#OnThisDay in 1467 [en.wikipedia.org] – Ottoman wars in Europe: Albanian leader Skanderbeg defeated an Ottoman army under Ballaban Badera to raise the siege of Krujë.
#OnThisDay in 1951 [en.wikipedia.org] – Korean War: The Chinese People's Volunteer Army attacked positions occupied mainly by Australian and Canadian forces, starting the Battle of Kapyong.
#OnThisDay in 1836 [en.wikipedia.org] – Forces of the Republic of Texas led by Sam Houston defeated the Mexican troops of General Antonio López de Santa Anna in the Battle of San Jacinto, the decisive and final battle of the Texas Revolution.
#OnThisDay in 1818 [en.wikipedia.org] – Four days after the Court of King's Bench upheld an English murder suspect's right to a trial by battle in Ashford v Thornton, the plaintiff declined to fight, allowing the defendant to go free.
#OnThisDay in 1809 [en.wikipedia.org] – War of the Fifth Coalition: French general Louis-Nicolas Davout defeated an Austrian force in Lower Bavaria, allowing him to rejoin the main French army.
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#OnThisDay in 1809 [en.wikipedia.org] – Napoleonic Wars: After a three-day chase, the French ship D'Hautpoul was captured off Puerto Rico by a British squadron under Alexander Cochrane.
#OnThisDay in 2014 [en.wikipedia.org] – The ferry MV Sewol capsized and sank off Donggeochado, South Korea, killing 306 people, mainly students from Danwon High School.
#OnThisDay in 1994 [en.wikipedia.org] – Iraqi no-fly zones conflict: In a friendly-fire incident during Operation Provide Comfort, two U.S. Air Force aircraft mistakenly shot down two U.S. Army helicopters over northern Iraq, killing 26 people.
#OnThisDay in 1973 [en.wikipedia.org] – On the Art of the Cinema, a treatise on film propaganda in support of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea written by the future North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, was published.
#OnThisDay in 1939 [en.wikipedia.org] – After being denied permission to perform at Constitution Hall by the Daughters of the American Revolution, African-American singer Marian Anderson gave an open-air concert on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.
#OnThisDay in 2001 [en.wikipedia.org] – NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey (artist's conception pictured), the longest-surviving continually active spacecraft in orbit around a planet other than Earth, launched from Cape Canaveral.
#OnThisDay in 1808 [en.wikipedia.org] – John Jacob Astor founded the American Fur Company, the profits from which made him the first multi-millionaire in the United States.