48BC Caesar arrives at Alexandria
480BC Xerxes and the Persian army withdraw northwards from Attica for winter quarters in Thessaly
1187 Saladin captures Jerusalem, ending 88 years of Christian rule
1263 Battle of Largs, Ayrshire: Scots defeat King Haakon IV of Norway
1341 Battle of San Quirico: The Pisans defeat the Florentines
1569 Battle of Montcontour: French Catholics defeat the Huguenots
1799 The Duke of York captures Alkmaar in the Netherlands
1799 Washington Navy Yard established
1835 Battle of Gonzales: Texians rout Mexicans, touching off the Texas Revolution
1855 Battle of Piedras Negras: Mexican troops & Black Seminole settlers defeat c. 100 American slave catchers and Texas Rangers who raided across the Rio Grande
1864 Battle of Saltville, Va:
1870 Italy annexes the Papal States, makes Rome it's capital
1918 Naval Battle of Durazzo: And an attack on the port by over 30 British-Italian-French-American warships supported by bombers is beaten off by six small Austro-Hungarian warships, in the last action of the Imperial-and-Royal Navy
1939 The OAS establishes a neutrality zone around the Western Hemisphere
1941 Operation Typhoon: Germans initiate an offensive to take Moscow
1941 Six Parisian synagogues are bombed
1942 Rabaul: U.S. air raid damages Japanese light cruiser 'Yubari' and other shipping
1942 RMS 'Queen Mary' slices light cruiser 'Curacao' in half in the North Atlantic, 338 die
1943 New Guinea: Australian 20th Brigade secures Finschhafen
1943 Japanese sub 'Ro-103' sinks USS 'Henley' (DD-391) off Finschhafen, New Guinea
1943 Solomons: Japanese troops evacuate Kolombangara
1944 Polish "Warsaw Uprising" suppressed by the Nazis
1949 USSR recognizes People's Republic of China
1998 Large Turkish force raids Kurdish areas of Iraq
