TODAY IN MILITARY HISTORY
597 BC The Babylonians capture Jerusalem
1190 Crusaders massacre the Jews of York, England, c. 500 die
1322 Battle of Boroughbridge: Sir Andrew Harclay defeats the Earl of Lancaster
1527 Battle of Khanua: Babur's Moghuls defeat the Rajputs
1792 Swedish King Gustav III mortally wounded by an assassin, which inspires Verdi's "Un Ballo in Maschera"
1815 William I of Orange proclaimed King of the Netherlands, including Belgium
1861 Confederate government appoints commissioners to Britain & France in the hope of securing recognition or aid
1865 Battle of Averasboro, NC
1882 US Senate ratifies treaty establishing the International Red Cross
1916 The new Dutch passenger liner 'Tubatina' is torpedoed off the Netherlands, Germany denies responsibility despite recovery of portions of the torpedo
1922 Sultan Fuad of Egypt (1917-1922) is crowned King of Egypt (1922-1936)
1926 Robert Goddard launches the first liquid fuel rocket, to 184 feet
1935 Hitler announces German rearmament, after years of covert efforts under the Weimar Republic, in violation of the Treaty of Versailles
1939 Hungary annexes Carpatho-Ukraine district of Czechoslovakia
1941 The Pennsylvania Railroad's Cleveland-Pittsburgh express is derailed near Baden, Pa., by Ukrainian fascists acting in German pay; 5 dead,. c. 114 injured
1943 Solomon Is: U.S. destroyers shell Vila.
1944 USS 'Tautog' (SS-199) sinks Japanese DD 'Shirakumo' off Hokkaido
1945 Iwo Jima: organized Japanese resistance ends, mopping up continues.
1966 Gemini 8 launched with Armstrong & Scott, aborted after 6.5 orbits
1968 My Lai Massacre, perhaps 450 die
1985 Hezbollah terrorists capture Associated Press correspondent Terry Anderson, hold him until 1991
1993 Terrorist bombing in the Bow Bazar, Calcutta, 69 die
BORN
1739 George Clymer, Signer of the Declaration of Independence, d. 1813
1751 James Madison, militiaman, President (1809-1817), d. 1836
1802 George Archibald McCall, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1868
1802 U.S. Military Academy, at West Point
1812 Henry Dwight Terry, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1869
1822 John Pope, Maj Gen, U.S., who did very badly at Second Bull Run, d. 1892
1832 Charles Camp Doolittle, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1903
1856 Prince Imperial Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, "Napoleon IV", kia Zululand, 1879 -- Learn More
1878 Clemens August Graf von Galen, Bishop & Cardinal of Munster (1933-1946), anti-Nazi, d. 1946
1878 Reza Pahlawi, Shah of Persia/Iran (1925-1941), d. 1944
1911 Josef Mengele, Nazi war criminal, d. 1979
1927 Vladimir M Komarov, Russia cosmonaut
1932 Walter M Cunningham, USMC, astronaut (Apollo 7)
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