This day in military history..

Lots of action

March 5th

1942: The RAF launches an attack against Essen in the Ruhr, but with disappointing results.
1945: The fortress city of Graudenz on the Vistula surrenders the 2nd Belorussian Front, while Königsberg, Breslau, Küstrin, Frankfurt/Oder and Kolberg are still holding out.
source: http://www.feldgrau.com/march.html

1970: HMAS Sydney arrives at Fremantle, en route to Sydney. On board was 5RAR which had completed a tour in Vietnam.
source: http://www.awm.gov.au/atwar/thismonth/index.asp

1793 - French troops are defeated by Austrian forces and Liège is recaptured.
1824 - First Burmese War: The British officially declare war on Burma.
1905 - Russian troops begin to retreat from Mukden, Manchuria after losing 100,000 troops in three days.
1915 - World War I: LZ 33, a zeppelin, is damaged by enemy fire and stranded south of Ostend. 1940 - Members of Sovietpolitbiuro sign an order for the execution of 25,700 Polishintelligentsia, known also as Katyn massacre.
1974 - Yom Kippur War: Israeli forces withdrew from the west bank of the Suez Canal.
1991 - Iraq releases all Gulf War prisoners.
source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_5

1943: Germany - British and Canadian bombers start Battle of the Ruhr.
1995: Pembroke Ontario - Canadian Airborne Regiment officially disbanded at laying-up of the colors ceremony at Canadian Forces Base Petawawa.
source: http://www1.sympatico.ca/cgi-bin/on_this_day?mth=Mar&day=05

1971: The U.S. 11th Armored Cavalry "Blackhorse" Regiment, less its 2nd Squadron, withdraws from Vietnam. During its combat service in Vietnam, Blackhorse suffered 635 troopers killed in action and 5,521 wounded in action. Three of its troopers won the Medal of Honor for bravery on the battlefield.
source: http://www.historychannel.com/tdih/tdih.jsp?month=10272955&day=10272970&cat=10272949

1941: The Royal Navy begins escorting British and Commonwealth troop convoys from Egypt to Greece.
1942: General Sir Harold Alexander arrives at Rangoon to take over command of Burma Army from Lieutenant General Hutton. Wavell had given Alexander orders to hold Rangoon at all costs. Immediately, orders were issue for the 1st Burma Division to counter-attack the Japanese from the north and 17th Indian Division was to attack east of Pegu. Both attacks failed and Alexander realised that Rangoon could not be held. He ordered that Rangoon be evacuated and his troops withdraw north to the Irrawaddy Valley to regroup. German reconnaissance planes locate the British convoy PQ-12 bound for Murmansk.
1943: Bomber Command report the ‘first effective attack on Essen’ due primarily to the use of a new navigational aid ‘Oboe’.
1944: Gliders and air-transport-borne 'Chindits' set up ‘Broadway’ a stronghold behind Japanese lines, North East of Indaw. Koniev's 2nd Ukrainian Front launches an attack towards Uman.
1945: The German 2nd Army is cut off in Pomerania as the Russian 19th Army reaches the Baltic. Advance patrols of the U.S. First Army reach Cologne. Germany is now conscripting 15 and 16-year-olds into the regular army.
source: http://www.worldwar-2.net/
 
March 6th

1945: Beginning of a German counter offensive toward the Drau river in Hungary. The US 8th Air Force launches a heavy attack against Chemnitz in Saxony. The US First Army captures Cologne on the west bank of the Rhine.
source: http://www.feldgrau.com/march.html

1460: Portugal - Treaty of Alcacovas; Portugal gives Castile Canary Islands in exchange for West Africa.
1480: Toledo Spain - Spain and Portugal sign Treaty of Toledo; Spain recognizes Portugal's conquest of Morocco, Portugal cedes claims to Canary Islands.
1836: Texas - Mexican General Santa Anna and his large army slaughter Davy Crockett and rest of 189 Texas volunteers after 13 day siege. General Sam Houston and his Texans capture Santa Anna 46 days later, with battle cry, Remember the Alamo.
source: [URL="http://www1.sympatico.ca/cgi-bin/on_this_day?mth=Mar&day=06"]http://www1.sympatico.ca/cgi-bin/on_this_day?mth=Mar&day=06[/URL]

1940 - Winter War: An armistice is signed by Finland and the Soviet Union.
1957 - Israel withdraws its troops from the Sinai Peninsula.
source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_6

1916: New German attacks at Verdun: Battle of the Flanks - During a punishing snowstorm, the German army launches a new attack against French forces on the high ground of Mort-Homme, on the left bank of the Meuse River, near the fortress city of Verdun, France. Though the Germans had advanced speedily since the start of their advance, capturing Verdun’s major protective fort, Fort Douaumont, on February 25, the French were by no means ready to give way, and the battle soon settled into a stalemate, with heavy casualties on both sides.
1945: Dutch Resistance ambushes SS officer--unwittingly - Members of the Dutch Resistance who were attempting to hijack a truck in Apeldoorn, Holland, ambush Lt. Gen. Hanns Rauter, an SS officer. During the following week, the German SS executed 263 Dutch in retaliation.
1965: U.S. is sending Marines to South Vietnam - The White House confirms reports that, at the request of South Vietnam, the United States is sending two battalions of U.S. Marines for security work at the Da Nang air base, which will hopefully free South Vietnamese troops for combat.
source: http://www.historychannel.com/tdih

1940: Hitler changes his plans for the invasion of the west. At a military conference in Berlin, he decides to adopt the plan put forward by Gerd von Rundstedt and his former chief of staff, Erich von Manstein, for the Ardennes option. Code-named ‘Fall Sichelschnitt’, it called for the attack against the Low Countries to go ahead, but with slightly fewer forces, in order to draw the allies forward, while the decisive thrust would be mounted through the Ardennes. Holding attacks would be made against the Maginot line.
1941: German aircraft mine the Suez canal, blocking it for 3 weeks.
1942: Japanese occupy Batavia in Java. Japanese cut all roads north of Rangoon, trapping the British at Pegu. Having received permission from Hitler, the Battleship Tirpitz and 3 destroyers set sail from Trondheim to intercept convoy PQ-12, but is spotted by a British submarine which relays the information onto the British Admiralty. However, bad weather means that the Tirpitz is unable to locate PQ-12 and so heads back to base. Enroute to Trondheim the Tirpitz is spotted and attacked by aircraft from HMS Victorious, but is not damaged.
1944: U.S. Marines land at Talasea in New Britain. Another 'Chindit' stronghold is established South of the Irrawaddy. Bomber Command begins a large-scale offensive over northern France in preparation for D-Day. The USAAF send 730 bombers and 796 fighters to Berlin, during which 69 bombers and 11 escorts are shot down.
1945: The new Chinese First Army takes Lashio in north-eastern Burma. The 2nd Panzer and 6th SS Panzer Armies launch a major counter-attack from Lake Balaton towards Budapest. The U.S. Third Army reaches the Rhine Northwest of Koblenz.
source: http://www.worldwar-2.net/
 
March 7th

1941: U-47, commanded by top ace Korvkpt. Günther Prien, hero of Scapa Flow, is reported missing in the North Atlantic.
1945: US First Army captures the Ludendorff railway bridge at Remagen, the last remaining bridge across the Rhine, allowing US troops to gain a first foothold on the east bank of the river.
source: http://www.feldgrau.com/march.html

1814 - Napoleon wins the Battle of Craonne.
1827 - Brazil marines sail up the Rio Negro (Argentina) and attack the temporary naval base of Carmen de Patagones, Argentina. They are defeated by the local citizens.
1862 - American Civil War: Battle of Pea Ridge - Union forces led by GeneralSamuel Curtis defeat Confederate troops under GeneralEarl Van Dorn at Pea Ridge in northwestern Arkansas.
1918 - World War I: Finland forms an alliance with Germany.
1936 - World War II: In violation of the Locarno Pact and the Treaty of Versailles, Germany reoccupies the Rhineland.
1951 - Korean War: Operation Ripper - In Korea, United Nations troops led by GeneralMatthew Ridgeway begin an assault against Chinese forces.
1968 - Vietnam War: The First Battle of Saigon begins.
source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_7

1940: The RAF spots units of the Kriegsmarine steaming North towards Narvik and Trondheim loaded with troops and equipment.
1941:U-47, commanded by top ace Günther Prien, hero of Scapa Flow, is sunk by the British Destroyer HMS Wolverine. British and Commonwealth troops begin to arrive in Greece.
1942: The Government of the Dutch East Indies flees Java for Australia. Force H, HMS Argus and HMS Eagle and supported by a number of destroyers, sets sail for Malta with Fifteen Spitfires on board which were flown off when Force H came within range of the Island.
1943: A new wolfpack, codenamed 'Raubgraf' (Robber Baron), is created in the central North Atlantic. It will operate between the 7th and 20th March 1943. Immediately the wolfpack attacks convoy ON-168 which is traveling between North America and the UK. One ship is damaged and abandoned, to be finally sunk on the 12th March for 6,537 gross tons.
1944: U.S. Marines secure Los Negros in the Pacific. The Japanese begin the Imphal-Kohima offensive from northern Burma into Assam, India.
source: http://www.worldwar-2.net/
 
March 7 (Cont.)

March 7th (Cont.)

1966: U.S. jets launch heaviest air raids of the war - In the heaviest air raids since the bombing began in February 1965, U.S. Air Force and Navy planes fly an estimated 200 sorties against North Vietnam. The objectives of the raids included an oil storage area 60 miles southeast of Dien Bien Phu and a staging area 60 miles northwest of Vinh.
1967: Republic of Korea forces operation launch the largest South Korean operation to date, forming a link-up of two Korean division areas of operations along the central coastal area of South Vietnam. South Korean forces had been in South Vietnam since August 1964, when Seoul sent a liaison unit to Saigon. By the close of 1969 there were over 47,800 Korean soldiers actively involved in combat operations in South Vietnam. Seoul began to withdraw its troops in February 1972, following the lead of the United States as it drastically reduced its troop commitment to South Vietnam.
1972: In the biggest air battle in Southeast Asia in three years, U.S. jets battle five North Vietnamese MiGs and shoot one down 170 miles north of the Demilitarized Zone. The 86 U.S. air raids over North Vietnam in the first two months of this year equaled the total for all of 1971.
source: http://www.historychannel.com/tdih

1942: Japanese occupation of Java completeAllied forces offered little resistance to the Japanese invasion of Java, the former Dutch colony fell to the Japanese 16th Army on 12 March.
1965: 3rd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, deploys to Borneo The 3rd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment and the 4th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment along with two squadrons of the Special Air Service, several artillery batteries, parties of the Royal Australian Engineers and ships of the Royal Australian Navy constituted Australia's support for the new Federation of Malaysia against Indonesia during the 4 years of Confrontation.
source: http://www.awm.gov.au/atwar/thismonth/index.asp

 
All kinds of history

March 8th

1944: The US 8th Air Force carries out another heavy attack against Berlin.
1945: Beginning of secret negotiations at Bern, Switzerland, between representatives of the American OSS (Allan Dulles) and the German High Command in Italy (General von Vietinghoff and SS General Wolff) for an early surrender of German forces in Italy. In the East, the Red Army penetrates into the southern suburbs of Breslau.
source: http://www.feldgrau.com/march.html

1942: Lae and Salamaua were occupied by the Japanese to provide defensive depth for their important air and sea base at Rabaul.
1942: 7th Division AIF arrives in Adelaide from the Middle East. Elements of the Division had been sent to Java where they soon became prisoners of the Japanese.source: http://www.awm.gov.au/atwar/thismonth/index.asp

1942: The Dutch surrender to Japanese forces on Java. Japan captures Rangoon, Burma.
1943: Japanese troops counter-attack American forces on Hill 700 in Bougainville in a battle that will last five days.
1965: 3,500 United States Marines arrive in South Vietnam, becoming the first American combat troops in Vietnam.
1966: Australia announces it is going to substantially increase its number of troops in Vietnam.
source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_8

1901: Halifax Nova Scotia - Samuel Benfield Steele 1849-1919 commanding Lord Strathcona's Horse, arrives back in Halifax with his regiment after fighting the Boers in South Africa.
1993: Somali Republic - Canadian Navy supply ship HMCS Preserver heads home after three-month tour of Somalia; her three Sea King helicopters airlifted 430 tonnes of supplies into Mogadishu.
source: http://www1.sympatico.ca/cgi-bin/on_this_day?mth=Mar&day=08

1975: South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu orders the withdrawal of South Vietnamese forces from the Central Highlands. In late January 1975, just two years after the cease-fire had been established by the Paris Peace Accords, the North Vietnamese launched Campaign 275. The objective of this campaign was the capture of Ban Me Thuot in the Central Highlands. The battle began on March 4 and the North Vietnamese quickly encircled the city. As it became clear that the communists would take the city and probably the entire Darlac province, Thieu decided to withdraw his forces in order to protect the more critical populous areas. Accordingly, he ordered his forces in the Central Highlands to pull back from their positions. Abandoning Pleiku and Kontum, the South Vietnamese forces began to move toward the sea, but what began as an orderly withdrawal soon turned into panic. The South Vietnamese forces rapidly fell apart. The North Vietnamese were successful in both the Central Highlands and further north at Quang Tri, Hue, and Da Nang. The South Vietnamese soon collapsed as a cogent fighting force and the North Vietnamese continued the attack all the way to Saigon. South Vietnam surrendered unconditionally on April 30.
source: http://www.historychannel.com/tdih

1940: Heavy fighting is reported at the outskirts to Viipuri, as the Red Army continues its attempt to capture the city. This prompts the Finns to seek an immediate armistice, which the Russians refuse. Therefore the Finnish delegation in Moscow is instructed to sue for peace.
1942: Rangoon falls to the Japanese as the British forces escape to the north. The 17th Indian Division was now holding the Irrawaddy area and the 1st Burma Division the upper Sittang valley. The Chinese Expeditionary Force were farther north, with the Fifth Chinese Army defending Mandalay and the 6th Chinese Army was at Toungoo and defending the Burmese province of Shan.
1943: The RAF use GEE for the first time for target marking during a raid on Essen. The technique was known as 'Shaker' and consisted of aircraft marking the target with flares, allowing aircraft further behind to see the target more clearly. However the results of the raid were disappointing.
1944: The US 8th Air Force carries out another heavy attack against Berlin.
1945: The Red Army penetrates into the southern suburbs of Breslau. Beginning of secret negotiations at Bern, Switzerland, between representatives of the American OSS (Allan Dulles) and the German High Command in Italy (General von Vietinghoff and SS General Wolff) for an early surrender of German forces in Italy. British and Canadian troops involved in Operation 'Blockbuster' enter Xanten on the Rhine after several days of heavy fighting, further to the South, U.S. troops enter Bonn.
 
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A slow day?

March 9th

1941: Beginning of an ill-fated Italian offensive in Albania.
1943: Generaloberst von Arnim replaces FM Rommel as C-i-C of German forces in Tunisia.
1945: German light naval vessels from the still German-ocupied British Channel Islands enter the Allied supply port of Granville in Bretagne, sinking five ships. Units of the US Third Army capture Andernach on the Rhine. on the Oder front in the East, troops of the Soviet 1st Belorussian Front are fighting inside the fortress of Küstrin.
source: http://www.feldgrau.com/march.html

1847 - Mexican-American War: United States forces under GeneralWinfield Scott invade Mexico near Vera Cruz.
1862 - American Civil War: The first battle between two ironclad warships - In a five-hour battle near Hampton Roads, Virginia the USS Monitor fights the CSS Virginia to a draw.
1945 - World War II: Bombing of Tokyo - AmericanB-29 bombers attack Tokyo, Japan with incendiary bombs. The resulting fire storm kills over 100,000 people.
source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_9

1916: Berlin Germany - Germany declares war on Portugal; accuses Portugal of seizing German shipping in Lisbon harbor.
source: [URL="http://www1.sympatico.ca/cgi-bin/on_this_day?mth=Mar&day=09"]http://www1.sympatico.ca/cgi-bin/on_this_day?mth=Mar&day=09[/URL]

1781: Spanish siege of Pensacola begins - After successfully capturing British positions in Louisiana and Mississippi, Spanish General Bernardo de Galvez, commander of the Spanish forces in North America, turns his attention to the British-occupied city of Pensacola, Florida. General Galvez and a Spanish naval force of more than 40 ships and 3,500 men landed at Santa Rosa Island and begin a two-month siege of British occupying forces that becomes known as the Battle of Pensacola.
1970: Marines hand over control of I Corps region - The U.S. Marines turn over control of the five northernmost provinces in South Vietnam to the U.S. Army. The Marines had been responsible for this area since they first arrived in South Vietnam in 1965. The change in responsibility for this area was part of President Richard Nixon's initiative to reduce U.S. troop levels as the South Vietnamese accepted more responsibility for the fighting. After the departure of the 3rd Marine Division from Vietnam in late 1969, the 1st Marine Division was the only marine division left operating in South Vietnam.
source:

1941: The Italians launch another offensive against the Greek 1st Army in Albania, but it makes very little progress.
1942: The Government of the Dutch East Indies reaches Adelaide in Australia as all resistance on Java ceases and the island surrenders to the Japanese. US General Stilwell becomes Chiang Kai-shek’s Chief of Staff. The RAF returns to bomb Essen once more, but again are unable to inflict much damage due to the constant industrial haze over the city and the lack of landmarks, which made the city notoriously difficult to find.
1943: U-510 torpedoes eight ships in three hours off the coast of Brazil, in what is the most successful single U-boat action of the war.
1945: The U.S. First Army widens the Remagen bridgehead.
source: http://www.worldwar-2.net/
 
yeah I agree, slow heh.. but good show really. You got germans Italians and even mexicans. Worth the time 8)

show us the next day!
 
A slow day for WW II

March 10th
1944: The Red Army recaptures Uman in the Ukraine.
1945: FM Kesselring replaces FM von Rundstedt as C-i-C of German forces in the West. German troops evacuate Wesel on the lower Rhine. The US Third Army captures Bonn. In the East, the Kriegsmarine evacuates 25,000 civilian refugees from the besieged Baltic fortress of Kolberg in Pommerania. In the battle for Danzig, the Soviet 2nd Belorussian Front captures Zoppot.
source: http://www.feldgrau.com/march.html

1942: Japanese land at Finschhafen - The Japanese needed to capture towns such as Finschhafen and Salamaua to protect the their forward air base at Lae.
source: http://www.awm.gov.au/atwar/thismonth/index.asp

241 BC: Mediterranean - Roman fleet sinks 50 Carthaginian ships at the Battle of Aegusa.
1940: Netherlands - Germany invades the Benelux countries.
1945: Wesel Germany - First Canadian Army forces Germans across Rhine opposite Wesel, ending month-long campaign west of the Rhine; lose 5,304 dead in Rhine campaign.
1966: Ashau Vietnam - North Vietnamese capture US Green Beret Camp at Ashau Valley.
source: http://www1.sympatico.ca/cgi-bin/on_this_day?mth=Mar&day=10

1814 - Napoleon I of France is defeated at the Battle of Laon in France.
1831 - The French Foreign Legion is established by KingLouis-Philippe to support his war in Algeria.
1848 - The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is ratified by the United States Senate, ending the Mexican-American War.
1864 - American Civil War: The Red River Campaign begins as Union troops reach Alexandria, Louisiana.
1970 - Vietnam War: Capt. Ernest Medina is charged with My Lai war crimes.
1975 - Vietnam War: North Vietnamese troops attack Ban Me Thout, South Vietnam, on their way to capturing Saigon.
1991 - Gulf War: Operation Phase Echo - 540,000 American troops begin to leave the Persian Gulf.

1917: Turkish troops begin evacuation of Baghdad - Less than two weeks after their victorious recapture of the strategically placed city of Kut-al-Amara on the Tigris River in Mesopotamia, British troops under the regional command of Sir Frederick Stanley Maude bear down on Baghdad, causing their Turkish opponents to begin a full-scale evacuation of the city on the evening of March 10, 1917.
source: http://www.historychannel.com/tdih

1941: The RAF attacks Le Havre and at the same time gives the new 4-engine Halifax bomber it debut, although one of the six Halifax's involved is shot down on its return flight by an RAF night fighter.
1942: Aircraft from the American Aircraft Carriers Lexington and Yorktown make attacks against the Japanese at Lae and Salamaua. Japanese troops make landings at Finschhafen in New Guinea. They also occupy Buka in the Solomon Islands. Japanese aircraft attack Port Moresby in Papua.
1944: Uman is taken as the Russians drive towards the Bug and Dnieper rivers.
1945: The 2nd Belorussian Front captures Zoppot, during its attack towards Danzig. The Kriegsmarine evacuates 25,000 civilian refugees from the besieged Baltic fortress of Kolberg in Pomerania.
 
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MightyMacbeth said:
man these are mostly ww2.

wonder how much info on the past are available. Say for example, the 17century 8)
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Be my guest, I need a rest.
If you think you can do better, then go ahead!
 
umm... heh, it would be my pleasure sir heh.. but I am afraid I umm.. dont have the free time? or maybe just seem not to be able to find as many events as you all.. wonder what to write down.. Hope you can help :)
 
Hi :)

well, its already 17 march in Kuwait so...

March 17
  • 45 BC - In his last victory, Julius Caesar defeats the Pompeian forces of Titus Labienus and Pompe the Younger in the Battle of Munda.
  • 624 - A key victory by Muhammad over his Meccan adversaries in the Battle of Badr.
  • 1577 - The Cathay Company is formed to send Martin Frobisher back to the New World for more gold.
  • 1776 - American Revolution: British forces evacuate Boston, Massachusetts after Georg Washington places artillery overlooking the city.
  • 1805 - The Italian Republic, with Napoleon as president, becomes the Kingdom of Italy, with Napoleon as King.
  • 1886 - Carrollton Massacre: 20 African Americans are killed in Mississippi.
  • 1891 - The British steamshipSS Utopia sinks off the coast of Gibraltar, killing 574.
  • 1921 - The Second Republic of Poland adopts the March Constitution.
  • 1939 - Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945): The Battle of Nanchang between the Kuomintang and the Japanese break out.
  • 1948 - Benelux, France, and the United Kingdom sign the Treaty of Brussels, a precursor to the NATO Agreement.
  • 1958 - The United States launches the Vanguard satellite.
  • 1959 - Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, flees Tibet and travels to India.
  • 1966 - Off the coast of Spain in the Mediterranean, the Alvinsubmarine finds a missing American hydrogen bomb.
  • 1970 - My Lai massacre: The United States Army charges 14 officers with suppressing information related to the incident.
  • 1985 - Serial killerRichard Ramirez, the "Night Stalker", commits his first two murders in Los Angeles, California murder spree.
  • 1992 - A suicide car-bomb kills 29 and injures 242 at the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
  • 2003 - British Cabinet Minister, Robin Cook, resigns over government plans for war with Iraq.
  • 2004 - Massive Unrest in Kosovo. Over 22 killed, 200 wounded, 35 destroyed Serb Orthodox shrines in Kosovo and two mosques in Belgrade and Nis.
You know something? I think I produce more "fascinating&Interesting" events here huh? 8)

heh, took me a whole day to design it too.. but I dont seem to know how to get rid of those black dots at the beginning of each event..

anway, enjoy :)


p.s. what do u think sir tomtom? :)
 
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Happy Saint Patrick's Day!

MightyMacbeth said:
heh, took me a whole day to design it too.. but I dont seem to know how to get rid of those black dots at the beginning of each event..

anway, enjoy :)


p.s. what do u think sir tomtom? :)
Click to expand...

To get rid of the black dots place your cursor at the beginning of the text and then press the backspace key.
Remember this is supposed to be Military history.

Here are several websites that you can use:

http://www.feldgrau.com/march.html

http://www.awm.gov.au/atwar/thismonth/index.asp

http://www1.sympatico.ca/cgi-bin/on_this_day

http://www.historychannel.com/tdih

http://www.worldwar-2.net/

Good luck! and Happy Saint Patrick's Day!

8-)
 
heh yeah thanx 8) nice isnt it?

anyyway, I know about this step in getting rid of the dots. But I meant when I press enter, another dot appears and doesnt go. Because I want to creat a space between the events.

And thats too many sites lol, I just go to one 8) and yeah, I try to eliminate the non military ones, but just seem to have grew tired heh.
 
sorry for the double post.

here we go again.

19 march

1279 - A Mongolian victory in the Battle of Yamen ends the Song Dynasty in China.


1861 - The First Taranaki War ends in New Zealand.
1865 - American Civil War: The Battle of Bentonville begins. By the end of the battle two days later the Confederate forces have retreated from Greenville, North Carolina.

1916 - Eight American planes take off in pursuit of Pancho Villa, the first United States air-combat mission in history.

1920 - The United States Senate rejects the Treaty of Versailles for the second time (first time was on November 19, 1919).
1921 - Italian Fascists shoot from a train to a group of children in Strunjan (Slovenia): two children are killed, two mangled, three wounded.



1944 - World War II: Nazi forces occupy Hungary.
1945 - World War II: Off the coast of Japan, a dive bomber hits the aircraft carrier USS Franklin, killing 800 of her crew and crippling the ship. ((did he mean Kamikaze?))
1945 - World War II: Adolf Hitler issues his "Nero Decree" ordering all industries, military installations, shops, transportation facilities and communications facilities in Germany be destroyed.

1962 - Algerian War of Independence: A ceasefire takes effect.


1972 - India and Bangladesh sign a friendship treaty.
1978 - UN Security Council Resolution 425 and 426 were passed, calling upon Israel immediately to cease its military action and withdraw its forces from all Lebanese territory (Operation Litani), and established the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL).


1982 - Falklands War: Argentines land on South Georgia Island, precipitating war.

2002 - U.S. invasion of Afghanistan: Operation Anaconda ends (started on March 2) after killing 500 Taliban and al Qaeda fighters with 11 allied troop fatalities.
2003 - President Bush begins a US-led military operation in Iraq.

2004 - A Swedish DC-3 shot down by a Russian Mig-15 in the 1950s is finally recovered after years of work. The remains of the crew are left in place, pending further investigations.


Good huh?

used wikipedia :)

enjoy!
 
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March 20th
1942: The Soiet offensive at Kerch in the Crimea is defeated with heavy losses to the Soviets.
1944: The Red Army recaptures Vinnitsa in the Ukraine, Hitler's HQ in 1943.
1945: German troops of Heeresgruppe Weichsel evacuate their bridgehead across the Oder at Stettin. In East Prussia, the Red Army captures Braunsberg, 40 miles south of Königsberg.

1916: ANZAC Corps land in France - With Gallipoli behind them the bulk of Australia's forces were now sent to France where the terrible fighting on the Western Front awaited.
1917: Lieutenant McNamara, originally from Rushworth, Victoria, becomes the first Australian airman to win a Victoria Cross for rescuing a downed comrade in Palestine.

1915: Britain and Russia divide future spoils of war - Just two days after its navy suffered a demoralizing defeat against Turkish forces at the Dardanelles, the British government signs a secret agreement with Russia regarding the hypothetical post-World War I division of the former Ottoman Empire. By the terms of the agreement, signed on March 20, 1915, Russia would annex the Turkish stronghold of Constantinople, the Bosporus Strait (a waterway connecting the Black Sea with the Sea of Marmara and marking the boundary between the Asian and European halves of Turkey), and more than half of the European section of Turkey. Britain also promised Russia future control of the Dardanelles (the crucially important strait connecting the Black Sea with the Mediterranean)—which the British navy had unsuccessfully attacked two days earlier—and the Gallipoli peninsula, the target of a major Allied military invasion (which would also result in failure) launched late the following month. In return, Russia would agree to British claims on other areas of the former Ottoman Empire and central Persia, including the oil-rich region of Mesopotamia.
 
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