Operation Dynamo, better known as the evacuation of Dunkirk, began.
21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow
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Troops from the British Indian Army committed the Amritsar Massacre when they opened fire on nonviolent protesters and pilgrims at Jallianwala Bagh.
Combined British and Prussian military forces defeated the French, but Wellington himself said that the battle was ‘the nearest-run thing you ever saw in your life’.
President George Washington wrote to Congress, stating that the military was something on which the “honor, safety and well being of our Country so evidently and essentially depend.”
The camels proved themselves to be both fast and strong, easily outperforming the horses and mules that the Army had used up until that point.
Although her rating was only temporary, it marked in important step towards the Army-Navy Nurse Act of 1947 that made such appointments permanent.
Some modern-day Massachusetts National Guard regiments are able to trace their history back to the Massachusetts Bay Colony of 1636.
President Harry S. Truman issued Executive Order 9981 that abolished racial segregation in the U.S. military.
The armed insurrection began on Easter Monday which, due to Easter being a moveable feast as a result of its relationship to the lunar calendar, in 1916 fell on the 24th April.
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1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland
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