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TODAY IN MILITARY HISTORY
586BC Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar II captured Jerusalem, leading to the "Babylonian Captivity" of the Jews
0    Feast of Saint Agilulfus of Cologne, Bishop and Martyr
0    National Prisoner-of-War/Missing-in-Action Recognition Day
455    Eparchius Avitus proclaimed Roman Emperor (July 9, 455-Oct 17, 456), deposed, d. 457
1553    Battle of Sievershausen: Elector Maurice I of Saxony defeats Albert of Brandenburg-Kulmbach
1755    British Maj. Gen. Edward Braddock lost the Battle of the Monongahela -- Learn More
1776    the Declaration of Independence was read to the people of New York City and Washington's troops, whereupon the citizens pull down George III's statue at Bowling Green to make musket balls
1790    2d Battle of Ruotsinaslami/Svenksund: Russo-Swedish fleets clash (to the 10th)
1807    France's Napoleon and Prussia's Frederick William III ended the War of the Fourth Coalition -- Learn More
1816    Argentina declares independence from Spain
1846    Landing party from USS 'Portsmouth' occupies San Francisco.
1860    Moslems commence 3-day massacre of Christians at Damascus
1860    The slaveship "Clotide" lands c. 150 kidnapped Africans in Mobile Bay, in defiance of the U.S. band on the importation of slaves
1862    CS Brig Gen John Hunt Morgan captures Tompkinsville, Ky
1864    Jubal's Raid - Battle of Monocacy, Md: US Maj Gen Lew Wallace conducts a successful delaying action
1864    Jubal's Raid - Confederates extort $200,000 from Frederick, Md
1876    Black landowner murdered by white supremacists in Hamburg, SC
1915    German South West Africa captured by South African troops
1916    Cargo submarine 'Deutschland' arrives in US from Germany
1917    HM Battleship 'Vanguard' blows up at Scapa Flow, 804 die
1917    the Ottoman 665-ton destroyer 'Yadighiar-i-Milet' was sunk in a British air attack -- Learn More (Aircraft vs. Ships
1918    Congress establishes the Distinguished Service Cross
1918    Henry Ford launches the first of 100 Eagle boats
1926    Chang Kai-shek appointed national-revolutionary supreme commander
1926    Gen. Sinel de Cordes leads coup in Portugal
1934    Reichsfuhrer-SS Himmler takes command of German Concentration Camps
1940    Battle of Punta Stilo: indecisive British-Italian fleet action
1940    RAF bombs Germany
1941    The British break Germany's air-ground ops code used on the Russian Front
1942    Toscanini conducts the American premiere of Shostakovich’s "Leningrad Symphony" in New York
1943    Italian blockade running sub 'Capellini' reaches Sumatra.
1943    US ships shelling Munda beat off c. 100 Japanese aircraft.
1944    US secures Saipan: 3,200 US, 27,000 Japanese KIA, & many civilian suicides

BORN
1578    Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor, King of Bohemia and Hungary (1619-37)
1625    Sarah Rapelje, at Fort Orange (Albany), the first European child born in the New Netherlands, d. c. 1685 -- 7th great grandmother of Humphrey Bogart
1760    Peter Francisco may have been born, mysterious, heroic, and heroically-sized Revolutionary War veteran, d. 1831 -- Learn More
1769    Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne, schoolmate of Napoleon, diplomat, grafter, scandal monger, d. 1834 -- Learn More
1777    Henry Hallam, historian ("View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages"), d. 1859
1848    Robert of Borbone-Parma, last Sovereign Duke of Parma & Piacenza (1857-1859), despoded, d. 1907 in luxurious retirement
1857    Grand Duke Frederick II of Baden (1907-18)
1863    William Burr Cochran, who rose from private to brigadier general, d. 1931 -- Learn More
1887    Samuel Eliot Morison, sailor, naval officer, historian ("Admiral of the Ocean Sea"), d. 1976
1900    The Commonwealth of Australia
1956    Tom Hanks, actor ("Saving Private Ryan")

DIED
518    Eastern Roman Emperor Anastasius I Dikoros (491-518), at c. 91, leaving his treasury with 320,000 pounds of gold
1386    Duke Leopold III of Austria (1365-1379) and of Styria & Carinthia (1365-1386), Count of Tyrol (1365-1386), 34, kia at Sempach
1500    Count Giacomo V Caetani of Sermoneta, poisoned by the Borgias, at 50
1553    Maurice I, Duke (1541-47) and Elector (1547-53) of Saxony, 32, d/w at the Battle of Sievershausen
1572    the Martyrs of Gorkum, 15 Catholic priests who refused to renounce their faith, were are hanged at Brielle by Dutch Protestants
1746    King Philip V of Spain (1700-1724; 1724-1746), 62
1797    Edmund Burke, Anglo-Irish liberal political philosopher, at 68
1850    Siyyid `Alí Muhammad, The Bab, founder of Ba'hai, executed by firing squad for heresy in Tabriz, Persia, at 31
1850    Zachary Taylor, soldier, President (1849-1850), in the White House at 65 -- Learn More
1870    Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, American attorney, humorist, slaveocrat, & secessionist, at 79 -- Learn More
1920    Admiral of the Fleet Sir John "Jackie" Fisher, b. 1841 -- Learn More