1066 Harald Haardrada's Norwegians capture York
1180 Alexius II Comnenus becomes Byzantine Emperor (1180-1183)
1258 Triumphal entry of Ezzelino da Romano into Brescia
1400 Battle of Welshpool: Henry Burnell defeats Owen Glendower
1625 Spanish repulse Dutch attack on San Juan, Puerto Rico
1683 King Louis XIV expels all Jews from French America
1794 Pres Washington ordered the militia out to suppress the Whiskey Rebellion
1846 Battle of Monterry: After a three day fight, Zachary Taylor's army captures the city
1852 First Powered Flight: Henri Giffard flies 17 miles from Paris to Trappes in his coke-fired steam powered semi-rigid airship.
1864 Battle of Pilot Knob/Fort Davidson: Union troops beat off the Confederates under Sterling Price, who are beginning a raid into Missouri
1918 Ens David S. Ingalls becomes the first USN ace, in a Sopwith Camel, while seconded to the Royal Air Force
1929 Lt James H Doolittle makes the first all-instrument flight, over Brooklyn
1942 "Chesty" Puller's Marines engage Japanese on Mt. Austen, Guadalcanal
1942 Valeriia Khomiakova, Soviet 586th Fighter Regiment, becomes the first woman to down an enemy aircraft in night combat, flying a Yak 1 on her first mission
1943 Soviet forces liberate Smolensk
1943 USS 'Cabrilla' (SS 288) damages the escort carrier 'Taiyo' off Japan.
1944 San Marino declares war on Germany
1948 Mildred "Axis Sally" Gillars pleads innocent in Washington
1960 USS 'Enterprise' (CVN-65) is launched, the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier
1982 US, Italian, & French peacekeeping troops begin arriving in Lebanon
