404 BC Athens surrenders to Sparta, ending the Peloponnesian War (431-404 BC)
1283 Siege of Bere Castle: The English defeat the Welsh
1464 War of the Roses - Battle of Hedgeley Moor: Marquess of Montague's Yorkists defeat the Duke of Somerset's Lancastrians
1591 The Moroccans take Timbuktu
1607 Battle of Gibraltar Bay: the Dutch fleet defeats the Spanish & Portuguese
1626 Battle of the Dessauer Bridge: Albrecht von Wallenstein defeats Graf von Mansfeld
1707 Battle of Almansa: Borbonists defeat the Hapsburgists to secure the control of Spain
1792 First execution by guillotine in France
1861 7th NY & 8th Massachusetts arrive in Washington
1861 Battle of Lavaca, TX
1861 Pvt Samuel Young enlists, to retire Jan 9, 1904, as Lt Gen.
1862 Farragut occupies New Orleans, La
1864 Battle of Marks' Mill, Arkansas (Camden Expedition)
1875 Combat on the Pecos: Lt. John L. Bullis and Black Seminole Indian Scouts SGT John Ward, Trumpeter Isaac Payne, & PVT Pompey Factor rout c. 25-30 Lipan Indian raiders, for which the Scouts are awarded the Medal of Honor
1881 250,000 sign petitions to bar foreign Jews from entering Germany
1898 US declares war on Spain
1914 First USN air combat mission: Lt. Patrick Bellinger conducts a reconnaissance over Veracruz, receiving some damage from machine gun fire.
1915 Gallipoli Campaign: 78,000 British & ANZAC troops undertake an amphibious landing -- Learn More
1925 Paul von Hindenburg becomes president of Germany (1925-1934)
1926 Coronation of Reza Pahlavi as Shah of Persia (1925-1941)
1927 Spain sends 20,000 reinforcements to Morocco to battle the Riffian Rebels
1942 Burma: Chinese troops fail to the halt Japanese before Lashio.
1942 Doolittle Mission: CVs Hornet & Enterprise return to Pearl Harbor
1944 New Britain: 1st Marine Div relieved by the 40th Infantry Div
1945 First UN Session: 45 countries convene in San Francisco
1945 Japanese rout Chinese forces at Wuking.
1945 Last Boeing B-17 attack against Nazi Germany
1945 The Red Army completely surrounds Berlin
1945 US & Soviet forces meet at Torgau on the Elbe River
1951 Korean War: After an heroic four day defense of Hill 235, 39 survivors of the Gloucestershire Regiment reach safety
1960 USS Triton (SSN-586) completes first submerged circumnavigation of the globe
1962 Christmas Island (Pacific): US resumes above ground nuclear testing
1974 Portuguese strongman Antonio Salazar (1932-1974) ousted
1975 Stockholm: Terrorist attack on the West German embassy
1982 Israel completes Sinai withdrawal, in accordance with Camp David accords
1993 Boris Yeltsin elected President of Russia (1993-1999)
