3811 results for “World War” (298 ms)
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.
Australia's Ken Warby sets the current world water speed record of 275.97 knots at Blowering Dam, Australia.
World War II: Captain Bobbie Brown earns a Medal of Honor for his actions during the Battle of Crucifix Hill, just outside Aachen.
World War II: Around 30 civilians are executed by Friedrich Schubert's paramilitary group in Kallikratis, Crete.
World War II: During the preliminaries of the Battle of Rostov, German forces reach the Sea of Azov with the capture of Mariupol.
World War I: Corporal Alvin C. York kills 28 German soldiers and captures 132, for which he was awarded the Medal of Honor.
World War I: After his platoon suffered heavy casualties during the Meuse–Argonne offensive in France's Forest of Argonne, American Corporal Alvin York led the 7 remaining men on an attack against a G�
World War I: The Siege of Antwerp comes to an end.
World War II: American forces defeated the Japanese at the Third Battle of the Matanikau in Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, reversing the Japanese victory a couple of weeks earlier.
World War I: The civilian authorities of Antwerp surrendered and allowed the German army to capture the city.
World War II: The Kempeitai, the military police arm of the Imperial Japanese Army, arrested and tortured fifty-seven civilians and civilian internees on suspicion of their involvement in a raid on Si�
World War II: Off Guadalcanal, United States Navy ships intercept and defeat a Japanese force.
World War II: At the Battle of Cape Esperance on the northwest coast of Guadalcanal, American ships intercepted and defeated a Japanese fleet sent to attack Henderson Field.
World War II: Desmond Doss is the first conscientious objector to receive the U.S. Medal of Honor.
World War II: The Axis occupation of Athens comes to an end.
World War I: The First Battle of Passchendaele takes place resulting in the largest single-day loss of life in New Zealand history.
World War I: British nurse Edith Cavell is executed by a German firing squad for helping Allied soldiers escape from occupied Belgium.