This day in military history..

April 7
1862 Battle of Shiloh 2nd day With help from Navy gunboats the Union counterattacks with fresh reinforcements & defeat the Confederates. Navy river fleet runs past Confederate fortifications @ Island #10 in the Mississippi River & land troops down river.
1863 US Navy ironclads shell Ft. Sumter & take a beating.
1939 Italy invades Albania
1989 Soviet Sub Komsomolets sinks
2003 US troops capture Baghdad
 
April 8
US Naval History
1925 - First planned night landings on a carrier, USS Langley, by VF-1
1950 - Unarmed Navy patrol aircraft shot down over Baltic Sea by USSR
1951 - 1st of 4 detonations, Operation Greenhouse nuclear test
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April 8th
1862 Confederates troops on Island #10 find themselves isolated from help & surrender
1863 Ironclad USS Keokuk sinks from damage recieved in the previous days exchange of fire with Ft.s Sumter & Moultrie
1864 Battle of Mansfield, La
1865 Mobile, Ala. Campaign. The fortification known as "the Red Fort" or Spanish Fort evacuated by the Confederates
1942 US/Filipino troops on the Bataan peninsula surrender
 
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April 9
1241 Battle of Liegnitz
1864 Battle of Pleasant Hill, La. Frigate USS Minnesota torpedoed/damaged by torpedo boat CSS Squib near Newport News, Va
1865 Gen. Robert E. Lee surrenders the Army of Northern Virginia. Mobile Campaign: Union troops capture Ft. Blakely.
1916 Battle of Verdun, 3rd Offensive of the Battle begins
1917 Battle of Arras
1918 Battle of Lys
1940 Germany invades Denmark & Norway
1942 Japan raid on Ceylon. British Carrier HMS Hermes & Australian Destroyer HMAS Vampire sunk
1945 Armored Ship Admiral Scheer sunk. Also Battle of Konigsburg
 
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April 10
1741 Battle of Mollwitz
1862 Union attack on Ft. Pulaski, near Savannah, Ga., begins with long range bombardment
1941 Axis creates the State of Croatia out of Yugoslav territory
1963 Submarine USS Thresher sinks.
 
April 11
1241 Battle of Muhi
1512 Battle of Ravenna
1713 Treaty of Utrecht Ends Queen Anne's War
1814 Treaty of Fontanbleau Ends the War of the 6th coalition
1856 Battle of Rivas, Nicaragua
1865 Mobile Campaign Confederates evacuate & blow up Battery Huger & Battery Tracy
1952 Battle of Nanri Island begins
 
April 11
US Naval History
1783 - Congress declares end of war with Great Britain
1900 - Navy accepted its first submarine, USS Holland
1970 - Launch of Apollo 13, commanded by CAPT James A. Lovell, Jr., USN. Former naval aviator Fred W. Haise, Jr. was the Lunar Module Pilot. While 200,000 miles from Earth there was an explosion on board which forced Apollo 13 to circle the moon without landing. Mission duration was 5 days, 22 hours, and 54 minutes. Recovery was by HS-4 helicopters from USS Iwo Jima (LPH-2).
1991 - U.N. ceasefire ends Persian Gulf War
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April 12
1204 Crusaders breach the walls & enter Constantinople
1861 At 4:30 AM Edmund Ruffin fires a cannon at Ft. Sumter begining The US Civil War. Union reinforcements land @ Ft. Pickens, near Pensacola, Fla.
1862 The Great Locomotive Chase. US spys steal the locomotive "General" & are chased across Georgia by Confederates aboard the locomotive "Texas". Most are cought & eventually hanged.
1864 Confederates capture Ft. Pillow near Memphis, Ten. Many black troops were massacred after the surrender. Battle of Blair's Landing, La.
1865 Union Army captures Mobile & Montgomery, Ala.
1917 Canadians capture Vimy Ridge from the Germans
1935 1st flight of the Bristol Blenhiem
1937 1st ground test of a jet engine, happens in England.
 
April 12
US Naval History
1861 - Civil War begins when Confederates fire on Fort Sumter, SC
1911 - LT Theodore Ellyson qualifies as first naval aviator
1962 - U.S. Navy demonstrates new landing craft with retractable hydrofoils, LCVP (H)
1975 - Operation Eagle Pull evacuation from Cambodia
1981 - First launching of re-useable Space Shuttle Columbia (STS-1) with all Navy crew. CAPT John W. Young, USN (Ret.) commanded, while LCDR Robert L. Crippen, USN was the pilot. Mission duration was 2 days, 6 hours, and 20 minutes. Sixteen of the shuttle's heat-shielding silicon tiles were lost and 148 damaged during reentry.
1993 - Aircraft from USS Theodore Roosevelt and NATO forces begin enforcing the no-fly zone over the Bosnia in Operation Deny Flight
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Apr 13
1861 US garrison of Ft. Sumter surrenders
1862 Confederates forced out of the New Mexico Territory
1941 USSR & Japan sign a neutrality pact
 
April 13
US Naval History
1847 - Naval Forces begin 5 day battle to capture several towns in Mexico
1861 - Fort Sumter surrenders to Confederate forces
1960 - Navy's navigation satellite, Transit, placed into orbit from Cape Canaveral, FL and demonstrates ability to launch another satellite
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April 14
US Naval History
1898 - Commissioning of first Post Civil War hospital ship, USS Solace
1969 - North Korean aircraft shoots down Navy EC-121 reconnaissance aircraft from VQ-1 over the Sea of Japan
1988 - USS Samuel B. Roberts struck Iranian mine off Qatar
1989 - First Navy ship arrives on scene to assist in Exxon Valdez oil spill cleanup
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April 14
43 B.C. Battle of Forum Gallorum
69 Battle of Bedriacum
1205 Battle of Adrianople
1471 Battle of Barnet
1863 Battle of Teche River CS troops break out of Union Army trap while US Navy river gunboats destroy CSS Queen of the West & cause the CSS Diana to be burned by her crew.
1864 Battle of Dybbol
1941 Rommel attacks Tobruk
 
April 15
US Naval History
1885 - Naval forces land at Panama to protect American interests during revolution
1912 - USS Chester and USS Salem sailed from MA to assist RMS Titanic survivors
1918 - First Marine Aviation Force formed at Marine Flying Field, Miami, FL
1961 - Launching of first nuclear-powered frigate, USS Bainbridge DLGN-25, at Quincy, MA
(This is one of the ships I served on and my Avatar is a painting of this ship) Inactivated at Norfolk on 6 October 1995.
The 5Th USS Bainbridge is DDG-96 and the warship that recovered Captain Richard Phillips from Somali pirates.

1962 - USS Princeton brought first Marine helicopters to Vietnam. This was first Marine advisory unit to arrive in South Vietnam.
1986 - Operation Eldorado Canyon, Navy aircraft from USS America (CV-66) and USS Coral Sea (CV-43) attack Libya in conjunction with USAF aircraft after Libya linked to terrorist bombing of West Berlin discotheque which killed 1 American and injured 78 people.
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April 15
1450 Battle of Formigny
1632 Battle of Rain
1942 Allies invade Norway @ Narvik
1952 1st flight B-52
 
April 16
73 Masada falls to the Romans
1746 Battle of Culloden
1799 Battle of Mount Tabor
1862 Battle of Lee's Mill, Va
1863 US Navy squadron of 6 gunboats & several transports run the Confederate batterys @ Vicksburg with the loss of one transport.
1864 Union transport General Hunter sinks in the St. Johns River, Fla after hitting a torpedo.
 
April 16
US Naval History
1863 - Union gunboats pass Confederate batteries at Vicksburg
1924 - Navy commences relief operations in Mississippi Valley floods, lasting until 16 June
1947 - Act of Congress gives Navy Nurse Corps members commissioned rank
1959 - Helicopters from USS Edisto begin rescue operations in Montevideo, Uruguay. By 26 April they had carried 277 flood victims to safety.
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April 17
69 1st Battle of Bedriacum
1797 English attack Puerto Rico
1864 Battle of Plymouth, N.C. begins
1865 Wilsons Raid Union wrecks the Columbus Ga. Navy Yard & destroy the ironclad CSS Jackson, & Confederates burn CSS Chattahoochie to prevent capture.
1895 traety of Shimoniseki ends 1st Sino-Japanese War
1961 Bay of Pigs, Cuba attempted invasion
1975 Khemer Rouge capture Phnom Penh
 
April 18
1775 Paul Revere's Ride to warn of the British march on Concord, Mass.
1783 American Revolution ends
1797 Battle of Neuwied
1848 Battle of Cerro Gordo
1861 US troops abandon the Harper's Ferry, Va. US Arsenal
1862 Battle of New Orleans US Navy ships begin bombardment of Ft. Jackson & Ft. St. Philip
1864 Confederates capture a 198 wagon supply train near Poison Spring, Ark.
1942 Doolittle Raid "30 seconds over Tokyo"
1943 Adm. Yamamoto's plane shot down in the Solomons
1988 US Navy attacks Iranian Navy ships in retaliation for mine damage to US ship.
 
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