1467 Battle at Velke Kostolany: Hung king Mátyás Corvinus beats Bratrici
1522 Duke of Albany takes captured French back to Scotland
1648 Spain & Netherlands sign Peace of Munster, ending the Thirty Years' War
1911 The Canadian Naval Service becomes the Royal Canadian Navy
1915 German submarine attack on Le Havr
1941 Australian troops conquer Derna, Libya
1942 Japanese troops land on Ambon
1943 British Mosquitos bomb Berlin in daylight
German assault on French in Tunisia
USS Chicago sinks in Pacific Ocean
1944 World War II: United States troops land on Majuro
The Battle of Cisterna begins in central Italy
1945 Wilhelm Gustloff" torpedoed off Danzig by Soviet sub-c 9,400 die
American Rangers and Filipino resistance fighters liberate over 500 Allied POWs from Japanese at Cabanatuan
1964 Military coup of Gen Nguyen Khanh in South Vietnam
1968 Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese launch the Tet offensive against South Vietnames and US forces
1972 Bloody Sunday: 27 unarmed civilians are shot (14 are killed) by the British Army during a civil rights march in Derry, Northern Ireland.
1991 Iraqi troops gain control of Al Khafji inside the Saudi Arabian border
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