565 Accession of Justin II as Byzantine Emperor (565-578)

1380 King Charles VI "The Beloved" or "The Mad" of France crowned at age 12 (1380-1422)

1683 Battle of Kalenberg: Poles & Imperialists defeat the Turks

1751 Siege of Arcot: Rajah Chandra Sahib's Franco-Indian Army abandons the 50 day siege of Clive's Anglo-Indians

1812 Second Battle of Polotsk: French defeat the Russians

1851 Publication of Herman Melville's "Moby Dick"

1863 Confederate Gen Braxton Bragg assigns Maj Gen Bedford Forrest an independent command in northern Mississippi and Western Tennessee

1863 Skirmish at Danville, Mississippi

1906 Theodore Roosevelt lands in Panama; the first visit by a sitting president to a foreign country

1910 First airplane takeoff from a ship: Eugene Ely in a Curtiss Flyer, off USS 'Birmingham' (CL-2)

1919 Red Army captures Omsk, Siberia, from the Whites

1935 Nazis deprive German Jews of their citizenship

1935 The Philippine Commonwealth is established, to attain full independence on July 4, 1946

1938 Pres. Roosevelt initiates a major expansion of the Army, including the Air Corps

1940 Luftwaffe 'coventriert' Coventry

1941 Aircraft carrier HMS 'Ark Royal' sinks in the Mediterranean after being torpedoed by the 'U-81' the day before

1942 Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, Day 3: intense air and naval action

1944 Chinese New 22nd Div takes Mantha, in northern Burma

1956 Hungarian Revolution finally crushed by overwhelming Soviet forces

1965 Battle of Ia Drang Valley: Start of the first major encounter between American and mainline VC units; ends 18th

1968 "Turn in Your Draft Card Day" proves highly unsuccessful

1975 Spain abandons Spanish Sahara, which is immediately occupied by Morocco

2001 Operation Enduring Freedom: Northern Alliance forces liberate Kabul from the Taliban