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JULY 13 40 Gnaeus Julius Agricola (13 June 40 – 23 August 93) was a Roman Italo-Gallic general responsible for […]

1862 – President Abraham Lincoln signs into law a measure calling for the awarding of a U.S. Army Medal of

JULY 12 100 BC Gaius Julius Caesar (13 July 100 – 15 March 44 BC), Roman statesman, general, author, famous

10 JULY 1940 The Battle of Britain (German: die Luftschlacht um England, “the Air Battle for England”) was a military

JULY 10 1765 Pyotr Bagration (10 July 1765 – 24 September 1812) was a Russian general and prince of Georgian

Established by President Jimmy Carter in 1979 and commemorated every third Friday in September, National Prisoner of War/Missing in Action

JULY 9 1857 Frederick II (9 July 1857 – 9 August 1928) was the last sovereign Grand Duke of Baden,

1965 – President Johnson decrees that a Vietnam Service Medal be awarded to Americans serving in Vietnam, even though there

JULY 8 1766 Baron Dominique Jean Larrey (8 July 1766 – 25 July 1842) was a French surgeon and military

1865 – The trap doors of the scaffold in the yard of Washington’s Old Penitentiary were sprung, and Mary Surratt,