413BC A lunar eclipse visible in Sicily causes the Athenians to postpone their attempt to escape from Syracuse harbor, dooming them to destruction

1130 Pope Innocent II grants Sicily to Count Ruggero II of Calabria, when he conquers it

1189 King Guy of Jerusalem besieges Acre

1626 Battle of Lutter: Tilly's Imperials defeat Christian of Denmark

1758 British capture Fort Frontenac, forcing the French out of Pennsylvania

1776 Battle of Brooklyn/Long Island: British defeat the Americans

1781 Battle of Pollicore: outnumbered British defeat Mysore

1810 French sabotage detonates the magazine at Almeida, Spain, with heavy casualties among British troops and local citizens

1813 Battle of Dresden, Day 2: Napoleon defeats the Allies

1813 Battle of Leitskau: Prussians defeat the French

1816 Battle of Algiers: Lord Exmouth's British-Dutch-Spanish-Italian fleet bombards the city into giving up piracy, yet again

1828 Uruguayan independence recognized by Brazil and Argentina

1861 Skirmish at Ball's Cross Roads, WVa

1862 Action at Cub Run, Va

1896 The Anglo-Zanzibari War: England defeats Zanzibar in 38 minutes (0902-0940), the shortest war on record

1914 Battle of Heligoland Bight: Royal Navy defeats the German light forces

1916 Romania declares war on Austria-Hungary

1920 Dedication of the Altar to Liberty, in Greenwood Cemetery, to commemorate the Battle of Long Is/Brooklyn in 1776

1928 Kellogg-Briand Pact: 60 nations agree that war is naughty

1932 International anti-war congress opens in Amsterdam

1942 Cuba declares war on Germany, Japan, & Italy

1942 Guadalcanal: 5th Marines raid Kokumbona

1942 Japanese reinforcements land at Milne Bay, against stout Aussie resistance

1942 USS 'Iowa' (BB 61) is launched at the Brooklyn Navy Yard

1943 Elms 43rd Inf Div land on Arundel Island in the Solomons, unopposed

1943 German-Croatian coup seizes Slovenia from Italian occupiers

1943 Germans begin systematic massacres of Italian troops in the Balkans

1944 Br 2nd Sub Flotilla reaches Ceylon.

1945 Over 41,000 Japanese surrender on Morotai and Halmahea

1945 Third Fleet enters Sagami Bay, south of Tokyo Bay, as US troops begin the occupation of Japan

1945 Ticker tape parade on Broadway for General Charles de Gaulle.

1958 Ticker tape parade on Broadway for CDR William Anderson & the crew of the USS 'Nautilus' (SS 571)

2002 Sukhoi Su-27 crashes at the Lviv airshow, 85 die, c. 100 injured