-- Two Americans and seven Cubans were executed by firing squads today as Castro military tribunals began decreeing the death penalty for captured invasion forces and suspected collaborators.

Two more military helicopters were destroyed during combat in the skies over Abidjan.

Two of Allen's sons went on to serve in the United States military.

* 2009 – Two Tamil Tigers aircraft packed with C4 explosives en-route to the national airforce headquarters are shot down by the Sri Lankan military before reaching their target, in a kamikaze style attack.

Two Guinean MiGs made a low flyover of Freetown and Toure placed the Guinean military on alert ' because of the serious troubles affecting the fraternal peoples of Sierra Leone.

Two failed Venizelist military coups followed in an effort to preserve the Republic in 1933 and 1935, but they had the opposite effect.

* Two dukes, both military officers, were nicknamed the " Iron Duke " during their lifetimes:

Two more military dictators followed by December 1949.

Two crossed swords also look like a Christian cross and the mixed symbolism has been used in military decorations, for instance in the Polish Order of the White Eagle ( before 1730 ) and the Cross of Independence.

* Bruce Quarrie-wrote rule sets for Napoleonic and World War Two wargames and also on military history.

* August 23 – Osama bin Laden writes " The Declaration of Jihad on the Americans Occupying the Country of the Two Sacred Places ," a call for the removal of American military forces from Saudi Arabia.

* 10 February: Two female Israeli soldiers are killed and four people are injured in a shooting attack at a civilian bakery near a military base in Beersheba.

* 27 December: Two IDF soldiers and two yeshiva students were killed in an attack on the Hesder yeshiva ( military religious academy ) of Otniel.

Two years of military service was made compulsory for young men, though there was no warfare.

Two of his foster brothers served as major generals in the Union Army during the Civil War: Hugh Boyle Ewing, later an ambassador and author, and Thomas Ewing, Jr., who would serve as defense attorney in the military trials against the Lincoln conspirators.

Two major military battles occurred near the city: in 732, the Battle of Poitiers ( also known as the Battle of Tours ), in which the Franks commanded by Charles Martel halted the expansion of the Umayyad Caliphate, and in 1356, the Battle of Poitiers, a key victory for English forces during the Hundred Years ' War.

Two days later he commanded troops in the Battle of Antietam, which had the highest number of deaths among troops of any single day in United States military history.

Two aircraft were built to prove the tiltrotor design and explore the operational flight envelope for military and civil applications.

Two of De Gaulle ’ s decisions stiffened the opposition: first, his denial of EEC membership to the United Kingdom in January 1963 ; secondly, France ’ s retreat from the integrated military structure of NATO in 1966.

Two of the most significant military parades on Red Square were the one in 1941, when the city was besieged by Germans and troops were leaving Red Square straight to the front lines, and the Victory Parade in 1945, when the banners of defeated Nazi armies were thrown at the foot of Lenin's Mausoleum.

Two names were proposed: Aequitius, a tribune of the first Scutarii, and Januarius, a relative of Jovian ’ s in charge of military supplies in Illyricum.

Two controversial amendments by Mansfield limiting military funding of research were passed by Congress.

Two major works on tactics come from the late Roman period: Taktike Theoria by Aelianus Tacticus and De Re Militari (" On military matters ") by Vegetius.

The Scheyville Training Farm era ended in 1940 when the farm was taken over by the Commonwealth for use as a military school during World War Two.

Two coups briefly interrupted democratic rule during the Peloponnesian war, both named by the numbers in control: the Four Hundred in 411 BC and the Thirty in 404 BC.

Two military coups led by Lieutenant Colonel Sitiveni Rabuka seriously undermined the social and economic stability, and the international prestige, of Fiji.

Two military coups were carried out in 1987 by Lieutenant Colonel Sitiveni Rabuka.

" Cobo and tabua in Fiji: Two forms of cultural currency in an economy of sentiment ".

Two military mutinies took place in connection with the civilian coup d ' état that rocked Fiji in 2000, the first while the rebellion instigated by George Speight was in progress, and the second four months after it had ended.

Two British commissioners were sent to Fiji to investigate the possibility of an annexation.

Two maps overlapped each other: one in which Fiji was divided in ten constituencies electing one indigenous Fijian and one indo-Fijian each and one in which Fiji was divided in five constituencies for the election of ' general electors '.

Two suspects remained to be interviewed, the Fiji Times said on 4 February 2006, quoting Hughes.

Two more sequels followed this, Space Duel in 1982 and Blasteroids in 1987.

Two more non-Victorian clubs, the West Coast Eagles and the Brisbane Bears began playing in 1987.

Two very well known smooth jazz stations are WNUA in Chicago and 94. 7 The Wave in Los Angeles, both of which were introduced in 1987, and still continue to enjoy tremendous success in the format today.

* 1987 – Two Chicago television stations are hijacked by an unknown pirate dressed as Max Headroom.

Two years later, in 1987, its lexicon reached 20, 000 words, entering the realm of human vocabularies, which range from 10, 000 to 150, 000 words.

In 1987, he released Franks Wild Years ( subtitled " Un Operachi Romantico in Two Acts "), which included studio versions from Waits ' play of the same name.

The Deep Cameo versions of proofs from 1965 to 1971 and 1981 Type Two are highly valued because of their scarcity, high grade examples of quarters from certain years of the 1980s ( such as 1981 – 1987 ) because of scarcity in high grades due to high circulation and in 1982 and 1983 no mint sets were produced making it harder to find mint state examples, and any coin from 1981 – 1994 graded in MS67 is worth upwards of $ 1000.

Two Landsat images show growth of the mine between 1987 and 2000.

The RX7 won the IMSA Grand Touring Under Two Liter ( GTU ) championship each year from 1980 through 1987, inclusive.

* Spirituality of the Christian Woman from The Collected Works of Edith Stein, Volume Two, Essays on Woman, 1987, ICS Publications

*" Two Gentlemen of the Trade " in Festival Moon ( 1987 ), part of the Merovingen Nights series

Two people have won the Pulitzer Prize for History twice: Margaret Leech, for Reveille in Washington, 1860 – 1865 in 1941 and In the Days of McKinley in 1960, and Bernard Bailyn, for The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution ( 1968 ) and Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution ( 1987 ).

* American ( U. S. A .)— Hopper, Edward: Two Comedians ( 1966 ); Longo, Robert: Pressure ( 1982 / 83 ); Nauman, Bruce: No No New Museum ( 1987 ; videotape ); Serrano, Andres: A History of Sex ( Head ) ( 1996 ).

In 1986, he was a regular in the LWT sitcom The Two of Us, and guested in an episode of Super Gran in May 1987, which was the last role he filmed.

In the 1980s, Greenaway's cinema flowered in his best-known films, The Draughtsman's Contract ( 1982 ), A Zed & Two Noughts ( 1985 ), The Belly of an Architect ( 1987 ), Drowning by Numbers ( 1988 ), and his most successful ( and controversial ) film, The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover ( 1989 ).

One example is the radiological accident occurring in Goiânia, Brazil, between September 1987 and March 1988: Two metal scavengers broke into an abandoned radiotherapy clinic and removed a teletherapy source capsule containing powdered caesium-137 with an activity of 50 T Bq.

In 1987, Colbert appeared in a supporting role in the television miniseries The Two Mrs. Grenvilles.

After rejoining the BBC Barker found fame with the sketch show The Two Ronnies ( 1971 – 1987 ) with Ronnie Corbett.

Their show together was The Two Ronnies, a sketch show which aired for twelve series and eight specials between 1971 and 1987, to immediate success.

The Two Ronnies ended with the 1987 Christmas special.

Two seasons later, on August 30, 1987, at San Marino Grand Prix in Misano Loris Reggiani's AF1 won the first World Speed Championship.

In 1987, McFarlane also illustrated several issues of Detective Comics " Batman: Year Two " storyline.

* Detective Comics # 576-578 ( Batman: Year Two ) ( 1987 )

* Two Kafka Plays, London: Faber, 1987