330 Constantine founds his city
878 Battle of Ethandun: King Alfred of Wessex defeats the Danes
1189 Regensburg: HRE Frederik I Barbarossa's Crusaders depart for the Holy Land
1421 Jews are expelled from Styria, Austria
1678 French Admiral Jean d'Estrées' fleet wrecked off Curaçao, 30 ships lost, hundreds drown
1689 Naval Battle of Bantry Bay: French vs English
1690 English capture Port Royal, Nova Scotia
1745 War of the Austrian Succession: Battle of Fontenoy, French Marshal Saxe wins a brilliant victory
1815 Neapolitan 12th Infantry ambushes Austrian troops near Itri
1834 Battle of Zacatecas: Santa Anna crushes the local militia
1849 Lts W. S. Hancock & Henry Heth play cards with Maj Gen Winfield Scott, and tactfully lose
1857 Delhi falls to the mutinous Sepoys
1860 Garibaldi and the Thousand land at Marsala, Sicily
1862 CSS 'Virginia/Merrimac' is scuttled in the James River
1864 Skirmish at Yellow Tavern: J.E.B. Stuart mortally wounded
1881 Attempted assassination of Russian Crown Prince Nicholas (II), in Otsu, Japan, by a Japanese police officer; a bloody shirt from the incident preserved in the Hermitage will later provide DNA used to identify the late Tsar's remains
1898 USN cable cutting raid at Cienfuegos, Cuba
1898 USN landing party raids Cardenas, Cuba
1906 King Alfonso XIII of Spain marries Princess Victoria Eugenia of Great Britain, and survives an assassin's bomb; 20 k, many w.
1911 Mexican Rebels take Ciudad Juarez, besieged since the 9th
1918 Henry Johnson, 369th Infantry, called by T. Roosevelt one of the "five finest soldiers" in the AEF, earns America's first Croix de guerre -- Learn More
1938 First USCG award of the DFC, LT C. B. Olsen, for a rescue at sea
1943 RMS 'Queen Mary' arrives at New York with Winston Churchill and the British Chiefs of Staff, en route to Washington, as well as 5,000 Afrika Korps veterans bound for P/W camps, and the 300 troops guarding them
1943 US 7th Infantry Division lands on Attu, against stiff resistance
1945 New Guinea: Australian troops land near Wewak area.
1955 Israeli raid on Gaza
1960 Israeli agents capture Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires
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