•    1634 Battle at Smolensk: Polish King Wladyslaw IV beats Russians
  •    1896 Henri Becquerel discovers radioactivity.
  •    1912 U.S. Army Captain Albert Berry performs 1st (attached-type) parachute jump from an airplane
  •    1942 3 day Battle of Java Sea ends, US suffers a major naval defeat
  •    1944 U-358 sinks in Atlantic
  •    1954 US explodes Castle Bravo, 15 megaton hydrogen bomb at Bikini Atoll – most powerful nuclear device ever detonated by the US