This day in military history..

29 Sept
1364 Battle of Auray
1848 Battle of Pakozd
1864 Battle of Chaffin's Farm begins
1911 Italy declares War on the Ottomans
1918 Battle of St. Quentin Canal Begins
1932 Battle of Boqueron ends
1936 Battle of Cape Espartel: Spanish Republican Destroyer Amirante Juan Ferrandiz sunk by Nationalist Cruiser Canarias
1939 School Ship HMS Caledonia burns/sinks in the Firth of Forth
1943 USN LCT-342 ran aground and sank off Salerno
1944 KM Minelayer Drache bombed/sunk at Samos. U-863 sunk by USN PB4Y south east of Recife
1990 1st flight YF-22
 
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Oct 1
331 B.C. Battle of Gaugamela
1800 French Diana captured by USS Experiment
1918 Arabs/Australians capture Damascus
1939 KM Minesweeper sunk by mine off Jastarnia, Poland
1941 KM Sub Chaser UJ-117 sunk by mine off Hanko, Finland
1942 1st flight P-59
1943 Allies capture Naples. R.N. LCT 553 lost in the Med. US LST-203 heavily damaged off Nanumea, Ellice Islands and not repaired.
1944 Minelayer Ajiro sunk by USS Snapper off the Bonins. R.N. MTBs 347 and 360 sunk by KM surface ships off Ijmuiden. US Minesweeper YMS-385 sunk by mine off Ulithi
1947 1st flight F-86
1991 Siege of Dubrovnik begins, ends 31 May, '92
 
Oct 2
1187 Siege of Jerusalem ends
1263 Battle of Largs
1814 Battle of Rancagua ends
1835 Battle of Gonzales
1939 Polish Minesweepers Czajk, Mewa, Rybitwa and Zuraw, and Guard Ship Komendant Pilsudski scuttled at Hel, raised, repaired, put in KM service.
1940 Italian sub Berillo damaged by Destroyers HMS Hasty and Havoc, scuttled off Sidi Barrani
1941 I-61 sunk in a collision with Aux. Gunboat Kiso Maru in the Tsushima Strait
1942 R.N. Trawler HMS Stonehaven sunk by E Boat S-112 off Eddystone Lighthouse. Cruiser HMS Curacao cut in half and sunk by RMS Queen Mary north west of Ireland. U-512 sunk by a B-18 off French Guiana
1943 US LCT-496 sunk in the English Channel. R.N. LCT 618 lost in the Med.
 
Oct 4
23 Rebels capture the Chinese Capital of Changan
1363 naval Battle of Lake Poyang ends
1636 Battle of Wittstock
1693 Battle of Margaglia
1777 Battle of Germantown
1853 Crimean War begins
1862 Battle of Corinth, Miss.
1917 Battle of Broodseinde
1918 Morgan Depot munitions disaster
1940 Sub HMS Rainbow rammed/sunk by Italian S.S. Antonietta Costa off Bari
1941 R.N. Whaler HMS Whippet bombed/sunk off Bardiyah. U-111 sunk by R.N. Trawler HMS Lady Shirley south of Tenerife
1943 U-279 bombed/sunk by USN PV-1 south west of Ireland. U-389 sunk by an RAF B-24 south west of Ireland. U-422 and U-460 sunk by aircraft from USS Card north of The Azores
1944 U-92, 437, and 993 bombed at Bergen, 993 sunk & 92, 437 scrapped. Frigate HMCS Chebogue damaged by U-1227, not repaired. IJN Landing Ship T-134 wrecked at Iwo Jima
 
Oct 5
1813 Battle of the Thames
1862 Battle of the Big Hatchee River
1864 Battle of Alatoona Pass
1915 Bulgaria joins the Central Powers
1940 R.N. Trawler HMS Kingston Sapphire sunk by Italian sub Nani south of Cadiz
1942 U-582 sunk by USN PBY, and U-619 sunk by RAF Hudson, both south west of Iceland
1943 U-336 sunk by RAF Hudson in the Denmark Strait. Italian Minelayer Legano bombed/sunk by German aircraft off Leros. US LST-448 sank from bomb damage inflicted off Vella Lavella on the 1st
1944 Minesweeper HMS BYMS 2255 sunk by mine off Boulogne. Harbor Defence Motor Launch HMS HDML 1227 sunk by KM surface ships off Piraeus. KM Minelayer Pommern sunk by mine off Toulon. Germans scuttled unfinished Italian Aircraft Carrier Sparviero at Genoa.
 
Oct 6
105 B.C. Battle of Arausio
69 B.C. Battle of Tigranocerta
1762 Battle of Manila ends
1777 Battle of Forts Clinton and Montgomery
1940 Italian sub Gemma sunk by Italian sub Tricheo south east of Crete. Minesweeper HMS Poulmic sunk by mine off Penlee Point
1942 3rd Battle of the Matanikow begins. R.N. MGB 76 sunk by, and R.N. MTB 295 sunk in a collision with, E Boats in the North Sea. I-22 sunk by a PBY in the Coral Sea
1943 naval Battle of Vella Lavella: Destroyers USS Chevalier and Yugumo sunk. Soviet Destroyers Besposhchadny, Kharkov and Sposobny bombed/sunk by JU-87 Stukas south of the Crimea
1944 U-168 sunk by Dutch sub Zwaardish in the Java Sea. Frigate CD-21 sunk by USS Seahorse in the S. China Sea.
1973 Yom Kippur War begins
1977 1st flight Mig-29
 
Oct 7
1513 Battle of La Motta
1571 naval Battle of Lepanto
1777 2nd Battle of Saratoga
1780 Battle of Kings Mountain
1800 HMS Kent captured by French Privateer La Confiance
1864 CSS Florida is illegally siezed by USS Wachusett in the Port of Bahia, Brazil in violation of Brazilian neutrality and International Law.
1939 KM Flackship V-804 sunk by mine off Holland
1942 Rescue Tug HMS Caroline Moller sunk by E Boat S-80, and ML 339 sunk by S-62, off Cromer.
1943 US LCT-215 and 216 lost in heavy seas off the North African coast. R.N. LCT 621 lost in the Med. US sub S-44 sunk by Frigate Ishigaki off the Kuriles.
1944 Indian Navy Harbor Defence Motor Launch HMIS HDML 1119 sunk by Allied aircraft off Burma.
1985 Achille Lauro hijacking begins
2001 US invades Afghanistan
 
9 Oct
1238 Aragon captures Valencia
1264 Castile captures Jerez
1594 Battle of Danture
1708 Battle of Lesnaya
1799 HMS Lutine wrecked/sunk off Terschelling
1812 HMS Caledonia and Detroit captured by a cutting out party, HMS Detroit destroyed in the battle battle between US and British batteries
1854 Siege of Sevastopol begins.
1861 Battle of Santa Rosa Island, Fla.
1938 Spanish Republican sub C 1 bombed/sunk by Nationalist aircraft at Barcelona.
1940 R.N. Trawler HMS Sea King sunk by mine in the Humber Estuary
1942 3rd Battle of the Matanikau ends. U-171 sunk by mine off Lorient. Sperrbrecher 143 sunk by mine off Neuport
1943 Destroyer USS Buck sunk by U-616 off Salerno. Destroyer HMS Panther bombed/sunk by JU-87 Stukas in the Scarpanto Strait. KM Sub Chaser UJ-1210 bombed/sunk of Gdynia
1944 KM sub chaser UJ-1711 bombed/sunk off Norway. US LCT-459 lost by grounding off west coast of France
 
Oct 10
680 Battle of Karbala
1471 Battle of Brunkeberg
1575 Battle of Dormans
1940 Patrol Ship HMS Girl Mary sunk by mine in the Firth of Forth
1941 R.N. LCT 102 lost as cargo on SS Nailsea Manor when she is sunk by U-126 off Mauritania. R.N. LCT 103 lost in Home Waters
1944 U-2331 sank in diving accident off Hel. R.N. MGB 663 sunk by mine off Rimini, France. Minelayer Takashima bombed/sunk north north west of Okinawa and Submarine Tender Jingei bombed/sunk at Okinawa, both by USN aircraft.
1985 Achille Lauro hijacking Incident ends
 
Oct 12
633 Battle of Hatfield Chase
1748 naval Battle of Havana
1917 1st Battle of Passchendaele
1936 Spanish Republican Sub B-5 bombed/sunk off Malaga
1940 Battle of Cape Passero: Italian Torpedo Boats Ariel and Airone sunk by Cruiser HMS Ajax, Destroyer Artigliere damaged by Ajax, later sunk by Cruiser HMS York. French Naval Trawlers Chassuers 6 and 7 sunk by KM Torpedo Boat Grief. R.N. Trawler HMS Resolvo damaged by a mine, beached/abandoned off Sheerness. E Boat S-37 sunk by mine off Orfordness. A-Lighters(LCT Mk 1s) 2 and 7 sunk by U-75 between Tobruk and Mersa Matrah. 1st flight Il-2 Sturmovik
1941 Soviet sub S-8 sunk by a mine off Dago, Estonia.
1942 Destroyers Fubuki and USS Duncan, Cruiser Furutaka sink in the early hours after being damaged in the Battle of Cape Esperance just before Midnight. Destroyers Natsugumo and Murakama bombed/sunk by US aircraft during the day. Soviet sub ShCh-311 sunk by Finnish Patrol Ships VMV-13 and 15 in the Gulf of Finland. U-597 sunk by RAF B-24 south west of Ireland
1943 R.N. Motor Launch ML 835 bombed/sunkat Leros. Guardship Mishima Maru bombed/sunk at Rabaul
1944 Minesweeper HMS MMS 170 sunk by mine off Gorgana Island, Italy. Red Army captures Riga
2000 USS Cole Terrorist bombing
 
Oct 13
1644 naval Battle of Fehmarn
1775 Continental Navy Est.
1812 Battle of Queenston Heights
1915 Battle of Loos ends
1918 Ottomans sign armistice with the Allies
1939 U-40 sunk by mine in the English Channel. U-42 sunk by Destroyers HMS Imogen and Ilex south west of Iceland
1940 R.N. Trawler HMS Summer Rose sunk by mine off Sunderland. Rescue Tug HMS Danube III sunk by mine off Sheerness. KM Minesweeper Gnom 7, Kobold 1 and 3 sunk by mines in the North Sea.
1943 Italy declares War on Germany. Destroyer USS Bristol sunk by U-371 off Algiers. U-402 sunk by aircraft from USS Card
1942 I-30 sunk by mine off Singapore
1944 US LCT-454 sank in a storm in Lyme Bay. Motor Launch HDML 1057 lost in an accident at Kilindili, Kenya
1945 Last Wellington produced
1990 Lebanese Civil War ends
 
Oct 14
1066 Battle of Hastings
1322 Battle of Byland Moor
1758 Battle of Hochkirch
1805 Battle of Elchingen
1806 Battle of Jena-Auerstedt
1863 Battle of Bristoe Station
1938 1st flight P-40
1939 Battleship HMS Royal Oak sunk by U-47 at Scapa Flow. U-45 sunk by 3 R.N. Destroyers south west of Ireland
1940 KM Netlayer Genua sunk by Destroyer HMS Cossack off Egersund, raised, repaired, returned to service. Armed Merchant Cruiser HMS Cheshire damaged by U-138 and beached, repaired and returned to service. R.N. Trawler HMS Lord Stamp sunk by mine south west of Portland Bill.
1941 R.N. Trawler Fleur de Lys sunk by U-206 west of Gibraltar. R.N. Trawler HMS Forerunner sunk in a collision in the Thames. KM Patrol Ship UJ-1709 bombed/sunk west of Lister. Italian Torpedo Boat Pleida sank after being bombed the day before
1942 KM Raider Komet sunk by R.N. MTB 236 off Cape de la Hague. R.N. LCMs 508, 509, 519, 522, 523, 532, 537, 547, 620 and LCT 2006 lost as cargo when SS Southern Express was sunk by U-211 east of Newfoundland
1943 USCG Patrol Ship Dow wrecked off Mayaguez, Puerto Rico
1944 R.N. Motor Fishing Vessel MFV 117 sunk by an explosion in the Aegean.
1952 Battle of Triangle Hill begins
1962 Cuban Missle Crisis begins
 
Oct 15
1211 Battle of Rhyndacus
1529 1st Siege of Vienna ends
1863 Confederate Privateer sub H L Hunley sinks for the 2nd time in Charleston Harbor, killing her whole crew including H L Hunley. Raised, repaired, returned to service.
1864 Battle of Glasgow, Mo
1880 Mexican troops kill Apache leader Victorio
1940 Sub HMS Triad sunk by Italian sub Enrico Toti in a surface gun and torpedo battle. River Patrol vessel HMS Mistletoe sunk by mine off Bull Sand Fort. Italian sub Foca sunk while laying a minefield off Haifa, Palestine, probably by one of her own mines.
1942 Destroyer USS Meridith bombed/sunk off Guadalcanal. U-661 rammed/sunk by Destroyer HMS Viscount
1943 R.N. MTB 636 sunk by R.N. MGB 658 off Elba
1944 U-777 bombed/sunk at Wilhelmshaven. KM Patrol Boat V-1605 bombed/sunk off Justoy, Norway. R.N. ML 870 sunk by a mine off Piraeus, Greece.
 
Ocy 16
1793 Battle of Wattignies ends
1813 Battle of Leipzig begins
1859 John Brown's Harper's Ferry Raid begins
1940 R.N. MTB 106 sunk by mine north of Scheerness. Minesweeper HMS Dundalk damaged by mine off Harwich, sinks next day. Destroyers HMS Ashanti and Fame ran aground off Sunderland, refloated, repaired, returned to service
1942 U-253 sunk by Destroyer HMS Fame.
1943 R.N. MTB 356 sunk by KM surface units off Holland. Armed Yacht USS Moonstone sunk in a collision with Destroyer USS Greer off Cape May, N.J. A Wolfpack consisting of U-470, 844, and 964 is sunk by RAF B-24s. U-533 sunk by a RAF Blenheim in the Gulf of Oman
1944 KM Patrol Boat V-6707 sunk by Soviet aircraft off Kirkenes. Minesweeper R-301 sunk by Soviet aircraft off Vardo. U-1006 sunk by Frigate HMCS Annan south east of the Raeroes. Torpedo Boat Hato sunk by US Navy aircraft south east of Hong Kong.
1949 Greek Civil War ends
 
Oct 17
456 Battle of Placentia
1346 Battle of Neville's Cross
1448 2nd Battle of Kosovo begins
1781 Siege of Yorktown ends
1917 naval Battle of Moon Sound ends: Russian Battleship Slava damaged by Battleship SMS Konig and scuttled.
1939 Battleship HMS Iron Duke bombed/beached at Scapa Flow, raised, repaired, returned to service
1940 R.N. Trawler Kingston Cairngorm damaged by a mine, sinks the next day.
1941 Corvette HMS Gladiolus sunk by U-558
1942 Destroyer Oboro bombed/sunk by B-26s north east of Kiska.
1943 KM Raider Michel sunk by USS Tarpon east of Yokohama. U-540 sunk by RAF B-24 east of Cape Farewell. U-631 sunk by Corvette HMS Sunflower south east of Cape Farewell. U-841 sunk by Frigate HMS Byard east of Cape Farewell
1944 Minelayer Itsukushima sunk by Dutch sub Zwaardvish in the Java Sea. Destroyer-minelayer USS Montgomery damaged by a mine off Palau and scrapped. Soviet Patrol Boat BMO-527 sunk by U-1165 in the Baltic. KM Patrol Boat V-6107 bombed/sunk in Varangerfjord. US Minesweeper YMS-70 sank in a storm in Leyte Gulf.
 
Oct 19
1805 Battle of Ulm ends
1812 French retreat from Moscow
1813 Battle of Liepzig ends
1864 St. Albans, Vt Raid. Battle of Cedar Creek
1914 1st Battle of Ypres begins
1939 Soviet sub ShCh-424 sunk in a collision with Trawler RT-43 in Kola Bay
1940 Destroyer HMS Venetia sunk by mine off Margate. R.N. Trawler HMS Velia sunk by mine in the North Sea. Minesweeper HMCS Bras d'Or sank in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
1941 U-204 sunk by Corvette HMS Mallow and Sloop HMS Rochester in the Strait of Gibraltar
1942 Destroyer USS O'Brien sinks from damage from being torpedoed by I-15 on Sept 15.
1944 Battle of Leyte begins. U-957 collieded with a German freighter at Lofoten & is decommissioned. R.N. LCTs 480, 488, 491, 494, 7014, and 7015 sink in a storm off Land's End.
1950 Red China joins the Korean War
1987 US Navy attacks Iranian oil platforms in the Persian Gulf
 
Oct 20
1572 Siege of Goes ends
1824 USS Poroise captures 4 Pirate ships off Cuba
1827 naval Battle of Navarino
1861 Battle of Ball's Bluff begins
1939 KM Patrol ship V-701 sunk by mine in the Baltic off Denmark
1940 Italian Destroyer Francesco Nullo damaged by 3 R.N. Destroyers and beached near Massawa, bombed/destroyed next day. Italian sub Lafole sunk by 3 R.N. Destroyers north of Melilla
1941 Italian Torpedo Boats Aldebaran and Altair sunk by mines in the Gulf of Athens
1942 U-216 sunk by RAF B-24 south west of Ireland
1943 U-378 sunk by aircraft from USS Core.
1944 Red Army & Partisans capture Belgrade
1962 Sino-Indian War begins
 
Oct 21
1096 Battle of Civetot
1097 Siege of Antioch begins, ends June 2, 1098
1600 Battle of Sekigahara
1797 USS Constitution launched, now oldest USN Commissioned ship
1805 Battle of Trafalgar
1861 Battle of Ball's Bluff ends
1864 Battle of Little Blue River
1937 Nationalists capture Gijon, Spain, Republican Destroyer Ciscar bombed/sunk in the Harbor.
1940 R.N. Trawlers HMS Joseph Button and Waveflower sunk by mines off Aldeburgh. R.N. MTB 17 sunk by mine off Ostend
1941 Gunboat HMS Gnat damaged by U-79, towed to Alexandria and used as a stationary Anti-Aircraft Battery. Soviet sub M-58 sunk by mine off the mouth of the Danube.
1942 KM Transport Palatia sunk by N.Z aircraft off Norway. Soviet sub S-7 sunk by Finnish sub Vesihiisi in th Baltic
1943 Minesweeper HMCS Chedabucto sunk in a collision with Cable Ship S.S. Lord Kelvin near Rimouski, Quebec. Destroyer USS Murphy rammed and cut in 2 by British tanker Bulkoil off New Jersey, forward third sinks, repaired and returned to service. U-431 sunk by RAF Wellington north of Algiers
1944 KM Minesweeper M-31 sunk off Norway
1950 Battle of Yongju begins
 
Oct 22
1637 naval Battle of Liaoluo Bay
1707 R.N. Isle of Scilly Disaster
1777 Battle of Ft. Mercer
1862 Battle of Yanassee
1940 Destroyer HMCS Margeree sunk in a collision with British Steamer Port Fairey. R.N. Trawler HMS Hickory sunk by mine south of Portland
1941 R.N. Trawler HMS Alder wrecked on the east coast of Scotland
1942 U-412 sunk by RAF Wellington north east of the Faroes
1943 Greek Destroyer Adrias loses her bow to a mine and beached, and Destroyer HMS Harworth sunk by a mine, off Kalymnos. Adrias refloted, repaired, returned to service. R.N. Trawler HMS Orfasy sunk by U-68 in the Atlantic
1950 Battle of Yongju ends
2007 Sri Lankan Air Force Base Raid
 
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Oct 23
42 B.C. 2nd Battle of Philippi
1086 Battle of Sagrajas
1157 Battle of Grathe Heath
1641 Irish Rebellion of 1641 begins
1642 Battle of Edge Hill
1739 War of Jenkin's Ear begins
1864 Battle of Westport, Mo
1911 1st military use of an airplane, Itlain recon over Turkish lines in Libya
1912 Battle of Kumanovo begins
1939 1st flight Mitsubishi G4M "Betty" Bomber
1941 Destroyer HMS Cossack damaged by U-563, sinks on the 27th.
1942 2nd Battle of El Alamein begins. Battle of Henderson Field begins
1943 U-274 sunk by RAF B-24 and Destroyers HMS Duncan and Vidette south west of Iceland. Cruiser HMS Charybdis sunk by KM Torpedo boats T-23 and 27, Destroyer HMS Linbourne damaged by T-22, scuttled, in the Bay of Biscay. Minesweeper HMS Cromarty sunk by mine in the Straits of Bonifucio
1944 Battle of Leyte Gulf begins: Battle of the Palawan Passage: Cruiser Atago sunk by sub USS Darter and Cruiser Maya sunk by sub USS Dace. Submarine Tender Kimikawa Maru sunk by USS Sawfish in S. China Sea. R.N. LCT 1171 lost, no details. KM Patrol Ship V-5506 sunk by Mosquitos near Bergen. U-985 damaged by a mine off Lister, decommissioned in Norway.
1972 Operation Linebacker ends
1983 USMC and French Army Barracks in Beirut bombed
2002 Moscow Theatre Siege begins
 
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