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2012 Event - In the U.S., President Obama nominates John R. Allen as Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR), with General Joseph Dunford positioned to succeed Allen in his previous post of commander of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan

1991 Event - U.S. and allied forces grant Iraq a cease fire

1958 Event - U.S.S.R. abrogates Allied war-time agreements on control of Germany

1955 Event - Austria resumed its sovereignty after departure of last Allied occupation forces, for 1st time since German occupation of 1938

1955 Event - Last allied occupying troops leave Austria

1953 Event - Allied forces form West Germany

1946 Birthday - Peter Sutherland, CEO, Allied Irish Banks

1945 Event - General MacArthur named Supreme Commander of Allied Powers in Japan

1945 Event - Allied landing at Ternate Molukkas

1945 Event - Allied air raid on Surabaja, Java

1945 Event - Allied troops occupy German nuclear laboratory

1945 Event - Allied troops liberate Basket-Compascuum

1945 Event - During WW II Allied bombers begin 4-day raid over Germany

1945 Event - Allied ships bomb North-Sumatra

1945 Event - 1,000 allied bombers harass Essen, 4,662 ton bombs

1945 Event - Cologne taken by allied armies

1945 Event - Allied planes bomb Dresden Germany; 135,000 die

1945 Event - Allied air attack on Goch/Kleef/Kalkar/Reichswald

1945 Event - Allied air raid on Neurenberg

1945 Event - German air raid on allied airports at Eindhoven/Saint-Trond/Brussels

1944 Event - 1st allied ship sails into Schelde Antwerp

1944 Event - 1st allied marines move onto Antwerp harbor

1944 Event - Allied troops reach Zoutelande Walcheren

1944 Event - Allied commando's lands at Westkapelle Walcheren

1944 Event - Allied troops land in Corfu

1944 Event - Allied aircrafts bombard per accident Fishing, Overijssel

1944 Event - Allied forces liberate Luxembourg

1944 Event - Allied offensive at "Gothen-linie," Italy

1944 Event - Allied troops capture Marseilles, France

1944 Event - Allied air raid on Maastricht, 80+ killed

1944 Event - Allied air raid on train in North Netherlands, 32 killed

1944 Event - Operation Dragoon: Allied troops land in Provence

1944 Event - Allied troops conquer Myitkyina Burma

1944 Event - Allied air force bomb Germany for 6 hours

1944 Event - Allied jailbreak at St-Lo, behind German lines

1944 Event - 300 allied bombers drop fire bombs on Allied/German positions

1944 Event - Allied troops occupy Faubourg de Vaucelles, at Caen

1944 Event - Allied assault on Carpiquet airport at Caen

1944 Event - French Cotentin Peninsula in allied hands

1944 Event - D-Day: 150,000 Allied Expeditionary Force lands in Normandy, France

1944 Event - Nazi occupiers make it punishable to give aid to allied pilots

1944 Event - Allied breakthrough in Italy

1944 Event - Operation-Buffalo: Allied jailbreak out Anzio-bridgehead

1944 Event - Allied air raid on Surabaja, Java

1944 Event - Allied fleet attack Sabang Sumatra

1944 Event - General Eisenhower becomes head commander of allied air fleet

1944 Event - 76 Allied officers escape Stalag Luft 3 (Great Escape)

1944 Event - Italian town of Cassino destroyed by Allied bombing

1944 Event - Allied troops 1st set foot on Japanese territory

1944 Event - Allied troops occupy Nettuno Italy

1944 Event - During World War II, Allied forces begin landing at Anzio Italy

1944 Event - General Eisenhower took command of Allied Invasion Force in London

1943 Event - Franklin D. Roosevelt appoints General Eisenhower supreme commander of Allied forces

1943 Event - 3 allied officers escape out camp Stalag Luft 3

1943 Event - Allied forces captured Naples during WW II

1943 Event - Allied arm forces conquerors Salerno

1943 Event - Lord Mountbatten appointed Supreme Allied Commander in SE Asia

1943 Event - 1st allied air raid on Borneo

1943 Event - Hitler watches lynching of allied pilots

1943 Event - 500 allied air forces raid Rome during WW II

1943 Event - Germany begins withdrawing U-boats from North Atlantic in anticipation of the Allied invasion of Europe

1943 Event - 826 Allied bombers attack Dortmund

1943 Event - Allied bombers attack Pantelleria in the Mediterranean Sea

1943 Event - Lieutenant Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg seriously wounded at allied air raid

1943 Event - Allied reconnaissance flight over Java

1943 Event - 335 allied bombers attack Neurenberg

1943 Event - Allied troops occupy Kasserine pass in Tunisia

1943 Event - Women's camp Tamtui on Ambon (Moluccas) hit by allied air raid

1943 Event - General Eisenhower selected to command the allied armies in Europe

1942 Event - Hitler orders allied commandos to be killed

1942 Event - Allied assault on oil installations of Bula Ceram

1942 Event - U boats sank 96 allied ships this month: 476,000 ton

1942 Event - 4-day allied bombing on Rostock begins

1942 Event - Allied air raid on harbor city Kupang Timor

1942 Event - Japanese land in Java, last Allied bastion in Dutch East Indies

1942 Event - Allied Conference for war trials

1941 Event - North Africa: allied assault up Italians Gazala-posing

1941 Event - 9 Allied governments pledged adherence to Atlantic Charter

1941 Event - U boats sink 21 allied ships this month: 94,000 ton

1941 Event - Allied troops begin evacuating Kreta

1940 Event - Operation Dynamo begins evacuating defeated Allied troops from Dunkirk

1940 Event - Allied counter attack at Atrecht North-France

1940 Event - Allied troops land in Norway

1934 Birthday - Brian Kenny, deputy supreme allied commander, Europe

1933 Birthday - Geoffrey Leigh, CEO, Allied London Properties

1929 Birthday - Michael Beavis, deputy commander-in-chief, Allied Forces Central Europe

1925 Event - Last allied occupying troops leave Ruhrgebied

1924 Birthday - David Loram, British Vice-Admiral, Supreme Allied Commander

1923 Event - Allied Powers and Turkey sign peace treaty, Lausanne

1923 Event - SDAP speaks out against allied occupation of Ruhrgebied

1923 Event - Allied ultimatum on Lithuanian occupation of Memel

1921 Birthday - Bernard Rogers, supreme Allied commander Europe

1920 Event - Bulgarian and allied Peace of Neuilly-sur-Seine goes into effect

1918 Event - Allied forces scored a decisive breakthrough of Hindenburg Line

1914 Event - Allied offensive at Ypres (Belgium) begins

1909 Birthday - Kenneth Darling, Commander-in-chief Allied Forces, Northern Europe

1883 Birthday - Betram Home Ramsay, English admiral/Commander Allied Naval Forces

1854 Event - Allied armies, including those of Britain and France, land in Crimea

1814 Event - Forces allied against Napoleon capture Paris

1813 Event - Danzig surrenders to allied armies

1813 Event - Zamose, Modlin, Torgau surrenders to allied armies

1813 Event - Lubeck surrenders to allied armies

1813 Event - Stettin surrenders to allied armies

1813 Event - Allied troops occupies Groningen

1813 Event - Allied troops occupy Zwolle, Netherlands

1813 Event - Dresden surrenders to allied armies













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