TODAY IN MILITARY HISTORY

46	BC	Caesar returns to Rome following victory in the African War.
0		Armed Forces Day in Venezuela
0		Feast of Sts. Cyril and Methodius, the “Apostles to the Slavs”, Patrons of Bulgaria, the Republic of North Macedonia, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Transnistria
663		Constans II visited Rome, the first emperor to do so in over a century
1044		Battle of Menfo: The Germans defeat the Magyars
1187		Saladin captured the citadel of Tiberias -- https://strategypage.com/cic/docs/cic146b.asp#two
1294		Pietro di Murrone is elected Pope as Celestine V (5 Jul-13 Dec 1294), abdicates, d. 1296, later canonized
1450		Battle of Southwark: Jack Cade's Kentish rebels beat Matthew Gough
1806		Battle of Buenos Aires: The Spanish defeat a British attempt to take the city
1809		Archduke Karl's Austrians held Napoleon's French on the first day of the Battle of Wagram -- Learn More
1809		Napoleon's troops kidnapped Pope Pius VII from the Vatican and carried him into exile
1811		Venezuela declared independence from Spain -- https://strategypage.com/cic/docs/cic147b.asp
1814		the Americans defeated the British in the Battle of Chippewa -- "By God, these are regulars!" -- Learn More
1814		US Sloop-of-War 'Peacock' captures four British ships
1827		Emancipation Day in New York State: After nearly 30 years of "gradual emancipation" all remaining slaves the state were freed
1830		The French capture Algiers [ See 1962]
1861		Battle of Carthage, Mo
1861		Skirmish at Newport News: US retakes Gosport Naval Base
1863		Battle of Gettysburg, Day 5: Lee retreats
1924		Military revolt in Sao Paulo, Brazil
1932		Antonio de Oliveira Salazar becomes premier/dictator of Portugal (1932-1968)
1933		Germany's Catholic Center Party is disbanded by the Nazis
1941		Surprise Peruvian offensive opens war with Ecuador (truce, July 22)
1942		Aerial recon confirms Japanese airfield construction on Guadalcanal.
1942		Aleutians: USS 'Growler' (SS-215) sinks Japanese destroyer 'Arare' near Kiska.
1943		"Tokyo Express" supply mission departs Rabaul
1943		Damaged Japanese submarine 'I-7' is scuttled at Kiska
1943		Japan cedes five Malay provinces to Siam, as a bribe.
1943		the Battle of Kursk began -- a massive German assault casues the Soviets back to lose some ground, but they halt the assault in attack in a week, and coutnerattack.
1944		Japanese began to withdraw from Imphal after losing 53,000 troops -- Learn More
1962		Algeria becomes independent of France [See 1830]
1975		Cape Verde Islands gain independence after 500 years under Portugal
1977		Pakistan: coup by Gen Mohammad Zia ul-Haq
1993		Kurdish guerrillas murder 32 villagers in East Turkey

BORN

1029		Fatimid Caliph Abu Tamim Ma‘d al-Mustanir bi-llah of Egypt (1036-1094)
1673		Friedrich Heinrich Reichsgraf von Seckendorff, 89, German soldier & mercenary, variously in Hapsburg, Bavarian, Dutch service, rising to field marshal, sometime diplomat, d. 1763
1801		David Glasgow Farragut, the USN's First Admiral, d. 1870
1853		Cecil John Rhodes, imperialist, d. 1902
1865		The United States Secret Service, formed to combat counterfeiting
1889		Jean Cocteau, sensitively artistic Vichyite, d. 1963
1902		Henry Cabot Lodge Jr, tank officer, diplomat, d. 1985
1921		Victor Kulikov, Hero of the Soviet Union, the last Marshal of the Soviet Union, who soldiered from 1939 to 1990, d. 2013
1927		Thomas Fleming, World War II cruiserman, prolific historian and novelist, d. 2017.

DIED

965		Pope Benedict V (964-965)
1676		Carl Gustaf Wrangel, 62, Swedish field marshal and politician, Lord High Constable of Sweden
1950		Pvt Kenneth Shadrick, first American kia in the Korean War
1950		Salvatore Giuliano, 27, Sicilian bandit-hero, killed by police
1969		Thomas Mboya, 38, Kenyan economics minister, assassinated in Nairobi
1975		Otto Skorzeny, 67, Hitler's commando
2005		Vice Adm. James B. Stockdale, naval aviator, prisoner-of-war, Medal of Honor, at 82