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| 29 | -BC- The first day of Octavian's Triumph, for the conquest of Illyria |
| 1415 | English under King Henry V land at the mouth of the Seine River |
| 1521 | Cortez captures Tenochtitlan from the Aztecs |
| 1648 | French withdraw troops supporting Masaniello's Rebellion from Naples |
| 1777 | Americans exploded a mine near a British vessel off New London |
| 1799 | English fleet under Lord Seymour captures Suriname |
| 1846 | Cdr Robert Stockton leads an Army-Navy-Marine party to seize Los Angeles |
| 1864 | Battles of Deep Bottom/Strawberry Plains/Fussell's Mill, Va |
| 1870 | Armed tug Palos is the first U.S.N. ship to transit the new Suez Canal |
| 1898 | Armistice ends the Spanish-American War (noon, EST) |
| 1898 | Battle of Manila: US troops occupy the city against light resistance |
| 1898 | US troops ambush Spanish at Las Marias, P.R. - c. 100 casualties to none |
| 1906 | Brownsville: Black soldiers stage mutinous protest |
| 1923 | National Congress elects Mustafa Kemal Pasha president of Turkey |
| 1937 | Japanese attack Shanghai |
| 1941 | Red army evacuates Smolensk |
| 1942 | New Guinea: Japanese seize the pass over the Owen Stanley Mts |
| 1943 | Red Army recaptures Demiansk |
| 1943 | Recon parties determine there are few Japanese on Vella Lavella. |
| 1943 | From Australia, US B-24s bomb the oil fields at Balikpapan, in Borneo. |
| 1944 | Fourteenth Air Force reconnoiters Manila from Chinese bases |
| 1945 | Okinawa: APA LaGrange becomes the last US ship hit in WW II, by kamikaze |
| 1945 | Air raids on Tokyo. |
| 1953 | Gen Omar Bradley becomes Chairman of the JCS |
| 1961 | Communists begin construction of the Berlin Wall |
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| 29 | -BC- The second day of Octavian's Triumph, for the victory at Actium |
| 410 | Visigotic King Alaric I "sacks" Rome |
| 1281 | "The Divine Wind" sinks Mongol fleet off Japan |
| 1385 | Battle at Albarotta: Portugal defeats Castille |
| 1678 | Battle of Mons: French repulse William of Orange |
| 1756 | French capture Fort Oswego, NY |
| 1811 | Paraguay declares independence from Spain |
| 1813 | HMS Pelican captures USS Argus |
| 1813 | British warship Pelican attacks & captures USS Argus |
| 1824 | Lafayette begins a tour of the US |
| 1842 | Second Florida War ends; some Seminoles removed to Oklahoma |
| 1882 | Queen Victoria recieves Zulu chief Cetewayo |
| 1886 | Naval Gun Factory established at the Washington Navy Yard |
| 1900 | Anglo-Boer War: Ian Hamilton fails to prevent De Wet's escape |
| 1912 | US Marines occupy Nicaragua |
| 1915 | German u-boat sinks British transport Royal Edward, 1,000 die |
| 1917 | China declares war on Germany & Austria |
| 1931 | Air Corps fails to sink target ship Mt. Shasta, Coast Guard helps out. |
| 1942 | Lt Ezra Shahan's P-38 gets a Condor off Iceland: 1st US ETO air victory: |
| 1942 | Japanese land 3000 construction troops near Gona, in New Guinea. |
| 1943 | Quadrant Conference, Qubec: FDR, Churchill agree to "Operation Overlord" |
| 1944 | Russian offensive on the Vistula |
| 1945 | V-J Day; Japan surrenders |
| 1945 | Tokyo: Imperial Guard attempts coup, is put down with bloodshed. |
| 1949 | Military coup under colonel Sami Hinnawi in Syria |
| 1969 | "The Troubles": British troops intervenes militarily in Northern Ireland |
| 1973 | US bombs Cambodia |
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| 29 | -BC- The third day of Octavian's Triumph, for the conquest of Egypt |
| 1057 | Scots King Macbeth defeated by Macduff |
| 1760 | The Katzbach: Frederick defeats 60,000 Austrians with only 30,000 troops |
| 1845 | U.S. Naval Academy is established at Ft Severn, Annapolis, Md |
| 1863 | Submarine CSS Hunley arrives in Charleston by rail |
| 1864 | Off New England, CSS Tallahassee captures 6 U.S. schooners |
| 1895 | Second Class battleship Texas commissioned |
| 1941 | Kovono Lithuanian Jews are herded into Slobodka ghetto |
| 1942 | U.S. transports land supplies at Guadalcanal |
| 1942 | I-6, last Japanese submarine in the Aleutians, is withdrawn. |
| 1943 | Kiska: U.S. and Canadian troops land with heavy naval and air support |
| 1943 | Elms 25th Inf Div land on Vella Lavella, opposed on by Japanese a/c. |
| 1944 | Operation Anvil-Dragoon: Allied troops land in Provence) |
| 1945 | US wartime rationing of gasoline & fuel oil ends |
| 1945 | South Korea liberated from Japanese rule |
| 1945 | Japanese a/c raid TF 38, 12 hours after Hirohito's surrender order. |
| 1945 | Hirohito's surrender message is broadcast. |
| 1973 | Black September kills 3, wounds 55, in a bombing in Athens |
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