431 BC Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War (431-303 BC) [Trad]
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1081 Alexius I Comnenus becomes Byzantine Emperor (1081-1118), father of the learned Anna
1541 Ignatius of Loyola is appointed the first Superior-General of the Jesuits
1581 Frances Drake completes the second circumnavigation of the world
1588 Christian IV, aged 10, ascends the throne of Denmark & Norway (1588-1648)
1655 Battle at Porto Farina, Tunis: English fleet defeats the Barbary pirates
1745 Battle of Hohenfriedberg: Prussians defeat the Austrians & Dutch
1776 First USN victory at sea: USS 'Columbus' captures HM Tender 'Hawke'
1854 Sloop 'Plymouth' lands a party to protect U.S. citizens in Shanghai
1862 Yorktown: First serious fighting of the Peninsular Campaign
1865 Lincoln sits in Jeff Davis' chair, in the Confederate White House
1898 First Chief of USN's Bureau of Yards and Docks appointed, Mordecai Endicott
1920 Jerusalem: Arab rioters attack Jews
1933 USN Airship 'Akron' (ZRS-4) crashes off New Jersey, 73 die
1939 King Faisal II ascends to throne of Iraq (murdered 1958)
1941 RAdm Claude Bloch, COM 14th Naval District, warns Midway against Japanese surprise attack
1941 Rommel takes Benghazi
1942 Bataan: Fil-American forces fall back after Japanese break through
1942 Indian O: Japanese carrier a/c sink HM Heavy Cruisers 'Cornwall" & 'Dorsetshire'
1943 4th Marine Div is activated at San Diego
1944 Burma: Heavy fighting around Nhpum Ga
1944 Japanese move on Kohima, having cut the road from Imphal.
1945 Heavy fighting begins in southern Okinawa.
1945 Hungary liberated from Nazi occupation
1949 North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) formed
1958 Aldermaston, England: 1st anti-nuclear weapons demonstration
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