539 BC Cyrus the Great of Persia captures Babylon [or the 12th, 17th, or 29th]
51 BC Battle of Amanaus: Cicero defeats the Isaurians
1213 Battle of Steppes: Liege defeats Brabant
1307 Simultaneous arrest of all Knights Templar in France - the original "Friday the Thirteenth"
1513 Battle of Olmo: Spanish defeat the French & Venetians
1812 Battle of Queenstown Height: British/Canadians defeat the Americans
1861 Combat at Henrytown/West Glaze, Mo
1861 Combat at Lime Creek, Mo
1861 Skirmish at Beckwith Farm/Bird's Point
1864 John Mosby raids Harpers Ferry
1864 Battle of Darbytown Road, VA
1914 Belgian government relocates to Le Havre, France
1914 Pro-German Boer insurrection in South Africa
1917 NYC Bd of Ed bars "German" music in schools
1918 Gefreiter Adolf Hitler is temporarily blinded in a mustard gas attack near Ypres
1924 Abdul Aziz ibn Saud captures Mecca
1942 Guadalcanal: Japanese air, artillery, & naval bombardment of the Marines, as U.S. destroyers shell the Japanese
1943 Italy declares war on former ally Germany
1944 Red Army liberates Riga from the Germans
1944 US carriers conduct a 2nd day of raids against Japanese installations on Formosa
1960 Fidel Castro stages mass executions in a stadium in Havana
1964 Brezhnev & Kosygin oust Khrushchev from Soviet leadership
1987 First operational use of dolphins by the US Navy, in the Persian Gulf
