1379 Battle of Marino: Pope Urban VI defeats Anti-Pope Clement VII
1503 Battle of Cerignola: Gonzalvo de Cordoba routs the French
1635 Virginia Gov John Harvey accused of treason & removed from office
1655 English fleet under Blake defeats the Tunisian corsairs
1789 Lt. William Bligh, RN, has occasion to say, "This is mutiny, Mr. Christian, mutiny."
1796 Ceasefire of Cherasco: effectively ends Bonaparte's First Italian campaign
1818 US & Britain agree to naval disarmament on the Great Lakes
1919 Tumultuous parade up Fifth Avenue to welcome the 165th Infantry (69th New York) home from the Great War
1925 Kurdish rebels surrender to the Turkish Army
1939 Hitler claims the 1934 German-Polish non-aggression pact is still in effect
1942 Nightly "dim-out" belatedly initiated on the East Coast, greatly reduces sinking of merchant vessels by German submarines
1943 New Ireland: 'Scamp' (SS-277) sinks seaplane carrier 'Kamikawa Maru'
1944 China: AAF raids Yellow River bridges to slow Japanese
1945 Okinawa: Kamikaze attacks on U.S. fleet continue.
1945 US Fifth Army reaches the Italian-Swiss border
1950 Ticker tape parade on Broadway for Admiral Thomas C. Kinkaid
1952 Japanese Peace Treaty formally ends the Asiatic-Pacific War of 1937-1945
1956 The French leave Vietnam
1965 US Marines land in the Dominican Republic, stay until October 1966
1967 Mohammad Ali refuses induction into the army
1971 Samuel Lee Gravely, Jr., is promoted to rear admiral; the first black admiral in US Navy
2009 A treaty between Bolivia and Paraguay formally ends the Chaco War (1932-1935)
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