989 Battle of Abydos: Byzantine Emperor Basil II defeats usurper Bardas Phocas
1055 Count Gebhard of Calw, Tollenstein, & Hirschberg is enthroned as Pope Victor II (1055-1057)
1111 Pope Paschal II belatedly crowns Holy Roman Emperor Henry II (1106-1125)
1241 Battle of the Theiss: The Mongols defeat King Béla IV of Hungary
1471 The Battle of Leicester: King Edward IV defeats the Lancastrians
1517 Turks capture Cairo from the Mamlukes
1631 Gustavus Adolphus captures Frankfurt
1759 Battle of Bergen: The French defeat a combined British, Hanoverian, Hessian, & Brunswick force in central Germany
1788 NYC "Doctors' Riot": Irate citizens attack Columbia medical school protesting corpse stealing
1796 Battle of Millesimo: Bonaparte defeats the Austrians
1863 Battle of Irish Bend/Ft Bisland, La
1865 Battle of Raleigh, NC
1868 British troops occupy Magdala, Abyssinia
1870 Col. Luigi di Cesnola, U.S.V., named 1st director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
1873 Colfax Massacre: Louisiana White Leaguers & Kluxers kill c. 110 black Americans
1904 Battle of Oviumbo: The Herero defeat the Germans
1906 Mutiny protesting brutal discipline in the Portuguese warships 'Dom Carlos' & 'Vasco da Gama'
1906 Turret explosion in USS 'Kearsarge' (BB-5): 10 killed, 4 injured
1919 The Amritsar Massacre: British troops fire on Sikh demonstrators, hundreds die
1928 An explosion in a garage under the Bond Hall in West Plains, Mo, kills 39 young people at a dance; the case remains unsolved
1940 Second Battle of Narvik: Royal Navy BB 'Warspite' & destroyers sink eight German destroyers
1941 Heavy German attack on Tobruk
1941 Russo-Japan non-aggression pact goes into effect
1942 Burma: the British Burma Corps breaks.
1942 VAdm Robert L. Ghormley named Commander, South Pacific Area
1943 Katyn: Nazis find graves of 13,000 Polish officers killed by Soviets
1944 India: Heavy fighting on the Imphal-Kohima front.
1945 Soviets capture Vienna
1960 France becomes 4th nuclear power, with an A-test in the Sahara
1975 Military coup in Chad
2014 Overland Park, Kansas: A manical anti-Semitic white supremacist opens fire on two Jewish centers, killing three Christians.
2036 Asteroid Apophis to make a near-Earth pass
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