** Battle of Placentia — Emperor Aurelian is defeated by the Alemanni forces invading Italy

** Commodore ( Germany ) or Kommodore, in German naval forces

** Analytical dynamics, the motion of bodies as induced by external forces

** Water ( hydroelectric )-Turbine blades are acted upon by flowing water, produced by hydroelectric dams or tidal forces.

** Introduction of an individual into a body such as the armed forces

** The Bay of Pigs Invasion ( 1961 ) – an unsuccessful attempt by a CIA-trained force of Cuban exiles to invade southern Cuba with support from US government armed forces, to overthrow the Cuban government of Fidel Castro.

** Hong Kong police forces attack the ICAC headquarters.

** Soviet military forces shoot down an unarmed reconnaissance bomber that had strayed into East Germany ; the 3 U. S. flyers parachute to safety.

** The 1964 New York World's Fair opens to celebrate the 300th anniversary of New Amsterdam being taken over by British forces under the Duke of York ( later King James II ) and being renamed New York in 1664.

** Vietnam War: Viet Cong forces attack a provincial capital, killing 11 South Vietnamese military personnel and 40 civilians ( 30 of which are children ).

** The Bolivian government of President Víctor Paz Estenssoro is overthrown by a military rebellion led by General Alfredo Ovando Candía, commander-in-chief of the armed forces.

** War between ethnic-Albanian separatists and Yugoslav military and Serb paramilitary forces in Kosovo begin in 1996 and escalates in 1998 with increasing reports of atrocities taking place.

** In 1999, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) led by the United States launched air attacks against Yugoslavia ( then composed of only Serbia and Montenegro ) to pressure the Yugoslav government to end its military operations against ethnic Albanian separatists in Kosovo due to accusations of war crimes being committed by Yugoslav military forces working alongside nationalist Serb paramilitary groups.

** Croatian War of Independence ( 1991 – 1995 ) – the war fought in hegh town Croatia between the Croatian government, having declared independence from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, and both the Yugoslav People's Army ( JNA ) and Serb forces, who established the self-proclaimed Republic of Serbian Krajina ( RSK ) within Croatia.

** The final fighting in Croatian and Bosnian wars ends in 1995 with the success of Croatian military offensives against Serb forces and the mass exodus of Serbs from Croatia in 1995 ; Serb losses to Croat and Bosniak forces ; and finally the signing of the Dayton Agreement which internally partitioned Bosnia and Herzegovina into a Republika Srpska and a Bosniak-Croat federation.

** War in Somalia ( 2006 – 2009 ) – involved largely Ethiopian and Somali Transitional Federal Government ( TFG ) forces whom fought against the Somali Islamist umbrella group, the Islamic Court Union ( ICU ), and other affiliated militias for control of the country.

** War in Somalia ( 2009 – present ) – involved largely the forces of the Somali Somali Transitional Federal Government ( TFG ) assisted by African Union peacekeeping troops, whom fought against various militant Islamist factions for control of the country.

** Civil war in Chad ( 2005 – present ) – involved Chadian government forces and several Chadian rebel groups.

** WWI: Battle of Passchendaele: After 3 months of fierce fighting, Canadian forces take Passchendaele in Belgium.

** WWI: Third Battle of Gaza: United Kingdom forces capture Gaza from the Ottoman Empire.

** WWI: Battle of Cambrai: British forces, using tanks, make early progress in an attack on German positions but are soon beaten back.

** 24 Pakistani troops in the UN forces are killed in Mogadishu, Somalia.

** Soviet and Chinese forces clash at a border outpost on the Ussuri River.

** 1948 Arab-Israeli War: The British Mandate of Palestine is officially terminated ; expeditionary forces from Egypt, Transjordan, Syria and Iraq invade Israel and clash with Israeli forces.

** Herman of Alaska ( Russian Orthodox Church and related congregations )

** Basil Fool for Christ ( Russian Orthodox Church )

** Russian battleship Imperator Aleksander III Russian warship

** Danube Cossack Host, an Imperial Russian Cossack Host formed from descendants of the Zaporozhian Cossacks

** Vladimirskaya ( Russian Orthodox )

** Romanov sainthood ( Russian Orthodox Church )

** Russian aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov, the only completed ship of this class

** List of Russian rulers: early Grand Dukes and Tsars

** Alexander Nevsky ( Repose, Russian Orthodox Church )

** Russian original was written in 1970, distributed by samizdat, and eventually printed as Восленский М. С., Номенклатура.

** In many languages ( e. g., Czech, English, French, Interlingua, and Russian ), the sets of relative and interrogative pronouns are nearly identical.

** Many languages, such as Bulgarian, Swedish, Norwegian, Frisian, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Polish, Ukrainian, Dutch and most Occitan variants, use trilled rhotics.

** Table of contents, bibliography of On the Origin of Species – links to text and images of all six British editions of The Origin of Species, the 6th edition with additions and corrections ( final text ), the first American edition, and translations into Danish, Dutch, French, German, Polish, Russian and Spanish.

** 101. mendelevium, Md, named after the Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev, credited for being the primary creator of the periodic table of the chemical elements ( 1955 ).

** Romanized Russian: Dogovor o druzhbe, sotrudnichestve i vzaimnoy pomoshchi

** Makharbek Khadartsev, Russian free-style wrestler

** Dmitri Dmitrievich Maksutov, Russian astronomer and inventor ( b. 1896 )

** The First Chechen War ( 1994 – 1996 ) – the conflict was fought between the Russian Federation and the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria.

** The Second Chechen War ( 1999 – ongoing ) – the war was launched by the Russian Federation starting 26 August 1999, in response to the Invasion of Dagestan and the Russian apartment bombings which were blamed on the Chechens.

** Lina Krasnoroutskaya, Russian tennis player and commentator

** Nikolai Pokotylo, Russian singer

** Vera Zvonareva, Russian tennis player

** Lena Katina, Russian singer