0 Roman Festival of the Tubilustrium: Purification of the War Trumpets, for the start of the campaiging season
878 Alfred the Great defeats the Danes at Edington, imposing peace
1430 Burgundians capture Joan of Arc, for the English
1475 Battle of Neuss: The Burgundians defeat the Imperialists
1493 Peace of Senlis: The Holy Roman Emperor & the King of France arrange disposal of the territories of the Duchy of Burgundy
1533 King Henry VIII invalidates his marriage to Catherine of Aragon
1555 Giovanni Pietro Caraffa elected Pope as Paul IV (1555-1559)
1579 Union of Utrecht: Protestant provinces of the Netherlands form the Dutch Republic
1618 The Second Defenestration of Prague: initiates the Thirty Years' War
1660 King Charles II returns to England from exile in the Netherlands
1706 Battle of Ramillies: Marlborough defeats French
1775 Patrick Henry says "Give me Liberty or give me death!"
1809 Battle of Aspern-Essling, Day 2: Austrians draw with Napoleon
1859 Garibaldi's 'Cacciatori delle Alpi' occupy Sesto Calende & Varese
1861 White Virginian men vote 3 to 1 for secession - a month after the state has already seceded
1862 Valley Campaign: Stonewall Jackson takes Front Royal, Virginia
1864 Battle of North Anna River/Totopotamy River/Haw's Shop/Hanovertown, Va: Three day fight begins
1865 Grand Review of the Union Army begins in Washington, DC
1873 Canada establishes the North West Mounted Police
1878 German ironclad 'Konig Wilhelm' rams & sinks ironclad 'Grosser Kurfurst'
1911 The New York Public Library opens its main building, on Fifth Avenue
1915 Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary
1928 Bomb attack on Italian embassy in Buenos Aires, 22 die
1939 USS 'Squalus" (SS-192) sinks off Portsmouth, NH; 26 die, but 33 are rescued next day
1945 German island of Helgoland in North Sea surrenders to the Royal Navy
1945 The Allies dissolve the "Dönitz Government," and abolish German sovereignty
1958 Mao Tse-tung starts "the Great Leap Forward" in China, millions die
1960 Israel announces the capture of Nazi Adolf Eichmann in Argentina
2014 Maniac goes beserk in Isla VIsta, California, kills six by knife or gunfire and 13 are injured before he kills himself
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