14 An early morning lunar eclipse visible in Pannonia helps quell a mutiny among the legions garrisoned there

1160 Pope Innocent II granted Sicily to Duke Roger II de Hauteville of Apulia & Calabria, if he can conquer it from the Arabs

1414 Gaeta concludes an armistice with Count Giacomo of Fondi

1604 Battle of Kircholm: Poles defeat Charles IX of Sweden

1777 Battle of Germantown: Washington is defeated by the British in a close fight

1779 John Adams negotiates Revolutionary War peace terms with Britain

1810 Battle of Busaco: Wellesley's Anglo-Portuguese defeat the French

1821 Spain recognizes the Independence of Mexico

1863 Cavalry action at Moffat's Station, Arkansas

1864 Centralia Massacre: "Bloody Bill" Anderson's Rebel partisans massacre Union prisoners

1866 "Empress" Carlotta of Mexico mets with Pope Pius IX hoping to secure his support for her husband Maximiliane

1923 Italian troops evacuate Corfu

1935 Typhoon hits Japanese fleet during maneuvers, 52 die

1936 Spanish Nationalists relieve the Alcazar of Toledo, besieged by Loyalists since mid-July

1938 Jewish lawyers are forbidden to practice in Germany

1938 League of Nations declares Japan the aggressor in "China Incident"

1939 Warsaw surrenders to the Germans after a 19 day siege

1940 Black leaders protest discrimination in US armed forces

1940 Tripartite Pact: Nazi Germany, Italy, & Japan sign a formal alliance

1941 The SS 'Patrick Henry' was launched, the first of 2,710 "Liberty" ships that helped carry the war to the Axis

1942 Japanese aircraft bomb Marine positions on Guadalcanal.

1942 Papua: Japanese fall back from Ioribaiwa on the Kokoda Trail.

1944 Jewish US Army Nurse Reba Tobiason is captured by Germans near Aachen; later exchanged, the only American military woman captured in the ETO

1962 US sells Hawk anti-aircraft missiles to Israel

1991 Pres GHW Bush ends full-time airborne B-52 bomber alert

1996 The Taliban capture Kabul, installing an Islamist theocracy in Afghanistan