September 5, 201411 yr Author 5 September 1972 The Palestinian terror group Black September carries out an attack against Israeli athletes attending the Olympic Games in Munich.
September 8, 201411 yr Author 8 September 1965 Under Operation Dwarka, seven surface combatants of the Pakistan Navy launch a raid against the Indian town of Dwarka, intending to destroy a radar site there and to try and draw out major units of the Indian Navy so that they might be ambushed by the ex US Navy Tench class submarine PNS Ghazi. The operation failed in both respects.
September 9, 201411 yr Author 9 September 1855 During the Crimean War, the siege of Sevastopol comes to an end when Russian troops finally abandon the city after a year of holding the allies (English, French and Ottomans) at bay.
September 10, 201411 yr Author 10 September 1939 The Royal Navy's Odin class submarine HMS Oxley is mistakenly torpedoed and sunk by a sister sub, the T class HMS Triton, while patrolling the Obrestad Line off the coast of Norway. It is the Royal Navy's first loss of World War II.
September 11, 201411 yr Author 11 September 1973 General Augusto Pinochet assumes power in Chile in a coup that overthrows the socialist government of President Salvador Allende and installs a brutal military junta.
September 12, 201411 yr Author 12 September, 490 BC Marking a turning point in the Greco-Persian Wars, the Athenians and their Plataean allies defeat the Persians during their first invasion of Greece.
September 15, 201411 yr Author 15 September 1950 During the Korean war, and under the auspices of Operation Chromite, UN forces comprised largely of US Marines and led by US Army Gen Douglas MacArthur, conduct an amphibious assault and landing at Incheon.
September 16, 201411 yr Author 16 September 1955 Project V611 (NATO Zulu) class submarine B-67 becomes the first submarine to launch a ballistic missile, in this case an R-11FM (NATO SS-1A Scud).
September 17, 201411 yr Author 17 September 1916 Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen, aka 'The Red Baron', scores his first aerial victory over Cambrai, France.
September 18, 201411 yr Author 18 September 1947 The United States Air Force is established under the National Security Act of 1947, becoming an independent branch of the U.S. armed forces.
September 19, 201411 yr Author 19 September 1959 Soviet premier Nikita Krushchev is prevented from visiting Disneyland by security concerns.
September 22, 201411 yr Author 22 September 1980 With Saddam Hussein at the reins, Iraq launches a full scale attack on Iran, starting with surprise air strikes on 10 Iranian airfields and following up the next day with a ground invasion.
September 23, 201411 yr Author 23 September 1338 During the Hundred Years' War between England and France, the first recorded naval battle making use of artillery takes place, at the Battle of Arnemuiden.
September 24, 201411 yr Author 24 September 1960 The world's first nuclear powered aircraft carrier is launched at Newport News and christened Enterprise (CVN-65).
September 25, 201411 yr Author 25 September 2012 China's first aircraft carrier, Liaoning (CV-16), formerly the Soviet Union's incomplete Kuznetsov class carrier Varyag, is commissioned into service with the People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN).
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