1014 Battle of Kleidion: Byzantine Emperor Basil II slaughters the Bulgars, blinds 15,000 more
1179 Castle Chastelet, invested on the 24th, falls to Saladin
1219 Fifth Crusade: Damietta (Egypt), falls to the Moslems after a 17 month siege
1315 Battle of Montecatini: The Pisans defeat the Florentines & Neapolitans
1350 Battle of Winchelsea: English defeat a Spanish mercenary fleet in French service
1475 Treaty of Picquigny: Settles Anglo-French tensions, for a time
1484 Giovanni Battista Cibò elected Pope as Innocent VIII (1484-1492)
1526 Battle of Mohacs: Lajos II of Hungary loses to Ottoman Sultan Suleiman II
1612 Battle of Kringellen: Scots in Swedish service crush Norwegians.
1622 Battle of Fleurs: Palatinate Germans routed by the Spanish
1664 Peter Stuyvesant surrenders Nieuw-Nederland to the Royal Navy, English regulars, & Connecticut militiamen.
1693 Battle of Landen: costly French victory over the Allies
1708 French & Indians destroy Haverhill, Mass,
1782 English warship 'Royal George' capsizes at Spithead, 900 die
1842 Treaty of Nanking: First Anglo-Chinese Opium War ends (1839-1842),
1848 Irish uprising at Tipperary is crushed by the British
1861 Confederates surrender Ft Clark, Hatteras, NC, besieged since the 28th
1861 Skirmish at Lexington, Mo
1862 Battle of Aspromonte: Italian royal forces defeat Garibaldi
1862 Second Battle of Bull Run (Manassas/Gainesville/Bristoe Station), Day 2 of 3: Confederates hold
1916 Chinese troop transport 'Hsin-Yu' collides with cruiser 'Hai-Yung', 1000 die
1916 Kaiser Wilhelm II replaces Falkenhayn as German Chief-of-the Great- General Staff with Hindenburg
1939 Chaim Weizmann informs England that Palestine Jews will fight in WW II
1939 Einstein writes to FDR about the A-Bomb
1942 Australian 21st Brigade relieves the Maroubra Force on the Kokoda Trail
1942 BB 'Yamato' arrives at Truk, where she will swing at anchor for 7 months
1942 Guadalcanal: "Tokyo Express" lands elements Japanese Kawaguchi Detachment
1942 Japanese cruisers attempt to support SNLF at Milne Bay with little success
1944 The 28th Inf. Div. marches down the Champs Elysee
1944 China: Japanese launch 11 division offensive against Kwelin & Liuchow.
1945 4th Marines land at Yokosuka Naval Base
1945 British liberate Hong Kong from Japan
1945 Japanese forces in Southeast Asia surrender to the British.
1949 USSR explodes its first atomic bomb
1956 France sends troops to Cyprus in the Suez Crisis
1958 Air Force Academy moves to new facilities at Colorado Springs
1990 C-5 transport plane crashes at Ramstein AFB, Germany, killing 13
1997 Islamic militants murder over 300 people in an Algerian village
