1300 Battle of Ponza: Roger de Lauria's Sicilian-Catalan fleet defeats the Angevin-Sicilians
1645 Battle of Naseby: Cromwell's Roundheads defeat the Royalists
1646 Naval Battle of Orbetello: the Spanish defeat the French
1744 Commo Anson returns to England after a two year circumnavigation, with £1.6 million in prize -- perhaps $2 billion today
1777 Congress replaces the "Grand Union Flag" with the "Stars & Stripes"
1777 John Paul Jones takes command of the USS 'Ranger'
1789 Capt William Bligh & the HMS 'Bounty' loyalists reach Timor after an epic voyage in a small boat
1800 Battle of Marengo: The French defeat the Austrians
1800 The French capture Alessandria, Italy, from the Austrians
1809 Battle of the Raab: French defeat the Austrians
1814 Wellington thanks his army for its performance in the Peninsula
1815 Napoleon opens the Waterloo Campaign
1846 Pro-American California "Bear Flag" Republic proclaimed in Sonoma
1847 Commo Matthew C Perry makes landing at Tabasco, Mexico
1861 Flag Day first observed, Hartford, Ct.
1863 Second Battle of Winchester, Virginia
1864 Battle of Pine Mt
1864 Congress orders Black soldiers be paid the same as whites
1898 Skirmish at Santiago: US ships and Spanish batteries exchange fire
1906 Pogrom against Jews in Bialystok, Polish Russia
1917 Gen John J. Pershing and his staff reach Paris
1940 FDR signs the Naval Expansion Act, increasing the fleet by 11%
1940 Germans occupy Paris
1940 The Nazis open concentration camps at Auschwitz and Oranienburg
1940 Spain occupies the International District of Tangier
1942 German merchant cruiser 'Thor' enters the Indian Ocean
1942 The bazooka goes into production at Bridgeport, Ct
1943 Japanese form the collaborationist "Indian National Army"
1943 The US Supreme Court rules laws compelling students to salute the flag unconstitutional
1944 China: Japanese capture Liu-yang
1944 First B-29 raid on Japan; 60 bombers hit steel works on Honshu
1947 A fire at the Ft. Bliss Officers' Club destroys the original of "Custer's Last Stand" by Cassilly Adams, copies of which were once commonplace in American bars
1949 State of Vietnam is formed within the 'French Union' under the Emperor Bao Dai
1952 Keel laid for the USS 'Nautilus' (SSN-571), the first nuclear powered submarine
1953 Gen Gustavo Rojas Pinilla stages coup in Colombia
1982 Falklands: Argentines surrender to Britain; 74-day war ends
1985 Lebanese Shiite gunmen hijack TWA 847 after takeoff from Athens
1989 Former Pres Reagan receives an honorary knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II
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