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World War II: A combined Canadian–Polish force captured the town of Falaise, France, in the final offensive of the Battle of Normandy.
World War II: The Imperial Japanese Army lost the Battle of the Tenaru, the first of its three major land offensives during the Guadalcanal campaign.
World War II: Holocaust of Kedros in Crete by German forces.
First World War: German forces captured Rossignol in Belgium, taking more than 3,800 French prisoners.
First World War: A squadron of the 4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards attacked a German scout party, the first engagement of British forces on the Western Front.
Eugene Bullard, the only African American pilot in World War I, is posthumously commissioned as Second Lieutenant in the United States Air Force.
World War II: Marseille is liberated by the Allied forces.
World War II: King Michael of Romania dismisses the pro-Nazi government of Marshal Antonescu, who is later arrested. Romania switches sides from the Axis to the Allies.
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.
In their first major action of the First World War, the British Expeditionary Force engaged German troops in Mons, Belgium.
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.
Tosia Altman, member of the Polish resistance in World War II (died 1943)
World War II: At the Battle of the Eastern Solomons, bombers from the U.S. aircraft carrier Saratoga sank the Japanese aircraft carrier Ryūjō near Santa Isabel Island, contributing to an Allied victo�
The Battle of Cer ended with the first Allied victory of World War I.
World War II: Paris is liberated by the Allies.