During the war, hundreds of shells fell on the town of Daruvar, numerous aerial rocket attacks and sow bombs were fired, and "white cobwebs" were thrown from airplanes on the outskirts of the city on several occasions, the chemical poison of which is still unknown today. . At the beginning of the Great Serbian aggression against Croatia, Serbian rebels held an important strategic point for controlling the eastern part of Daruvar and the wider suburbs - Vezmar's tower. Croatian defenders freed her on September 29, 1991.