0 Feast of St. Quirinus of Neuss, Patron of Knights, Soldiers, and Cavalrymen
430 Battle of Mold: St. Germanus defeats the Picts and Saxons
988 Boudouin/Baldwin IV "the Bearded" becomes Count of Flanders (988-1037),
1191 King Philip II of France sails from Sicily for the Holy Land (3rd Crusade)
1282 "Sicilian Vespers" begin: Palermitans massacre French occupiers, initiating a successful war to transfer the island to the Catalans
1296 Battle of Berwick: King Edward I defeats Sir William Douglas & the Scottish Nobles
1533 Henry VIII divorces his 1st wife, Catherine of Aragon
1603 Battle of Mellifont: English defeat the Irish
1639 Massacre of Aberdeen: Montrose's Scots Covenanters slaughter the Royalists
1814 Battle of Clichy: Austro-Russo-Prussians defeat the French
1844 Battle of Santiago de los Caballeros: Dominicans defeat the Haitians
1856 Triumphal reception at Paris for Napoleon III to welcome the French Army returning from the Crimea.
1863 Pr Wilhelm Georg of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg becomes King George I of Greece (1863-1913)
1942 SS murders 200 inmates of Trawniki labor camp
1944 TF 58 begins raids on Palau, Yap, and Ulithi.
1945 Soviet troops enter Austria
1961 NASA pilot Joseph Walker takes X-15 to 51,690 m
1981 Pres. Ronald Reagan and two others are wounded in an assassination attempt by John Hinckley, Jr.
