1950 — No. 77 Squadron, RAAF, conducted the first Australian combat mission of the Korean War. 

1952 — 1RAR attacked Hill 227 in Korea. 

1993 — Sir Edward ‘Weary’ Dunlop died. 

1916 — The Battle of the Somme began in France.

1942 — Montevideo Maru was sunk near the Philippines. 

1945 — Australian troops landed at Balikpapan on Borneo. 

1948 — The Citizens’ Military Forces were re-formed. 

1941 — HMAS Waterhen sank in the Mediterranean Sea.

1942 — The 2/5th Independent Company raided the Japanese base at Salamaua, New Guinea. 

1950 — 77 Squadron, RAAF, deployed to Korea. 

1988 — The RAAF qualified their first two female pilots. 

1950 — The Australian Government committed troops to the Korean War. 

1914 — The Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and his wife Sophie were assassinated in Sarajevo. Their deaths led to the outbreak of the Great War just over a month later.

1919 — The Treaty of Versailles, France, was signed. 

1940 — HMAS Sydney (II) sank the Italian Destroyer Espero in the Mediterranean Sea.

1950 — Seoul fell to the North Korean Peoples’ Army. 

1911 — The Royal Military College at Duntroon officially opened. 

1945 — The Battle of Beaufort, Borneo, began. 

1945 — Australian troops on Bougainville broke Japanese defences on the Mivo River. 

1950 — The Korean War began. 

1942 — German General Erwin Rommel’s Panzerarmee Afrika drove into Egypt. 

1942 — Maroubra Force was formed on the Kokoda Trail, Papua. 

1941 — Merdjayoun, Lebanon, was recaptured by Australian forces.

1956 — HMAS Vampire (II) was commissioned.