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2013 Event - Pope Francis canonizes a record-breaking number of new Catholic Church saints; Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI submitted the 813 'Martyrs of Otranto' who were beheaded by Ottoman soldiers for refusing to convert to Islam

2012 Event - After Secretary of State Hillary Clinton apologized for a NATO airstrike that killed 26 Pakistani soldiers and officials, Pakistan reopens key NATO supply routes into Afghanistan

2012 Event - After a year of being held hostage by pirates, 15 Georgian soldiers are released through efforts of the Somalian government

2011 Event - The last convoy of U.S. Army soldiers leaves Iraq, formally marking the end of the Iraq War

2011 Event - Protesters in Cario's Tahir Square are beaten by Egyptian Army soldiers in a second day of skirmishes resulting in 10 deaths and hundreds of injured

2011 Event - In Guinea, up to 80 people, including soldiers, are arrested for a failed assassination attempt on President Alpha Conde, which occurred July 19

2010 Event - An additional 23 soldiers from the Bangladesh Rifles are sentenced to imprisonment for mutiny in February 2009

2010 Event - In Sudan, the People's Liberation Army announces it will demobilize its child soldiers by the end of 2010

2010 Event - Convicted for transporting soldiers during the Rwandan Genocide, Dominique Ntawukuriryayo is sentenced to 25 years in prison

2010 Event - U.K. Foreign Secretary William Hague says British soldiers should be out of Afghanistan by 2014

2006 Event - Israel invades Lebanon in response to Hezbollah's kidnapping of Israeli soldiers

1995 Event - Bomb attack on train in Assam India (27 soldiers killed)

1994 Event - Last Russian soldiers leave Estonia and Latvia

1993 Event - Kurd rebellion kills 33 soldiers and 5 citizens in Turkey

1993 Death - Ad van Gessel, Dutch actor (Everything For Our Soldiers), dies

1992 Event - England honors her dead soldiers in the Falkland Is war

1992 Death - Guy Deghy, actor (Matter of Who, 1 Eyed Soldiers), dies at 79

1991 Event - Planeloads of U.S. troops arrive home from the Persian Gulf, Iraq hands over 40 foreign journalists and 2 American soldiers it captured

1990 Event - Soldiers opens fire on worshippers in Monrovian church, 200-600 die

1989 Event - 10,000 Chinese soldiers are blocked by 100,000 citizens protecting students demonstrating for democracy in Tiananmen Square, Beijing

1988 Event - U.S. sends 3000 soldiers to Nicaragua's neighbor Honduras

1987 Death - Viktor P Nekrasov, Ukraine architect/author (Soldiers), dies at 76

1985 Event - 248 U.S. soldiers and 8 crew members die in Arrow Air charter crash

1984 Event - 500,000 Iranian soldiers move into Iraq

1983 Event - Last 80 U.S. combat soldiers in Grenada withdrew

1982 Event - 11 soldiers and 6 civilians die by bomb planted by Irish National Liberation Army exploded in a pub in Ballykelly, Northern Ireland

1975 Death - Darwin Judge, USMC-corporal, 1 of last U.S. soldiers killed in Viet

1975 Death - Michael John Shea, USMC-lt/pilot, 1 of last soldiers killed in Vietnam

1975 Death - William Craig Nystul, USMC Captain, 1 of last U.S. soldiers killed in Viet

1972 Event - Bloody Sunday: British soldiers fire into crowd, kill 13

1972 Event - Bloody Sunday: British soldiers shoot on catholics in Londonderry, 13 die

1971 Event - Pentagon reports blacks constitute 11% of U.S. soldiers in SE Asia

1971 Birthday - Sean Astin, born in Los Angeles, California, actor, Goonies, Toy Soldiers

1969 Birthday - Martika, Marta Marrero, Cuba, singer, Toy Soldiers

1968 Event - U.S. sends 10,500 additional soldiers to Vietnam

1967 Event - 474,300 U.S. soldiers in Vietnam

1967 Event - 45,000 U.S. soldiers sent to Vietnam

1966 Event - 215,000 U.S. soldiers in Vietnam

1965 Event - U.S. government sends 90,000 soldiers to Vietnam

1965 Event - Lyndon Baines Johnson sends 50,000 more soldiers to Vietnam

1961 Event - Congolese soldiers murder 13 Italian United Nations pilots

1960 Event - Israeli soldiers capture Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires

1960 Event - Chinese army kills 12 Indian soldiers

1958 Event - Unidentified soldiers killed in WW II and Korean War buried in Arlington

1954 Event - France sends 20,000 soldiers to Algeria

1951 Event - 2,900,000 U.S. soldiers in Korea

1950 Event - 1st 407 U.S. soldiers flown to South Korea

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

1948 Event - Stern-group bomb Cairo-Haifa train, 27 British soldiers died

1945 Event - U.S. soldiers liberate Nazi concentration camp "Buchenwald"

1945 Event - 900 Japanese soldiers reportedly killed by crocodiles in 2 days

1945 Event - U.S. soldiers led by General Douglas MacArthur invades Philippines

1944 Event - Exercise "Tiger" ends with 750 U.S. soldiers dead in D-Day rehearsal after their convoy ships were attacked by German torpedo boats

1942 Event - 4,000 Canadian and British soldiers killed raiding Dieppe, France

1942 Event - New York Yankees annouce 5,000 uniformed soldiers admitted free at each of their upcoming home games

1941 Event - German and Romanian soldiers kill 11,000 Jews in Kishinev

1941 Event - 50,000 British soldiers lands in Greece

1939 Event - 4 soviet soldiers killed on Finnish-Russian border

1939 Birthday - Cleavon Little, Chickasha Oklahoma, actor, Blazing Saddles, Toy Soldiers

1936 Birthday - Marge Piercy, author, Small Changes, Gone for Soldiers

1927 Event - Spain routes 20,000 soldiers to Morocco (uprising Rifkabylen)

1923 Event - New Egyptian law allows suffrage for men, except soldiers

1923 Event - French soldiers fire on workers at Krupp factory in Essen; 13 die

1919 Event - New York City welcomes home General John J Pershing and 25,000 WW I soldiers

1918 Event - Polish soldiers organize a pogrom against Jews of Galicia Poland

1918 Death - Stephen Tisza, Hungarian Prime Minister, assassinated by soldiers

1918 Event - 7 U.S. soldiers are surrounded by Germans in France, Alvin York is given command and shoots 20 Germans and captures 132 more

1918 Event - 5 soldiers hanged for alleged participation in Houston riot of 1917

1918 Birthday - Bernd-Alois Zimmermann, German composer, Soldiers

1917 Event - 13 black soldiers hanged for alleged participation in Houston riot

1917 Event - 1st U.S. soldiers killed in combat in WW I

1917 Event - In WW I, the 1st U.S. soldiers are killed in combat

1914 Event - Netherlands army shoots up geinterneerde Belgian soldiers: 8 killed

1914 Event - 33 killed by soldiers during mine strike in Ludlow, Colorado

1906 Event - Black soldiers raid Brownsville Texas

1901 Event - Guerrilla's assault unarmed U.S. soldiers in Balangiga Phil, 38 killed

1866 Event - Congress authorizes national soldiers' homes

1864 Event - Black Soldiers given Medal of Honor

1864 Event - Congress passes legislation equalizing pay for Black soldiers

1864 Event - Congress rules Black soldiers must receive equal pay

1863 Event - Confederate congress passed resolution to kill black soldiers

1861 Event - Baltimore riots-4 soldiers, 9 civilians killed

1861 Event - Jefferson Davis signs bill authorizing use of slaves as soldiers

1855 Event - Soldiers shoot Jewish families in Coro, Venezuela

1854 Event - Battle at Alma Krim: 1,000 British soldiers died

1848 Event - Austrian soldiers kill 10 students, Pavia

1817 Event - U.S. soldiers attack Florida Indian village, beginning Seminole War

1801 Event - Soldiers riot in Bucharest, kill 128 Jews

1791 Event - Battle at Wabash: indians assault general St. Clair/killed 637 soldiers

1789 Event - Society of St. Tammany is formed by Revolutionary War soldiers. It later becomes an infamous group of New York City political bosses

1765 Event - Britain enacts Quartering Act, required colonists to provide temporary housing to British soldiers

1756 Event - 146 British soldiers imprisoned in India-Black Hole of Calcutta-most die

1688 Event - Soldiers killed governor of Aerssen in Paramaribo

1664 Event - Dutch surrender New Amsterdam (NY) to 300 English soldiers

1664 Event - Turkish great Koprulu attacks 120,000 Donau soldiers

1642 Event - King Charles I with 400 soldiers attacks the English parliament

1576 Event - Muitende Spanish soldiers conquer Zierik Sea

1574 Event - Storm breaks Leiden dike; drowns 20,000 Spanish soldiers

1476 Event - 400 Burgundy soldiers freeze to death during siege of Nancy

219 Event - Batavian soldiers consecrate altar on Hercules Magusanus Rome

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