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Ivo Rojnica, Croatian-Argentine war crimes suspect, businessman, diplomat, and intelligence agent (died 2007)
Korean War: United Nations forces repelled an attempt by North Korea to capture the city of Taegu.
War of the Spanish Succession: A Spanish Bourbon army commanded by the Marquis de Bay was soundly defeated by a multinational army led by the Austrian commander Guido Starhemberg.
Cold War: Nicolae Ceaușescu, leader of the Socialist Republic of Romania, publicly condemns the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, encouraging the Romanian population to arm itself aga�
World War II: Canadian and Polish units capture the strategically important town of Falaise, Calvados, France.
World War II: The Guadalcanal campaign: American forces defeat an attack by Imperial Japanese Army soldiers in the Battle of the Tenaru.
World War I: The Second Battle of the Somme begins.
World War I: The Battle of Charleroi, a successful German attack across the River Sambre that pre-empted a French offensive in the same area.
American Revolutionary War: British forces begin besieging the French outpost at Pondichéry.
Seventh Ottoman–Venetian War: The arrival of naval reinforcements and the news of the Battle of Petrovaradin force the Ottomans to abandon the Siege of Corfu, thus preserving the Ionian Islands under�
Syrian civil war: Areas controlled by the Syrian opposition in Ghouta, Damascus, were attacked by rockets (launcher pictured) containing sarin, killing at least 281 people.
World War II: A combined Canadian–Polish force captured the town of Falaise, France, in the final offensive of the Battle of Normandy.
Austro-Turkish War: Austrian troops under Prince Eugene of Savoy captured the strategically important city of Belgrade from the Ottoman Empire.
World War II: Holocaust of Kedros in Crete by German forces.
Brazil declares war on Germany, Japan and Italy.
Michael Collins, Commander-in-chief of the Irish Free State Army, is shot dead in an ambush during the Irish Civil War.
Charles I raises his standard in Nottingham, which marks the beginning of the English Civil War.
American Revolutionary War: Benedict Arnold used a ruse to convince the British that a much larger force was arriving, causing them to abandon the siege of Fort Stanwix (reconstructed fort pictured).
Queen Anne's War: A British attempt to attack Quebec failed when eight ships wrecked on the St. Lawrence River.
Eugene Bullard, the only African American pilot in World War I, is posthumously commissioned as Second Lieutenant in the United States Air Force.