1 SEPT Today in Military History 1644 Battle of Tippermuir: Montroses Roundheads defeat the Scots Covenanters. 1651 Battle of Dundee: The English under Oliver Cromwell & George Monck defeat the Scots 1661 First formal yacht race: King Charles II vs. his brother James 1774 Boston: British seize Massachusetts Bay Colonys store of powder & cannon 1807 Former VP Aaron Burr found innocent of treason 1814 USS Wasp sinks HMS Avon 1861 Brg. Gen. U.S. Grant assumes command of Federal forces at Cape Girardeau, Mo 1861 Skirmish at Bennetts Mills, Mo 1862 Battle of Chantilly, Virginia 1862 Congress abolishes the daily issue of grog in the US Navy 1864 Atlanta Campaign: Sherman wins the Battle of Jonesborough, causing the Confederates to evacuate & burn Atlanta 1863 Union fleet bombards Fort Sumter 1863 Union troops capture Fort Smith, Arkansas 1866 Manuelito surrenders at Fort Wingate, last resisting Navaho chief 1870 Napoleon III surrenders himself and his army to the Prussians at Sedan 1916 Bulgaria declares war on Romania 1918 US troops land in Vladivostok, Siberia, stay until 1920 1923 Great Kanto Plain Earthquake devastates Tokyo, over 100,000 die 1928 President Ahmet Zogu of Albania (1925-1928) Proclaims himself King Zog I (1928-1939) 1934 Coup installs José María Velasco Ibarra as President of Ecuador, the first of his five terms (1934-1935, 1944-1947, 1952-1956, 1960-1961, 1968-1972) 1938 Mussolini cancels the civil rights of Italian Jews 1939 George C. Marshall becomes Chief-of-Staff of the Army, serves until November 18, 1945 1939 Hitler orders Close your hearts to pity, invades Poland, initiating World War II, and also orders the extermination of the mentally ill 1939 Adm. Isoruku Yamamoto is appointed Commander-in-Chief of Japans Combined Fleet 1942 Tokyo Express mission to Guadalcanal evades B-17s. 1942 A Federal court upholds detention of Japanese-Americans 1942 German troops land on the Taman Peninsula, USSR 1944 King George VI promotes Bernard Law Montgomery to field marshal 1948 Communists form the North China Peoples Republic 1950 13 North Korean divisions assault UN lines 1951 The Mossad, Israels secret service, begins operations 1951 US, Australia, & New Zealand sign the ANZUS treaty 1969 King Idris of Libya (1951-1969) is deposed in a coup by Col Murramar Gadhafi, who rules until 2012 1983 Soviets shoot down Korean Boeing 747 that strayed over Siberia
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