1241 Mongols take Cracow, Poland
1303 Battle of Roslin: John Comyn & Simon Fraser defeat John Segrove & Ralph de Manton
1401 Tamerlane sacks Damascus
1765 Britain enacts the Quartering Act
1832 Christian fundamentalist terrorists beat and tar and feather Mormon leader Joseph Smith, in Hiram, Ohio
1848 First Schleswig Holstein War breaks out: The Germanic Confederation attempt to wrest the provinces from Denmark fails by 1851
1878 British frigate 'Eurydice' sinks, 300 lost
1898 The battleships 'Kearsarge' (BB 5) & 'Kentucky' (BB 6) are launched at Newport News
1916 'U-39' seriously damages the Channel ferry 'Sussex', c. 50 civilians killed, more injured; Germany responds to US protests by halting unrestricted submarine warfare
1919 New York's 27th Division returns from the Great War, marching up Fifth Avenue
1920 First Coast Guard air station established, Morehead City, NC
1938 Battle of Taierzhuang begins: Japanese offensive meets stout Chinese resistance, which holds until April 7
1941 German attack near El Agheila, Libya
1941 Donald Duck enlists in the Army, for the first of six war cartoons.
1944 Ardeatine Massacre: The Nazis execute more than 300 civilians in a cave near Rome
1944 The Great Escape: 76 Allied officers flee Stalag Luft 3
1945 Operation Varsity: The allied airborne crossing of the Rhine
1945 Gen. George S. Patton pisses in the Rhine from a pontoon bridge near Oppenheim, Germany
1958 Elvis becomes US-5531076 at Memphis
1959 Iraq withdraws from the Baghdad Pact
1976 Argentine Pres Isabel Peron (July 1, 1974-March 24, 1976) deposed by a military coup
1982 US sub 'Jacksonville' (SSN-699) collides with Turkish freighter off Virginia
1986 Gulf of Sidra Incident: Libyan forces fire on US vessels making a freedom of the seas passage, causing American strikes on missile sites and patrol craft
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