1806: HMS Caroline conducted a highly successful operation against Dutch coastal traffic, capturing two ships, and driving ashore four warships and eight merchant vessels.

1854: At Sevastopol, as work continued to establish the siege batteries, two Royal Navy officers - Captain Peel and Midshipman Daniel - distinguished themselves supplying the guns with powder under heavy fire, Peel at one point throwing an enemy shell clear of a magazine just before it exploded. Nearby, Private Grady, 4th Regiment, worked in the open to shore up the defences of a Royal Navy shore battery which was under heavy Russian fire. All three were awarded the Victoria Cross.

1915: On the Western Front, half a dozen men of the King's Own (Royal Lancaster) Regiment, who had been defending a large shell crater, came under such heavy artillery fire that they were forced to withdraw. On reaching safety, Private Christian realised that three of his comrades were missing. He went back into the barrage and found that they had been buried alive by a shell explosion. He dug all three out and helped them reach cover. He received the Victoria Cross.

1918: Near Le Cateau, scene of one of the British Army's first major battles in WW1 four years before, men of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers came under very heavy fire from six machine-guns. Sergeant Curtis attacked alone and knocked out two of the guns, whereupon the crews of the other four surrendered immediately. He continued his lone advance and surprised a German train unloading reinforcements: he took no less than 100 prisoners. Curtis received the Victoria Cross.

1940: There was very little daylight Luftwaffe activity. Night targets included London, Bristol, Liverpool, Southampton and Birmingham.

Convoys SC-7 and HX-79 suffered grievously at the hands of U-boat wolfpacks, losing seventeen and fourteen ships respectively.

1967: HMAS Perth was struck by return fire near Cape Lai, Vietnam, while on the United States 7th Fleet 'gunline'. This was the only occasion on which an Australian warship suffered casualties from enemy fire during the Vietnam War.

Perth was awarded the United States Navy Unit Commendation and Meritorious Unit Commendation for her service in Vietnam.