1502 Cesare Borgia captures Pergola, while, in secret, his principle lieutenants conclude the "Pact of La Magione," to betray him
1683 Second Battle of Barkam: Poles & Imperialists defeat the Turks
1708 Battle of Liesna: Russians defeat the Swedes
1779 Luddite Riots begin in Manchester
1835 Texians occupy Goliad
1861 Combat at Santa Rosa, Fl
1861 Skirmish at Hillsborough, Ky
1864 Cavalry Action at Tom's Brook, Va: Yanks edge Rebs
1864 Battle of Woodstock, VA
1867 "Empress" Carlotta of Mexico is declared insane
1895 Battle of Debra Aial: Italians defeat the Abyssinians
1908 Serbia & Montenegro conclude an alliance: Austria-Hungary, despite having ten times the population, army, money, etc.), decides they constitute a deadly threat
1914 Germans capture Antwerp, as Belgians & British withdraw
1915 Belgrade surrenders to Austro-German forces
1930 Laura Ingalls completes the first trans-US flight by a woman
1934 Attack on King Alexander of Yugoslavia in Marseilles, 3 die
1940 The Blitz: St. Paul's Cathedral is damaged
1942 Guadalcanal: Japanese destroyers land elms 2nd Div.
1942 Guadalcanal: Marines encircle Japanese 4th Inf Regt
1944 Elms Third Fleet shell Marcus Island.
1944 German occupiers turn off the electricity in Amsterdam
1945 Ticker tape parade on Broadway for Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, Marine ace Col. Gregory "Pappy" Boyington, and a dozen Pacific War veterans who held the Medal of Honor
1962 Algerian-Moroccan border fighting, 130 die
1962 NASA pilot John B McKay takes X-15 to 39,200 m
1963 French air force gets nuclear weapons
1975 Andrei Sakharov, Soviet bomb-maker, awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
1983 Four ROK cabinet ministers assassinated in Rangoon, by North Koreans
1990 Saddam Hussein threatens to hit Israel with a new missile
