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2006 Ethiopian troops eject the Islamic forces from Mogadishu, Somalia

2006 Terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is killed by U.S. forces in Iraq

2003 American forces captuer Sadam Hussen outside of Tikrit

1997 U.S. government forces closure of Hudson Foods due to E Coli break out

1993 Somali General Aidids arm forces kill 18 U.S. Rangers

1993 Inkatha-arm forces killed 49 ANC-followers in Johannesburg

1992 U.N. Security Council votes unanimous for U.S. led forces to enter Somalia

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

1991 World's largest oil spill, caused by embattled Iraqi forces in Kuwait

1990 U.S. forces reach 200,000 in Persian Gulf

1990 Liberia president Samuel K Doe is captured by Mr. Johnson's forces

1990 12 Arab leaders agree to send pan-Arab forces to protect Saudi Arabia

1990 U.S. announces commitment of Naval forces to Gulf regions

1990 Bankruptcy court forces Frank Lorenzo to give up Eastern Airlines

1988 U.N. peacekeeping forces win Nobel Peace prize

1982 Israeli forces began pouring into west Beirut

1982 U.S. vetos United Nations Security Council resolution for a limited withdrawal from Beirut of Israeli and Palestine Liberation Organization forces

1979 Vietnamese forces capture Phnom Penh from Khmer Rouge

1975 Laos falls to communist forces; Lao People's Democratic Rep proclaimed

1975 U.S. forces raid Cambodian island of Koh Tang to free Mayaguez ship

1975 U.S. merchant ship Mayaguez seized by Cambodian forces

1974 Israeli forces leave western Suez

1973 Israeli forces reach Suez, trapping Egyptian army

1968 Battles between Jordan army and Al Fatah-arm forces

1968 Czechoslovakia and Russian "accord" rules allies Soviet forces

1968 Warsaw Pact forces enter Czechoslovakia to end reform movement

1968 Israeli forces cross Jordan River to attack PLO bases

1967 Biafran War erupts as Nigerian forces invade

1965 1st U.S. ground combat forces in Vietnam authorized by President Johnson

1965 1st U.S. combat forces arrive in Vietnam (3,500 Marines)

1958 Cuban revolutionary forces capture Havana

1957 White mob forces 9 black students who had entered a Little Rock high school in Arkansas to withdraw

1957 Israeli forces withdraw from Sinai Peninsula

1956 Britain and France land forces in Egypt

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

1955 Last Soviet forces leave Austria

1954 U.S. Armed Forces end segregation of races

1953 Allied forces form West Germany

1952 Isaac Sadeh, leader of Jewish commando forces, dies

1951 U.N. arm forces reach Pyongyang Korea

1951 During Korean War, U.S. / U.N. forces recapture Seoul

1951 During Korean conflict, Chinese forces capture Seoul

1950 Chinese forces occupy Tibet

1950 U.N. forces entered Pyongyang, capital of North Korea

1950 U.S. forces invade Korea by crossing 38th parallel

1950 During Korean conflict, United Nations forces land at Inchon in South Korea

1950 Gen Douglas MacArthur named commander-in-chief, United Nations forces in Korea

1950 1st time U.S. and North Korean forces clash in Korean War

1950 U.N. member states begin using integrated forces against North Korea

1948 Israeli Defence Forces crosses Egyptian border

1948 Israeli forces liberate Meron and Gush-Halev

1948 President Truman issues Executive Order No. 9981 directing "equality of treatment and opportunity" in armed forces

1948 Entire Hagana-arm forces sworn-in as Israeli soldiers

1948 1st attack by Egyptian irregular forces at Kfar Darom Israel

1948 Executive Order 9981, end segregation in U.S. Armed Forces signed

1946 President Truman orders desegregation of all U.S. forces

1945 Japanese forces in Philippines surrender to Allies

1945 U.S. defeat Japanese forces on Okinawa during WW II

1945 U.S. and Soviet forces meet at Torgau, Germany on Elbe River

1945 U.S. forces conquer Motobu peninsula on Okinawa

1945 U.S. 7th Army and allies forces captured Nuremberg and Stuttgart in Germany

1945 U.S. forces conquered Motobu peninsula on Okinawa

1945 U.S. forces liberated the Nazi death camp Ohrdruf in Germany

1945 U.S. forces invade Okinawa during WW II

1945 U.S. and Philippine forces recaptures Corregidor

1945 U.S. forces land on Corregidor, complete conquest on March 3

1945 Soviet forces reach Auschwitz concentration camp

1945 German forces in Belgium retreat in Battle of Bulge

1945 Betram Home Ramsay, Engl adm/Cmdr Naval Forces (Normandy), dies at 61

1944 Hizbu'allah (Arm forces for Allah) forms

1944 U.S. forces under Gen Douglas MacArthur return to Philippines

1944 U.S. forces land in Philippines

1944 Soviet forces occupy Estonia

1944 Polish forces free Terneuzen Neth

1944 Allied forces liberate Luxembourg

1944 Dutch Armed Forces forms, under prince Bernhard

1944 King Michael of Romania ordered his forces to cease fire against Allies and dismissed the pro-Axis premier, Marshal Ion Antonescu

1944 U.S. and British forces destroy German 7th Army at Falaise-Argentan Gap

1944 Soviet forces liberate concentration camp Majdanek

1944 U.S. forces invade Japanese-held Tinian in WW II

1944 U.S. forces land on Guam to get rid of Japanese invaders

1944 Soviet forces conquer Wiborg

1944 U.S. forces begin invasion of Saipan in Pacific

1944 Chinese/U.S. armed forces take Myitkyina Airport, Burma

1944 Soviet forces liberate Odessa from Nazis

1944 U.S. forces invade Kwajalein Atoll

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

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

1943 British Forces Broadcasting Service begins operation

1943 U.S. forces take control of Tarawa, Gilbert Island and Makin from Japs

1943 U.S. forces land on Tarawa and Makin Atoll in Gilbert Island

1943 Soviet forces reconquer Kiev

1943 Soviet forces under Tolbuchin stick Sivash-bay about

1943 Allied forces captured Naples during WW II

1943 Soviet forces reconquer Smolensk

1943 Soviet forces reach Dnjepr

1943 Montgomery's 8th army contacts invasion - arm forces at Salerno

1943 Allied arm forces conquerors Salerno

1943 U.S. forces overrun New Georgia in Solomon Islands during WW II

1943 Soviet forces reconquer Orel and Bjelgorod

1943 U.S. forces led by Gen George Patton liberate Palermo, Sicily

1943 500 allied air forces raid Rome during WW II

1943 U.S. forces landed at Nassau Bay, near Salamaua, New Guinea

1943 German and Italian forces in Africa surrender

1943 Axis forces in North Africa surrender

1943 Jews attack Nazi occupation forces at Warsaw Ghetto

1943 Soviet forces reconquer Worosjilowsk

1943 Soviet forces reconquer Gumrak airport near Stalingrad

1943 William H Hastie, civilian aide to secretary of war, resigns to protest segregation in armed forces

1942 Operation "Torch" began as U.S. and British forces land in French N Afr

1942 German forces attack Stalingrad

1942 1st European bombing run undertaken by U.S. forces

1942 Gen Dwight Eisenhower appointed commander of U.S. forces in Europe

1942 Japanese forces retreat, ending Battle of Midway

1942 "Stars and Stripes" paper for U.S. Armed Forces starts

1942 Battle of Bataan, US and Filipino forces overwhelmed by Japanese at Bataan

1942 British naval forces raid Nazi occupied French port of St. Nazaire

1942 Japan forces Java to use "Tokyo time" 1 hour forward

1942 Japanese forces occupy Andaman Islands in Indian Ocean

1942 Japanese forces captures Rangoon Burma

1942 Japanese forces invade Burma

1941 American forces on Wake Island surrender to Japanese

1941 Mussolini's forces leave Abyssinia/Ethiopia

1941 Winston Churchill routes "Forces South" to SE Asia

1941 Japanese forces land in Indo-China

1941 U.S. forces land in Iceland to forestall Nazi invasion

1941 Italian held Addis Ababa surrenders to British and Ethiopian forces

1940 1st 75,000 men called to armed forces duty during peacetime

1940 Black leaders protest discrimination in U.S. Armed Forces

1940 Battle of Britain began as Nazi forces attacked by air, 114 days

1940 German forces occupied Paris during WW II

1940 German forces enter Paris

1938 Nazi forces occupy western Czech and declared them German citizens

1935 Mao Tse Tung and his Communist forces ended their "Long March" at Yan'an, in Shaanxi China

1932 Stalin forces Zinoviev and Kamenev out of Communist Party

1930 John Watts, chief of defense, Omani Armed Forces

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

1919 Romanian forces destroys Bela Kun Republic in Budapest

1919 British forces kill 100s of Indian Nationalists (Amritsar Massacre)

1918 Polish forces attack Jewish community of Lemberg (Lvov)

1918 Allied forces scored a decisive breakthrough of Hindenburg Line

1918 During WW I, U.S. forces launch an attack on German-occupied St. Mihiel

1918 U.S. and French forces launch Aisne-Marne offensive in WW I

1918 "Stars and Stripes," weekly U.S. Armed Forces newspaper, 1st published

1917 British forces under General Allenby capture Jerusalem

1916 U.S. forces invade Dominican Republic, stay until 1924

1915 U.S. forces invade Haiti, stays until 1924

1915 U.S. military forces occupy Haiti, remain until 1934

1915 Australian Survey Corps becomes part of Military Forces

1914 German forces route Belgians in Antwerp Belgium (WW I)

1914 German forces move into Antwerp Belgium (WW I)

1913 Frances Langford, born in Lakeland, Florida, singer, Armed Forces Hour, Star Time

1909 US pressure forces Nicaraguan President Jose Santos Zelaya from office

1909 Pirates beat Tigers, 5-4, forces 1st full 7 game world series

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

1909 U.S. military forces leave Cuba for 2nd time

1908 John T. Hughes, Bishop to Forces

1903 British forces under MacDonald and Young march into Tibet

1900 Rival forces fight for control of the Union Park ball grounds in Balt

1898 U.S. forces under George Dewey captures Manila during Spanish-Amer war

1898 American troops, drive Spanish forces from La Guasimas Cuba

1898 Battle of Atbara River, Anglo-Egyptian forces crush 6,000 Sudanese

1885 Louis Riel's forces defeat Canadian forces at Duck Lake, Sask

1883 Battle at Bamako: French assault on Fabous arm forces attack

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

1881 Battle at Ingogo, Transvaal: Boers beat superior British forces

1878 Carel T. Scharten, Dutch poet and writer, Forces of the Future

1866 Renegade Irish Fenians surrender to U.S. forces

1865 Union forces occupy Confederate capital of Richmond Virginia and Petersberg

1865 Gen Sherman's Union forces occupies Fayetteville, North Carolina

1864 Confederate forces led by Gen J Early begin invasion of Washington D.C.

1864 Gen Early and Confederate forces reach Winchester en route to Washington D.C.

1864 Battle of Adairsville Georgia, Union forces Confederates to retreat

1864 Red River Campaign-Union forces reach Alexandria, Louisiana

1863 Grant is given command of Union forces in West

1863 Union forces retreat to Chattanooga after defeat at Chickamauga

1863 Battle of Sabine Pass TX: 47 Texas volunteers repel Federal forces

1863 Vicksburg, Mississippi surrenders to Union forces

1863 Lee orders his forces to concentrate near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

1863 Union forces capture Arkansas Post, or Ft. Hindman, Arkansas

1862 Battle of Altamont-Confederates beat Union forces in Tennessee

1862 Battle of Aspromonte-Italian royal forces defeat rebels

1862 Confederate forces defeated at More's Hill, Mo

1862 Battle of Newburgh, IN - captured by Union forces

1862 New Orleans fell to Union forces during Civil War

1862 Battle of New Madrid MO-captured by Union forces

1861 Confederate forces enter Kentucky, thus ending its neutrality

1861 Grant assumes command of Federal forces at Cape Girardeau MI

1861 Battle of Mathias Point, Virginia - Rebel forces repel a Federal landing

1861 Battle of Laurel Mountain Virginia - Gen Morris forces retreat of rebels

1861 Battle of Rich Mountain, Virginia - Rosecrans forces rebels to surrender

1861 Martinsburg, Virginia - Confederate forces pull out before U.S. advance

1861 Battle of Boonville, MI-Brig General Lyon defeats Confederate forces

1861 Robert E. Lee named commander of Virginia Confederate forces

1860 Henry G. W. Smith, leader of British-Indian forces, dies at 73

1856 Lawrence Kansas captured, sacked by pro-slavery forces

1854 U.S. forces shell and burn San Juan del Norte, Nicaragua

1854 Treaty of Kanagawa: Commodore Perry forces Japan to opens ports to U.S.

1851 President Louis Napolean Boaparte forces crush a coup d'etat in France

1846 Gen Stephen W Kearney's U.S. forces captures Santa Fe, New Mexico

1837 Battle of Okeechobee-U.S. forces defeat Seminole Indians

1821 Revolutionary forces occupy Mexico City as Spanish withdraw

1815 Joachim Murats forces lands at Pizzo, Italy

1814 British forces destroy Library of Congress, containing 3,000 books

1814 British forces captured Washington, D.C., and burned down many landmarks

1814 Forces allied against Napoleon capture Paris

1813 Battle of Beaver Dam-British and Indian forces defeat U.S. forces

1812 U.S. forces led by Gen Hull invade Canada, War of 1812

1807 British squadron under Adm Duckworth forces passage of Dardanelle

1806 British forces lay siege to French port of Boulogne using Congreve rockets, invented by Sir William Congreve

1803 Battle of Assaye-British-Indian forces beat Maratha Army

1801 British drive French forces from Abukir, Egypt

1799 French-Egyptian forces under Napolean I beat Turks at Battle of Abukir

1797 British naval forces defeat Dutch off Camperdown, Netherlands

1796 Battle of Arcole-Napolean I's French forces beat Austrians in Italy

1794 Congress prohibits citizens from serving in foreign armed forces

1794 Congress passes Neutrality Act, bans Americans from serving in armed forces of foreign powers

1787 Henry G. W. Smith, leader of British-Indian forces

1781 9,000 American forces and 7,000 French forces begin siege of Yorktown

1778 British forces massacre 360 men, women and children in Wyoming, Pa

1777 Congress, flees to York Pa, as British forces advance

1776 Battle of Pelham: Col John Glover and Marblehead regiment meet British Forces in Bronx

1776 British forces capture Kip's Bay Manhattan during Revolution

1776 British forces evacuate Boston to Nova Scotia during Revolutionary War

1775 American Revolutionary forces capture Montreal

1759 British beat French forces at Plains of Abrahams (Quebec)

1744 Austrian forces pillage and kill Jews of Prague

1741 Prussian forces took Olmutz, Czechoslovakia

1707 Battle of Almansa-Franco-Spanish forces defeat Anglo-Portuguese

1704 French and Bavarian forces were routed by a combined British, German and Dutch army at Blenheim, Germany

1644 Battle of Marston Moor: Parliamentary forces defeat royalists

1611 Emperor Rudolf forces out king of Bohemia

1569 Duke of Alva forces bishop Nicolaas van Nieuwland of Haarlem to resign

1525 Imperial forces defeat French in battle of Pavia

1485 Battle of Bosworth Field - Henry VII's forces defeat Richard III

1364 Battle of Auray, English forces defeat French at Brittany



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