1660 General Moncks army reaches London
1781 Dutch West Indies island of St Eustatia taken by the British
1783 Spain recognizes US independence
1864 Sherman’s march through Georgia
1865 Hampton Roads Peace Conference, Lincoln & Stephens reach an impasse
1901 Dutch troops under General Van Heutsz conquer Batu Ilië on Sumatra
1915 Turkish & German army reach Suez Canal
1917 US liner Housatonic sunk by German sub & diplomatic relations severed
1919 League of Nations 1st meeting (Paris)
1930 Vietnamese Communistic Party forms
1942 1st Japanese air raid on Java
1943 4 chaplains drown after giving up their life jackets to others
1945 Almost 1000 Flying Fortresses drop 3000 ton bombs on Berlin
1950 Nuclear physicist Klaus Fuchs arrested on spy charges
1965 105 USAF cadets resigned for cheating on exams
1969 The Palestine National Congress appointed Yasser Arafat head of PLO
1972 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1998 US military plane clips cable car lines in northern Italy, kills 20