Today in War History (Part 7)

Sub-Topics: American Civil War - American Indian Wars - American Revolutionary War - Boer Wars - Cold War - Falklands War - Greek War of Independence - Gulf War - Korean War - Kosovo War - New Zealand Wars - Spanish Civil War - Terrorism - Vietnam War - War of the Pacific - Weapons - World War One - World War Two

Historical Events

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1946-10-25 - 1st trial against nazi war criminals (Neurenberg)
1946-12-19 - War breaks out in Indochina as Ho Chi Minh attacks French in Hanoi
1947-05-03 - New post-war Japanese constitution goes into effect.
1947-07-25 - US Air Force, Navy & War Dept form US Dept of Defense
1948-05-20 - 1st use of Israeli Air Force & 1st war victory, defeating Syrian army
1948-06-21 - Rhodes conference on Israeli-Arab war opens
1948-09-05 - In France, Robert Schuman becomes President of the Council while being Foreign minister, As such, he is the negotiator of the major treaties of the end of World War II.
1948-09-10 - Bijz Criminal division sentences war criminal Jacob Folks to life
1948-11-12 - Japanese premier Hideki Tojo sentenced to death by war crimes tribunal
1949-02-12 - Panic in Quito Ecuador, after "War of the World" played on radio
1949-07-20 - Israel's 19 month war of independence ends
1949-11-06 - Greeks civil war ends
1950-02-01 - USSR demands condemnation of Emperor Hirohito for war crimes
1950-07-12 - Hague Council of Annulment convicts German war criminals W Lages, FH Van de Funten & F Fischer to death
1950-09-26 - UN troops in Korean War recapture South Korean capital of Seoul
1950-11-10 - Spanish dictator Franco ends war in Gibraltar
1950-11-24 - UN troops begin an assault intending to end Korean War by Christmas
1951-02-01 - Alfred Krupp & 28 other German war criminals freed
1951-05-21 - The opening of the Ninth Street Show, otherwise known as the 9th Street Art Exhibition - a gathering of a number of notable artists, and the stepping-out of the post war New York avant-garde, collectively know as the New York School.
1951-07-09 - Pres Truman asked Congress to formally end state of war with Germany
1951-07-26 - Netherlands ends state of war with Germany
1951-10-19 - Pres Harry S Truman formally ends state of war with Germany
1951-10-25 - Peace talks aimed at ending Korean War resumed in Panmunjom
1952-09-24 - Dutch minister Dark sentences war criminal W Lages to death
1953-08-05 - Operation "Big Switch" Korean War prisoner exchanged at Panmunjom
1954-11-01 - The Front de Libération Nationale fires the first shots of the Algerian War of Independence.
1955-01-15 - USSR ends state of war with German Federal Republic
1955-01-25 - Russia ends state of war with Germany
1955-11-04 - The rebuilt Vienna State Opera reopens with Ludwig van Beethoven's Fidelio after it was totally destroyed in World War II.
1956-02-01 - Hague Daily Newspaper reveals war crimes of Hague mayor Schokking
1956-04-03 - German war criminals Hinrichsen/Ruhl/Siebens/Viebahn freed
1956-07-05 - France raises tobacco tax 20% due to war in Algeria
1958-05-30 - Unidentified soldiers killed in WW II & Korean War buried in Arlington
1958-09-14 - Two rockets designed by the German engineer Ernst Mohr, the first German post-war rockets, reach the upper atmosphere.
1960-04-08 - Neth & Germany sign accord concerning war casualties
1961-04-10 - Adolf Eichmann tried as a war criminal in Israel
1961-09-01 - The Eritrean War of Independence officially begins with the shooting of the Ethiopian police by Hamid Idris Awate
1961-12-09 - SS Col Adolf Eichmann found guilty of war crimes in Israel
1961-12-11 - Adolf Eichmann is found guilty of war crimes, in Israel
1962-03-18 - Algerian War ends after 7½ yrs (250,000 die), Ben Bella flees
1962-05-30 - Benjamin Britten's "War Requiem," premieres
1962-08-30 - Japan conducts a test of the NAMC YS-11, its first aircraft since the war and its only successful commercial aircraft from before or after the war.
1963-03-22 - Brit Min of War John Profumo denies having sex with Christine Keeler
1963-06-04 - British Minister of War John Profumo resigns due to Christine Keeler
1964-01-08 - President Lyndon B Johnson declares "War on Poverty"
1964-03-15 - LBJ asks for a War on Poverty
1965-03-25 - West German Bondsdag extends war crimes retribution
1965-11-27 - 15-25,000 demonstrate against war in Vietnam in Wash DC
1966-03-27 - Anit Vietnam war demonstrations in US, Europe & Australia
1966-03-31 - 25,000 anti war demonstrators march in NYC
1966-08-06 - US citizens demonstrate against war in Vietnam
1967-05-20 - 10,000 demonstrate against war in Vietnam
1967-06-05 - 6 day war between Israel & Arab neighbors begin
1967-07-06 - Biafran War erupts as Nigerian forces invade
1967-07-07 - Beginning of the civil war in Biafra.
1967-10-21 - Thousands opposing Vietnam War try to storm Pentagon
1968-01-21 - Vietnam War: Battle of Khe Sanh - One of the most publicized and controversial battles of the war begins.
1968-02-18 - 10,000 demonstrators against US in Vietnam War in West-Berlin
1968-08-28 - Police & anti-war demonstrators clash at Chicago's Dem Natl Conven
1969-03-20 - US president Nixon proclaims he will end Vietnam war in 1970
1969-04-03 - Vietnam War: U.S. Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird announces that the United States will start to "Vietnamize" the war effort.
1969-04-05 - Vietnam War: Massive antiwar demonstrations occur in many U.S. cities.
1969-07-07 - Der Spiegel reveals Munich's Bishop Defregger is a war criminal
1969-07-14 - Soccer war - Salvador-Honduras (1000 dead)
1969-12-16 - "War is Over! If You Want It, Happy Christmas from John & Yoko" posters begin appearing
1970-01-12 - Biafran War ends, Biafra surrenders to Nigeria
1970-05-08 - Construction workers break up an anti-war rally in NYC's Wall Street
1970-09-28 - Anwar Sadat replaces Egyptian President Nassar
1970-10-15 - Anwar Sadat elected president of Egypt
1970-10-16 - Anwar Sadat elected president of Egypt, succeeding Gamal Abdel Nasser
1970-10-17 - Anwar Sadat sworn in as president of Egypt
1970-11-09 - Trial of Seattle 8 anti-war protesters begins
1971-01-26 - Dutch 2nd Chamber accept law against limitation of war crimes
1971-04-25 - About 200,000 anti-Vietnam War protesters march on Washington
1971-05-03 - Nixon administration arrests 13,000 anti-war protesters in 3 days
1971-10-28 - John & Yoko record "Happy Xmas (War is Over)" in NYC
1971-12-01 - John & Yoko release "Happy Xmas (War is Over)" in US
1971-12-03 - Indo-Pakistani War of 1971: India invades West Pakistan and a full scale war begins claiming hundreds of lives.
1972-01-24 - Japanese Sgt. Shoichi Yokoi is found hiding in a Guam jungle, where he had been since the end of World War II.
1973-01-27 - US & Vietnam sign cease-fire, ending longest US war & milt draft
1973-07-20 - The US Senate passes the War Powers Act.
1973-10-06 - Yom Kippur War begins as Syria & Egypt attack Israel
1973-10-24 - Yom Kippur War ends, Israel 65 miles from Cairo, 26 from Damascus
1974-02-05 - John Murtha becomes the first Vietnam War veteran elected to the Congress of the United States.
1974-03-07 - "Monitor" (US Civil War Ship) restored at Cape Hatteras NC
1974-03-09 - Last Japanese soldier, a guerrilla operating in Philippines, surrenders, 29 years after World War II ended
1974-04-11 - WW II war criminal JP Philippa arrested
1974-09-16 - Pres Ford announces conditional amnesty for US, Vietnam War deserters
1975-04-29 - Vietnam War: Operation Frequent Wind: The U.S. begins to evacuate US citizens from Saigon prior to an expected North Vietnamese takeover. U.S. involvement in the war comes to an end.
1975-08-15 - Miki Takeo makes the first official pilgrimage to Yasukuni Shrine by an incumbent prime minister on the anniversary of the end of World War II.
1975-10-26 - Anwar Sadat became 1st Egyptian president to officially visit US
1976-01-26 - Belgium catholic elite start amnesty campaign for war criminals
1976-11-14 - War criminal Pieter Menten captured 1 day after fleeing
1976-12-06 - War criminal Pieter Menten arrested in Zurich
1977-01-21 - Pres Jimmy Carter pardons almost all Vietnam War draft evaders
1977-01-27 - Pres Carter pardons most Vietnam War draft evaders (10,000)
1977-03-12 - Egypt's Anwar Sadat pledges to regain Arab territory from Israel
1977-04-03 - Egyptian Pres Anwar Sadat 1st meeting with President Jimmy Carter
1977-11-19 - Egyptian Pres Anwar Sadat arrives in Israel
1977-12-14 - War criminal Pieter Menten sentenced in Amsterdam to 15 years