TODAY IN MILITARY HISTORY
614 The Persians take Jerusalem with great slaughter, & capture the True Cross
1010 Battle of Ringmere: The Danes defeat Ulfkell Snilling of Norfolk
1405 Battle of Pwllmelyn: English defeat Owen Glendower & the Welch
1430 Jews are expelled from Speyer, Germany
1576 Peace of Beaulieu: restores the government of Picardy to the Protestant Prince de Condé
1646 King Charles I surrenders in Scotland
1789 French King Louis XVI calls for the convening the Etats Genereaux, for the first time since 1614
1797 Napoleon's sister Elisa marries Prince Felix Bacciochi
1809 Canton Aargau, Switzerland, denies citizenship to Jews
1814 British attack Ft Ontario, Oswego, NY
1833 Turks cede Crete and Syria to Mehemet Ali of Egypt
1860 Garibaldi and the Thousand sail from Quarto for Sicily
1861 Confederate troops abandon Alexandria, Va.
1862 Cinco de Mayo: Mexican forces defeat the French at Puebla
1862 Peninsular Campaign: Battle of Williamsburg, VA
1864 Battle of the Wilderness: Germanna Ford/Wilderness Tavern
1866 Guano War: the Spanish fleet bombards Callao, Peru
1891 Official opening of Carnegie Hall, with a program by Walter Damrosch and Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
1908 The Great White Fleet reaches San Francisco
1913 The Great Powers force Montenegro to withdraw from Scutari, which is occupied by peace keeping troops
1920 Polish troops capture Kiev
1938 Mussolini and Hitler review the Italian fleet in the Bay of Naples
1940 Norwegians form a government-in-exile in London
1941 Emperor Haile Selassie returns to Addis Ababa
1942 British land at Diego Suarez, Vichyite naval base in Madagascar.
1942 Burma: British forces evacuate Akyab.
1942 Philippines: Japanese troops land on Corregidor
1942 Southwest Pacific: Japanese carriers 'Zuikaku' & 'Shokaku' enter the Solomons Sea, as 'Yorktown' (CV-5) & 'Lexington' (CV-2) rendezvous in the Coral Sea
1942 US begins rationing sugar during WW II
1944 British release Mahatma Ghandi, imprisoned since August 1942
1945 Okinawa: 131 Kamikaze sink 17 ships
1945 Oregon: Japanese balloon bomb kills a pregnant woman and five children
1945 German troops in the Netherlands surrender to the Allies
1952 Herman Wouk's "The Caine Mutiny" wins the Pulitzer Prize
1954 Paraguay: Military coup installs General Alfredo Stroessner as dictator/president (1954-1989)
1961 Alan Shepard makes a suborbital flight in Freedom 7
1964 Separatist riot in Québec
1965 First large US ground units arrive in South Vietnam
1985 Bitburg Germany: President Reagan & Chancellor Kohl lay a wreath at a memorial marking the graves of nearly 2,000 German and Allied personnel
