761 - Battle of
Aedwiresclif (England)
1181 - Battle of Sunomata-gawa (Genpei War)
1284 – Battle of Meloria (Genoese-Pisan Wars) (Naval)
Battle of Meloria (1241), in an image taken from the
14th century Nuova Cronica of Giovanni Villani
1549 – Battle of Clyst Heath (Anglo-Cornish War of 1549)
1566 – Siege of
Szigetvar begins (Ottoman-Hapsburg wars)
1623 - Battle of
Stadtlohn (Thirty Years’ War)
1734 – Siege of Gaeta ends (War of the Polish
Succession)
1763 - Battle of
Bushy Run ends (Pontiac’s Rebellion)
1777 – Battle of
Oriskany (American Revolutionary War)
1780 - Battle of
Hanging Rock (American Revolutionary War)
1813 - Battle of
Caracas (Venezuelan War of Independence)
1862 – CSS Arkansas lost (Naval); Battle of Tazewell;
Battle of Kirksville (US Civil War)
1870 – Second Battle of Woerth; Battle of Spicheren (Franco-Prussian War)
1914 – First airship
bombing mission of WWI conducted (WWI) (Air)
1915 – Landing at
Suvla Bay begins (partly Naval); Battle
of Lone Pine (also Kanli Sirt) begins; Battle of Krithia Vineyard begins;
Battle of Sari Bair begins (WWI)
1916 – Sixth Battle
of the Isonzo begins (WWI)
1942 – Germans take Tikhoretsk (WWII)
1943 – Battle of Vela Gulf begins (Naval); Americans take
Troina, Sicily; Soviets take Zolochev (WWII)
1944 – Allies take Laval (WWII)
1945 – Uranium fission bomb dropped on Hiroshima (WWII)
(Air)
Little Boy - atomic bomb (Hiroshima). On the left : Commander A. Birch,
on the right : Dr. Norman Foster Ramsey. Note the open case of the bomb.
General Spaatz and other dignitaries await the return of the
Enola Gay and her crew from mission to Hiroshima - August 6, 1945
Standish Backus photo of Hiroshima, 1945
Demobilized Japanese soldiers crowd trains at Hiroshima on way to homes -
September 1945
Discharged Japanese soldiers crowd trains as they
take advantage of free transportation to their homes after end of World
War II in Hiroshima, Japan - September 1945
2011 – US Chinook shot down with 38 deaths (War in
Afghanistan)
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