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| -- Yesterday -- |  Year Event 1493 Treaty of Barcelona: France cedes Roussillon & Cerdagne to Spain 1770 Battle of Golden Hill, in New York City 1793 Revoutionary court sentenced "Citizen Capet" (Louis XVI) to death. 1806 British take Cape of Good Hope from Netherlands, occupied by France 1808 Dutch King Louis Napoleon signs the first aviation law, for balloons 1812 Wellington's troops storm Ciudad Rodrigo, Spain, amid great slaughter 1839 Aden captured by the British East India Company 1861 Mississippi troops take Ft Massachusetts, on Ship Island 1861 Georgia becomes 5th state to secede 1862 Battle of Mill Springs/Fishing Creek/Logan's Crossroads, KY 1900 Anglo-Boer War: Warren's attack on Ntabamnyama 1915 First German zeppelin bombing raid on Great Britain, 4 die 1917 Silvertown ammunition factory in Essex, England, explodes; 300 die 1920 The Senate rejects American membership in League of Nations 1942 Joe Louis is drafted, on the day he defeated Buddy Baer in 20"56' 1942 Malaya: British abandon the Muar River line, fall back on Johore Line. 1943 Guadalcanal: Combined Army-Marine Div presses westwards 1943 Guadalcanal: U.S. destroyers shell Japanese positions 1943 Papua: Fierce Japanese resistance on the Sanananda front. 1944 Northern Burma: Chinese New 38th Div and Japanese fight for Taro Plain. 1945 China: Japanese troops seize control of the Canton-Hankow rail line.

Today in Military History  Date Jan 20, 2020 Year Event 1265 Parliament meets for the first time 1613 War of Kalmar ends between Denmark & Sweden 1667 Treaty of Andrussovo: ends 13 year war between Poland and Russia 1778 First American court martial begins, Cambridge, Mass 1783 Hostilities cease in Revolutionary War 1798 Michele Pezza -- Fra Diavolo -- joins the Neapolitan Army, "or else." 1799 Three Days of Naples begin: Citizens fight French invaders 1800 Bonaparte's sister Carolina marries Joachim Murat 1841 China cedes Hong Kong to the British 1866 Prim's Insurrection in Spain ends 1887 US Senate approves the lease of Pearl Harbor as a naval base 1914 USN opens a school for aviators at Pensacola, Fla. 1942 Nazi officials hold notorious Wannsee Conference on "Final Solution" 1942 The Bismarcks: Japanese aircraft carriers raid Rabaul and Kavieng 1942 Japanese 55th Div invades Burma from central Thailand. 1943 Guadalcanal: 25th Infantry Div tightens its hold on the Gifu. 1943 Papua: Japanese resistance on the Sanananda front collapses. 1944 RAF bombs Berlin 1944 Burma: Allies prepare major offensive to open the "Burma Road". 1945 1st truck convoy on the re-opened Burma Road, still in need of repair. 1952 British army occupies Ismailiya, Suez Canal Zone 1955 USS Nautilus launched at Groton, Conn. 1981 52 Americans held hostage in Iran for 444 days freed 1991 US Patriot missiles begin shooting down Iraqi Scud missiles

| -- Tomorrow -- |  Year Event 1604 Tsar Ivan IV defeats the False Dmitri 1824 Ashanti defeat British at Accra, West Africa 1903 Militia Act of 1903 creates the modern National Guard 1910 British-Russian military intervention in Persia 1918 New York Philharmonic refuses to play music by living German composers 1941 British and Australian troops attack Tobruk 1942 Rabaul and Kavieng bombed by Japanese aircraft. 1942 Malaya: the Japanese begin to dislocate the Johore line. 1942 Bataan: Heavy fighting continues 1942 British CV Indomitable & TF arrives at Addu Atoll, in the Indian Ocean 1943 Guadalcanal: U.S. troops pause to resupply. 1943 Soviet forces recapture Worosjilowsk 1943 Papua: Allied troops mop up Japanese remnants in the Sanananda area. 1944 Northern Burma: Chinese New 38th Div advances slowly. 1945 TF 38 a/c raid Japanese on Okinawa and Formosa, downing 100 a/c 1945 Burma: British amphibious landing near Ramree 1961 Portuguese rebels seize cruise ship Santa Maria 1968 B-52 bomber with nuclear bomb crashes in Greenland