1807 Battle of Montevideo A British military force, under Brigadier-General Sir Samuel Auchmuty 1 captures the city of Montevideo
1901 Dutch troops under Gen Van Heutsz conquer Batu Ilië on Sumatra 1
1915 Turkish & German army reach Suez Canal 1
1943 Hugh Randall Syme was awarded the George Cross for defusing mines
1944 World War II: United States troops capture the Marshall Islands. 1
1945 Almost 1,000 Flying Fortresses drop 3,000 tons of bombs on Berlin 1
1989 Military coup overthrows Alfredo Stroessner, dictator of Paraguay 1
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