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17th Aug 1812
During the Battle of Smolensk Napoleon Bonaparte’s army defeats the Russians during the Russian retreat to Moscow.
17th Aug 1833
The Canadian ship Royal William becomes the first steam ship to cross the Atlantic entirely on its own power, sails from Nova Scotia to the Isle of Wight.
17th Aug 1942
Makin Island in the Gilbert Islands is attacked by Marine Raiders from two submarines.
17th Aug 1943
The conquest of Sicily is completed by Allied forces.
17th Aug 1987
Former Nazi leader and deputy of Hitler, 93 year old Rudolf Hess is found hanged in Spandau Prison.
Regards
Alan
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18th Aug 1759
The British destroy the French fleet under Admiral ‘Old Dreadnought’ Boscawen at the Battle of Lagos Bay.
18th Aug 1870
At the Battle of Gravelotte the Prussian forces defeat the French during the Franco-Prussian war.
18th Aug 1914
Germany declares war on Russia.
18th Aug 1942
A crack Japanese army is sent to Guadalcanal to repulse the US Marines fighting there.
18th Aug 1943
The first major strike against the German missile development facility at Peenemunde is completed by RAF Bomber Command.
18th Aug 1965
The beginning of major US ground combat operations is marked by Operation Starlite.
Regards
Alan
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19th Aug 1772
Gustavus III of Sweden establishes an absolute monarchy.
19th Aug 1914
The BEF (British Expeditionary Force) lands in France.
19th Aug 1942
British and Canadian commandos are repulsed by the German army in a raid on Dieppe, France.
19th Aug 1988
A cease fire begins between Iran and Iraq in their 8 year war.
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Alan
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20th Aug 1913
Adolphe Pegoud becomes the first person to jump from an airplane and land safely by parachute.
20th Aug 1914
At Gumbinnen, Russia wins an early victory over Germany.
20th Aug 1940
During the Battle of Britain the British use radar for the first time. Churchill broadcasts his famous words, ‘Never in the field of human conflict was som much owed by so many to so few’.
20th Aug 1941
Development of the V2 missile is authorised by Adolf Hitler.
20th Aug 1944
US and British forces close the pincer on German units in the Falaise-Argentan pocket in France.
20th Aug 1953
Acknowledgement is made by the USSR that it tested a hydrogen bomb.
20th Aug 1968
Warsaw Pact troops invade Czechoslavakia.
20th Aug 1990
Western hostages are moved to military installations by Iraq to use them as human shields against air attacks.
Regards
Alan
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Excellent as always Alan!
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21st Aug 1794
The Island of Corsica is surrendered to the British by France.
21st Aug 1808
Wellington defeats General Junot at the first Battle of the Peninsular War at Vimeiro, Portugal.
21st Aug 1915
Italy declares war on Turkey
21st Aug 1942
The First major Japanese ground attack on Guadalcanal is turned back by US Marines in the Battle of Tenaru.
21st Aug 1989
Voyager 2 begins a flyby of Neptune.
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Alan
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22nd Aug 1717
The Turkish army is forced out of Belgrade by the Austrian army, ending the Turkish revival in the Balkans.
22nd Aug 1942
Brazil declares war on the Axis powers.
22nd Aug 1945
Soviet troops land at Port Arthur on the Kwantung Peninsula in China.
22nd Aug 1962
NS Savannah, the first nuclear-powered passenger-cargo ship, completes its maiden voyage from Yorktown to Savannah.
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Alan
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23rd Aug 1305
William Wallace is hanged, drawn, beheaded and quaretered.
23rd Aug 1711
An attempt to invade Canada from the sea by the British fails.
23rd Aug 1821
Mexican independence is granted by Spain after 11 years of war.
23rd Aug 1914
War on Germany is declared by the Emperor of Japan.
23rd Aug 1939
Stalin and the German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop sign a non-aggression pact between the Soviet Union and Germany, giving Hitler freedom to invade Poland and Stalin to invade Finland.
23rd Aug 1942
German forces begin an assault on the city of Stalingrad.
23rd Aug 1944
Explosive charges are placed around the Eiffel Tower by German SS engineers.
23rd Aug 1954
C130 Hercules transport aircraft has its first flight.
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Alan
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24th Aug 79
Pompeii, Stabiae, Heculaneum and other small areas are destroyed when Mount Vesuvius erupts.
24th Aug 1572
At the Massacre of St Bartholomew 50,000 people are put to death as Charles IX of France attempts to rid the country of Huguenots.
24th Aug 1814
The British capture and set fire to Washington DC in retaliation for the American burning of the parliament building in York, Toronto, the capital of Upper Canada.
24th Aug 1942
The third carrier-versus-carrier battle, US Naval forces defeat a Japanese force attempting to screen reinforcements for the Guadalcanal.
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Alan
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25th Aug 1346
At the Battle of Crecy in France, Edward III defeats Philip VI’s army.
25th Aug 1758
The invadng Russians are defeated by the Prussian army at the Battle of Zondorf.
25th Aug 1921
After failing to ratify the Versailles Treaty the US finally signs a peace treaty with Germany.
25th Aug 1941
A supply route to the Soviet Union is opened when British and Soviet forces enter Iran.
25th Aug 1943
Occupation of New Georgia is completed by the Allies.
25th Aug 1944
Pars s liberated by Free French Forces.
25th Aug 1991
Airbus A340 makes its first flight.
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Alan
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26th Aug 1429
A triumphant entry nto Pars s made by Joan of Arc.
26th Aug 1883
Krakatoa erupts, the largest explosion recorded is heard 2,200 miles away from Madagascar. 36,000 people die resulting from 131, foot tidal waves that obliterate 163 villages in nearby Java and Sumatra.
26th Aug 1957
The latest luxury car the Edsel is revealed by Ford.
26th Aug 1999
Russia begins the Second Chechen War.
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Alan
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27th Aug 1776
The British defeat the Americans at the Battle of Long Island, New York.
27th Aug 1813
At the Battle of Dresden the Allies defeat Napoleon.
27th Aug 1916
Italy declares war on Germany
27th Aug 1945
Supplies begin to be dropped into Allied prisoner of war camps in China by B29 bombers.
27th Aug 1979
An Irish terrorist bomb kills Lord Mountbatten in his sail boat in Sligo, Ireland.
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Alan
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28th Aug 1914
The Royal Navy sink three German Cruisers in the Battle of Heligoland Bight, the first major naval battle of WWI
28th Aug 1941
The British capture the German U-Boat U570 and rename Graph.
28th Aug 1944
German forces in Toulon and Marseilles surrender to the Allies.
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Alan
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29th Aug 1526
Ottoman Suleiman the Magnificent defeats a Hungarian army at the Battle of Mohacs.
29th Aug 1945
The occupation of Japan begins when US airborne troops are landing at Atsugi airfield southwest of Tokyo.
29th Aug 1949
USSR explodes its first atomic bomb
29th Aug 1960
SAM missile launch pads are spotted in Cuba by a US U2 spy plane.
29th Aug 1995
Operation Deliberate Force is launched by NATO against Bosnian Serbs forces.
Regards
Alan
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30th Aug 1892
Cholera is brought to the US on the passenger ship Morovia, arriving from Germany.
30th Aug 1932
Hermann Goering is elected president of the Reichstag.
30th Aug 1944
The centre of the Rumanian oil industry Ploesti is taken by Soviet troops.
30th Aug 1963
A hot line link between Moscow and Washington is installed.
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Alan
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31st Aug 1756
The British surrender Fort William Henry, New York to the French
31st Aug 1942
Montgomery defeats Rommel’s Afrika Korps in the Battle of Alam Halfa in Egypt.
31st Aug 1944
The German Gothic Line in Italy is penetrated by the British Eighth Army.
31st Aug 1951
A four day battle results in 2,700 Marine casualties when the 1st Marine Division attacks Bloody Ridge in Korea.
31st Aug 1961
The Berlin Wall replaces the barbed wire fence.
31st Aug 1997
Princess Diana dies in a car crash in Paris.
Regards
Alan
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1st Sep 1870
The French are crushed at Sedan by the Prussian army, the last battle of the Franco-Prussian war.
1st Sep 1876
The Serbs are defeated by the Ottomans at Aleksinac.
1st Sep 1916
The First World War expands with Bulgaria declaring war on Romania.
1st Sep 1939
World War II begins with Germany invading Poland.
1st Sep 1969
Colonel Gaddafi seizes power in Libya.
1st Sep 1985
Dr Robert Ballard and Jean Louis Michel discover the wreck of the Titanic.
Regards
Alan
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2nd Sep 1666
City of London is devastated with the start of the Great Fire of London.
2nd Sep 1792
Verdun, France surrenders to the Prussian Army.
2nd Sep 1944
US First Army enters Belgium.
2nd Sep 1945
WWII comes to an end with Japan signing the document of surrender aboard the USS Missouri.
2nd Sep 1992
US and Russia agree jointly to build a space station.
Regards
Alan
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3rd Sep 1189
Richard Lionheart is crowned king of England
3rd Sep 1650
Cromwell defeats a superior Scottish army at the Battle of Dunbar.
3rd Sep 1783
Great Britain and the US sign the Treat of Paris bringing the American Revolution to an end.
3rd Sep 1916
An Allied offensive breaks the German Somme front.
3rd Sep 1939
Great Britain declares war on Germany marking the beginning of WWII in Europe.
British passenger ship Athenia is sunk by a German submarine in the Atlantic.
3rd Sep 1943
British troops invade Italy by landing at Calabria.
3rd Sep 1944
Lyons, France is captured by the US Seventh Army.
Regards
Alan
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4th Sep 1804
During the First Barbary War USS Intrepid explodes while entering Tripoli harbour.
4th Sep 1941
An undeclared shooting war begins when German submarine U652 fires at the US destroyer Greer off Iceland.
4th Sep 1942
Budapest is bombed by Soviet planes, the first air raid on the Hungarian capital.
4th Sep 1944
Antwerp, Belgium is liberated by British troops.
4th Sep 1945
The American flag is raised on Wake Island.
Regards
Alan
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