Anzac Day - Commemorating the Gallipoli Landings

404 BC Athens surrenders to Sparta, ending the Peloponnesian War (431-404 BC)

1283 Siege of Bere Castle: The English defeat the Welsh

1464 War of the Roses - Battle of Hedgeley Moor: Marquess of Montague's Yorkists defeat the Duke of Somerset's Lancastrians

1591 The Moroccans take Timbuktu, overthrowing the Songhai Empire

1607 Battle of Gibraltar Bay: the Dutch fleet defeats the Spanish & Portuguese

1626 Battle of the Dessauer Bridge: Albrecht von Wallenstein defeats Graf von Mansfeld

1707 Battle of Almansa: Borbonists defeat the Hapsburgists to secure the control of Spain

1792 First execution by guillotine in France

1861 7th NY & 8th Massachusetts arrive in Washington1861Battle of Lavaca, TX

1861 Pvt Samuel Young enlists, to retire Jan 9, 1904, as Lt Gen.

1862 Farragut occupies New Orleans, La

1864 Battle of Marks' Mill, Arkansas (Camden Expedition)

1875 Combat on the Pecos: Lt. John L. Bullis and Black Seminole Indian Scouts SGT John Ward, Trumpeter Isaac Payne, & PVT Pompey Factor rout c. 25-30 Lipan Indian raiders, for which the Scouts are awarded the Medal of Honor

1881 250,000 sign petitions to bar foreign Jews from entering Germany

1898 US declares war on Spain

1914 First USN air combat mission: Lt. Patrick Bellinger conducts a reconnaissance over Veracruz, receiving some damage from machine gunfire.

1915 Gallipoli Campaign: 78,000 British & ANZAC troops undertake an amphibious landing

1925 Paul von Hindenburg becomes president of Germany (1925-1934)

1926 Coronation of Reza Pahlavi as Shah of Persia (1925-1941)

1927 Spain sends 20,000 reinforcements to Morocco to battle the Riffian Rebels

1942 Burma: Chinese troops fail to halt Japanese before Lashio.

1942 Doolittle Mission: CVs Hornet & Enterprise return to Pearl Harbor

1944 New Britain: 1st Marine Div relieved by the40thInfantry Div

1945 First UN Session: 45 countries convene in San Francisco

1945 Japanese rout Chinese forces at Wuking.

1945 Last Boeing B-17 attack against Nazi Germany

1945 The Red Army completely surrounds Berlin

1945 US & Soviet forces meet at Torgau on the Elbe River

1951 Korean War: After a heroic four-day defense of Hill 235, 39 survivors of the Gloucestershire Regiment reach safety

1960 USS Triton (SSN-586) completes first submerged circumnavigation of the globe

1962 Christmas Island (Pacific): the US resumes above-ground nuclear testing

1974 Portuguese strongman Antonio Salazar (1932-1974) ousted

1975 Stockholm: Terrorist attack on the West German embassy

1982 Israel completes Sinai withdrawal, in accordance with Camp David accords

1993 Boris Yeltsin elected President of Russia (1993-1999)