World War II: Kharkiv is liberated by the Soviet Red Army for the second time after the Battle of Kursk.
World War II: Kharkiv is liberated by the Soviet Red Army for the second time after the Battle of Kursk.
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World War II: Kharkiv is liberated by the Soviet Red Army for the second time after the Battle of Kursk.
World War II: Beginning of the Battle of Stalingrad.
World War II: Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union sign the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact. In a secret protocol to the pact, Poland, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Romania are divided into German and�
World War I: The British Expeditionary Force and the French Fifth Army begin their Great Retreat before the German Army.
The Austro-Prussian War ends with the Treaty of Prague.
American Civil War: The Union Navy captures Fort Morgan, Alabama, thus breaking Confederate dominance of all ports on the Gulf of Mexico except Galveston, Texas.
American Revolutionary War: King George III delivers his Proclamation of Rebellion to the Court of St James's stating that the American colonies have proceeded to a state of open and avowed rebellion.
Long Turkish War: Wallachian prince Michael the Brave confronts the Ottoman army in the Battle of Călugăreni and achieves a tactical victory.
The memorial day for the Second Taiwan Strait Crisis(the August 23 shelling war) ( Taiwan)
Colombian drug barons declare "total war" on the Colombian government.
Vietnam War protesters bomb Sterling Hall at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, leading to an international manhunt for the perpetrators.
World War II: Allied troops begin the attack on Paris.
World War II: The Battle of the Eastern Solomons. Japanese aircraft carrier Ryūjō is sunk, with the loss of seven officers and 113 crewmen. The US carrier USS Enterprise is heavily damaged.
Spanish Civil War: the Basque Army surrenders to the Italian Corpo Truppe Volontarie following the Santoña Agreement.
Spanish Civil War: Sovereign Council of Asturias and León is proclaimed in Gijón.
The Treaty of Córdoba is signed in Córdoba, now in Veracruz, Mexico, concluding the Mexican War of Independence from Spain.
American Revolutionary War: A small force of Pennsylvania militia is ambushed and overwhelmed by an American Indian group, which forces George Rogers Clark to abandon his attempt to attack Detroit.
Tosia Altman, member of the Polish resistance in World War II (died 1943)
Peggy Shippen, American wife of Benedict Arnold and American Revolutionary War spy (born 1760)