1940— HMAS Goorangai is lost with all hands in Port Phillip Bay after a collision with the MV Duntroon. HMAS Goorangai was the RAN's first surface vessel lost with all hands, and the first RAN vessel lost in the Second World War.

1951— HMA Ships Sydney and Tobruk take part in Operation ANTHENAEUM, a combined surface and air strike on Hungnam, during the Korean War.

1958— Soldiers of 3RAR in battle with communist terrorists near Sungei Siput, Malaya, during the Malayan Emergency. 

1939— George Rayner Hoff, the artist responsible for the sculptures of the Anzac Memorial, including Sacrifice, dies of pancreatitis, aged 42.

1940— No 3 Squadron RAAF were involved in their first air combat against the Italians in North Africa.

1941— HMAS Sydney sinks the German Raider Kormoran off the coast of Western Australia but is lost with her entire crew of 645 men. 

1916 — The Battle of the Somme ended as Allied Forces ceased the offensive push. Both sides suffered over 600,000 casualties during the five-month campaign.

1942 — Popondetta is captured from the Japanese as Australian troops advance across the Owen Stanley Range, New Guinea. 

1917 — Australian Light Horse troops were involved in the Battle of Nebi Samwil, Palestine. 

1943 — The Australian 9th Division commences its attack on Sattelberg, New Guinea.

2006 — Wing Commander Linda Corbould OAM became the first woman to command a RAAF flying squadron when she took command of No 36 Squadron.

1942 — Battle for Buna-Gona, New Guinea, commences, with Australian and American troops attacking Japanese positions in a series of fierce and costly encounters. 

1952 — HMAS Anzac comes under fire from North Korean shore batteries at Cho Do during the Korean War.                           

1914 — HMAS Sydney and HMAS Melbourne proceed to the West Atlantic where they patrolled the West Indies and the east coast of North America for 18 months.

1944 — The Australian Government approved sending Australian Women’s Army Service (AWAS) members overseas. AWAS members served in forward areas for the first time at Lae, New Guinea.

1917— The conclusion of the Third Battle of Ypres. Australian troops were involved for three and a half months, suffering heavy losses in places such as Menin Road, Polygon Wood, and Passchendaele.

1944— Lieutenant Commander Stanley Darling RANVR was awarded a Distinguished Service Cross for the second time in seven days for his actions while in command of anti-submarine operations in the Atlantic Ocean.

1917 — Australian Light Horse troops involved in the Battle of El Mughar, Palestine.

1965 — Warrant Officer Class 2 Kevin “Dasher” Wheatley is posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross, for his actions during the Vietnam War. This was the first Victoria Cross awarded during the war in Vietnam.

1940 — HMAS Sydney (II) in action against an Italian convoy in the Strait of Otranto between the Mediterranean and Adriatic Seas.

1943 — The last of 64 Japanese air raids on Darwin. The first of which had commenced in February 1942.

1951— Planes from HMAS Sydney (lll) flew their 1000th sortie in 19 flying days while in action in Korea.