TODAY IN MILITARY HISTORY

0		Feast of St. Anthony of Padua, Doctor of the Church and Patron of Native Americans, Brazil, the shipwrecked, and a flock of other things
313		The Roman Emperors Licinius & Constantine I issued the "Edict of Milan" declaring toleration of Christianity -- Learn More
1003		Consecration of Pope John XVII [XVIII] (13 June-6 Nov 1003)
1275		Battle of San Procolo: The Montefeltri defeat the Bolognese
1373		Anglo-Portuguese alliance, the world's oldest, signed
1665		the English fleet under the Duke of York (later James II) defeated on the Dutch in the Battle of Lowescroft -- Learn More
1667		The Dutch fleet burns three more English ships-of-the-line in the Medway
1777		Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, the Marquis de La Fayette (19) and other French volunteers for the American Revolution land at Charleston
1813		Thomas Jefferson proposed instituting universal military training -- Learn More
1863		Gettysburg Campaign: Battle of Winchester, Va
1871		US marines and bluejackets land on Formosa to punish the Botansha tribe for depredations against shipwreck sailors.
1881		USS 'Jeannette' crushed in Arctic ice
1898		Action at Havana: US ships and Spanish batteries exchange fire
1900		The "Boxer Rebellion" begins in China
1912		First successful parachute jump from an airplane, Capt Albert Berry, Jefferson, Ms
1917		Major German bomber raid on London's East End, 162 die, including 18 children at the Upper North Street School
1927		Ticker tape parade up Broadway for Charles Lindbergh.
1940		Uruguay arrests local Nazis for plotting a coup
1941		a report on the Nov 11, 1940, British air raid on the Italian Fleet at Taranto is distributed by the Deputy CNO to senior naval personnel, including CINCUS Husband Kimmel
1942		Peenemunde: 1st V-2 rocket reaches 1.3 km
1944		First V-1 raid: one of ten missiles fired strikes London, 6 die
1946		King Umberto II of Italy abdicates, after a reign of about six weeks
1951		UN forces reach Pyongyang, Korea
1952		Soviet fighters down Swedish DC-3 over the Baltic, 8 die

BORN

0	BC	Minerva, Roman goddess of wisdom and war
40		Caius Julius Agricola, Roman general, conqueror of the Iceni, father-in-law of Tacitus, d. 93
823		King Charles II of France (843-77), Holy Roman Emperor (875-77)
839		Charles III "the Fat," King of East Francia (882-888), of West Francia (884-888), etc., deposed 888, dies a few weeks later
1786		Winfield "Old Fuss and Feathers" Scott, Bvt. Lt. Gen., US, d. 1866 -- greatest American soldier of the nineteenth century
1790		José Antonio Páez Herrera, hero of Venezuelan Independence, Pres. (1830-1835, 1839-1843, 1861-1863), d. 1873 -- Learn More
1809		Philip St George Cooke, Brig. Gen., U.S., d. 1895
1821		Gustavus Vasa Fox, greatest Asst SecNavy, d. 1883
1823		Gustave Paul Cluseret, Brig. Gen., U.S., d. 1900
1825		Benjamin Jefferson Hill, Brig. Gen., C.S.A., d. 1880
1892		Philip St. John Basil Rathbone, sometime captain, Liverpool Scottish (MC), Anglo-American actor (Sherlock Holmes, etc.), d. 1967

DIED

323	BC	King Alexander III "the Great" of Macedon (336-323), noted conqueror & drunkard, at 32 [or 21st], and his critic Diogenes the Cynic, noted Cynic, at about 90
1142		Duke Godfried/Godfrey II (1139-1142) of Leuven, Brabant, and Lorraine, c. 32
1231		St. Anthony of Padua, c. 35
1645		Miyamoto Musashi, c. 60-61, Japanese samurai, author (" The Book of Five Rings", "The Mirror of the Way of Strategy")
1665		Jacob, Banner Lord of Wassenaer, Lord of Obdam, Hensbroek, Spanbroek, Opmeer, Zuidwijk, and Kernhem, Dutch Admiral, killed at c. 55, with many others when his flagship blew up in the Battle of Lowestoft -- Learn More
1886		King Ludwig II of Bavaria (1864-1886), called "Mad," patron of Wagner, drowned under curious circumstances at 40
1905		Theodoros Deligiannis, five times premier of Greece, murdered at 85
1918		USMC GySgt. Fred W. Stockham, killed in action at Belleau Wood, earning the Army Medal of Honor -- Learn More
1919		Cher Ami, hero pigeon of the "Lost Battalion"
1993		Donald "Deke" K Slayton, astronaut (Apollo 13 & Apollo-Soyuz missions), at 69