846 Battle of Itri: Purursing Musa's Moslem raiders southwards on the Appia north of town, Lothair I's Frankish army is dispersed in an ambush
911 Duke Conrad of Franconia eleced King Conrad I of Germany (911-918)
1444 Battle of Varna: Polish & Hungarian Crusaders under King Wladyslaw III of Poland are defeated by Sultan Murad II's Turks
1500 Cesare Borgia lays siege to Faenza (Falls, Apr 26, 1501)
1567 Battle of St. Denis: French Catholics defeat French Protestants
1580 Massacre of Dún an Óir: Although they surrendered on terms after a siege, 600 Irish, Spanish, and Papal troops are killed by the English Protestants
1674 Treaty of Westminster: Ends the Third Anglo-Dutch War, as the Nehterlands cedes New Netherlands to England, for the second - and final - time
1782 Battle of Chillicote, Ohio, George Rodgers Clark defeats Indians and Tories; the final battle of the Revolutionary War.
1801 Kentucky outlaws dueling, which continues anyway
1808 Battle of Espinosa: The French defeat the Spanish
1808 US-Osage Treaty signed
1814 Congress enacts a draft; War of 1812 ends before it is implemented
1836 Imperial nephew and heir presumptive Louis Napoleon is banished to America
1861 Skirmish at Guyandott, WVa
1864 Austrian Archduke Maximilian becomes Emperor of Mexico (shot in 1867)
1871 Stanley presumes to meet Livingston, Ujiji, Central Africa
1915 Fourth Battle of the Isonzo begins (to Dec 2)
1918 German Emperor Wilhelm II flees to the Netherlands
1928 Official enthronement of Prince Hirohito as Emperor of Japan (1926-1989)
1937 Brazilian dictator Gaetulio Vargas proclaims a fascistic "Estado novo"
1938 Kate Smith introduces Irving Berlin's "God Bless America" on radio
1942 French North African forces cease resisting the Allies
1943 Fifth Air Force makes a major attack on Rabaul.
1944 China: Japanese capture the U.S. air bases at Kweilin and Liuchow
1945 General Enver Hoxha becomes Communist leader of Albania (1945-1985)
1954 Lt Col John Strapp attains 632 MPH on a rocket sled
1954 USMC ["Iwo Jima"] Memorial dedicated in Arlington
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