24 JAN 2014 Today in Military History 41 The Praetorians haul Claudius from a closet & proclaim him Emperor (41-54) 1458 Matthias I Corvinus, 14, is elected King of Hungary and Croatia (1458-1490) 1497 Battle of Soriano: The Orsini defeat Papal forces 1568 Netherlands: the Duke of Alva declares William of Orange an outlaw 1634 Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II declares his generalissimo Albrecht Wenzel Eusebius von Wallenstein a traitor 1847 Col. Sterling Price defeats c. 1,500 Indians & Mexicans to secure New Mexico for the US 1848 James W. Marshall finds gold at Sutters Mill near Sacramento, initiating the California Gold Rush 1861 Federal Arsenal at Augusta, Ga, seized by state troops 1861 Federal troops take ship at Ft Monroe for Ft Pickens 1862 Wallachia & Moldavia merge to form Romania, with Alexander Ion Cuza, Prince of both states since 1859, as Dominator (1862-1866) 1879 War of the Pacific: Chileans capture Antofagasta from Bolivia, initiating hostilities 1908 Gen Robert Baden Powell founds the Boy Scouts 1915 Battle of Dogger Bank: Royal Navy defeats the Germans in the North Sea 1916 Britain adopts conscription 1923 Italy forms the Regia Aerea 1935 Kreuger Brewing Company of Virginia introduces beer in cans 1939 Spanish Republican government flees from Barcelona to Figueras 1941 British troops invade Italian East Africa 1942 Australian resistance at Rabaul ends. 1942 Borneo: Japanese begin landings at Balikpapan 1942 Bougainville: Japanese forces begin landing at Keita 1942 Malaya: British initiate a withdrawal to Singapore. 1945 China: Advancing Japanese troops cause evacuation of U.S. airbase at Sichuan 1961 A B-52 breaks up over the North Carolina coast, losing two H-bombs, one of which is still missing 1975 Puerto Rican nationalists bomb Fraunces Tavern; 4 die, 50 injured 1991 USN helicopters liberate Kuwaiti offshore oil rigs from the Iraqis. 2011 Terrorist bombing at Moscows airport leaves over 30 dead, many injured
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