1746 HMS Portland captured French Auguste during the War of the Austrian Succession.
1775 The British Parliament declares Massachusetts in rebellion w
1788 The Habsburg Empire joins the Russo-Turkish War in the Russian camp w
1799 The USS Constellation captures the French frigate Insurgente off the West Indies. H
1799 HMS Daedalus captured Prudente oner Dorad. w
1822 Haiti attacks the newly established Dominican Republic on the other side of the island of Hispaniola w
1904 Battle of Port Arthur concludes. (Russia and Japan) w
1904 Japanese troops land near Seoul, Korea, after disabling two Russian cruisers. H
1941 Bombing of Genoa: The Cathedral of San Lorenzo in Genoa, Italy, is struck by a bomb which fails to detonate. w
1916 Conscription begins in Great Britain as the Military Service Act becomes effective. H
1943 Allied authorities declare Guadalcanal secure after Imperial Japan evacuates its remaining forces from the island, ending the Battle of Guadalcanal. w
1943 The Red Army takes back Kursk 15 months after it fell to the Germans. H
1945 HMS Venturer sinks U-864 off the coast of Fedje, Norway, in a rare instance of submarine-to-submarine combat. v
1945 A force of Allied aircraft unsuccessfully attack a German destroyer in Førdefjorden, Norway w
1951 The two-day Geochang massacre begins as a battalion of the 11th Division of the South Korean Army kills 719 unarmed citizens in Geochang, in the South Gyeongsang district of South Korea. w
1953 The French destroy six Viet Minh war factories hidden in the jungles of Vietnam. H
1959 The R-7 Semyorka, the first intercontinental ballistic missile, becomes operational at Plesetsk, USSR. v
165 The United States Marine Corps sends a MIM-23 Hawk missile battalion to South Vietnam w
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