1192:
English King Richard I the Lion Hearted was captured in Austria on his return from the Third Crusade.
1745:
A Scottish Jacobite army commanded by Lord George Murray routs the Royalist army of General Sir John Cope at Prestonpans.
1863:
Union troops defeated at Chickamauga seek refuge in Chattanooga, Tennessee, which is then besieged by Confederate troops.
1929:
Fighting between China and the Soviet Union breaks out along the Manchurian border.
1936:
The German army holds its largest maneuvers since 1914.
1941:
The German Army cuts off the Crimean Peninsula from the rest of the Soviet Union.
1942:
The U.S. B-29 Superfortress makes its debut flight in Seattle, Washington. It was the largest bomber used in the war by any nation.
1942:
British forces attack the Japanese in Burma.
1944:
U.S. troops of the 7th Army, invading Southern France, cross the Meuse River.
1951:
Operation SUMMIT, the first helicopter landing of a combat unit in history, took place. It included the airlifting of a reinforced company of Marines and 17,772 pounds of cargo into the Punchbowl area.
