1447 Battle of Bosco Marengo: Bartolomeo Colleoni's Venetians defeated the French
1710 British troops capture Port Royal, Nova Scotia, from the French
1775 Portland, Maine, burned by the British
1808 King Joachim Murat of Naples seizes Capri from King Ferdinand IV of Naples
1813 Battle of Leipzig, Day 1: Austrians, Russians, Prussians, concentrate on Napoleon
1813 Battle of Lindenau: French defeat the Austrians
1834 "Second" Great Fire of London burns much of the city, including Parliament
1859 John Brown stages a "Raid" on Harper's Ferry, takes hostages, holds up in the Engine House of the Arsenal
1861 Skirmish at Bolivar Heights, WVa1861 Skirmish at Warsaw, Mo
1863 U.S. Grant is named commander of Union forces in the West
1885 Capt Alfred Thayer Mahan becomes Superintendent of the Naval War College
1891 Barroom riot at Valparaiso between US sailors & local civilians; 2 die, causing an international incident almost leading to war
1901 Booker T. Washington dines with Pres. Theodore Roosevelt in the White House, setting off a national furor among white racists
1918 Carl I frees his subjects from their allegiance and declares the Austrian Empire dissolved
1918 Establishment of what is now the US Navy Support Center Dahlgren
1925 Locarno Pact: European nations agree to accept boundaries as they are
1926 Chinese troop ship sinks in the Yangtze, c. 1,200 die
1926 Mohammed Nadir Khan begins coup in Afghanistan, c. 1,200 killed
1939 First German air raid on the British Isles in WW II, against naval installations at Rosyth, as the RAF downs one attacker
1940 First black American promoted to general: Benjamin Oliver Davis, Sr.
1940 Nazis establish the Warsaw Ghetto
1940 WW II draft begins; #158 is drawn first
1942 USAAF sinks a Japanese destroyer near Kiska
1943 Anti-Jewish riot in Rome
1943 New Guinea: the Japanese begin major counterattacks at Finschhafen
1943 The Philippines are declared "independent under temporary Japanese supervision."
1946 Execution of the ten major Nazi leaders convicted at Nuremberg
1953 Cuba's Dictator Fulgencio Batista sentences Fidel Castro to 15 years for rebellion
1962 Missile Crisis: JFK learns of Soviet missiles in Cuba
1962 World premier of 'Lawrence of Arabia' at the Odeon Leicester Square in London
1964 China becomes world's fifth nuclear power
1973 Henry A Kissinger & Le Duc Tho are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize; the latter refuses it
1990 US forces in the Persian Gulf reach 200,000
