On this day…

1658 Peace of Roskilde between Sweden & Denmark
1722 Afghan monarch Mir Mahmud occupies Persia
1746 Cumberland’s troops occupy Aberdeen
1782 Gnadenhutten Massacre: Ohio militia kills 90 Indians
1801 British drive French forces from Abukir, Egypt
1854 US Commodore Matthew C Perry’s 2nd trip to Japan
1861 St Augustine FL surrenders to Union armies
1862 Battle of Elkhorn Tavern ends with Confederate withdrawal
1862 Confederate ironclad “Merrimack” launched
1862 Naval Engagement at Hampton Roads VA: CSS Virginia, Jamestown & Yorktown vs USS Cumberland, Congress & Monitor
1865 Battle of Kingston NC (Wilcox’s ridge, Wise’s Forks)
1915 1st US navy minelayer, Baltimore, commissioned
1916 US invades Cuba for 3rd time, this to end corrupt Menocal regime
1917 Russian revolution breaks out (in Petrograd/St Petersburg)
1917 US invades Cuba for 3rd time
1920 Denmark & Cuba join the League of Nations
1930 Mahatma Gandhi starts civil disobedience in India
1942 Japanese forces captures Rangoon Burma
1942 KNIL, Dutch colonial army on Java, surrenders to Japanese armies
1943 335 allied bombers attack Nuremberg
1945 53 Amsterdammers executed by Nazi occupiers
1950 1st woman medical officer assigned to naval vessel (BR Walters)
1950 Marshall Voroshilov of USSR announces they developed atomic bomb
1957 Israeli troops leave Egypt; Suez Canal re-opened for minor ships
1957 USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test
1961 US nuclear submarine Patrick Henry arrives at Scottish naval base of Holy Loch from South Carolina in a record underseas journey of 66 days 22 hours
1962 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1963 Syrian Arab Republic Revolution Day: Military coup in Syria
1965 1st US combat forces arrive in South Vietnam (3,500 Marines)
1966 An IRA bomb destroyed Nelson’s Column in Dublin
1971 Radio Hanoi broadcasts Jimi Hendrix’s “Star Spangled Banner”
1973 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1979 China withdraws invasion troops from Vietnam
1980 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1983 House Foreign Affairs Committee endorses nuclear weapons freeze with USSR
1983 President Reagan calls the USSR an “Evil Empire”
1991 Planeloads of US troops arrive home from the Persian Gulf, Iraq hands over 40 foreign journalists & 2 American soldiers it captured
1991 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site