3811 results for “World War” (313 ms)
American Civil War, Overland Campaign: Battle of Cold Harbor: Ulysses S. Grant gives the Confederate forces under Robert E. Lee a victory when he pulls his Union troops from their position at Cold Har�
American War of Independence: British general Thomas Gage declares martial law in Massachusetts. The British offer a pardon to all colonists who lay down their arms. There would be only two exceptions�
French and Indian War: Siege of Louisbourg: James Wolfe's attack at Louisbourg, Nova Scotia, commences.
First Anglo-Dutch War: The Battle of the Gabbard begins, lasting until the following day.
Hundred Years' War: On the second day of the Battle of Jargeau, Joan of Arc leads the French army in their capture of the city and the English commander, William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk.
Armagnac–Burgundian Civil War: Parisians slaughter sympathizers of Bernard VII, Count of Armagnac, along with all prisoners, foreign bankers, and students and faculty of the College of Navarre.
Warwick Capper, Australian footballer, coach, and actor
In the aftermath of the bombing of Yugoslavia and the Kosovo War, the NATO-led Kosovo Force entered Kosovo with a mandate of establishing a secure environment in the territory.
Cold War: During a speech at the Brandenburg Gate by the Berlin Wall, US president Ronald Reagan challenged Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to "tear down this wall!" (speech featured).
Israel initiates air strikes against Iran, initiating the Twelve Day War.
Battles of Tumbledown and Wireless Ridge, during the Falklands War.
Vietnam War: The New York Times begins publication of the Pentagon Papers.
American Revolutionary War: Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette lands near Charleston, South Carolina, in order to help the Continental Congress to train its army.
Leah Ward Sears, German-American lawyer and jurist
Henry Grace à Dieu, the largest warship ever built at the time, was launched from Woolwich Dockyard, England.
Falklands War: Argentine forces in the capital Stanley conditionally surrender to British forces.
American Civil War: Second Battle of Winchester: A Union garrison is defeated by the Army of Northern Virginia in the Shenandoah Valley town of Winchester, Virginia.
Second Assault on the Confederate works at the Siege of Port Hudson during the American Civil War.
American Revolutionary War: the Continental Army is established by the Continental Congress, marking the birth of the United States Armed Forces.