* 1944 – World War II: Operation Persecution is initiated – Allied forces land in the Hollandia ( currently known as Jayapura ) area of New Guinea.

* 1943 – World War II: Operation Vengeance, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is killed when his aircraft is shot down by U. S. fighters over Bougainville Island.

* 1941 – World War II: The Ustashe, a Croatian far-right organization is put in charge of the Independent State of Croatia by the Axis Powers after the Axis Operation 25 invasion.

* 1995 – The city of Knin, a significant Serb stronghold, is captured by Croatian forces during Operation Storm.

* 1953 – Operation Moolah is initiated by General Mark W. Clark against Communist pilots.

Agent Orange is the combination of the code names for Herbicide Orange ( HO ) and Agent LNX, one of the herbicides and defoliants used by the U. S. military as part of its herbicidal warfare program, Operation Ranch Hand, during the Vietnam War from 1961 to 1971.

* 1945 – World War II: The Japanese battleship Yamato, the largest battleship ever constructed, is sunk by American planes 200 miles north of Okinawa while en-route to a suicide mission in Operation Ten-Go.

A Special Operation Unit is being created and is going to be attached to the marine brigade.

From summer 2011, Operation Licorne, the French force, previously over 5, 000 strong, is roughly 700, and consists of Licorne headquarters, Battalion Licorne ( BATLIC ), seemingly made up of elements of the 2nd Marine Infantry Regiment and the Régiment d ' infanterie-chars de marine, and a helicopter detachment.

The invasion is called " Cyprus Peace Operation " by the Turkish side.

* 2003 – Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is captured near his home town of Tikrit ( see Operation Red Dawn ).

* 1955 – Operation Teapot: Teapot test shot " Wasp " is successfully detonated at the Nevada Test Site with a yield of 1. 2 kilotons.

The German Navy is also engaged in operations against international terrorism such as Operation Enduring Freedom and NATO Operation Active Endeavour.

The raids, codenamed Operation Gomorrah by the RAF, killed at least 42, 600 civilians ; the precise number is not known.

Operation is otherwise normal.

* 1946 – Operation Crossroads: an atomic bomb is detonated underwater in the lagoon of Bikini Atoll.

* 1944 – World War II: Minsk is liberated from Nazi control by Soviet troops during Operation Bagration.

* 1984 – Operation Blue Star, a military offensive, is launched by the Indian government at Harmandir Sahib, also known as the Golden Temple, the holiest shrine for the Sikhs, in Amritsar.

Diplock courts were created in the 1970s during The Troubles, in order to phase out Operation Demetrius internments and because of the argument that juries were intimidated, although this is disputed.

A further reason why Newton rejected light as waves in a medium was because such a medium would have to extend everywhere in space, and would thereby " disturb and retard the Motions of those great Bodies " ( the planets and comets ) and thus " as it < nowiki > medium </ nowiki > is of no use, and hinders the Operation of Nature, and makes her languish, so there is no evidence for its Existence, and therefore it ought to be rejected.

The Extended Operation is a generic LDAP operation that can define new operations that were not part of the original protocol specification.

* The Full Operation Northwoods document in both JPEG and fully searchable HTML format.

Planning for Bodyguard began even before Operation Cockade was fully under way, following the decision that Normandy would be the site of the coming invasion.

Chong fully cooperated with the government and was the first of the Operation Pipe Dreams defendants to plead guilty.

Israel concluded that " it seemed clear beyond any doubt that the initiative was motivated by a political agenda and not concern for human rights " and therefore refused to cooperate with it – in contrast to its policy to cooperate fully with most of the international inquiries into events in the Gaza Operation.

Following the Heydrich-Wagner agreement on April 28, 1941, Fieldmarshal Walther von Brauchitsch ordered that when Operation Barbarossa began, all German Army commanders were to identify and register at once all Jews in occupied areas in the Soviet Union, and fully co-operate with the Einsatzgruppen.

A small number of New Zealand transport and signals units supported the British Operation Compass in the Western Desert in December 1940, but only in November 1941 did the New Zealand 2nd Division became fully involved in the North African Campaign.

The Expo Express was the first fully automated rapid transit system in North America, utilizing an Automatic Train Operation ( ATO ) system based on audio frequency track circuits furnished by the Union Switch & Signal division of Westinghouse Air Brake Company ( WABCO ).

The aforementioned Operation Spanner is another example of this in which British courts determined that it is wrong to take pleasure in sexual sadism and thus the government can rightly outlaw the act.

The members of the NSC were determined to end the crisis decisively, believing that the fall of South Vietnam less than two weeks before and the forced withdrawal of the United States from Cambodia, ( Operation Eagle Pull ) and South Vietnam ( Operation Frequent Wind ) had severely damaged the U. S .' s reputation.

Churchill determined to relieve Wavell and after the failure in mid June of Operation Battleaxe, intended to relieve Tobruk, he told Wavell on 20 June that he was to be replaced by Auchinleck, whose attitude during the Iraq crisis had impressed him.

As part of Operation Torch under the overall command of General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Algiers and Oran were secured two days later after a determined resistance by French defenders.

This was why the government in exile was determined that the AK would cooperate with the advancing Red Army on a tactical level, while Polish civil authorities from underground took power in Allied-controlled Polish territory ( see Operation Tempest ) to ensure that Poland would remain an independent country after the war.

* 01 The Great De Gaulle Stone Operation 12 / 21 / 65 ( FF, co-directed by GC )-The Inspector is determined to retrieve the famous DeGaulle diamond from the three-headed jewel thief, the Matz-O ' Reillys who are attempting to steal it.

After the disaster of the Dieppe raid, Bernal was determined that these mistakes not be repeated in Operation Overlord, and demonstrated the advantages of an artificial harbour to the participants of the Quebec Conference in 1943 as the only British scientist present.

( 12 ) Afghanistan ( Operation Enduring Freedom, 5 December 2001 to a date to be determined ).

( 12 ) Afghanistan ( Operation Enduring Freedom, 5 December 2001 to a date to be determined ).

* Operation Joint Guardian: June 11, 1999 to a date to be determined

U. S. intelligence agencies later determined that the two enemy regiments that had been most active during Operation Swift were subsequently unfit for combat.

* Operation JOINT FORGE from 21 June 1998 to a date to be determined

The Prince visited the hospital of Operation Brotherhood, supported by the Junior Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines, and fed rice to two pet elephants he kept at his residence at Pak Song.

* 1942 – World War II: Operation Jubilee – the 2nd Canadian Infantry Division leads an amphibious assault by allied forces on Dieppe, Seine-Maritime, France and fails, many Canadians are killed or captured.

Galston found that excessive usage of the compound caused catastrophic defoliation — a finding later used by his colleague Ian Sussex to develop the family of herbicides used in Operation Ranch Hand.

File :' Ranch Hand ' run. jpg | Defoliant spray run, part of Operation Ranch Hand, during the Vietnam War by UC-123B Provider aircraft.

Reinhard Heydrich was killed after an attack by British trained Czechoslovak soldiers on behalf of the Czechoslovak government in exile in Operation Anthropoid, and knowledge from decoded transmissions allowed the U. S. to carry out a targeted attack, killing Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto while he was travelling by plane.

Adolf Hitler, meanwhile, was almost killed by his own officers, and survived various attempts by other persons and organizations ( such as Operation Foxley, though this plan was never put into practice ).

HARM was used extensively by the United States Navy and the United States Air Force for Operation Desert Storm during the Gulf War of 1991.

The occupation of these facilities in October 1943 was codenamed Operation Alacrity by the British.

To stop the ethnic cleansing and genocide of Albanians by nationalist Serbs in the former Federal Republic of Yugoslavia's province of Kosovo, Clinton authorized the use of American troops in a NATO bombing campaign against Yugoslavia in 1999, named Operation Allied Force.

After Gott was killed flying back to Cairo Churchill was persuaded by Brooke, who by this time was Chief of the Imperial General Staff to appoint Montgomery, who had only just been nominated to replace Alexander as commander of the British ground forces for Operation Torch.

Operation Market Garden and Operation Rolling Thunder are examples of battles known by their military codenames.

In 2002, it was a primary combat zone in Operation Defensive Shield, a major military offensive by the Israeli Defense Forces ( IDF ).

Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, involved a number of breakthroughs and encirclements by motorized forces.

Many historians now hold the position that blitzkrieg was not a military theory, and the campaigns conducted by the German military in 1939 to circa, 1942 ( with the exception of Operation Barbarossa ) were improvised invasions put together and modified at the last moment and therefore was not a proper military strategy.

To speed the trials at Woomera, the test rounds were flown there by Victors and Vulcans in Operation Blue Ranger.