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The German Luftwaffe bombs Paris. |
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British bombers drop 5000 tons of bombs on German bunkers and gun batters along the Normandy coast in preparation for D-Day, the Allied Invasion of Europe. |
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Israeli jets fire several rockets at the Naameh hills, just 12 miles south of Beirut where the Syrian-backed Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command had a base. |
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Britain launches Operation Bellicose. Bombers launched from Britian bomb the German city of Friedrichshafen then refuel in Algeria and then bomb the Italian naval base in La Spezia, in Liguria. |
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The Royal Air Force bombs German facilities for manufacturing radar devices at Friedrichshafen. |
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The Japanese commence air raids on American forces garrisoned on Guadlcanal. |
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Four Canadian infantrymen are killed in Afghanistan by friendly fire from two U.S. F-16s |
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The United Kingdom and France commence bombing of Egypt during the Suez War to force the reopening of the canal. |
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Using Knickebein radio beams and the X-gerat target finding sytem, a dozen pathfinding Luftwaffe Heinkel He.111's use incendiary bombs to mark targets in the British industrial city of Coventry. Nearly 500 German bombers will then drop over 500 tons of high explosives on the city this night. |
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The Royal Air Force bombs the German city of Hamburg in response to the Luftwaffe bombing of Coventry several days earlier. |
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The US Army Air Corps strikes at German-controlled targets in Vermork, Norway. These include a hydro-electric power facility and heavy water production facility. |
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US B-52 Stratofortresses enter North Vietnam's airspace for the first time to target Route 15 at Mu Gia Pass between North Vietnam and Laos. |
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Four US service members were killed when a U.S. Humvee struck a roadside bomb in Afghanistan's Uruzgan province. Following the explosion, the patrol comes under attack by small arms and rocket-propelled grenade fire. |
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A bomb strapped to a motorbike kills nine people and injures more than 20 near the busy al-Rashid shopping area. Iraq is presently suffering under a surge of violence with 100 people being killed daily. UK Ambassador William Patey and US General John Abizaid have suggested that civil war is a more ... |
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Hezbollah guerrillas fire the largest number of rockets to date into Israel as thousands of Israeli troops seek to establish a buffer zone under their control. |
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A bomb planted in a mini van detonates outside the Palestine Hotel in downtown Baghdad, killing at least six people and injuring 16. A bomb also explodes in the town of al-Khalis, on the outskirts of Baqouba just north of Baghdad, killing six and wounding more than a dozen. |
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