Today in military history: September 27, 2014

Military history timeline 

1331 – Battle of Plowce (Polish-Teutonic War of 1326-1332) 

1371 – Battle of Maritsa (Sebian-Ottoman Wars) 

1529 – Siege of Vienna begins (Ottoman-Hapsburg Wars) 

1605 – Battle of Kircholm (Polish-Swedish War of 1600-1611) 

1778 – Baylor Massacre (American Revolutionary War) 

1810 – Battle of Bussaco (Peninsular War)

 Engraving representing the Battle of Buçaco - September 27, 1810 - published in London on June 1, 1815, by J. Jenkins, 48 Strand.

  

1846 – Battle of Chino ends (Mexican-American War) 

1852 – Battle of Gur Amba (Ethiopia) 

1864 – Battle of Pilot Knob (also Fort Davidson); Battle of Centralia (US Civil War) 

1870 – Battle of Le Bourget begins (Franco-Persian War) 

1918 – Battle of Canal du Nord begins (WWI) 

1923 – Corfu incident ends (Greece) 

1939 – Germans take Warsaw (WWII) 

1941 – Germans take Perekop; Allies take Wolchefit (WWII) 

1943 – Germans take Corfu; Soviets take Temryuk; Canadians take Melfi, Italy (WWII) 

1950 – Seoul recaptured by UN forces (Korean War)

Mid to late September 1950 - A Soviet-made North Korean T-34 tank knocked out during the United Nations advance from Incheon to Seoul after the amphibious landings at Incheon during the Korean War.

A Korean family mourns their murdered father, victim of the wholesale murder at Chonju by North Koreans. September 27, 1950

  

1967 – Operation SHENANDOAH II begins (Vietnam War) 

1968 – Operation in the DMZ ends (Vietnam War) 

1981 – Siege of Abaden ends (Iran-Iraq War) 

1996 – Civil war in Afghanistan begins  

1998 – Battle of Kilinochchi begins (Sri Lankan civil war)