421 BC Peace of Nikias: Initiates a ten year truce in the Peloponnesian War (431-421, 415-404 BC)
411 Consecration of Pope Adeodatus (aka Deusdedit II) (672-676), later canonized
1241 Battle of the Sajo River, Day 2: The Mongols crush the Hungarians
1471 Wars of the Roses: King Edward IV of England captures London from Henry VI
1512 Battle of Ravenna: Bloody French victory over the Spanish
1534 Ambush of San Andrea: The Itrani rout Khairaidin Barbarossa's Arab raiders as they advance south on the Via Appia
1713 Treaty of Utrecht: Ends War of the Spanish Succession (1702-1713)
1814 Napoleon's first abdication
1822 Turks massacre Greeks on Chios
1856 Battle of Rivas: Costa Rica beats William Walker's invading Mercs & Nicaraguans
1862 Confederates surrender Ft Pulaski, Georgia
1863 Battle of Suffolk, VA
1865 Confederates evacuate Mobile
1865 Lincoln urges national reconciliation.
1895 Jose Marti & Maximo Gomez land at Plaitas, Cuba, to initiate an uprising against Spain.
1898 Pres McKinley asks for Declaration of War against Spain
1899 Treaty of Paris: Spain cedes Puerto Rico, Philippines, Guam to US
1900 USN accepts its first submarine, the USS 'Holland', originally designed for the Fenians
1925 Morocco: Abd el-Krim's Riffian forces defeat the French
1927 Chile: Gen Carlos Ibañez declares himself president (1927-1931)
1933 Hermann Goring becomes minister-president of Prussia
1935 The Stresa Conference: Britain, France, & Italy confer on what to do about Hitler, but when Mussolini calls for forceful action, his proposal is rejected
1939 Hungary leaves the League of Nations
1941 Germans "Coventryize" Conventry, England
1942 Burma: Japanese begin a major offensive against the British.
1942 Cebu: Japanese rapidly overrun settled areas.
1942 American merchant mariners are authorized to receive the DSM
1943 New Guinea: Japanese a/c from Rabaul raid Oro Bay
1944 Marlene Dietrich's USO show premiers in the Algiers Opera House, first of a series of performances that numbered as many as three a day, almost every day, until shortly after the end of the war.
1944 Philippines: USS 'Redfin" (SS-272) sinks Japanese DD 'Akigumo' off Zamboanga
1944 RAF bombs census bureau in The Hague
1951 Harry S Truman fires Gen Douglas McArthur
1953 Former Chief WAC Oveta Culp Hobby becomes the first Secretary of HEW
1956 France sends 200,000 reservists to Algeria
1957 Ryan X-13 Vertijet becomes 1st jet to take-off & land vertically
1961 Trial of Adolf Eichman begins in Israel
1979 Tanzanian troops take Kampala, ending Idi Amin's regime in Uganda
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