61BC First day of Pompey's Third Triumph: For the defeat of Mithridates
1066 Duke William "the Bastard" of Normandy lands in England, with about 10,000 friends
1106 Battle of Tinchebray: King Henry I of England defats his brother Robert Curthose, the Duke of Normandy.
1238 King Jaime I of Aragon liberates Valencia from the Moors
1322 Battle of Muhldorf: Duke Frederick von Hapsburg of Austria is defeated by his rival for the German crown, Duke Louis IV of Bavaria
1484 Condottiero Obbietto Fieschi captures Bosco di Corniglio
1687 The Turks surrender Athens to the Venetians
1745 Battle of Bassignana: The French & Spanish defeat the Piedmontese
1781 Washington initiates the siege of Yorktown: The last major battle of the Revolutionary War
1806 French defeat Fra Diavolo near Itri1822 US Sloop-of-war 'Peacock' captures 5 pirate vessels in the Caribbean
1823 Annibale della Genga elected Pope as Leo XII (1723-1729)
1850 Congress outlawed flogging in the Navy and Merchant Marine, Congress abolished flogging in the Navy and Merchant Marine, with many abstaining or absent, and most Slave State members voting against, including Jefferson Davis
1864 Battle of Fort Harrison/Chaffin's Farm/New Market Heights (ends 30th)
1868 Battle of Alcolea: Queen Isabella II of Spain flees to France
1868 Opelousa Massacre, St Landry Parish, Louisiana: 200 blacks killed by white supremacists
1871 Chochise and the Chiricahua Apache make peace
1889 Carlos I crowned King of Portugal (1889-1908)
1901 Balangiga, Samar: 48 of 78 men of Co. C., 9th Inf, killed by Filipino insurgents
1906 US troops occupy Cuba, stay until 19091
914 The Germans initiate the siege of Antwerp
1918 British Pvt Henry Tandey may have had a chance to kill Adolf Hitler, while earning a VC near Marcoing
1919 Pres Wilson has a stroke
1922 Fascists stage the "March on Rome"
1923 US Navy aircraft take first and second places in the Schneider Cup Race
1924 Two US Army planes end around-world flight, Seattle to Seattle, 57 stops
1943 Japanese minelayer 'Hoko' is sunk east of Buka by U.S. Army aircraft
1944 Burma: British XV Corps resumes the offensive in the Arakan
1944 SS-Maj Walter Reder supervises mass murders at Marzabotto, Italy
1987 Fiji: Maj Gen Sitiveni Rabuka's second coup, in an attempt to assert Fijian ethnic dominance
