48 BC Caesar sails from Brindisi for Greece, to fight Pompey

46 BC Battle of Ruspina, Africa: Labienus draws a fight with Caesar, who retreats.

871 Battle of Reading: King Ethelred of Wessex defeated by the Danes

1493 Columbus sets sail from the New World to return from his first voyage.

1749 John Jervis, later Admiral of the Fleet the Earl St. Vincent, joined the Royal Navy

1762 England declares war on Spain and Naples

1780 Snowstorm hits Washington's army at Morristown, NJ

1832 Slave insurrection at Trinidad

1853 USN buys Mare Is, San Francisco Bay, for a shipyard

1861 Ft Morgan, Mobile, seized by Alabama

1910 USS 'Michigan' (BB-27) is commissioned, the first dreadnought to be ordered, though commissioned later than the British ship that gave the all-big-gun battleship its name

1914 Enver Pasha becomes Turkish war minister

1915 Trans-Caucasia: Russia defeats Turkish offensive

1942 Japanese troops continue to advance in Malaya.

1942 Philippine Army abandons the Borac-Guagua line

1942 U.S. a/c attack Japanese shipping in Davao harbor, the Philippines

1943 Japanese GHQ orders the evacuation of Guadalcanal.

1943 First combat use of proximity fuzed AA ammo, USS 'Helena' (CL-50) off Munda

1944 New Guinea: Australian forces struggle to reach Kelanoa

1944 Operation Carpetbagger begins, the Allied campaign to airdrop arms and supplies to the Resistance in Europe,

1945 Germans execute resistance strikers in Amsterdam

1945 Luzon: 3rd Fleet hit by a kamikaze, USS 'Ommaney Bay' (CVE-79) is lost

1951 Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul

1989 Second Gulf of Sidra Incident: two USN F-14s down two Libyan MiG-23s