On this day…

1266 Battle of Benevento
1804 Vice-Admiral William Bligh ends siege of Fort Amsterdam, Willemstad
1815 Napoleon & 1,200 leave Elba to start 100-day re-conquest of France
1832 Polish constitution abolished/replaced by Czar Nicholas I
1848 Marx & Engels publish “The Communist Manifesto”
1848 2nd French Republic forms
1852 British frigate Birkenhead sinks off South Africa-458 die
1862 Battle of Woodburn, KY
1881 Natal British troops under General-Major Colley occupy Majuba Hill
1884 British & Portuguese treaty signed in Congo by Leopold II
1885 Congress of Berlin, gives Congo to Belgium & Nigeria to England
1915 Malancourt, Argonnen - 1st (German) flame-thrower
1916 Germans sink French transport ship Provence II, killing 930
1916 Russian troops conquer Kermansjah Persia
1923 Italian nationalist & fascists merge (blue-shirts & black-shirts)
1924 Trial against Hitler in Munich begins
1925 Jihad-Saint war against Turkish government
1935 Germany began Luftwaffe operation, under Reichsmarshall H Goering
1936 Military coup in Japan
1940 US Air Defense Command established at Mitchell Field, Long Island NY
1941 Cowboys’ Amateur Association of America organized (California)
1941 Utrecht & Zaandam strike against raid on Jews
1941 Vichy-France makes religious education in school mandatory
1942 WWII Navy flier Don Mason sends message “Sighted sub sank same”
1942 German battle cruiser Gneisenau deactivated by bomb
1942 Werner Heisenberger informs Nazis about uranium project “Wunderwaffen”
1943 German assault moves to Beja North Tunisia
1944 1st female US navy captain, Sue Dauser of nurse corps, appointed
1945 Very heavy bombing on Berlin by 8th US Air Force
1949 USAF plane began 1st nonstop around-the-world flight
1952 PM Winston Churchill announces that Britain has its own atomic bomb
1952 Netherlands-Indonesian Unity conference
1960 Soviet premier Khrushchev voices support for Indonesia
1965 West Germany ceases military aid to Tanzania
1967 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
1968 Clandestine Radio Voice of Iraqi People (Communist) final transmission
1976 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1980 Egypt & Israel exchange ambassadors for the 1st time
1980 Military coup under Desi Bouterse in Suriname
1993: The World Trade Center in New York City was bombed in an act of terrorism, Islamic radicals being later convicted for the crime.