June 18, 1815: Napoleon back from exile versus a coalition force under England's Duke of Wellington and Prussia's Gebhard von Blücher. It was Wellington, by the way, who supposedly called the victory "the nearest run thing you ever saw in your life."
There are all sorts of commemorations and related news items, but since I'm in a hurry today, I'll leave you with three that stood out to me:
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