28 FEB Today in Military History 1653 Three day Naval Battle of Portland begins: Tromps Dutch defeat Blakes English 1667 The Dutch capture Surinam from the English 1710 Battle of Helsingborg: The Swedes defeat a Danish invasion 1778 The Rhode Island General Assembly authorizes enlistment of black troops 1799 Jean-Etienne Championnet, commander of French troops in Naples, sacked as a looter 1836 San Patricio: Mexicans defeat Texians in a surprise cavalry attack 1844 USS Princeton: 12-inch gun Peacemaker explodes with heavy casualties -- Learn More 1847 Battle of Sacramento: US defeats Mexico 1864 Kilpatricks Raid on Richmond begins (to 10 March) 1893 USS Indiana (BB-1) launched, the first American first class battleship 1900 Relief of Ladysmith: British troops break Boer siege 1933 Hitler bans the German Communist Party 1942 Dutch East Indies: Japanese land on Java, last Allied bastion in the East Indies 1942 Sunda Strait: Japanese cruiser squadron engages Allied cruisers USS Houston & HMAS Perth c. 2350. 1943 8 Japanese transports with c. 7000 troops sail from Rabaul for Lae 1944 Mounted 2nd Cav Div (Colored) ships out for North Africa. 1944 Marshal of the Soviet Union Nicholai Fyodorovich Vatutin, mortally wounded in an ambush by Ukrainian partisans, dies Apr 15th 1976 Spain withdraws from Western Sahara 1990 65th American manned space mission, Atlantis 6, begins 2013 Pope Benedict XVI (Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger) resigns at 85 (r. 2005-2013) -- first papal resignation since 1415
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