313 The Roman Emperors Licinius & Constantine I issued the "Edict of Milan" declaring toleration of Christianity

1003 Consecration of Pope John XVII [XVIII] (13 June-6 Nov 1003)

1275 Battle of San Procolo: The Montefeltro defeat the Bolognese

1373 Anglo-Portuguese alliance, the world's oldest, signed

1665 Naval Battle of Lowescroft: The Duke of York (later James II) inflicts a decisive defeat on the Dutch

1667 The Dutch fleet burns three more English ships-of-the-line in the Medway

1777 Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, the Marquis de LaFayette (19) and other French volunteers for the American Revolution land at Charleston

1863 Gettysburg Campaign: Battle of Winchester, Va

1871 US marines and bluejackets land on Formosa to punish the Botansha tribe for depredations against shipwreck sailors.

1881 USS 'Jeannette' crushed in Arctic ice

1898 Action at Havana: US ships and Spanish batteries exchange fire

1900 The "Boxer Rebellion" begins in China

1912 First successful parachute jump from an airplane, Capt Albert Berry, Jefferson, Ms

1917 Major German bomber raid on London's East End, 162 die, including 18 children at the Upper North Street School

1927 Ticker tape parade up Broadway for Charles Lindbergh.

1940 Uruguay arrests local Nazis for plotting a coup

1941 DCNO report on the Nov 11, 1940, British air raid on the Italian Fleet at Taranto is distributed to senior naval personnel, including CINCUS Husband Kimmel

1942 Peenemunde: 1st V-2 rocket reaches 1.3 km

1944 First V-1 raid: one of ten missiles fired strikes London, 6 die

1946 King Umberto II of Italy abdicates, after a reign of about six weeks

1951 UN forces reach Pyongyang, Korea

1952 Soviet fighters down Swedish DC-3 over the Baltic, 8 die