871 Battle of Basing: The Danes defeat King Aethelred of Wessex

1371 Coronation of King Robert II of Scotland (1371-1390), the first Stewart/Stuart

1506 The Swiss Guards assume their duties at the Vatican

1510 Jews are expelled from Colmar, Germany

1517 Battle of Ridanieh: Selim I defeats the Mamlukes near Cairo

1555 King Bayinnaung of Taungoo captures Ava, ending Bamarised Shan domination of upper Burma

1643 Battle of the Saltash: the Cornishmen defeat the English

1690 Anglo-Iroquois alliance against the French is renewed

1758 Russian troops occupy Königsberg, Prussia

1760 Battle of Wandewash, India: British defeat the French

1771 Spain cedes the Falklands to Britain

1775 Marshal Oscar von Lubomirski expels the Jews from Warsaw

1813 Battle of Frenchtown: Kentuckians defeat British & Canadians

1849 British captured Multan from the Sikhs, along with £5 million in loot

1863 Union Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside ends his "Mud March"

1863 Polish nationalists revolt against the Russian occupation of their country

1873 British steamer 'Northfleet' sinks off Dungeness, c. 300 die

1879 The Anglo-Zulu Battles of Isandhlwana and Rourke's Drift

1905 St. Petersburg: "Bloody Sunday" - Tsarist troops shoot peaceful demonstrators

1941 The Australian 6th Division captures Tobruk from the Italians

1942 Chiang Kai-shek and Joseph Stilwell order Chinese troops into Burma

1942 Japanese troops begin landings on New Ireland and New Britain

1942 Malaya: Heavy fighting on the Johore Line.

1942 New Guinea: Japanese airstrikes on Lae and Salamaua

1942 Task Force 6814, later the Americal Div, composed of Nat'f Gd regiments made available by the "triangularizing" of existing divisions, sails from New York for the South Pacific; the longest troop movement in WW II

1943 Guadalcanal: 25th Inf Div beats off a nocturnal "Banzai" attack

1943 Guadalcanal: CAM Div makes sweeping gains on the western coast.

1943 Papua: last organized Japanese resistance ends.

1944 Heavy US air raids on the Admiralty Islands.

1944 Operating Shingle: Allies land at Anzio

1945 US aircraft attack Corregidor Island

1951 Fidel Castro is ejected from a US Winter League game for beaning a batter

1957 New York's "Mad Bomber", George Metesky, is arrested in Connecticut

1957 Israeli forces withdraw from the Sinai Peninsula

1959 USAF concludes less than 1% of UFO's are unknown objects

1964 "Dr. Strangelove" released; we all learn to stop worrying and love the bomb