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| -- Yesterday -- |  Year Event 1261 Byzantine Emperor Michael VIII recaptures Constantinople from the Latins 1360 Jews are expelled from Breslau, Silesia 1394 Charles VI expells the Jews from France 1581 Seven Dutch provinces declare independence from Spain 1587 Shogun Hideyoshi bans Christianity in Japan 1593 "Paris is worth a mass" - Huguenot Henri IV converts to Catholicism 1670 Austrian Emperor Leopold I expells 4,000 Jews from Vienna 1759 Seven Years' War: British capture Fort Niagara from French 1799 Napoleon beats the Turks in the Battle of Abukir 1814 Lundy's Lane; Americans defeat the British 1822 Gen Agustin Iturbide crowned Emperor of Mexico 1835 Ibrahim Pasha's army attacks Jewish residents of Hebron, Palestine 1861 Skirmish at Fort Fillmore, NM 1866 US Grant named first full general in the history of the U.S. Army 1866 David G. Farragut is appointed the first Admiral in the U.S. Navy 1898 First US troops land in Puerto Rice, at Guanica Bay 1909 Louis Bleriot makes the first airplane flight across the English Channel 1912 First specifications for naval aircraft published by the USN. 1918 Race riot in Chester, Pennsylvania; 3 blacks & 2 whites killed 1934 Nazi coup fails in Austria, but Prime Minister Dollfuss dies 1934 1st presidential visit to Hawaii: FDR lands from USS Houston; 1938 Spanish Republican Army begins an offensive on the Ebro 1942 Japanese outflank the Maroubra Force, come within six miles of Kokoda. 1943 RAF bombs Fokker airplane factory in Amsterdam 1943 Fascist Grand Council and the King dismiss Mussolini as premier of Italy 1943 25th Inf Div reinforces New Georgia, where heavy fighting continues. 1944 First jet fighter used in combat, the Messerschmitt 262 1944 Allied breakthrough at St-Lo, begins victorious drive across France 1945 Japan says it will surrender, but not unconditionally. 1946 US detonates underwater A-bomb at Bikini, the fifth atomic explosion 1947 Army, Navy, & Air Force subordinated to the new Deptartment of Defense 1963 US, Russia, and Britain sign nuclear test ban treaty 1966 Mao Zedong allegedly swims the Yangtze River 1984 Cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya is the first woman to walk in space (Salyut 7); 1994 Israel and Jordan formally a state of war dating from 1948;

Today in Military History  Date Jul 26, 2017 Year Event 657 Battle of Siffin, Mesopotamia: Mu'awiyan defeats Caliph Ali 1758 British Gen James Wolfe captures Louisbourg 1759 French troops vacate Ticonderoga, New York 1812 US Frigate Essex captures British brig Leander 1822 Secret meeting of Simon Bolivar & Jose de San Martin 1826 Vilnus, Lithuianian, riots cause death of many Jews 1861 Skirmish at Lane's Prairie, Mo 1863 Salineville, OH: Confederate Brig Gen. John Hunt Morgan & 364 surrender 1898 US Navy sweeps mines at Caimanera, Cuba (completed next day) 1898 Skirmish near Yauco, Puerto Rico forces Spanish to withdraw 1912 Lt. John Rodgers makes 1st airborne radio commo to a ship, USS Stringham 1918 Race riot in Philadelphia, 3 whites & 1 black killed 1942 RAF bombs Hamburg 1942 Japanese reinforcements land at Buna. 1942 Desperate fighting near Kokoda, Australians fall back to Deniki. 1942 Capt Joy Bright Hancock is appointed Director, Women's Naval Reserve 1943 U.S. destroyers shell Munda. 1944 Russian troops arrive on the Vistula 1944 FDR orders Philippines be liberated, at a conference in Hawaii. 1945 Japanese disregard US ultimatum 1945 Churchill resigns as Britain's PM 1945 British ships and a/c raid Japanese bases on the west coast of Malaya. 1947 National Security Act establishes CIA 1948 Truman initiates the integration of the Armed Forces 1953 Castro begins Cuban Revolution with an attack on the Moncada Barracks 1957 USSR launches its first intercontinental multistage ballistic missile

| -- Tomorrow -- |  Year Event 1214 First Battle of Bouvines: King Philip II of France vs Emperor Otto IV 1230 Pope Gregory & IX Emperor Frederick II sign the Treaty of San-Germano 1298 Albert I, son of Rudolf of Habsburg, crowned Holy Roman Emperor 1365 Isabella of England marries Enguerrand de Coucy at Windsor 1643 Cromwell defeats Royalists at Battle of Gainsborough 1689 Battle of Killicrankie, Viscount Dundee defeats Whig General Mackay 1768 Charlotte Corday, who had a date with Jean Paul Marat in the bathtub 1794 Coup of Thermidor and the fall of Robespierre in Paris 1816 Fort Blount on Apalachicola Bay, Fla, attacked by US Troops 1830 Revolution breaks out in Paris, opposing laws of Charles X 1839 Chartist riots break out in Birmingham England 1861 McClellan replaces McDowell in command of the Army of the Potomac 1861 Combat at St. Augustine Springs, New Mexico Territory 1861 Combat at Ft Fillmore, NM: Confederate victory 1864 Battle of Darbytown/Deep Bottom/ Newmarket Road/Strawberry Plains, Va 1880 Battle of Maiwand, at which Dr Watson is allegedly wounded 1909 Orville Wright demonstrates airplane for the Army, flying 72 minues 1941 Japanese forces land in Indo-China 1942 British halt the Axis advance at Alamein 1942 Australian forces continue to hold Deniki, south of Kokoda in Papua. 1943 Sub Sawfish sinks two Japanese ships off the Chinese coast 1943 Japanese DDs Ariake & Mikazuki sunk off New Britain by U.S. Army a/c. 1943 Battle of the Pips: USN fires 100s of rounds at false radar blips, Kiska. 1944 Soviet Army liberate Majanek Concentration Camp 1944 Marines clear most of northern Tinian and begin rebuilding the airfield 1944 First British jet fighter used in combat, the Gloster Meteor 1945 Japan's cities are "bombed" with leaflets demanding surrender. 1953 North Korea & UN sign armistice 1954 Armistice divides Vietnam into two countries 1955 Bulgaria shoots down an Israeli passenger plane, 58 die 1990 Belorus declares independence from the USSR 1995 Korean War Veterans Memorial in Washington is dedicated