Daily Facts about War

2023

United Nations Day is observed to commemorate the anniversary of the UN's founding in 1945.

1995

Yitzhak Rabin, Prime Minister of Israel, is assassinated by a right-wing Israeli.

1983

U.S. troops invade the Caribbean nation of Grenada in Operation Urgent Fury.

1973

A United Nations-sanctioned cease-fire ends the Yom Kippur War between Israel and its Arab neighbors.

1945

The United Nations (UN) is officially established.

1942

Second Battle of El Alamein begins during World War II, a turning point in the North African campaign.

1940

Conscription is introduced in the United Kingdom during World War II.

1911

First use of an aircraft in war: The Italian Air Force uses airplanes for reconnaissance missions during the Italo-Turkish War.

1861

U.S. President Abraham Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus during the Civil War.

0044

Marcus Junius Brutus, one of Julius Caesar's assassins, dies by suicide after the Second Battle of Philippi.