1184 BC The Greeks take Troy [or maybe April]

90 BC Social War: Battle of the Tolenus - Gaius Marius rescues Publius Rutilius Rufus's army from a trap set by Mettius Scato's Italiot rebels

88 BC Social War: T. Didius & M. Magius storm Herculaneum

173"Miracle of the Thundering Legion": A sudden rainstorm turns a possible defeat of Marcus Aurelius' Romans by the Marcomanni [in Bohemia] into a victory

1298 Battle of Campaldino: Tuscan Guelfs (including Dante) defeat the Arretine Ghibellines

1346 Election of Charles IV of Luxembourg as Holy Roman Emperor

1488 Battle of Sauchieburn: Duke James of Rothesay defeats King James III of Scotland

1666 Three Day Anglo-Dutch Naval Battle of Vierdaagse begins

1685 The Duke of Monmouth, an illegitimate son of Charles II, lands in England to usurp the throne from his uncle, James II

1690 Battle of Beachy Head/Bevezier: Tourville's French fleet defeats, but fails to destroy, Torrington's inferior Anglo-Dutch squadron, which prevents an invasion of England.

1727 Accession of George II as King of England (1727-1760)

1798 Bonaparte captures Malta, en route to Egypt

1859 Liberal insurrection at Modena

1861 Battle of Romney, WVa: Union victory

1861 Maj R. B. Hayes, Pvt Wm McKinley, and the rest of the 23rd Ohio muster into federal service

1864 Battle of Trevillian Station/Central Railroad, VA

1865 Battle of Riachuelo: The Brazilian fleet destroys the Paraguayan fleet on the Parana River

1882 Moslems massacre 300 Christians at Alexandria, Egypt

1898 US naval raid on Fisher's Point, Cuba

1902 USMA 4th Class Cadet Calvin A. Titus is awarded the Medal of Honor by Pres. Theodore Roosevelt, for heroism, during the China Relief Expedition in 1900, while a corporal in the 14th Infantry

1906 Police foil an anarchist terrorist bombing of the NYC subway

1917 Austro-Hungarian sub 'U-27' sinks Japanese DD 'Sakaki' in the Mediterranean

1927 Charles A. Lindbergh becomes the first man awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, at City Hall, NY, after his ticker-tape parade up Broadway

1934 Disarmament conference in Geneva fails

1939 FDR serves hot dogs & beer to George and Elizabeth Windsor in the White House garden

1940 Italian air raid on Malta

1940 RAF raids Genoa and Turin

1942 Italo-German forces halted at El Alamein, North Africa

1943 Allies land on Pantelleria, Italy

1943 Kiska: Japanese submarine 'I-9' sunk by USS 'Frazier' (DD-607)

1944 US carrier raids on the Marianas: 200 Japanese a/c destroyed

1970 US leaves Wheelus AFB Libya in wake of Qadaffi coup

1977 Dutch Marines rescue hostages on a train held by Moluccan terrorists

1982 Israel & Syria stop fighting in Lebanon