1805 Battle of Trafalgar: British Admiral Horatio Nelson defeats combined French and Spanish fleet. Nelson shot and killed during battle.
1854 Florence Nightingale with a staff of 38 nurses is sent to the Crimean War.
1917 First Americans to see action on front lines of WWI: US troops enter front lines at Sommervillier under French command.
1944 US troops capture Aachen, first large German city to fall.
1948 UN rejects Russian proposal to destroy atomic weapons.
|