48 BC – Battle of Dyrrhachium (Caesar’s Civil War)
Cesar and Pompei - 1414 fresco by Taddeo Di Bartolo
1460 – Battle of Northampton (Wars of the Roses)
1645 – Battle of Langport (First English Civil War)
1690 – Battle of Beachy Head (Nine Years’ War) (Naval)
"Battle of Beachy Head" - 17th century drawing
1861 – Confederates
and Creek Indians conclude a treaty; Battle of Monroe Station (US Civil War)
1898 – France takes
Fashoda (Eastern Africa)
1940 – Battle of Britain begins (WWII) (Air)
1943 – Allies take Syracuse, Gela, Licata, and Vittoria,
Sicily (WWII)
1944 – Allies take Slonim (WWII)
1945 – US and British carrier forces begin operation against
Japan home islands (Naval); Tokyo attacked by over 1,000 planes (WWII) (Air)
1950 – Battle of Chonui (Korean War)
1953 – Battle of Pork Chop Hill ends (Korean War)
1965 – Raid on Yen Sen (Vietnam War) (Air)
1967 – Battle of An Loc; Battle
of Kontum (Vietnam War)
O-2A of the 20th TASS taxiing for takeoff, Hue Citadel Air Field, July 1967
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