63BC Cicero's Third Oration against Catiline, delivered to the People in the Forum, as Catiline's co-conspirators in Rome are arrested.

1315 Albertino Mussato (1261-1329), soldier, statesman, poet, historian, is crowned "Poet Laureate" at Padua

1799 Battle of Wiesloch: The Austrians defeat the French.

1800 Battle of Hohenlinden: Moreau's French crush the Austrians in an ambush

1854 Battle of Eureka Stockade (Ballarat, Victoria): State forces kill over 20 miners in a legal dispute

1861 Skirmish at Salem, Mo

1863 James Longstreet abandons the siege of Knoxville, TN

1912 First Balkan War - Battle of Elli: A Greek naval squadron defeats a Turkish squadron

1913 First Balkan War -- Armistice of Çatalca: The Serbs, Bulgarians, and Montegnegrans conclude a truce with the Turks

1915 British 6th Indian Division falls back on Kut-el-Amara, Iraq

1941 Japanese First Air Fleet refuels at 45 N, 170 E, 2,100 nautical miles northwest of Pearl Harbor

1942 Guadalcanal: Japanese destroyers land reinforcements

1942 Munda: U.S. aerial recon finds Japanese building an airstrip

1943 Sextant Conference: US and British delegates meet at Cairo

1944 China: Japanese Eleventh Army runs out of supplies, offensive slows down

1956 England & France pull troops out of Egypt

1997 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, representatives from 121 countries sign the Ottawa Treaty prohibiting the manufacture and deployment of anti-personnel landmines.