29 BC Day 3 of Octavian's Triumph, for the conquest of Egypt

717 Arab-Barbarian hordes abandon the siege of Constantinople (from 25 Aug 716)

778 Battle of Roncesvalles: the Basques attack Charlemagne's rearguard

1040 Battle of Elgin: MacBeth defeats King Duncan I of Scotland, & usurps the throne (1040-1057)

1057 Battle of Lumphanan: Malcolm III Canmore defeats King Macbeth of Scotland

1097 Battle of Consuegra: Yusuf ibn Tashfin's Almoravids defeat Alfonso VI of Castille & Leon

1118 Byzantine Emperor John II Komnenos, co-ruler since 1092, becomes sole Emperor (1118-1143)

1209 Albigensians surrender Carcassonne to the Crusaders (besieged since Aug 1st)

1388 Battle of Otterbourne: Scots under James, Earl of Douglas defeat & capture Henry Hotspur's English

1515 Lorenzo de'Medici the Younger is created Captain-General of the Florentine militia

1645 Battle of Kilsyth: Montrose's Royalist's slaughter 6000 Scots Covenanters

1760 Battle of Leignitz/The Katzbach: Frederick the Great defeats the Austrians

1799 Battle of Novi: Austro-Russians defeat the French

1824 Lafayette lands at New York, to begin a triumphal tour of the US to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the American Revolution

1848 Battle of Luino: The Garibaldini defeat the Austrians

1854 Anglo-French fleet bombards the Russian defenses at Bomersund in the Baltic

1863 Submarine CSS 'Hunley' arrives in Charleston by rail

1864 CSS 'Tallahassee' captures 6 U.S. schooners off New England

1895 Second class battleship 'Texas' commissioned; sunk as a target, 1911

1920 Battle of Warsaw: Marshal Jozef Pilsudski leads the Polish Army to rout the Soviet Red Army at the gates of Warsaw, ending the Soviet-Polish War (1918-1920)

1940 Hitler's first "D-Day" for Operation Sea Lion

1941 Kovno, Lithuania: Jews are herded into Slobodka ghetto

1942 'I-6', last Japanese submarine in the Aleutians, is withdrawn.

1942 U.S. transports land supplies at Guadalcanal

1943 Elms 25th Inf Div land on Vella Lavella, opposed only by Japanese a/c.

1943 Kiska: U.S. and Canadian troops land with heavy naval and air support`

1944 Operation Anvil-Dragoon: Allied troops land in Provence

1945 Hirohito's surrender message is broadcast to the Japanese people.

1945 Japanese a/c raid TF 38, 12 hours after Hirohito's surrender order

1945 Soviet aircraft sink 860-ton frigate 'Kenju' off Hokkaido; last Japanese warship lost during World War II

1945 US ends wartime rationing of gasoline & fuel oil

1973 Athens: Black September bomb, 3 die, 55 injured