2002 - An anti-war concert was held in Peenemuende, Germany. The town was once the home to the Nazi ballistic missile program.
1944 - Soviet troops invade Yugoslavia
1943 - Adolf Hitler's "Mein Kampf" was published in the U.S.
1940 - 1st US merchant ship "Booker T Washington" commanded by a black captain (Hugh Mulzac), launched at Wilmington Delaware
1939 - Germany and the Soviet Union agreed to divide control of occupied Poland. The Germans took the west side of the Bug River and the Soviets took the everything to the east.
1918 - Allied forces scored a decisive breakthrough of Hindenburg Line
1862 - In Louisville, Kentucky, Union General Jefferson C. Davis mortally wounded his commanding officer, General William Nelson. Nelson had slapped Davis during a quarrel in a hotel lobby. Davis chased Nelson upstairs and shot him. Davis was never court-martialed.
1864 - Union General Ulysses S. Grant attacked forces under Confederate General Robert E. Lee at the Battle of New Market Heights (Chaffin's Farm/Fort Harrison). The attempt failed.
1864 - Confederate General John Bell Hood began tearing up the Western and Atlantic Railroad.
1789 - US War Dept established a regular army
