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| -- Yesterday -- |  Year Event 1382 French defeat Flemings in the Battle of Westrozebeke 1760 Rogers' Rangers capture Detroit from the French 1775 Capt John Manley & schooner Lee takes Br Nancy, with munitions. 1812 Napoleon's Grand Army crosses the Berezina River 1842 The Somers Mutiny 1861 Skirmish at Sedalia/Black Walnut Creek 1863 Battle of Ft Sanders/Ft Loudon, Tn 1864 Colorado militia kills 150 peaceful Cheyenne Indians at Sand Creek 1864 Battle of Spring Hill, Tn 1887 US receives basing rights at Pearl Harbor 1890 The first Army-Navy football game, at West Point; Navy 24, Army 0 1900 Anglo-Boer War: Kitchener succeeds Roberts as C-in-C in South Africa 1932 France and the USSR sign a non-aggression pact 1939 USSR severs diplomatic relations with Finland 1941 Navy beats Army, 14-6. 1942 Coffee rationing begins in the US 1944 Largest submarine kill: Archerfish sinks CV Shinano, c. 70,000 tons 1947 UN votes to partition Palestine between Jews and Arabs 1949 Nationalist Chinese retreat to Taiwan 1951 Winston Churchill re-elected British premier 1951 The first underground atomic explosion, Frenchman's Flat, Nevada 1952 President-elect Eisenhower visits Korea to assess the war

Today in Military History  Date Nov 30, 2020 Year Event 1700 King Charles XII of Sweden defeats Russia at the Narva 1803 Spain cedes claims to Louisiana Territory to France 1838 Mexico declares war on France 1840 Napoleon is entombed in the Invalides 1864 Battle of Honey Hill, SC 1864 Battle of Franklin, Tennessee 1938 Germany bans Jews from practicing law 1938 Fascist coup in Romania fails 1939 USSR invades Finland 1942 German raider Thor destroyed by fire while docked at Yokohama. 1942 Tassafaronga: Japanese DDs best U.S. cruisers and DDs off Guadalcanal 1947 Arabs attack Jewish settlements (See Nov 29th) 1949 Chinese Communists captured Chungking 1958 USS Dewey, the first guided missile destroyer, launched at Bath, Me

| -- Tomorrow -- |  Year Event 82 -BC- Battle of the Porta Collina; Sulla captures Rome 1210 King John of England begins imprisoning Jews 1765 Stamp Act goes into effect in British colonies, which object 1784 Maryland grants citizenship to Lafayette & his descendants 1806 Fra Diavolo taken at Baronissi by French Col Sigisbert Hugo (Victor's father) 1835 Texians begin siege of San Antonio (it falls Dec 4) 1860 Neapolitan 3rd Div takes up defensive positions at Itri 1861 Skirmish at Renick, Mo 1861 George B McClellan named General-in-Chief of the United States Army 1869 Red River Rebellion: Louis Riel seizes Fort Garry, Winnipeg 1904 First Army War College Class convenes, including Capt. John J. Pershing. 1911 First Air Raid: Italian Lt. Garetti bombs Tanguira Oasis, Libya 1914 Paul von Hindenburg named commander-in-chief of the Eastern Front 1914 Coronel: Von Spee's German cruisers annihilate Cradock's British ones 1916 Ninth Battle of the Isonzo begins (to Nov 4) 1922 Ottoman Empire abolished 1928 Graf Zeppelin sets airship distance record, 6384 km 1932 Wernher von Braun named head of German liquid-fuel rocket program 1933 The German Army creates its first panzer unit, 1936 Mussolini describes the Italo-German alliance as "The Axis" 1939 First jet plane, a Heinkel He 178, demonstrated to German Air Ministry 1940 The Netherlands: Nazis establish a 2400-0400 curfew 1940 Fleetwood, Pa.: 1st US air raid shelter opens 1942 Guadalcanal: Marines attack across the Matanikau River 1943 USS Borie (DD-215) sinks off the Azores, having rammed & sunk U-405 1943 U.S. carrier a/c and DD raid Japanese installations at Buin and Buka. 1943 Bougainville: 3rd Marine Div lands at Cape Torokina, Empress Augusta Bay 1948 Chinese People's Liberation Army captures Mukden, Manchuria 1950 Puerto Rican nationalists try to kill President Truman at Blair House 1951 Fist atomic explosion witnessed by troops, NM 1952 First hydrogen device exploded at Eniwetok Atoll in Pacific 1954 General Fulgencio Batista elected president of Cuba 1954 Algeria begins rebellion against French rule 1955 Time bomb aboard a United Airlines DC-6 kills 44 above Longmont, Colorado 1956 Imre Nagy government of Hungary withdraws from the Warsaw Pact 1959 Nationalist Patrice Lumumba arrested in Belgian Congo 1960 Benelux Treaty goes into effect 1963 Coup against the Ngo Dinhm Diem regime in South Vietnam 1966 William Dana in X-15 reaches 93 km 1992 Space Shuttle STS 52 (Columbia 13) lands