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Bernard Baruch first applies the term "Cold War" to describe the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union.
Masada, a Jewish fortress, falls to the Romans after several months of siege, ending the First Jewish–Roman War.
The first bloodshed of the American Civil War took place when Confederate sympathizers in Baltimore, Maryland, attacked members of the Massachusetts militia en route to Washington, D.C.
For the first time in history, oil prices drop below zero, an effect of the 2020 Russia-Saudi Arabia oil price war.
The Century 21 Exposition, the first world's fair in the United States since World War II, opened in Seattle.
World War II: Sachsenhausen concentration camp is liberated by soldiers of the Red Army and Polish First Army.
First World War: The British Royal Navy launched unsuccessful raids on Ostend and Zeebrugge in German-occupied Belgium.
Chilean Civil War: The armored frigate Blanco Encalada (pictured) was sunk at the Battle of Caldera Bay, the first ironclad warship lost to a self-propelled torpedo.
World War I: First tank-to-tank combat, during the second Battle of Villers-Bretonneux. Three British Mark IVs meet three German A7Vs.
The first issue of Irish War News was published in Ireland.
First World War: The Australian and New Zealand Army Corps landed at Anzac Cove while British and French troops landed at Cape Helles to begin the Allied invasion of the Gallipoli peninsula in the Ott�
First English Civil War: Despite being vastly outnumbered, a Parliamentarian force under James Chudleigh defeated a Royalist army near Okehampton, Devon, at the Battle of Sourton Down.
First Barbary War: United States Marines and Berbers attack the Tripolitan city of Derna (The "shores of Tripoli" in the Marines' Hymn).
World War II: Japanese naval troops invade Tulagi Island in the Solomon Islands during the first part of Operation Mo that results in the Battle of the Coral Sea between Japanese forces and forces fro�
First English Civil War: Charles I surrendered himself to Scottish Covenanter leader David Leslie near Newark, England.
Attempting to make the first non-stop transatlantic flight from Paris to New York, French war heroes Charles Nungesser and François Coli disappear after taking off aboard The White Bird biplane.
Armenian forces capture Shusha, marking a major turning point in the First Nagorno-Karabakh War.
First World War: Germany repelled Britain's second attempt to blockade the Belgian port of Ostend.
Indian Rebellion of 1857: In India, the first war of Independence begins. Sepoys mutiny against their commanding officers at Meerut.
The first major battle of the Greek War of Independence against the Turks is fought in Valtetsi.