TODAY IN MILITARY HISTORY
6 July
◆371 BCE The Battle of Leuctra, where Epaminondas defeats Cleombrotus I, takes place.★
◆1044 The Battle of Ménfő between troops led by Emperor Henry III and Magyar forces led by King Samuel takes place.
◆1189 Richard I "the Lionheart" is crowned King of England.
◆1322 Battle of the Bassignana: The Visconti defeat their enemies.
◆1484 Portuguese sea captain Diogo Cão finds the mouth of the Congo River.
◆1495 First Italian War: Battle of Fornovo –Charles VIII defeats the Holy League, but ultimately ends his attempted conquest of Italy.
◆1630 Thirty-Years War: 4,000 Swedish troops under Gustavus Adolphus land in Pomerania, Germany.
◆1641 Battle of Sedan: Imperialists defeat the French.
◆1652 Netherlands declares war on England: First Anglo-Dutch War (1652-54).
◆1685 Battle of Sedgemoor: King James II defeats his nephew the Duke of Monmouth.
◆1699 Capt William Kidd arrested in Boston.
◆1777 American Revolutionary War: Siege of Fort Ticonderoga –After a bombardment by British artilleryunder General John Burgoyne, American forces retreat from Fort Ticonderoga, New York.★
◆1779 Battle of Grenada: French victory over British naval forces during the American Revolutionary War.
◆1801 Battle of Algeciras: the French navy are defeated by the Royal Navy.
◆1809 The second day of the Battle of Wagram sees a French victory over the Austrian army in the largest battle yet of the Napoleonic Wars.
◆1864 Jubal Early's Rebs capture Hagerstown, Maryland.
◆1887 David Kalakaua, monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaii, is forced at gunpoint, at the hands of the Americans, to sign the Bayonet Constitution giving Americans more power in Hawaii while strippingHawaiian citizens of their rights.
◆1917 World War I: Arabian troops led by T. E. Lawrence ("Lawrence of Arabia") and Auda ibu Tayicapture Aqaba from the Ottoman Empire during the Arab Revolt.
◆1919 The British dirigible R34 lands in New York, completing the first crossing of the Atlantic Ocean by an airship.
◆1939 Holocaust: the last remaining Jewish enterprises in Germany are closed.
◆1942 Anne Frank and her family go into hiding in the "Secret Annexe" above her father's office in anAmsterdam warehouse.
◆1942 Nazi Germany launched its offensive to encircle several Soviet armies near Smolensk, capturing about 300,000 men
◆1947 The AK-47 goes into production in the Soviet Union.★
◆1962 As a part of Operation Plowshare, the Sedan nuclear test takes place.
◆1964 Malawi declares its independence from the United Kingdom.
◆1967 Nigerian Civil War: Nigerian forces invade Biafra, beginning the war.
◆1975 The Comoros declare independence from France.
◆1997 The Troubles: In response to the Drumcree dispute, five days of mass protests, riots and gun battles begin in Irish nationalist districts of Northern Ireland.