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The First Sioux War begins when United States Army soldiers kill Lakota chief Conquering Bear and in return are massacred.
Lebanese Civil War: The first troops of a multinational force lands in Beirut to oversee the Palestine Liberation Organization's withdrawal from Lebanon.
The United Kingdom captures Hong Kong as a base as it prepares for the First Opium War with Qing China.
World War II: The first Bombing of Berlin by the British Royal Air Force.
Treaty of Nanking signing ends the First Opium War.
World War I: Leefe Robinson destroys the German airship Schütte-Lanz SL 11 over Cuffley, north of London; the first German airship to be shot down on British soil.
World War II: William J. Murphy commands the first Royal Air Force attack on Germany.
World War I: First Battle of the Marne begins. Northeast of Paris, the French attack and defeat German forces who are advancing on the capital.
World War I: The First Battle of the Marne, which would halt the Imperial German Army's advance into France, begins.
The Battle of Boquerón, the first major battle of the Chaco War, commences.
World War II: London is hit by a V-2 rocket for the first time.
World War I: The creation of the Canadian Automobile Machine Gun Brigade, the first fully mechanized unit in the British Army.
World War II: First day of the Battle of Edson's Ridge during the Guadalcanal Campaign. U.S. Marines protecting Henderson Field are attacked by Imperial Japanese Army troops.
The first two German post-war rockets, designed by the German engineer Ernst Mohr, reach the upper atmosphere.
World War II: Maastricht becomes the first Dutch city to be liberated by allied forces.
World War I: Tanks are used for the first time in battle, at the Battle of the Somme.
First Sino-Japanese War: Japan defeats the Qing dynasty in the Battle of Pyongyang, causing the Qing army to withdraw to the Chinese border with Korea.
World War I: Manfred von Richthofen ("The Red Baron"), a flying ace of the German Luftstreitkräfte, wins his first aerial combat near Cambrai, France.
Battle of the Yalu River, the largest naval engagement of the First Sino-Japanese War.
American Civil War: George B. McClellan's Army of the Potomac halts the first invasion of the North by Robert E. Lee and his Army of Northern Virginia in the single-day Battle of Antietam, the bloodie�