MILITARY HISTORY ANNIVERSARIES September 14, 2008
Posted by Service Officer on September 14th, 2008
Following are some September significant events that occurred in military history:
• 1783 – The Peace Treaty of Versailles was signed between the USA, Britain, France, and Spain, ending the American Revolution.
• 1787 – United States Constitution Approved.
• 1814 – US Naval Captain Oliver Hazard Perry defeated a British flotilla in the Battle of Lake Erie (War of 1812).
• 1814 – During a British naval attack on the City of Baltimore, Francis Scott Key composed a poem entitled “The Star Spangled Banner.”
• 1847 – American forces captured Mexico City, effectively ending the Mexican War.
• 1864 – Confederate troops abandoned Atlanta in the face of continuing attacks by federals under General W.S. Sherman (Civil War).
• 1899 – Founding of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States.
• 1908 – LT Thomas E. Selfridge was killed at Ft. Myer, VA, in a plane flown by Orville Wright. Selfridge was the first man to die in an airplane accident.
• 1939 – German troops invaded Poland, beginning World War II.
• 1939 – Britain and France declared war on Germany (World War II).
• 1941 – British Naval forces sank the German battleship Bismarck off the French coast (World War II).
• 1943 – The allied invasion of Italy began (World War II).
• 1945 – V-J Day, Japan signed formal surrender (World War II).
• 1951 – Battle of Heart Break Ridge began (Korean War).
• 1962 – United States Naval Sea Cadet Corps Incorporated.
• 1967 – Siege of Con Thien Began (Vietnam War).
• 1969 – President Richard Nixon ordered resumption of heavy bombing of North Vietnamese targets (Vietnam War).
• 1994 – Operation Uphold Democracy began (Haiti).
[Source: VetJobs Veteran Eagle Newsletter 1 Sep 08 ++]
