** Eunectes murinus, the green anaconda, the largest species, is found east of the Andes in Colombia, Venezuela, the Guianas, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil and on the island of Trinidad.

** Fukuoka University-University with the largest number of students in Kyushu

** Kadan Kyun, the largest island of the archipelago

** Port of Constanța ( the largest port and shipyard in the Black Sea and one of the busiest ports in Europe )

** Pier D is the largest pier and has two floor levels.

** Charon, the largest of Pluto's moons.

** Tristan da Cunha, the main island and largest, area:, ()

** List of largest rifts and valleys in the Solar System

** The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, led by Brian Mulroney, wins 211 seats in the House of Commons, forming the largest majority government in Canadian history.

** US $ 7. 4 million is stolen from Brink's Armored Car Depot in Rochester, New York in the 5th largest robbery in U. S. history.

** IBM announces a $ 4. 97 billion loss for 1992, the largest single-year corporate loss in United States history to date.

** Loomis Fargo Bank Robbery: The second largest cash robbery in U. S. history ($ 17. 3 million, mostly in small bills ) occurs at the Charlotte, North Carolina office of Wells Fargo.

** Telecom companies WorldCom and MCI Communications announce a US $ 37 billion merger to form MCI WorldCom ( the largest merger in U. S. history ).

** Australian media baron Rupert Murdoch purchases the largest selling British Sunday newspaper, The News of the World.

** The world's largest office building, The Pentagon, is dedicated in Arlington, Virginia.

** Battle of Kursk – The largest tank battle in history begins.

** President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt's " Infamy " Address to a Joint Session of Congress at 12: 30 p. m. EST ( 17. 30 GMT ) and transmitted live over all four major national networks attracts the largest audience ever for an American radio broadcast, over 81 % of homes.

** The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway is merged with the Burlington Northern Railroad to form the BNSF Railway, making it one of the largest railroad mergers in U. S. history.

** The Pennsylvania Railroad and the New York Central Railroad merge to form Penn Central, the largest ever corporate merger up to this date.

** Agreement for merger between the General Electric Company and English Electric, the largest industrial merger in the UK up to this date.

** French President Charles de Gaulle's visit to Algeria is bloodied by European and Muslim rioters in Algeria's largest cities.

** The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America is established, creating the largest Lutheran denomination in the United States.

** First RepublicBank of Texas fails and enters FDIC receivership, the largest FDIC assisted bank failure in history.

** Peter Hans Kolvenbach, Dutch Superior General of the Society of Jesus, the largest male religious order of the Catholic Church

** A peace convoy carrying Chechen separatist leaders and international diplomats is targeted by a series of remotely controlled land mines ; 8 are killed.

** At San Anton, every night about seven, everyone would be summoned for prayer ... Dobbie would stand ... and ... pray ... and .... ask the Almighty to bless the convoy ... but he never prayed to stop the bombing ... that was God's will ... God helps those that help themselves ...

** A merchant aircraft carrier, or " MAC-ship ," puts to sea with a convoy for the first time as MV Empire MacAlpine sets out from the United Kingdom with Convoy ONS 59 bound for Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

** Six U. S. Army Air Forces B-24 Liberators take off from Attu to fly the 1, 300 miles ( 2, 093 km ) round-trip to attack the Japanese base at Paramushiro, in what would have been the first Allied air raid against the Kurile Islands ; however, they are diverted en route to join B-25 Mitchells in attacking a convoy of Japanese transports, suffering one aircraft damaged before returning to Attu.

** 46 U. S. bombers attack a Japanese convoy in Bougainville Strait, sinking the seaplane carrier Nisshin.

** Over 100 German aircraft attack an Allied convoy off Cape Bon, Tunisia, but defending British fighters prevent them from inflicting any serious damage.

** 180 Axis aircraft attack an Allied convoy anchored in the harbor at Bizerte, Tunisia, but a smoke screen prevents them from scoring any hits.

** Task Force 58 aircraft attack a Japanese convoy off Kwajalein Atoll and bomb Kwajalein Island, Roi-Namur, Maloelap, and Wotje.

** 112 carrier aircraft of Task Force 58 sink an entire convoy of eight Japanese ships 150 nautical miles ( 278 km ) northwest of Okinawa.

** The final Arctic convoy of World War II, Convoy JW 67, departs Scapa Flow for the Kola Inlet in the Soviet Union escorted by the British aircraft carrier HMS Queen.

** 12 Turkish paratroopers parachute into Cyprus to ambush a convoy carrying the Greek Cypriot commander of the Cypriot Navy, Commander Papayiannis.

** Iraq's prime minister Iyad Allawi escapes an assassination attempt when a suicide bomber in a car attacks his convoy near his home.

** Zerahemnah: the war leader of the Zoramites political ( see Alma 43 )

** The Tale of the Heike ( Japanese epic war tale )

** There were Occitan-speaking colonies in Württemberg ( Germany ) since the 18th century, the latter as a consequence of the Camisard war.

** Axis & Allies: while playing as the Axis powers in campaign mode ( which has the Axis powers winning the war ), Operation Sea Lion is the mission following the failed invasion of Normandy.

** Arab League initiative for the peace resolution of the Syrian civil war

** Portuguese Colonial War ( 1961 – 1974 ) – the war was fought between Portugal's military and the emerging nationalist movements in Portugal's African colonies.

** Six Days War ( June 1967 ) – a war between Israel and the neighboring states of Egypt, Jordan, and Syria.

** The Super Dimension Fortress Macross ( 1982 – 1983 ): A huge spaceship appears high above Earth and crashes into an island in the Pacific, triggering a world war.

** Soviet war in Afghanistan ( 1979 – 1989 )-Although taking place almost entirely throughout the 1980s, the war officially started on December 27, 1979.

** Yom Kippur War ( 1973 )-the war was launched by Egypt against Israel in October 1973 to recover the international standing Egypt had lost in the 1967 conflict.

** 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.

** 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.

** Bosnian War ( 1992 – 1995 ) – the war involved several ethnically defined factions within Bosnia and Herzegovina: Bosniaks, Serbs and Croats as well as a smaller faction in Western Bosnia led by Fikret Abdić.

** Korean War ( 1950 – 1953 ) – The war, which lasted from June 25, 1950 until the signing of the Korean Armistice Agreement on July 27, 1953, started as a civil war between North Korea and the Republic of Korea ( South Korea ).

** Suez Crisis ( 1956 ) – The Suez Crisis was a war fought on Egyptian territory in 1956.

** Civil war in Chad ( 1998 – 2002 ) – involved the Movement for Justice and Democracy in Chad ( MDJT ) rebels that skirmished periodically with government troops in the Tibesti region, resulting in hundreds of civilian, government, and rebel casualties.

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

** 1948 Arab – Israeli War ( 1948 – 1949 ) – The war was fought between the newly declared State of Israel and its Arab neighbours.

** The Belgian royal family returns to Brussels after the war.

** Leonard Cheshire, British war hero ( d. 1992 )

** Sri Lankan civil war – Battle of Pooneryn: Over 400 Sri Lankan military are killed.

** Josef Mengele, German Nazi war criminal ( d. 1979 )