71BC Second Triumph of Pompey the Great, for his victories in Spain
43BC Triumph of L. Munatius Plancus, for victories in Gaul
875 Coronation of King Charles "the Bald" of the Franks and of Italy as Holy Roman Emperor Charles II (875–877)
1542 Bloody coup by 12-year old Tsar Ivan IV ("The Terrible") ousts a regency
1778 The British capture Charleston from the American Patriots
1812 USS 'Constitution' takes HMS 'Java' off Bahia in a four-hour fight
1837 Canadian militiamen destroy the steamer 'Caroline', docked at Buffalo
1855 Triumphal reception at Paris of the French Army, on its return from the Crimean War
1860 Launching of HMS 'Warrior', the first completely iron ironclad warship
1862 Battle of Chickasaw Bayou: Sherman's three-day effort to get behind Vicksburg is defeated by Confederate forces
1874 End of the First Spanish Republic and proclamation of Prince Alfonso as King Alfonso XII of Spain (1874-1875)
1890 Wounded Knee, last "battle" or "massacre" of the Indian Wars
1926 The Vatican puts the works of the French fascist Charles Maurras on the Index
1934 Japan renounces the 1922 Washington and 1930 London Naval Arms Limitation Treaties
1940 The first Luftwaffe fire raid on London: 127 tons of explosives & 22,000 incendiaries leave c. 200 dead and the city's rare book district devastated, but St. Paul's survives
1940 FDR's "Fireside Chat" about "The Arsenal of Democracy"
1941 First Japanese air raid on Corregidor
1941 Luzon: Japanese eject U.S.-Phil troops from Tarlac-Cabanatuan line
1942 Aleutians: USS 'Wasmuth' (DMS 15) sinks in a gale when two depth charges detonate
1942 Papua: Japanese forces near Buna Mission are cut off by U.S. troops
1943 Burma: Chinese New 38th Div weakens Japanese on the Tarung River line
1943 Cape Gloucester: 1st Marine Div captures Japanese airfield
1951 Capt. Kurt Carlsen of the 'Flying Enterprise' remains with his battered & listing vessel as his passengers & crew are rescued in heavy seas off Britain
1975 Unknown terrorists detonate a bomb at La Guardia Airport, NY, 11 dead, 75 wounded
2013 Caucasian Islamist terrorists bomb the Volgograd Railroad Station, 32 citizens & 2 terrorists die, 85 injured
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