-- 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 military coups in Fiji in 1987 removed a democratically elected government led by an Indo Fijian ,.

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 men were on duty inside, playing pinochle, relaxed.

Two of the new hands, a Mexican named Jose Amado and a kid known only as Laredo, were picked for the first trick of riding night herd.

Two of the principal addresses were delivered by prominent Protestants, and when the speaker was a Catholic, one `` discussant '' on the dais tended to be of another religious persuasion.

Two of our men were killed, a third was wounded.

Two gas lamps were no more than a misleading glow.

Two men he did not recognize were sipping coffee and munching sweet rolls.

Two hundred and nineteen were received from 35 of our 50 United States and 11 came from foreign countries.

Two special issues were published, one for November 1959 on Space Medicine, the other the Tenth Anniversary issue for January 1960.

Two friends were talking.

Two of the fluids showed a high-positive normal pressure when undergoing shear, and two showed small negative pressures which were negligible in comparison with the amount of the positive pressures generated by the other two.

Two types of light source were used, a thousand watt projection lamp and an AH6 high pressure mercury arc.

Two other end-use areas which contributed to expandable styrene's growth during the year were packaging ( molded inserts replacing complicated cardboard units ) and foamed-core building panels.

Two of these were included in Palfrey's lot.

Two bequests were recorded: one of $200 under the will of Mrs. Harriet A. Copp of Los Angeles ; ;

Two millions were added to what had been set aside for it in Mrs. Meeker's lifetime, and the proviso made that as long as Brian Thayer continued to discharge his duties as administrator of the fund to the satisfaction of the board of trustees ( hereinafter appointed by the bank administering the estate ) he was to be retained in his present capacity at a salary commensurate with the increased responsibilities enlargement of the fund would entail.

Two women, who had been chattering like parrots, were struck dumb.

Two tax revision bills were passed.

Two other cases also were under advisement.

Two were in the same band 18 years ago ; ;

Two late Sonatas, Op. 110 and 111, were played with similar insight, the disarming simplicities of the Op. 111 Adagio made plain without ever becoming obvious.

Two other Japanese girls were sitting at the tables, both quite pretty and well groomed.

Two of the seven wonders of the ancient world were located in Anatolia: The Temple of Artemis in Ephesus and the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus.

These were The Bump, starring Aubrey Smith ; Twice Two ; Five Pound Reward ; and Bookworms Some of these films survive in the archives of the British Film Institute.

Two chiefly important monk philosophers were Sengzhao and Daosheng.