1211 results for “World War” (112 ms)
On her thirteenth birthday, Anne Frank (pictured) began keeping a diary during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands in World War II.
Bernard Baruch first applies the term "Cold War" to describe the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union.
The United States Army liberates Nazi Sonderlager (high security) prisoner-of-war camp Oflag IV-C (better known as Colditz).
Polish–Lithuanian War: The Polish Army launches the Vilna offensive to capture Vilnius in modern Lithuania.
American Civil War: During the Vicksburg Campaign, gunboats commanded by acting Rear Admiral David Dixon Porter run downriver past Confederate artillery batteries at Vicksburg.
American Civil War: Battle at Lee's Mills in Virginia.
American Civil War: The District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act, a bill ending slavery in the District of Columbia, becomes law.
Shooting of a Māori by an English sailor results in the opening of the Wanganui Campaign of the New Zealand Wars.
The French Army captures Veracruz in the Pastry War.
French Revolutionary Wars: The Battle of Mount Tabor: Napoleon drives Ottoman Turks across the River Jordan near Acre.
Masada, a Jewish fortress, falls to the Romans after several months of siege, ending the First Jewish–Roman War.
Gertrude Chandler Warner, American author and educator (died 1979)
Rasim Delić, Bosnian general and convicted war criminal (born 1949)
Polish–Soviet War: The Polish army launched the Vilna offensive to capture Vilnius (now in Lithuania) from the Red Army.
French Revolutionary Wars: Severely outnumbered French forces repulsed an Ottoman attack at the Battle of Mount Tabor in present-day Israel.
The Cambodian Civil War ends and the Cambodian Genocide begins. The Khmer Rouge captures the capital Phnom Penh and Cambodian government forces surrender.
French prisoner of war General Henri Giraud escapes from his castle prison in Königstein Fortress.
American Civil War: The Battle of Plymouth begins: Confederate forces attack Plymouth, North Carolina.
American Civil War: Grierson's Raid begins: Troops under Union Army Colonel Benjamin Grierson attack central Mississippi.