63 BC "O Tempora, O Mores!" - Cicero denounces Catiline in the Senate

392 Roman Emperor Theodosius bans pagan worship and ends the Olympic Games

641 The Arabs capture Alexandria from the East Romans, marking the final destruction of the Great Library

960 Battle of Andrassos: The Byzantines defeat the Emir of Aleppo

1443 Battle of Monteluro: Muzio Attendolo Sforza defeats the League of the Porta Giovia

1519 Hernan Cortez enters Tenochtitlan and is welcomes by Motecuhzoma

1620 Battle of White Mountain: Bohemians defeated by the Imperialists

1745 The '45: Bonnie Prince Charlie invaded England from Scotland

1805 Battle of Maria Zell: French defeat the Austrians

1861 Battle of Mount Ivy, Ky

1861 Capt. Charles Wilkes removes Confederate agents from the Royal Mail steamer 'Trent', initiating a diplomatic crisis with Britain

1912 First Balkan War: The Greeks capture Salonika from the Turks

1923 Hitler's "Munich Beer Hall Putsch"

1924 Austria chancellor Ignaz Seipel, resigns after an assassination attempt

1939 Hitler escapes assassination at the Burgerbraukeller, Munich

1940 The RAF bombs Munich

1942 Hitler proclaims the fall of Stalingrad, somewhat prematurely

1942 Operation Torch: U.S. and British forces land in northwestern Africa, aided by French Resistants

1944 Hungary "lends" 25,000 Jews to the Germans for forced labor

1950 The first jet fighter air duel: Lt. Russell J. Brown, in an F-80, tangles successfully with a North Korean MiG-15

1956 The UN demands that the USSR leave Hungary, and is ignored

1957 Britain tests its first hydrogen bomb, Kiritimati Atoll, in the Pacific

1990 President GHW Bush orders 100,000 additional US troops to the Persian Gulf