823 Pope Paschal I crowns Lothar I Co-Emperor of the HRE
1242 Battle of the Neva: Prince Alexander of Novgorod defeats the Teutonic Knights
1614 Pocahontas marries English colonist John Rolfe
1654 Treaty of Westminster: First Anglo-Dutch War ends (1652-54)
1762 British capture Greneda from French
1799 Battle of Magnano: Austrians defeat the French
1811 Battle of Barrosa: English defeat the French
1812 British take Badajoz, Spain, from the French by storm
1861 U.S. troops abandon Ft Quitman, Tx
1881 Transvaal regains independence from Britain
1887 Lord Acton writes, "Power tends to corrupt, absolute power corrupts absolutely."
1896 Athens: 1st modern Olympic Games begin
1915 French begin Woevre offensive
1916 Battle of El Hanna: Unsuccessful British attempt to break the Turkish siege of Kut
1939 Germany: "Aryan" youth ordered to join the Hitlerjugend
1942 Bataan: Japanese troops capture Mt. Samat
1942 Colombo, Ceylon: Japanese First Air Fleet inflicts heavy damage
1943 Burma: Br 6th Bde HQ is overrun by advancing Japanese in the Arakan
1943 Poon Lim (1917-1991) lands near Belem, Brazil, ending 133 days in a lifeboat in the Atlantic after the 'Ben Lomond' was torpedoed, setting a record for survival at sea
1945 Japanese cabinet resigns.
1950 Prague espionage trial against bishops & priests begins
1951 Julius & Ethel Rosenberg, atomic spies, sentenced to death
1955 Winston Churchill resigns as British PM, succeeded by Anthony Eden
1962 NASA civilian pilot Neil A Armstrong takes X-15 to 54,600m
1986 Berlin: two US servicemen & a Turkish woman die in a terrorist bombing
1991 Iraq: US begins relief air drops to Kurds in the north
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