1400 BC Theseus and the Athenian Youths and Maidens sail for Crete [Trad]
648 BC Solar eclipse visible in Greece & the Aegean
46 BC Battle of Thapsus: Caesar defeats the Senatorials and Numidians
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403 Battle of Pollentia: Stilicho's Romano-Alan Army defeats Alaric's Visigoths, on Easter Sunday
1250 Battle of Minieh: Ayyubids defeat the Crusaders
1327 Petrarch first sets eyes on Laura de Noves [see Deaths]
1362 Battle of Brignais: French forces under Count Jacques De Bourbon are wiped out by the rebel Free Companies
1453 Sultan Mehmet II lays siege to Constantinople (falls May 29th)
1664 France & Saxony conclude an alliance
1672 France declares war on the Netherlands
1712 Slave revolt in New York
1776 US naval squadron captures eight British ships off New England
1859 US recognizes Benito Juarez and the liberal government in Mexico's War of Reform
1862 Battle of Shiloh, Day 1: Confederate success -- Learn More
1866 Union veterans form the Grand Army of the Republic
1906 Massive eruption of Mt. Vesuvius, hundreds die
1916 German parliament OKs unrestricted submarine warfare
1917 US declares war on Germany, entering World War I
1934 Nazis arrest 418 Lutheran ministers
1939 Great Britain & Poland sign military pact
1939 US & UK agree on joint control of Canton & Enderbury Is in the Pacific
1941 Germans bomb Belgrad, 17,000 reportedly die
1941 Germans bomb the Piraeus, two old battleships sink
1941 Italians surrender Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to the British
1942 Chaing Kai-shek agrees to provide additional forces for Burma
1942 Japanese First Air Fleet raids in the Bay of Bengal.
1942 Stilwell's Chinese forces prepare to defend Pyinamana.
1943 USS 'Trout' (SS-202) begins laying mines near Sarawak, Borneo
1944 The Supreme Allied Commander cancels all further military leaves throughout the British Isles, in preparation for D-Day
1945 Coevorden, the Netherlands, liberated from the Nazis
1945 Japanese battleship 'Yamato' sails for Okinawa on a one-way mission
1945 Okinawa: Massive kamikaze attack on the US fleet sinks 6 ships
1968 USS 'New Jersey' (BB-62) recommissioned, the first battleship in active service since 1958
1973 India invades and annexes Sikkim
