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Friday, September 20, 2019
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| 1356 | English defeat French at Battle of Poitiers |
| 1676 | Rebels under Nathaniel Bacon burn Jamestown, Va |
| 1777 | Battle of Freeman's Farm (1st Battle of Saratoga) |
| 1862 | Battle of Iuka, Miss |
| 1863 | Battle of Chickamauga begins |
| 1864 | 3rd Battle of Winchester Virginia (Opequon) |
| 1870 | Franco-Prussian War: Germans lay siege to Paris |
| 1890 | Turkish frigate Ertogrul burns off of Japan, 540 die |
| 1939 | German Army murders 100 Jews in Lukov, Poland |
| 1939 | British Expeditionary Force reaches France |
| 1940 | Nazi decree forbids gentile woman from working in Jewish homes |
| 1943 | U.S carrier aircraft and B-24s raid Tarawa. |
| 1945 | Lord Haw Haw (William Joyce) sentenced to death in London |
| 1957 | First underground nuclear explosion, Las Vegas, Nevada |
| 1959 | Nikita Khrushchev is denied access to Disneyland |
| 1973 | Carl XVI Gustaf becomes King of Sweden |
| 1988 | Israel launches 1st satellite, for secret military reconnaissance |
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| 451 | Roman General Aetius defeats Attila the Hun at Chalons-sur-Marne |
| 622 | Mohammad's Hegira |
| 1378 | Anti-pope Robert of Geneva, "the butcher of Cesena" crowned as Clement VII |
| 1565 | Spaniards capture Fort Caroline, Fla, & massacre the French settlers |
| 1697 | Peace of Saki (ends Nine Years' War/War of English Succession) |
| 1700 | Prince of Macchia leads an anti-Spanish coup at Naples (fails Sep 23) |
| 1792 | French defeat Prussians at Valmy |
| 1797 | US frigate Constitution - "Old Ironsides" -- launched in Boston |
| 1854 | British & French defeat Russians at the Alma, in the Crimea |
| 1860 | The Prince of Wales visits New York, the "Fighting 69th" mutinies |
| 1861 | Confederates capture Lexington, Mo (invested on the 12th) |
| 1862 | Prussian minister Otto von Bismarck says Germany needs "Blood and Iron." |
| 1863 | Battle of Shepardstown, VA |
| 1863 | Battle of Chickamauga, ends in Confederate victory |
| 1870 | Italian troops capture Rome from Pope Pius IX |
| 1881 | Former New York Quartermaster General Chester A Arthur becomes president |
| 1912 | Montenegro invades Turkey, igniting First Balkan War |
| 1979 | Emperor Bokassa I of the Central African Empire overthrown |
| 1984 | Suicide car bomb attacks US Embassy annex in Beirut, kills 23 |
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| 1348 | Jews in Zurich Switzerland are accused of poisoning wells |
| 1451 | Cardinal Nicholas of Cusa orders Jews of Holland to wear a badge |
| 1529 | Austrians drive the Turks from the gates of Vienna |
| 1776 | Five days after the British take NY much of the city burns down |
| 1780 | Benedict Arnold gives British Major John Andre the plans to West Point |
| 1792 | French National Convention abolishes the monarchy |
| 1821 | Costa Rica, Honduras, Guatemala, & El Salvador declare independence from Spain |
| 1858 | Sloop Niagara sails from Charleston, for Liberia, with liberated slaves |
| 1861 | Combat at Pappinsville, Mo |
| 1863 | Union forces retreat to Chattanooga after defeat at Chickamauga |
| 1913 | Turkey & Bulgaria sign peace treaty in Constantinople |
| 1941 | Patrick Henry, the first Liberty-ship, is launched |
| 1942 | Commonwealth forces undertake an offensive on the Arakan coast of Burma. |
| 1942 | 116 hostages executed by Nazis in Paris |
| 1943 | Aussie raiders in 6 canoes sink two ships with mines in Singapore. |
| 1944 | 12 TF 38 carriers launch air strikes against Japanese targets on Luzon. |
| 1944 | Last British paratroopers holding the bridge at Arnhem surrender |
| 1949 | Federal Republic of Germany established |
| 1949 | People's Republic of China proclaimed |
| 1954 | Nuclear submarine Nautilus is commissioned |
| 1957 | Olav V assumes the throne of Norway |
| 1964 | Malta, G.C., gains its independence from Britain |
| 1972 | President Ferdinand Marcos declares martial law in Philippines |
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