•     1862 Civil War action at Island #10 on Mississippi River
  •     1863 Battle of Grand Gulf MS & Dinwiddie Court House VA
  •     1866 The Spanish Navy bombs the harbor of Valparaíso, Chile.
  •     1907 Romanian Army puts down Moldavian farmers’ revolt
  •     1916 Dutch government ends all military engagements
  •     1924 Croydon Airport, London: Imperial Airways established
  •     1932 Ford publicly unveils its V-8 engine
  •     1940 Karelo-Finnish SSR becomes 12th Soviet republic (until 1956)
  •     1958 USSR suspends nuclear weapons tests, & urges US & Britain to do same