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First World War: New Zealand troops suffered more than 2,000 casualties, including more than 800 deaths, in the First Battle of Passchendaele, making it the nation's largest loss of life in one day.
World War II: The Soviet Riga Offensive captures the city.
First World War: The Battle of the Hohenzollern Redoubt marks the end of the Battle of Loos.
World War II: Prisoners at Sobibor extermination camp covertly assassinate most of the on-duty SS officers and then stage a mass breakout.
World War II: The United States Eighth Air Force loses 60 of 291 B-17 Flying Fortresses during the Second Raid on Schweinfurt.
World War II: The Second Philippine Republic, a puppet state of Japan, is inaugurated with José P. Laurel as its president.
World War II: The German submarine U-69 (1940) sinks the Canadian passenger ferry SS Caribou approximately 20 nautical miles southwest of Port aux Basques, Newfoundland.
World War II: The Balham underground station disaster kills sixty-six people during the London Blitz.
World War II: The German submarine U-47 sinks the British battleship HMS Royal Oak within her harbour at Scapa Flow, Scotland.
World War I: Bulgaria joins the Central Powers.
World War II: During the second raid on Schweinfurt, the U.S. 8th Air Force suffered so many losses that it lost air supremacy over Germany for several months.
Second World War: During the Blitz, a semi-armour-piercing fragmentation bomb fell on the road above Balham station in London, which was being used as an air raid shelter, killing at least 64 people.
Second World War: The German submarine U-47 torpedoed and sank the Royal Navy battleship HMS Royal Oak while the latter was anchored at Scapa Flow in Orkney, Scotland.
World War II: Germany replaces the Hungarian government after Hungary announces an armistice with the Soviet Union.
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.
Violet Milstead, Canadian World War II aviator and bush pilot (died 2014)
World War II: Soviet Union begins the liberation of Czechoslovakia from Nazi Germany.
World War II: The state funeral of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel takes place in Ulm, Germany.