2013 Event In Washington state, six tanks are reported to be leaking radioactive waste at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation; the leak has not posed an immediate health risk 1973 Event Greek regime attacks students with tanks, 100s killed 1973 Event Israeli tanks under General Sharon move through Suez Canal 1973 Event Tanks attack Thailand demonstrating students, 300 killed 1973 Event Egyptian tanks move further into Israel 1963 Event 3 fuel tanks explodes when jetliner is struck by lightning crashing near Elkton, Maryland-Only case of lightning caused crash, 81 die 1956 Event U.S.S.R. sends tanks into Hungary and threatens to bomb Budapest 1956 Event Tanks are deployed against racist demonstrators in Clinton, Tennessee 1951 Event U.S. tanks exceed 38 degrees of latitude in Korea 1945 Event U.S. tanks and infantry conquer Bielefeld 1944 Event Liquid-gas tanks in Cleveland explodes, 135 die, 3,600 homeless 1943 Event Battle of Koersk, U.S.S.R. ends in Nazi defeat (6,000 tanks) 1943 Event Greatest tank battle in history ends with Russia's defeat of Germany at Kursk, almost 6,000 tanks take part, 2,900 were lost by Germany 1943 Event Battle of Koersk, U.S.S.R. begins (6,000 tanks) 1943 Event German tanks under Brigadier General Buelowius attack Kasserine Pass Tunesia 1942 Event 4th Russian Pantser army forms with 80 tanks 1942 Event 55 German tanks reach North-Africa 1941 Event Indian infantry attacks German tanks at Sidi Omar 1941 Event British tanks occupy Maus Libya 1940 Event German tanks reach Atrecht France 1940 Event General Guderians tanks reach The Channel (British expeditionary army) 1940 Event German tanks conquer Moerdijkbrug 1918 Event Canada/Australian/British breakthrough with 600 tanks at Amiens 1916 Event Britains 1st use of tanks (Battle of Somme)
