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13 hours ago · 11,000 [20] –20,000 [21] [22] dead. The Spanish Armada (often known as Invincible Armada, or the Enterprise of England, Spanish: Grande y Felicísima Armada, lit. 'Great and Most Fortunate Navy') was a Spanish fleet that sailed from Lisbon in late May 1588, commanded by Alonso de Guzmán, Duke of Medina Sidonia, an aristocrat without previous ...
- July – August 1588
- Anglo-Dutch victory
13 hours ago · Operation Barbarossa (German: Unternehmen Barbarossa; Russian: Операция Барбаросса, romanized: Operatsiya Barbarossa) was the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany and many of its Axis allies, starting on Sunday, 22 June 1941, during the Second World War. It was the largest and costliest land offensive in human history ...
- 22 June 1941 – 7 January 1942, (6 months, 2 weeks and 2 days)
- Axis captured approximately 600,000 square kilometres of Soviet territory but failed to reach the A-A line
- Soviet Victory, Axis operational failure
13 hours ago · The Philippine–American War, [12] known alternatively as the Philippine Insurrection, Filipino–American War, [a] or Tagalog Insurgency, [13] [14] [15] was fought between the First Philippine Republic and the United States from February 4, 1899, until July 2, 1902. [16] Tensions arose after the United States annexed the Philippines under the ...
- American victory, American occupation of the Philippines; dissolution of the First Philippine Republic
13 hours ago · Out of a labor force of 54 million, unemployment fell by half from 7.7 million in spring 1940 (when the first accurate statistics were compiled) to 3.4 million by fall of 1941 and fell by half again to 1.5 million by fall of 1942, hitting an all-time low of 700,000 in fall 1944.
13 hours ago · New Caledonia (/ ˌ k æ l ɪ ˈ d oʊ n i ə / ⓘ KAL-ih-DOH-nee-ə; French: Nouvelle-Calédonie [nuvɛl kaledɔni] ⓘ) is a sui generis collectivity of overseas France in the southwest Pacific Ocean, south of Vanuatu, about 1,210 km (750 mi) east of Australia, and 17,000 km (11,000 mi) from Metropolitan France.
- 18,576 km² (7,172 sq mi)
13 hours ago · Angelo Massagli as Robert "Bobby" Baccalieri III: he is the son of Bobby Bacala and Karen Baccalieri, brother of Sophia Baccalieri. Lexie Sperduto (2002) and Miryam Coppersmith (2004–2007) as Sophia Baccalieri: she is the daughter of Bobby and Karen Baccalieri, sister of Bobby Baccalieri III.
13 hours ago · These incidents included nine murders and two rapes (out of the almost 17,000 murders and 90,000 forcible rapes committed in the U.S. in 2007). [126] In June 2009, Attorney General Eric Holder said recent killings showed the need for a tougher U.S. hate-crimes law to stop "violence masquerading as political activism."
