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
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