1775 – Capture of Fort
Ticonderoga (American Revolutionary War)
Hauling guns by ox teams from Fort Ticonderoga for the siege of Boston, 1775
1779 –
Chesapeake raid begins (American Revolutionary War)
1796 –
Battle of Lodi (French Revolutionary Wars); Battle at Derbent (Russo-Persian
Wars)
1799 – Assault
on Acre repulsed (French Revolutionary Wars)
1862 –
Battle of Plum Run Bend, TN (also Plum Point) (US Civil War) (Naval)
1864 –
Battle of Cove Mountain; Battle of Chester Station (US Civil War)
1865 –
Confederate President Davis captured (US Civil War)
1869 –
Naval Battle of Hakodate ends (Boshin War) (Naval)
1917 –
Tenth Battle of the Isonzo begins (WWI)
Captured Italian artillery pieces 1917
1940 –
Battle of France begins; Battle of Rotterdam begins; Battle for the Hague; Battle
of Maastricht (WWII)
1942 –
Philippines surrendered (WWII)
1951 –
Strike on Sinuiju (Korean War) (Air)
1969 –
Operation Apache Snow begins (Vietnam War)
1968 –
Battle of Kham Duc begins (Vietnam War)
1969 –
Battle of Hamburger Hill begins (Vietnam War)
Sergeant Curtis E. Hester firing his M-16 rifle, Sergeant Billy H.
Faulks calls for
air support, Co D, 151st (Ranger) Inf., Vietnam War,
1969
2002 –
Siege of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem (Second Intafada)
2008 –
Attack on Omdurman and Khartoum begins (Darfur War)
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