On This Day In Military History
WORLD NEWS posted on 7 JUN 2007 by Andrew Glenn
Discover key military events that took place on this day in history
On this day in military history, June 7:
1099 - The First Crusade: The Siege of Jerusalem begins.
1413 - King Ladislaw of Naples occupies Rome.
1416 - Battle of Sant'Egidio: The Bracceschi defeat the Malatesti.
1424 - Battle of Malesov: Jan Ziska defeats the Ultraist Hussites.
1527 - Pope Clement VII surrenders to emperor Charles V's armies.
1546 - Peace of Ardres: ends Anglo-French War (1544-46), favorably for England.
1557 - England declares war on France.
1672 - Battle of Solebay: Dutch Admiral Michael de Ruyter trounces the English.
1694 - English invasion army under Thomas Talmash reaches Brest.
1776 - British defeat the Americans at Trois Rivers, Canada
1799 - First Battle of Zurich, Day 4: Austrians defeat the French.
1862 - American Civil War: Skirmish at Union Church, Virginia (Peninsular).
1863 - American Civil War: Battle of Milliken's Bend, LA-Jefferson Davis' home burnt.
1863 - During the French intervention in Mexico, Mexico City is captured by French troops.
1866 - 1800 Fenian raiders are repelled back to the United States after they loot and plunder around Saint-Armand and Frelighsburg, Quebec.
1880 - War of the Pacific: The Battle of Arica, assault and capture of Morro de Arica (Arica Cape), that ended the Campaņa del Desierto (Desert Campaign).
1898 - Marines and Spanish troops skirmish near Guantanamo Bay.
1916 - World War I: German troops march into Fort Faux, Verdun.
1917 - World War I: Liverpool: first American troops reach Europe.
1917 - World War I: Battle of Messines - Allied ammonal mines underneath German trenches in Messines Ridge are detonated, killing 10,000 German troops.
1940 - World War II: British/French troops evacuate Narvik.
1942 - World War II: German troops march into Sebastopol.
1942 - World War II: The Battle of Midway comes to an end.
1942 - World War II: Japanese soldiers occupy the American islands of Attu and Kiska, in the Aleutian Islands.
1944 - World War II: British 50th division liberates Bayeux.
1944 - World War II: Burma: Chinese on the Salween reach Lung-ling.
1958 - Fighting breaks out between Turks and Greeks on Cyprus.
1965 - Vietnam War: General Westmoreland requests a total of 35 battalions of combat troops, with another nine in reserve.
1967 - Six-Day War: The Israeli forces enter Jerusalem.
1981 - The Israeli Air Force destroys Iraq's Osiraq nuclear reactor during Operation Opera.
2006 - Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is killed by U.S. forces in Iraq.
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