<a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet-Japanese_War" id="mw4w" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Soviet-Japanese War">Soviet-Japanese War</a>: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Shumshu" id="mw5A" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Battle of Shumshu">Battle of Shumshu</a>: Soviet forces land at Takeda Beach on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shumshu" id="mw5Q" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Shumshu">Shumshu Island</a> and launch the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Shumshu" id="mw5g" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Battle of Shumshu">Battle of Shumshu</a>; the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union" id="mw5w" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a>’s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_the_Kuril_Islands" id="mw6A" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Invasion of the Kuril Islands">Invasion of the Kuril Islands</a> commences.<sup about="#mwt86" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-16"}}' id="cite_ref-16" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./August_18#cite_note-16" id="mw6Q" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 16;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mw6g">[16]</span></a></sup>
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