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| 1479 | -BC-- Battle of Megiddo: Thutmose III defeats the King of Kadesh |
| 1215 | King John of England "agrees" to Magna Carta |
| 1266 | Battle of Chesterfield ends the Second Barons' War |
| 1464 | Hexham: Yorkists defeat Lancastrians, securing the throne for Edward IV |
| 1525 | Frankenhausen: barons massacre 5,000, ending the German Peasants' War |
| 1768 | Genoa cedes Corsica to France |
| 1848 | King Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies engineers an absolutist coup |
| 1862 | Ben Butler issues his famous "Woman Order" |
| 1862 | Battle of Princeton, WV |
| 1864 | Battle of New Market, Virginia |
| 1882 | Tsar Alexander III bans Jews from living in rural areas |
| 1902 | Anglo-Boer War: Final meetings at Vereeniging start |
| 1919 | Greek Army lands at Smyrna, seeking to conquer Anatolia |
| 1941 | British attack Halfaya Pass & Fort Capuzzo in Egypt & Libya |
| 1942 | Gasoline rationing introduced by the US |
| 1943 | Cuban Lt. Mario Ramirez Delgado's sub chaser CS-13 gets U-176. |
| 1945 | British ships & a/c hit Japanese installations in the Andaman Islands. |
| 1948 | Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Jordan, & Saudi-Arabia attack Israel |
| 1957 | First British A-bomb explosion, Christmas Island, the Pacific |
| 1958 | USSR launches Sputnik III |
| 1960 | Sputnik IV launched into Earth orbit |
| 1972 | Ryukyu Is are returned to Japan after 27 years of American control |
| 1972 | George Wallace shot & left paralyzed by Arthur Bremer in Laurel, Md |
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| 0 | Feast of St. Brendan, 6th Century Irish navigator |
| 1152 | King Henry II (age 19) weds Eleanor of Aquitaine (30) |
| 1527 | Republican uprising in Florence expels the Medici |
| 1703 | Tsar Peter the Great founds St. Petersburg |
| 1770 | Prince Louis [XVI] of France (age 16) and Marie Antoinette (14) |
| 1811 | Peninsular War: Allies defeat French at Albuera |
| 1820 | USS Congress is the first American warship to visit China |
| 1861 | Kentucky proclaims its neutrality in the Civil War |
| 1863 | Vicksburg Campaign: Battle of Champion's Hill |
| 1864 | Battle of Bermuda Hundred, VA |
| 1919 | Three Navy flying boats begin trans-Atlantic flight (see 25th) |
| 1920 | Joan of Arc canonized |
| 1942 | Indian Nationalists demand U.S. "Quit India" as US service troops arrive |
| 1943 | German troops destroy the main synagogue of Warsaw |
| 1944 | Siege of Kohima ended, as the last Japanese resistance crushed. |
| 1944 | German military police attack gypsies in the Netherlands |
| 1992 | Space Shuttle Endeavor completes maiden voyage, landing safely (STS-49) |
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| 1756 | Seven Years' War: Britain declares war on France |
| 1809 | Papal States annexed by France |
| 1814 | Denmark cedes Norway to Sweden |
| 1863 | Battle of Big Black River Bridge, MS |
| 1864 | Battle of Adairsville Georgia, Union forces Confederates to retreat |
| 1900 | Anglo-Boer War: Relieve of Mafeking |
| 1905 | Norway declares independence from Sweden |
| 1938 | Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan lands in Dublin rather than California |
| 1940 | Germans occupy Brussels |
| 1942 | Japanese sub I-28 sunk by Tautog, I-164 by Triton |
| 1944 | Surabaya: American heavy bombers stage nocturnal raid |
| 1944 | Royal Navy raids Surabaya, Java |
| 1944 | Burma: Merrill's Marauders take Myitkina airfield in a coup de main. |
| 1945 | Last naval battle of WW II: Jap. CA Haguro sunk by Br DDs, Malacca Str. |
| 1987 | USS Stark hit by Iraqi missiles, 37 sailors die |
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