1307 Battle of Sanquhar: James "the Black" Douglas defeats the English

1360 Anglo-French Treaty of Bretigny suspends the Hundred Years War until 1369

1373 Battle of Montechiari: The Anti-Visconti League defeats the Visconti

1429 Joan of Arc breaks the six monthEnglishsiege of Orleans

1450 Jack Cade's Rebellion begins: Kentish revolt against King Henry VI

1721 Michelangelo Dei Conti elected Pope as Innocent XIII (1721-1724)

1846 Mexican War: Battle of Palo Alto, Texas

1848 Battle of Cornuda: Austrians defeat Veneto-Papal forces

1859 Battle of Casale: Garibaldi defeats the Austrians

1862 Valley Campaign: Federals repulsed at Battle of McDowell, Va

1864 Battle of Spotsylvania begins

1886 Confederate veteran John S. Pemberton invents Coca Cola

1895 China cedes Taiwan to Japan

1911 Birth of Naval Aviation: USN orders its first airplane, a Curtiss A-1

1918 Gen. John J. Pershing urges the men of the A.E.F. to write their mothers for Mother's Day

1924 A League of Nations plebiscite transfers Memel to Lithuania

1925 French victory over the Rif Rebels in Morocco

1941 Royal Navy captures 'U-110', with an intact Enigma machine

1942 Battle of the Coral Sea, Day 2: U.S. loses 'Lexington' (CV-2), the Japanese lose many aircraft, & carrier 'Shokaku' is heavily damaged; Japanese abandon the attack on Port Morseby

1943 BB 'Yamato' sails from Truk, her first movement since August 29, 1942.

1943 Japanese lose 3 destroyers to US mines in Blackett Straits.

1944 Chinese 30th & New 38th Divs advance on Kamaing, Burma.

1952 US conducts the first H-Bomb test, Eniwetok Atoll

1963 JFK offers Israel assistance against aggression

1967 Muhammad Ali is indicted for refusing induction into the Army

1972 Lod Airport, Israel: a Sabena airliner is captured by Palestinian terrorists

1991 CIA director William H Webster resigns