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American Revolutionary War: A combined Franco-American assault on British defenses during the Siege of Savannah is repulsed with heavy casualties.
Seven Years' War: Russian and Austrian troops briefly occupy Berlin.
Iraq War: The United States Congress approves the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002.
The Ten Years' War begins against Spanish rule in Cuba.
War of 1812: The United States Revenue Marine attempts to defend the cutter Eagle from the Royal Navy.
World War II: Off Guadalcanal, United States Navy ships intercept and defeat a Japanese force.
Beginning of the National Liberation War of Macedonia.
The Second Boer War erupts in South Africa between the British-ruled Cape Colony, and the Boer-ruled Transvaal and Orange Free State.
American Civil War: Confederate troops conduct a raid on Chambersburg, Pennsylvania.
Vietnam War: Vietnamization continues as President Richard Nixon announces that the United States will withdraw 40,000 more troops before Christmas.
World War II: The Axis occupation of Athens comes to an end.
World War I: British nurse Edith Cavell is executed by a German firing squad for helping Allied soldiers escape from occupied Belgium.
Flemish and Luxembourgish peasants launch the rebellion against French rule known as the Peasants' War.
War of Jenkins' Ear: A British squadron wins a tactical victory over a Spanish squadron off Havana.
World War II: The Soviet Riga Offensive captures the city.
War of 1812: Sir Isaac Brock's British and native forces repel an invasion of Canada by General Rensselaer's United States forces.
U.S. President Ronald Reagan proclaims a war on drugs.
Korean War: The Battle of Triangle Hill is the biggest and bloodiest battle of 1952.
World War II: Prisoners at Sobibor extermination camp covertly assassinate most of the on-duty SS officers and then stage a mass breakout.
World War II: The United States Eighth Air Force loses 60 of 291 B-17 Flying Fortresses during the Second Raid on Schweinfurt.