1379 Battle of Marino: Pope Urban VI defeats Anti-Pope Clement VII

1503 Battle of Cerignola: Gonzalvo de Cordoba routs the French

1635 Virginia Gov John Harvey accused of treason & removed from office

1655 English fleet under Blake defeats the Tunisian corsairs

1789 Lt. William Bligh, RN, has occasion to say, "This is mutiny, Mr. Christian, mutiny."

1796 Ceasefire of Cherasco: effectively ends Bonaparte's First Italian campaign

1818 US & Britain agree to naval disarmament on the Great Lakes

1919 Tumultuous parade up Fifth Avenue to welcome the 165th Infantry (69th New York) home from the Great War

1925 Kurdish rebels surrender to the Turkish Army

1939 Hitler claims the 1934 German-Polish non-aggression pact is still in effect

1942 Nightly "dim-out" belatedly initiated on the East Coast, greatly reduces sinking of merchant vessels by German submarines

1943 New Ireland: 'Scamp' (SS-277) sinks seaplane carrier 'Kamikawa Maru'

1944 China: AAF raids Yellow River bridges to slow Japanese

1945 Okinawa: Kamikaze attacks on the U.S. fleet continue.

1945 US Fifth Army reaches the Italian-Swiss border

1950 Ticker tape parade on Broadway for admiral Thomas C. Kinkaid

1952 Japanese Peace Treaty formally ends the Asiatic-Pacific War of 1937-1945

1956 The French leave Vietnam

1965 US Marines land in the Dominican Republic, stay until October 1966

1967 Mohammad Ali refuses induction into the army

1971 Samuel Lee Gravely, Jr., is promoted to rear admiral; the first black admiral in US Navy

2009 A treaty between Bolivia and Paraguay formally ends the Chaco War (1932-1935)