1738:
English parliament declares war on Spain.
1800:
The USS
Essex becomes first U.S. Navy vessel to pass the Cape of Good Hope.
1814:
The HMS
Phoebe and
Cherub capture the USS
Essex off Valparaiso, Chile.
1854:
Britain and France declare war on Russia.
1862:
Union forces stop the Confederate invasion of New Mexico territory when they turn the Rebels back at Glorieta Pass.
1864:
A group of Copperheads attack Federal soldiers in Charleston, Illinois. Five are killed and twenty wounded.
1917:
The Womens Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) is founded, Great Britains first official service women.
1939:
The Spanish Civil War ends as Madrid falls to Francisco Franco.
1941:
Andrew Browne Cunningham, Admiral of the British Fleet, commands the British Royal Navys destruction of three major Italian battleships and two destroyers in the Battle of Cape Matapan in the Mediterranean.
1942:
A British ship, the HMS Capbeltown, a Lend-Lease American destroyer, which was specifically rammed into a German occupied dry-dock in France, explodes, knocking the area out of action for the German battleship Tirpitz.
