06-06-2007, 00:00
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מנהל פורום מילואים (במיל.)
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חבר מתאריך: 21.08.06
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On this day in military history, June 5:
70 - Titus and his Roman legions breach the middle wall of Jerusalem.
1249 - Battle of Damietta: Crusaders defeat the Ayyubids.
1284 - Battle of Castellammare: Ruggiero di Lauria’s Aragonese-Sicilian fleet defeats the Angevin-Neapolitans.
1288 - Battle of Woeringen: Reinald I vs Jan I.
1589 - Battle of Lisbon: Spanish beat off an English assault.
1595 - Battle of Fontaine-Francaise: French defeat the Spanish.
1625 - Spanish troops under Spinola conquer Breda.
1632 - Prince Frederik Henry conquerors Roermond.
1716 - England and Emperor Karel VI signs military treaty.
1794 - US Congress prohibits citizens from serving in foreign armed forces.
1798 - Battle of New Ross: The attempt to spread United Irish Rebellion into Munster is defeated.
1799 - First Battle of Zurich, Day 2: Austrians v. French (ends 7th).
1808 - Napoleonic Wars: Battle at Wagram: French army beats Austrians
1827 - Turks capture Acropolis and takes Athens during Greek War of Independence.
1829 - HMS Pickle captures the armed slave ship Voladora off the coast of Cuba.
1862 - American Civil War: Union troops find Fort Pillow empty. The Confederates had evacuated the previos day.
1863 - American Civil War: CSS "Alabama" captures "Tailsman" in Mid Atlantic.
1863 - American Civil War: Battle of Franklin's Crossing, Virginia, Deep Run.
1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Piedmont: Union forces under General David Hunter defeat a Confederate army at Piedmont, Virginia, taking nearly 1,000 prisoners.
1900 - Second Boer War: British soldiers take Pretoria.
1917 - World War I: Conscription begins in the United States as "Army registration day."
1942 - World War II: Midway Campaign: B-17s claim great success against Japanese ships, score no hits.
1942 - World War II: Midway Campaign: Yamamoto orders the Combined Fleet to retire.
1942 - World War II: USA declares war on Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania.
1943 - World War II: Air Battle, Russell Is: Japanese lose 24, US 7 planes.
1943 - World War II: Battle of the Pribilof Is: B-17s mistake islands for a Japanese fleet.
1944 - World War II: First B-29 bombing raid (target was Bangkok); one plane lost due to engine failure.
1944 - World War II: More than 1000 British bombers drop 5000 tons of bombs on German gun batteries on the Normandy coast in preparation for D-Day.
1944 - World War II: At 10:15 p.m. local time, the BBC transmits the second line of the Paul Verlaine poem to the underground resistance indicating that the invasion of Europe is about to begin.
1945 - World War II: Allied Control Council, military occupation governing body of Germany, formally takes power.
1967 - Six-Day War begins: The Israeli air force launches simultaneous pre-emptive attacks on the air forces of Egypt, Jordan, and Syria.
1977 - Military coup in the Seychelles.
1984 - Indira Gandhi orders attack on Sikh Golden Temple.
1993 - 24 Pakistani troops in the UN forces are killed in Mogadishu, Somalia.
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