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 |