On This Day In Military History
WORLD NEWS posted on 16 JUN 2007 by Andrew Glenn
Discover key military events that took place on this day in history
On this day in military history, June 16:
0455 - Rome was sacked by the Vandal army.
1487 - The War of the Roses ended with the Battle of Stoke.
1745 - British troops take Cape Breton Island, which is now part of Nova Scotia, Canada.
1745 - Sir William Pepperell captures the French Fortress Louisbourg in Louisbourg, Nova Scotia during the War of the Austrian Succession.
1746 - War of Austrian Succession: Austria and Sardinia defeat a Franco-Spanish army at the Battle of Piacenza.
1755 - French and Indian War: French surrender Fort Beauséjour to the British, leading to the expulsion of the Acadians.
1775 - American Revolutionary War: Battle of Bunker Hill commences when 1,000 patriots march in the evening to Breed's Hill and begin to fortify it.
1779 - Spain declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain, and the siege of Gibraltar begins.
1815 - Napoleonic Wars: Waterloo Campaign: Napoleon defeated the Prussians at the Battle of Ligny.
1815 - Napoleonic Wars: Waterloo Campaign: Battle at Quatre-Bras: allies strike French.
1832 - Battle of Kellogg's Grove, Illinois.
1858 - Battle of Morar, during the Indian Mutiny.
1862 - American Civil War: Battle of Secessionville: Union attempt to capture Charleston is thwarted when the Confederates turn back an attack at Secessionville.
1864 - American Civil War: The siege of Petersburg and Richmond begins after a moonlight skirmish.
1864 - American Civil War: Union Gen Grant begin siege of Petersburg, Virginia.
1864 - American Civil War: Skirmish at Golgotha Georgia.
1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Lynchburg, Virginia.
1918 - World War I: Battle of the Piave River, Italian Front.
1932 - The ban on Nazi storm troopers was lifted by the von Papen government in Germany.
1940 - World War II: French Chief of State, Henri Petain asks for an armistice with Germany.
1954 - Dutch military conscription shortened from 20 to 18 months.
1955 - Argentine naval officers launched an attack on President Juan Peron's headquarters. The revolt was suppressed by the army.
1957 - French offensive in Algeria.
1961 - Vietnam War: Kennedy agrees to send instructors to train troops.
1962 - Vietnam War: Two U.S. Army officers killed in Saigon.
1965 - Vietnam War: Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara announces that 21,000 more U.S. troops are to be sent to Vietnam.
2000 - Israel complies with UN Security Council Resolution 425 after 22 years of it issuance, which calls on Israel to completely withdraw from Lebanon.
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