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| -- Yesterday -- |  Year Event 0 Feast of St. Bernard 1358 Saint-Leu begins the "Jackquerie," a French peasant uprising 1731 Papal States orders confiscation of all Hebrew books 1754 George Washington defeats the French and Indians near Ft Duquesne 1774 First Continental Congress convenes 1813 US Frigate Essex and prize capture five British whalers in the Pacific 1830 Congress authorizes Indian removal to the west from the Eastern states 1849 Spanish troops land at Gaeta, to help overthrow the Roman Republic 1917 Tenth Battle of the Isonzo ends (from May 12) 1926 Portugal: Military coup by Gen Manuel Gomes da Costa 1937 Neville Chamberlain becomes PM of Great Britain 1940 King Leopold III surrenders Belgium to the Germans 1940 Norway: Anglo-French forces capture Narvik 1945 Okinawa: c. 100 kamikaze raid Allied fleet, one U.S. DD sunk 1971 USSR Mars 3 launched, first spacecraft to make a soft landing on Mars 1980 First 55 women graduate from the U.S. Naval Academy 1987 German Mathias Rust, 19, lands a light rplane in Red Square 1991 Ethiopian rebels seize Addis Ababa

Today in Military History  Date May 29, 2020 Year Event 1176 Battle of Legnano: Lombards defeat Frederick Barbarossa 1416 Venetian fleet annihilates a larger Turkish one off Gallipoli 1453 Byzantine Empire falls: Sultan Mehemet II captures Constantinople 1660 The restoration: Charles II ascends the English throne 1781 US frigate Alliance captures HMSs Atalanta and Trepassy off Nova Scotia 1848 Tuscans & Neapolitans defeat Austrian at Curatone and Goito 1864 Archduke Maximilian of Austria arrives in Mexico to become Emperor 1877 HMS Shah captures the mutinous Peruvian ironclad Huascar; first use of torpedo in combat, a miss 1940 Arthur Seyss-Inquart made Reichscommissar of The Hague, Netherlands 1943 Meat and cheese rationing begun in the US 1943 Attu: Japanese undertake a major "Banzai" attack 1944 Biak: Japanese come off second best in tank clash with American troops. 1945 Okinawa: US 1st Marine Division Captures Shuri Castle 1957 Algerian Rebels kill 336 "collaborators" 1989 Student protesters in China erect a replica of the Statue of Liberty 1993 Neo-Nazis kill five Turkish women in Solingen, Germany

| -- Tomorrow -- |  Year Event 0 Feast of St. Joan of Arc, Patron of Soldiers 0 Feast of St Ferdinand III of Castille, Patron of Engineers 1574 Henry III follows his brother Charles IX as king of France 1814 US gunboats capture 3 British ones on Lake Ontario 1814 First Treaty of Paris, following Napoleon's first abdication 1822 Denmark Vesey slave conspiracy betrayed, 37 blacks murdered 1848 Battle of Goito: Austrians defeat Sardinians 1849 Battle of Palestro: Austrians defeat Sardinians by the 31st 1849 San Pancrazio: Garibaldi defeats the French near Rome 1861 CS post office department set up, US PD ceases deliveries in the South 1862 Battle of Front Royal, VA 1862 Battle of Booneville MS: Gen Beauregard evacuates Corinth 1864 Battle of Bethesda Church VA 1868 First "Decoration Day" (Memorial Day) observance, Columbus, Ms 1901 Memorial Day becomes a national observance 1913 First Balkan War ends with the Treaty of London 1915 Armenian Genocide: Turkish government orders deportation of Armenians 1916 Jutland: The Grand Fleet sails, 37 dreadnoughts and over 100 other warships 1924 Italian Socialist Matteotti murdered by Fascists 1942 Diego Suarez: Japanese mini-sub torpedoes British BB Ramilles & tanker 1942 First Allied air raid on Cologne 1943 US troops complete recapture of Attu 1958 Arlington: Unknowns of World War II and Korea are interred 1962 USS Arizona memorial dedicated at Pearl Harbor 1966 300 US airplanes bomb North Vietnam 1967 State of Biafra secedes from Nigeria, initiating a bloody civil war 1972 Three Japanese terrorists kill 24, wound 72 at Tel Aviv's Lod Airport 1982 Spain becomes the 16th member of NATO