686 Accession of Yuknoom Yich'aak K'ahk' as King of the Maya Kaan (686-695)

801 King Louis 'the Pious' of Aquitaine liberates Barcelona from the Moors

1367 Battle of Najera/Navarrete: An Anglo-Spanish army defeats a Franco-Spanish army, to confirm Pedro the Cruel as King of Castille (1350-1369)

1559 Treaty of Le Cateau-Cambrensis: end of the Franco-Spanish "Italian Wars" (1494-1559)

1860 First ride of the Pony Express

1865 Union forces occupy Richmond & Petersberg, to the tune of "Dixie"

1896 Battle of Tucruf: Sudanese Mahdists defeat the Italians

1922 Stalin is named General Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPUSSR (1922-1953)

1930 Ras Tafari ascends the throne of Ethiopia as Emperor Haile Selassie (1930-1974)

1941 Putsch installs pro-Nazi Rashid Ali al-Ghailani as PM of Iraq, who initiates attacks on Britons & Jews, leading to British intervention (May 2-31)

1942 Bataan: Japanese launch a major offensive.

1942 Burma: Stilwell orders the Chinese to stand at Pyinamana.

1942 First foreign landing on a US carrier: Royal Navy Capt. H.L. St. J. Fancourt's Gloster Gladiator on USS 'Wasp' (CV-7) in the Orkney Islands

1943 New Guinea: Elms 41st Div land at Morobe, near the Waria River, without opposition

1944 British bombers attack the German battleship 'Tirpitz' in Norwegian waters

1944 Burma-India: British juggle forces to stem the Japanese drive on Imphal

1944 Hollandia: major Fifth AF raid on Japanese base.

1945 USSR renounces Apr '41 non-aggression pact with Japan

1948 Harry Truman signs the Marshall Plan

1968 Premier of the motion picture "2001: A Space Odyssey,"

1982 Security Council demands Argentina withdraw from the Falkland Islands

2009 Mass shooting at an immigration center in Binghamton, NY, 13 killed before the perpetrator commits suicide