June And Our Veterans: Some Dates
Lest we forget (as Wikipedia never does).
0601 - Capt John Lawrence utters what would become Navy motto "Don't give up the ship" (1813)
0604 - Battle of Midway (1942)
0604 - Mexican-US war starts (1845)
0604 - U.S. Marines invade Costa Rica (1919)
0604 - Battle of Midway Island begins, Japan's 1st major defeat in WW II (1942)
0605 - Ten million U.S. men begin registering for draft (1917)
0606 - D-Day (1944)
0607 - 7,000+ WWI veterans march on Washington, D.C., demanding their bonus pay (1932)
0607 - US troops in Vietnam ordered to fight offensively (1965)
0608 - Six-Day War: USS Liberty incident occurs, killing 34 and wounding 171 (1967)
0609 - Kosovo War: Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and NATO sign a peace treaty (1999)
0610 - U.S. Marines land on the island of Cuba (1898)
0611 - In the American Revolution's first naval battle Unity (US) captures Margaretta (Br) (1775)
0612 - First airplane bombing raid by an American unit, France (1918)
0614 - Flag Day (1777)
0614 - US Army Established by Congress (1775)
0618 - Oregon Treaty Ambiguity causes "Northwestern Boundary Dispute" between U.S.& British/Canadian settlers (1859)
0618 - U.S. Congress declares war on United Kingdom and Ireland (1812)
0622 - GI Bill Signed into law (1944)
0625 - Korean War Began (1950)
0625 - Custer & 7th Cavalry wiped out by Sioux & Cheyenne at Little Big Horn (1876)
0625 - Berlin Airlift begins (1948)
0625 - Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia kills 19 U.S. servicemen (1996)
0626 - After 8 years of occupation US troops leave Dominican Republic (1924)
0626 - U.S. missile attack on Baghdad in retaliation for assassination attempt on President George H.W. Bush (1993)
0628 - Treaty of Versailles ending WWI signed in France (1919)
0628 - 1st U.S. ground combat forces in Vietnam authorized by Pres Johnson
--- Regards, Walt Schmidt
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