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TODAY IN MILITARY HISTORY
310BC a solar eclipse was visible across Greece
29BC Octavian celebrated the third day of his Triumph, for the conquest of Egypt -- Learn More
0    Feast of St. Neapolus/Napoleon, Roman Soldier and Martyr, Patron of Warriors
0    Armed Forces Day in Poland and Navy Day in Romania
717    Arab-Barbarian hordes abandon the siege of Constantinople (from 25 Aug 716)
778    the Basques attacked Charlemagne's rear guard at Roncesvalles; the death of Roland -- Learn More
1040    Battle of Elgin: MacBeth defeats King Duncan I of Scotland, & usurps the throne (1040-1057)
1057    Battle of Lumphanan: Malcolm III Canmore defeats King MacBeth of Scotland
1097    Battle of Consuegra: Yusuf ibn Tashfin's Almoravids defeat Alfonso VI of Castille & Leon
1118    Byzantine Emperor John II Komnenos, co-ruler since 1092, becomes sole Emperor (1118-1143)
1209    Albigensians surrender Carcassonne to the Crusaders (besieged since Aug 1st)
1388    Battle of Otterbourne: Scots under James, Earl of Douglas defeat & capture Henry Hotspur's English
1515    Lorenzo de'Medici the Younger is created Captain General of the Florentine militia
1645    Battle of Klisyth: Montrose's Royalists slaughter 6000 Scots Covenanters
1760    Battle of Leignitz/The Katzbach: Frederick the Great defeats the Austrians
1799    Battle of Novi: Austro-Russians defeat the French
1824    the Marquis de Lafayette, the last surviving Continental Army general, landed at New York, to begin a triumphal tour of the U.S. to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the American Revolution
1845    the U.S. Naval Academy was established at Ft Severn, Annapolis
1848    Battle of Luino: The Garibaldini defeat the Austrians
1854    Anglo-French fleet bombards the Russian defenses at Bomersund in the Baltic
1863    Submarine CSS 'Hunley' arrives in Charleston by rail
1864    CSS 'Tallahassee' captures 6 U.S. schooners off New England
1895    Second class battleship 'Texas' commissioned; sunk as target, 1911
1896    The "Bicycle Corps" of the 25th Infantry began a "march" from Ft. Missoula, Montana, to Mammoth Springs, Wyoming -- Learn More
1920    Battle of Warsaw: Marshal Jozef Pilsudzki leads the Polish Army to rout the Soviet Red Army at the gates of Warsaw, ending the Soviet-Polish War (1918-1920)
1940    Hitler's first "D-Day" for Operation Sea Lion
1941    Kovono, Lithuania: Jews are herded into Slobodka ghetto
1942    'I-6', last Japanese submarine in the Aleutians, is withdrawn.
1942    U.S. transports land supplies at Guadalcanal
1942    the 83rd Infantry Division was reactivated by the War Department -- Learn More [Societal Motorization]
1943    Elms 25th Inf Div land on Vella Lavella, opposed only by Japanese a/c.
1943    Kiska: U.S. and Canadian troops land with heavy naval and air support`
1944    Operation Anvil-Dragoon: Allied troops land in Provence
1945    Japan agreed to surrender, and Hirohito broadcast a message to his people.
1945    Japanese a/c raid TF 38, 12 hours after Hirohito's surrender order
1945    Soviet aircraft sink 860 ton frigate 'Kenju' off Hokkaido; last Japanese warship lost during World War II
1945    US ends wartime rationing of gasoline & fuel oil
1947    Mir Usman Ali, the Nizam of Hyderabad, declared his realm independent of India -- Learn More
1973    Athens: Black September bomb, 3 die, 55 injured

BORN
1171    King Alfonso IX "the Slobberer" of León and Galicia (1188-1230)
1761    Edward Preble, Commodore, USN, First Barbary War, d. 1807 -- Learn More
1769    Napoleone Bounaparte, Corsican adventurer, notorious deserter, d. 1821 -- Learn More
1771    Sir Walter Scott, sometime volunteer cavalryman, novelist ("Ivanhoe"), d. 1832
1823    Orris Sanford Ferry, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1875
1878    Baron Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel, Russian "White Guard" Leader, d. 1928
1912    Julia Child, OSS worker, chef, d. 2004
1917    Óscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdámez, later Archbishop of San Salvador, murdered 1980, beatified 2015

DIED
423    Flavius Honorius, the most inept Roman Emperor (395-423), at 38 -- Learn More
465    Roman Emperor in the West Flavius Libius Augustus (Nov. 19, 461-Aug. 15, 465), c. 65, probably of natural causes, possibly poisoned -- Learn More
778    Roland, kia at Roncesvalles
1057    Mac Bethad mac Findlaích -- Macbeth, King of the Scots (1040-1057), slain by the future Malcolm III (1058-1093)
1118    Byzantine Emperor Alexius I Comnenus (1081-1118), 70
1380    Vettor Pisani, 56, Venetian admiral
1388    James, 2nd Earl of Douglas (1358-1388), c. 30 , kia, Otterbourne
1528    Odet de Foix, c. 43, Vicomte de Lautrec, Marshal of France, of plague on campaign in Italy
1636    Marquis Ranuccio Pallavicino, Captain of Imperial Cuirassiers, kia Rottofreddo
1935    William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers, 55, Cherokee-American humorist, journalist, actor, and aviator Wiley Post, 36, airplane accident, Point Barrow
1975    Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, 1st President of Bangladesh (1971-1972), PM (1972-1975), in a military coup
1989    Minoru Genda, one day short of 89, Japanese airman who planned the Pearl Harbor attack
1992    Giorgio Perlasca, Italian anti-fascist diplomat who saved 5,200 Jews in Hungary, at 82
2003    Jannie Brandes-Brilleslijper, 86, Dutch Resistance fighter, friend to Anne Frank.