Birth of Vittorio Emanuele III , 1869
Birth of Winston Churchill, 1874
Birth of Mikhail Kalinin, 1875
Birth of Nobuyuki Abe, 1875
Birth of Tomoyuki Yamashita, 1885
Birth of George Patton, 1885
Birth of Albert Kesselring, 1885
Birth of Bernard Montgomery, 1887
Birth of Erich von Manstein, 1887
Birth of Andrei Tupolev, 1888
Birth of Masaharu Homma, 1888
Birth of Charles de Gaulle, 1890
Birth of Helmuth Weidling, 1891
Birth of Erwin Rommel, 1891
Birth of W. Averell Harriman, 1891
Birth of Victor Crutchley, 1893
Birth of Beardsley Ruml, 1894
Birth of Liren Sun, 1899
Birth of Mildred Gillars, 1900
Birth of Léopold III , 1901
Birth of Curtis LeMay, 1906
Birth of Claus von Stauffenberg, 1907
Birth of Amy Thorpe, 1910
Birth of Hans-Günther Kuhlmann, 1913
Birth of John Basilone, 1916
Birth of Marcel Albert, 1917
Maiden Flight of Aircraft He 111 Doppel-Blitz, 1934
Maiden Flight of Aircraft MB.210, 1934
Maiden Flight of Aircraft Hurricane, 1935
Battle of Suiyuan, 1936
Second Battle of Shanghai, 1937
Battle of Shanxi, 1937
Commission of the Ship Giosuè Carducci, 1937
Hossbach Conference, 1937
Commission of the Ship Birmingham, 1937
Commission of the Ship Błyskawica, 1937
Kristallnacht, 1938
Commission of the Ship Artigliere, 1938
Commission of the Ship Tone, 1938
Maiden Flight of Aircraft He 177 Grief, 1939
Sinking of the Ship Rawalpindi, 1939
Commission of the Ship Sealion, 1939
Finland Entered WW2, 1939
The Winter War, 1939
Battle of Gabon, 1940
Maiden Flight of Aircraft Mosquito, 1940
Death of Neville Chamberlain, 1940
Attack on Taranto, 1940
Sinking of the Ship Conte di Cavour, 1940
Commission of the Ship Formidable, 1940
North African Campaign, Phase 2, 1941
Commission of the Ship Drum, 1941
Maiden Flight of Aircraft Me 323 Gigant, 1941
Sinking of the Ship Ark Royal, 1941
Commission of the Ship Archer, 1941
Sinking of the Ship Sydney, 1941
Death of Kurt von Briesen, 1941
Sinking of the Ship Barham, 1941
Commission of the Ship Kitty Hawk, 1941
Commission of the Ship Shoho, 1941
Madagascar Campaign, 1942
Maiden Flight of Aircraft He 219 Uhu, 1942
North African Campaign, Phase 3, 1942
Death of Daniel Callahan, 1942
Death of Norman Scott, 1942
Sinking of the Ship Atlanta, 1942
Sinking of the Ship Juneau, 1942
Sinking of the Ship Laffey (Benson-class), 1942
Sinking of the Ship Kinugasa, 1942
Sinking of the Ship Preston (Mahan-class), 1942
Sinking of the Ship Kirishima, 1942
Commission of the Ship Philip, 1942
Sinking of the Ship Sokrushitelnyi, 1942
Commission of the Ship Chuyo, 1942
Scuttling of the French Fleet, 1942
Sinking of the Ship Dunkerque, 1942
Sinking of the Ship Provence, 1942
Sinking of the Ship Strasbourg, 1942
Dodecanese Campaign, 1943
Third Moscow Conference, 1943
Death of Koichi Shiozawa, 1943
Maiden Flight of Aircraft La-7, 1943
Maiden Flight of Aircraft M6A Seiran, 1943
Battle of Changde, 1943
Battle of Kiev, 1943
Erntefest Massacre, 1943
Sinking of the Ship Sendai, 1943
Greater East Asia Conference, 1943
Death of Ugo Cavallero, 1943
Gilbert Islands Campaign, 1943
Commission of the Ship Shinyo, 1943
Commission of the Ship Bataan (Independence-class), 1943
Cairo Conference, 1943
Commission of the Ship Kaiyo, 1943
Commission of the Ship Albert W. Grant, 1943
Death of Doris Miller, 1943
Death of Kiyoto Kagawa, 1943
Sinking of the Ship Onami, 1943
Tehran Conference, 1943
Commission of the Ship Hornet (Essex-class), 1943
Battle of the Scheldt Estuary, 1944
Death of Jinwei Wang, 1944
Death of Satoshi Inoguchi, 1944
Death of John Dill, 1944
Sinking of the Ship Nachi, 1944
Sinking of the Ship Albacore, 1944
Sinking of the Ship Shimakaze, 1944
Sinking of the Ship Tirpitz, 1944
Sinking of the Ship Kiso, 1944
Battle of Bhamo, 1944
Death of Trafford Leigh-Mallory, 1944
Sinking of the Ship Shinyo, 1944
Sinking of the Ship Kongo, 1944
Death of Yoshimi Minami, 1944
Sinking of the Ship Kumano, 1944
Sinking of the Ship Yasoshima, 1944
Sinking of the Ship Shinano, 1944
Commission of the Ship Sakawa, 1944
The Tokyo Trial and Other Trials Against Japan, 1946
Death of Constantin Sănătescu, 1947
Death of Kuniaki Koiso, 1950
Death of Helmuth Weidling, 1955
Death of Pietro Badoglio, 1956
Death of Masao Maruyama, 1957
Death of José Laurel, 1959
Death of Erich Raeder, 1960
Death of Wilhelmina , 1962
Death of Erik Scavenius, 1962
Death of John Kennedy, 1963
Death of H. V. Evatt, 1965
Death of Jisaburo Ozawa, 1966
Death of Petar II , 1970
Death of Charles de Gaulle, 1970
Death of Benjamin (Sr.) Davis, 1970
Death of Thomas Kinkaid, 1972
Death of Francisco Franco, 1975
Death of Volodymyr Kubijovyč, 1985
Death of Aleksandr Pokryshkin, 1985
Death of Vyacheslav Molotov, 1986
Death of Liren Sun, 1990
Death of Donald Bennett, 2005
Death of Paul Tibbets, 2007
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