430 Battle of Mold: St. Germanus defeats the Picts and Saxons

988 Boudouin/Baldwin IV "the Bearded" becomes Count of Flanders (988-1037),

1191 King Philip II of France sails from Sicily for the Holy Land (3rd Crusade)

1282 "Sicilian Vespers" begin: Palermitans massacre French occupiers, initiating a successful war to transfer the island to the Catalans

1296 Battle of Berwick: King Edward I defeats Sir William Douglas & the Scottish Nobles

1533 Henry VIII divorces his 1st wife, Catherine of Aragon

1603 Battle of Mellifont: English defeat the Irish

1639 Massacre of Aberdeen: Montrose's Scots Covenanters slaughter the Royalists

1814 Battle of Clichy: Austro-Russo-Prussians defeat the French

1844 Battle of Santiago de los Caballeros: Dominicans defeat the Haitians

1856 Triumphal reception at Paris for Napoleon III to welcome the French Army returning from the Crimea.

1863 Pr Wilhelm Georg of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg becomes King George I of Greece (1863-1913)

1942 SS murders 200 inmates of Trawniki labor camp

1944 TF 58 begins raids on Palau, Yap, and Ulithi.

1945 Soviet troops enter Austria

1945 The Red Army captures Danzig

1961 NASA pilot Joseph Walker takes X-15 to 51,690 m

1981 Pres. Ronald Reagan and two others are wounded in an assassination attempt by John Hinckley, Jr.