1998 results for “World War” (139 ms)
World War II: Mogaung is the first place in Burma to be liberated from the Japanese by British Chindits, supported by the Chinese.
World War II: German troops capture the city of Białystok during Operation Barbarossa.
Violet Milstead, Canadian World War II aviator and bush pilot (born 1919)
World War II: Nazi Germany starts its strategic summer offensive against the Soviet Union, codenamed Case Blue.
World War II: The Wehrmacht launched Case Blue, a strategic German offensive to capture oil fields in the south of the Soviet Union.
World War II: The Battle of Cherbourg ends with the fall of the strategically valuable port to American forces.
World War I: In "the day Sussex died", elements of the Royal Sussex Regiment take heavy casualties in the Battle of the Boar's Head at Richebourg-l'Avoué in France.
World War II: start of the First Battle of El Alamein.
World War I: First day on the Somme: On the first day of the Battle of the Somme 19,000 soldiers of the British Army are killed and 40,000 wounded.
Second World War: The Grand Quartier Général of the French Army was disbanded, following the French surrender.
First World War: The first day of the Battle of Albert, the opening phase of the Battle of the Somme, became the bloodiest day in the British Army's history, with 57,470 casualties, including 19,240 d�
Louis Zamperini, American runner and World War II US Army Air Forces captain (born 1917)
World War II: The Minsk Offensive clears German troops from the city.
World War II: The Royal Navy attacks the French naval squadron in Algeria, to ensure that it will not fall under German control. Of the four French battleships present, one is sunk, two are damaged, a�
Second World War: The Royal Navy attacked the French fleet at Mers El Kébir (pictured), fearing that the ships would fall into Axis hands after the French–German armistice.
World War II: In Gibraltar, a Royal Air Force B-24 Liberator bomber crashes into the sea in an apparent accident moments after takeoff, killing sixteen passengers on board, including general Władysław�
World War II: The 250-day Siege of Sevastopol in the Crimea ends when the city falls to Axis forces.
World War II: The Burning of the Riga synagogues: The Great Choral Synagogue in German-occupied Riga is burnt with 300 Jews locked in the basement.
World War I: The Battle of Hamel, a successful attack by the Australian Corps against German positions near the town of Le Hamel on the Western Front.