On this day in history
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1813: During the War of 1812, British forces under Henry Proctor defeat a U.S. contingent planning an attack on Fort Detroit.
1824: A British force is wiped out by an Asante army under Osei Bonsu on the African Gold Coast. This is the first defeat for a colonial power.
1879: Eighty-two British soldiers hold off attacks by 4,000 Zulu warriors at the Battle of Rorke’s Drift in South Africa.
1905: Russian troops fire on civilians beginning Bloody Sunday in St. Petersburg.
1912: The second Monte Carlo auto race begins.
1932: Government troops crush a Communist uprising in Northern Spain.
1943: Axis forces pull out of Tripoli for Tunisia, destroying bases as they leave.
1971: Communist forces shell Phnom Penh, Cambodia, for the first time.
1979: Abu Hassan, the alleged planner of the 1972 Munich raid, is killed by a bomb in Beirut.
1982: President Ronald Reagan formally links progress in arms control to Soviet repression in Poland.
