1319 Battle of Myton - "The White Battle": Sir James Douglas beats Archbishop Melton

1356 Battle of Poitiers: English defeat the French

1676 Rebels under Nathaniel Bacon burn Jamestown, Va

1734 War of the Polish Succession: Battle of Guastella - Franco-Piedmontese-Spanish forces defeat the Austrians, to capture Milan.

1777 Battle of Freeman's Farm (1st Battle of Saratoga)

1796 Battle of Altenkirchen: Desperate French rearguard action against the Austrians

1860 Battle of Caiazzo: The Garibaldini defeat the Neapolitan Bourbons

1862 Battle of Iuka, Miss

1863 Battle of Chickamauga begins

1864 3rd Battle of Winchester (Opequon), Va

1870 Franco-Prussian War: Germans invest in Paris, which falls on Jan 28, 1871

1890 Turkish frigate 'Ertogrul' burns off Japan, 540 die

1939 British Expeditionary Force reaches France

1939 German Army murders 100 Jews in Lukov, Poland

1940 Nazi decree forbids a gentile woman from working in Jewish homes

1940 Free French coup ousts the Vichyite government of New Caledonia

1943 U.S carrier aircraft and B-24s raid Tarawa.

1945 London: Lord Haw Haw (William Joyce) sentenced to death

1957 First underground nuclear explosion, Nevada

1959 Nikita Khrushchev is denied access to Disneyland

1973 Carl XVI Gustaf succeeds to the throne of Sweden (1973-)

1988 Israel launches 1st satellite, for secret military reconnaissance