480BC Battle of Salamis
451 Battle of Chalons-sur-Marne: Aetius' Romans & Theoderic's Visigoths defeat Attila's Huns
1066 Battle of Fulford: Harald Haardrada of Norway defeats Earls Morcar & Edwin
1152 The Parmesans destroy Borgo San Donnino (Fidenza)
1183 French massacre 7,000 Brabantois mercenaries at Chateaudun
1187 Saladin besieges Jerusalem
1565 Spaniards capture Fort Caroline, Fla, & massacre the French settlers
1643 Battle of Newbury: Parliamentarians defeat Royalists
1697 Peace of Ryswick/Saki: ends the War of the League of Augsburg/Nine Year's War/War of the English Succession/King William's War (1688-1697)
1700 The Prince of Macchia initiates an anti-Spanish coup at Naples (fails Sep 23)
1703 First Battle of Hochstadt: French & Bavarians defeat the Imperialists
1792 The Battle of Valmy: French artillery throws back a Prussian invasion.
1797 US frigate 'Constitution' - "Old Ironsides" - launched in Boston
1822 José de San Martin resigns the leadership of the Revolutionary movement in Peru and goes into voluntary exile
1850 Slave sales are abolished in the District of Columbia
1854 Battle of the Alma: British & French defeat the Russians
1857 British retake Delhi from the Sepoy mutineers
1860 The Prince of Wales visits New York, causing the Fighting 69th to "mutiny"
1861 Confederates capture Lexington, Mo (invested on the 12th)
1862 Otto von Bismarck says Germany needs "Blood and Iron"
1863 Battle of Chickamauga ends in Confederate victory
1863 Battle of Shepardstown, Va.
1870 Italian troops capture Rome from Pope Pius IX
1881 Former New York QM General Chester Arthur sworn in as president
1912 Montenegro invades Turkey, igniting the First Balkan War
1941 Italian UDT teams sink three ships in Gibraltar harbor
1950 Omar Bradley is promoted to five star rank as a General of the Army
1955 "Navy Log" premiers on CBS, later moves to ABC, runs for 102 shows over two seasons
1955 "You'll Never Get Rich" premieres on CBS ("Sgt Bilko"), runs for 142 episodes through 1959
1979 A coup ousts Emperor Bokassa I of the Central African Empire (Dec 4, 1976 - Sep 20, 1979), restoring a republic
1984 Hezbollah suicide bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, 25 die
