1914    World War I: The British super-dreadnought battleship HMS Audacious (23,400 tons), is sunk off Tory Island, north-west of Ireland, by a minefield laid by the armed German merchant-cruiser ''Berlin''.

1940    World War II: The United Kingdom and France announce that they have mined Norwegian territorial waters to prevent their use by German supply ships.

1988    The {{USS|Samuel B. Roberts|FFG-58|6}} strikes a mine in the Persian Gulf during Operation Earnest Will.