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1991 Following Iraq's capitulation in the Persian Gulf conflict, President Bush told Congress that "aggression is defeated. The war is over"

1989 Chris Evert last U.S. Open match, she is defeated by Zina Garrison

1980 USA Olympic hockey team defeated Finland, 4-2, to win the gold medal

1976 Bernard L Montgomery, British general, defeated Rommel, dies at 88

1967 Michael Moorer, boxing heavyweight champ, defeated Holyfield-1994

1964 Cassius Clay defeated Sonny Liston for the heavyweight boxing title

1954 Amendment to give 18-year-olds right to vote is defeated

1952 Rocky Marciano defeated Lee Savold for his 39th straight win

1948 1st Jewish-Arab military battle, arabs defeated

1942 German army defeated at El-Alamein North Africa

1940 Operation Dynamo begins evacuating defeated Allied troops from Dunkirk

1927 Uprising against Portuguese regime of Gen Carmona defeated

1897 Yale defeated Penn, 30-10 in 1st major college basketball game

1896 England defeated Zanzibar in a 38-minute war (9:02 AM-9:40 AM)

1889 Battle at Metema (Gallabad): Ethiopian Emperor Yohannes IV, defeated

1869 Black candidate for lt governor of Va, Dr. J H Harris, defeated

1868 Battle at Ueno: last Tokugawa armies defeated

1865 General Early's army is defeated at Waynesborough

1862 Battle of 2nd Manassas-Pope defeated by Lee-Battle of Richmond, KY

1862 Confederate forces defeated at More's Hill, Mo

1854 Matthijs Siegenbeek, literature (Defeated German Spelling), dies

1847 1,500 New Mexican Indians and Mexicans defeated by U.S. Col Price

1846 Polish revolutionaries march on Cracow, but are defeated

1832 Black Hawk defeated in Iowa

1815 Battle of Waterloo; Napoleon defeated by Wellington and Blucher

1809 Napoleon defeated Austria in the Battle of Abensberg, Bavaria

1794 Gen Mad Anthony Wayne defeated the Indians at Fallen Timbers Ohio

1781 Cornwallis defeated at Yorktown

1780 British defeated by American militia near Kings Mountain, SC

1777 Battle of Germantown; Washington defeated by British

1777 Battle of Germantown; Washington defeated by British

1776 Brig Gen Arnold's Lake Champlain fleet defeated by British

1770 Louis Nicholas Davout, French fieldmarshal, defeated Prussians

1711 Arnold Moonen, vicar/literature (Defeated German Spraekkunst), dies

1650 Scottish general Montrose defeated

1626 Battle at Lenz: Rebel Austrian Boers defeated

1588 Attacking Spanish Armada defeated and scattered by English defenders

1568 Mary Queen of Scots is defeated by English at battle of Langside

1554 Battle at London: Sir Thomas Wyatt defeated

1547 Hernan Cortes, Spanish general defeated Aztec Indians

1459 Battle at Ludfor: Richard of York defeated

1138 English defeated Scots at Cowton Moor Banners of various saints were carried into battle which led to being called Battle of the Standard

891 Northmen defeated near Louvaine, France

626 Battle at Constantinople: Slavic/Persians/Avarenvloot defeated



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