Francis Chichester completes the first one-stop single-handed circumnavigation of the globe, at Plymouth, and is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II, with sword used by Elizabeth I to knight Francis Drake after his round-the-world voyage
1971 USSR 'Mars 3' launched, the first spacecraft to make a soft landing on Mars
1974 Neo-Fascist terror bombing in Brescia, 6 die
1980 First 55 women graduate from the U.S. Naval Academy
1987 German Mathias Rust, 19, lands a light plane in Red Square
1991 Ethiopian rebels seize Addis Ababa

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