218 BC Hannibal completes the crossing of the Alps into Gallia Cisalpina [Est - “around the setting of the Pleiades”]
63 BC Catiline's Conspiracy: C. Cornelius and L. Vargunteius attempt to assassinate Cicero at his home in Rome
83 Q. Cassius Secundus, a legionary of the XX Valeria Victrix, borrows 100 denarii from his comrade G. Geminius Mansuetus
1307 William Tell shoots the apple off his son's head [Trad]
1500 Cesare Borgia captures Brighella
1559 Peace of the Pyrenees between France & Spain; Italian Wars (1494-1559) finally end
1637 Anne Hutchinson is banished from Massachusetts for heresy
1793 French Revolution abolishes religion, initiating two centuries of mass slaughter in the name of "Reason"
1811 Battle of Tippecanoe: William Henry Harrison defeats Tecumseh
1861 Battle of Port Royal Bay/Ft Walker/Ft Beauregard, SC
1861 Grant's First Battle: Belmont, Mo.
1863 Battle of Rappahannock Station & Kelly's Ford, Va.
1865 The Confederate cruiser CSS 'Shenandoah' surrenders to British authorities at Liverpool, after having circumnavigated the globe and taken nearly 40 prizes -- seven months after Appomattox
1872 Sailing merchant ship 'Marie Celeste' sails from New York, bound for mystery
1917 Battle of Beersheba: British take Gaza from the Turks, on the third try
1917 The Bolsheviks stage a coup, initiating over seven decades of Communist misrule in Russia
1918 United Press erroneously reports an armistice has been signed
1919 The Palmer Raids: Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer initiates a roundup of alleged subversives and foreign agents, c. 10,000 detained over several months
1931 Mao Tse-Tung proclaims the Chinese People's Republic
1936 Spanish Civil War: Battle for Madrid begins
1942 FDR broadcasts to the French; first presidential address in a foreign language
1944 Chinese New 22nd Div takes Shwego in northern Burma.
1954 US spy plane shot down by Russians over the Sea of Japan
1973 The War Powers Act becomes law
1983 Bomb explodes in US Capitol, causing heavy damage but no injuries
2009 The USS 'New York' (LPD-21) is commissioned in New York City, commemorating the casualties of 9/11
2010 The German Army formally rededicated a restored monument honoring Jewish soldiers who fought in the Kaiser's War
2020