757 Acession of Pope Paul I (757-767), later canonized; the brother of Stephen II (752)
1478 The Pazzi attempt to assassinate the Medici at mass
1501 Cesare Borgia captures Faenza, besieged since Nov 7, 1500
1604 Battle of Blankenbergh: Spanish defeat the Dutch
1607 English colonists land at Cape Henry, Va
1654 The Spanish expell Jews from Brazil
1655 The Dutch permit Jews to settle in Nieuw Amsterdam
1777 Sybil Ludington, 16, makes a daring ride to alert Connecticut militiamen of a British raid
1805 Cyrus Eaton, the proverbial "few Marines", one USN medic, and some mercs storm Derna, Libya
1814 King Louis XVIII lands at Calais, from exile in England
1846 Mexican War: Mexicans beat U.S. Dragoons at Rancho Carricitos, Tx
1859 Lombardy-Venetia War: Piedmont rejects Austria's ultimatum to disarm and declares war; France mobilizes in support
1861 Joseph E. Johnston resigns his commission in the U.S. Army, to go South [See 1865]
1865 Battle of Durham Station/Greensboro, NC
1865 Battle of Ft Tobacco, VA
1865 Confederate Gen Joseph E Johnston surrenders the Army of Tennessee, Durham, NC
1913 China: Sun Yat San revolts against Pres Yuan Shikai
1926 Germany & Russia sign neutrality & friendship treaty
1933 Jewish students are barred from school in Germany
1937 Luftwaffe bombs Guernica, Spain, 200-400 die
1938 Austrian Jews required to register property above 5,000 Reichsmarks
1941 Nazis ration potatoes in Holland
1943 Attu: U.S. ships shell Japanese positions.
1943 German sub 'U-180' transfers Indian radical Subhas Chandra Bose to Japanese sub 'I-29' in the Indian Ocean.
1944 First attack by Japanese fighters on B-29s, one fighter shot down
1944 New Guinea: Australians take Alexishafen as Americans take the airfield at Hollandia
1944 Allied troops begin concentrating at assembly areas in Britain for D-Day
1945 Okinawa: Japanese resistance intensifies, halting U.S. offensive
1952 USS 'Hobson' (DD-464) accidentally rams carrier 'Wasp' (CV-18), 176 die
1959 Cuban-sponsored guerrillas invade Panama
1961 Collapse of Raoul Salan's coup against the French Fifth Republic under Pres. De Gaulle
1962 Lockheed A-12 flies for first time
1968 US underground nuclear test, "Boxcar", one megaton device
1982 The Falklands War: Argentine forces on South Georgia I. surrender to the British
1986 A fire devastates the nuclear power plant at Chernobyl, Ukraine
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