17 Triumph of Germanicus for his victories in Germany

107 Triumph of Trajan for his conquest of Dacia

451 Battle of Avarayr: Christian Armenians under Vardan Mamikonian are defeated by the Sassanid Persians

946 Edred succeeds his brother Edmund I as King of England (946-955)

1249 Battle of Fossalta: The Bolognese capture Enzio, son of HRE Frederick II, and lock him up for 25 years

1402 Battle of Casalecchio: the Visconti defeat the Bentivogli of Bologna

1532 France, Bavaria, Saxony, & Hesse form an alliance against Ferdinand of Hapsburg

1538 John Calvin is expelled from Geneva

1642 Battle of Honnecourt: Spanish defeat the French

1647 Massachusetts bars Catholic priests, on penalty of death

1694 Battle of Ter: The Spanish defeat the French

1736 Battle of Ackia, La: British & Chickasaw defeat French

1789 The Duke of York, Colonel of the Coldstream Guards, refuses to return fire though slightly wounded in a duel with Lt Col Charles Lenox, of his regiment

1805 Napoleon crowns himself King of Italy (1805-1814)

1824 Mexico's Constituent Congress declares Chiapas free to choose its own future

1859 Battle of Varese: Garibaldi's 'Cacciatori delle Alpi' defeat the Austrians

1861 The U.S. Navy initiates a blockade of Confederate Gulf coast ports

1864 Battle of Dallas, GA

1896 Coronation of Tsar Nicholas II deposed 1917, shot 1918

1905 Progam against the Jews at Minsk, Belorussia

1922 Lenin suffers a stroke, which unfortunately isn't fatal

1938 House Un-American Activities Comm begins investigating fascistic groups

1940 The Crown detains British Fascist Oswald Mosley

1941 HMS 'Ark Royal' a/c damage battleship 'Bismarck'

1941 Netherlands: Germans begin conscripting young men for labor

1942 Belgium: Nazis require Jews to wear a Star of David

1942 North Africa: Rommel attacks the Gazala Line.

1945 Chinese reoccupy Nanning, cut off 200,000 Japanese troops in Indochina

1945 US fire bomb raid on Tokyo

1946 US Patent filed for the H-Bomb

1954 Explosion & fire in 'Bennington" (CV-20), 103 die, over 200 injured

1961 USAF bomber flies the Atlantic in a record of just over three hours

1972 US-USSR sign SALT I (Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty)

1981 USMC jet crashes on the flight deck of USS 'Nimitz' (CVN-68), 14 die