August 4 - U.S. Coast Guard's 224th Birthday (1790)

Nov 14 - Fury movie release date

Dec 25 - Unbroken movie release date

July 26 1758 - British forces capture France's Fortress of Louisbourg after a 7 week siege
1759 - The French relinquish Fort Ticonderoga in New York to the British under General Jeffrey Amherst
1794 - The French defeat an Austrian army at the Battle of Fleurus, France
1848 - The French army suppresses the Paris uprising
1918 - Britain's top war ace, Edward Mannock, is shot down by ground fire on the Western Front
1948 - In an Executive Order, President Harry Truman calls for the end of discrimination and segregation in the U.S. armed forces