330 Constantine founds his city

878 Battle of Ethandun: King Alfred of Wessex defeats the Danes

1189 Regensburg: HRE Frederik I Barbarossa's Crusaders depart for the Holy Land

1421 Jews are expelled from Styria, Austria

1678 French AdmiralJean d'Estrées' fleet wrecked off Curaçao, 30 ships lost, hundreds drown

1689 Naval Battle of Bantry Bay: the French vs the English

1690 The English capture Port Royal, Nova Scotia

1745 War of the Austrian Succession: Battle of Fontenoy, French Marshal Saxe wins a brilliant victory

1815 Neapolitan 12th Infantry ambushes Austrian troops near Itri

1834 Battle of Zacatecas: Santa Anna crushes the local militia

1849 Lts W. S. Hancock & Henry Heth play cards with Maj Gen Winfield Scott, and tactfully lose

1857 Delhi falls to the mutinous Sepoys

1860 Garibaldi and the Thousand land at Marsala, Sicily

1862 CSS 'Virginia/Merrimac' is scuttled in the James River

1864 Skirmish at Yellow Tavern: J.E.B. Stuart mortally wounded

1881 Attempted assassination of Russian Crown Prince Nicholas (II), in Otsu, Japan, by a Japanese police officer; a bloody shirt from the incident preserved in the Hermitage will later provide DNA used to identify the late Tsar's remains

1898 USN cable cutting raid at Cienfuegos, Cuba

1898 USN landing party raids Cardenas, Cuba

1906 King Alfonso XIII of Spain marries Princess Victoria Eugenia of Great Britain, and survives an assassin's bomb; 20 k, many w.

1911 Mexican Rebels take Ciudad Juarez, besieged since the 9th

1918 Henry Johnson, 369th Infantry, called by T. Roosevelt one of the "five finest soldiers" in the AEF, earns America's first Croix de guerre

1938 First USCG award of the DFC, LT C. B. Olsen, for a rescue at sea

1943 RMS 'Queen Mary' arrives at New York with Winston Churchill and the British Chiefs of Staff, en route to Washington, as well as 5,000 Afrika Korps veterans bound for P/W camps, and the 300 troops guarding them

1943 US 7th Infantry Division lands on Attu, against stiff resistance

1945 New Guinea: Australian troops land near Wewak area.

1955 Israeli raid on Gaza

1960 Israeli agents capture Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires