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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