794 First Viking raid on Britain, Lindisfarne Abbey is destroyed
871 Battle of Ashdown: King Ethelred of Wessex defeats the Danelaw Vikings
1294 Genoese adventurer Francesco Grimaldi captures Monaco, disguised as a monk, establishing the current dynasty
1502 The Massacre of Fermo: At the suggestion of Cesar Borgia, Oliverotto Eufreducci holds a banquet for his kinsman Giovanni Fogliano, the Lord of Fermo, & the leading citizens of the town, and seizes control
1546 Battle of Anaquito: Gonzalo Pizarro seizes Peru from the Spanish Viceroy
1598 Genoa orders the expulsion of all Jewish persons
1676 Battle of Stromboli: Indecisive Anglo-Dutch naval clash off Sicily
1800 Second Battle of Novi: the Austrians defeat French
1806 Battle of Blueberg: British defeat Franco-Dutch at Cape Town
1811 The Great Louisiana/Charles Deslondes Slave Rebellion begins in St. Charles & St. James Parishes, Louisiana; 2 whites, c. 100 blacks die in a week
1815 Battle of New Orleans, 15 days after the Treaty of Ghent
1838 Anti-English rebellion at Amherstburg, Ontario
1847 Battle of San Gabriel, Ca: Army-Navy-Marine victory over Mexican forces
1865 Battle of Dove Creek: Indians defeat Confederate Texans, near San Angelo
1877 The Battle of Wolf Mountain, Montana: Crazy Horse is defeated by the U.S. Army - the last battle of the Great Sioux War
1918 Pres Wilson outlines the "14 Points" for WW I peace, prompting Clemenceau to comment that God "only had ten Commandments"
1923 First successful flight of a rotary-wing aircraft, Juan de la Cierva's autogyro
1926 Abdul-Aziz ibn Saud establishes the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
1940 Britain initiates rationing of bacon, butter, and sugar
1942 Malaya: British fall back to the "Johore Line," c. 50 mi north of Singapore
1943 Allied a/c hit Japanese transports at Lae, in NE New Guinea.
1943 British turn control of Madagascar over to the Free French.
1944 U.S. Navy bombards Japanese bases in the Shortland Islands.
1945 Heavy US airstrikes on Luzon, concentrating on Lingayen Gulf area
1947 George C. Marshall becomes Secretary of State
1973 Secret peace talks between US & North Vietnam resume near Paris
1977 Armenian nationalists detonate three bombs in Moscow, 7 die, 37 wounded
1989 Soviet Union promises to eliminate stockpiles of chemical weapons
1992 Pres. George H. W. Bush vomits in the Japanese prime minister's lap
1992 Several hundred former Korean "Comfort Women" begin weekly rallies in front of the Japanese embassy in Seoul demanding an apology and compensation, which still continues.
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