424BC Battle of Delium: Thebans defeat the Athenians [Alt]

424BC Spartans capture Amphipolis [Alt]

185 Supernova observed by Chinese & Roman scholars

1499 Imola surrenders to Cesare Borgia

1798 Neapolitan Army abandons Rome: "Veni, Vidi, Fuggi"

1862 Battle of Hartsville, TN

1862 Battle of Prairie Grove, AR

1914 Pope Benedict XIV calls on all powers to declare a Christmas truce

1916 David Lloyd George becomes Britain's Prime Minister (1916-1922)

1917 US declares war on Austria-Hungary

1917 US Sixth Battle Squadron joins the Grand Fleet

1941 "Tora! Tora! Tora!" -- Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, bringing the US into World War II

1941 Japanese destroyers shell Midway

1941 The Erlass Brothers, Dutch resistance fighters, are sent to concentration camps

1942 Guadalcanal: "Tokyo Express" beaten off by a/c and PT-boats

1943 Sextant Conference ends in Cairo

1943 Staff Sergeant Joseph Louis Barrow, heavyweight champion of the world, put on a demonstration bout for the troops at Ft. Clark, Texas, against Pvt. Ezzard Charles, who would win the title after Louis retired

1944 US 77th Inf Div lands at Ormoc, Leyte, in the Japanese rear

1944 Anti-Fascist government formed in Romania by General Radescu

1944 U.S. a/c sink 13 Japanese transport ships resupplying Leyte

1949 Chang Kai-shek flees from Mainland China to Taiwan

1953 Israeli PM Ben-Gurion retires

1965 Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras simultaneously lift mutual ex-communications in place since 1054

1970 Abortive Neo-Fascist coup in Italy

1981 Spain becomes a member of NATO

1986 Dictator/President Jean-Claude Duvalier - "Baby Doc" - flees Haiti