56 BC Council of Luca: The triumvir's Caesar, Pompey, & Crassus renew their pact to plunder the state

43 BC Battle of Forum Gallorum: Antony is defeated by the Consuls

614 The Persians sack Jerusalem

1064 Good Friday Massacre: Arab raiders attacked 7,000 Dutch and German pilgrims hundreds die before the Moslem governor of Ramla intervenes on Easter Monday

1207 Veteran and former prisoner-of-war St. Francis renounces worldly goods

1395 Battle of the Terek River: Timur defeats the Golden Horde and razes its capital city, Sarai

1450 Battle of Formigny: The French virtually annihilate an English army, effectively ending the Hundred Years' War

1632 Battle of Rain/the River Lech: Gustavus Augustus's Protestant Swedes defeat the Holy Roman Empire & Catholic League

1746 Battle of the Trebbia: Austrians defeat the French & Spanish

1836 Battle of New Washington: Inconclusive skirmish between Texians and Mexicans

1861 Ft Sumter surrenders to Confederate forces

1861 President Lincoln issues a call for 75,000 Volunteers to suppress "combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings."

1865 Former Brig Gen Andrew Johnson assumes the presidency (1865-1869)

1865 The Stars and Stripes are again hoisted over Ft Sumter

1868 Emperor Meiji reviews the first ships to fly the imperial naval ensign

1874 Lord Randolph Spencer Churchill marries Jennie Jerome, in Paris

1892 Battle of Serobeti: Italians defeat the Sudanese Mahdists

1904 Battle of Pensacola: c. 350 soldiers & sailors riot against police and shore patrol; 1 k, many injured

1912 RMS 'Titanic' sinks at c. 0225

1940 British troops land at Narvik, Norway

1942 George VI awards the George Cross to the people of Malta

1942 Japanese threaten to encircle the British Burma Div.

1943 Aleutians: U.S. convoys begin converging on Attu.1943 Russell Is.: the U.S. completes a major airfield on Banika

1943 US code breakers discover Adm Yamamoto will visit the Solomon Is.

1944 India: British and Indians make important gains on the Kohima Front.

1945 British Army liberates Bergen-Belsen concentration camp

1945 Burma: helicopter makes the first rescue of a downed pilot.

1945 FDR is buried at his estate in Hyde Park, NY

1947 Former Army 2nd Lt Jackie Robinson begins playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers, integrating modern Major League baseball

1952 First test flight of a prototype B-52

1969 North Korea shoots at US airplane over the Sea of Japan

1974 Military coup in Niger

1986 US a/c raid terrorist bases in Libya, following Berlin disco bombing