1967 — 2RAR arrived in South Vietnam. 

1918 — Aircraft from HMAS Sydney and Melbourne sortied over Heligoland Bight. 

1941 — The evacuation of Crete concluded. 

1973 — The RAAF received their first General Dynamics F-111 aircraft. 

1902 — British and Boer leaders sign the Treaty of Vereeniging, ending the Second Boer War.

1915 — Australian aviators support a successful British attack against the Ottoman-held town of Amara, Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq.)

1942 — Three Japanese midget submarines attack Sydney harbour, failing to sink the USS Chicago but killing 21 Australian and British sailors berthed aboard requisitioned Sydney Ferry HMAS Kuttabul. 

1942 — 460 Squadron of the Royal Australian Air Force was among the 1047 allied aircraft which attacked Cologne in the first of the ‘Thousand Bomber Raids’. 

1990 — The Australian Government announces that women are now eligible for service in all non-combat roles within the Australian Defence Force. 

1915 — Ottoman troops attacked the position at Quinn’s Post at Anzac Cove, almost overrunning the Australian defenders in ferocious close-range fighting. 

1941 — HMAS Perth was damaged by German air attacks while evacuating allied troops from Crete.

1945 — The second of the Sandakan Death Marches begins when approximately 536 starving and diseased Australian prisoners of war were ordered by their Japanese guards to march to a new POW camp. Just 183 would survive the journey. 

1916 — During patrols into no-man’s land near Armentieres, Australian troops captured a German soldier out in the open; it was their first prisoner taken on the Western Front.

1941 — With German forces rapidly overrunning Crete, allied warships begin evacuating personnel from the Island. 

1945 — On Bougainville, the 57th/60th Battalion fought the Battle of Commando Road, driving on the main Japanese base at Buin.

1965 — A fighting patrol from the 3rd Battalion of the Royal Australian Regiment conducted a large-scale ambush against Indonesian troops at Sungei Koemba.

1965 — HMAS Sydney (III) departs on its first trip to South Vietnam, known as the ‘Vung Tau Ferry’, transporting a battlegroup based on the 1st Battalion of the Royal Australian Regiment. These soldiers would become the first Australian troops to conduct combat operations in Vietnam. Sydney was escorted by HMA Ships Melbourne, Duchess and Parramatta.

1968 — Three Australian soldiers are killed defending Fire Support Base Balmoral against a heavy Communist assault.

1986 — HMAS Flinders arrives in the Solomon Islands’ capital of Honiara to aid reconstruction after Cyclone Namu.

1965 — Leading elements of the 1st Battalion of the Royal Australian Regiment arrived at Bien Hoa, South Vietnam. They were the first Australian troops deployed to conduct combat operations in the Vietnam War.

2006 — Amidst an incipient civil war and total breakdown in law and order, Australian troops launch Operation ASTUTE in East Timor. Special Forces secure Dili International Airport while RAAF transport aircraft of 33, 36, and 37 Squadrons begin ferrying peacekeeping troops to restore order.

1915 — Senior British Imperial and Ottoman commanders organise a large-scale ceasefire to collect and bury the dead at Anzac Cove. 

1965 — Elements of the 3rd Battalion of the Royal Australian Regiment conduct the first combat patrol into Indonesian territory on Borneo under Operation CLARET during the Konfrontasi.

1966 — Pvt Erol Noack was accidentally killed by friendly fire in South Vietnam. He was the first Australian National Serviceman to lose his life in that conflict.