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| 1784 | Revolutionary War ends; Congress ratifies the Treaty of Paris |
| 1799 | King of Naples flees to Sicily before invading French armies |
| 1807 | HMS Ajax (74) burns off the Dardanelles, 250 of 681 crewmembers die |
| 1813 | US Frigate Chesapeake captures British brig Hero |
| 1814 | The King of Denmark cedes Norway to the King of Sweden |
| 1815 | HMSs Endymion, Tenedos, and Pomone capture USS President |
| 1847 | Conspiracy in New Mexico against US Control |
| 1861 | Ft Pickens captured by Florida state troops |
| 1863 | US Navy GO No 4, The Emancipation Proclamation is announced to the fleet |
| 1864 | Battle of Cosby Creek, TN |
| 1867 | Alfred Nobel makes the first public demonstration of dynamite |
| 1942 | Borneo: Japanese troops land at Balikpapan |
| 1942 | Malaya: Japanese capture Malacca. |
| 1942 | Bataan: Heavy fighting |
| 1942 | Arcadia Conference ends. |
| 1943 | Casablanca Conference: FDR, Churchill, & Chiang in ten days of meetings |
| 1943 | Guadalcanal: "Tokyo Express" lands reinforcements and supplies |
| 1945 | Burma: Japanese counterattack British on the Irawaddy River. |
| 1967 | NY Times reports Army is conducting secret germ warfare experiments |
| 1969 | Disastrous fire on USS Enterprise, off Vietnam, 28 killed, 344 injured |
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| 1495 | French besiege Gaeta (to Feb 16), held for Ferrante II of Naples |
| 1535 | Henry VIII becomes head of the Church in England, to marry Anne Boylen |
| 1582 | Russia cedes Livonia & Estonia to Poland |
| 1680 | French explorer Sieur de la Salle builds Ft Crevecoeur |
| 1799 | Two French soldiers slain by guerrillas near Itri, Naples. |
| 1865 | Ft Fisher, NC falls to Union troops |
| 1941 | Adm Husband Kimmel writes "Surprise raid on Pearl Harbor . . . possible." |
| 1942 | Bataan: Japanese troops penetrate US/Philippine defenses. |
| 1942 | Japanese Southern Army invades Burma from Thailand. |
| 1942 | Malaya: Japanese "end run" landings dislocate the British left. |
| 1942 | Chinese halt a Japanese offensive near Changsha in Hunan Province. |
| 1943 | The Pentagon is completed |
| 1943 | Guadalcanal: US forces make only limited gains. |
| 1943 | Japanese superbattleship Musashi arrives at Truk. |
| 1943 | Papua: Allied forces make limited gains near Sanananda |
| 1944 | European Advisory Commission decides to divide Germany |
| 1944 | New Guinea: Australians reach north coast of Huon Peninsula, near Sio. |
| 1945 | Red Army liberates the Krakow-Plaszow concentration camp |
| 1945 | Japanese offensive in China advances on the U.S. airbase in Sichuan. |
| 1949 | Mao's Red army conquers Tien-tsin |
| 1962 | New Guinea: Dutch & Indonesian naval battle, Etna Bay |
| 1973 | Pres Nixon suspends all US offensive action over North Vietnam |
| 1997 | Dr Jerry Lineger, Capt, USN, joins MIR via Space Shuttle Atlantis |
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| 1495 | French under Charles VIII invest Gaeta (falls Feb 16). |
| 1500 | Cesare Borgia captures Forli and the Lady Caterina Sforza |
| 1547 | Ivan IV the Terrible crowned first tsar of Russia |
| 1556 | Charles V abdicates the throne of Spain (having already quit as HRE) |
| 1776 | Continental Congress approves enlistment of free blacks |
| 1777 | Vermont declares independence from NY |
| 1799 | French and Polish troops sack Itri, slaying scores |
| 1863 | Cruise of CSS Florida (ends Aug 23) |
| 1864 | Battle of Dandridge, Tn. |
| 1865 | Aftermath of Ft Fisher, Ft Caswell is abandoned & blown up |
| 1941 | War Department forms Army Air Corps squadron for black cadets |
| 1942 | Rio Conference: 21 American republics discuss hemispheric defense |
| 1942 | Bataan: Heavy fighting |
| 1942 | Malaya: British try to hold the Muar River against Japanese forces |
| 1943 | Papua: U.S. and Australians mop up Japanese forces around Sanananda |
| 1943 | Guadalcanal: 2nd Marine Div clears Japanese troops out of "the Ravine" |
| 1944 | Gen Eisenhower takes command of Operation Overlord |
| 1945 | US First and Third Armies meet at Houffalize, Belgium |
| 1945 | TF 38 aircraft attack Japanese held Hong Kong. |
| 1951 | Viet Minh offensive at Hanoi |
| 1957 | 3 B-52s leave California on the first non-stop world flight |
| 1963 | Khrushchev claims to have a 100-megaton nuclear bomb |
| 1969 | Jan Palach immolates himself to protest Soviet invasion of Czech |
| 1970 | Col Kadhaffi becomes premier of Libya |
| 1979 | Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi of Iran flees Iran for Egypt |
| 2001 | Theodore Roosevelt awarded a Medal of Honor for San Juan Heights in 1898 |
| 2001 | Andrew J. Smith, 55th Mass, awarded a Medal of Honor, for Nov 30, 1864. |
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