1918— ANZAC Mounted Division and Imperial Camel Corps troops conducted raids across the Jordan River and occupied the village of Es Salt, Palestine.

1945 — Lieutenant Albert Chowne was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for his actions at Dagua, New Guinea. Chowne, seeing the leading platoon in his company's attack on Japanese positions run into trouble, left cover, and charged the enemy. He managed to knock out two machine guns before being killed. Chowne had previously been awarded a Military Medal.

1901 — NSW Imperial Bushmen captured a transport convoy and nine artillery pieces at Veldfontein, South Africa, during the Boer War.

1944 — The “Great Escape” from Stalag Luft lll near Sagan, Germany (Now Żagań, Poland). Five Australian Prisoners of War were subsequently executed for their part in the escape.

1965 — Acting Sub-Lieutenant John Hutchison RAN, was killed when his aircraft, attempting to land on HMAS Melbourne, crashed into the Malacca Straits.  He was the only RAN casualty of the Indonesian Confrontation.

1942 — Wyndham, an important seaport in Western Australia, was bombed by the Japanese for the second time.

1945 — Waitavolo and Tol plantations in New Britain were captured by Australian troops, establishing a line across the island from which patrols against Japanese positions could be conducted.

2000 — A Landing Craft Task Group comprising HMA Ships Brunei, Labuan, Tarakan and Balikpapan, was awarded a Meritorious Unit Citation for service in East Timor.

1942 — Nine Japanese aircraft conducted an air raid on Katherine, Northern Territory. One soldier was killed.

1945 — Corporal Reginald Rattey was awarded the Victoria Cross for his actions during a battle on Bougainville; held up by Japanese machine-gun posts, Rattey attacked them using grenades and fired his Bren gun from the hip. "His bravery was an incentive to the entire company."

1918 — Battle of the Somme. The final German offensive of the Great War begins with the Germans attempting to split the Allied forces around Amiens and drive them towards the English Channel.

1942 — The Japanese attempt to occupy Port Moresby, to create a base from which to cut off shipping to eastern Australia, begins with a series of air attacks.

1945 — Six aircraft of No 464 Squadron RAAF attacked Gestapo Headquarters in Copenhagen, Denmark. Two aircraft were lost.

1916 — Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) troops landed in France. With Gallipoli behind them, the troops were sent to France where the terrible fighting on the Western Front awaited them.

1917 — Lieutenant Frank McNamara was awarded the Victoria Cross for his actions in rescuing a fellow pilot who had been forced to land behind enemy lines during an aerial bomb attack by allied forces on the Ottoman supply point at Gaza, Palestine. He became the first Australian airman to be awarded a Victoria Cross.

1916 — Troop ships carrying the 1st and 2nd Australian Divisions arrived in Marseilles, France. The troops were then moved by train to the battlefields in the north.

1941 — After a siege lasting 3 months, the final battle to take the Italian outpost of Giarabub, Libya, begins, with elements of the Australian 18th Brigade capturing the oasis. The campaign cost seventeen Australian lives and 77 were wounded. 

1883 — The German ship SMS Carola sailed from Sydney to claim eastern New Guinea and the islands of the Bismarck Archipelago for Germany. The Queensland Premier saw this as a threat and countered by sending a ship to Port Moresby. His action stopped Germany claiming all eastern New Guinea.

1916 — HMAS Pioneer intercepted and sank the German supply ship Tabora off Dar Es Salaam, East Africa.

1917 — Troops of the 30th Battalion occupied Bapaume, France.  Bapaume had been an objective on day one of the Battle of the Somme, on 1 July 1916.  It took eight and a half months to cover the 19km needed to finally achieve the objective.

1969 — HMAS Perth provided naval gunfire support for II Corps in operations with the 101st Airborne Division in Vietnam.

1894 — HMVS Childers, en-route to Australia was diverted to Suakin to participate in the Sudan War.

1953 — No 77 Squadron RAAF destroyed a convoy of about 140 trucks, trapped on a narrow track in the mountains of Korea.