On this day…

0537 Goths lay siege to Rome
1563 League of High Nobles’ second protest against King Philip II
1567 Geuzen army leaves Walcheren to return to Oosterweel
1597 Land guardian Albrecht occupies Amiens on France
1649 Treaty of Rueil destroys 1st Fronde-uprising
1779 US army Corps of Engineers established (1st time)
1795 Battle at Kurdla India: Mahratten beat Mogols
1812 Citizenship granted to Prussian Jews
1824 US War Department creates the Bureau of Indian Affairs
861 Confederate convention in Montgomery, adopts constitution
1862 General Stonewall Jackson evacuates Winchester Virginia
1862 Lincoln removes McClellen as general-in-chief & makes him head of Army of the Potomac. Gen Henry Halleck is named general-in-chief
1864 Skirmish at Calfkiller Creek (Sparta), Tennessee
1865 General Sherman’s Union forces occupy Fayetteville NC
1917 British troops occupy Baghdad
1918 Moscow becomes capital of revolutionary Russia
1919 General strike in Germany, crushed
1935 Hermann Goering officially creates German Air Force, the Luftwaffe
1938 Artur Seyss-Inquart replaces Kurt von Schuschnigg as Chancellor of Austria
1938 German troops enter Austria
1942 1st deportation train leaves Paris France for Auschewitz Concentration Camp
1942: During World War II, Allied forces in the Southwest Pacific Theatre came under the command of U.S. General Douglas MacArthur following his tour on the Bataan Peninsula in the Philippines.
1942 General MacArthur leaves Corregidor (Bataan) for Australia
1942 Japanese troop land on North-Sumatra
1943 Nazi Militia forms in Netherlands
1944 Dutch resistance fighter Joop Westerweel arrested
1945 1,000 allied bombers harass Essen, 4,662 ton bombs
1945 Flemish Nazi collaborator Maria Huygens sentenced to death
1948 Jewish Agency of Jerusalem bombed
1953 1st woman army doctor commissioned (FM Adams)
1953 An American B-47 accidentally drops a nuclear bomb on South Carolina, the bomb doesn’t go off due to 6 safety catches
1954 US Army charges Senator Joseph McCarthy used undue pressure tactics
1963 Somalia drops diplomatic relations with Great Britain
1966 Military coup led by Indonesian General Suharto breaks out
1975 Portugal military coup under General Spinola fails
1975 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
1977 34 Israelis killed by Palestinians on the Tel Aviv-Haifa highway
1977 Moslems hold 130 hostages in Washington DC
1978 Terrorists attack mail truck at Tel Aviv, 45 killed
1982 Failed military coup under Rambocus/Hawker in Suriname
1982 Menachem Begin & Anwar Sadat sign peace treaty in Washington DC
1990 Lithuania declares it’s Independence
2004: Terrorist bombings in Madrid. On this day in 2004, Madrid suffered a series of terrorist attacks when 10 bombs, detonated by Islamist militants, exploded on four trains at three different rail stations, killing 191 people and injuring some 1,800 others.