2581 results for “World War” (384 ms)
Cold War: Nikita Khrushchev announced that the Soviet Union was holding American pilot Francis Gary Powers, whose spy plane had been shot down six days earlier.
War of the First Coalition: A British garrison repelled a French attack on the Îles Saint-Marcouf off the Normandy coast, inflicting heavy losses.
Granada War: Forces of Aragon and Castile began a siege of Málaga, a Muslim city in the south of the Iberian Peninsula.
Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard Nixon announces his order to place naval mines in major North Vietnamese ports in order to stem the flow of weapons and other goods to that nation.
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.
Greek War of Independence: The Greeks defeat the Turks at the Battle of Gravia Inn.
Joan of Arc lifts the Siege of Orléans, turning the tide of the Hundred Years' War.
Wesley Coe, American shot putter, discus thrower, and tug of war competitor (died 1926)
Nikolai Reek, Estonian general and politician, 11th Estonian Minister of War (born 1890)
Construction workers attacked students and others who were protesting the Vietnam War in New York City.
Greek War of Independence: At the Battle of Gravia Inn, a 120-man Greek force led by Odysseas Androutsos repulsed an Ottoman army of 8,000 soldiers.
First English Civil War: The first siege of Wardour Castle ended after six days with the surrender of the Royalist garrison under Lady Blanche Arundell
Armenian forces capture Shusha, marking a major turning point in the First Nagorno-Karabakh War.
LOT Flight 5055 Tadeusz Kościuszko crashes after takeoff in Warsaw, Poland, killing all 183 people on board.
Polish–Soviet War: The Polish army under General Edward Rydz-Śmigły celebrates its capture of Kiev with a victory parade on Khreshchatyk.
American Civil War: Nathan Bedford Forrest surrenders his forces at Gainesville, Alabama.
American Civil War: President Andrew Johnson issues a proclamation ending belligerent rights of the rebels and enjoining foreign nations to intern or expel Confederate ships.
Second Schleswig War: The Danish navy defeats the Austrian and Prussian fleets in the Battle of Heligoland.
Louis Henry, Prince of Nassau-Dillenburg, military leader in the Thirty Years' War (died 1662)