539 BC Cyrus the Great of Persia captures Babylon [or 12th, 13th, 17th]

969 Byzantines capture Antioch from the Saracens

1467 Battle of Bruthem: Charles the Bold of Lorraine defeats Liege

1587 Battle of Vimory: French Catholics defeat the Huguenots

1658 Battle of the Sound: The Dutch Fleet defeats the Swedes

1665 Battle of Mbwila/Ambuila/Ulanga: Portuguese defeat King Antonio I of Kongo

1790 Battle of Kekionga/Harmer's Defeat/Little Turtle's Victory: After 11 days of Indian attacks, the entire US Army is almost destroyed by the northwestern Indians

1851 Emmanuel Leutze's "Washington Crossing the Delaware" is unveiled in New York

1861 Skirmish at Morgantown/Woodbury, Ky

1863 Formation of the International Committee of the Red Cross: Nobel Peace Prize, 1917, 1944, 1963

1914 Russia declares war on Turkey

1914 Ottoman Empire enters the war with a naval attack on Russian Black Seaports

1914 Serbia declares war on the Ottoman Empire

1918 German High Sea Fleet "Mutiny": Enlisted sailors prevent suicide mission planned by officers against gov't orders are later shot anyway

1922 King Victor Emmanuel III appoints Mussolini Prime Minister of Italy (1922-1943)

1929 "Wall Street Lays an Egg" -- Black Tuesday, the Crash and the start of the Great Depression

1941 Germans massacre 10,000 Jews in Kaunas, Lithuania

1942 ALCAN Highway opens: the motor road to Alaska frees shipping

1942 Nazis murder 16,000 Jews, Pinsk, USSR

1943 USAAF subjects Rabaul to a major air raid.

1944 Breda liberated from the Germans

1944 Near Aachen, 1st Inf Div Rabbi Sidney Lefkowitz & cantor PFC Max Fuchs conduct the first Jewish service for American troops on German soil, broadcast worldwide, with accompanying artillery fire

1956 Israeli paratroopers capture the Sinai passes

1957 Hand grenade explodes in Israel's Parliament