TODAY IN MILITARY HISTORY
6 October
◆105 BCE Battle of Arausio: the Teutones & Cimbri defeat two Roman armies in Provence.
◆64 BCE Battle of Tigranocerta: Lucullus defeats Tigranes of Armenia, to capture and loot the city.
◆1762 Manila surrenders to a British expedition after a short siege.
◆1781 Americans and French began the siege of Cornwallis at Yorktown, the last battle of Revolutionary War. They began digging the first parallel trenches, a distance of 500 to 600 yards from the enemy's works. A French wagon train arrived at the siege site.
◆1858 US Marines conduct the Battle of Waya in the Fiji Islands.
◆1861 U.S.S. Flag, Commander Louis C. Sartori, captured Confederate blockade running schooner Alert near Charleston.
◆1884 Department of the Navy establishes the Naval War College at Newport, RI.
◆1908 Austria annexes Bosnia & Herzegovina, occupied since 1878.
◆1924 Marines from the gunboat Asheville landed in Shanghai and withdrew on October 24th. Landings by Marines continued at ports Shanghai, Tientsin, and Chinwangtao from forces of the Asiatic Fleet of ships stationed in those waters until the arrival of the 4th Marine regiment in 1927 for permanent shore based duty.1935 Italian troops capture Adua, Abyssinia.
◆1939 In an address to the Reichstag, Adolf Hitler denied having any intention of war against France and Britain.
◆1940 Fourth group of 8 U.S. destroyers involved in Destroyers for Bases Deal are turned over to British authorities at Halifax, Canada.
◆1942 An additional Lend -lease agreement is signed in Washington by representatives of the USA and the USSR. Between this date and July 1943 it is planned to deliver 4,400,000 tons of supplies to the Soviet Uniion, 75 percent by sea, the rest though Iran.
◆1942 In New Guinea, the 32nd Division begins movement along the Kapa Kapa Trail.
◆1943 In night Battle of Vella Lavella, 3 U.S. destroyers attack 9 Japanese destroyers to stop evacuation of Japanese troops from Vella Lavella, Solomon Islands.
◆1943 Himmler ordered the acceleration of "Final Solution."
◆1945 Major General Keller E. Rockey, Commanding General, III Amphibious Corps, accepted the surrender of 50,000 Japanese troops in North China on behalf of the Chinese Nationalist government.
◆1951 In a night assault, Hill 931, the highest peak at Heartbreak Ridge, was secured by troops of the 2nd Infantry Division's 23rd Infantry Regiment after bitter fighting.★
◆1951 Stalin announces Russia has the atom bomb.
◆1952 The battle for White Horse Mountain in the Chorwon Valley took place. The defending ROK 9th Infantry Division inflicted 10,000 casualties in fierce combat with the attacking Chinese 38th Army at a cost 3,500 ROK casualties. During the battle, the ROK forces launched nine separate attacks against the communists.
◆1958 The US nuclear sub USS Seawolf remained a record 60 days under pole.
◆1961 JFK advised Americans to build fallout shelters from atomic fallout in the event of a nuclear exchange with the Soviet Union.★
◆1962 Commissioning of USS Bainbridge (DLGN -25), first nuclear -powered destroyer. USS Bainbridge, was powered by two pressurized water reactors, and carried two twin Terrier missile launchers, two twin 3" .50 caliber radar controlled gun mounts, two torpedo mounts, an ASROC launcher, and was equipped with state of the art electronics and communications suites.
◆1981 Egyptian Pres. Anwar Sadat (1970 -1981) was killed by an assassin at the parade ground of Nasser City by Islamic fundamentalists during a ceremony commemorating the Egyptian crossing of the Suez Canal during the Yom Kippur War in 1973. Although authorities were warned of a death plot hours earlier, the information did not get to the president in time. He was succeeded by Vice President Hosni Mubarak.
◆1987 Destruction of 3 Iranian small boats in the “Tanker War.”
◆1999 The Chechen president called for a holy war against Russia.