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Cold War: Soviet Air Defence Forces pilot Viktor Belenko lands a Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25 jet fighter at Hakodate in Japan and requests political asylum in the United States; his request is granted.
India retaliates following Pakistan's Operation Grand Slam which results in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 that ends in a stalemate followed by the signing of the Tashkent Declaration.
World War II: The city of Ypres, Belgium is liberated by Allied forces.
World War II: Soviet forces capture the city of Tartu, Estonia.
Spanish Civil War: The Interprovincial Council of Asturias and León is established.
American Civil War: Confederate forces evacuate Battery Wagner and Morris Island in South Carolina.
American Civil War: Forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant bloodlessly capture Paducah, Kentucky, giving the Union control of the Tennessee River's mouth.
American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Groton Heights takes place, resulting in a British victory.
Thirty Years' War: In the Battle of Nördlingen, the Catholic Imperial army defeats Swedish and German Protestant forces.
Milan Lukić, Bosnian Serb convicted of war crimes by the ICTY
World War II: Soviet forces captured the city of Tartu on their way to re-establishing their rule in Estonia.
American Revolutionary War: General Benedict Arnold led British forces to victory at the Battle of Groton Heights.
During an Indo-Pakistani War, China announces that it will reinforce its troops on the Indian border.
Vietnam War: In a follow-up to August's Operation Starlite, United States Marines and South Vietnamese forces initiate Operation Piranha on the Batangan Peninsula.
World War II: Japanese forces on Wake Island, which they had held since December 1941, surrender to U.S. Marines.
World War II: The German 17th Army begins its evacuation of the Kuban bridgehead (Taman Peninsula) in southern Russia and moves across the Strait of Kerch to the Crimea.
World War II: Japanese marines are forced to withdraw during the Battle of Milne Bay.
World War II: The German Luftwaffe begins the Blitz, bombing London and other British cities for over 50 consecutive nights.
American Civil War: Atlanta is evacuated on orders of Union General William Tecumseh Sherman.
American Civil War: Union troops under Quincy A. Gillmore capture Fort Wagner in Morris Island after a seven-week siege.