Friday 12 April 2019

Today In Military History April 12th





1606   The Union Flag is adopted as the flag of English and Scottish ships.

1861   American Civil WarBattle of Fort Sumter. The war begins with Confederate forces firing on Fort Sumter, in the harbour of Charleston, South Carolina.

1862   American Civil War: The Andrews Raid (the Great Locomotive Chase) occurs, starting from Big Shanty, Georgia (now Kennesaw).

1864   American Civil War: The Battle of Fort PillowConfederate forces kill most of the African American soldiers that surrendered at Fort PillowTennessee.

1865   American Civil War: Mobile, Alabama, falls to the Union Army.

1910   SMS Zrínyi, one of the last pre-dreadnought battleships built by the Austro-Hungarian Navy, is launched.

1945 – World War II: The U.S. Ninth Army under General William H. Simpson crosses the Elbe River astride Magdeburg, and reaches Tangermünde—only 50 miles from Berlin.

1963 – The Soviet nuclear-powered submarine K-33 collides with the Finnish merchant vessel M/S Finnclipper in the Danish straits.
– SMS Zrínyi, one of the last pre-dreadnought battleships built by the Austro-Hungarian Navy, is launched.

1945 – World War II: The U.S. Ninth Army under General William H. Simpson crosses the Elbe River astride Magdeburg, and reaches Tangermünde—only 50 miles from Berlin.

1963 – The Soviet nuclear-powered submarine K-33 collides with the Finnish merchant vessel M/S Finnclipper in the Danish straits.
SMS Zrínyi, one of the last pre-dreadnought battleships built by the Austro-Hungarian Navy, is launched.

1945   World War II: The U.S. Ninth Army under General William H. Simpson crosses the Elbe River astride Magdeburg, and reaches Tangermünde—only 50 miles from Berlin.

1963   The Soviet nuclear-powered submarine K-33 collides with the Finnish merchant vessel M/S Finnclipper in the Danish straits.


1917   World War ICanadian forces successfully complete the taking of Vimy Ridge from the Germans the Germans

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