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TODAY IN MILITARY HISTORY
46BC Day 4 of Caesar's Triumph, for the defeat of Numidia
0    Feast of St. Olaf II Haraldsson, Martyr, King of Norway, Patron of Norway and of the Faroe Islands
615    12-year old K'inich Janaab Pakal I became Divine Lord of Palenque, to rule for 68 years
1014    following the Battle of Cledon/Clidium/Kleidion/Bala Thistau/Belasitsa, Byzantine Emperor Basil II blinded 15,000 Bulgar prisoners and sent them home
1030    Battle of Stiklestad: Norwegian Christians triumph over pagans, in a fight punctuated by a solar eclipse
1108    Louis VI "the Fat" or "the Great" acceded to the throne of France (1108-1137) -- Learn More
1187    Saladin captures Sidon
1364    Battle of Cascina: The Florentines under Galeotto Malatesta defeat the Pisans under John Hawkwood
1693    Battle of Neerwinden: The French defeat the English & Dutch
1813    Battle of Sorauren, Day 2: Anglo-Spanish v. the French (ends 30th)
1846    Landing party off USS 'Cyane' captures San Diego
1874    Maj. Walter Copton Wingfield patents a portable tennis court
1910    White racists in Slocum, Texas, began several days of attacks on African Americans, scores died as blacks are driven from the town
1915    A briefcase with German sabotage plans is found on the IRT subway in NYC
1918    First meeting between FDR & Winston Churchill, Gray's Inn, London
1937    China Incident: Japanese troops occupy Peking & Tientsin
1942    Buna: Japanese land reinforcements, despite losses to Allied a/c
1942    Japanese retake Kokoda from the Australians, who fall back on Deniki
1943    New Guinea: 43rd Div Cdr relieved, as his troops press on slowly.
1944    Marines take Orote airstrip on Guam against fierce Japanese resistance
1945    U.S. warships shell naval and air bases on Honshu.
1949    Berlin Airlift ends, as Soviets end blockade
1953    Soviets shoot down US patrol bomber northeast of Vladivostok
1967    Fire aboard USS 'Forrestal' (CV-59), Gulf of Tonkin, 134 die
1975    Military coup ousts Nigerian President/Dictaor Yakubu Gowon (1966-1975)

BORN
1166    Henry II, Count of Champagne (1181-1197), Crusader, King Henri I of Jerusalem (1192-1197), d. 1197
1765    Jean-Baptiste Drouet, Napoleonic general, Royalist marshal, d. 1844 -- Learn More
1805    Alexis Henri Charles Clérel, vicomte de Tocqueville, historian and political thinker ("Democracy in America"), d. 1859
1817    James Blair Steedman, Maj Gen, U.S., d. 1883
1830    Alvan Cullem Gillem, Maj Gen, U.S., d. 1875
1883    Benito Mussolini, journalist, soldier, politician, Prime Minister/Dictator of Italy (1922-1945), k. 1945 - Learn More
1905    Dag Hammerskjold, Secretary General (1953-1961), Peace Nobelist (1961)
1958    The National Aeronautics and Space Administration

DIED
238    Roman Co-Emperors Marcus Clodius Pupienus Maximus (c. 60) & Decimus Caelius Calvinus Balbinus (c. 72) (Apr 22-July 29, 238), hacked to pieces in the Castra Praetoria -- Learn More
796    King Offa of Mercia (r. 757-796), c. 70 - Learn More
1030    St. Olaf II Haraldsson, 35, erstwhile King of Norway (1015-1028), kia Stiklestad
1095    St. Ladislaus I, King of Hungary (1077-1095), c. 55
1099    Pope Bl Urban II - Odo of Lagery (1088-1099), c. 57, shortly after initiating the First Crusade
1108    King Philip I "the Amorous" of the Franks (1060- 1108), c. 56
1644    Pope Urban VIII - Maffeo Barberini (1623-1644), 76
1857    Prince Charles Bonaparte of Canino, at 54
1900    King Umberto I of Italy (1878-1900), 56, assassinated by Gaetano Bresci
2011    John Cullen, 90, former Coastguardsman who caught the Nazi saboteurs on a Long Island beach in 1942
2015    Fr. Paul Prucha, 94, Jesuit, military historian ("The Sword of the Republic: The United States Army on the Frontier, 1783-1846," etc.)