387 BC "Vae Victis!": Brennus' Gauls occupy Rome, following their victory on the Allia (18th) (or maybe 390)

70 The Romans under Titus secure Jerusalem after four months, with great slaughter

365 A tsunami devastates Alexandria and much of the eastern Mediterranean littoral

649 Consecration of Pope St. Martin I (649-653)

1200 Battle of Monreale: Papal-Norman army defeats Marcovaldo di Anweiler

1320 Count Louis of Nevers marries the 8-year old daughter of Philip V

1403 Battle of Shrewsbury: Henry IV defeats Henry Percy, the Earl of Northumberland

1527 The miraculous end of the Plague at Itri

1667 Treaty of Breda: ends the Second Anglo-Dutch War (1665-1667)

1691 Antonio Pignatelli elected Pope as Innocent XII (1691-1700)

1711 Treaty of the Pruth: ends Russo-Turkish War of 1710-1711

1718 Treaty of Passarowitz: Austria and Venice make peace with the Turks

1784 Algiers agrees to cease piratical raids after bombardment by a combined Italian naval squadron that began July 12th

1789 Jose de San Martin, 11, joins the Spanish Regiment of Murcia as an officer-cadet

1798 Battle of the Pyramids: Bonaparte defeats the Mamlukes

1823 Lt David G. Farragut leads a raid to destroy a pirate base in Cuba

1861 First Battle of Bull Run/Manassas: Confederate Victory

1866 Battle of Bezzecca: the Garibaldini defeat the Austrians

1905 Ottoman Sultan Adbul Hamid narrowly escapes assassination

1905 USS 'Bennington' (PG-4): Boiler explosion, 62 dead, 40 injured

1919 The hydrogen-filled blimp 'Wingfoot Air Express' explodes over downtown Chicago, 13 die (10 on the ground), 27 on the ground injured

1933 Ticker tape parade on Broadway for Italo Balbo & his airmen

1941 200 Torahs are burned in Ukraine

1941 Himmler orders building of Majdanek Concentration Camp

1942 Japanese land at Gona, northeastern Papua, despite Allied air attacks

1942 Japanese warships, shell Buna and nearby villages

1943 US Navy cancels the 'Montana' Class battleships

1944 Pre-invasion bombardment of Tinian commences.

1945 U.S. radio broadcasts demand that Japan surrender or be destroyed.

1946 USN begins carrier trials of jets, an XFD-1 Phantom off the USS 'FDR'

1962 Indian and Chinese troops skirmish in the Himalayas

1969 Neil Armstrong's "small step" on the moon - 2:56:15 AM GMT

1970 Libya orders confiscation of Jewish property

1972 Bloody Friday: 22 IRA bombs explode in Belfast

1997 The ashes of Little Sorrel, Stonewall Jackson's horse, are interred at his statue at VMI

1997 Restored USS 'Constitution' sails for the first time in 116 years

2013 Abdication of King Albert II of the Belgians (1993-2013) and the accession of his son King Philippe (2013-)class