1236 Battle of Siauliai: Lithuanians & Semigallians defeat the Brothers of the Sword

1460 Battle of San Fabiano: The Bracceschi defeat the Aragonese

1742 Near Navassa I. off Haiti, a drunken marine starts a fight aboard the 60-gun HMS 'Tilbury' that causes a lantern to overturn, starting a fire that destroys the ship with heavy loss of life.

1776 John Paul Jones & USS 'Providence' raid British shipping in Canso Bay, N.S.

1793 The French Committee of Public Safety orders the Ministers of Marine, War, and Interior to prepare to land 100,000 men on the shores of England

1793 Battle of Trouillas: The Spanish (c. 16,000) defeat a French (c. 18,000), in Roussilon, inflicting c. 30% casualties

1861 Skirmish at Elliott's Mills/Camp Crittenden, Mo

1862 President Lincoln issues the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation

1864 Battle of Fisher's Hill, Va: Gen Early Retreats to Brown's Gap

1864 Sheridan sets up camp in Harrisonburg, Va

1908 Bulgaria declares independence from the Ottoman Empire

1914 German sub 'U-9' sinks the British cruisers 'Aboukir', 'Cressy', & 'Hogue', 1,397 die

1914 German light cruiser 'Emden' shells Madras in India

1939 Having cooperated in destroying Poland, the Nazi Germans and Soviet Russians hold a joint victory parade in Brest-Litovsk

1942 Madagascar: Pressed by British & Free French forces, Vichyite troops abandon Tananarive and withdraw south

1943 British midget subs attack German battleship 'Tirpitz' in Norwegian waters

1943 Kate Smith's 13-hour radio appeal sells $39 million in war bonds

1944 Boulogne liberated by the Allies

1949 First Russian atomic bomb explosion

1950 Omar Bradley is promoted to General of the Army

1958 Elvis arrives at the Brooklyn Army Terminal, to board a transport for Germany

1964 Premiere of "The Man From U.N.C.L.E." on NBC-TV, runs for four seasons

1979 The "Vela Incident": Several instruments aboard the US "Vela-5b" satellite detect a curious 'double flash' of light in the Arctic Ocean, about halfway between South Africa and Antarctica, indicating a possible nuclear blast, a missile reentry, or a bolide

1980 Iraq invades Iran, initiating an eight-year war

1995 AWACS crashes on takeoff, Elmendorf AFB, 24 die