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First Indochina War: The French Union withdrew its forces from Operation Camargue against the Việt Minh in central modern-day Vietnam.
American Civil War: The first major battle west of the Mississippi River, the Battle of Wilson's Creek, was fought.
World War II: The Imperial Japanese Army lost the Battle of the Tenaru, the first of its three major land offensives during the Guadalcanal campaign.
Peninsular War: British and Portuguese forces put an end to the first French invasion of Portugal at the Battle of Vimeiro.
First World War: German forces captured Rossignol in Belgium, taking more than 3,800 French prisoners.
King Charles I raised the royal standard at Nottingham, marking the beginning of the First English Civil War.
The Battle of Cer ended with the first Allied victory of World War I.
Under the Treaty of Nanking, an "unequal treaty" that ended the First Opium War, the Chinese island from which Hong Kong would grow was ceded to Britain.
Philippine Revolution: In the Battle of San Juan del Monte, the first real battle of the war, a Katipunan force temporarily captured a powder magazine before being beaten back by a Spanish garrison.
First Jewish–Roman War: Roman forces led by Titus set fire to the Second Temple during the siege of Jerusalem.
First English Civil War: Royalist and Parliamentarian forces clashed in the Battle of Babylon Hill, after which both sides claimed victory.
First World War: The Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force invaded German New Guinea, winning the Battle of Bita Paka.
First War of Scottish Independence: Scottish forces under Andrew Moray and William Wallace defeated English troops at the Battle of Stirling Bridge on the River Forth.
First World War: The German submarine U-9 sank three Royal Navy cruisers, resulting in approximately 1,450 deaths.
SS Patrick Henry, the first of 2,710 Liberty ships built during World War II by the United States, was launched.
World War I: The Battle of St Quentin Canal took place, which led to the British Fourth Army making the first breach of the German defensive Hindenburg Line.
Second World War: General Władysław Sikorski (pictured) became the first prime minister of the Polish government-in-exile.
An Anglo-Breton army defeated a far larger Franco-Breton force in the first land battle of the Hundred Years' War.
First World War: British and Arab troops captured Damascus from the Ottoman Empire.
First World War: The Japanese merhant ship Hirano Maru was sunk by a German submarine in the Celtic Sea with the loss of 291 lives.