This Day in History

1792: Verdun, France, surrenders to the Prussian Army.

1798: The Maltese people revolt against the French occupation, forcing the French troops to take refuge in the citadel of Valetta in Malta.

1862: President Lincoln reluctantly restores Union General George B. McClellan to full command after General John Popes disaster at Second Bull Run on August 29th and 30th.

1870: Napoleon III capitulates to the Prussians at Sedan, France.

1898: Sir Herbert Kitchner leads the British to victory over the Mahdists at Omdurman and takes Khartoum.

1914: British forces withdraw to Chantilly-Nanteuil.

1914: The Battle of Lemberg ends with the rout of the Austrian forces who lose 130,000 men.

1915: Austro-German armies take Grodno, Poland.

1917: British and Belgian operations drive German detachments from River Ruaha to Mahenge.

1944: Troops of the U.S. First Army enter Belgium.

1951: The 2nd Infantry Division attacked enemy positions on Bloody Ridge.

1951: Twenty-two F-86 Sabre jets clashed with 40 MiG-15s in a 30-minute dogfight over the skies between Sinuiju and Pyongyang. The air battle resulted in the destruction of four MiGs.

1972: Phuc Yen, 10 miles north of Hanoi, and one of the largest air bases in North Vietnam, is smashed by U.S. fighter-bombers.

2001: Namibia confirmed that it had pulled all its troops from all of Congo except the capital. Uganda said it had pulled 6 of 10 battalions.

911: Viking monarch Oleg of Kiev, Russia, signed a treaty with the Byzantines.