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1783 USS Alliance under Captain Barry fights and wins last naval battle of US Revolutionary War off Cape Canaveral.

1831 The French Foreign Legion is established by King Louis-Philippe to support his war in Algeria.

1944 U-575 sinks British corvette HMS Asphodel in the Atlantic Ocean killing 92 of the 97 men aboard.

1945 Tokyo on fire after night time B-29 bombings, more than 100,000 people die, mostly civilians.

1966 North Vietnamese capture US Green Beret Camp at Ashau Valley.

1968 North Vietnamese and communist Laotion troops overrun a secret US radar facility, Lima Site 85, on a Laos mountaintop.

1975 Dog spectacles patented in England.