489 Battle of Verona: King Odoacer of Italy defeated by Theodoric the Ostrogoth

1158 Battle of Galloway: Roland defeats Gilcolm

1691 The French capture Strasbourg

1707 Austrians take the fortress of Gaeta (Kingdom of Naples) from the Spanish by storm

1745 Battle of Soor: Prussians defeat the Austrians

1777 Congress flees to York as the British advance in Pennsylvania

1787 Merchant ship 'Columbia' leaves Boston to begin the first American round-the-world voyage (1787-1790)

1797 The Neapolitan Army liberated Rome from the French

1857 US annexes Sand, Baker, Howland, & Jarvis Is, south of Hawaii, under the provisions of the Guano Act

1862 Battle of Newtonia, Ms

1864 Battle of Preble's Farm/Poplar Springs Church, Va,

1867 Midway Island formally declared a US possession

1899 Tumultuous reception in New York for Admiral of the Navy George Dewey

1913 Treaty of Constantinople: The Bulgarians conclude peace with the Ottoman Empire, ceding Eastern Thrace

1914 The Army disbanded the Seminole Negro Indian Scouts, after 44 years of service1936 USS 'Brooklyn' (CL-40) commissioned, in Brooklyn (where else?)

1938 Munich Agreement: Czechoslovakia surrenders Sudetenland to Germany

1942 Japanese make their first airstrike against Adak, in the Aleutians.

1944 Calais liberated by Allies

1946 Judgement at Nuremberg: 22 Nazi leaders found guilty

1949 Berlin Airlift ends after 277,000 flights

1949 The Army disbanded the Philippine Scouts

1951 USS 'Monitor', sunk Dec 31, 1862, formally declared "out of commission"

1954 USS 'Nautilus' (SSN-571) is commissioned

1966 Nazi war criminals Albert Speer & Baldur von Schirach released from Spandau prison after 20-years

1993 Chairman of the JCS Gen. Colin Powell retires