Today in Military History (15 September)

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Never was so much owed by so many to so few - Winston Churchill Speeches • 1054 Battle of Atapuerca: Leon-Castile defeats Navarre • 1448 Battle of Caravaggio: Muzio Attendolo Sforza defeats the Venetians • 1596 The Earl of Essex sacks Cadiz1631 Imperial troops under Tilly take Leipzig • 1644 Giambattista Pamfili elected Pope as Innocent X (1644-1655) • 1694 Venetians capture Chios from the Turks • 1776 British troops make an amphibious assault at Kip's Bay, New York (East River & 34th St) • 1784 Vincente Lunardi, a young Neapolitan, makes the first manned balloon ascent in England, from the Artillery Ground at Moorfields • 1821 Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, & El Salvador are declared independent of Mexico • 1861 Skirmish at Pritchard's Mills, Va • 1862 Antietam Campaign: Stonewall Jackson captures Harpers Ferry • 1862 Antietam Campaign: US troops find Lee's GO No. 191, wrapping some cigars • 1873 German occupation troops leave France, following the Franco-Prussian War • 1894 Battle of Ping Yang: Japan defeats China • 1914 Battle of the Aisne begins between Germans & French • 1914 US forces evacuate Vera Cruz, Mexico • 1916 Battle of the Somme: British send tanks into action for the first time • 1918 Cpl Lee Duncan, US 135th Aero Sqn, finds some German shepherd pups in a bombed out military kennel near Toul in France, one of whom becomes Rin Tin Tin • 1923 Gov. John Walton places Oklahoma under martial law to cope with KKK terrorism • 1926 Mussolini survives an assassination attempt, but is wounded in the nose • 1931 British naval mutinies at Invergordon over pay cuts • 1935 Nuremberg Laws deprive German Jews of citizenship • 1938 Br PM Neville Chamberlain visits Hitler at Berchtesgarden • 1940 Battle of Britain: The Luftwaffe loses 185 aircraft • 1940 Hitler cancels Operation Sea Lion, about a week before the expected D-Day • 1941 Nazis kill 800 Jewish women at Shkudvil, Lithuania • 1942 Unarmed windjammer 'Edlu II' forces a U-boat to submerge off Montauk Point • 1942 US carrier 'Wasp' (CV-7) torpedoed and sunk off Guadalcanal • 1943 Germans open camps at Chew, Lithuania, & Vaivara, Estonia • 1943 Japanese sub 'Ro-101' is sunk by US DD 'Saufley' & two aircraft. • 1944 Marines land on Peleliu, 450 miles east of Mindanao in the Philippines • 1944 RAF hits the German BB 'Tirpitz' with Tallboy bombs • 1944 Sofia liberated by Bulgarian and Soviet troops • 1948 F-86 Sabre sets world aircraft speech record of 1080 kph • 1950 Inchon Landing: Marines lead the attack behind North Korean lines. • 1959 Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev begins 13 day tour of the US • 1990 France announces it will send 4,000 troops to Persian Gulf

1054 Battle of Atapuerca: Leon-Castile defeats Navarre
1448 Battle of Caravaggio: Muzio Attendolo Sforza defeats the Venetians
1596 The Earl of Essex sacks Cadiz1631 Imperial troops under Tilly take Leipzig
1644 Giambattista Pamfili elected Pope as Innocent X (1644-1655)
1694 Venetians capture Chios from the Turks
1776 British troops make an amphibious assault at Kip's Bay, New York (East River & 34th St)
1784 Vincente Lunardi, a young Neapolitan, makes the first manned balloon ascent in England, from the Artillery Ground at Moorfields
1821 Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, & El Salvador are declared independent of Mexico
1861 Skirmish at Pritchard's Mills, Va
1862 Antietam Campaign: Stonewall Jackson captures Harpers Ferry
1862 Antietam Campaign: US troops find Lee's GO No. 191, wrapping some cigars
1873 German occupation troops leave France, following the Franco-Prussian War
1894 Battle of Ping Yang: Japan defeats China
1914 Battle of the Aisne begins between Germans & French
1914 US forces evacuate Vera Cruz, Mexico
1916 Battle of the Somme: British send tanks into action for the first time
1918 Cpl Lee Duncan, US 135th Aero Sqn, finds some German shepherd pups in a bombed out military kennel near Toul in France, one of whom becomes Rin Tin Tin
1923 Gov. John Walton places Oklahoma under martial law to cope with KKK terrorism
1926 Mussolini survives an assassination attempt, but is wounded in the nose
1931 British naval mutinies at Invergordon over pay cuts
1935 Nuremberg Laws deprive German Jews of citizenship
1938 Br PM Neville Chamberlain visits Hitler at Berchtesgarden
1940 Battle of Britain: The Luftwaffe loses 185 aircraft
1940 Hitler cancels Operation Sea Lion, about a week before the expected D-Day
1941 Nazis kill 800 Jewish women at Shkudvil, Lithuania
1942 Unarmed windjammer 'Edlu II' forces a U-boat to submerge off Montauk Point
1942 US carrier 'Wasp' (CV-7) torpedoed and sunk off Guadalcanal
1943 Germans open camps at Chew, Lithuania, & Vaivara, Estonia
1943 Japanese sub 'Ro-101' is sunk by US DD 'Saufley' & two aircraft.
1944 Marines land on Peleliu, 450 miles east of Mindanao in the Philippines
1944 RAF hits the German BB 'Tirpitz' with Tallboy bombs
1944 Sofia liberated by Bulgarian and Soviet troops
1948 F-86 Sabre sets world aircraft speech record of 1080 kph
1950 Inchon Landing: Marines lead the attack behind North Korean lines.
1959 Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev begins 13 day tour of the US
1990 France announces it will send 4,000 troops to Persian Gulf

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