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Philippine–American War: Filipino guerrillas killed more than forty American soldiers in a surprise attack on the town of Balangiga on the island of Samar.
Last day of the Battle of Boquerón between Paraguay and Bolivia during the Chaco War.
Ukrainian War of Independence: The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic agree to a truce with the Makhnovshchina.
The Battle of Chaffin's Farm is fought in the American Civil War.
The United States Department of War first establishes a regular army with a strength of several hundred men.
During the French War of Religion, Protestant coup officials in Nîmes massacre Catholic priests in an event now known as the Michelade.
Pompey the Great celebrates his third triumph for victories over the pirates and the end of the Mithridatic Wars on his 45th birthday.
Alan Moorehead, Australian war correspondent and author (born 1910)
John de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey, English general (born 1231)
The Spanish American wars of independence ended with the death of King Ferdinand VII, with what had once been the Spanish Empire disintegrating into independent Latin American states.
Ukrainian War of Independence: Insurgent forces led by Nestor Makhno defeats the Central Powers at the battle of Dibrivka.
War of the Austrian Succession: France and Spain defeat Sardinia at the Battle of Madonna dell'Olmo, but soon have to withdraw from Sardinia.
Battle of Morlaix is fought in the Hundred Years' War.
Georges Ernest Boulanger, French general and politician, French Minister of War (born 1837)
An Anglo-Breton army defeated a far larger Franco-Breton force in the first land battle of the Hundred Years' War.
Anglo-Egyptian War: English forces defeat the Egyptian army in the battle of Tel el-Kebir.
French Revolutionary Wars: Great Britain seized the Dutch Cape Colony to use its facilities against the French Navy.
American Revolutionary War: British forces made an unopposed amphibious landing at Kips Bay on Manhattan, the American defenders having fled due to artillery fire.