53 BC Battle of Carrhae: Crassus is crushed by the Parthians

721 Battle of Toulouse: Duke Odo of Aquitaine defeats the Moors

1042 Edward the Confessor ascends the throne of England (1042-1066)

1064 King Ferdinand I of Castille liberates Coimbra from the Moors

1075 Battle of Homburg: Henry VII of France defeats the Saxons

1358 Battle of Meaux: The Capital de Buch & Gaston Phoebus defeat the "Jacquerie" peasants

1742 Battle of Bloody Marsh: Spanish assault on Simons Island, Ga

1775 Continental Congress enacts the first American "Articles of War"

1778 British evacuate Philadelphia

1800 Battle of Montebello: French defeat the Austrians

1855 HM gunboats 'Merlin' and 'Firefly' have the honor of being the first ships damaged by marine mines, off Kronshtadt in the Baltic

1862 Valley Campaign: Battle of Port Republic

1863 Battle of Brandy Station; largest cavalry fight of the Civil War

1864 Skirmish at Roswell, Ga: Caught by a Confederate patrol while bathing in the Chattahoochie River, the men of the US 1st Tenn Cav mount a charge while buck naked

1893 Ford's Theatre, housing War Department offices, collapses, 22 die, 65 injured

1898 Battle of Cuzco Well, Guantanamo: Marines defeat Spanish

1938 The Chinese breach the Yellow River dikes at Huayangkuou, halting a Japanese offensive at the cost of perhaps 800,000 lives

1939 King George VI lays a wreath at the tomb of George Washington, in Mt. Vernon

1940 French government flees Paris for Tours, as German troops cross the Seine

1940 Norway surrenders to Germany, as King Haakon VII flees into exile in London

1942 Nazis raze Lidice, Czechoslovakia, c. 1,400 slaughtered

1943 Fremantle: an Australian minesweeper is lost in a collision with a merchantman

1944 Burma: Heavy fighting at Lung-ling, on the Salween front.

1944 Normandy: U.S. VII & V Corps link up to form a continuous beachhead

1945 Luzon: Sixth Army manages to isolate Japanese forces.

1945 Premier Kantaro Suzuki declares Japan will never surrender

1959 The first ballistic missile sub is launched, USS 'George Washington' (SSBN-598)

1963 JFK declares Winston Churchill a US honorary citizen

1965 Dong Xoai: c. 1,500 VC overrun district military HQ