2567 results for “World War” — type: events (307 ms)
World War II: American troops force the Japanese from their positions east of the Matanikau River during the Battle of Guadalcanal.
World War II: The Battle of Kock is the final combat of the September Campaign in Poland.
World War I: Combined Austro-Hungarian and German Central Powers, reinforced by the recently joined Bulgaria launched a new offensive against Serbia under command of August von Mackensen.
World War I: Entente forces land in Thessaloniki, to open the Macedonian front against the Central Powers.
World War II: The Sonderkommando Revolt in Auschwitz was an uprising of prisoners (especially the Sonderkommando) at the Auschwitz concentration camp, they burnt down Crematorium IV.
Australia's Ken Warby sets the current world water speed record of 275.97 knots at Blowering Dam, Australia.
World War II: Captain Bobbie Brown earns a Medal of Honor for his actions during the Battle of Crucifix Hill, just outside Aachen.
World War II: Around 30 civilians are executed by Friedrich Schubert's paramilitary group in Kallikratis, Crete.
World War II: During the preliminaries of the Battle of Rostov, German forces reach the Sea of Azov with the capture of Mariupol.
World War I: Corporal Alvin C. York kills 28 German soldiers and captures 132, for which he was awarded the Medal of Honor.
World War I: The Siege of Antwerp comes to an end.
World War II: Off Guadalcanal, United States Navy ships intercept and defeat a Japanese force.
World War II: Desmond Doss is the first conscientious objector to receive the U.S. Medal of Honor.
World War II: The Axis occupation of Athens comes to an end.
World War I: The First Battle of Passchendaele takes place resulting in the largest single-day loss of life in New Zealand history.
World War I: British nurse Edith Cavell is executed by a German firing squad for helping Allied soldiers escape from occupied Belgium.
World War II: The Soviet Riga Offensive captures the city.
First World War: The Battle of the Hohenzollern Redoubt marks the end of the Battle of Loos.
World War II: Prisoners at Sobibor extermination camp covertly assassinate most of the on-duty SS officers and then stage a mass breakout.