0 Feast of St Walther Gautier of Pontoise, Patron of Prisoners-of-War
1195 Byzantine Emperor Isaac II Angelus (1185-1195) is ousted & blinded by his brother Alexius III (1195-1203); will later be restored as Emperor (1203-1204)
1341 Petrarch is crowned "Poet Laureate" on the Capitoline in Rome
1378 Bartolomeo Prignano of Itri elected Pope as Urban VI (1378-1389)
1455 Alfonso Borja elected Pope as Callistus III (1455-1458)
1500 Battle of Novara: King Louis XII beats Duke Ludovico Sforza of Milan
1596 Battle of Amiens: The Spanish capture the city from teh French
1801 Riot in Bucharest, 128 Jews slain
1861 US mint at Dahlonega, Georgia, seized by Confederate officials
1864 Battle of Mansfield, La; U.S. forces routed by Lt Gen Richard Taylor
1865 Lee's retreat cut off near Appomattox Court House
1898 Battle of the Atbara River: Kitchener's Anglo-Egyptian forces crush the Sudanese Mahdists
1904 France & Britain conclude the Entente Cordiale
1925 First planned night landings on a carrier, USS 'Langley' (CV 1), by VF-1
1940 HM Destroyer 'Glowworm' is sunk after a gallant fight with the German heavy cruiser 'Admiral Hipper' -- Learn More
1945 Okinawa: Marines probe Japanese lines on the Motobu Peninsula
1950 Unarmed USN patrol plane downed over the Baltic Sea by Soviet aircraft
1956 Parris Is, SC: Six Marine recruits drown during an unauthorized night exercise
1961 Persian Gulf: Explosion aboard the British liner Dara, 236 die
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