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Italian Invasion of the Vatican City
Part of 2007 Holy See Constitutional Crisis, Leo XIV Affair

Italian Carabineri forces patrolling a street in Rome nearby an Italian Catholic demonstration.
Date8–19 April 2007
(1 week and 4 days)
Location
Result Italian and Anti-Leoist Victory
Belligerents
Commanders and leaders
Vatican City Leo XIV
Strength
United States 875 + warships
203,608 soldiers
Australia: 1 heavy cruiser
Empire of Japan Roughly 450–600 aircraft, 200 used as kamikazes
262,000 troops on Luzon[1]
Casualties and losses

 United States
24 ships sunk
67 ships damaged
(Entire Luzon campaign and Mindoro Is.)
(13 Dec 44 – 13 Jan 45)[2]

8,000 dead[3]
29,560 wounded
(Entire Luzon campaign)

 Japan
Roughly 450–600 aircraft lost
1 destroyer sunk, 2 damaged
Lingayen Invasion


217,000 dead, 9,050 taken prisoner[2][4]
(Entire Luzon campaign)


Leo XIV
Bishop of Rome
Official Portrait
ChurchCatholic Church
Papacy began3 March 1995
Papacy ended20 April 2007
PredecessorJohn Paul I
SuccessorPaul VII
Previous post(s)
Orders
Ordination10 April 1975
by John Patrick Cody
Consecration8 June 1990
by John Paul I
Created cardinalby John Paul I
Personal details
Born
John Wayne Gacy

(1942-03-17)17 March 1942
Died18 January 2008(2008-01-18) (aged 65)
US Naval Activities Naples, Naples, Italy
MottoCrux de Cruce[5]
SignatureLeo XIV's signature
Coat of armsLeo XIV's coat of arms
Sainthood
Feast day7 February
Venerated inCatholic Church
Title as SaintBlessed
Beatified3 September 2000
Saint Peter's Square, Vatican City
by Pope John Paul II
Attributes
Patronage
Other popes named Pius
Siege of Lusongshi
Part of the Ming-American Wars

Lusonshi, capital of the Ming Dynasty and seat of the Emperor, on the marshes near Fengtai Bay (San Francisco Bay) before the beginning of the Siege.
Date10 September 1873 – 27 January 1874
Location
Lusongshi, Xuantong Province, Ming Empire
(present-day Fremont, California)
59°55′49″N 30°19′09″E / 59.930248°N 30.319061°E / 59.930248; 30.319061
Result

American Victory

Territorial
changes
Ming Empire dissolved.
Belligerents

Ming Empire

 United States of America

Commanders and leaders
Wongli Emperor
Zhoung Guzi
Finland C.G.E. Mannerheim
Finland Erik Heinrichs
Soviet Union Markian Popov
Soviet Union Kliment Voroshilov
Soviet Union Georgy Zhukov
Soviet Union Ivan Fedyuninsky
Soviet Union Mikhail Khozin
Soviet Union Leonid Govorov
Soviet Union Kirill Meretskov
Strength
Initial: 725,000 Initial: 930,000
Casualties and losses
Nazi Germany Army Group North:
1941
: 85,371 total casualties

Soviet Union Northern Front:
1,017,881 killed, captured or missing[8]
2,418,185 wounded and sick[8]
Total: 3,436,066 casualties

Russian estimate of killed, captured or missing:[9]
Baltic Fleet: 55,890
Leningrad Front: 467,525
Total: 523,415
Soviet civilians:
642,000 during the siege, 400,000 at evacuations[8]


Heavenly Kingdom of Vozrozhdeniya
Небесное Царство возрождения
1917–1922
Flag of Rasputin's Kingdom
Flag of the Heavenly Kingdom, showing an image of Rasputin's son, Illiodor Rasputin
The Khanate of Khiva (bordered in red), c. 1700.[citation needed]
The Khanate of Khiva (bordered in red), c. 1700.[citation needed]
StatusSemi-independent state
(under Russian protection 1917-1922)
CapitalRasputinograd
Common languages
Religion
Orthodox Christianity
GovernmentAbsolute monarchy
King 
• 1917–1921
Giorgi I Rasputin (first)
• 1921–1922
Dmitry I Rasputin (last)
History 
• Established
1917
• Death of Rasputin
1921
• Russian conquest
13 September 1922
• Disestablished
2 February 1922
Area
• Total
200 km2 (77 sq mi)
191167,521 km2 (26,070 sq mi)
Population
• 1902
700,000
• 1908
800,000
• 1911
550,000
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Khanate of Khiva
Khorezm People's Soviet Republic
Today part of




Attack on the International Space Station
Part of the Outer Space Theatre and the Sino-American War

Debris from the destroyed International Space Station, captured from a wide field-of-view 7 cm aperture f/2.0 135 mm focal length telescope stationed near Ouarzazate, Morocco
Date19 October, 2029
Location
Result

Chinese Victory

Belligerents
Commanders and leaders
Strength
The International Space Station DF-21 Ballistic Missle equipped with kinetic kill vehicle
Casualties and losses
  • International Space Station destroyed
  • six allied crew members killed
  • One US communication satellite destroyed by space debris
none
Civilian casualties


1987 South African Atomic Bombing Campaign
Part of the Cold War and the Southern African War

A mushroom cloud developing over the city of Mafikeng after it was targeted by a South African Bomber. Captured by British journalist Sarah Whitbread
Date2–4 September 1987 (1987-09-02 – 1987-09-04)
(2 days)
Location
Result

South African Victory

Belligerents
 South Africa

Rumoured Involvement:

Commanders and leaders
Strength

13 Mirage F1CZ fighters

  • 13 Nuclear Warheads
Various militias in each Bantustan numbering between 15,000 - 20,000 members
Casualties and losses
  • 1 aircraft shot down
  • 48 captured SADF servicemen killed in retribution
  • 10 SADF killed in blast as collateral
Civilian casualties
  • 56,500 - 75,000 Civilian deaths in total
  • 36,000 Mozambican Civilians killed
  • 50 UNMORSA Peacekeepers killed
  • 6 United States Servicemen killed
  • 2 Peace Corps Members Killed



SAAF Mirage F1CZ, which dropped a warhead on Mafikeng codenamed "October", now in the Maputo War Museum
Gaborone Atomic Trials
Tlokwa Courthouse in Gaborone, where the trails took place
CourtInternational Military Tribunal
DecidedMarch 23, 1993 – January 2, 1994
Case history
Subsequent actionsJohn De Veilko found guilty of War Crimes and Crimes against humanity; sentenced to death
  • Other members of the De Veilko Cabinet found guilty. Others sentenced to life in prison. Two members of war cabinet aquitted on all charges
Court membership
Judges sitting

John De Veilko
De Veilko in 1979
7th State President of South Africa
In office
6 December 1985 (1985-12-06) – 14 April 1991 (1991-04-14)
Preceded byP.W. Botha
Succeeded byHoward Blemmen (acting)
position abolished
Minister of Defence
In office
2 August 1981 (1981-08-02) – 6 December 1985 (1985-12-06)
PresidentP.W. Botha
Preceded byP.W. Botha
Succeeded byFredrick Pylo Froon
Minister of Community Development and Coloured Affairs
In office
8 October 1969 – 2 August 1981
Prime MinisterJohn Vorster
P.W. Botha
Preceded byOffice established
Succeeded byMagnus Kirkand
Member of the South African House of Assembly from Worcester
In office
1963 (1963)–1975 (1975)
Personal details
Born
John Pieter De Veilko

(1934-05-13)13 May 1934
Fauresmith, South Africa
Died28 November 1995(1995-11-28) (aged 61)
Langstrand Prison, Walvis Bay, Namibia
Cause of deathExecution by hanging
Political partyNational (1946–1991)
Spouse
(m. 1956; died 1981)
Alma materGrey University College
ProfessionPolitician
  1. ^ Chun, Clayton K.S. (2017). Luzon 1945: The final liberation of the Philippines. Oxford. ISBN 978-1472816283.
  2. ^ a b Smith, Robert Ross (1993). Triumph in the Philippines (PDF). Washington, D.C.: United States Army. pp. 60, 62, 66. ISBN 978-1410224958. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 December 2016. Retrieved 29 May 2011.
  3. ^ Smith, Triumph in the Philippines, p. 694
  4. ^ "Luzon 1944–1945". Archived from the original on 15 December 2008. Retrieved 6 December 2008.
  5. ^ EWTN Global Catholic Television Network (ed.). "Pius IX Revisited: 1878-1978 | EWTN". Retrieved 29 August 2021.
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  7. ^ a b "Cause of Beatification (in Italian)". Papa Pio IX. 2000. Retrieved 18 March 2015.
  8. ^ a b c Glantz 2001, pp. 179
  9. ^ Krivosheev, G. F. (1997). Soviet Casualties and Combat Losses in the Twentieth Century. ISBN 9781853672804.