About This day in military history.. Page 189
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July 24th, 2012
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| | 1132 Battle of Nocera 1148 Siege of Damascus begins 1411 Battle of Harlaw 1813 Sailing Master Elijah Mix attempts to sink HMS Plantagenet with a (spar?) torpedo off Cape Henry, Va. 1861 Battle of Tyler Mountain, Va 1863 Union troops battle Indians in Dakota Territory near where Bismarck is today 1864 2nd Battle of Kernstown 1910 Ottomans capture Shkoder 1940 R.N. Trawlers bombed/sunk..HMS Fleming in the Thames Estuary, HMS Kingston Galena & Rodino off Dover. French Troopship Meknes sunk by E-Boat S-27 in the English Channel 1942 U-90 sunk by Destroyer HMCS St. Croix 1944 Battle of Tinian begins 1945 IJN Carrier Amagi & Cruiser Aoba sunk at Kobe. Minesweeper HMS Squirrel damaged by mine & scuttled off Phuket, Siam. Destroyer Escort USS Underhill sunk by Kaiten manned torpedo 1977 Libyan-Egyptian War ends 2001 Bandaranaike Airport attack, Sri Lanka |
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July 26th, 2012
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July 25 1139 Battle of Ourique 1261 Nicaeans recapture Constantinople 1759 British capture Ft. Niagra & the French abandon Ft. Rouille 1797 Battle of Abu Qir 1814 Battle of Lundy's Lane, Ontario 1861 Battle of ft. Fillmore, New Mexico Territory begins 1863 Siege of Battery Wagner begins 1898 US invades Puerto Rico 1915 RFC Capt. Lanoe Hawker becomes the 1st British aviator to win the Victoria Cross for shooting down 3 German observation planes in one day. 1920 French capture Damascus 1940 KM Torpedo Boat Luchs sunk by sub HMS Thames off Norway. 1941 Italian Patrol Ship B 247 sunk by sub HMS Tetrarch off Gaidero Island, Greece 1942 R.N. Trawler HMS Laertes sunk by U-201 off Freetown, Sierra Leone. US Army Transport Tjinegara sunk by I-169 s.w. of Noumea 1993 Israel invades Lebanon |
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July 26th, 2012
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July 26 657 Battle of Siffin begins 811 Battle of Pliska 1469 Battle of Edgecote Moor 1758 Siege of Louisbourg ends 1812 USS Essex captures HMS Leander 1822 Battle of Dervenakia begins 1861 Battle of Ft. Fillmore ends 1897 Siege of Makaland begins 1937 Battle of Brunete begins 1940 KM Minesweepers M-61, 89, & 136 are sunk by mines off Hoek Van Holland, Neth. 1941 Soviet Gunboat MO-239 sunk by Finnish Gunboat Uusimaa off Bengtskar, Finland. Italian PT boats MAS 451 & 452 sunk by RAF at Malta. 1942 CAM equipped SS Empire Rainbow sunk by U-607 1944 I-29 sunk by USS Sawfish in the Balintang Channel. Sub USS Robalo sunk by mine off Palawan 1953 Cuban Revolution begins 1954 Fighters from USS Philippine Sea shoot down 2 Red Chinese fighters that fired on them while providing air cover for rescue operations after a Chinese fighter shot down a British airliner |
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July 27th, 2012
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July 27 1054 The Earl of Northumbria defeats McBeth 1214 Battle of Bovines 1302 Battle of Bapheus 1689 Battle of Killiecrankie 1720 naval Battle of Grengam 1778 1st naval Battle of Ushant 1880 Battle of Maiwand 1940 Spanish sub C-4 sunk in collision with Spanish Destroyer Lepanto. Destroyer HMS Codrington bombed at Dover, declared total loss & Destroyer HMS Wren bombed/sunk off Aldeburgh 1941 Japan occupies French Indochina. Soviet Destroyer Smelyi sunk by E Boat S-54 in Gulf of Riga 1942 1st Battle of El Alamein ends 1943 IJN Minelayer Hirashima sunk by USS Sawfish in the East China Sea and I-168 sunk by sub USS Scamp in Steffen Strait 1944 R.N. Trawler HMS Maaloy sunk by U-510 off Ceylon 1945 IJN Battleship Hyuga bombed/sunk at Kure 1953 Korean War ends |
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July 29th, 2012
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july 28 1364 Battle of Cascina 1809 Battle of Talavera begins 1822 Battle of Dervenakia ends 1864 Battle of Ezra Church 1914 Austria-Hungary declares War on Serbia, WWI begins 1915 US sailors & Marines land in Haiti to restore order 1935 1st flight B-17 1940 R.N. Trawler HMS Staunton sunk by mine in Thames Estuary 1941 R.N. Lighter A 8 bombed/sunk off Bardia 1943 Operation Gomorrah: RAF starts a firestorm in Hamburg 1945 Destroyer USS Callaghan sunk by Kamakaze off Okinawa, last US warship sunk by Kamakazes. IJN Battleship Haruna bombed/sunk @ Kure, Battleship Ise bombed/sunk @ Hiroshima, Cruiser Oyoda bombed/damaged @ Kure, capsizes @ Hiroshima while being beached after being towed from Kure. Carrier Amagi, reported sunk on the 24th, is bombed again & capsizes at Kure. |
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July 29th, 2012
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July 29 904 Sack of Thessalonica begins 1014 Battle of Kleidon 1030 Battle of Stiklestad 1588 naval Battle of Gravelines(defeat of the Spanish Armada) 1693 Battle of Landen 1846 Sailors & Marines from USS Cyclops capture San Diego 1940 Destroyer HMS Delight bombed/damaged at Portland, Armed Yacht HMS Gulzar bombed/sunk at Dover 1941 Soviet Minesweeper T-201 Zaryad sunk off Ristna Lighthouse, Estonia 1967 Fire onboard USS Forrestal kills 134 & wounds 160. Last edited by George; July 29th, 2012 at 16:56.. |
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July 30th, 2012
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July 30 1635 Siege of Schenkenschans begins 1656 Battle of Warsaw ends 1864 Siege of Petersburg: Battle of the Crater 1916 Black Tom Island munitions Disaster 1941 Sub HMS Cachalot rammed/sunk by Italian Torpedo Boat Generale Achille Papa. Destroyer HMS Delight, damaged by bombs the day before, sinks at Portland. River Gunboat USS Tutuila is bombed/damaged at Chunking. Soviet sub S-6 is bombed/sunk off Saaremaa, Estonia 1943 U-43 sunk by aircraft from USS Santee in the Atlantic, U-504 sunk by R.N. ships in the Bay of Biscay 1944 US Army troops land at Cape Opmari, New Guinea. US Minesweepers YMS 304 & 378 sunk by mines off Normandy 1945 IJN Destroyer Hatsushimo sunk by mine in Miyazu Bay. USS Indianapolis sunk by I-58 in the Philippine Sea, a large portion of the 880 men who died died from exposure & dehydration after the Cruisers sinking went unnoticed for many days |
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July 31st, 2012
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July 31 30 B.C. Battle of Alexandria 904 Arabs capture Thessolonica 1423 Battle of Crevant 1655 Russians capture Vilnius 1741 Bavaria invades Bohemia & Upper Austria 1763 Battle of Bloody Run 1862 Battle of Coggin's Point 1874 USS Intrepid Commissioned, 1st US warship armed with modern torpedoes 1941 Soviet sub M-94 sunk off Ristna, Estonia &Minesweeper #46 sunk off Tallin 1942 U-213 sunk off the Azores by R.N. ships. USS Grunion sunk off Kiska, Ak, Unkown cause but possibly by Japanese fire, or own torpedo malfuntion, or by I-26 1944 U-333 sunk by R.N. ships west of the Isles of Scilly |
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August 1st, 2012
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Aug. 1 30 B.C. Octavian captures Alexandria 902 Arabs capture Taormina 1664 Battle of Saint Gotthard 1759 Battle of Minden 1798 Battle of the Nile 1801 USS Enterprise defeats/captures Tripolitian ship "Tripoli" 1914 Germany declares War on Russia 1921 Norden Bombsight successfully tested 1927 Battle of Nanching 1940 Sub HMS Oswald rammed/sunk by Italian Destroyer Ugolino Vivaldi in the Strait of Messina, & HMS Spearfish sunk by U-34 n.w. of Aberdeen 1944 Warsaw Uprising begins |
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August 3rd, 2012
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Aug 2 338 B.C. Battle of Chaeronea 216 B.C. Battle of Cannae 1377 Battle of Pyana River 1798 Battle of the Nile ends 1861 Union troops evacuate Ft. Stanton, New Mexico Territory 1865 CSS Shenandoah learns the Civil War is over, she disarms & sails of the U.K., arriving in Nov. 1897 Siege of Malakand ends 1916 Italian Battleship Leonardo Da Vinci sunk by an explosion @ Toranto 1940 R.N. Trawler HMS Cape Finesterre bombed/sunk off Harwich 1941 Soviet sub S-11 sunk by mine in the Soela Strait. Italian sub Tembian rammed/sunk by Cruiser HMS Hermione off Tunis 1943 PT-109 rammed/sunk by IJN Destroyer Amagiri 1944 Destroyer Escort USS Fisk sunk by U-804 north of the Azores 1964 Tonkin Gulf Incident, Pt. 1 1990 Iraq invades Kuwait, the Gulf War begins Last edited by George; August 3rd, 2012 at 00:06.. |
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