54 BC Caesar dines with Cicero at Puteoli0 Feast of St. Clement of Ohrid, Patron of the Bulgarian Empire [Julian]

395 Battle of Canhe Slope: The Later Yan Kingdom is defeated by its former vassal the Northern Wei

1775 Battle of Great Bridge: Virginia Patriots defeat a small British column, causing crown supporters to flee the state

1776 Washington's army retreats across the Delaware from NJ to Penna

1794 Second Great Fire of New Orleans: 212 buildings destroyed

1830 U.S. Army Adjutant General Order No. 72 ends the daily ration of one gill of whiskey to enlisted men, substituting an issue of coffee and sugar.

1863 Lincoln announces plan for Reconstruction of the South

1907 Accession of King Gustaf V of Sweden (1907-1950)

1914 Battle of the Falkland Islands: British battlecruisers annihilated von Spee's German cruiser squadron

1936 Anastasio Somoza elected President of Nicaragua, initiating 20 years of direct or indirect dictatorial rule

1938 Lauvrenti Beria follows Nikolai Yezkhov as head of Russian secret police

1941 Japanese troops land in Malaya, attack Hong Kong, invade Siam and the Dutch East Indies, bomb the Philippines, and capture the USS Wake (PR 3) in Shanghai [Int'l Date Line affects these events, which occurred simultaneously with the attack on Pearl Harbor dated the 7th]

1941 Japanese forces bomb Wake I. and land n Guam

1941 "Force Z" (HMS 'Prince of Wales' & 'Repulse') sails from Singapore

1941 Aussie inf coy lands on western Timor, in the Netherlands East Indies

1941 Britain declares war on Japan

1941 FDR asks Congress for a declaration of war on Japan, which is done by a virtually unanimous vote of both houses

1942 Papua: Japanese troops withdrawing from Gona sustain heavy losses

1942 Papua: U.S. a/c defeat Japanese attempt to land troops at Buna

1943 Japanese air raids on British airfields in Assam

1943 New Guinea: Australian troops capture Wareo

1943 U.S. fast battleship task force bombards Japanese positions on Nauru

1944 Iwo Jima: U.S. bombers and carrier aircraft begin a 72-day pre-invasion bombardment

1944 Italian troops storm Monte Lungo, in the first action by the Italian Liberation Army against the Axis

1952 French troops fire on demonstrators at Casablanca, 50 die

1966 US & USSR sign treaty to prohibit nuclear weapons in outer space

1971 Bangladesh War for Independence/Indo-Pakistani War: The Indian Navy bombards port facilities and military installations at Karachi.

1982 Suriname army leader Desiré Delano Bouterse murders 15 opponents