753 BC Romulus founds a city, kills his brother, names it for himself, and reigns as king (753-717 BC)

1097 Aquitainian Crusaders under Bishop Adhemar and Count Raymond reach Constantinople

1503 Battle of Seminara: Gonzalvo de Cordoba's Spanish defeat the French in the Kingdom of Naples

1572 England and France ally against Spain

1738 Algerian pirates raid into the Bay of Naples

1739 Austria concedes the independence of Naples under the Duke of Parma, who rules as Charles IV (1739-1759), and is the half-brother of the King of Spain, whom he will later succeed

1796 Battle of Mondovi: Bonaparte defeats the Austrians

1809 Battle of Landshut: Napoleon's French & German troops defeat an Austrian army outnumbered two-to-one in a hard fight

1813 Battle of Bautzen, Day 2: Napoleon defeats the Russo-Prussians

1836 Battle of San Jacinto: Texas secures independence from Mexico

1849 Battle of Las Carreras: Major victory of the Dominicans in their War for Independence from Haiti (1844-1856)

1861 USS 'Saratoga' captures the Boston-owned slaver 'Nightingale' with over 900 souls aboard, bound for the Confederacy

1864 President Lincoln reviews 72 court-martial sentences, confirming some, reducing many, and reversing several

1865 AbrahamLincoln's funeral train leaves Washington

1914 US Marines and sailors occupy Vera Cruz, Mexico

1928 Bomb explosion in a midtown Manhattan loft, nine injured; the case remains unresolved

1941 Greece surrenders to Nazi Germany

1944 TF 58 raids Hollandia & Wakde, to prepare for landings.

1945 Burma: Japanese decide to retire, abandoning Rangoon

1945 Ie Shima, off Okinawa, secured after five days fighting

1945 Red Army reaches the outskirts of Berlin

1954 USAF flies a French battalion to Vietnam

1961 USAF Maj Robert M White takes X-15 to 32,000 m

1967 Military coup in Greece

1967 Svetlana Alliluyeva, Stalin's daughter, seeks asylum in the US

1975 Nguyen Van Thieu resigns as president of South Vietnam