December 20, 1914 First Battle of Champagne begins After minor skirmishes, the First Battle of Champagne begins in earnest, marking the first major Allied...
... The U.S. invades Panama The United States invades Panama in an attempt to overthrow military dictator Manuel Noriega, who had been indicted in the United...
December 18, 1865 Slavery abolished in America Following its ratification by the requisite three-quarters of the states earlier in the month, the 13th...
December 18, 1916 Battle of Verdun ends The Battle of Verdun, the longest engagement of World War I, ends on this day after ten months and close to a million...
December 18, 1862 Battle of Lexington, Tennessee Confederate cavalry leader General Nathan Bedford Forrest routs a Union force under the command of Colonel...
OUR COMMANDING GENERAL and hisstaff were receiving an intelligence briefing that required the use ofprojectors to show maps of Norway with symbols for ...
December 15, 1864 Battle of Nashville, Tennessee The once powerful Confederate Army of Tennessee is nearly destroyed when a Union army commanded by General...
December 16, 1864 Battle of Nashville concludes Union General George Thomas continues his attack on the army of Confederate General John Bell Hood at...
December 16, 1944 Battle of the Bulge begins With the Anglo-Americans closing in on Germany from the west and the Soviets approaching from the east, Nazi...
December 14, 1964 Operation Barrel Roll begins In Laos, Operation Barrel Roll, the name given to the first phase of the bombing plan approved by President...
December 14, 1799 George Washington dies George Washington, the American revolutionary leader and first president of the United States, dies of acute...
December 13, 2003 Saddam Hussein captured After spending nine months on the run, former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein is captured on this day in 2003. Saddam's...
December 13, 1776 General Charles Lee leaves his troops for Widow White’s tavern On this day in 1776, American General Charles Lee leaves his army, riding in...
December 13, 1862 Battle of Fredericksburg Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia repulses a series of attacks by General Ambrose...
December 12, 1937 USS Panay sunk by Japanese During the battle for Nanking in the Sino-Japanese War, the U.S. gunboat Panay is attacked and sunk by Japanese...
December 8, 1914 The Battle of the Falkland Islands A month after German naval forces led by Admiral Maximilian von Spee inflicted the Royal Navy’s first...
December 8, 1775 Americans begin siege of Quebec Beginning on this day in 1775, Colonel Benedict Arnold and General Richard Montgomery lead an American force...
December 8, 1863 Lincoln issues Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction President Lincoln offers his conciliatory plan for reunification of the nation with...
December 8, 1965 Operation Tiger Hound launched In some of the heaviest raids of the war, 150 U.S. Air Force and Navy planes launch Operation Tiger Hound to...
December 7, 1862 Battle of Prairie Grove, Arkansas Northwestern Arkansas and Southwestern Missouri is secured for the Union when a force commanded by General...
December 5: General Interest 1945 : Aircraft squadron lost in the Bermuda Triangle At 2:10 p.m., five U.S. Navy Avenger torpedo-bombers comprising Flight 19...
December 3, 1776 Washington arrives at the banks of the Delaware In a letter dated December 3, 1776, General George Washington writes to Congress from his...
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