The Kediri campaign took place from August to December 1678 in Kediri (in modern-day East Java, Indonesia) during the Trunajaya rebellion. The forces of the Mataram Sultanate, led by Amangkurat II, and the Dutch East India Company, led by Anthonio Hurdt, moved inland into eastern Java against Trunajaya's forces. After a series of marches beset by logistical difficulties and harassment by Trunajaya's forces, the Javanese–Dutch army crossed the Brantas River on the night of 16–17 November. They marched on Trunajaya's capital and stronghold at Kediri and took it by direct assault on 25 November. Kediri was plundered by the victors, and the Mataram treasury—captured by Trunajaya after his victory at Plered—was completely lost in the looting. Trunajaya himself fled Kediri and continued his greatly weakened rebellion until his capture at the end of 1679. Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1678_Kediri_campaign> _______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries: 1302: Byzantine–Ottoman wars: The Ottoman sultanate gained its first major victory against the Byzantine Empire in the Battle of Bapheus in Bithynia. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Bapheus> 1919: Red Summer: Race riots erupted in Chicago after a racial incident occurred on a South Side beach, leading to 38 fatalities and 537 injuries over a five-day period. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_race_riot_of_1919> 1949: The de Havilland Comet, the world's first commercial jet airliner to reach production, made its maiden flight. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Havilland_Comet> 2007: While covering a police pursuit in Phoenix, Arizona, two news helicopters collided in mid-air, killing both crews. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Phoenix_news_helicopter_collision> _____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day: carrier wave: (physics) A wave that can be modulated, either in amplitude, frequency, or phase, to carry or transmit images, music, speech, or other signals. <https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/carrier_wave> ___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:   There's a hole in the sky I stood and stared I feel it inside what isn't there The children are lost we can't find them anywhere Hole in the sky I'm crying still crying for you.   --Juliana Hatfield <https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Juliana_Hatfield>