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On this day in military history....
1961 The French army revolts in Algeria.
1943 President Roosevelt announces that several Doolittle pilots have been executed by the Japanese.
1918 German fighter ace Baron von Richthofen, "The Red Baron," is shot down and killed.
1898 The Spanish-American War begins.
1836 General Sam Houston defeats Santa Anna at the Battle of San Jacinto. Texas wins independence from Mexico.
1526 Mongol Emperor Babur annihilates the Indian Army of Ibrahim Lodi.
43 BC Marcus Antonius is defeated by Octavian near Modena, Italy.“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”
-Mark Twain
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On this day in military history....
1944 Allies launch major attack against the Japanese in Hollandia, New Guinea.
1918 British naval forces attempt to sink block-ships in the German U-boat bases at the Battle of Zeeburgge.
1915 At the Second Battle of Ypres, the Germans use poison gas for the first time.
1898 In the first action of the Spanish-American War, the USS Nashville, takes on a Spanish ship.
“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”
-Mark Twain
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on this day in military history....
1945 The Soviet Army fights its way into Berlin.
1895 Russia, France, and Germany force Japan to return the Liaodong peninsula to China.
1826 Missolonghi falls to Egyptian forces.
1759 British forces seize Basse-Terre and Guadeloupe from France.
1521 The Comuneros are crushed by royalist troops in Spain“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”
-Mark Twain
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1980 A rescue attempt of the U.S. hostages held in Iran fails when a plane collides with a helicopter in the Iranian desert.
1961 President John Kennedy accepts "sole responsibility" for the failed invasion of Cuba at the Bay of Pigs.
1948 The Berlin airlift begins to relieve the city surrounded Soviet Troops.
1916 Irish nationalists launch the Easter Uprising against British occupation.
1915 Turks of the Ottoman Empire begin massacring the Armenian minority in their country.
1898 Spain declares war on United States, rejecting an ultimatum to withdraw from Cuba.
1884 Otto von Bismarck cables Cape Town, South Africa that it is now a German colony.
1877 Russia declares war on the Ottoman Empire.
1805 U.S. Marines attack and capture the town of Derna in Tripoli from the Barbary pirates.
1547 Charles V's troops defeat the Protestant League of Schmalkalden at the battle of Muhlburg.“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”
-Mark Twain
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On this day in military history....
1982 In accordance with the Camp David agreements, Israel completes a withdrawal from the Sinai peninsula.
1951 After a three day fight against Chinese Communist Forces, the Gloucestershire Regiment is annihilated on "Gloucester Hill," in Korea.
1945 U.S. and Soviet forces meet at Torgau, Germany on Elbe River.
1915 Australian and New Zealand troops land at Gallipoli in Turkey.
1898 The United States declares war on Spain.
1882 French commander Henri Riviere seizes the citadel of Hanoi in Indochina.
1862 Admiral Farragut occupies New Orleans, Louisiana.
1707 At the Battle of Almansa, Franco-Spanish forces defeat the Anglo-Portugese forces.
1590 The Sultan of Morocco launches a successful attack to capture Timbuktu.“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”
-Mark Twain
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On this day in military history....
1937 The ancient Basque town of Guernica in northern Spain is bombed by German planes supporting Franco's cause during the Spanish civil war. This controversial event was precursor to the carpet booming of WWII.
1915 Second Lieutenant Rhodes-Moorhouse becomes the first airman to win the Victoria Cross after conducting a successful bombing raid.
1865 Joseph E. Johnston surrenders the Army of Tennessee to Sherman.
“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”
-Mark Twain
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On this day in military history....
1975 Saigon is encircled by North Vietnamese troops.
1941 The Greek army capitulates to the invading Germans.
1865 The Sultana, a steam-powered riverboat, catches fire and burns after one of its boilers explodes. At least 1,238 of the 2,031 passengers–mostly former Union POWs–are killed.
1863 The Army of the Potomac begins marching on Chancellorsville.
1813 American forces capture York (present-day Toronto), the seat of government in Ontario.
1746 The English wins the battle of Culloden defeating and exhausted and hungry Scottish army. The defeat would result in the clearing of the highlands by the English in an attempted to prevent further rebellion.
1296 Edward I defeats the Scots at the Battle of Dunbar.“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”
-Mark Twain
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On this day in military history....
1965 The U.S. Army and Marines invade the Dominican Republic.
1953 French troops evacuate northern Laos.
1945 Benito Mussolini is killed by Italian partisans. His body was strung up and displayed publicly. it was this event that made Hitler determined his body should be incinerated after he shot himself.
1916 British declare martial law throughout Ireland.
1789 The crew of the HMS Bounty mutinies against Captain William Bligh.
1760 French forces besieging Quebec defeat the British in the second battle on the Plains of Abraham.
“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”
-Mark Twain
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1975 The U.S. embassy in Vietnam is evacuated as North Vietnamese forces fight their way into Saigon. The evacuation is captured on camera and beamed around the world.
1945 The Nazi concentration camp of Dachau is liberated by Allied troops.
1945 The German Army in Italy surrenders unconditionally to the Allies.
1916 Irish nationalists surrender to the British in Dublin.
1862 Forts Philip and Jackson surrender to Admiral Farragut outside New Orleans.
1859 As the French army races to support them and the Austrian army mobilizes to oppose them, 150,000 Piedmontese troops invade Piedmontese territory.
1858 Austrian troops invade Piedmont.
1672 King Louis XIV of France invades the Netherlands.
1661 The Chinese Ming dynasty occupies Taiwan.
1429 Joan of Arc leads French forces to victory over English at Orleans.
1289 Qala'un, the Sultan of Egypt, captures Tripoli.“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”
-Mark Twain
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On this day in military history....
1975 North Vietnamese troops enter the Independence Palace of South Vietnam in Saigon ending the Vietnam War.
1972 The North Vietnamese launch an invasion of the South.
1970 U.S. troops invade Cambodia to disrupt North Vietnamese Army base areas.
1945 Adolf Hitler commits suicide in his bunker. Karl Donitz becomes his successor.
1943 The British submarine HMS Seraph drops 'the man who never was,' a dead man the British planted with false invasion plans, into the Mediterranean off the coast of Spain.
1930 The Soviet Union proposes a military alliance with France and Great Britain.
1849 Giuseppe Garabaldi, the Italian patriot and guerrilla leader, repulses a French attack on Rome.
1527 Henry VIII of England and King Francis of France sign treaty of Westminster.“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”
-Mark Twain
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2011 Osama Bin Laden is killed in Abbottabad Pakistan by US Navy SEALS in Operation Neptune Spear.
1968 In the second day of battle, U.S. Marines, with the support of naval fire, continue their attack on a North Vietnamese Division at Dai Do.
1960 Francis Gary Powers' U-2 spy plane is shot down over Russia.
1945 Martin Bormann, private secretary to Adolf Hitler, escapes the Fuehrerbunker as the Red Army advances on Berlin.
1944 The Messerschmitt Me 262, the first combat jet, makes its first flight.
1937 President Franklin Roosevelt signs an act of neutrality, keeping the United States out of World War II, until the Empire of japan bombs Pearl Harbour.
1898 The U.S. Navy under Dewey defeats the Spanish fleet at the Battle of Manila Bay in the Philippines.
1863 The Battle of Chancellorsville begins as Union Gen. Joe Hooker starts his three-pronged attack against Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.
“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”
-Mark Twain
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1968 The U.S. Army attacks Nhi Ha in South Vietnam and begins a fourteen-day battle to wrestle it away from Vietnamese Communists.
1945 Russian forces take Berlin after 12 days of fierce house-to-house fighting.
1942 Admiral Chester J. Nimitz, convinced that the Japanese will attack Midway Island, visits the island to review its readiness.
1941 Hostilities break out between British forces in Iraq and that country's pro-German faction.
1863 Stonewall Jackson smashes Hooker's flank at Chancellorsville, Virginia.
1813 Napoleon defeats a Russian and Prussian army at Grossgorschen.
1798 General Toussaint L'ouverture forces British troops to agree to evacuate the port of Santo Domingo.
1797 A mutiny in the British navy spreads from Spithead to the rest of the fleet.
1776 France and Spain agree to donate arms to American rebels fighting the British.“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”
-Mark Twain
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On this day in military history....
1982 A British submarine sinks Argentina's only cruiser during the Falkland Islands War.
1968 After three days of battle, the U.S. Marines retake Dai Do complex in Vietnam, only to find the North Vietnamese have evacuated the area.
1926 U.S. Marines land in Nicaragua.
1859 France declares war on Austria.
1568 French forces in Florida slaughter hundreds of Spanish.
“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”
-Mark Twain
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On this day in military history....
1968 U.S. Air Force planes hit Nhi Ha, South Vietnam in support of attacking infantrymen.
1945 Holland and Denmark are liberated from Nazi control.
1942 General Joseph Stilwell learns that the Japanese have cut his railway out of China and is forced to lead his troops into India.
1862 Mexican forces loyal to Benito Juarez defeat troops sent by Napoleon III in the Battle of Puebla.
1821 Napoleon Bonaparte dies in exile on the island of St. Helena.
1814 British attack the American forces at Ft. Ontario, Oswego, New York.“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”
-Mark Twain
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1962 The first nuclear warhead is fired from a Polaris submarine.
1945 Axis Sally makes her final propaganda broadcast to Allied troops.
1944 The Red Army besieges and captures Sevastopol in the Crimea.
1942 General Jonathan Wainwright surrenders Corregidor to the Japanese.
1877 Chief Crazy Horse surrenders to U.S. troops in Nebraska.Crazy Horse brought General Custer to his end.
1864 In the second day of the Battle of Wilderness between Union General Ulysses S. Grant and Confederate General Robert E. Lee, Confederate Gen. James Longstreet is wounded by friendly fire.
1529 Babur defeats the Afgan Chiefs in the Battle of Ghagra, India.
1527 German troops begin sacking Rome. Libraries are destroyed, the Pope is captured and thousands are killed.“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”
-Mark Twain
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On this day in military history....
1954 French troops surrender to the Vietminh at Dien Bien Phu.
1945 Germany signs an unconditional surrender, effectively ending World War II in Europe.
1943 The last major German strongholds in North Africa–Tunis and Bizerte–fall to Allied forces
1942 In the Battle of the Coral Sea, Japanese and American navies attack each other with carrier-launched warplanes. It is the first time in the history of naval warfare where two fleets fought without seeing each other.Two crucial battles in 1942 marked the turning point of the war in the Pacific
1937 The German Condor Legion arrives in Spain to assist Fransico Franco's forces.
1915 The German submarine U-20 torpedoes the passenger ship Lusitiania, sinking her in 21 minutes with 1,978 people on board
1877 Indian chief Sitting Bull enters Canada with a trail of Indians after the Battle of Little Big Horn.
1763 Indian chief Pontiac begins his attack on a British fort in present-day Detroit
1429 Joan of Arc breaks the English siege of Orleans “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”
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1952 Allied fighter-bombers stage the largest raid of the war on North Korea.
1942 The Battle of the Coral Sea between the Japanese Navy and the U.S. Navy ends.
1940 German commandos in Dutch uniforms cross the Dutch border to hold bridges for the advancing German army.
1904 U.S. Marines land in Tangier, North Africa, to protect the Belgian legation.
1862 General 'Stonewall' Jackson repulses the Federals at the Battle of McDowell, in the Shenendoah Valley.
“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”
-Mark Twain
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On this day in military history....
1941 The German submarine U-110 is captured at sea along with its Enigma machine by the Royal Navy. (not the US Navy as Hollywood would have you believe!!
1936 Fascist Italy captures the city of Addis Abba, Ethiopia and annexes the country.
1915 German and French forces fight the Battle of Artois.
1864 Union General John Sedgwick is shot and killed by a Confederate sharpshooter during fighting at Spotsylvania. His last words are: "They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist–" 
1813 U.S. troops under William Henry Harrison take Fort Meigs from British and Canadian troops.
“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”
-Mark Twain
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1941 The House of Commons is destroyed during the worst of the London Blitz: 550 German bombers drop 100,000 incendiary bombs.
1940 German forces begin an assault on the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg, skirting France's "impenetrable" Maginot Line.
1917 Allied ships get destroyer escorts to fend off German attacks in the Atlantic. The success of this would become the template for the convoy system used in WWll
1859 French emperor Napoleon III leaves Paris to join his troops preparing to battle the Austrian army in Northern Italy.
1865 Union cavalry troops capture Confederate President Jefferson Davis near Irvinville, Georgia.
1863 General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson succumbs to illness and wounds received during the Battle of Chancellorsville
1857 The Bengal Army in India revolts against the British.
1796 Napoleon Bonaparte wins a brilliant victory against the Austrians at Lodi bridge in Italy.
“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”
-Mark Twain
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1960 Israeli soldiers capture Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires.
1864 Confederate General J.E.B. Stuart is mortally wounded at Yellow Tavern.
1862 Confederates scuttle the CSS Virginia off Norfolk, Virginia.
1745 French forces defeat an Anglo-Dutch-Hanoverian army at Fontenoy.
1690 In the first major engagement of King William's War, British troops from Massachusetts seize Port Royal in Acadia (Nova Scotia and New Brunswick) from the French.
1689 French and English navies battle at Bantry Bay. “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”
-Mark Twain
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