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July 26
657 Battle of Siffin begins
811 Battle of Pliska
1469 Battle of Edgecote Moor
1758 Siege of the Louisbourg Fortress ends
1822 Battle of Dervenakia begins
1861 Battle of Ft. Filmore, New Mexico Territory ends
1863 Morgan's Raid ends
1897 Siege of Malakand begins
1937 Battle of Brunete ends
1940 KM Torpedo Boat Luchs sunk by R.N. sub. Minesweepers M-61, 89, and 136 sunk by mines off the Hook of Holland
1941 Malta Raid: Italian MAS boats and explosive assualt boats destroyed during Raid attempt. Soviet Gunboat MO-239 sunk by Finnish Gunboat Uusimaa off Finland
1943 U-359 sunk by USN PBM Mariner off the south west tip of Haiti.
1944 I-29 sunk by USS Sawfish off The Philippines. Sub USs Robalo sunk by mine off Palawan. U-214 sunk by Frigate HMS Cooke in the English Channel. U-2323 sunk by mine at Kiel
1945 IJN Landing Ship No. 150 bombed/sunk off Palau
1953 Cuban Revolution begins
 
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July 27
1202 Battle of Basiqan
1214 Battle of Bouvines
1302 Battle of Bapheus
1689 Battle of Killiecrankie
1720 naval Battle of Grengam
1778 1st naval Battle of Ushant
1880 Battle of Maiwand
1940 Destroyer HMS Codrington bobmed/beached, damaged beyond repair at Dover. Destroyer HMS Wren bombed/sunk off Aideburgh
1941 Soviet Destroyer Smelyi sunk by E Boat S-54 in Gulf of Riga
1942 1st Battle of El Alamein ends. R.N. MGB 501 sunk by an explosion off Land's End
1943 Minelayer Kirashima sunk by USS Swordfish off Fukue Jima. I-168 sunk by USS Scamp in Steffen Strait. R.N. LCT 353 bombed/sunk by Italian aircraft off Syracuse
1944 R.N. MTB 412 sunk in a collision off Normandy. Soviet sub V-1 sunk by RAF B-24 off Norway
1945 USN LCT-1050 was sunk while tied up alongside SS Pratt Victory when the Victory ship was damaged by an aerial torpedo at Ie Shima
1953 Korean Wat ends
 
July 28
1364 Battle of Cascina
1809 Battle of Tulavera ends
1864 Battle of Ezra Church. Battle of Tohkohokaty Mountain, Dakota Territory
1914 Austria-Hungary declares War on Serbia
1935 1st flight B-17
1940 R.N. Trawler HMS Staunton sunk with all hands by a mineoff East Knoll Bouy
1941 R.N. Lighter A8 bombed/sunk off Bardia.
1942 Destroyers Ariake and Mikazuki bombed/sunk by B-25s off Cape Gloucester, New Britain.
1943 Norwegian MTB 345 captured off Norway. U-159 bombed/sunk by USN PBM Mariner south of the Dominican Republic. U-404 sunk by 2 US Army and 1 RAF B-24s north west of Cape Ortegal
1944 U-1166 severly damaged by a torpedo explosion at Eckenforde, Norway, decommisioned & towed to Keil, scuttled there May '45.
1945 IJN ships bombed/sunk at Kure: Battleships Haruna and Ise, Destroyer Nashi,Training ship Izumo, Cruiser Oyodo, Frigates CD-4 and CD-30
 
July 29
904 Sack of Thesalonica begins
1014 Battle of Kleidon
1018 Battle of Vlaardingen
1030 Battle of Stiklestad
1148 Siege of Damascus ends
1693 Battle of Landen
1846 USS Cyane captures San Diego
1862 Steamer #280 sails from Liverpool to be converted into CSS Alabama
1914 2 Austrian Monitors shell Belgrade
1937 Tianjin Incident
1938 Battle of Lake Khasan begins
1940 Armed Yacht HMS Gulzar bombed/sunk at Dover. Destroyer HMS Delight bombed/damaged off Portland, sinks in Portland Harbor next day
1941 Soviet Minesweeper Zaryad Sunk off Risna Light House, Estonia. R.N. LCI 8 bombed/sunk off Sidi Barani
1943 U-614 sunk by RAF Wellington north west of Cape Finisterre. Italian sub Pietro Micca sunk by sub HMS Trooper in the entrance to the Adriatic
1944 LSI(S) HMS Prince Leopold sunk in the English Channel off Normandy. R.N. Trawler HMS Lord Wakefield bombed/sunk off Omaha Beach. U-872 bombed at Bremen, scrapped.
1967 USS Forrestal fire, 134 killed, 161 wounded
 
July 30
634 Battle of Ajnadayn
1635 Siege of Schenkenschans begins, ends April 30, 1636
1656 Battle of Warsaw ends
1864 Siege of Petersburg: Battle of the Crater
1916 Black Tom Island munitions disaster
1941 Sub HMS Cachelot rammed/sunk by Italian Torpedo Boat Gen. Achille Papa in the Med. Soviet sub S-6 bombed/sunk off Estonia
1942 U-166 sunk by USN Patrol Craft PC-566 south of the mouth of the Miss. River.
1943 1st flight SAAB 21A fighter. Soviet Minesweeper T-911 sunk by U-703. U-43 sunk by aircraft from USS Santee south west of The Azores. U-461 sunk by RAAF Sunderland north west of Cape Ortegal with U-462, sunk by RAF Halifax and 5 R.N. Sloops, the Sloops also sank U-504. U-375 sunk by USN Patrol Craft PC-624 north west of Malta. U-591 sunk by USN PV-1 Ventura off Pernambuco.
1944 Soviet Minesweepers KT-804 and 807 sunk by U-481 in Narva Bay. Soviet Sub Chaser MO-105 sunk by U-250, in turn sunk by MO-103. U-250 raised and towed to Kristensand, comissioned into Soviet Navy as TS-4 for 3 months, later scrapped. USN Minesweeper YMS-304 sunk and YMS-378 damaged beyond repair by mines off Normandy.
1945 Cruiser USS Indianapolis sunk by I-58 in the Philippine Sea. Destroyer Hatsushio sunk by mine in Miyazo Bay. Frigate Okinawa sunk by mines, and Minelayer Toshima bombed/sunk, in Maizuru Bay. Sub Chaser CH-26 bombed/sunk off Chinkai.
 
July 31
30 B.C. Battle of Alexandria
1423 Battle of Cravant
1763 Battle of Bloody Run
1862 Battle of Harrison's Landing
1917 Battle of Passchendaele begins
1941 Soviet sub M-94 sunk by U-140 west of Hiiumaa. Minesweeper No. 46 sunk off Tallinn
1942 sub USS Grunion sunk by Kano Maru off Kiska. U-213 sunk by Sloops HMS Erne, Rochester, and Sandwich east of The Azores. U-588 sunk by Corvette HMCS Wetaskiwin and Destroyer HMCS Skeena north east of Newfoundland. U-754 sunk by RCAF Hudson south of Nova Scotia.
1943 U-199 sunk by Brazilian A F PBY off Rio de Janeiro
1944 U-333 sunk by Sloop HMS Starling and Frigate HMS Loch Killin west of the Isles of Scilly
 
1 Aug
902 Siege of Taormina ends
1192 Battle of Jaffa
1664 Battle of Gotthard
1759 Battle of Minden
1798 Battle of the Nile
1801 USS Enterprise captures/disarms/releases Tripolitan warship Tripoli off Tripoli
1914 Germany declares War on Russia
1920 Red Army captures Brest-Litovsk from the Poles.
1927 Nanchang Uprising begins
1940 Sub HMS Oswald rammed/sunk by Italian Destroyer Gen. Uglino Vivaldi in the Strait of Messina. HMS Spearfish sunk by U-34 south west of Stavenger
1941 1st flight Grumman Avenger
1943 Burma declares War on US & UK. U-383 sunk by RAF Sunderland west of Brittany. U-445 sunk by RAAF Sunderland in Bay of Biscay. PT-117 and 164 bombed/sunk in Rendova Harbor
1944 Warsaw Uprising begins. Battle of Tinian ends
 
Aug 2
338 B.C. Battle of Chaeronea
216 B.C. Battle of Cannae
1861 Union troops evacuate Ft. Stanton, New Mexico Territory
1897 Siege of Malakand ends
1916 Italian Battleship Leonardo da Vinci sunk by magazine explosion at Toranto
1940 R.N. Trawler HMS Cape Finisterre bombed/sunk off Harwich
1941 Italian sub Tembian rammed/sunk by Cruiser Hermione off Tunis. Soviet sub S-11 sunk by mine in Soela Strait
1943 PT-109 rammed/sunk by Destroyer Amigiri. U-106 sunk by RAF and RAAF Sunderland north west of Cape Ortegal
1944 Destroyer Escort USS Fiske sunk by U-804 north of the Azores
1964 Pt.1 Tonkin Gulf Incident
1990 Iraq invades Kuwait
 
Aug 3
851 Battle of Saucourt
1342 Siege of Algeciras begins, ends 26 March 1344
1601 Battle of Guruslau
1645 2nd Battle of Nordlingen
1804 1stBattle of Tripoli Harbor begins
1864 Mobile Bay Campaign: Union troops land on Dauphin Island preperatory to lay Siege on Ft. Gaines
1914 Germany declares War on France
1940 Italians invade British Somililand
1941 U-401 sunk by Destroyers HMS Wanderer, St. Albans and Frigate HMS Hydrangea south west of Ireland
1942 Destroyer USS Tucker strikes mine late on the 3rd and sinks before sun up on the 4th off Espiritu Santo
1943 Italian sud Argento sunk by Destroyer USS Buck in the Med. U-335 sunk by sub HMS Seracin south east of the Faroes. U-572 sunk by USN PBM Mariner off Trinidad. U-706 sunk by USN B-24 and RCAF Hampden north west of Cape Ortegal.
1944 Destroyer HMS Quorn sunk by a KM Neger torpedo device or explosive boat off Normandy
 
Aug 4
1265 Battle of Eversham
1327 Battle of Stanhope Park
1578 Battle of Alcassar
1796 Battle of Lenato ends
1846 USS Congress captures Santa Barbara, Ca
1914 Germany invades Belgium. UK declares War on Germany
1940 R.N. Trawler HMS Drummer sunk by mine off Brightlingsea, R.N. Trawler HMS Marsona sunk by mine in Moray Firth, and R.N. Trawler HMS Oswaldian by mine in the Bristol Channel. KM Sub Chaser UJ-175 sunk by mine off Ameland
1942 U-372 sunk by RAF Wellington & 4 R.N. warships south west of Haifa, Palestine
1943 Destroyer HMS Arrow damaged beyond repair by the explosion of SS Fort La Montee at Algiers. U-489 sunk by RCAF Sunderland, that was also shot down, south east of Iceland
1944 KM Minesweeper M-422 bombed/sunk off St. Malo. R.N. Trawler HMS Guirsay sunk by KM explosive motorboat off Normandy. Destroyer Matsu sunk by USN Destroyers and High Speed Transport No. 4 bombed/sunk off Chichi Jima, and Landing Ship No. 133 bombed/sunk off Iwo Jima.
1964 Tonkin Gulf Incident, Pt. 2
1995 Operation Storm begins (Bosnian War and Croatian War)
 
Aug 5
641 Battle of Maserfield
910 Battle of Tettenhall
939 Battle of Alhandic
1068 Siege of Bari begins, ends 15 April 1071
1278 Siege of Algeceras begins, ends July 1279
1716 Battle of Ptrovaradin
1763 Battle of Bushy Run begins
1781 1st Battle of the Dogger Bank
1824 naval Battle of Samos
1862 Battle of Baton Rouge
1864 Mobile Bay Campaign: Battle of Mobile Bay
1914 German Minelayer SMS Konigin Luise sunk by Cruiser HMS Amphion off the Thames Estuary
1916 Battle of Romani ends
1940 R.N. Trawler HMS River Clyde sunk by mine off Aldeburgh
1941 1st Battle of Smolensk ends
1943 Gunboat USS Plymouth sunk by U-566 off Elizebeth City, N.C. R.N. Trawler HMS Red Gauntlet sunk by E Boat S-86 off Harwich. U-34 sunk in collision with Sub Tender Lech at Memel
1944 R.N. LCT 1076 foundered at an unknown location. KM Minesweepers M-271 and 325 bombed/sunk at Pavillac, France. U-671 sunk by Destroyer HMS Wensleydale and Frigate HMS Stayner south of Brighton
1964 Operation Peirce Arrow
1995 Croats capture Knin
 
6 Aug
1284 Battle of Meloria ends
1506 Battle of Kletsk
1777 Battle of Oriskany
1862 CSS Arkansas scuttled near Baton Rouge
1864 Mobile Bay Campaign: CS evacuates, blows up Ft. Powell
1870 Battle of Spicheren. Battle of Worth
1914 Serbia declares War on Germany. Austria-Hungary declares War on Russia
1915 Battle of Sari Bair begins
1917 Battle of Marasesti begins
1941 R.N. Trawler HMS Agate wrecked, lost with all hands on Haisborough Sands. Soviet Dispatch ship PS-70 sunk by U-652 off Cape Teriberka
1942 U-210 sunk by Destroyer HMCS Assiniboine. U-612 sunk in collision with U-444 off Gotenhafen, raised, repaired, returned to service. Sub HMS Thorn sunk by Italian torpedo Boat Pegaso off Gavdos Island
1943 Battle of Vella Gulf: Destroyers Arashi, Hagikaze and Kawakazi sunk by US Destroyers.
1944 KM Minesweepers M-263 and 486, Flackship V-414, Cable ship V-1594 and Corvette SG-3 sunk by R.N. ships off France. Minesweeper M-206 scuttled at St. Malo. U-736 sunk by Frigate HMS Loch Killin west of St. Nazaire. U-471,592 and 969 bombed/sunk at Toulon by B-24s, U-471 raised, repaired, put in French Navy service post War as "Mille".
1945 Atom bombing of Hiroshima. Sub USS Bullhead bombed/sunk off Bali.
 
Aug 7
1782 Purple Heart (current name) Est.
1789 US War Dept Est.
1819 Battle of Boyaca
1940 Flackship V-1501 sunk by mine in the Skaggerak, raised, repaired, returned to service
1941 R.N. Motor Minesweeper MMS 39 sunk by mine in the Thames Estuary
1942 Battle of Guadalcanal begins. Battle of Tulagi begins. R.N. MTB 237 sunk by KM surface units off Barfleur, France. MTB 44 sunk by KM surface units off Dover
1943 U-84 sunk by USN B-24 in the Atlantic. U-117 sunk by aircraft from USS Card. U-615 sunk by USN PBM Mariners and a Ventura north of parlamar in the Caribbean
1944 Cruiser Nagara sunk by USS Croaker in East China Sea. Frigate Kusagaki sunk by sub USS Guitaro north west of Subic Bay. USN LCT-182 foundered in heavy seas in Kula Gulf
1945 Frigate CD-39 bombed/sunk off Korea by US Army B-25s. IJA Landing Craft Depot Ship Kibitsu Maru damaged by mine/beached near Kobe.
2008 South Ossetia War begins
 
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8 Aug
1813 Gunboats USS Hamilton and Scourge sunk by sudden storm on Lake Ontario
1864 Mobile Bay Campaign: Siege of Ft. Gaines ends
1918 Battle of Amiens begins
1941 Soviet Destroyer Karl Marx bombed/sunk in Loksa Bay
1942 Battle of Tulagi ends. Italian Destroyer Strale, run aground off Tunisia on 21 June, is torpedoed/destroyed by sub HMS Turbulent. Attack Transport USS George F. Elliott is hit by a bomber and scuttled off Guadalcanal. U-379 rammed/sunk by Corvette HMS Dianthus south east of Cape Farewell.
1943 R.N. MGB 64 foundered in the Dover Strait. PT-113 wrecked on Veale Reef, New Guinea.
1944 Corvette HMCS Regina sunk by U-667 off Trevose Head, Cornwall. KM Minesweepers M-366, 367, 428, and 438 bombed/sunk off Noirmoutier, France. Sperrbrecher 134 bombed/sunk off Lorient
1946 1st flight B-36
 
Aug 9
48 B.C. Battle of Pharsalus
378 Battle of Adrianople
1862 Battle of Cedar Mountain
1864 Mobile Bay Campaign: Siege of Ft. Morgan begins
1877 Battle of Big Hole begins
1938 Battle of Lake Khasan ends
1941 R.N. MGB 62 sunk in collision with MGB 67 in the North Sea
1942 R.N. Motor Launch ML 301 sunk by an explosion at Freetown. Battle of Savo Island: Cruisers USS Astoria, Quincy, Vincennes, HMAS Canberra, and Destroyer USS Jarvis sunk
1943 U-664 sunk by Avengers from USS Card. USN LCT 311 shelled/sunk off Bizerte.
1944 PT-509 shelled/rammed/sunk by KN Minesweeper off Jersey
1945 Atom bombing of Nagasaki. Frigates Amakusa and Inagi, Escort Ohama, Minesweeper W-33 and Sub Chaser CH-42 bombed/saunk by R.N. Corsairs from HMS Formidable in Onegawa Bay. Minesweeper W-1 bombed/sunk by USN aircraft in Yamada Bay
 
10 August
955 Battle of Lechfeld
991 Battle of Maldon
1316 2nd Battle of Athenry
1512 naval Battle of Saint-Mathieu
1557 Battle of Quentin
1628 Vasa sinks in Stockholm Harbor
1861 Battle of Wilson's Creek
1904 Battle of the Yellow Sea
1940 Armed Merchant Cruiser HMS Transylvania is sunk by U-56 off Malin Head, Ireland
1941 U-144 sunk by Soviet Sub ShCh-307 off Hiiumaa, Estonia. Soviet Patrol Ship Zhemchung sunk by U-451 west of Kanin
1942 Cruiser Kako sunk by USN sub S-44 off New Ireland returning to base from the Battle of Savo Island. Italian sub Scire sunk by R.N. Trawler HMS Islay off Haifa, Palestine
1943 USN LST-318 is beached and abandoned on the north shore of Sicily after being bombed the day before.
1944 Battle of Guam ends. Battle of Narva ends. R.N. LCT 1092 sinks under tow, unknown location. U-608 sunk by RAF B-24 and HMS Wren. KM Accomodation ship Lindau scuttled in the Loire, Minesweeper M-384 scuttled at Nantes. Sperrbrecher 16 bombed, sinks next day
1945 Frigate CD-82 torpedoed and sunk by Soviet Il-4 off Kunsudan, Korea
 
11 August
490 Battle of Adda
1332 Battle of Dupplin Moor ends
1473 Battle of Otlukbeli
1675 Battle of Konzer Brucke
1812 Battle of Majadahonda
1898 US captures Mayaguez, Puerto Rico
1920 Latvian War of Independance ends
1936 Nationalist Gunboat Eduardo Dato sunk by Republican Battleship Jaime I at Algeciras
1937 1st flight Boulton Paul Defiant
1942 Carrier HMS Eagle sunk by U-73 south of Majorca
1943 U-468 sunk by RAF B-24 off Gambia. U-525 sunk by aircraft from USS Card north west of the Azores. U-604 damaged by a USN B-24 and a Ventura, scuttled.
1944 U-385 sunk by RAAF Sunderland and Sloop HMS Starling in Bay of Biscay. U-967 scuttled at Toulon
 
13 August
1521 Cortez captures Tenochtitlan
1704 Battle of Blenheim
1806 Battle of Misar
1846 US captures Los Angeles
1898 Sham Battle of Manila
1920 Battle of Warsaw begins
1937 Battle of Shanghai begins
1940 R.N. Trawler HMS Elizabeth Angela bombed/sunk in The Downs
1941 Soviet Patrol Ship #41 sunk by an E Boat in the Gulf of Finland north of Tallinn. R.N. LCT 14 lost in Home waters
1942 Destroyer HMS Foresight torpedoed by Italian aircraft on the 12th, scuttled on 13th. Cruiser HMS Manchester damaged by Italian MAS Boats and scuttled. Cruiser Bolzano damaged by sub HMS Unbroken, beached on Panarea
1943 Attack Transport USS John Penn torpedoed/sunk by Japanese aircraft off Guadalcanal.
1944 U-270 sunk by RAAF Sunderland in Bay of Biscay. KM Minesweeper M-383 bombed/sunk off Spiekeroog, Germany. Sub USS Flier sunk by mine in Balabac Strait
1945 Frigate CD-6 sunk by sub USS Atule off Hokkaido
 
14 August
1352 Battle of Mauron
1385 Battle of Aljubarrota
1415 Battle of Ceuta
1592 Battle of Hansan Island
1598 Battle of Yellow Ford
1813 USS Argus defeated by HMS Pelican west of St. David's Head
1898 French capture Manabe, Madagascar
1900 Allies occupy Peking
1916 Romania declares War on Austria-Hungary
1942 US sub S-39 wreck on a reef south of Rossel Island in the Coral Sea
1943 Sub HMS Saracen damaged by Italian Corvettes Euterpe and Minerve and scuttled
1944 R.N. LCI(L) 99 sunk, and USN LST-921 damaged beyond repair, by U-667 off Hartland Point. KM Minesweeper M-444 bombed/sunk off Brest. U-819 sunk by Frigates HMS Duckworth and Essington and an RAF B-24 west of St. Nazaire. Motor Launch HMAS ML 430 sunk by HMAS ML 819 north of Biak.
1945 Frigates CD-13 and 47 sunk by sub USS Torsk near Maizuru. I-373 sunk by USS Spikefish south east of Shanghai
1974 Turkey invades Cyprus
 
Aug 15
636 Battle of Yarmouk begins
718 2nd Siege of Constantinople ends
728 Battle of Roncevaux Pass, the death of Roland
927 Toranto captured/destroyer by Saracens
1057 Battle of Lumphanan
1237 Battle of Puig
1281 Battle of Koan, The Kamakaze victory
1309 Knights of St. John capture Rhodes, become Knights of Rhodes
1511 Portugal captures Malacca
1599 Battle of Curlew Pass
1695 Bombardment of Brussels ends
1760 Battle of Liegnitz
1812 Battle of Ft. Dearborn
1914 Battle of Cer begins
1940 Greeek Cruiser Elli sunk by Italian sub Delfino in port at Tinos while the 2 countrys are not at War.
1942 Soviet sub M-97 sunk by Finnish Patrol Ship VMV 5 off Suursaari Island
1943 R.N. MTB 665 sunk by Italian shore batteries off Messina.
1944 R.N. LST 404 damaged by U-741 and scuttled, U-741 sunk by Corvette HMS Orchis, off St. Catherine Point. Cruiser HMS Mauritius sinks KM Minesweeper M-385 off France. Allies invade southern France: Battle of Port Cros: KM Corvettes UJ-6081 and SG-21 sunk by Destroyer USS Somers.
1945 Japan surrenders. Frigate Kanju sunk by mine off Wonsan, Korea. Soviet Minesweeper T-279 sunk by mine off Kham Island, Korea.
 
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