479 | BC | Battle of Plataea: Greeks crush the Persians in Boeotia [Trad - more probably the 25th] |
338 | BC | Philip of Macedon defeated the principal Greek states in the Battle of Chaeronea -- Learn More |
216 | BC | Hannibal crushed a Roman army in the Battle of Cannae -- Learn More |
47 | BC | "Veni, Vidi, Vici"; Caesar defeats Pharnaces II of Pontus at Zela |
0 | | Feast of St. Alfreda, daughter of King Offa of Mercia, who became a hermit when her betrothed, King St. Ethelbert of the East Angles was murdered by her grandmother. |
0 | | Paratroopers Day in Russia |
0 | | Roma Holocaust Memorial Day in the European Union |
1057 | | Federick of Lorraine elected Pope as Stephen X [IX] (1057-1058) |
1247 | | HR Emperor Frederick II besieges Parma (lifted Feb 18, 1248) |
1492 | | King Ferdinand & Queen Isabella of the Spains order the expulsion of the Jews |
1530 | | Battle of Gavinara: Spanish-Medician forces defeat the Florentines |
1554 | | Battle of Marciano: Spanish-Medician forces defeat the Franco-Sienese near Florence |
1740 | | Thompson's & Arne's "Rule, Britannia!" was performed publicly for the first time -- https://youtu.be/1XPHL4Q86t4?t=8 |
1770 | | the Russians defeated the Turks in the Battle of the Pruth -- Learn More |
1776 | | Royal Navy lands 32,000 British & Hessians on Staten I, near New York City |
1802 | | Napoleon Bonaparte declares himself "Consul for Life" of France |
1819 | | First parachute jump in the US, from a balloon |
1831 | | Dutch invade secessionist Belgium (withdraw Aug 12) |
1832 | | Battle of the Bad Axe River: final action of the Black Hawk War, many Indians slain |
1865 | | In the mid-Pacific, CSS 'Shenandoah' learns the Civil War ended four months earlier |
1867 | | Wagon Box Fight: c. 30 army woodcutters defeat c. 1000 Sioux |
1870 | | Battle of Saarbrucken: French troops capture Saarbucken - the only victory of Napoleon III's Imperial Army in the Franco-Prussian War |
1887 | | Rowell Hodge receives a patent for barbed wire |
1903 | | Macedonians began an unsuccessful uprising against the Turks |
1904 | | British capture Lhasa, Tibet |
1911 | | President/Dictator of Haiti François C. Antoine Simon (1908-1911) flees in a US warship |
1914 | | Russian troops invade Eastern Prussia |
1914 | | Germany occupies Luxembourg, without a declaration of war. |
1917 | | First deck landing on an underway warship: CDR E. H. Dunning, RNAS, in a Sopwith Pup aboard HMS 'Furious' at Scapa Flow |
1928 | | Mussolini signs peace treaty with Abyssinia (Ethiopia) |
1931 | | Albert Einstein urges scientists to refuse military work |
1934 | | German Armed Forces swear a "Holy Oath" to the unholy Adolf Hitler |
1941 | | Jews are expelled from Hungarian Ruthenia |
1943 | | JFK's 'PT-109' was rammed & sunk by HIJMS 'Amagiri' in the Blackett Str |
1943 | | New Georgia: 27th RCT arrives to reinforce U.S. troops. |
1943 | | Riot at Treblinka Concentration Camp |
1944 | | Burma: Chinese troops heavily engaged at Teng-chung. |
1944 | | Turkey breaks diplomatic relations with Nazi Germany |
1945 | | B-29s drop 6,600 tons of bombs on five Japanese cities. |
1950 | | The 1st Marine Provisional Bde lands at Pusan |
1957 | | the Lovell Radio Telescope at Jodrell Bank Observatory, England, entered service -- Learn More |
1964 | | Gulf of Tonkin: North Vietnamese patrol boats attack USS Maddox, escorting CIA gun runners |
1990 | | Iraq invades & occupies Kuwait, initiating the First Gulf War, "Desert Shield/Desert Storm" |
1424 | | John II of Anjou, Duke of Lorraine (1453-1470), titular King of Naples |
1646 | | Jean-Baptiste du Casse, French admiral, colonial administrator, & slave trader, d. 1715 -- Learn More |
1674 | | Philippe d'Orleans, French nobleman, soldier, and Regent Regent for Louis XV (1715-1723), d. .1723 |
1696 | | Ottoman Sultan Mahmud I (1730-54) |
1785 | | Oliver Hazard Perry, USN, who "met the enemy" on Lake Erie, d. 1819 |
1810 | | Luigi Ghilardi, liberal soldier-of-fortune, Garibaldino, Juarista, executed by the French, 1864 |
1826 | | William Denison Whipple, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1902 |
1834 | | Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, French: sculptor ("The Statue of Liberty," "The Lion Monument" of Belfort, etc.), d. 1904 |
1868 | | King Constantine I of Greece (1913-1917 & 1920-1922), brilliant commander, d. 1923. |
1929 | | John Maxtone-Graham, sometime marine, maritime historian ("The Only Way to Cross," etc.), d. 2015 |
1932 | | Peter O'Toole, sometime Royal Navy signalman, actor ("Lawrence of Arabia," "The Lion in Winter," etc.). d. 2013 |
338 | BC | King Archidamus III of Sparta (360-338 BC), kia, Manuria, Sicily |
216 | BC | Lucius Aemilius Paullus, c. 45, Consul, plus two former consuls, 77 senators, 2 quaestors, 29 military tribunes, and at least 40,000 other Romans, kia, along with maybe 10,000 Carthaginian, African, Spanish, and Gallic troops, Cannae |
461 | | Roman Emperor in the West Majorian (457-461), c. 40, murdered |
640 | | Pope Severinus (28 May-2 Aug 640) |
686 | | Pope John V (685-686) |
1100 | | King William II "Rufus", c. 44, by a "stray" arrow while hunting in the New Forest |
1222 | | Raymond VI, 65, Count of Toulouse and Marquis of Provence (1194-1222) |
1589 | | King Henri III of France (1573-1589), 37, of wounds from an assassination attempt the previous day |
1799 | | Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier, 49, co-inventor of ballooning with his brother Joseph-Michel |
1822 | | Alexander Graham Bell, 75, Scottish-American inventor of the practical telephone |
1849 | | Mehemet Ali Pasha of Egypt (1805-1848), c.80, empire builder, slave trader |
1876 | | James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok, 39, shot by Jack McCall while holding black aces & eights & a jack of diamonds |
1903 | | "Calamity Jane" - Martha Jane Cannary, 51 |
1921 | | Enrico Caruso, noted tenor, died at 48 -- https://youtu.be/uVRK6x1yi2k |
1934 | | Paul von Hindenburg, 86, field marshal, President of Germany (1928-1934), leaving the country in Hitler's hands |
1936 | | Louis Bleriot, 64, pioneer aviator |
1946 | | Andrei Andreyevich Vlasov (45), Soviet general, traitor, executed |
1955 | | Generalfeldmarschall Rupprecht Maria Luitpold Ferdinand, Crown Prince of Bavaria, Duke of Bavaria, of Franconia and in Swabia, Count Palatine of the Rhine, anti-Nazi, at 86 -- Learn More |
2012 | | Sir John Keegan, OBE, FRSL, 78, historian -- "The Face of Battle", etc. |