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To avert a threatened strike during the Korean War, President Truman orders Secretary of the Army Frank Pace to seize control of the nation's railroads.
World War II: Paris is liberated by the Allies.
World War II: Second day of the Battle of the Eastern Solomons; a Japanese naval transport convoy headed towards Guadalcanal is turned back by an Allied air attack.
World War II: Battle of Milne Bay: Japanese marines assault Allied airfields at Milne Bay, New Guinea, initiating the Battle of Milne Bay.
World War II: Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran: The United Kingdom and the Soviet Union jointly stage an invasion of the Imperial State of Iran.
Polish–Soviet War: Battle of Warsaw, which began on August 13, ends with the Red Army's defeat.
World War I: The library of the Catholic University of Leuven is deliberately destroyed by the German Army. Hundreds of thousands of irreplaceable volumes and Gothic and Renaissance manuscripts are lo�
Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of Liaoyang begins.
Seven Years' War: Frederick II of Prussia defeats the Russian army at the Battle of Zorndorf.
War of the Portuguese Succession: Spanish victory at the Battle of Alcântara brings about the Iberian Union.
Russia begins the Second Chechen War in response to the Invasion of Dagestan by the Islamic International Peacekeeping Brigade.
The South African Border War starts with the battle at Omugulugwombashe.
Spanish Civil War: Santander falls to the Nationalists and the Republican Interprovincial Council is dissolved.
Greco-Turkish War (1919–22): Turkish army launched what has come to be known to the Turks as the Great Offensive (Büyük Taarruz). The major Greek defense positions were overrun.
World War I: During the retreat from Mons, the British II Corps commanded by General Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien fights a vigorous and successful defensive action at Le Cateau.
Chilean War of Independence: Infighting between the rebel forces of José Miguel Carrera and Bernardo O'Higgins erupts in the Battle of Las Tres Acequias.
Dutch–Portuguese War: Second Battle of San Salvador: The Dutch force the Spanish garrison at San Salvador (modern day Keelung, Taiwan) to surrender, ending the short-lived Spanish colony on Formosa an�
Hundred Years' War: At the Battle of Crécy, an English army easily defeats a French one twice its size.
World War II: Aerial bombardment by the Luftwaffe razes to the ground the village of Vorizia in Crete.