583 Coronation of Yohl Ik'nal -- "Lady Kan Ik" as Queen of Palenque (583-604)

962 Nicephorus Phocas' Byzantine troops take Aleppo from the Arabs by storm

1482 Peace of Arras/Atrecht: Ends war between Louis XI of France and Maximilian I of Austria

1753 George Washington, then 21, almost drowns when a raft capsizes in the Allegheny River

1776 Continental Congress negotiates a war loan of $181,500 from France, today perhaps $101,000,000

1776 Thomas Paine writes "These are the times that try men's souls . . . ."

1779 Benedict Arnold court-martialed for improper conduct

1783 George Washington resigns as "General and Commander-in-Chief", Annapolis

1835 Second Seminole War begins (1835-1842)

1862 Benjamin Butler proclaimed a "felon, outlaw" by Jefferson Davis

1909 Albert I assumes the throne of Belgium (1909-1934)

1916 Battle of Magdhaba: Allied troops defeat the Turks in the Sinai Peninsula

1925 Sultan Ibn Saud of the Nejed captures Jiddah

1939 Finnish counteroffensive at Summa

1941 Heroic defense of Wake Island ends; the USN cancels a relief effort

1941 British troops capture Benghazi, Libya

1941 Gen. Douglas MacArthur decides to withdraw to Bataan

1941 Japanese begin an offensive against Rangoon, Burma

1942 Allied air attack on Den Helder, Netherlands

1942 U.S. 41st Infantry Div ships out from Australia for New Guinea

1943 US Army a/c from China sink a Japanese gunboat off Formosa

1943 US Army aircraft begin operating from Munda, New Georgia

1968 Borman, Lovell, & Anders become the first men to orbit the Moon

1968 North Korea releases 82 crewmen of the USS 'Pueblo' (AGER-2), held since January

1990 Slovenians vote to secede from Yugoslavia

1999 Mutinous troops riot in Abidjan, Ivory Coast

2012 Domesday by some interpretations of the Maya Calendar (or maybe the 21st), or maybe not