1479 BC Battle of Megiddo: Thutmose III defeats the King of Kadesh -- Learn More
0 Peace Officers' Memorial Day
755 Abd al-Rahman is proclaimed Emir of Cordoba (755-c. 788), institutes the Umayyad Caliphate
1033 Moslem rioters inititiate attacks on the Jews of Fez, Morocco: c. 6000 die over the next few weeks
1213 King John surrenders England and Ireland to Pope Innocent III, who then grants them to him as fiefs of the papacy
1266 Battle of Chesterfield ends England's Second Barons' War
1333 Battle of Ferrara: League of Castebaldo defeats the Papal Army
1464 Battle of Hexham: the Marques of Montague's Yorkists beat the Duke of Somerset's Lancastrians
1525 Frankenhausen: German "Peasants' War" ends as nobles slaughter 5,000
1614 Treaty of St. Menehould: ends 1st "League of Princes" rebellion against Louis XIII
1682 Revolt of the Streltsy at Moscow
1718 Brit James Puckle receives a patent for a repeating firearm - the first "machine gun"
1768 Genoa cedes Corsica to France
1796 French troops occupy Milan
1796 Peace of Paris between the French Republic and the Kingdom of Sardinia
1848 King Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies stages an absolutist coup
1851 Coronation of Rama IV as King of Thailand (1851-68) - Anna's friend
1862 Battle of Princeton Court House , WVa: Rebs win
1862 Ben Butler issues his famous "Woman Order," and proves every woman in New Orleans is a lady
1864 Battle of New Market, Virginia
1867 Battle of Queretero: The Mexican Republicans defeat the Imperialists, and capture the "Emperor" Maximilian von Hapsburg
1882 Tsar Alexander III bans Jews from living in rural areas
1883 Austro-German-Italian military convention
1885 Canadians arrest Louis Riel, insurgent leader
1904 Japanese battleships 'Hatsuse' & 'Yashima' mined & sunk off Port Arthur
1916 Austrians capture Asiago from the Italians
1917 Battle of the Otranto Straits: An Austro-German squadron fails to break the Italo-Anglo-French blockade of the Adriatic
1919 Greeks capture Smyrna, initiating an ultimately disastrous attempt to annex western Anatolia
1932 The May 15th Incident: Unsuccessful coup attempt by ultra-nationalist Japanese officers and civilians
1939 Dupont introduces nylon; within a year Japanese sales of silk to the US fall 30 percent
1940 First successful test flight of an American helicopter, Vought-Sikorsky US-300
1940 German troops occupy Amsterdam as the Dutch Army surrenders
1941 British attack Halfaya Pass & Fort Capuzzo in Egypt & Libya
1942 Gasoline rationing introduced by the US
1943 Cuban sub chaser 'CS-13' (Lt. Mario Ramirez Delgado) sinks 'U-176'.
1944 Eisenhower & Montgomery brief George VI & Churchill on the D-Day plan
1945 Andamans: Royal Navy raids Japanese installations
1948 Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Jordan, & Saudi-Arabia attack Israel
1955 Vienna Four-Power Treaty: Wartime allies restore Austria independence
1957 First British A-bomb explosion, Christmas Island, the Pacific
1958 USSR launches Sputnik III
1960 Sputnik IV launched into Earth orbit
1970 Police fire on war protestors at Jackson State University, Mississippi, 2 die, 11 wounded
1972 George Wallace shot & paralyzed by Arthur Bremer, Laurel, Md
1972 Ryukyu Is return to Japan after 27 years of US control
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