This section will attempt to give a day by day listing of historical events which may or may not be of any use to anyone except trivia nuts. The thing is we're trivia nuts and we also know some of you out there are too. Before you write to The Courier and remind us that something else happened on a certain date other than the one we gave please remember that we're trying to take in a cross-section of history and our decisions are what we feel are of some interest.
July 1 1863 Battle of Gettysburg (first day). American Civil War
July 2 1644 Battle of Marston Moor. English Civil War.
July 3 323 First Battle of Andrianople. Roman Civil Wars
July 4 1879 Battle of Ulundi. British Zulu Wars
July 5 1943 Battle of Kursk. (first day). WWII
July 6 1553 Insurrection of Nothumberland. (Warwick)
July 7 1937 "China Incidents with Japan." Opening of WWII
July 8 1758 Battle of Fort Ticonderoga. French-lndian Wars
July 9 1943 Allied Landings in Sicily. WWII
July 10 1791 Battle of Matchin. Russian-Turkish Wars
July 11 1960 Moise Tshombe declares Independence for Katanga
July 12 1588 Spanish Armada leaves Corunna for invasion of England
July 13 1745 Bonnie Prince Charles sails from Nantes for Britain
July 14 1958 Iraqi revolt overthrows King Faisal II
July 15 1918 Second Battle of the Marne. WWI
July 16 1429 Coronation of Charles II 100 Years' War
July 17 1453 Battle of Castillon. 100 Years' War
July 18 1099 Crusader Seige of Jerusalem Ends 1st Crusade.
July 19 711 Battle of Grandalete. Spanish-Moslem Wars
July 20 1944 Attempted Assassination of Adolf Hitler. WWII
July 21 1798 Battle of the Pryamids. Napoleonic Wars.
July 22 1298 Battle of Falkirk. Scottish-English Wars
July 23 1704 Capture of Gibraltar. War of Spanish Succession
July 24 49 Defeat of Curio in Africa. Great Roman Civil War
July 25 1814 Battle of Lundy's Lane. War of 1812
July 26 1757 Battle of Hastenbeck. Seven Years' War
July 27 1945 Potsdam Proclamation. WWII
July 28 1778 Battle of Monmouth. American Revolution
July 29 1099 Death of Pope Urban II. Preacher of First Crusade
July 30 1757 Battle of Gross-Jagersdorf. Seven Years' War
July 31 1917 Third Battle of Ypres (Passchendaele) Begins. WWI
August 1 1798 Naval Battle of the Nile. Napoleonic Wars
August 2 216 BC Battle of Cannae. Second Punic War
August 3 1644 First Battle of Freiburg. Thirty Year's War
August 4 1870 Battle of Weissenburg. Franco-Prussian War
August 5 1864 Naval Battle of Mobile Bay. American Civil War
August 6 1945 Nuclear Bombing of Hiroshima. WWII
August 7 1819 Battle of Boyaca. Simon Bolivar's Campaigns
August 8 1777 Battle of Oriskany. American Revolution
August 9 1757 Massacre at Fort William Henry. French-lndian Wars
August 10 1861 Battle of Wilson's Creek. American Civil War
August 11 1673 Naval Battle of Texel. Third Anglo-Dutch War
August 12 1961 Berlin Wall erected.
August 13 1704 Battle of Blenheim. War of the Spanish Succession.
August 14 1811 Independence of Paraguay
August 15 1760 Battle of Leignitz. Seven Years' War
August 16 1920 Battle of Warsaw. Russo-Polish War
August 17 1812 Battle of Smolensk. Napoleonic Wars
August 18 1870 Battle of Gravelotte-St. Privat. Franco-Prussian War
August 19 1071 Battle of Manzikert. Byzantine Wars
August 20 1968 Warsaw Pact Invasion of Czechoslovakia
August 21 1808 Battle of Vimeiro. Napoleonic Wars
August 22 1485 Battle of Bosworth. War of the Roses
August 23 1914 Battle of Mons. WWII
August 24 1942 Battle of Stalingrad Begins. WWII
August 25 1914 Battle of Le Cateau. WW II
August 26 1346 Battle of Crecy. Hundred Years' War
August 27 1758 Capture of Fort Frontenac. French-lndian Wars
August 28 1944 Battle of Montelimar Ends. WWII
August 29 1622 Battle of Fleuris. Thirty Years' War
August 30 1721 Treaty of Nystak. The Great Northern War
August 31 1914 End of Battle of Tannenburg. WWI
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