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| 1789 | The National Guard is created in France. | |
| 1812 | The last remnants of Napoleon Bonaparte‘s Grand ArmeĆ© reach the safety of Kovno, Poland, after the failed Russian campaign. | |
| 1814 | General Andrew Jackson announces martial law in New Orleans, Louisiana, as British troops disembark at Lake Borne, 40 miles east of the city. | |
| 1862 | Confederate General Robert E. Lee defeats Union Major General Ambrose Burnside at the Battle of Fredericksburg in Virginia. A witness will later describe the battle to President Abraham Lincoln as a “butchery.” | |
| 1902 | The Committee of Imperial Defense holds its first meeting in London. | |
| 1908 | The Dutch take two Venezuelan Coast Guard ships. | |
| 1937 | The Japanese army occupies Nanking, China. | |
| 1940 | Adolf Hitler issues preparations for Operation Marita, the German invasion of Greece. | |
| 1941 | British forces launch an offensive in Libya. | |
| 1945 | France and Britain agree to quit Syria and Lebanon. | |
| 1951 | After meeting with FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, President Harry S. Truman vows to purge all disloyal government workers. | |
| 1968 | President Lyndon B. Johnson and Mexico’s President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz meet on a bridge at El Paso, Texas, to officiate at ceremonies returning the long-disputed El Chamizal area to the Mexican side of the border. | |
| 1972 | Astronaut Gene Cernan climbs into his lunar lander on the moon and prepares to lift off. He is the last man to set foot on the moon. | |
| 1973 | Great Britain cuts the work week to three days to save energy. | |
| 1981 | Polish labor leader Lech Walesa is arrested and the government decrees martial law, restricting civil rights and suspending operation of the independent trade union Solidarity. | |
| 1985 | France sues the United States over the discovery of an AIDS serum. | |
| 2001 | Terrorists attack the Parliament of India; 15 people are killed, including the terrorists | |
| 2003 | Deposed Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is captured; he is found hiding near his home town of Tikrit. |
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