19BC Triumph of Lucius Cornelius Balbus the Younger for the defeat of the Garamantes of North Africa, the last private citizen to be awarded a triumph until Belisarius in AD 354
1148 Second Crusade (led by Louis VII of France & his wife Eleanor of Aquitaine) reaches Antioch
1227 Count Ugolino di Conti de Segni elected Pope as Gregory IX (1227-1241)
1279 Battle of Yamen: Mongols oust China's Song Dynasty
1452 German King Frederick IV of Hapsburg is crowned Holy Roman Emperor as Federick III (1452-1493)
1563 Peace of Amboise: ends the French First War of Religion (1562-1563)
1571 The Spanish capture Manila
1793 Battle of Le-Pont-Charron: Vendean rebels rout French Revolutionary troops by singing "La Marseillaise"
1815 Louis XVIII flees Paris, as Napoleon nears
1823 Abdication of Emperor Agustin I of Mexico (May 19, 1822-March 19, 1823), executed 1824
1865 Battle of Bentonville: Last major Civil War engagement in the East
1898 USS 'Oregon' (BB 3) began an epic 14,000-mile voyage from San Francisco around South America to Key West
1920 The US Senate rejects the Treaty of Versailles for the second time
1925 Former Sgt Angelo Roncalli is made a bishop, a stepping-stone to the papacy as John XXIII
1927 Bloody Nazi-Communist street brawls in Berlin
1940 Daladier Cabinet falls in France, as the "Phony War" continues
1942 Central Burma: Japanese attack the Chinese 200th Div
1942 FDR orders men between 45 & 64 to register for non-military duty
1942 William Slim takes command of the British Burma Corps.
1945 Adolf Hitler orders total destruction of German infrastructure
1945 Burma: British 36th Division captures Mogok
1945 USS 'Franklin' (CV 13) is hit by Japanese air attack, 724 die, 265 wounded
1945 Kure Naval Base: USN air raids destroy the last of the IJN.
1947 Chiang Kai-Shek's forces captures Jenan from the Communists
1951 Herman Wouk's novel "The Caine Mutiny" is published
1965 Nicolae Ceausescu becomes 1st Secretary of Romanian CP
1989 Maiden flight of the Boeing V-22 Osprey VTOL aircraft
1990 Art theft at the Isabell Stuart Gardner Museum, Boston: The largest unsolved art haul in history
2003 Operation Iraqi Freedom begins (2003-)
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