577 Emperor Wu captures Ye, unifying Northern China
1071 Battle of Cassel: Robert I "the Frisian" of Flanders defeats his nephew Arnulf III of Flanders, to seize the country
1076 Pope Gregory VII excommunicates and deposes the Emperor Henry IV
1281 Simon de Brie is elected as Pope as Martin IV (1281-1285)
1288 Girolamo Masci elected Pope as Nicholas IV (1288-1292)
1349 Jews are expelled from Zurich
1358 Rising of the Guilds of Paris against the Crown of France
1371 Accession of Robert II as King of Scots (1371-1390), the first Stuart
1495 King Charles VIII of France enters recently captured Naples, to claim the throne
1744 Battle of Toulon/Cape Sicie: Outnumbered Spanish fleet defeats the British off Provence
1746 The '45: Jacobites abandon Aberdeen
1746 The French capture Brussels
1775 Jews expelled from Warsaw
1797 The Last Invasion of Britain: 1,500-strong Franco-Irish force lands near Fishguard, Wales; defeated by the 24th
1812 Battle of Grado: Napoleon's Royal Italian Navy loses a 74 to Britain's Royal Navy - largest naval action in the Adriatic during the Napoleonic Wars
1815 King Giacchino Murat of Naples invades northern Italy
1819 Adams-Onis Treaty: Spain cedes Oregon & West Florida to the US
1821 Spain sells East Florida to the United States
1864 Battle of Okolona, MS
1865 Battle of Wilmington, NC: Fort Anderson occupied by Federals
1891 Battle of Halat: Italians defeat Ras Sebath's Abyssinians
1896 Battle of Gulusit: Sudanese Mahdists defeat the Italians
1909 The Great White Fleet returns to Hampton Roads after its world cruise
1915 Germany begins "restricted" submarine warfare
1918 Germany claims the Baltic States, Finland, & Ukraine from Russia
1935 Airplanes are prohibited from flying over the White House
1939 The Netherlands recognize the Franco regime in Spain
1940 Finnish troops evacuate Koivisto Island
1940 A Stuka of Kampfgeschwader 30 sinks two destroyers in a single attack in the North Sea off Borkum, both German, the 'Lebrecht Maas' and 'Max Schultz'
1941 Germans begin rounding up Jews in Amsterdam
1941 Rommel's First Offensive: El Agheila
1942 FDR orders MacArthur to leave the Philippines for Australia
1942 Japanese 48th Div arrives at Balikpapan from the Philippines.
1943 'Iowa' (BB-61) commissioned in Brooklyn
1943 Nazi Propaganda Minister Josef Goebbels gives Japanese violinist Nejiko Suwa a 1722 Stradivarius, probably looted from a Jewish family, which postwar she uses to entertain imprisoned Japanese war criminals
1944 Japanese aircraft lose heavily in an attack on TF 58 off the Marianas
1944 US Eighth Air Force erroneously bombs Enschede, Arnhem, & Nijmegen, the Netherlands, c. 800 die
1945 Burma: British troops take Ramree Island
1945 Iwo Jima: Marines make slow gains against heavy resistance
1948 Arab terrorist attack in Jerusalem, 50 die
1958 Egypt and Syria merge to form the United Arab Republic; Syria secedes in 1961
1974 First woman naval aviator: Lt, j.g., Barbara Ann Allen
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