SIGNIFICANT
EVENTS IN MILITARY HISTORY
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JAN | FEB | MAR | APR | MAY | JUN | JUL | AUG |
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September
1783 -
The Peace Treaty of Versailles was signed between the USA, Britain,
France, and Spain, ending the American Revolution.
1787 - United States Constitution Approved
1814 - US Naval Captain Oliver Hazard Perry defeated a British flotilla
in the Battle of Lake Erie (War of 1812).
1814 - During a British naval attack on the City of Baltimore, Francis
Scott Key composed a poem entitled "The Star Spangled Banner."
1847 - American forces captured Mexico City, effectively ending the
Mexican War.
1864 - Confederate troops abandoned Atlanta in the face of continuing
attacks by federals under General W.S. Sherman (Civil War).
1899 - Founding of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States
1908 - LT Thomas E. Selfridge was killed at Ft. Myer, VA, in a plane
flown by Orville Wright. Selfridge was the first man to die in an
airplane accident.
1939 - German troops invaded Poland, beginning World War II.
1939 - Britain and France declared war on Germany (World War II).
1941 - British Naval forces sank the German battleship Bismarck off the
French coast (World War II).
1943 - The allied invasion of Italy began (World War II).
1945 - V-J Day, Japan signed formal surrender (World War II).
1951 - Battle of Heart Break Ridge began (Korean War).
1962 - United States Naval Sea Cadet Corps Incorporated
1967 - Siege of Con Thien Began (Vietnam War).
1969 - President Richard Nixon ordered resumption of heavy bombing of
North Vietnamese targets (Vietnam War).
1994 - Operation Uphold Democracy began (Haiti).
October
1781
- British troops under General Lord Charles Cornwallis surrendered to
General Washington at Yorktown, Virginia, effectively ending the
American Revolution.
1775 - The US Navy was established.
1901 - The first British Navy submarine was commissioned.
1944 - Battle of Leyte Gulf
1950 - The invasion of North Korea started.
1952 - Battle of Hill 598 began, Korean War
1957 - The Soviet Union launched Sputnik I, first man-made earth
satellite.
1962 - The U.S. began its blockade of Cuba to compel the Russians to
remove long-range missiles aimed at the United States.
1964 - The Chinese exploded their first atomic bomb.
1965 - The Battle of the La Drang Valley, Vietnam War.
1968 - The Bombing of North Vietnam ended.
1969 - Battle of Loc Ninh, Vietnam War
1971 - Operation Jefferson Glenn, the last major operation in which US
ground forces participated in Vietnam
1973 - Egypt and Syria launched military offensive against Israel
1983 -Terrorist attack on Marine Barracks, Beirut
1983 - Operation Urgent Fury, Grenada
1993 - Battle of Bakhara Market, Mogadishu, Somalia
2000 - Bombing of the USS Cole by Al-Queda terrorists
2001 - Operation Enduring Freedom began in Afghanistan
2001 - War on Terror Began
November
1775 - Continental Congress
establishes two battalions of Marines. Samuel Nicholas was appointed
"Captain of Marines" on 28 November 1775, and promoted to major on June
25, 1776. Because of his senior status among other Marine officers of
the Revolution, he is numbered as the first Commandant.
1775 - Americans under General Richard Montgomery capture the British
fort of Saint Johns. (War of Independence)
1861 - The Confederate raider Nashville captured and burned the Union
clipper ship Harvey Birch in the Atlantic Ocean. (Civil War)
1864 - Union General W.T. Sherman began his march to the sea from
Atlanta, GA, in an effort to cut the Confederacy in two. (Civil War)
1865 - Dr. Mary E. Walker, the first female surgeon in the Union Army,
is presented with the Medal of Honor, the first woman to receive that
award.
1910 - First airplane flight
from the deck of a ship.
1917 - American troops were first engaged in fighting attacking German
troops near the Rhine-Marne Canal in France. (World War I)
1918 - World War I ends at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the
eleventh month with the signing of an Armistice. (World War I)
1942 - Operation Torch begins with Allied landings in northwest Africa
(World War II).
1943 - U.S. Marines landed on Tarawa in the Gilbert Islands, one of the
bloodiest campaigns waged by American forces against the Japanese in the
Pacific (World War II).
1965 - Battle of Chu Pon-ia Drang River, Vietnam. U.S. 1st Calvary
fought North Vietnamese regulars for four days (Vietnam War).
1967 - American troops broke a North Vietnamese assault at Loc Ninh,
near the Cambodian border (Vietnam War).
1968 - Battle of Nui Chom Mountain. The 4th Bn, 31st Infantry, 196th Inf
Bde fought and destroyed the 21st NVA Regiment on Nui Chom Mountain
southwest of Da Nang, Vietnam in a fierce six day battle. Cpl Michael
Crescenz received the Medal of Honor as they fought inch by inch up the
steep mountain. (Vietnam War)
(Courtesy of the VetJobs.com
Veterans Eagle Monthly Newsletter)
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