On This Day In Military History
WORLD NEWS posted on 9 JUN 2007 by Andrew Glenn
Discover key military events that took place on this day in history
On this day in military history, June 9:
0053 - (BC) Battle of Carrhae: Crassus is crushed by the Parthians.
0721 - Battle of Toulouse: Duke Odo of Aquitaine defeats the Moors.
1064 - Coimbra, Portugal falls to Ferdinand, king of Castile.
1075 - Battle of Homburg: Henry VII of France defeats the Saxons.
1529 - Zurich declares war on Catholic cantons.
1572 - Willem van Oranges army occupies Gelderland.
1588 - Spanish Armada sails from Lisbon to England.
1742 - Battle of Bloody Marsh - Spanish assault on Simons Island, Georgia.
1752 - French army surrenders to the English in Trichinopoly, India.
1772 - British vessel Gaspee is burned off of Rhode Island.
1778 - British evacuate Philadelphia.
1789 - Spanish capture British schooner Northwest America near Vancouver Island.
1790 - Civil war breaks out in Martinique.
1800 - Battle of Montebello: French defeat the Austrians.
1862 - American Civil War: Battle of Port Republic, the most costly battle fought by Jackson's Army of the Valley during its campaign.
1863 - American Civil War: Battle of Brandy Station, Virginia.
1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Big Shanty, Georgia.
1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Kenesaw Mountain, Georgia.
1898 - Battle of Cuzco Well, Guantanamo: Marines defeat Spanish.
1923 - Bulgaria's military takes over the government in a coup.
1940 - World War II: French government flees Paris for Tours, as German troops cross the Seine.
1940 - World War II: Norway surrenders to Germany.
1942 - World War II: The Japanese high command announces that "The Midway Occupation operations have been temporarily postponed."
1942 - World War II: Nazis raze Lidice, Czechoslovakia, where approximately 1,400 are slaughtered.
1944 - World War II: Burma: Heavy fighting at Lung-ling, on the Salween front.
1944 - World War II: Normandy: U.S. VII & V Corps link up to form a continuous beachhead.
1944 - World War II: The Soviet Union invades East Karelia.
1945 - World War II: Luzon: Sixth Army manages to isolate Japanese forces.
1945 - World War II: Japanese Premier Kantaro Suzuki declares that Japan will fight to the last rather than accept unconditional surrender.
1951 - After several unsuccessful attacks on French colonial troops, North Vietnam's General Vo Nguyen Giap orders Viet Minh to withdraw from the Red River Delta.
1959 - The USS George Washington is launched as the first submarine to carry ballistic missiles.
1967 - Six Day War: Israel captures the Golan Heights from Syria.
1972 - Vietname War: South Vietnamese soldiers reach An Loc.
1999 - Kosovo War: Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and North Atlantic Treaty Organization sign a peace treaty.
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