TODAY IN MILITARY HISTORY

0		Feast of St. John Cantius, Patron of Poland and of Lithuania, and that of St. Thorlac Thorhallsson, Patron of Iceland
583		Yohl Ik'nal -- "Lady Kan Ik" -- was crowned Queen of Palenque (583-604)
619		Consecration of Pope Boniface IV (619-625)
962		Nicephorus Phocas' Byzantine troops take Aleppo from the Arabs by storm
1482		Peace of Arras/Atrecht: Ends war between Louis XI of France and Maximilian I of Austria
1753		George Washington, then 21, almost drowns when a raft capsizes in the Allegheny River
1776		Continental Congress negotiates a war loan of $181,500 from France, today perhaps $101,000,000
1776		Thomas Paine writes "These are the times that try men's souls . . . ."
1779		Benedict Arnold court-martialed for improper conduct
1783		George Washington resigned as "General and Commander-in-Chief" of the Continental armed forces -- Learn More
1835		Second Seminole War begins (1835-1842)
1862		Benjamin Butler proclaimed a "felon, outlaw" by Jefferson Davis
1909		Albert I assumes the throne of Belgium (1909-1934)
1916		Battle of Magdhaba: Allied troops defeat the Turks in the Sinai Peninsula
1925		Sultan Ibn Saud of the Nejed captures Jiddah
1939		Finnish counter offensive at Summa
1941		the heroic defense of Wake Island ended with the surrender of the garrison -- Learn More
1941		British troops capture Benghazi, Libya
1941		Gen. Douglas MacArthur decides to withdraw to Bataan
1941		Japanese begin offensive against Rangoon, Burma
1942		Allied air attack on Den Helder, Netherlands
1942		U.S. 41st Infantry Div ships out from Australia for New Guinea
1942		Sub-Lt. Alec Guinness, RNVR, premiered on the New York stage in "Flare Path" -- Learn More
1943		US Army a/c from China sink a Japanese gunboat off Formosa
1943		US Army aircraft begin operating from Munda, New Georgia
1968		Borman, Lovell, & Anders become the first men to orbit the Moon
1968		North Korea releases 82 crewmen of the USS 'Pueblo' (AGER-2), held since January
1990		Slovenians vote to secede from Yugoslavia
1999		Mutinous troops riot in Abidjan, Ivory Coast
2012		Domesday by some interpretations of the Maya Calendar (or maybe the 21st), or maybe not

BORN

1173		Duke Ludwig I "the Kelheimer" of Bavaria (1183-1231), Count Palatine of the Rhine (1214-1231)
1613		Carl Gustaf Wrangel, Swedish field marshal and politician, Lord High Constable of Sweden (d. 1676)
1750		King Frederik Augustus I of Saxony (1806-27)
1777		Tsar Alexander I of Russia (1801-25), foe, then friend, then foe again of Napoleon
1790		Jean-François Champollion the Younger, French scholar, who deciphered Egyptian Heiroglypihcs, d. 1832)
1808		Thomas Turner, Rear Adm, U.S., d. 1883
1818		David Addison Weisiger, Brig Gen, C.S.A., d. 1899
1827		Wilhelm von Tegetthoff, Austrian admiral (Helgoland, 1864, Lissa 1866), d. 1871
1896		Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, Caporetto veteran, novelist ("The Leopard"), d. 1957
1907		James "Jimmy" Roosevelt, presidential son, sometime U.S. Marine Raider, d. 1991 -- Learn More
1910		Kurt "Panzer" Meyer, SS-general, d. this date in 1961, at 51
1923		James B. Stockdale, Vice Adm, Medal of Honor, d. 2005
1933		Emperor Akihito of Japan (1989-2019), abdicated in favor of his son
1944		Wesley Clark, Gen, U.S., sometime head of SHAPE

DIED

484		King Hunneric of the Vandals (477–484), c. 60
558		Co-King Childebert I of the Franks (511-558), c. 62, at Paris
679		King Dagobert II of Austrasia (676-679), c. 29, murdered
918		Conrad I, c. 38, Duke of Franconia (906-918), King of East Francia/Germany (911-918
1332		Prince Philip I of Taranto (1294-1332), 54, titular Latin Emperor of Constantinople, Despot of Epirus, King of Albania, Prince of Achaea and Taranto, & Lord of Durazzo.
1435		Antongaleazzo Bentivoglio, c. 50, Lord of Bologna (1420-1435), Lecturer in Civil Law, Republican, condottiero, executed by a papal legate
1569		Saint Philip II of Moscow, 62, martyred by Ivan the Terrible
1619		John Sigismund von Hohenzollern, 47, Prince-Elector of Brandenburg (1608-1619), Duke of Prussia (1618-1619)
1675		César, duc de Choiseul, comte du Plessis-Praslin, 73, Marshal of France, Minister to Louis XIV
1795		Gen. Sir Henry Clinton, unsuccessful British commander in the American Revolutionary War, at 65 -- Learn More
1915		Roland Aubrey Leighton, 20, British soldier-poet, friend to Vera Britten, d/w with the Worcesters
1939		Anthony Fokker, aviation pioneer, 49
1948		The Japanese War Criminals: Kenji Doihara (65), former chief of intelligence in Manchukuo; Koki Hirota (70), former foreign minister & pemier, Seishiro 63); former war minister, Heitaro Kimura (60), former commander, Burma Expeditionary Force; Iwane Matsui (70), former commander, Shanghai Expeditionary Force and Central China Area Army; Akira Muto (56), former commander, Philippines Expeditionary Force; and Hideki Tojo (63), former commander, Kwantung Army and Premier (1941-44), executed
1953		Lavrenti P Beria, 54, Stalin's executioner, executed, along with six aides
1972		Andrej N Tupolev, 82, Russian aircraft builder
1975		Richard S Welch, 46, CIA station chief in Athens, murdered
1982		John Randolph "Jack" Webb, former B-26 aircrewman, actor ("The DI"), 62
2013		General-Lieutenant Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov, Soviet soldier, weapons designer, at 94