2581 results for “World War” (223 ms)
Russo-Polish War (1654–67): The Russian army enters the capital of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Vilnius, which it holds for six years.
Hundred Years' War: Battle of Cravant: A Franco-Scottish army is defeated by the Anglo-Burgundians at Cravant on the banks of the river Yonne.
Warren Bennis, American scholar, author, and academic (born 1925)
The Second Anglo-Dutch War ended with the signing of the Treaty of Breda.
Leaders of the Russian Liberation Army, a force of Russian prisoners of war that collaborated with Nazi Germany, are executed in Moscow, Soviet Union for treason.
�Uprising marks the first significant battle in the Chinese Civil War between the Kuomintang and Chinese Communist Party. This day is commemorated as the anniversary of the founding of the People's Li�
First Barbary War: The American schooner USS Enterprise captures the Tripolitan polacca Tripoli in a single-ship action off the coast of modern-day Libya.
French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of the Nile (Battle of Aboukir Bay): Battle begins when a British fleet engages the French Revolutionary Navy fleet in an unusual night action.
Seven Years' War: The Battle of Minden, an allied Anglo-German army victory over the French. In Britain this was one of a number of events that constituted the Annus Mirabilis of 1759 and is celebrate�
Dean Wareham, New Zealand singer-songwriter and guitarist
Gerda Taro, German war photographer (died 1937)
Robert Todd Lincoln, American lawyer and politician, 35th United States Secretary of War (died 1926)
Otto Heinrich Warburg, German physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1883)
Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York, English politician, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports (born 1341)
U.S. president George H. W. Bush delivered a speech in the Ukrainian parliament in Kiev warning against independence from the Soviet Union.
First Barbary War: USS Enterprise, an American schooner, captured the Tripolitan polacca Tripoli in a single-ship action off the coast of Libya.