Today In Military History 28 September

 480BC   The Greeks successful repelled A large Persian fleet

351      Battle at Mursa: emperor Constantine II beats emperor Magnentiusnt Pevensey Bay, Sussex

1106  Battle at Tinchebrai: English King Henry I beats his brother Robert, Duke of Normandy in Normandy

1322 Battle of Muhldorf: the Duchy of (Upper) Bavaria defeats Austrian forces

1528 Spanish fleet sinks in Florida hurricane

1583 Battle at Preveza: Ottoman fleet under Barbarossa beats Papal alliance off Northwestern Greece

1621 Battle at Chocim Dniester: King Sigismund III Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth defeats an invading Ottoman Imperial army

1652 English-Dutch sea battle at Kentish Knock

1687 Venetians take Athens from the Turks.

1760 Russian & Austrian army occupies Berlin

1781 American and French force begins the seige 

1868 Battle of Alcolea, causes Queen Isabella II of Spain to flee to France

1906 US troops reoccupy Cuba, stay until 1909

1914 German forces move into Antwerp Belgium (WWI)

1915 Battle of Kut-el-Amara: British defeat Turks in Mesopotamia

1915 For his actions this day Lt Cdr Cookson was awarded the Victoria Cross. W

Citation 

On 28 September 1915, the river gunboat "Comet" had been ordered with other gunboats to examine and, if possible, destroy an obstruction placed across the river by the Turks. When the gunboats were approaching the obstruction a very heavy rifle and machine gun fire was opened on them from both banks. An attempt to sink the centre dhow of the obstruction by gunfire having failed, Lieutenant-Commander Cookson ordered the "Comet" to be placed alongside, and himself jumped onto the dhow with an axe and tried to cut the wire hawsers connecting it with the two other craft forming the obstruction. He was immediately shot in several places and died within a very few minutes.

1942  Luftwaffe bombs Stalingrad

This Day in Military History January 30th

 1467 Battle at Velke Kostolany: Hung king Mátyás Corvinus beats Bratrici

1522  Duke of Albany takes captured French back to Scotland

1648 Spain & Netherlands sign Peace of Munster, ending the Thirty Years' War

1911 The Canadian Naval Service becomes the Royal Canadian Navy

1915 German submarine attack on Le Havr

1941 Australian troops conquer Derna, Libya

1942 Japanese troops land on Ambon

1943  British Mosquitos bomb Berlin in daylight

          German assault on French in Tunisia

           USS Chicago sinks in Pacific Ocean

1944 World War II: United States troops land on Majuro

           The Battle of Cisterna begins in central Italy

1945 Wilhelm Gustloff" torpedoed off Danzig by Soviet sub-c 9,400 die

          American Rangers and Filipino resistance fighters liberate over 500 Allied POWs from         Japanese at Cabanatuan

1964 Military coup of Gen Nguyen Khanh in South Vietnam

1968 Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese launch the Tet offensive against South Vietnames and US forces

1972 Bloody Sunday: 27 unarmed civilians are shot (14 are killed) by the British Army during a civil rights march in Derry, Northern Ireland.

1991 Iraqi troops gain control of Al Khafji inside the Saudi Arabian border

This Day in Military History 28 January

 

1757 Ahmed Shah, the first King of Afghanistan, occupies Delhi and annexes the Punjab.1

1792 Rebellious slaves in Santo Domingo launch an attack on the city of Cap1

1871 Surrounded by Prussian troops and suffering from famine, the French army in Paris surrenders.1 During the siege, balloons were used to keep contact with the outside world

1881

Private Doogan

On 28 January 1881 at the Battle of Laing's Nek, South Africa, during the charge of the mounted men, Private Doogan saw that Major William Vesey Brownlow, KDG, had had his horse shot from under him and was dismounted among the Boers. Doogan rode up and, in spite of being severely wounded himself, dismounted and insisted on Major Brownlow taking his horse, receiving another wound while doing so. W

Alan Richard Hill

 "For gallant conduct at the action of Laing's Nek on the 28th January, 1881, in having, after the retreat was ordered, remained behind and endeavoured to carry out of action Lieutenant Baillie, of the same Corps, who was lying on the ground severely wounded. Being unable to lift that officer into the saddle, he carried him in his arms until Lieutenant Baillie was shot dead. Lieutenant Hill then brought a wounded man out of action on his horse, after which he returned and rescued another. All these acts being performed under a heavy fire w

1901  William James Hardham, VC (31 July 1876 – 13 April 1928)

On 28 January 1901, near Naauwpoort, this Non-Commissioned Officer was with a section which was extended and hotly engaged with a party of about 20 Boers. Just before the force commenced to retire Trooper McCrae was wounded and his horse killed. Farrier- Major Hardham at once went under a heavy fire to his assistance, dismounted and placed him on his own horse, and ran alongside until he had guided him to a place of safety.

— The London Gazette, No. 27362, 4 October 1901

1915 The German navy attacks the U.S. freighter William P. Frye, loaded with wheat for Britain.1

1932 The Japanese attack Shanghai, China, and declare martial law.1

1941 French General Charles DEGaulle's Free French forces sack south Libya oasis.1

1964 The Soviets down a U.S. jet over East Germany killing three.1

1970 Israeli fighter jets attack the suburbs of Cairo.1

1973 A cease fire starts at 08:00 hrs local time in Vietnam 1

Sources 

1 https://www.historynet.com/

Today In Military History 27 January

August   1864 Battle of Fair Gardens, Tennessee

August 1864 Civil War skirmish at Kelly's Ford, Virginia

August 1897 British troops occupy Bida Gold Coast (Ghana)

August 1915 US Marines occupy Haiti

August1918 The first hostilities occurred in the Finnish Civil War.

August1939 First flight of the Lockheed P-38 Lightning

August1941 Peruvian ambassador Ricardo Rivera-Schreiber warns American Ambassador of Japanese 

assault on Pearl Harbor

August1944 Siege of Leningrad lifted by the Soviets after 880 days and more than 2 million Russians killed

August1972 The British Army and the IRA in gun battles around County Armagh

August1976 Morocco-Algeria fight in West Sahara