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1762 The British fleet bombards and captures Spanish-held Manila in the Philippines.

1795 The day after he routed counterrevolutionaries in Paris, Napoleon Bonaparte accepts their formal surrender.

1813 U.S. victory at the Battle of the Thames, in Ontario, broke Britain's Indian allies with the death of Shawnee Chief Tecumseh, and made the Detroit frontier safe.

1821 Greek rebels capture Tripolitza, the main Turkish fort in the Peloponnese area of Greece.

1864 At the Battle of Allatoona, a small Union post is saved from Lt. Gen. John Bell Hood's army.

1877 Nez Perce Chief Joseph surrenders to Colonel Nelson Miles in Montana Territory, after a 1,700-mile trek to reach Canada falls 40 miles short.

1880 The first ball-point pen is patented on this day by Alonzo T. Cross.

1882 Outlaw Frank James surrenders in Missouri six months after brother Jesse's assassination.

1915 Bulgaria enters World War I on the side of the Central Powers.

1915 Germany issues an apology and promises for payment for the 128 American passengers killed in the sinking of the British ship Lusitania.



JOTD: Did you know that doctors that perform circumscisions don’t make a lot of money for those operations?

They only get paid in tips.