| | 1813 | Battle of Caracas. Columbian patriots under Bolivar defeat Spanish. |
| | 1835 | Bolivia gains it's independence |
| | 1870 | Battle of Spicheren. Prussians force French to retreat during the Franco-Prussian War. |
| | 1870 | Battle of Wörth. Outnumbered, the French using chassepot rifles and mitrailleuse machine-guns held out for eight hours, then retreated having lost nearly one third of their forces. |
| | 1945 | the Atom Bomb was dropped on Hiroshima by the Enola Gay. |