1529 The Jews of Poching, Hungary, are accused of "blood ritual", 30 are burned at the stake

1813 Battle of Fort George: Col. Winfield Scott captures the British post on the Niagara River

1832 Battle of Acre: The Egyptians capture the city from the Turks

1859 Battle of San Fermo: The Garibaldini defeat the Austrians

1860 The Garibaldini capture Palermo

1862 Battle of Hanover Court House/Slash Church/Peake's Station, Va.

1863 Boiler explosion aboard the CSS 'Chattahoochee', on the Chattahoochee River, 18 die

1905 Battle of Tsu-Shima Strait: Japanese Fleet destroys the Russian Fleet

1918 Battle of the Aisne: Allies begin pressing back Germans

1926 Asa K. Bartlett, a Michigan KKK leader, a local constable and former Justice of the Peace, kills Muskegon Town Supervisor August Krubaech, his daughter, and her fiance with a mail bomb.

1927 Japan intervenes in the Chinese Civil War

1936 RMS 'Queen Mary' begins her maiden voyage, Southampton-New York

1940 Operation Dynamo: Dunkirk Evacuation begins, as German troops massacre 97 men of the Royal Norfolk Regiment

1941 FDR proclaims an "unlimited national emergency"

1941 The Royal Navy sinks the 'Bismarck'

1944 Allied landing on Biak, off New Guinea

1952 Formation of the European Defense Community

1966 French aerobatic fighters collide over Spain, 6 die

1993 Florence: Uffizi Gallery bombed, 5 dead, 24 injured, much art lost