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25th Jun 1876
General Custer and men of the Seventh Cavalry are wiped out at Little Bighorn.
25th Jun 1920
8.000 Turkish prisoners are taken by the Greeks in Smyma.
25th Jun 1941
Finland declares war on the Soviet Union.
25th Jun 1948
The blockade of Berlin is tightened by the Soviet Union by intercepting river barges heading for the city.
25th Jun 1950
Korean War begins with North Korea invading South Korea.
Regards
Alan
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26th Jun 1794
At the Battle of Fleurus the Austrian army is defeated by the French.
26th Jun 1900
US to send troops to fight against the Boxer Rebellion in China.
26th Jun 1916
Russian General Aleksei Brusilov renews his offensive against the Germans.
26th Jun 1918
Big Bertha, the Germans huge 420mm howitzer begins firing at Paris.
26th Jun 1942
The Grumman F6F Hellcat flies for the first time.
26th Jun 1945
50 nations sign the UN Charter in San Francisco.
Regards
Alan
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You missed the Somme! Well done for keeping this going Jase “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”
-Mark Twain
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27th Jun 1743
The French are defeated by King George II at Dettingen, Bavaria.
27th Jun 1905
Crew of the Russian battleship Potemkin mutinies.
27th Jun 1918
For the first time parachutes save two German pilots
27th Jun 1927
The bulldog is adopted as the mascot of the US Marines.
27th Jun 1944
Port city of Cherbourg, France s captured by allied forces.
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Alan
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jase wrote:You missed the Somme!
Well done for keeping this going
Jase Thanks Jase, appreciated. Haven't missed the Somme at all. If you notice I've only posted up to 27th Jun and the Somme didn't happen till 1st July. Intend to catch up on the dates this weekend... Regards Alan
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28th Jun 1675
The Swedes are crushed by Frederic William of Brandenburg.
28th Jun 1709
Swedes and Cossacks are defeated by the Russians at the Battle of Poltava
28th Jun 1776
A British sea attack on Charleston, South Carolina is repulsed by colonists.
28th Jun 1902
The Spooner Bill is passed by congress authorising a canal to be built across the Isthmus of Panama.
28th Jun 1919
The Treaty of Versailles is signed by Germany but under protest.
28th Jun 1942
Germans launch an offensive to seize Soviet oil fields and Stalingrad
28th Jun 1945
The end of Japanese resistance in the Philippines is announced by General MacArthur.
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Alan
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29th Jun 1880
Tahiti is annexed by France.
29th Jun 1917
Ukraine proclaims its independence from Russia.
29th Jun 1950
A sea blockade of Korea is authorised by President Truman
29th Jun 1955
Soviet tanks sent to Poznan, Poland to quell anti-communist demonstrations.
29th Jun 1970
US pulls troops out of Cambodia
29th Jun 1982
Israel invades Lebanon
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Alan
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30th Jun 1908
Thousands of trees in the Tunguska region of Siberia are levelled. Believed to have been caused by a mysterious explosion approaching 20 megatons, possibly the result of a meteorite.
30th Jun 1934
Hitler orders the purge of his own party in the Night of the Long Knives.
30th Jun 1971
Soviet spacecraft depressurises during re-entry resulting in the death of three cosmonauts.
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Alan
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1st Jul 1543
The Peace of Greenwich is signed by England and Scotland
1st Jul 1798
Alexandria, Egypt is taken by Napoleon Bonaparte,
1st Jul 1838
Charles Darwin’s paper on the theory of evolution is presented to the Linnean Society in London,
1st Jul 1876
Montenegro declares war on the Turks
1st Jul 1916
Approximately 30,000 men are killed on day one of the Battle of the Somme, two thirds of them are British.
1st Jul 1942
Sevastopol, Crimea in the Soviet Union is captured by Axis troops.
1st Jul 1961
British troops arrive in Kuwait to aid against Iraqi threats.
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Alan
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2nd Jul 1625
Spanish army takes Breda, Spain after nearly a year of siege.
2nd Jul 1644
The Royalists are crushed by Oliver Cromwell at the Battle of Marston Moor
2nd Jul 1926
Congress establishes the Army Air Corps
2nd Jul 1937
Amelia Earhart disappears in the Central Pacific during an attempt to fly around the world.
2nd July 1976
North and South Vietnam are reunified.
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Alan
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3rd Jul 1863
Confederate forces fail to break the centre of the Union line at Gettysburg.
3rd Jul 1944
US First Army tries to break out of the hedgerow area of Normandy, France
3rd Jul 1945
US troops take Sepinqqan airfield on Borneo after landing at Balikpapan.
3rd Jul 1954
Great Britain sees the end of food rationing some nine years after the end of WWII
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Alan
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4th Jul 1776
The amended Declaration of Independence is signed by John Hancock, President of the Continental Congress and Charles Thomson, Congress secretary.
4th Jul 1881
In New Mexico, Billy the Kid is shot dead.
4th Jul 1946
The Philippine Islands are granted their independence by the US.
4th Jul 1976
105 hostages are rescued by Israeli forces during their raid at Entebbe airport in Uganda.
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Alan
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5th Jul 1806
The British are repelled by the Spanish in their attempt to retake Buenos Aires, Argentina.
5th July 1814
Superior British force is defeated by US troops at Chippewa, Canada.
5th Jul 1941
German troops reach the Drieper River in the Soviet Union.
5th Jul 1943
The largest tank battle in history begins at the Battle of Kursk
5th Jul 1944
US forces repel a counterattack by the Japanese garrison on Numfoor, New Guinea.
5th Jul 1950
North Koreans are engaged for the first time by American forces at Osan, South Korea.
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Alan
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6th July 1685
At the Battle of Sedgemoor, the last major battle to be fought on English soil, James II defeats the Duke of Monmouth,
6th Jul 1770
At the Battle of Chesma the Russians destroy the entire Ottoman fleet.
6th Jul 1945
Honshu, Japan is attacked by B29 Superfortress bombers using new fire-bombing techniques.
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Alan
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7th Jul 1798
Bonaparte’s army marches from Alexandria towards Cairo.
7th Jul 1815
The Victorious Allies march into Paris after defeating Napoleon at Waterloo.
7th Jul 1941
The US sends troops to occupy Iceland to ensure it stays out of Germany’s hands.
7th Jul 1943
The V2 missile program is made a top priority in armament planning by Hitler.
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Alan
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8th Jul 1686
Hungary s annexed when the Austrians take Budapest from the Turks.
8th Jul 1755
Diplomatic relations with France s broken off by Britain as their disputes intensify.
8th Jul 1794
Brussels captured by French troops.
8th Jul 1905
The mutinous crew for the battleship Potemkin surrenders to authorities in Rumania.
8th Jul 1941
B17’s fly in the first mission over Wilhelmshaven, Germany.
8th Jul 1943
Japanese held Wake Island is bombed by B-24 bombers.
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Alan
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9th Jul 1790
One third of the Russian fleet is captured by the Swedish navy at the Battle of Svensksund in the Baltic Sea.
9th Jul 1900
Australia is established in the Commonwealth by an act of British Parliament uniting the separate colonies under a federal government.
9th Jul 1942
Anne Frank together with her family go into hiding in the attic above her father’s office in Amsterdam.
9th Jul 1943
An amphibious landing on Sicily is made by American and British forces.
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Alan
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10th Jul 1778
Louis XVI declares war on England in support of the American Revolution.
10th Jul 1940
Germany begins bombing of England
10th Jul 1943
The amphibious landing of Sicily is completed by American and British forces.
10th Jul 1945
Airstrikes from US Carrier based aircraft begins against Japan in preparation for invasion
10th Jul 1962
The satellite Telstar is launched beaming live television from Europe to the US.
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Alan
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11th Jul 1708
The French are defeated at Oudenarde in the Netherlands by the Duke of Marlborough and Eugene of Savoy.
11th Jul 1799
Napoleon Bonaparte’s troops in Alexandria is bombarded by an Anglo Turkish armada to no avail.
11th Jul 1942
44 British Lancaster bombers attack the Polish port of Danzig in the RAF’s longest bombing raid of WWII.
11th Jul 1972
The 95 day siege at An Loc in Vietnam is broken by American forces.
11th Jul 1975
An army of 8.000 life size clay figures created more than 2,000 years ago for the Emperor Qin Shi Huangd is unearthed by Archaeologists.
Regards
Alan
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12th Jul 1691
At the Battle of Aughrim, Ireland, the Irish and French are defeated by William III
12th Jul 1794
Lord Nelson loses his right eye at eh siege of Calvi, Corsica.
12th Jul 1941
German Luftwaffe bomb Moscow for the first time.
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Alan
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