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| -- Yesterday -- |  Year Event 49 -BC- An ailing Julius Caesar visits Cicero at Formiae 1774 Britain passes Coercive Act against Massachusetts 1799 NY State initiates abolition of slavery, 1799 1800 Essex becomes first the American warsip to 'round the Cape of Good Hope 1814 HMSs Phoebe and Cherub capture USS Essex off Valparaiso, Chile 1917 Jews are expelled from Tel Aviv & Jaffa by Turkish authorities 1939 Spanish Civil War ends: Madrid falls to Francisco Franco's Nationalists 1941 Naval battle of Cape Matapan: Italians lose three cruisers 1942 RAF bombs Lubeck 1942 British naval forces raid Nazi occupied St Nazaire to destroy dry docks 1945 Last V-1 buzz bomb attack on London

Today in Military History  Date Mar 01, 2021 Year Event 1260 Holugu Khan, grandson of Genghis, captures Damascus amid great slaughter 1781 Continental Congress adopts Articles of Confederation 1811 Mehemet Ali massacres the Mamelukes in Alexandria 1854 SS City of Glasgow sinks in Liverpool harbor; 373 die 1896 Battle of Aduwa: 80,000 Ethiopians defeat 20,000 Italo-African troops 1913 Federal income tax takes effect, as per 16th amendment 1920 Arabs attack Tel-Mai Kibbutz 1921 Anti-communist sailors' revolt in Kronstadt 1923 Rhineland: Franco-Belgian occupation to force German payment of reparations 1934 Henry Pu Yi crowned emperor Kang Teh of Manchuria 1941 Kufra, Libya: Italians surrender to Leclerc's Free French (besieged since Feb 7) 1941 Himmler inspects the Auschwitz concentration camp 1941 German troops enter Bulgaria 1942 Java: Japanese battleship Hiei and escorts sink two U.S. destroyers 1942 Battle off Soerabaya: HMS Exeter & destroyers sunk by Japanese 1942 Sunda Strait: USS Houston & HMAS Perth go down fighting around 0100 1943 Amsterdam: Jewish old age home raided by the Nazis 1945 Ryukyu Islands: U.S. Navy ships and aircraft raids. 1945 Chinese 30th division occupies Hsenwi 1950 British sentence Klaus Fuchs to 14 years for atomic espionage 1954 US explodes 15 megaton hydrogen bomb at Bikini Atoll 1954 Rioting during visit of Pres Naguib in Khartoum, Sudan, 30 die 1954 Puerto Rican nationalists open fire in Congress, injuring 5 1955 Israeli attack on Gaza, 48 die 1970 Rhodesia: White government declares independence from Britain 1971 Bomb attack on the Capitol in Washington 1981 Irish Nationalist Bobby Sand begins a hunger strike in the Maze Prison

| -- Tomorrow -- |  Year Event 1776 Americans begin shelling British troops in Boston 1807 Congress bans slave trade effective January 1, 1808 1836 Texas declares independence from Mexico 1859 USS Saginaw, first US warship built on the West Coast, launched at Mare Island. 1865 Battle of Waynesborough: Jubal Early's Rebel army defeated 1867 US Navy Civil Engineering Corps founded 1867 Jesse James' gang robs bank in Savannah Missouri, 1 dead 1867 Congress abolishes peonage in New Mexico 1867 The First Reconstruction act passed by Congress 1876 Five-times wounded veteran Rutherford B Hayes elected president 1915 Vladmir Jabotinsky forms a Jewish military force to fight in Palestine 1919 First Communist International (Comintern) congress opens in the Kremlin 1938 The Purges begin in the USSR 1939 Eugenio Pacelli chosen as pope Pius XII 1940 Finland: Soviets occupy Tuppura Island 1942 Japanese troops occupy Zamboanga, on Mindanao in the Philippines. 1943 Battle of the Bismarck Sea: Japanese convoy attacked by USAAF aircraft 1944 Japanese airfield at Momote on Los Negros island is seized by U.S. troops. 1945 King Michael of Romania gives in to Communist govt 1945 Japanese resistance on Corregidor island ends. 1956 Morocco declares independence from France 1969 Chinese-Russian border clash, c. 70 die