404 B.C. — Spartan forces under Lysander and Pausanias blockade Athens, bringing the Peloponnesian War to a close. The war changed the ancient Greek world. Athens lost its Aegean empire and its maritime dominance, while Sparta became established as the leading power of Greece. The destruction of whole cities and large swathes of countryside made poverty widespread in the Peloponnese, while Athens was economically devastated and never regained its pre-war prosperity.
1915 — The Gallipoli campaign begins with ANZAC and Allied landings in the Dardanelles campaign of WWI. The Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) landed at Gallipoli in western Turkey during World War I. The losses these troops suffered during the Gallipoli Campaign were enormous, and in 1920 this day became a holiday, called ANZAC Day, to honor them. It has evolved over decades to honor all soldiers from New Zealand and Australia.
1960 — The United States Navy submarine USS Triton completes the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe. Operation Sandblast was the code name for the first submarine circumnavigation of the world. It was executed by the United States Navy nuclear-powered radar picket submarine USS Triton (SSRN-586) in 1960 under the command of Captain Edward L. Beach Jr.
1983 — Pioneer 10 travels beyond Pluto’s orbit. Pioneer 10 a NASA space probe that was launched on March 3, 1972, at 01:49:00 UTC. Pioneer 10 became the first of five artificial objects to achieve the escape velocity needed to leave the Solar System. Radio communications were lost with Pioneer 10 on January 23, 2003, because of the loss of electric power for its radio transmitter. At the time, the probe was 7.5 billion miles from Earth.
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