1339 Battle of Parabiago: The Milanese defeat the rampaging mercenaries of Lodrisio Visconti's Company of San Giorgio

1547 Coronation of 10-tear old Edward VI as King of England (1547-1553)

1653 Naval Battle of Portsmouth: Tromp's Dutch defeated by Blake's English

1798 French Gen. Louis Alexandre Berthier arrests Pope Pius VI, who is imprisoned in France

1813 Battle of Salta: Argentine Patriot forces under Manuel Belgrano defeat the Royalists

1815 USS 'Constitution' takes HMS 'Cyane' and 'Levant'

1831 Battle of Growchow: Polish insurgents defeat the Russians

1833 Russian Black Sea fleet anchors off Constantinople, to defend it from the Egyptians

1839 Congress prohibits dueling in District of Columbia

1846 British capture the citadel of Lahore from the Sikhs

1859 Battle of Montebello: the French & Sardinians defeat the Austrians

1861 Confederate Department of the Navy established

1864 Battle of Olustee, Fla: Confederates win

1878 Giacchino Pecci elected Pope as Leo XIII (1878-1903)

1917 Ammunition ship explosion at Archangelsk, c. 1,500 die

1919 Anarchist bombing attempt at the American Woolen Co. mill, near Franklin, Mass., goes awry; the 4 attackers blow themselves up

1942 Combined Japanese amphibious and airborne attack on Timor

1942 E. H. "Butch" O'Hare downs 5 Japanese aircraft, helping USS 'Lexington' (CV-2) beat off an air attack c. 300 miles ENE of Rabaul

1943 Admiralty Is: 'Albacore' (SS-218) sinks the Japanese DD 'Oshio'

1944 NZ troops complete capture of Green Island, nearly isolating Rabaul.

1944 Big Week: Allied bombers begin five days of intensive air attacks on German aircraft production facilities and air bases, while their fighter escorts devastate defending Luftwaffe squadrons

1945 Iwo Jima: Heavy fighting continues

1945 Philippines: U.S. troops land on Samar and Capul

1947 Lord Mountbatten of Burma appointed Viceroy to oversee the independence of India (1947-1948)

1962 John Glenn becomes the first American in orbit