0421 Flavius Constantine becomes emperor Constantine III of West Roman empire
1601 Earl Robert Devereux of Essex armies draws into London
1690 French & Indian troops set Schenectady settlement New York on fire
1744 French/Spanish fleet leaves Toulon
1807 Napoleon defeats Russians in battle of Eylau
1809 Franz I of Austria declares war on France
1861 Confederate States of America organizes in Montgomery AL
1862 Battle of Roanoke Island NC, Federals gain control of Pamlico Sound
1865 1st black major in US army, Martin Robinson Delany
1887 Dawes Act passed (Indians living apart from tribe granted citizenship)
1904 Outbreak of hostilities in Russo-Japanese war
1909 France & Germany sign treaty about Morocco
1911 US helps overthrow President Miguel Dávila of Honduras
1918 “Stars & Stripes”, weekly US armed forces newspaper, 1st published
1926 German Reichstag decides to apply for League of Nations membership
1927 Belgian-Swiss treaty signed
1941 Japanese armored barges cross Strait of Johore to attack Singapore
1941 NSB’er Max Blokzijl begins Nazi propaganda on Dutch radio
1942 Congress advises FDR that, Americans of Japanese descent should be locked up en masse so they wouldn’t oppose the US war effort
1943 Red Army recaptures Kursk
1944 U-762 sunk off Ireland
1945 Allied air attack on Goch/Kleef/Kalkar/Reichswald
1958 French planes bomb Sakiet Tunisia, 75 die
1962 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1963 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1967 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1971 South Vietnamese troops invade Laos