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World War I: The First Battle of the Marne, which would halt the Imperial German Army's advance into France, begins.
The Battle of Boquerón, the first major battle of the Chaco War, commences.
World War II: London is hit by a V-2 rocket for the first time.
World War I: The creation of the Canadian Automobile Machine Gun Brigade, the first fully mechanized unit in the British Army.
World War II: First day of the Battle of Edson's Ridge during the Guadalcanal Campaign. U.S. Marines protecting Henderson Field are attacked by Imperial Japanese Army troops.
The first two German post-war rockets, designed by the German engineer Ernst Mohr, reach the upper atmosphere.
World War II: Maastricht becomes the first Dutch city to be liberated by allied forces.
World War I: Tanks are used for the first time in battle, at the Battle of the Somme.
First Sino-Japanese War: Japan defeats the Qing dynasty in the Battle of Pyongyang, causing the Qing army to withdraw to the Chinese border with Korea.
World War I: Manfred von Richthofen ("The Red Baron"), a flying ace of the German Luftstreitkräfte, wins his first aerial combat near Cambrai, France.
Battle of the Yalu River, the largest naval engagement of the First Sino-Japanese War.
American Civil War: George B. McClellan's Army of the Potomac halts the first invasion of the North by Robert E. Lee and his Army of Northern Virginia in the single-day Battle of Antietam, the bloodie�
American Revolutionary War: British forces win a tactically expensive victory over the Continental Army in the First Battle of Saratoga.
The first Cannes Film Festival is held, having been delayed for seven years due to World War II.
The first attacks of the Tuscarora War begin in present-day North Carolina.
The United States Department of War first establishes a regular army with a strength of several hundred men.
World War I: Radoje Ljutovac becomes the first soldier in history to shoot down an enemy aircraft with ground-to-air fire.
Michael Myers becomes the first member of either chamber of Congress to be expelled since the Civil War.
Korean War: The First Battle of Maryang San pits Commonwealth troops against communist Chinese troops.
World War I: An aircraft successfully destroys another aircraft with gunfire for the first time.