1279 BC Accession of Pharaoh Rameses "the Great" of Egypt (1279-1213 BC)

198 BC Battle of the Aous Narrows: Titus Quinctius Flamininus defeats Philip V of Macedon

841 Battle of Fontenay: Embroglio among Charlemagne's heirs

1080 Schismatic Council of Brixen declares Archbishop Guibert [Anti-]Pope "Clement III" (1080-1100)

1139 Battle of Ourique: Porgual's Afonso I defeats the Moors

1183 Peace of Constance: the Lombards secure autonomy from the Holy Roman Empire

1243 Sinibaldo de' Fieschi elected Pope as Innocent IV (1243-1254)

1298 Massacre of 250 Jews at Rothenburg, Germany

1386 Battle of Brentelle: The Carrano defeat the Scaligers

1483 Richard of Gloucester declares his nephew 12-year old king Edward V illegitimate, deposes him and assumes the crown as Richard III (1483-1485)

1569 Battle of La Roche l'Abeille: French Huguenots defeat the Catholics

1570 Battle of Arnay-le-Duc: French Catholics defeat the Huguenots

1862 Battle of Oak Grove, Va

1863 George Meade replaces Joe Hooker as CG, Army of the Potomac

1864 Petersburg: Union troops begin a tunnel under Confederate lines

1870 Isabella II of Spain (1833-1868) abdicates in favor of her son, the later Alfonso XII (r. 1874-1885), two years after having been deposed

1876 Battle of the Little Big Horn: Crazy Horse does in Custer

1898 Skirmish at Aguadores, Cuba

1905 Polish uprising against Russian domination

1920 Greeks capture 8,000 Turkish troops at Smyrna

1925 Military coup by Gen. Theodorus Pangoulos in Greece

1940 Hitler tours Paris: Eiffel Tower, Napoleon's Tomb, the Opera

1941 FDR bars racial discrimination in war industries

1941 Finland declares war on the Soviet Union

1942 Eisenhower takes command of U.S. forces in Europe

1942 Papua: Australians form the Maroubra Force for operations on the Kokoda Trail

1942 RAF raids Bremen

1942 USS 'Nautilus" (SS-168) sinks Japanese DD 'Yamakaze', off Tokyo Bay

1943 Crematory III at Birkenau is finished

1943 Race riots in Detroit

1943 US submariners finally convince the Navy that its torpedoes suck

1948 Truman signs Displaced Persons Act: 205,000 refugees enter the US

1950 North Korea invades South Korea, claiming "self-defense"

1981 Supreme Court holds male-only draft registration constitutional

1991 Slovenia and Croatia declare independence from Yugoslavia

1991 The last Soviet troops leave Czechoslovakia

1991 Ticker tape parade up Broadway to honor Korean War veterans

1996 Dhahran, Saudi Arabia: Islamists bomb Khobar Towers, 19 Americans die, c. 500 Saudis & Americans injured