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American Revolutionary War: British forces win a tactically expensive victory over the Continental Army in the First Battle of Saratoga.
The first Cannes Film Festival is held, having been delayed for seven years due to World War II.
The first attacks of the Tuscarora War begin in present-day North Carolina.
The United States Department of War first establishes a regular army with a strength of several hundred men.
World War I: Radoje Ljutovac becomes the first soldier in history to shoot down an enemy aircraft with ground-to-air fire.
Michael Myers becomes the first member of either chamber of Congress to be expelled since the Civil War.
Korean War: The First Battle of Maryang San pits Commonwealth troops against communist Chinese troops.
World War I: An aircraft successfully destroys another aircraft with gunfire for the first time.
The Spanish siege of Alkmaar ends with the first Dutch victory in the Eighty Years' War.
First Balkan War: The day after the Battle of Sarantaporo, Greek troops liberate the city of Kozani.
World War II: Desmond Doss is the first conscientious objector to receive the U.S. Medal of Honor.
World War I: The First Battle of Passchendaele takes place resulting in the largest single-day loss of life in New Zealand history.
First World War: The Battle of the Hohenzollern Redoubt marks the end of the Battle of Loos.
World War II: No. 603 Squadron RAF intercepts the first Luftwaffe raid on Britain.
World War II: The USS Kearny becomes the first U.S. Navy vessel to be torpedoed by a U-boat.
World War II: The first kamikaze attack damages HMAS Australia as the Battle of Leyte Gulf begins.
World War II: The city of Aachen falls to American forces after three weeks of fighting, the first German city to fall to the Allies.
First Balkan War: The Greek navy completes the capture of the island of Lemnos for use as a forward base against the Dardanelles.
The first Kashmir war begins after Pakistani forces invade Kashmir, allegedly to suppress a tribal rebellion.