479BC Battle of Mycale: Greeks crush the Persians in Ionia [Trad - possibly the 27th]
479BC Battle of Plataea: Greeks crush the Persians in Boeotia [Trad - possibly the 27th]
79 Mt Vesuvius buries Pompeii, Herculaneum, and many other towns and villages [Trad - more likely Sept]]
716 Arab-Barbarian hordes lay siege to Constantinople (retire, 15 Aug 717)
1212 Children's Crusaders reach Genoa
1261 Michael VIII Palaeologus liberates Constantinople from the Latins, restoring the Byzantine Empire
1499 Fourth Naval Battle of Sapienza: Turks defeat the Venetians, to begin the conquest of the Morea
1580 Battle of Alcantara: Spain defeats and annexes Portugal
1689 Montreal taken by the Iroquois
1722 Indians raid settlements along the Kennebec River, Maine, initiating the "Three Years' War"
1734 Battle of Bitonto: Duke Charles of Borbon-Parma defeats the Austrians to make himself King of Naples
1758 Battle of Zorndorf: Frederick the Great defeats the Russians
1759 British capture Ft Niagara from the French
1825 Uruguay declares independence from Brazil
1825 USMA Cadet Jefferson Davis penalized for imbibing, and on the Sabbath
1830 Belgium revolts against the Netherlands
1849 French marines & sailors occupy Honolulu, to force toleration of Catholicism
1862 US SecWar authorizes Gen Rufus Saxton to arm 5,000 slaves
1864 Petersburg Campaign: Second Battle of Ream's Station, Confederates defeat US
1867 Battle of Monterotondo: the Papal Army defeats the Garibaldini
1905 First Presidential submarine dive: Theodore Roosevelt in the USS 'Plunger' (SS 2) at Sag Harbor, staying under nearly an hour.
1914 Namur surrenders to the Germans
1914 German troops massacre 248 Belgian civilians at Louvain, and then commence a three-day sack of the town, burning 1,100 buildings, including the 250,000 volume medieval library
1921 US signs peace treaty with Germany
1937 Japanese fleet blockades Chinese coast
1940 First RAF night bombing raid on Berlin
1941 English & Russian troops begin occupation of pro-German Iran
1941 German troops capture Novgorod, near Leningrad
1942 Japanese DD 'Mutsuki' sunk by B-17s; the only known high altitude airplane kill of an underway warship
1942 Marine & Navy a/c attack Japanese reinforcing squadron near Guadalcanal.
1942 Japanese SNLF ("marines") troops land at Milne Bay, but are contained.
1943 Australian 5th Div goes into action on the Salamaua front in New Guinea.
1943 Red Army liberates Smolensk1943 US forces land on New Georgia in Solomon Islands
1943 HM Sloop 'Egret' is the first ship in history to be sunk by a remotely guided missile, a German HS-293 glide bomb
1944 Paris liberated from Nazi occupation
1944 U.S. troops defeat Japanese in the Aitape region, New Guinea
1945 Nationalist Chinese forces liberate Nanking.
1957 Prince Suvanna Phuma forms govt in Laos, with Pathet Lao
