On this day…

1560 Christian fleet under Gian Andrea lands at Djerba, N Africa
1573 Turkey & Venice signs peace treaty
1621 John Pieterszoon Coen’s troops land on Lontor, East Indies
1774 British close port of Boston to all commerce
1847 US General Scott occupies Vera Cruz Mexico
1851 Poll tax levied on Russo-Polish Jews entering Austrian Galicia ends
1865 Battles round Kinston NC
1876 Battle at Gura: Ethiopian emperor Yohannes beats Egyptians
1902 Boers beat British troop in Tweebosch Transvaal
1911 US sent 20,000 troops to Mexican border
1918 President Wilson authorizes US Army’s Distinguished Service Medal
1921 Red Army under Trotsky attack sailors of Kronstadt
1935 Saar incorporated into Germany
1936 Hitler breaks Treaty of Versailles, sends troops to Rhineland
1937 Bucharin, Jagoda & Rykov pushed out of CPSU in USSR
1941 50,000 British soldiers lands in Greece
1941 British troops invade Abyssinia (Ethiopia)
1942 15 Mk-VB Spitfires reach Malta
1942 1st cadets graduated from flying school at Tuskegee
1943 General-Major Patton arrives in Djebel Kouif Tunisia
1944 Japans begins offensive in Burma
1945 Cologne taken by allied armies
1945 US 9th Armoured Division attacks Remagen Germany, crosses Rhine
1945 Yugoslavia government of Tito forms
1959 1st aviator to fly a million miles (1.61 Mkm) in a jet (MC Garlow)
1971 Egypt refuses to renew the Suez ceasefire
1975 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1978 Dutch 2nd Chamber votes against neutron bomb
1991 Iraq continues to explode oil fields in Kuwait
1994 US Navy issues 1st permanent order assigning women on combat ship