TODAY IN MILITARY HISTORY

0		Feast of St. Barbara, Patron of Artillery
771		Charlemagne became sole King of the Franks (768-814) on the death of his brother -- Learn More
1110		The First Crusaders sack Sidon.
1259		Treaty of Paris: King Henry III of England renounces Normandy to King Louis IX of France, who agrees to stop supporting English rebels
1354		Byzantine Emperor John VI Kantakouzenos (1347-1354) abdicates to become a monk, d. 1383
1489		The Spanish liberate Baza from the Moors
1563		Closing session of the Council of Trent (1545-1563)
1676		Battle of Lund: The Swedes defeat the Danes
1783		Washington bids his officers farewell, Fraunces' Tavern, New York
1820		The Egyptians defeated the Hannekab in the Battle of Jebel Dager -- Learn More
1829		Lord William Bentinck bans sutee in India
1851		Hungarian nationalist leader Lajos Kossuth receives a tumultuous welcome upon landing at New York
1861		Skirmish at Anandale, Mo
1861		Skirmish at Dunksburg, Mo
1862		Great Snowball fight in the First Corps, Army of Northern Virginia
1864		Battle of Waynesborough, GA
1864		Romanian Jews are forbidden to practice law
1872		The 'Marie Celeste' is found adrift in the Atlantic
1899		Presidential son Webb Hayes earns a Medal of Honor in the Philippines -- Learn More
1908		Haiti's President General Alexis Nord flees a military coup
1918		Pres. Wilson sails for Europe aboart the former German liner 'George Washington', to attend the Versailles Peace Conferecne
1941		Carrier 'Enterprise' (CV-6) flys-off reinforcements for Wake Island
1941		Navy Department orders Guam to destroy all codes and secret documents
1942		Guadalcanal: the USMC's Carlson's Raiders end a 30-day "Long Patrol" behind Japanese lines
1942		US air raids on the Italian mainland from North Africa
1943		Japanese aerial torpedo hits carrier 'Lexington' (CV-16) in the Marshalls
1943		Sub 'Sailfish' (SS-192) sinks Japanese escort carrier 'Chuyo', damages carrier 'Ryuho'
1943		U.S. carriers hit Kwajelein & Wotje, inflict heavy losses
1948		SS 'Kiangya' hits a mine in Whangpoo River China, sinks, 2,750 die
1971		McGurk's Bar Bombing: In Belfast members of the Ulster Volunteer Force kill 15 Catholics, wound many more
1977		Central African Empire proclaimed under former President Jean-Bedel Bokassa I (1977-1979)
1983		US airstrikes on Syrian anti-aircraft positions in Lebanon

BORN

1546		Alain Emmanuel de Coëtlogon, French naval officer, Marshal of France, d. 1730
1795		Thomas Carlyle, historian ("History of Friedrich II of Prussia," etc.), d. 1881
1812		Elias Smith Dennis, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1894
1818		William Wing "Old Blizzards" Loring, Maj Gen, C.S.A. & Egyptian Army, d.1886
1824		Crazy Horse, Oglala cavalryman, victor at the Little Big Horne, murdered by the US Army 1877
1865		Edith Louisa Cavell, England, nurse, executed by the Germans, 1915
1881		Erwin von Witzleben, German FM and anti-Nazi conspirator, k. 1945
1892		Francisco Franco y Bahamonde, soldier, "Caudillo of Spain" (1936-1976), d 1976
1912		Gregory "Pappy" Boyington, leader of the USMC "Black Sheep" squadron, MoH, d. 1988

DIED

235		St. Barbara, Patron of Artillery, Martyred
771		King Carloman I, co-kin, with his brother Charlemagne, of the Austrasian Franks (768-771), 20
1131		Omar Khayyám, 83, Persian poet, astronomer, philosopher
1214		William "the Lion" or "the Rough", c. 70-71, King of Scots (1165-1214)
1270		King Theobald II of Navarre, Count Theobald V of Champagne & Brie (1253-1270), c. 30
1334		Pope John XXII - Jacques d'Euse (1316-1334), c. 85
1642		Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal-Duke of Richelieu and of Fronsac, 57, First Minister to Louis XIV of France (1624-1642)
1950		Jesse LeRoy Brown, 24, the first African-American naval aviator, kia, Korea
2009		Vyacheslav Tikhonov, 81, actor (Andrei Bolkonshy in "War & Peace")