2372 results for “World War” — type: events (267 ms)
World War I: Radoje Ljutovac becomes the first soldier in history to shoot down an enemy aircraft with ground-to-air fire.
The battle of Megiddo begins in which British forces attack the right flank of the Ottoman army during World War I.
World War I: British forces capture Haifa, Acre, and Es Salt from the Ottoman Empire.
World War II: After the Four Days of Naples, Allied troops enter the city.
World War II: After a one-month siege, German troops occupy Warsaw.
World War I: The Egyptian Expeditionary Force captures Damascus.
World War II: German troops end the Warsaw Uprising.
World War II: Ocean Liner RMS Queen Mary accidentally rams and sinks HMS Curacoa, killing over 300 crewmen aboard Curacoa.
World War II: German forces murder 92 civilians in Lingiades, Greece.
World War I: An explosion kills more than 100 people and destroys a Shell Loading Plant in New Jersey.
World War I: The Battle of Broodseinde is fought between the British and German armies in Flanders.
World War II: Pacific Theater: Ninety-eight American POWs are executed by Japanese forces on Wake Island.
World War I: An aircraft successfully destroys another aircraft with gunfire for the first time.
World War II: Units of the 1st Czechoslovak Army Corps enter Czechoslovakia during the Battle of the Dukla Pass.
World War II: Thirteen civilians are burnt alive by a paramilitary group in Crete during the Nazi occupation of Greece.
World War II: American troops force the Japanese from their positions east of the Matanikau River during the Battle of Guadalcanal.
World War II: The Battle of Kock is the final combat of the September Campaign in Poland.
World War I: Combined Austro-Hungarian and German Central Powers, reinforced by the recently joined Bulgaria launched a new offensive against Serbia under command of August von Mackensen.
World War I: Entente forces land in Thessaloniki, to open the Macedonian front against the Central Powers.
World War II: The Sonderkommando Revolt in Auschwitz was an uprising of prisoners (especially the Sonderkommando) at the Auschwitz concentration camp, they burnt down Crematorium IV.