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TODAY IN MILITARY HISTORY
19BC Triumph of Lucius Cornelius Balbus the Younger for the defeat of the Garamantes of North Africa, the last private citizen to be awarded a triumph until Belisarius in AD 534
0    Feast of St. Joseph, Patron of the Church, of Poland and Canada, and of fathers, carpenters, and fireworks.
607    Consecration of Pope Boniface III (19 Feb-12 Nov 607)
1148    Second Crusade (led by Louis VII of France & his wife Eleanor of Aquitaine) reaches Antioch
1227    Count Ugolino di Conti de Segni elected Pope as Gregory IX (1227-1241)
1279    Battle of Yamen: Mongols oust China's Song Dynasty
1452    German King Frederick IV of Hapsburg is crowned Holy Roman Emperor as Federick III (1452-1493)
1563    Peace of Amboise: ends the French First War of Religion (1562-1563)
1571    The Spanish capture Manila
1793    Battle of Le-Pont-Charron: Vendean rebels rout French Revolutionary troops by singing "La Marseillaise"
1815    Louis XVIII flees Paris, as Napoleon nears
1823    Abdication of Emperor Agustin I of Mexico (May 19, 1822-March 19, 1823), executed 1824
1865    Battle of Bentonville: Last major Civil War engagement in the East
1898    USS 'Oregon' (BB 3) began an epic 14,000 mile voyage from San Francisco around South America to Key West -- Learn More
1920    The US Senate rejects the Treaty of Versailles for the second time
1923    New York Republican Congressmen Albert B. Rossdale and Andrew N. Petersen were arrested by the Shore Patrol at Balboa, Panama -- Learn More
1925    Former Sgt Angelo Roncalli is made a bishop, a stepping-stone to the papacy as John XXIII
1927    Bloody Nazi-Communist street brawls in Berlin
1940    Daladier Cabinet falls in France, as the "Phony War" continues
1942    Central Burma: Japanese attack the Chinese 200th Div
1942    FDR orders men between 45 & 64 to register for non-military duty
1942    William Slim takes command of the British Burma Corps.
1942    Mexico declared war on Germany and Japan -- Learn More
1945    Adolf Hitler orders total destruction of German infrastructure
1945    Burma: British 36th Division captures Mogok
1945    USS 'Franklin' (CV 13) is hit by Japanese air attack, 724 die, 265 wounded
1945    Kure Naval Base: USN air raids destroy last of the IJN.
1947    Chiang Kai-Shek's forces captures Jenan from the Communists
1951    Herman Wouk's novel "The Caine Mutiny" is published
1965    Nicolae Ceausescu becomes 1st Secretary of Romanian CP
1989    Maiden flight of the Boeing V-22 Osprey VTOL aircraft
1990    Art theft at the Isabell Stuart Gardner Museum, Boston: The largest unsolved art haul in history
2003    Operation Iraqi Freedom begins (2003-)

BORN
1603    King John IV "the Fortunate" of Portugal (1640-56)
1734    Thomas McKean, Signer of the Declaration of Independence, d. 1817
1813    David Livingstone, who got "lost" in Africa, d. 1873
1817    Lewis Henry Little, Brig Gen, C.S.A., d. 1862
1819    David Henry Williams, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1891
1821    Francis Barretto Spinola, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1884
1821    Sir Richard Francis Burton, soldier, adventurer, litterateur, d. 1890
1827    Alexander Shaler, Brig Gen., U.S., d. 1911
1837    Robert Daniel Johnston, Brig Gen, C.S.A., d. 1919
1848    Wyatt Earp, lawman, gambler, d. 1929
1849    Alfred Peter Friedrich Tirpitz, later ennobled, German Grossadmiral and Navy Minister, father of the "High Sea Fleet", d. 1930
1860    William Jennings Bryan, sometime colonel, U.S.V., perennial presidential candidate, d. 1925
1883    Gen. Joseph "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell, US/Chinese commander, CBI, d. 1946
1889    King Manoel II of Portugal (1908-10)
1905    Albert Speer, Nazi armaments minister & con artist, d. 1981 -- Learn More
1906    Adolf Eichmann, Nazi mass murderer, executed 1962
1925    Brent Scowcroft, Air Force general, NSA advisor

DIED
235    Roman Emperor Alexander Severus (222-235), 27, and his mother, Julia Avita Mamaea, c. 50, murdered at Moguntiacum (Mainz) by mutinous troops
1279    Chinese Emperor Bing, 8, the last of the Song (May 10, 1278-March 1279), suicide by jumping into the sea to avoid capture by the Mongols after the decisive Battle of Yamen.
1330    Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent, 29, beheaded
1643    Spencer Compton, 2nd Earl of Northampton, 42, kia Hopton Heath
1687    René-Robert Cavalier, Sieur de la Salle, 43, murdered by his own men, on the Mississippi
1721    Pope Clement XI - Giovanni Albani (1700-21), at 71
1814    Col. Henry Sturgeon, Royal Artillery, c. 33, kia under curious circumstances -- Learn More
1894    Anna Ella Carroll, advisor to generals and presidents, at 78 -- Learn More
1930    Arthur Balfour, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1902-1905), Foreign Secretary (1916-1919), at 81
1950    Edgar Rice Burroughs, war correspondent, novelist ("John Carter of Mars", "Tarzan"), 74
2008    Arthur C. Clarke, sometime RAF man, inventor, science fictioneer ("2001", et.), at 90