January 13

1945: In the East, the Soviet 1st Belorussian Front (Zhukov) begins an offenive toward Pillkallen in East Prussia. German forces of Heeresgruppe E complete their withdrawal from Greece and Albania.
source: http://www.feldgrau.com/january.html

1900:Prieska, South Africa - New South Welshmen attacked at Prieska by Boers
source: http://www.awm.gov.au/atwar/thismonth/index.asp

1099 - Crusaders set fire to Mara, Syria.
1847 - The Treaty of Cahuenga ends the Mexican-American War in California.
1958 - Moroccan Liberation Army ambushes Spanish patrol in the Battle of Edchera.
source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_13

1776: British raid Prudence Island in Narragansett Bay - In the early morning hours, British forces raid Prudence Island, Rhode Island, in an effort to steal a large quantity of sheep. But, upon landing on the island’s southern beaches, the British were ambushed by fifteen Minutemen from Rhode Island’s Second Company led by Captain Joseph Knight, who had been tipped off to the Brits’ plans and rowed across Narragansett Bay from Warwick Neck the previous morning.
1916: Battle of Wadi - In an attempt to relieve their compatriots under heavy siege by Turkish forces at Kut-al Amara in Mesopotamia, British forces under the command of Lieutenant General Fenton Aylmer launch an attack against Turkish defensive positions on the banks of the Wadi River.
1942: Allies promise prosecution of war criminals - Representatives of nine German-occupied countries meet in London to declare that all those found guilty of war crimes would be punished after the war ended. Among the signatories to the declaration were Polish Gen. Wladyslaw Sikorski and French Gen. Charles de Gaulle. The core of the declaration was the promise of "the punishment, through the channels of organized justice, of those guilty of, or responsible for, these crimes, whether they have ordered them, perpetrated them, or participated in them."
1962: First Operation Farm Gate missions flown - In the first Farm Gate combat missions, T-28 fighter-bombers are flown in support of a South Vietnamese outpost under Viet Cong attack.
1972: Nixon announces additional withdrawals - President Nixon announces that 70,000 U.S. troops will leave South Vietnam over the next three months, reducing U.S. troop strength there by May 1 to 69,000.
source: http://www.historychannel.com/tdih/t...8&cat=10272949

1865 - Amphibious attack on Fort Fisher, NC
1964 - USS Manley evacuates 54 American and 36 allied nationals after Zanzibar government is overthrown
source: http://www.history.navy.mil/wars/datesjan.htm

1943: Mediterranean, off Italy - Royal Canadian Navy Corvette Ville de Québec sinks a U-boat in the Mediterranean; RCN's first U-boat kill.
source: http://www1.sympatico.ca/cgi-bin/on_...mth=Jan&day=13

1941: The Luftwaffe launches a heavy attack against Plymouth.
1942: A Japanese attack just to the east of Mount Natib, begins to pose a threat to the left flank of the US-Filipino 2nd Corps.
1944: The Chinese strengthen their position in the Hukawng Valley in northern Burma.
1945: The British make further gains in central Burma and are now only 30 miles from Mandalay. The Jørstad Bridge is blown up by the Norwegian resistance, killing 70 Germans. The U.S. First Army attack the Germans between Stavelot and Malmady.
source: http://www.worldwar-2.net/timelines/timelines-index.htm

January 14

1942: At the so called Arcadia Conerence held in Washington, President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill agree to concentrate the Allied war effort on the European theater.
1943: Beginning of the Casablanca Conference in Morocco with Rooseelt and Churchill and the Allied joint staff along with the Combined Chiefs of Staff, to discuss strategy and study the next phase of the war. This meeting marked the first time an American president left American soil during wartime. Participants also included leaders of the French government-in-exile, Gen. Charles de Gaulle and Gen. Henri Giraud, who were assured of a postwar united France.
1944: South of Leningrad, the Red Army begins an offensive against the lines of Heeresgruppe Nord (von Küchler) at Narva
1945: The Soviet 2nd Belorussian Front (Rokossovsky) begins an offensive from its Narev bridgehead against Elbing in East Prussia.
source: http://www.feldgrau.com/january.html

1942:Gemas, Malaya - 8th Division inflicts heavy casualties on Japanese in an ambush at Gemas in the first Australian contact with Japanese troops of the Second World War.
source: http://www.awm.gov.au/atwar/thismonth/index.asp

1784: Continental Congress ratifies the Second Treaty of Paris, ending the War for Independence.
1915: South African troops occupy Swakopmund in German Southwest Africa - As part of an attempt to display its loyalty to the British empire and, perhaps more importantly, enlarge its own sphere of influence on the African continent, South Africa sends troops to occupy Swakopmund, a seaside town in German-occupied Southwest Africa (modern-day Namibia).
1942: Anglo-American Combined Chiefs of Staff established - United States and Great Britain agree to have the British Chiefs of Staff and the U.S. Joint Chiefs work together, either through meetings or representatives, to advise the leaders of both nations on military policy during the war.
1964: Westmoreland appointed as Harkins' deputy - Lt. Gen. William Westmoreland is appointed deputy to Gen. Paul Harkins, chief of U.S. Military Assistance Command Vietnam (MACV). It was generally accepted that Westmoreland would soon replace Harkins, whose insistently optimistic views on the progress of the war had increasingly come under criticism.
1968: Operation Niagara launched - U.S. joint-service Operation Niagara is launched to support the U.S. Marine base at Khe Sanh.
1980: United Nations vote "deplores" Soviet intervention in Afghanistan - In a crushing diplomatic rebuke to the Soviet Union, the U.N. General Assembly votes 104 to 18 to "deplore" the Russian intervention in Afghanistan.
source: http://www.historychannel.com/

1813 - US Frigate Chesapeake captures British brig Hero
1815 - HMS Endymion, Tenedos and Pomone capture USS President
1863 - Navy General Order 4, Emancipation Proclamation
1943 - In first submarine resupply mission, USS Gudgeon lands 6 men, 2,000 pounds of equipment and supplies on Negros Island.
source: http://www.history.navy.mil/wars/datesjan.htm

1902: Halifax Nova Scotia - Canadian Mounted Rifles sail out of Halifax bound for Boer War in South Africa.
source: http://www1.sympatico.ca/cgi-bin/on_...mth=Jan&day=14

January 15

1942: Heeresgruppe Mitte (von Kluge) evacuates the Kaluga sector and takes up winter positions 20 m further West.
1943: On the Northern front in Russia, the Red Army captures Velikije Luki in the Valdai Hills.
1944: In Italy, French troops under General Juin capture Monte Santa Croce.
1945: In its drive toward the Oder river, the Red Army captures Kielce in western Poland.
source: http://www.feldgrau.com/january.html

1944:Sio - The capture of Sio by the 9th Australian Division represented the final destruction of the Japanese 20th Division in the protracted Huon Peninsula campaign of 1943-1944.
source: http://www.awm.gov.au/atwar/thismonth/index.asp

1777 - American Revolutionary War: New Connecticut (present day Vermont) declares its independence.
1943 - World War II: Japanese driven off Guadalcanal.
1973 - Vietnam War: Citing progress in peace negotiations, President of the United StatesRichard Nixon announces the suspension of offensive action in North Vietnam.

1865 Fort Fisher falls - Fort Fisher in North Carolina falls to Union forces, and Wilmington, the Confederacy's most important blockade-running port, is closed.

1865 - In largest amphibious operation of war, Union forces capture Ft. Fisher, Wilmington, NC, by joint amphibious force.
1997 - Navy physician CAPT Jerry Lineger joined the crew of the MIR space station after being launched on Atlantis during space Shuttle Mission STS-81. Prior to the mission, he was trained at the Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia for over a year.
source: http://www.history.navy.mil/wars/datesjan.htm

January 16

1945: In the Battle of the Bulge, US and British forces brought up to block the German advance meet at Houffalize.
source: http://www.feldgrau.com/january.html

1952: HMAS Sydney begins its seventh patrol in Korean waters - Sydney began its service in Korea in August 1951. This was the ship's final patrol in Korean waters.
source: http://www.awm.gov.au/atwar/thismonth/index.asp

1930 - USS Lexington provides power to Tacoma, WA, when floods knocked out city power plants
1991 - Operation Desert Storm, liberation of Kuwait from Iraq, begins
source: http://www.history.navy.mil/wars/datesjan.htm

550 - Gothic War (535–552): The Ostrogoths, under King Totila, conquer Rome after a long siege, by bribing the Isaurian garrison.
1780 - American Revolution: Battle of Cape St. Vincent.
1809 - Peninsular War: The British defeat the French at the Battle of La Coruña.
source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_16

January 17

1942: The British 8th Army (Auchinlech) captures ollum in Cyrenaica.
1945: The Red Army captures Czenstochova, while German forces evacuate Warsaw. The German defenders of encircled Budapest withdraw to Buda on the western bank of the Danube.
source:
http://www.feldgrau.com/january.html

1917: 4 Squadron, Australian Flying Corps sail for France - No. 4 Squadron was the final Australian Flying Corps squadron formed in the First World War. Its pilots flew Sopwith Camels over the Western Front beginning their active service in the battle of Cambrai.
1991: Coalition air attacks begin against Iraqi forces in Iraq and Kuwait - The first day of the Gulf War which ended when Iraqi forces were driven from Kuwait.
source: http://www.awm.gov.au/atwar/thismonth/index.asp

1746 - Charles Edward Stuart, "Bonnie Prince Charlie", defeats a Hanoverian army at Falkirk in his ultimately unsuccessful campaign to recover the throne for the Jacobite dynasty.
1781 - American Revolutionary War: Battle of Cowpens - Continental troops under Brigadier General Daniel Morgan defeat British forces under Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton at the battle in South Carolina.
1885 - A British force defeats a large Dervish army at the Battle of Abu Klea in the Sudan.
1945 - Soviet forces capture the almost completely destroyed Polish city of Warsaw.
1945 - The Nazis begin the evacuation of the Auschwitz concentration camp as Soviet forces close in.
1991 - Gulf War: Operation Desert Storm began early in the morning. Iraq fires 8 Scud missiles into Israel in an unsuccessful bid to provoke Israeli retaliation.
source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/17_January

1942: The last German garrison at Halfaya in Cyrenaica surrenders, with about 5,500 prisoners taken.
1945: Russian forces cross the Warthe and advance 100-miles on a 160-mile front forcing the Germans to evacuate Warsaw, which falls that same day. The German defenders encircled at Budapest withdraw to Buda on the western bank of the Danube. The Red Army captures Czenstochova.
source: http://www.worldwar-2.net/timelines/timelines-index.htm

1832- USS Peacock makes contact with Vietnamese court officials
1900 - US (CDR Taussig in USS Bennington) takes formal possession of Wake Island
1955 - USS Nautilus (SSN-571), the first nuclear-powered submarine, casts off lines at 1100 and sends message "underway on nuclear power"
source: http://www.history.navy.mil/wars/datesjan.htm

January 18

1942: In the East, the Red Army encircles seeral German divisions at Demjansk near Lake Ilmen. In the Crimea, German troops of Heeresgruppe B recapture Feodosia and seal off the Soviet bridgehead at Kerch. Germany, Italy and Japan sign a new military treaty.
1944: German forces of Heeresgruppe Mitte repel repeated Soviet attacks in the area of Vitebsk.
1945: German troops in Poland evacuate Kracow. Beginning of a German offensive from Lake Balaton to lift the Soviet siege of Budapest.
source: http://www.feldgrau.com/january.html

1919: Versailles Peace Conference opens - The Treaty of Versailles, signed between Germany and representatives of 27 victorious powers punished Germany territorially and financially for her role in the First World War. The treaty was supposed also to prevent Germany from having the means to make war in the future.
1942: Lieutenant Colonel C.G.W. Anderson, VC - Lieutenant Colonel Charles Anderson, 2/19 Battalion, 8th Division, originally of Cape Town, South Africa, won the Victoria Cross during operations against the Japanese at the Muar River, Malaya.
source: http://www.awm.gov.au/atwar/thismonth/index.asp

1944 - Soviet forces liberate Leningrad, effectively ending a three year Nazi siege, known as the Siege of Leningrad.
1945 - Liberation of the Budapest ghetto by the Red Army
source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_18

1943: Australian troops capture Cape Killerton and Wye Point in Papua, New Guinea.
1942: The Red Army cuts the main supply route for the German 2nd and 10th Corps at Demyansk near Lake Ilmen, forcing the Luftwaffe to begin flying in supplies. Field Marshal von Bock takes over command of Army Group South from Field Marshal von Reichenau who died of a heart attack. The Soviet South West Front launches an offensive across the river Donets, to the South of Kharkov in an attempt to cut of all German forces north of the Sea of Azov. German troops of 11th Army recapture Feodosiya and seal off the Soviet bridgehead at Kerch in the Crimea.
1943: The Germans counter attack in Tunisia. They gain ground against the Free French, but are repulsed by British forces. The Russians break through the German stranglehold on Leningrad to relieve the city from the East. In the Caucasus, the Russian advance continues. Cherkessk is captured by the Red Army, who are now less than 250 miles south east of Rostov.
1944: German forces of Army Group Centre repel repeated Red Army attacks in the area of Vitebsk.
1945: USAAF B29 bombers destroy the Kawasaki aircraft works near Kobe, in Japan. German troops evacuate Kracow. A German offensive begins from Lake Balaton, with the aim of lifting the Red Army's siege of Budapest.
source: http://www.worldwar-2.net/timelines/timelines-index.htm

1911 - First aircraft landing on board a ship, USS Pennsylvania by Eugene Ely.
1962 - After a flash fire in the Persian Gulf on Danish tanker, Prima Maersk, burned a crewman, USS Duxbury Bay transfers a Navy doctor to help the Danish crewman and USS Soley took him to the nearest hospital at Bahrain Island.
1968 - Operation Coronado X begins in Mekong Delta, Vietnam
1977 - The Trident (C-4) missile development flight test program commenced when C4X-1 was launched from a flight pad at Cape Canaveral, FL
1991 - USS Nicholas attacks and captures Iraqi oil platforms
source: http://www.history.navy.mil/wars/datesjan.htm

January 19

1945: Sweeping the German defenders before it, the Red Army captures Lodz.
source: http://www.feldgrau.com/january.html

1942: North Borneo surrendered to Japanese - The Japanese continued their conquest of South East Asia in early 1942. Oil rich North Borneo was a vital objective that would allow Japan to carry on its war in Asia and the Pacific. 1951: No. 77 Squadron raids Pyongyang - Mustangs of No. 77 Squadron attacked a suspected Chinese headquarters with rockets.source: http://www.awm.gov.au/atwar/thismonth/index.asp

1942: Halifax Nova Scotia - German submarine torpedoes Canadian ship Lady Hawkins, as U-boats ravage unprotected shipping along the Atlantic coast.
source: http://www1.sympatico.ca/cgi-bin/on_...mth=Jan&day=19

1812 - Peninsular War: After a ten day siege, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, orders British soldiers of the Light and third divisions to storm Ciudad Rodrigo.
1817 - An army of 5,423 soldiers, led by General José de San Martín, crosses the Andes from Argentina to liberate Chile and then Peru.
1862 - American Civil War: Battle of Mill Springs - The Confederate States of America suffers its first significant defeat in the conflict.
1871 - Franco-Prussian War: Battle of St. Quentin is fought, resulting in a decisive Prussian victory.
1915 - World War I: German zeppelins bomb the cities of Great Yarmouth and King's Lynn in the United Kingdom killing more than 20, in the first major aerial bombardment of a civilian target.
1941 - World War II: British troops attack Italian-held Eritrea.
1942 - World War II: Japanese forces invade Burma.
1945 - World War II: Soviet forces liberate the ghetto of Łódź. Out of 230,000 inhabitants in 1940, less than 900 had survived Nazi occupation.
source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_19

1941: British troops under General Platt, re-occupy Kassala in the Sudan and advance into Eritrea.
1942: General Wavell warns Churchill that Singapore cannot be held as little had been done to prepare the landward facing defences. Churchill replies that Singapore must be defended and that 'no question of surrender be entertained until after protracted fighting among the ruins of Singapore city'. General Wavell orders General Percival to prepare Singapore Island for a siege. Japanese troop capture Tavoy as their advance continues in Burma.The Japanese have now secured all of British North Borneo. Two Axis transports, the Mongevino and Ankara land 45 German tanks at Benghazi as reinforcement, while axis forces evacuate the city.
1943: The Eighth Army captures Homs and Tarhuna, near Tripoli. Russians claim further victories during a 75-mile advance towards Kharkov on the Voronezh front, with the Russians claiming 52,000 axis prisoners on this front alone.
1944: Germans forces are surrounded in Novgorod, 100 miles to the South of Leningrad, but manage to break out.
1945: USAAF B29 bombers destroy the Kawasaki aircraft works near Kobe, in Japan. The Russians cross 1939 Poland-Silesia frontier taking Kracow. East Prussia is also entered from south by Russian troops. Red Army forces capture Lodz.
source: http://www.worldwar-2.net/timelines/timelines-index.htm

January 20

1941: With Hitler's tacit support, Marshal Antonescu suppresses a rebellion by the Iron Guard in Rumania.
1943: The Red Army begins an offensive against Heeresgruppe Mitte in the Voronesh area.
1944: On the Northern front in Russia, the Red Army recaptures Novgorod. The RAF launches a heavy attack (700 bombers) against Berlin.
source: http://www.feldgrau.com/january.html

1942: Wirraways engage Japanese fighter and bomber formations over Rabaul - In the days before the fall of Rabaul, Japanese aircraft conducted a series of raids on the town. In an engagement lasting less than ten minutes three of 24 Squadron's eight Wirraways were shot down, one crashed on take-off and two were damaged in crash-landings.
source: http://www.awm.gov.au/atwar/thismonth/index.asp

1777: Brigadier General Philemon Dickinson leads 400 “raw” men from the New Jersey militia and 50 Pennsylvania riflemen under Captain Robert Durkee in an attack against a group of 500 British soldiers foraging for food led by Lieutenant Colonel Robert Abercromby near Van Nest’s Mills in Millstone, New Jersey. The mills lay at a strategic point between New Brunswick and Princeton, New Jersey, where General George Washington had defeated the British on January 3. After that victory, Washington had decided to divide his forces in order to harass British installments in the New Jersey towns of New Brunswick and Amboy. The British, who were stealing flour and supplies from Van Nest’s Mills with which to supply their troops in New Brunswick, had set up small cannon defenses at a bridge crossing the Millstone River. The Patriots caught the British forces by surprise when they, avoiding the cannons, forded the deep and icy water. In the ensuing 20-minute battle, Dickinson reported that the Patriots captured “107 horses, 49 wagons, 115 cattle, 70 sheep, 40 barrels of flour – 106 bags and many other things.” They also took 49 prisoners. General Washington reported to John Hancock that the British removed “a good many dead and wounded in light Waggons,” estimated to be 24 or 25 in total compared to the 4 or 5 losses sustained by the Patriots.
1918: British and German forces clash in the Aegean Sea when the German battleships Goeben and Breslau attempt a surprise raid on Allied forces off the Dardanelle Straits. The Goeben and </I>Breslau</I>—the same two swift, powerful cruisers that had famously eluded capture by the British in the Dardanelles in 1914 to reach Constantinople and bring Turkey into the war on the side of Germany—had attempted to leave the Dardanelles and head towards Salonika, Greece, when they encountered the British fleet. Just after sunrise on January 20, the Goeben and Breslau fired upon and sank two British monitors, the HMS Raglan and the M28, leaving 127 sailors dead.
source: http://www.history.com/tdih.do

1783 - Hostilities cease between Great Britain and the United States
1903 - Theordore Roosevelt issues Executive Order placing Midway Islands under jurisdiction of the Navy Department.
1914 - School for naval air training opens in Pensacola, FL.
1948 - Establishment of U.S. Persian Gulf Area Command (later changed to Middle East Force in August 194.
source: http://www.history.navy.mil/wars/datesjan.htm

1942: The Japanese 55th Division crosses the Thai-Burmese border from Raheng. They quickly threaten Moulmein in Burma, using the same tactics as in Malaya of outflanking British forces through the Jungle. British troops capture Benghazi.
1944: The RAF makes its heaviest raid on Berlin, with 700 bombers dropping more than 2,300 tons during the 11th raid of the ‘Battle of Berlin’.
The Red Army recaptures Novgorod. U.S. troops are thrown back on the Rapido.
1945: The French First Army under de Lattre attacks against the Colmar Pocket in Alsace.
source: http://www.worldwar-2.net/timelines/timelines-index.htm

January 21

1941: The US informs the Soviet Union that the "moral embargo" imposed on it after its 1939 attack on Finland no longer applies.
1942: Having been reenforced and resupplied, the Afrikakorps begins a counter-offensive against the British 8th Army to recapture Cyrenaica. The Luftwaffe, with 400 aircraft available, begins a series of raids against London and ports in southern England. The US Fifth Army (Clark) achieves a landing at Anzio and Nettuno south of Rome.
source: http://www.feldgrau.com/january.html

1954 - Launching of Nautilus, first nuclear submarine, at Groton, CT
1961 - USS George Washington completes first operational voyage of fleet ballistic missile submarine staying submerged 66 days
source: http://www.history.navy.mil/wars/datesjan.htm

1941: 6th Division begins its attack on Tobruk, Libya - The Port city of Tobruk was a well fortified Italian held strong point held by about 25,000 men.
source: http://www.awm.gov.au/atwar/thismonth/index.asp

1968: Battle for Khe Sanh begins - One of the most publicized and controversial battles of the war begins at Khe Sanh, 14 miles below the DMZ and six miles from the Laotian border.
Seized and activated by the U.S. Marines a year earlier, the base, which had been an old French outpost, was used as a staging area for forward patrols and was a potential launch point for contemplated future operations to cut the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Laos. The battle began with a brisk firefight involving the 3rd Battalion, 26th Marines and a North Vietnamese battalion entrenched between two hills northwest of the base. The next day North Vietnamese forces overran the village of Khe Sanh and North Vietnamese long-range artillery opened fire on the base itself, hitting its main ammunition dump and detonating 1,500 tons of explosives.
An incessant barrage kept Khe Sanh's Marine defenders pinned down in their trenches and bunkers. Because the base had to be resupplied by air, the American high command was reluctant to put in any more troops and drafted a battle plan calling for massive artillery and air strikes. During the 66-day siege, U.S. planes, dropping 5,000 bombs daily, exploded the equivalent of five Hiroshima-sized atomic bombs in the area. The relief of Khe Sanh, called Operation Pegasus, began in early April as the 1st Cavalry (Airmobile) and a South Vietnamese battalion approached the base from the east and south, while the Marines pushed westward to re-open Route 9.
The siege was finally lifted on April 6 when the cavalrymen linked up with the 9th Marines south of the Khe Sanh airstrip. In a final clash a week later, the 3rd Battalion, 26th Marines drove enemy forces from Hill 881 North. Gen. William Westmoreland, commander of U.S. Military Assistance Command Vietnam, contended that Khe Sanh played a vital blocking role at the western end of the DMZ, and asserted that if the base had fallen, North Vietnamese forces could have outflanked Marine defenses along the buffer zone. Various statements in the North Vietnamese Communist Party newspaper suggested that Hanoi saw the battle as an opportunity to re-enact its famous victory at Dien Bien Phu, when the communists had defeated the French in a climactic decisive battle that effectively ended the war between France and the Viet Minh.
There has been much controversy over the battle at Khe Sanh, as both sides claimed victory. The North Vietnamese, although they failed to take the base, claimed that they had tied down a lot of U.S. combat assets that could have been used elsewhere in South Vietnam. This is true, but the North Vietnamese failed to achieve the decisive victory at Khe Sanh that they had won against the French. For their part, the Americans claimed victory because they had held the base against the North Vietnamese onslaught. It was a costly battle for both sides. The official casualty count for the Battle of Khe Sanh was 205 Marines killed in action and over 1,600 wounded (this figure did not include the American and South Vietnamese soldiers killed in other battles in the region). The U.S. military headquarters in Saigon estimated that the North Vietnamese lost between 10,000 and 15,000 men in the fighting at Khe Sanh.
source: http://www.history.com/this-day-in-h...rticle&id=1626

January 22

1945: Advancing in East Prussia, the Red Army captures Insterburg and Allenstein.
source: http://www.feldgrau.com/january.html

1941: Tobruk surrenders to Australian 6th Division - After its capture Tobruk was garrisoned by the 9th Division , elements of the 7th Division and other Allied units. The town was surrounded on three sides by the German Afrika Korps in April and remained besieged, but able to be re-supplied by sea, until December. Most Australian, however, left Tobruk between August and October.
source: http://www.awm.gov.au/atwar/thismonth/index.asp

1800 - CAPT Thomas Tingey ordered to duty as first Superintendent of the Washington Navy Yard
1944 - Operation Shingle, Allied landing at Anzio, Italy
source: http://www.history.navy.mil/wars/datesjan.htm

1968: Operations Jeb Stuart and Pershing II kick off - Operating in the two northernmost military regions, the 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile) launches two major operations. In the first operation, conducted by the 1st Cavalry Division in Quang Tri and Thua Thien provinces, south of the Demilitarized Zone, "First Team" units launched Operation Jeb Stuart. This operation was a large-scale reinforcement of the Marines in the area and focused on clearing enemy Base Areas 101 and 114. Jeb Stuart was terminated on March 31 with enemy casualties listed at 3,268; U.S. casualties were 291 killed in action and 1,735 wounded. On the same day that Jeb Stuart was launched, other 1st Cavalry units launched Operation Pershing II in the coastal lowlands in Binh Dinh Province. This operation, designed to clear enemy forces from the area, lasted until February 29.
source: http://www.history.com/this-day-in-h...rticle&id=1628

1506 - The first contingent of 150 Swiss Guards arrive at the Vatican.
1879 - Anglo-Zulu War: Battle of Isandlwana - Zulu troops defeat British troops.
1879 - Anglo-Zulu War: Battle of Rorke's Drift - 139 British soldiers successfully defend their garrison against an intense assault by four to five thousand Zulu warriors.
source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_22

1813: Frenchtown Michigan - Major General Henry Proctor leads 500 soldiers and militia, with Tecumseh's 800 Indians from Amherstburg, in a counterattack across the frozen Detroit River after his defeat 4 days earlier. He recaptures the River Raison post, defeats 900 US troops led by Brig. Gen. James Winchester, and captures Winchester and 500 Americans.
1944: Anzio Italy - Allies establish Anzio beachhead south of Rome; Canadians man static front on Adriatic coast.
1951: Korea - Canadian destroyer HMCS Huron put under United Nations command.
source: http://www1.sympatico.ca/cgi-bin/on_...mth=Jan&day=22