1338 An archer named Robin Hood is enlisted in the service of King Edward III at the garrison on the Isle of Wight
1386 Timurlane of Samarkand captures and sacks Tbilisi, Georgia
1521 Battle of Bicocca: Prospero Colonna's Italo-Spanish army crushes the French & Swiss
1739 Adm. Lord Vernon captures Porto Bello, Panama
1818 Tsar Alexander I propose a Jewish state in Palestine
1894 Port Arthur is captured by the Japanese from the Chinese, amidst great slaughter
1914 Battle of the Kolubara begins: Serbs defeat the second Austrian invasion by Dec 15th, routing two armies
1918 German ammunition trains explode in Hamont, Belgium, 1,750 die
1918 The German High Seas Fleet is interned at Scapa Flo, Scotland
1918 Pogrom in Lwów: Polish inhabitants attack Jews and Ukrainians, over 300 die
1920 Mussolini's Blackshirts kill 11 political opponents in Bologna
1920 "Bloody Sunday": After the IRA assassinates 12 British intelligence officers, plus two others, British security forces open fire at a football game in Dublin, killing 14, and later murder three prisoners
1927 Columbine Mine Massacre: Police officers disguised as civilians open fire on striking mineworkers, 6 die, many wounded
1942 ALCAN (Alaska-Canada) Highway is officially opened
1943 Operation Galvanic: Marines in heavy fighting on Tarawa, National Guardsmen advance on Makin, while Marines land on Abemama, 75 mi SE of Tarawa.
1970 Operation Ivory Coast: A joint Army-Air Force commando raid on the Son Tây prisoner-of-war camp finds all Americans have been moved elsewhere
1971 Battle of Garibpur: Indian troops and Bangladeshi militia defeat the Pakistani Army
1981 Amsterdam: 400,000 demonstrate for Peace through Disarmament
1985 US Navy intelligence specialist Jonathan Pollard is arrested on charges of spying for Israel; convicted, he is released in 2015
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