June 13, 1944. Normandy. A British tank unit moving out from the village of Villers-Bocage runs into an ambush engineered by SS Captain...

June 12, 1942. Night. German convoys cross the Mius River, destined for Stalingrad and the Caucasus Mountains. Without warning, bombs...

June 11, 1937. In a dark room in Moscow, some of the most senior generals of the Red Army stand trial for conspiring against Stalin. The...

June 10, 323 BC. The King is dying in the capital he conquered, and his followers wait on bated breath for his final will and testament....

June 9, 1954. It is Day 30 of the Army-McCarthy Hearings, and yet another tense exchange erupts as Senator Joseph McCarthy (R-Wisconsin)...

June 8, 1967. Two Israeli Mirage III fighter jets converge on an unknown vessel in the eastern Mediterranean. It is the height of the...

June 7, 1967. Brigadier General Uzi Narkiss of the Israeli Army receives the phone call for which he has waited his entire life. IDF...

June 6, 1944. We know what happens today. We know the Omaha Beach, the airborne landings, the naval and air strikes and the bravery of...

June 5, 1832. Paris, France. At the funeral procession of General Jean Lamarque, a cadre of republican revolutionaries takes charge and...

June 4, 1916. On the dry, open plains of Ukraine, the earth shakes with guns – a LOT of guns. 600,000 Russian soldiers pour out of their...

June 3, 1942. Ensign Jack Reid, piloting a PBY Catalina scout plane over the vast Pacific, spots a great mass of shapes through the...

June 2, 1863. Three Union gunboats steam up the Combahee River in South Carolina on a small-scale mission to raid Confederate plantations...

June 1, 1918. As the German juggernaut pushes ever closer to Paris, the French forces on the Marne River are at their breaking point....

May 31, 1921. 99 years today. The city of Tulsa, Oklahoma erupts in gunfire as a white lynch mob is turned away from the city’s...

May 30, 1940. The British Expeditionary Force has withdrawn into its lines around Dunkirk. The German blitzkrieg is approaching from all...

May 29, 1453. 21-year-old Sultan Mehmed II of the Ottoman Empire enters Constantinople after a siege of 53 days. The fall of the...

May 28, 1982. The 2nd Battalion, Parachute Regiment and Commandos of the Royal Marines are a long way from home as they cross the hills...

May 27, 1941. After seven days of running battle, the German battleship Bismarck is cornered in the North Atlantic. Under fire from...

May 26, 1880. The forces of Chile, Peru and Bolivia collide in the Atacama Desert at Tacna. They are here to fight the climactic battle...

May 25, 1948. After a rigged show trial, Witold Pilecki is executed by Communist authorities. World War II's greatest unsung hero, the...