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Sunday, September 24, 2017
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| 480 | -BC- Athenians defeat the Persians in the naval Battle of Salamis |
| 1122 | Concordat of Worms: Pope Callistus II and HRE Henry V end the Investiture Controversy |
| 1700 | Spanish crush the Prince of Macchia's coup in Naples (see Sep 20) |
| 1779 | John Paul Jones' Bonhomme Richard takes HMS Serapis. |
| 1780 | Benedict Arnold's plot to betray West Point is revealed |
| 1799 | Neapolitan Army drives the French from Rome |
| 1803 | Battle of Assaye: Wellington's British-Indian forces beat Maratha Army |
| 1806 | Lewis & Clark Expedition ends at St Louis |
| 1846 | Mexican uprising against American occupation of Los Angeles |
| 1857 | Russian warship Leffort disappears in a storm off Finland, 826 die |
| 1861 | Combat at Romney, Wva |
| 1863 | Confederate siege of Chattanooga begins |
| 1864 | Battle of Athens VA |
| 1868 | Grito de Lares: abortive Puerto Rican uprising against Spain |
| 1915 | Serbian troops retreat into Albania against |
| 1931 | Navy tests its first rotary wing aircraft, an XOP-1 autogiro, on Langley |
| 1940 | Dutch fascist leader Musserts meets Hitler for the first time |
| 1941 | German air raid sinks the old battleship Marat at Kronstadt |
| 1941 | General de Gaulle forms a French government-in-exile in London |
| 1942 | British & Free French occupy Tananarive, capital of Madagascar. |
| 1942 | Auschwitz begins experimental gassing executions |
| 1957 | Eisenhower uses troops to integrate Central High School, Little Rock |
| 1973 | Juan Peron again becomes President of Argentina |
| 1979 | Jane Fonda & 200,000 attend anti-nuclear rally in Battery Park, NYC |
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| 1625 | Dutch attack San Juan, Puerto Rico |
| 1683 | King Louis XIV expels all Jews from French possessions in America |
| 1864 | Battle of Pilot Knob, MO |
| 1864 | Confederate general Sterling Price begins invasion of Missouri |
| 1929 | Lt James H Doolittle makes the first all-instrument flight, in Brooklyn |
| 1942 | "Chesty" Puller's Marines engage Japanese on Mt. Austen, Guadalcanal |
| 1943 | Sub Cabrilla damages Japanese escort carrier Taiyo near Japan. |
| 1943 | Soviet forces liberate Smolensk |
| 1944 | San Marino declares war on Germany |
| 1948 | Mildred Gillars (Axis Sally) pleads innocent in Washington courtroom |
| 1950 | Operation Magic Carpet: All Jews from Yemen taken to Israel |
| 1960 | USS Enterprise, the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, is launched |
| 1982 | US, Italian, & French peacekeeping troops begin arriving in Lebanon |
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| 1066 | Stamford Bridge: Harold II of England defeats Harald of Norway |
| 1396 | Nicopolis: Sultan Bayazid I defeats Crusaders |
| 1555 | Peace of Augsburg: truce in Protestant-Catholic tensions in the HRE |
| 1839 | France recognizes the Republic of Texas |
| 1846 | Zachary Taylor occupies Monterey, Mexico |
| 1857 | Relief of Lucknow by Havelock & Outram |
| 1861 | Secretary of the Navy authorizes the enlistment of former slaves |
| 1861 | Combat at Chapmansville, WVa |
| 1900 | Anglo-Boer War: Pole-Carew reaches Komati Poort |
| 1911 | French battleship Liberte blows up at Toulon, 226 die |
| 1937 | Mussolini visits Berlin |
| 1939 | German Luftwaffe fire bombs Warsaw |
| 1940 | Vidkun Quisling establishes a puppet-government in Norway |
| 1942 | Australian troops open an offensive along the Kokoda Trail. |
| 1957 | 300 troops escort nine black children to Central High School, Little Rock |
| 1987 | Fiji: Maj Gen Sitiveni Rabuka's second coup |
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