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The Korean War began with North Korean forces launching a pre-dawn raid over the 38th parallel into South Korea.
Anglo-Spanish War: The largest battle ever fought on Jamaica, the three-day Battle of Rio Nuevo, began.
Yugoslav Wars: The Yugoslav People's Army begins the Ten-Day War in Slovenia.
Cold War: U.S. President John F. Kennedy gives his "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech, underlining the support of the United States for democratic West Germany shortly after Soviet-supported East Germany e�
Cold War: The first supply flights are made in response to the Berlin Blockade.
War of the Roses: Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, and Edward, Earl of March, land in England with a rebel army and march on London.
Lynd Ward, American author and illustrator (died 1985)
Christian feast day: José María Robles Hurtado (one of Saints of the Cristero War)
War of Jenkins' Ear: Spanish troops stormed the British-held strategically crucial position of Fort Mose in Spanish Florida.
The United States decides to send troops to fight in the Korean War.
During the Russo-Japanese War, sailors start a mutiny aboard the Russian battleship Potemkin.
American Civil War: Confederate forces defeat Union forces during the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain during the Atlanta campaign.
Anglo-Cherokee War: Cherokee warriors defeat British forces at the Battle of Echoee near present-day Otto, North Carolina.
The military phase of the Meiji Restoration in Japan was completed with an imperial victory in the Boshin War.
American Civil War: General Sherman's frontal assault against the Confederate Army of Tennessee failed, but did not stop the Union army from advancing on Atlanta.
War of the Second Coalition: French forces won a victory at the Battle of Neuburg, ending Austrian control over the River Danube.
War of the Austrian Succession: In the last time that a British monarch led troops in battle, Allied forces commanded by George II (depicted) defeated the French army at Dettingen, Bavaria.
Iraq War: Sovereign power is handed to the interim government of Iraq by the Coalition Provisional Authority, ending the U.S.-led rule of that nation.