2581 results for “World War” (225 ms)
Arab–Byzantine wars: The city of Syracuse was captured by the Aghlabids (pictured) as part of the Muslim conquest of Sicily.
Cold War: The Truman Doctrine goes into effect, aiding Turkey and Greece.
During the Anglo-Iraqi War, British troops take Fallujah.
American Civil War: After ten weeks, the Union Army's Red River Campaign ends in failure.
American Civil War: Union forces begin the Siege of Port Hudson which lasts 48 days, the longest siege in U.S. military history.
Start of the Wars of the Roses: At the First Battle of St Albans, Richard, Duke of York, defeats and captures King Henry VI of England.
Warwick Armstrong, Australian cricketer and journalist (died 1947)
Dong Zhuo, Chinese warlord and politician (born 138)
Arab–Byzantine wars: The Byzantine navy began a raid on the Nile Delta port city of Damietta, whose garrison was absent at the time.
Cold War: The Western occupying powers approve the Basic Law and establish a new German state, the Federal Republic of Germany.
American Civil War: Sergeant William Harvey Carney is awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroism in the Assault on the Battery Wagner in 1863.
Battle of Famars during the Flanders Campaign of the War of the First Coalition.
The Third Defenestration of Prague precipitates the Thirty Years' War.
Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth, English economist, journalist, and prominent Catholic layperson (died 1981)
August Nilsson, Swedish shot putter and tug of war competitor (born 1872)
Alice de Warenne, Countess of Arundel, English noble (born 1287)
American Civil War: Confederate troops under Stonewall Jackson defeated a Union force at the Battle of Front Royal in Virginia, taking around 700 prisoners.
War of the Spanish Succession: The Grand Alliance armies routed the Franco-Spanish-Bavarian army in Ramillies, present-day Belgium.
Hundred Years' War: Joan of Arc (pictured) was captured by Burgundian forces at the Siege of Compiègne.
Liberation of Khorramshahr: Iranians recapture of the port city of Khorramshahr from the Iraqis during the Iran–Iraq War.