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January 2018 The Ontario Model Soldier Society
December 2017 ~ January 2018~ February
Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat1 1644. Scottish army invades England on Parliamentary side of the English Civil War.
2 1857. British forces relieve survivors of the ‘Black Hole of Calcutta’, Indian Mutiny.
3 1992 Failure of second military coup in three months in Venezuela.
4 1939. President Franklyn Roosevelt asks congress for $552M for US rearmament.
5 1477. Swiss win the battle of Nancy. Charles of Burgundy KIA.
6 1877. Crazy Horse surrenders after the battle of Wolf Mountain.
7 1745 Battle of Amberg, War of the Austrian Succession.
81806. British seaborne forces take Capetown, South Africa. War of the Third Coalition.
91806. State Funeral of Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson, St. Paul’s Cathedral, London.
10 1943. US forces go on the offensive in Guadalcanal, turning the tide of ww2 in the
Pacific.
11 1879. British forces invade Zululand under General Lord Chelmsford.
12 1852. Chinese forces take Wuchang during the Taiping Rebellion.
13 1822. Greece declares independence at Epidauros..
14 1761. Battle of Panipat, Afghan-Maratha War.
OMSS Meeting
15 1761. Siege of Pondicherry broken by British forces, Seven Years War.
16 1979. Shah of Iran fled to USA in wake of Muslim revolution led by Ayatollah Khomeni.
17 1811. Battle of Calderon, Mexican War of Independence.
18 1884. General “Chinese” Gordon arrives in Khartoum, 1st
Sudanese-Egyptian War.
19 1915. First aerial bombing of Britain by German dirigibles begins.
20 1783. Treaty of Versailles officially ended the American Revolution.
21 1793. Louis XVI, King of France, executed by Guillotine.
22 1517. Turkish forces defeat Mamelukes in Egypt.
23 1870. Blood River Massacre, Montana, USA.
24 1915. German heavy cruiser Blücher sunk in battle off Dogger Bank.
25 1759. Battle of Musulipatam, India, Seven Years War.
26 1808. The’ Rum Rebellion’ breaks out at New South Wales Penal Colony, Australia.
271919. Soviets retake Ekaterinberg from the White Russians.
28 1846. Battle of Aliwal, 1st British-Sikh War.
29 1856. Alexander Dunn wins the first Canadian Victoria Cross for Gallantry at Balaclava.
30 1649. Charles I , King of England, beheaded in London after losing the English Civil War.
31 1878. The Russo-Turkish War ends in Russian defeat.
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January 2018 ~ February 2018 ~Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
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. 1 1920. The NWMP becomes the RCMP, Canada’s national police force.
2 1989. Military coup deposes dictator after 35 years of rule in Paraguay.
3 1917 US breaks off diplomatic relations with Germany before entering WW1. Just before it ends.
4 1945. Yalta Conference held, Europe carved up by the victors and half the population condemned to Communism.
5 1930. Cairine Wilson, Canada’s first female senator appointed.
6 1806. Sea battle off Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, War of the 3rd
Coalition.
7 1991. IRA mortar attack on 10 Downing Street, London.
8 1904. Imperial Japanese Navy wins decisive victory over Russian fleet at Port Arthur, Russo-Japanese War.
9 1904. Imperial Japanese Navy attacks Russian ships at Inchon, Korea.
10 1763. Treaty of Paris cedes all French possessions in North America to Britain.
11 1944. U-283 sunk in the North Atlantic by RCAF
aircraft.
OMSS Meeting
12 1817. Battle of Chacabuco.
13 1960. France joins the nuclear club with atomic bomb test at Reggane.
14 1797. Admiral Nelson victorious at the Battle of Cape St. Vincent.
Valentine’s Day
15 1898. Battleship USS Maine explodes in Havana Harbour, providing pretext for the Spanish-American War.
16 1918. Lithuania declares independence.
17 1904. Japanese forces make amphibious landing at Inchon, Korea.
18 1900. British and Canadian forces take Paardeberg, South Africa, Boer War.
19 1945. US forces land on Iwo Jima.
Family Day
20 1653. Battle of Beachy Head, first Anglo-Dutch War.
21 1916. Battle of Verdun begins.
22 1813. Canadian troops capture Ogdensburg, NY.
23 1909. First powered aircraft to fly in the British Empire, the Silver Dart, takes flight in Baddeck, NS.
24 1821. Mexico declares independence.
25 1779. American rebels take the town of Vincennes, Indiana.
26 1993. Islamic terrorists first bomb the World Trade Center.
27 1942. WW2 Battle of the Java Sea begins.
28 1933. Adolf Hitler declared Chancellor of Germany.
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February 2018 ~ March 2018 ~ April 2018
Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri SatHeritageCon
Model Contest at CWH Museum, Hamilton, March
25.
1 1896. Battle of Adowa, Abyssinian-Italian War.
2 1943. Battle of the Bismarck Sea begins.
3 1815 US Naval forces enter the port of Algiers.
4 1933. U.S. President Franklyn D. Roosevelt takes office.
5 1953. Communist dictator and biggest mass murderer in history Josef Stalin dead.
6 1988. Three IRA gunmen killed in attack on British forces in Gibraltar.
7 1945. U.S. forces capture the bride at Remagen, Germany.
8 1862. CSS Virginia meets USS Monitor in first battle between ironclad warships.
9 1945. U.S. air forces conduct firebombing of Tokyo.
10 1939. German forces annex Czechoslovakia.
11 1941. U.S. Congress authorizes the Lend LeaseAct.
OMSS Meeting
12 1938. Anchluss of Austria by German Forces.
13 1795 Sea battle off Gonoa, Italy, War of the 1st
Coalition.
14 1951. UN forces liberate Seoul, South Korea.
15 1916. Forces of Pancho Villa raid Columbus, NM.
16 1988. Nicaraguan Army in pursuit of terrorists accidentally invades
Honduras.
17 1861. Kingdom of Italy proclaimed under King Victor Emmanuel I.
St. Patrick’s Day
18 1921. Treaty of Riga ends the Soviet-Polish War.
19 1840. Murder of 12 Comanche chiefs begins the Comanche-Texan War,
20 1854. Russian forces attack Turkish army in Bulgaria.
21 1858. British forces take Jhansi, massacring 5,000 prisoners after surrender.
22 1987. Southern forces begin offensive in the Chad
civil War..
23 1939. Germany retakes Memmel, Lithuania, forfeited to the Treaty of Versailles.
24 1876. Argentine President Peron deposed by military coup.
25 1975 North Vietnamese Army takes Hue, signalling the beginning of the end in
Vietnam.
26 1979. Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty signed. .
27 1945. Canadian 4th
Armoured Division advances into the Hochwald, beginning the Battle of the Rhineland.
28 1941. Battle Cape Matapan in the Mediterranean Sea.
29 1879 Zulu Forces victorious at the Battle of Kambula.
301947. Battle of Asuncion Begins Paraguayan Civil War.
31. 1991. The Warsaw Pact officially dissolved.
April 2018 The Ontario Model Soldier Society
March 2018 ~ April 2018 ~ May 201
Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat1 1491. Muslim Grenada siege ended, completing the Reconquista of Spain.
Easter
2 1865. US forces led by U.S. Grant storm Petersburg
Easter Monday
3 1916. 2nd Canadian Infantry Division plays pivotal role in Battle of St. Eloi.
4. 1860. Garibaldi defeated in Naples in first battle of the Risorgimento.
5 1995. HMCS Fredericton rescues yacht attacked by Somali pirates.
6 18.62. Battle of Siloh, US Civil War.
7 1939. Fascist Italy annexes Albania.
8 1821. Austrian army defeats Sardinian rebels in Battle of Novara.
OMSS Meeting
9 1865. Robert E. Lee surrenders Confederate Forces at Appomattox.
10 1741. Battle of Mullwitz, War of the Austrian Succession.
11 1951. Gen. Douglas MacAurthur dismissed by US President Harry Truman.
12 1493. Battle of Anfao, West Africa.
13 1861. Fort Sumter surrendered to Confederates.
14 1865. Abraham Lincoln assassinated at Ford’s Theatre.
15 1450. 4000 English longbow men killed by French Cannon at Battle of Formigny.
16 1842. British Garrison relieved at besieged Jellallabad, First British-Afghan War.
17 1823. French forces intervene in Spain.
18 1644. Powhatan Indians massacred 400 at Jamestown, Va.
19 1775. British Forces advance on Lexington & Concord.
20 1953. Two Canadian Prisoners released in Korean War prisoner exchange.
21 1836. Victory over Santa Anna wins Texas independence at Battle of San Jacinto.
22 1915. Start of the 2nd
Battle of Ypres, largest use of gas. (ending May 25)
23 1804. Horatio Nelson made Vice Admiral of the White.
24 1547. Protestants defeated at the Battle of Mühlberg, Germany.
25 1464. Battle of Hedgely Moor, War of the Roses.
26 1986. Nuclear disaster at Chernobyl nuclear plant, Russia.
27 Battle of Bicocca. 28 1945. Benito Mussolini captured and executed by Italian Communists.
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29 1916. Garrison of Kut surrenders to Turks after long siege.
30 1789. George Washington inaugurated as first US President.
31 1836. French Foreign Legion celebrates Battle of Camerone, Mexico.
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April 2018 ~ May 2018 ~Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
1 1993. President of Sri Lanka assassinated.
2 1915. German-Austrian spring offensive against Russia begins.
3 1946. International Military Trubunal for the Far East established.
4 1990. Latvian Independence Day.
5 1864. Battle of The Wilderness.
6. Corregidor, Philippines, surrendered to Japanese.
OMSS Meeting
7 1942. Battle of the Coral Sea.
8 1945. VE Day ends World War Two in Europe.
9 1743. Battle of Braunau, War of the Austrian Succession.
10 1963. Prime MinisterLester Pearson agrees to accept U. S. nuclear weapons at insistence of JFK..
11 1824. British-Indian amphibious force captures Rangoon, 1st British-Burmese War.
12 1885. Battle of Batoche, Riel Rebellion.
13 1940. Luftwaffe bombs Rotterdam, Holland
Mother’s Day
14 1948. Israeli Forces repulse five attacking Muslim armies.
15 1885. Louis Riel surrenders, later to be hanged for treason.
16 1803. Admiral Lord Nelson made Chief of the Mediterranean Fleet, aboard HMS Amazon.
17 1987. Surprise Iraqi missile attack kills several sailors aboard destroyer USS Stark.
18 1941. Italian East African forces surrendered to Allies.
19 1798. French seaborne invasion of Egypt, War of the Second Coalition.
20 1497. John Cabot sets sail from England on voyage of exploration to Canada
21 1877. Russia invades Romania in wake of declaration of independence.
Victoria Day
22 1939. Germany and Italy sign the Pact of Steel, founding the Axis
23 1876. NWMP founded. 24 1941. HMS Hood sunk by German battlecruiser Bismarck in the Denmark
Strait.
25 1946. Independence Day in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.
26 1957. French forces skirmish with Tunisian forces on border of Algeria.
27 1918. German offensive halted at the Marne River, France.
28 1672. Battle of Sole Bay, 3rd Anglo-Dutch War.
29 1453. Constantinople Falls to Muslim Ottoman armies.
30 1745. Fortress Louisbourg besieged by British Forces; taken on June 16.
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June 2018 The Ontario Model Soldier Society
May 2018 ~ June 2018 ~Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
NOTES: 1 1999. Nunavut created. 2 1818. Maratha surrenders in the 3rd British-Marathan
War.
3 1864. Battle of Cold Harbour, US Civil War.
4 1745. Battle of Hohenfriedberg, War of the Austrian Succession.
5 1825. The Acropolis surrendered after siege in Athens, Greek War of Independence.
6 1944. D Day Invasion in Normandy.
7 1855. Battle of Sevestopol, Crimean War.
8 1941. British Forces invaded Syria.
9 1917. Battle of Vimy Ridge.
10 1940. Italy enters WW2 allied with Germany.
11 1940. Italy bombed Malta, beginning a long and unsuccessful Axis siege.
12 1676. French fleet sinks 6 Dutch ships in battle off Palermo, Italy.
13 1941. First German V-1rocket struck England.
14 1645. Cromwell’s New Model Army victorious at Battle of Naseby.
15 1826. 6000 massacred in Janissary revolt in
Constantinople.
16 1945 HMCS Esquimalt,torpedoed off Halifax, last RCN casualty of WWII.
OMSS Annual Show
17 1775. Battle of Bunker Hill.
Father’s Day
18 1815. Battle of Warterloo.
19 1429. French forces led by Joan of Arc victorious at the Battle of Patay, reclaiming the Loire Valley.
20 1915 Royal Newfoundland Regt. Lands at Gallipoli.
21 1918 Capt. Roy Brown is credited with shooting down “The Red Baron”.
22 1915. German-Austrian forces victorious at Battle of
Lemberg (Lvov).
23 1757. Battle of Plassey, Seven Years War.
24 1839 Battle of Nezib, 2nd Egyptian-Turkish War.
25 1759. British forces under Gen. James Wolfe besiege Quebec
26 1940. Soviet armies conquer Bessarabin and
Northern Bukovina.
27 1743. Battle of Dettingen, War of the Austrian Succession.
28 1866. Hanoverian forces victorious at Battle of
Langensalza, Seven Years War.
29 1934. Nazi Party engages in ‘Night of the Long
Knives’ purge.
30 1520. Aztec Mexico conquered by Cortez with the
death of Montezuma.
July 2018 The Ontario Model Soldier Society
June 2018 ~ July 2018 ~Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
1 Canada Day
Strong and Free
2 1942. German forces drive Soviets out of Sevestopol.
3 1988. USS Vincennes mistakenly shot down Iranian
airliner.
4 1940. Royal Navy sank French fleet at Oran, Algeria.
5 1833. Naval battle of f Cape St. Vincent, Portuguese Civil War.
6 1942. Veronezeth, close to Moscow, taken by German forces.
7 1937. Battle of the Marco Polo Bridge, Sino-Japanese
War.
8 1758. British forces fail to take Fort Ticonderoga, French and Indian War.
9 1790. Second Battle of Svensksund, Swedish-Russian War.
10 1690. Second Battle of Beachy Head, UK.
11 1882. British seaborne forces land at Ismailia, Egypt.
12 1691. Battle Aughrim, Anglo-Irish War.
13 1465. Battle of Montchery, France
14 1940. Five Canadian motorcycle regiments formed
from former cavalry units.
15 1985. USMC sent to intervene in Lebanon civil war.
16 1945. First atomic bomb ‘Trinity’ detonated at Alamagordo, NM.
17 1921. Battle of Eskisehir, Greek War of Independence.
18 1915. Second Italian assault on the Isonzo Line failed.
19 1947. President of Burma and five cabinet ministers assassinated.
20 1951. Hussain, firstKing of Transjordan,
assassinated.
21 1894. Japanese Navy fires on Chinese troop ship
off Korea..
22 1640. French victorious over Spanish at Battle of Cadiz.
23 1942. German forces drive Soviets out of Rostov.
24 1797. Admiral Haratio Nelson lost right arm in
attack on Tenerife, Spain.
25 1814. Canadian Militia soundly defeat American
invaders at Battle of Lundy’s Lane.
26 1953. Communist guerrillas led by Fidel Castro defeated in attack on Moncana Barracks.
27 1985. Military coup takes power in Uganda. Suddenly British rule wasn’t so bad.
28 1499. Venetian Navy victorious over Turks in Battle of Lepanto.
29 1863. Gen. ‘Chinese’ Gordon liberates Wuchang,
Taiping Rebellion.
30 1762. British forces take Morro Castle, Cuba, Seven
Years War.
31 1759. British attack on Montmorency Falls, Quebec,
defeated.
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August 2018 The Ontario Model Soldier Society
July 2018 ~ August 2018 ~Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
NOTES:Beat the heat by painting a cool
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1 1759. Battle of Minden, Seven Years War.
2 1831. Dutch forces invade Belgium.
1917. Billy Bishop earns VC.
3 1914. German forces invade Belgium.
4 1900. Multinational relief force sets out for Peking,
Boxer Rebellion.
5 1813. Battle of Stoney Creek.
6 1944. D-Day Canadian forces land on Juno Beach,the only army to complete their invasion objectives.
Civic Holiday
7 1950. Canadian Army mobilizes Special Force for UN service in Korea.
8 1570. The Peace of St. Germaine declared.
9 1704. Russian forces retake Narva, the Great
Northern War.
10 1792. French peasants storm the Tuleries royal
palace..
11 2007. Treaty of Riga recognizes Latvian independence.
12 1450. English forces surrendered to the French at Cherbourg.
13 1704. Battle of Blenheim, War of the Spanish Succession.
14 1811. Paraguay declared independence from Spain.
15 1914. Rebel forces take Mexico City.
16 1780. Battle of Camden, American Revolution.
17 1916. German-Bulgarian forces engage Allied forces
at Salonika, Greece.
18 1812. US President Madison signs a declaration of war against Britain and Canada.
19 1942. Canadian Army leads raid on Dieppe, France.
20 1794. Battle of the Fallen Timbers, Ohio. Indian-
American War.
21 1822. Battle of Karpenizi, Greek War of Independence.
22 1914. Battle of the Sambre River.
23 1572. The St. Bartholomew’s Eve Massacre, Paris.
1945 UN created.
24 1990. Three RCN warships despatched for combat operations in the Persian Gulf.
25 1580. The Battle of Alcantara.
1950 The start of the Korean War.
26 1945 San Francisco, the Charter of the UN is signed
by 50 countries.
27 1776. The Battle of Long Island, NY. American
Revolution.
28 1640. The Battle of Newburn, Second Bishops War.
29 1911 King George V bestows Royal title on the Royal Canadian Navy.
30 1721 Treaty of Nystad ends the Great Northern
War.
31 1864. Union forces take Atlanta, Ga., burning it down in the process.
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September 2018 The Ontario Model Soldier Society
August 2018 ~ September 2018 ~ October
Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri SatNotes: NCMSS Show September 8 (Washington DC)
Chicago Toy Soldier Show September 23.
1 1944. Soviet forces drive Germans out of Bucharest, Romania.
2 1644. Battle of Lostwithiel. 3 1459. Battle of Blore Heath.
Labour Day
4 1864. Confederate General J. H. Morgan KIA.
5 1939. FDR declares U.S. neutrality but ramps up rearmament.
6 1944. Soviet forces give Germans out of Prague, Czechoslovakia.
7 1664. New Amsterdam (New York) taken by Royal Navy.
8 1937. Japanese victorious at Battle of Shanghai.
9 1768. Battle of the Dniester River.
OMSS Meeting
10 1974. Republic of Guinea-Bissau declares independence.
11 1649. Massacre at Drogheda, Ireland.
12 1961. Communist East German erects the Berlin Wall.
13 1759. British victorious on the Plains of Abraham.
14 1954. First Soviet A Bomb detonated at Totskoye.
15 1862. Confederate forces victorious at Harper’s Ferry.
16 1982. Terrorism escalates with massacres at Sabra and Shatila, Israel.
17 1978. Egypt and Israel sign the Camp David Accord Peace Treaty.
18 1739. Treaty of Belgrade ended the Austrian-Russian-Turkish War.
19 1870. German forces besiege Paris, Franco-Prussian War.
20 1703. Battle of Hochstadt.
21 1792. French National Convention abolished the monarchy.
22 1621. Battle of Khotin.
23 1780. American rebels capture Maj. John Andre for spying.
24 1789. First Battle of Svedskund, Swedish-Russian War.
25 1857. British forces relieve the Siege of Lucknow, India.
26 1860. British-French forces capture Peking, burning down the Summer Palace.
27 1604. Battle of Kircholm. 28 1828. Shaka, King of the Zulu nation, assassinated.
29 1918. Allied armistice with Bulgaria signed.
30 1941. Battle of Vyazma. Notes:
October 2018 The Ontario Model Soldier Society
September 2018 ~ October 2018 ~ Novem
Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri SatNotes: MMSI Show, October 19-21 (Chicago)
1 1939. The Hel naval base on the Baltic, taken.
2 1944. The Warsaw Uprising crushed by the SS.
3 1993. Boris Yeltsin faces down Communist reactionaries.
4 1853. Turkey declares war on Russia.
5 1818. French naval forces occupy Beirut, Lebanon.
6 1981. Egyptian President Sadat assassinated by Islamic terrorists.
7 1915. British Nurse Edith Cavel executed by Germany as a spy.
8 1976. Military coup in Thailand.
Thanksgiving
9 1914. Besieged fortress of Antwerp surrenders to German forces.
10 1774. Battle of Point Pleasant, Lord Dunmore’s War.
11 1797. Sea battle off Camperdown, Holland.
12 1702. Battle of Vigo Bay, Spain.
13 1691. Besieged Limerick fell, ending the Anglo-Irish War.
14 1806. Battle of Jena.
OMSS Meeting
15 1917. Mata Hari executed as German spy.
16 1859. John Brown abolitionists seize US arsenal at Harper’s Ferry
17 1805. Austrian Army surrenders to Napoleon at Ulm.
18 1914. GermanU-boat raid on Scapa Flow.
19 1864. Battle of Cedar Creek.
20 1944. Soviets drive Germans out of Belgrade.
21 1639. Battle of the Downs.
22 1962. Start of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
23 1642. Battle of Edgehill, English Civil War.
24 1922. Fascist Blackshirts march on Rome.
25 1854. Battle of Balaclava, Crimean War.
26 1813. Canadian Militia under LCol. de Salaberry defeats American army at battle of Chateauguay.
27 1948. Battle of Mukden-Chinchow.
28 1595. Battle of Guirgevo.
29 1918. British forces seize the Mosul oilfields, Iraq.
30 1950. Revolution in Puerto Rico, crushed by National Guard.
31 1941. USS Reuben James torpedoed in the Atlantic.
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September 2018 The Ontario Model Soldier Society
August 2018 ~ September 2018 ~ October
Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri SatNotes: NCMSS Show September 8 (Washington DC)
Chicago Toy Soldier Show September 23.
1 1944. Soviet forces drive Germans out of Bucharest, Romania.
2 1644. Battle of Lostwithiel. 3 1459. Battle of Blore Heath.
Labour Day
4 1864. Confederate General J. H. Morgan KIA.
5 1939. FDR declares U.S. neutrality but ramps up rearmament.
6 1944. Soviet forces give Germans out of Prague, Czechoslovakia.
7 1664. New Amsterdam (New York) taken by Royal Navy.
8 1937. Japanese victorious at Battle of Shanghai.
9 1768. Battle of the Dniester River.
OMSS Meeting
10 1974. Republic of Guinea-Bissau declares independence.
11 1649. Massacre at Drogheda, Ireland.
12 1961. Communist East German erects the Berlin Wall.
13 1759. British victorious on the Plains of Abraham.
14 1954. First Soviet A Bomb detonated at Totskoye.
15 1862. Confederate forces victorious at Harper’s Ferry.
16 1982. Terrorism escalates with massacres at Sabra and Shatila, Israel.
17 1978. Egypt and Israel sign the Camp David Accord Peace Treaty.
18 1739. Treaty of Belgrade ended the Austrian-Russian-Turkish War.
19 1870. German forces besiege Paris, Franco-Prussian War.
20 1703. Battle of Hochstadt.
21 1792. French National Convention abolished the monarchy.
22 1621. Battle of Khotin.
23 1780. American rebels capture Maj. John Andre for spying.
24 1789. First Battle of Svedskund, Swedish-Russian War.
25 1857. British forces relieve the Siege of Lucknow, India.
26 1860. British-French forces capture Peking, burning down the Summer Palace.
27 1604. Battle of Kircholm. 28 1828. Shaka, King of the Zulu nation, assassinated.
29 1918. Allied armistice with Bulgaria signed.
30 1941. Battle of Vyazma. Notes:
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1 1914. Battle off Coronel, Chile.
2 1775. American rebels occupy St. John.
3 1903. Republic of Panama declares independence.
4 1979. Iran holds 66 Americans captive at Embassy.
Daylight Savings Time Ends
5 1959. Israeli forces capture Sharm el-Sheikh.
6 1860. Abraham Lincoln elected 16th President of United States.
7 1914. Japan captures German base at Tsing Tao, China.
8 1942. Operation Torch launched in North Africa.
9 1986. M-19 terrorists seize 300 hostages in Bogota, Colombia.
10 1848. Russian royalists seize Berlin.
11 1940. British carrier planes attack Italian fleet at Taranto.
Remembrance Day
12 1942. Japanese Navy defeated off Guadalcanal after 3-day battle.
13 1875. Battle of Gundat. 14 1940. German Operation Monlight Sonata launched.
15 1864. Sherman begins brutal march to the sea, US Civil War.
16 1944. French tanks liberate Alsace.
17 1885. Battle of Slivnitza, Bulgaria.
18 1841. Battle of Ingavi.
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19 1984. Japanese forces take Port Arthur, Russo-Japanese War.
20 1700. Siege of Narva relieved, Great Northern War.
21 1918. German Navy interned at the Firth of Forth, Scotland.
22 1963. John F. Kennedy assassinated in Dallas, TX.
23 1837. Persian Forces besiege Herat City.
24 1944. US forces take Tarawa.
25 1837. William Lyon MacKenzie declares a provisional government in Upper Canada.
26 1885. Battle of Pirot, Serbia.
27 1829. The Welland Canal is opened.
28 1899. British forces defeated by the Boers at the Modder River.
29 1975. Indonesia seizes East Timor.
30 1853. Battle of Sinope.
October 2018 The Ontario Model Soldier Society
September 2018 ~ October 2018 ~ Novem
Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri SatNotes: MMSI Show, October 19-21 (Chicago)
1 1939. The Hel naval base on the Baltic, taken.
2 1944. The Warsaw Uprising crushed by the SS.
3 1993. Boris Yeltsin faces down Communist reactionaries.
4 1853. Turkey declares war on Russia.
5 1818. French naval forces occupy Beirut, Lebanon.
6 1981. Egyptian President Sadat assassinated by Islamic terrorists.
7 1915. British Nurse Edith Cavel executed by Germany as a spy.
8 1976. Military coup in Thailand.
Thanksgiving
9 1914. Besieged fortress of Antwerp surrenders to German forces.
10 1774. Battle of Point Pleasant, Lord Dunmore’s War.
11 1797. Sea battle off Camperdown, Holland.
12 1702. Battle of Vigo Bay, Spain.
13 1691. Besieged Limerick fell, ending the Anglo-Irish War.
14 1806. Battle of Jena.
OMSS Meeting
15 1917. Mata Hari executed as German spy.
16 1859. John Brown abolitionists seize US arsenal at Harper’s Ferry
17 1805. Austrian Army surrenders to Napoleon at Ulm.
18 1914. GermanU-boat raid on Scapa Flow.
19 1864. Battle of Cedar Creek.
20 1944. Soviets drive Germans out of Belgrade.
21 1639. Battle of the Downs.
22 1962. Start of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
23 1642. Battle of Edgehill, English Civil War.
24 1922. Fascist Blackshirts march on Rome.
25 1854. Battle of Balaclava, Crimean War.
26 1813. Canadian Militia under LCol. de Salaberry defeats American army at battle of Chateauguay.
27 1948. Battle of Mukden-Chinchow.
28 1595. Battle of Guirgevo.
29 1918. British forces seize the Mosul oilfields, Iraq.
30 1950. Revolution in Puerto Rico, crushed by National Guard.
31 1941. USS Reuben James torpedoed in the Atlantic.
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November 2018 ~ December 2018 ~Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
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1 1916. Battle of the Arges River.
2 1942. First successful nuclear reactor experiment.
3 1838. American attack on Windsor soundly repulsed.
Hanukkah
4 1950. UN Withdrawal at Chinnampo, Korea, covered by 4 RCN destroyers.
5 1934. Italian and Ethiopian forces clash over Somaliland.
6 1992. Hindu mob destroys mosque in Ayoda, Uttar Pradesh.
7 1941. US naval base at Pearl Harbour attacked by Japanese carrier fleet.
8 1914. Battle of the Falkland Islands.
9 1940. Combat operations in the Western Desert begin.
10 1941. HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse sunk by Japanese aircraft.
11 1927. Communist uprising in Canton, China, suppressed.
12 1969. Last deck landing made on Canada’s last aircraft carrier.
13 1939. Battle of the River Plate.
14 1745. Battle of Kesselsdorf.
15 1899. British relief force defeated by Boers at Colenso.
16 1944. Battle of the Bulge begins.
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17 1981. US General James Dozier kidnapped by Italian Terrorists.
18 1845. Battle of Mudki. 19 1944. Battle of Bastogne.
20 1989. US Forces attacked and occupied Panama in one week.
21 1988. PanAm airliner destroyed over Lockerbie, Scotland by Libyan terrorists.
22 1989. Romania takes up arms to throw off communist chains.
23 1941. Wake Island falls to Japanese.
24 1814. Treaty of Ghent ends the War of 1812.
Canada won.
25 1914. The Christmas Truce in the trenches.
26 1944. Siege of Bastogne relieved.
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27 1679. Dutch troops capture Madurees prince in Java.
28 1478. Battle of Geornico.
29 1813. British-Canadian forces take and burn down Buffalo, NY.
30 1880. Boer Republic declared. Britain unamused.
31 1775. American attack on Quebec defeated.
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Layout & Design
Frank MacKay
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Photography
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