21. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson, Confederate general in the American Civil War, is born in Clarksburg, West Virginia, 1824.
21. Vladimir Ilich Lenin, leader of the Bolshevik Revolution, dies in 1924.
21. General Erwin Rommel (later Field Marshal) advances to Gazala Line, North Africa, 1942.
22. The Spanish Government, through its Ambassador in London, Prince of Macerano, declared "violent" the initiative by the Governor of Buenos Aires, Francisco de Paula Bucarelli, disapproving his behavior and having him return Egmont Port -a colony they had founded in the Malvinas/Falkland Islands- to the English government, 1771.
22. Battle of the River Raisin, 1813. US forces led by Brig. Gen. James Winchester were defeated by British forces under the command of the then Col. Henry Proctor and Indians of chief Tecumseh, resulting in the surrender of 550 men, being US wounded prisioners butchered by the indians. Proctor was known thereafter as "the butcher".
22. Zulus massacre 1.700 British soldiers at Isandhlwana, Natal, Southern Africa, 1879.
22. General strike and riots at St Petersburg, partly in opposition to ongoing Russo-Japanese War. Russian troops fire on crowds, 1905.
22. Signature of a contract with the New York Shipbuilding Co. shipyards, of Campden, N.J., for the construction of two armored ships, ARA Moreno and ARA Rivadavia, 1911. These formed the core of Argentine naval power between their incorporation and 1951, when they were withdrawn from the Sea Fleet. With a displacement of 32,000 tons, it was 180 meters long and its main artillery was equipped with 12-305 mm cannons. ARA Moreno took part in the celebrations marking the opening of the Panama Canal, in its inaugural trip to Buenos Aires, in 1915. Tradition has published in TR020102 the march Acorazado Moreno, composed in 1946 by Maestro Salvador Baggieri as a tribute to this capital ship, where he served in 1940.
22. Allies capture Tobruk, North Africa, 1941.
22. Allies seaborne landing at Anzio, at 45Km. from Rome, 1944.
22. US Fifth Army landings at Anzio, Italy, 1945.
23. Successful defense by a little more than 200 British soldiers at the fortified mission station of Rorke's Drift against nearly 5.000 Zulu warriors.
23. Japanese landings in New Guinea and the Soloman Islands, 1942.
24. Hadrian (Publius Aelius Hadrianus), Roman emperor, is born in Italica, Spain, 76.
24. British Military Service Act introduces conscription (in force from 9-2), 1916.
25. The Inquisition Tribunals are set up in Spanish America, pursuant to a Royal Warrant issued by King Phillip II, 1569.
25. Captain Hipolite Bouchard, commanding the ships La Argentina and Chacabuco, sailing as a corsair, set up a blockade of the ports of Acapulco, San Blas and Sonsonete, in Mexico, scattering a veteran royalist force and capturing a ship in the last of these, 1819.
25. Final assault of Dervish forces led by the Mahdi on Khartoum, Sudan, and dead of Maj. Gen. Charles G. Gordon, 1884.
25. US and Republic of Korea forces launch counter offensive and advance towars Han River during Korean War, 1951.
26. Born in Buenos Aires, Saturnino Rodríguez Peña, 1765. He was the Attorney of the Royal Audiencia of Charcas. As a prominent member of the "criollo" party and firm supporter of the freedom of these lands from Spain, he played an important role at the time of the British Invasions. In private conversations with General William Carr Beresford, who had taken over Buenos Aires, he made inquiries on whether the British Government would foster the independence of the Plata river from the Spanish crown. After the British were defeated by the forces of the viceroyship and always guided by his ideas of liberty, he helped Beresford flee to Montevideo. For that reason, he was forced to escape from Buenos Aires himself. He traveled to England to ask for the help required to obtain freedom from Spain by peaceful means. Having failed in this endeavor, he settled in Río de Janeiro until May 1810. For his support of General Carlos de Alvear he suffered another exile, until he was pardoned in 1815, at his mother's request. He died in Buenos Aires on April 4, 1819.
26. Douglas Mac Arthur, military commander, is born in Little Rock, Arkansas, 1880.
26. Charles G. Gordon, soldier who defended Khartoum, dies in 1885.
26. Italian forces aid Franco in capturing Barcelona, 1939.
27. Hyman Rickover, US admiral responsible for the development of atomic submarines, is born in Makov, Russia, 1900.
27. First American bombing raid on Germany, 1943.
27. Liberation of Leningrad, 1944.
27. Burma Road reopens, 1945.
27. Baron Carl Gustav Emil von Mannerheim, militaryy commander and stateman who secured the independence of Finland from the Soviet Union, dies in Lausanne, 1951.
28. Charlemagne, Holy Roman Emperor, dies, 814.
28. Charles G. Gordon, soldier who defended Khartoum, is born, 1833.
28. British relief troops arrive at Khartoum, Sudan, 1885.
29. Queen Victoria institutes the Victoria Cross, 1856.
29. First bombing of Paris by Zeppelins, 1916.
30. Admiral Karl Doenitz appointed Commander in Chief of German Navy, 1943.
30. Vietcong attack Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City), and take American Embassy, 1968.
31. Battle of Cremona, 1702. (to 01-02-1702). 600 Irishmen of the Brigade Irlandaise and from the infantry regiments of colonels Bourke and Dillon, commanded by Major Daniel O'Mahoney, save the city of Cremona for France, defeating much major Austrian forces under Prince Eugene of Savoy. The Brigade for almost a century, would fight on behalf of its adopted nation and its kings with a determined loyalty and so bravely as it had in this battle.
31. Charles Edward Stuart ("Bonnie Prince Charlie"), leader of the Jacobite Rebellion to depose George II of England, dies in Rome, 1788.
31. Captain Hipolite Bouchard, commanding the frigate La Argentina on a corsair cruise of the Pacific Ocean, blockades the island of Luzon, center of Spanish colonial power in Malaysia, 1818.
31. The city of Buenos Aires has a population of 768,174 inhabitants, according to the monthly statistical bulletin, 1898.
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