1836: Battle of the Alamo
On this day began one of the most famous episodes in American history – the Battle of the Alamo. Alamo was a missionary town in Texas, defended by the Texans from the inc...
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1945: One of the Most Famous War Photographs in History Taken
On this day the iconic photograph of raising the American flag on Iwo Jima, the battle according to which Clint Eastwood made the film Flags of Our Fathers, was taken. Th...
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1797: The Last Military Invasion on the Coast of Great Britain
The French landing on this day occurred in the town of Fishguard in Wales. It seems that the local peasants also rose up against the French troops. There is a legend that...
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1944: Americans Bomb the Netherlands and Kill more than a Thousand Innocent Civilians by Mistake
On this day U.S. bombers flew from England to Germany and on their way, allegedly by mistake, dropped bombs on the Dutch towns of Nijmegen, Arnhem, Enschede, and Deventer...
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1942: American Internment Camps in World War II
Approximately 110,000 people ended up in American internment camps, on the territory of the continental United States. Not many know today that the Americans estab...
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1944: Allies Destroy the abbey of Monte Cassino
St. Benedict of Nursia established Monte Cassino, one of the most famous Catholic monasteries in the world, in the 6th century. In February 1944 the Allied forces were pe...
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1942: The Biggest British Military Disgrace in History
The British commander, General Arthur Percival, surrendered himself and 80,000 surviving British soldiers. Prime Minister Churchill called it the “worst disaster” in Brit...
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1989: Last Soviet Soldiers Leave Afghanistan
On this day in 1989 the process of withdrawing Soviet military forces from Afghanistan was officially declared complete. The Soviets had held Afghanistan since 1979 (towa...
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