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World War II: American forces defeated the Japanese at the Third Battle of the Matanikau in Guadalcanal, Solomon…
World War II: At the Battle of Cape Esperance on the northwest coast of Guadalcanal, American ships intercepted and…
World War II: Japanese troops began an unsuccessful attempt to recapture Henderson Field on Guadalcanal in the Solomon…
The Empire of Japan achieved a pyrrhic victory against the United States at the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands.
World War II: U.S. Marines and U.S. Army forces began an attempt to encircle and destroy a regiment of Imperial…
World War II: The Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, the decisive engagement in a series of sea battles between Allied and…
Boris Kidrič and Edvard Kardelj founded the Liberation Front of the Slovene Nation, the main anti-fascist Slovene civil-
World War II: Presaging a campaign of genocide against the Serbs of Croatia, around 190 people were massacred by members
World War II: German Deputy Führer Rudolf Hess (pictured) parachuted into Scotland in an attempt to negotiate peace with
World War II: German Deputy Führer Rudolf Hess (pictured) parachuted into Scotland in an attempt to negotiate peace with
German engineer Konrad Zuse presented the Z3, the first working programmable and fully automatic computer, to an audienc
World War II: German paratroopers began the Battle of Heraklion on the island of Crete, capturing the airfield and port
Second World War: The German battleship Bismarck sank the British battlecruiser Hood at the Battle of the Denmark Strait
World War II: The German battleship Bismarck was sunk by gun and torpedo fire by the British battleships HMS Rodney and
German forces dropped four bombs on neutral Ireland, killing 28 people and damaging the residence of the President of Ir
German forces dropped four bombs on neutral Ireland, killing 28 people and damaging the residence of the President of Ir
The United Kingdom completed its re-occupation of Iraq, returning Abd al-Ilah to power as regent for Faisal II
World War II: German forces dropped four bombs on neutral Ireland, killing 28 people and damaging Áras an Uachtaráin, th
World War II: German forces dropped four bombs on neutral Ireland, killing 28 people and damaging Áras an Uachtaráin, th
World War II: In reprisal for the participation of the local population in the Battle of Crete, the German Wehrmacht des