4108 results for “World War” (645 ms)
A treaty between Pennsylvania and Maryland ends the Conojocular War with settlement of a boundary dispute and exchange of prisoners.
Samuel Ward, American politician, 31st and 33rd Governor of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (died 1776)
John Warner, American attorney and politician (born 1927)
Fredric Warburg, English author and publisher (born 1898)
American Revolutionary War: US Colonel William Crawford began a failed expedition to destroy British-allied American Indian towns along the Sandusky River in the Ohio Country.
Cold War: The United States and the Soviet Union sign the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
Bangladesh Liberation War: The Pakistan Army slaughters at least 71 Hindus in Burunga, Sylhet, Bangladesh.
Abd el-Krim ends surrenders to the French, bringing an end to the Rif War.
Conclusion of the American Civil War: The Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith, commander of the Trans-Mississippi division, is the last full general of the Confederate Army to surrender, at Galvest�
Portuguese Restoration War: Portuguese and Spanish forces both claim victory in the Battle of Montijo.
Pequot War: A combined English and Mohegan force under John Mason attacks a village in Connecticut, massacring approximately 500 Pequots.
The Battle of Haarlemmermeer, a naval engagement in the Eighty Years' War.
Ward Cunningham, American computer programmer, developed the first wiki
Tamurbek Dawletschin, Tatar author and prisoner of war (died 1983)
Oklahoma City bombing: Michael Fortier is sentenced to 12 years in prison and fined $200,000 for failing to warn authorities about the terrorist plot.
First Chechen War: Russian president Boris Yeltsin meets with Chechen rebels for the first time and negotiates a cease-fire.
Somaliland War of Independence: The Somali National Movement launches a major offensive against Somali government forces in Hargeisa and Burao, then the second- and third-largest cities of Somalia.
Vietnam War: American warships begin the first bombardment of National Liberation Front targets within South Vietnam.