1435 Battle of Piper Dene: The Earl of Angus beats the Earl of Northumberland & Sir Robert Ogle
1776 Nathan Hale volunteers for secret service against the British
1813 Battle of Lake Erie: Commo Oliver Hazard Perry meets the enemy and they are his
1823 Simon Bolivar is named President of Peru1
861 Combat at Carnifex Ferry, Va
1862 The men of the 1st Penna Cav appoint the US Army's first Jewish chaplain, Rabbi Jacob Frankel
1863 Battle of Bayou Fourche, Ark: Union cavalry under Brig. Gen. John W. Davidson raid across the Arkansas River, forcing Confederates under John S. Marmaduke to retire on Little Rock
1914 Battle of the Marne: The Germans begin falling back, ending the six-day fight.
1939 Canada declares war on Germany
1940 Buckingham Palace hit by a German bomb
1942 British conduct landings on Vichy-French controlled Madagascar
1943 British Eighth Army occupies Taranto, Italy
1943 Battle of the Porta San Paolo: Italian troops and partisans fail to keep the Germans out of Rome, c. 600 kia
1944 Elms TF 38 raid the Palau Islands.
1944 Sir Frederick Browning says "I think we might be going a bridge too far"
1945 Norwegians sentence Nazi-collaborator Vidkun Quisling to death
1976 Five Croatian terrorists capture TWA plane at La Guardia Airport, NY
2004 Keel laid for USS 'New York' (LPD-21) at Avondale, La
