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** John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry ( 1859 )
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** Harpers Ferry Armory, second federal armory ( construction begun 1799 ) and site of John Brown's slave revolt of 1859
** War of 1812 – Battle of Lundy's Lane: Reinforcements arrive near Niagara Falls, Ontario for General Riall's British and Canadian force, and a bloody, all-night battle with Jacob Brown's Americans commences at 1800 hours ; Americans retreat to Fort Erie.
** Danny Way clipped his shins on the lip of the quarterpipe after a 20 + foot freefall during the big air competition, which the commentators refer to as the " second worst fall ever at the X Games " ( the first being Jake Brown's the year before ).
** The Three Graces, painting by Michael Parkes referred to in Dan Brown's 2009 novel The Lost Symbol
** Units: Early's Division, Brown's artillery battalion, 1st Maryland Infantry Battalion and the Baltimore Light Artillery
** A funk inferno, 16 February 2008, James Brown's Boston concert after the killing of Dr. Martin Luther King
** By extension, pundits use it as " a handy peg for grading a chief executive's initial progress ," as noted by George Skelton Jerry Brown's first 100 days ," Los Angeles Times April 7, 2011 ; see e. g., First 100 days of Barack Obama's Presidency.
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** The Japanese Navy launches an air raid on Trincomalee in Ceylon ( Sri Lanka ); the Royal Navy aircraft carrier and Royal Australian Navy destroyer are sunk off the country's East Coast.
** Frascati bombing raid September 8, 1943: The USAAF bombs the German General Headquarters for the Mediterranean zone.
** Entebbe Raid: Israeli airborne commandos free 103 hostages being held by Palestinian hijackers of an Air France plane at Uganda's Entebbe Airport ; 1 Israeli soldier and several Ugandan soldiers are killed in the raid.
** WWII: " Second Great Fire of London " – Luftwaffe carries out a massive incendiary bombing raid, starting 1, 500 fires.
** Vietnam War – Operation Ivory Coast: A joint Air Force and Army team raids the Son Tay prison camp in an attempt to free American POWs thought to be held there ( no Americans are killed, but the prisoners have already moved to another camp ; all U. S. POWs are moved to a handful of central prison complexes as a result of this raid ).
** All the children held at Kia Lama, a rural property on Lake Eildon, Australia, run by the Santiniketan Park Association, are released after a police raid.
** Authorities in Nepal raid bars and clubs to arrest 39 members of the Blue Diamond Society, a gay rights and AIDS education organization and charge them with " spreading perversion.
** 188 Japanese planes from Rabaul raid Milne Bay, New Guinea, destroying one merchant ship and damaging others.
** Six U. S. Army Air Forces B-24 Liberators take off from Attu to fly the 1, 300 miles ( 2, 093 km ) round-trip to attack the Japanese base at Paramushiro, in what would have been the first Allied air raid against the Kurile Islands ; however, they are diverted en route to join B-25 Mitchells in attacking a convoy of Japanese transports, suffering one aircraft damaged before returning to Attu.
** Royal Air Force Bomber Command flies the last raid of its " Battle of the Ruhr " campaign against the Ruhr region of Germany.
** Nine U. S. Army Air Forces B-24 Liberators of the Eleventh Air Force make the second raid of World War II against the Kurile Islands, again attacking the Japanese base at Paramushiro, causing noteworthy damage.
** 164 U. S. Army Air Forces aircraft of the Fifth Air Force attack Japanese airfields at Wewak, New Guinea, destroying 70 planes while the Japanese are servicing them for another raid on Marilinan.
** U. S. Army Air Forces Fifth Air Force aircraft conduct a major raid against the Japanese airfield at Madang, New Guinea.
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