With the Allies suffering a series of defeats and the threat of war growing in the Pacific, the Menzies Government ( 1939-1941 ) relied on two independents, Arthur Coles and Alex Wilson for its parliamentary majority.

* Australian Men's Singles Championship – Alex Olmedo ( USA ) defeats Neale Fraser ( Australia ) 6 – 1, 6 – 2, 3 – 6, 6 – 3

* Wimbledon Men's Singles Championship – Alex Olmedo ( USA ) defeats Rod Laver ( Australia ) 6 – 4, 6 – 3, 6 – 4

* Battle of Adrianople ( 313 ), 30 April 313, Licinius defeats Maximinus Daia

Hierax tried to defeat king Attalus I of Pergamum ( 241 – 197 BC ), but instead, the Hellenized cities united under Attalus's banner, and his armies inflicted several severe defeats upon them in about 232 B. C., forcing them to settle permanently and to confine themselves to the region to which they had already given their name.

Fearing that Britain's victory over France in the Seven Years War ( 1756 – 1763 ) threatened the European balance of power, Spain allied themselves to France but suffered a series of military defeats and ended up having to cede Florida to the British at the Treaty of Paris ( 1763 ), which ended the Seven Years ' War.

In the Völsunga saga, Attila ( Atli in Norse ) defeats the Frankish king Sigebert I ( Sigurðr or Siegfried ) and the Burgundian King Guntram ( Gunnar or Gunther ), but is later assassinated by Queen Fredegund ( Gudrun or Kriemhild ), the sister of the latter and wife of the former.

Although a Franco-Scottish army was successful at the Battle of Baugé ( 1421 ), the humiliating defeats of Poitiers ( 1356 ) and Agincourt ( 1415 ) forced the French nobility to realise they could not stand just as armoured knights without an organised army.

Despite this naval defeat, it was on the ground that this war would be won, Napoleon inflicted the Austrian and Russian Empires one of their greatest defeats at Austerlitz ( also known as the " Battle of the Three Emperors " on 2 December 1805 ), destroying the Third Coalition.

When the Justice Society's forced attempt to stop them by sending Hawkman and Captain Marvel against them met with failure and resulted in Superman and Batman briefly infiltrating the White House, Luthor, in an enraged and desperate gambit after Superman's rapid defeats of his plans, used a variant combination of the " super-steroid " Venom ( a chemical associated with the Batman villain Bane ), liquid synthetic Kryptonite, and an Apokoliptian battlesuit to fight Superman directly.

* 1869 – In New Brunswick, New Jersey, Rutgers College defeats Princeton University ( then known as the College of New Jersey ), 6-4, in the first official intercollegiate American football game.

* 456 – Battle of Placentia: Ricimer, supported by Majorian ( comes domesticorum ), defeats near Piacenza ( Northern Italy ) the Roman usurper Avitus.

For example in an " eight or better to qualify low " game, a player with an eight-high hand ( or better low such as seven-high ) is entitled to win the low half of the pot ( assuming his hand defeats all other low hands ), but a player with a 10-high or 9-high hand cannot win, even if his hand is the lowest.

* May 1 – 4 – American Civil War – The Battle of Chancellorsville: General Robert E. Lee defeats Union forces with 13, 000 Confederate casualties, among them Stonewall Jackson ( lost to friendly fire ), and 17, 500 Union casualties.

* September 28 – The Canadian national men's hockey team defeats the Soviet national ice hockey team in Game 8 of the 1972 Summit Series ( French: La Série du Siècle, Russian: Суперсерия СССР — Канада ), 6 – 5, to win the series 4 – 3 – 1.

* Possible date of the Battle of Mons Graupius ( 83 or 84 ), in which Gnaeus Julius Agricola defeats the Caledonians.

* Flavius Aetius, Roman general ( magister militum ), arrives in southern Gaul with an army ( 40, 000 men ) and defeats the Visigoths under king Theodoric I who besiege the strategic city of Arles.

* October 17 – Battle of Placentia: Ricimer, supported by Majorian ( comes domesticorum ), defeats near Piacenza ( Northern Italy ) the usurper Avitus.

* August 28 – Battle of Isonzo: Theodoric defeats the overwhelming forces of Odoacer at Soča ( near Aquileia ), forcing his way into Italy.

After the defeats at Lützen ( 2 May 1813 ) and Bautzen ( 21 May 1813 ), it was the Swedish Crown Prince who put fresh fighting spirit into the Allies ; and at the conference of Trachenberg he drew up the general plan for the campaign which began after the expiration of the Truce of Plaswitz.

After the British suffered defeats, particularly at the Battle of Majuba Hill ( 1881 ), the independence of the two republics was restored subject to certain conditions, however, relations remained uneasy.

* Battle of Resaena: A Roman army under Timesitheus defeats the Persians at Resaena ( Syria ), king Shapur I is forced to flee to the Euphrates.

* Aureolus, charged with defending Italy, defeats Victorinus ( co-emperor of Gaul ), is proclaimed emperor by his troops, and begins his march on Rome.

* King Ardashir I defeats Artabanus IV at Hormizdegan ( modern Shushtar ), destroying the Parthian Empire and establishing the Sassanid dynasty.

Thugot's chancellorship did not survive the Austrian defeats by the French at the battles of Marengo and Hohenlinden in 1800 and he was replaced by Johan Ludwig Joseph Cobenzl ( 1800-1805 ), his predecessor's cousin, but who in turn was dismissed following the Austrian defeat at Austerlitz in 1805.

Finally, on 6 April 1793, the Convention created the Committee of Public Safety ( later headed by Maximilien Robespierre ), and was given a monumental task: “ To deal with the radical movements of the Enragés, food shortages and riots, the revolt in the Vendée and in Brittany, recent defeats of its armies, and the desertion of its commanding general .” Most notably, the Committee of Public Safety instated a policy of terror, and the guillotine began to fall on perceived enemies of the republic at an ever-increasing rate, beginning the period known today as the Reign of Terror.

* Battle of Sibiu: John Hunyadi defeats an Ottoman army of 80, 000 strong, led by Mezid the Bey of Vidin, near Sibiu.

Between the strong reigns of his father Edward I and son Edward III, the reign of Edward II was considered by some to be disastrous for England, marked by alleged incompetence, political squabbling and military defeats.

In 138 BC, Nasica would be elected to the office of consul, part of a series of “ strong men ” to rectify the recent bouts of unrest and defeats abroad.

He became renowned as a gentlemanly and civil man, but after three election defeats, he faced much criticism from inside the party, from members that felt he had continually failed to provide strong leadership against the Liberals.

Notwithstanding her previous defeats, Mathyssen was considered to have a strong chance of defeating Pat O ' Brien in the 2004 federal election.

When he injects his robot creation the Ant Ape becomes super strong and nearly unstoppable, but Birdman defeats them.

The Lacy Army ( already 40, 000 men strong ) marched into the Crimea the same month, inflicting a number of defeats on the Army of the Crimean Khan and capturing Karasubazar.

The club's results after the defeat to Saracens continued to be generally strong, with only three other defeats in the regular season and the club went on to finish top of the league.

She is impossibly strong and rather handily defeats all her opponents due to her Mark II Heart.

He is also courageous ; he takes on and defeats the draugr Glámr, an undead being that is, in a sense, a corporeal ghost, strong and formidable.

With his Hybrids and the Hoffan drug, he defeats the Wraith within a year and then turns to the human population, converting the strong into Hybrids and eliminating the weak.

In Zazen, Goemon defeats a strong man blocking a bridge leading out of the town.

That their cautiousness often degenerated into timidity may be admitted — Leuthen and many other bitter defeats had taught the Austrians to respect their great opponent — but they showed at any rate that, having resolved to wear out the enemy by Fabian methods, they were strong enough to persist in their resolve to the end.

A strong season start saw the Brigade register victories over San Diego and Southern California Seahorses, but inconsistency at home in the mid-season again ended the team's playoff hopes fairly early, following five defeats in six games at their home home at Bakersfield Christian High School.

Repeated, massive defeats shook the Avaro-Slavic hordes as strong organized Byzantine armies penetrated north of the Danube into Wallachia, and eventually, under general Priscus, crushed the enemy along the river Tisza in the very heart of Pannonia.