Today in Military History July 07

July 07 1124    Tyre falls to the Crusaders.

July 07 1520    Spanish conquistadores defeat a larger Aztec army at the Battle of Otumba.

July 07 1575    The Raid of the Redeswire is the last major battle between England and Scotland.

July 07 1770    The Battle of Larga between the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire takes place.

July 07 1777    American forces retreating from Fort Ticonderoga are defeated in the Battle of Hubbardton.

July 07 1846    US troops occupy Monterey and Yerba Buena, thus beginning the US conquest of California.

July 07 1863    The United States begins its first military draft; exemptions cost $300.

July 07 1915    The First Battle of the Isonzo comes to an end.

July 07 1937    The Marco Polo Bridge Incident provides the Imperial Japanese Army with a pretext for starting the Second Sino-Japanese War.

July 07 1941    The US occupation of Iceland replaces the UK's occupation.

July 07 1941    World War II: Beirut is occupied by Free France and British troops.

July 07 1942    World War II: German submarine U-701 destroyed off Cape Hatteras.

July 07 1944    World War II: Largest Banzai charge of the Pacific War at the Battle of Saipan.

July 07 1980    During the Lebanese Civil War, 83 Tiger militants are killed during what will be known as the Safra massacre.

July 07 1991    Yugoslav Wars: The Brioni Agreement ends the ten-day independence war in Slovenia against the rest of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

July 07 2016    Ex-US Army soldier Micah Xavier Johnson shoots fourteen policemen during an anti-police protest in downtown Dallas, Texas, killing five of them. He is subsequently killed by a robot-delivered bomb.