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1998 Adem Jasari, Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) leader, killed

1997 73 Israelis die when army copters collide

1996 Alejandro Lanusse, army officer/politician, dies at 77

1994 India army kills 27 Moslem militants

1994 Boris Alexandrov, conductor (Red Army Song/Dance Ensemble, dies at 88

1994 Army shoots to death 23-40 fishermen in Gonaives Haiti

1994 Serbian army bombs distress clinic in Goradze Bosnia, 28 killed

1994 Serbian army bombs hospital in Goradze Bosnia, 47 killed

1994 Battles between army and rebellious indians in South Mexico, kill 57

1993 Serbian army fires on school in Sarajevo, 9 children died

1993 Matthew B Ridgway, U.S. Army Chief of Staff (1953-55), dies at 98

1993 Guatemala president Jorge Serrano overthrown by army

1993 Army of opium king Khun Sa kills 60 in NE Burma

1992 Army of Ciskei homeland kills 28 ANC demonstrators

1992 Army refused to overturn 127 year old conviction against Dr. Mudd

1992 Yugoslav Army seize Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic

1992 Irish Republican Army bombs London financial district, killing 3

1991 Indonesian army shoots on funeral possession: 270-520 die

1991 Regis Toomey, actor (You're in the Army Now, Burke's Law), dies at 93

1991 U.S. acknowledges CIA and U.S. Army paid Noriega $320,000 over his career

1990 Saddam fires his army chief and threatens to destroy Arabian peninsula

1988 Soviet Red Army Team edges New York Islanders, 3-2 at Nassau Coliseum

1988 Army in Rangoon shoots on students, 5-10,000 killed

1988 3-judge panel of 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco strikes down Army's ban on homosexuals (later overturned by appeal)

1988 Sean MacBride, Ireland, commander of Irish Republican Army, dies at 83

1988 Frank Pace Jr, U.S. Secretary of Army (1950-53), dies at 76

1987 11 die as a bomb planted by Irish Republican Army explodes

1987 Syrian army marches into Beirut

1986 Suriname army leader Desi Bouterse massacres Moiwana village

1986 Karachi Pakistan army storms hijacked U.S. B-747, 19 killed

1986 South African army occupies Botswana, Zimbabwe and Zambia

1986 Suriname army capt Etienne Boerenveen arrested for cocaine smuggling

1986 Yoweri Museveni's rebel army conquerors Kampala Uganda

1984 Moslem militiamen take over West Beirut from Lebanese army

1984 Lebanese army fight in Beirut

1983 John Le Mesurier, British actor (Jabberwocky, Dad's Army), dies at 71

1983 Lebanese and Syrian army battle

1983 General Manuel A Noriega becomes commander of Panamanian army

1982 Suriname army leader Bouterse murders 15 opponents

1982 Surendre Rambocus, Suriname army lieutenant, murdered

1982 Suriname army under Desi Bouterse fires on radio station building

1982 11 soldiers and 6 civilians die by bomb planted by Irish National Liberation Army exploded in a pub in Ballykelly, Northern Ireland

1982 Gas explosion in Israeli army headquarters by Tyrus; kills 60

1982 Bombs planted by Irish Republican Army explode in 2 London parks

1982 Habres rebel army occupies capital of Chad, N'djamena

1982 Arthur Lowe, Brits actor (Capt Mainwaring in Dad's army), dies at 66

1981 El Salvador army kills 900

1981 Stanley Clements, actor (Boys' Prison, Army Bound, Hot News), dies

1981 Albert Speer, German NSDAP-architect/minister of Army at 76

1981 Heavy battle between Christian militia and Syrian army in East Lebanon

1979 Red Army beats New York Islanders 3-2 at Nassau Coliseum

1979 Red Army beats New York Rangers 5-2 at MSG

1979 U.S.S.R. airlifts invasionary army to Afghanistan

1979 Iran army occupies Piranshahr

1979 Iran army conquerors Baneh

1979 Iran army conquerors Mahabad

1979 Iran army opens offensive against Kurds

1978 Iraqi Ayatollah Khomeini calls for uprising in Irani army

1978 Irani army shoots on Khomeini followers in Teheran, 100s killed

1977 Army shoots on market vendor women in Conakry Guinee

1977 Pakistan's army, led by Gen Mohammad Zia ul-Haq, seizes power

1976 Syrian army conquerors Beirut

1976 Ulrike Meinhof, lead Germany Red Army Faction, dies

1976 Clifford Alexander, Jr. confirmed as 1st black secretary of Army

1975 Red Army beats New York Rangers 7-3 at MSG

1975 Indonesian army occupies East Timor

1975 Yanks sponsor Army Day at temporary home, Shea Stadium during 21-gun salute, part of fence is blown away, and another part is set afire

1975 Kurds end fight against Iraqi army

1975 Army offensive against rebels in Eritrea Ethiopia

1974 Irish Republican Army is outlawed in Britain following deaths of 21

1974 Creighton W. Abrams, Jr., U.S. general/army staff chief (Vietnam), dies at 59

1974 Turkish army attacks Nicosia Cyprus

1974 Symbionese Liberation Army destroyed in shoot-out, 6 killed

1974 Patricia Hearst (19) kidnapped by Symbionese Liberation Army

1973 Israeli forces reach Suez, trapping Egyptian army

1972 U.S. Army turns over Long Bihn base to South Vietnamese army

1971 India's army occupies Dacca, West Pakistani troops surrenders

1971 Turkish Government of Demirel forced to resign by Army

1970 Bomb kills 1 at University of Wisconsin's Army Math Research Center in Madison

1970 New York Times falsely reports U.S. Army has ended domestic surveillance

1970 29 Swiss Army officers die in avalanche (Reckingen, Switzerland)

1969 U.S. Army announces investigating William Calley for alleged massacre of civilians at Vietnamese village of My Lai in March, 19

1969 Muhammad Ali is convicted for refusing induction in U.S. Army on appeal

1969 Lebanese army in battle with Palestinians

1969 Communist New People's Army found in Philippines

1969 Riad, chief of staff (Egyptian army), dies

1968 Battles between Jordan army and Al Fatah-arm forces

1968 James Burke, actor (Ellery Queen, Army Surgeon), dies at 81

1968 Julis Deutsch, Austria politician/general Spanish rep army, dies at 83

1967 Biafran offensive against Nigerian army

1967 Chinese army/air force/fleet repress uprising in Wuhan City

1967 Muhammad Ali is convicted for refusing induction in U.S. Army

1967 Muhammad Ali is indicted for refusing induction in U.S. Army

1967 Muhammad Ali refuses induction into army and stripped of boxing title

1967 A J F Moody, 1st U.S. Army General to die in Vietnam

1967 New York Times reports Army is conducting secret germ warfare experiments

1966 South Vietnamese army battle Buddhists, about 80 die

1965 1st large-scale U.S. Army ground units arrive in South Vietnam

1965 Moroccan army shoots on demonstrators, about 100 killed

1964 Palestinian Liberation Army (PLA) forms

1962 Chinese army lands in India

1962 Premier Ben Khedda disbands Algerian Liberation Army fighters

1962 2 U.S. Army officers killed in Saigon

1962 Argentine President Frondizi flees from the army

1961 French army revolts in Algeria

1961 Cuban-American invasion army departs Nicaragua

1960 Eisenhower forms anti-Castro-exile army under the CIA

1960 Elvis Presley ends 2-year hitch in U.S. Army

1960 Chinese army kills 12 Indian soldiers

1960 U.S. Army promoted Elvis Presley to Sergeant

1959 George C Marshall, U.S. Army general, dies at 78

1959 France Observator reports torture practice by French army in Algeria

1958 Nancy J. Currie, Wilmington, Delaware, Mjr Army/astronaut, STS 57, 70, sk: 88

1958 24th Heisman Trophy Award: Pete Dawkins, Army (HB)

1958 Army launches 4th U.S. successful satellite, Explorer IV

1958 Saddam Hussein and Iraqi army overthrows the monarchy

1958 Bruse Campbell, actor, Army of Darkness

1958 French settlers riot against French army in Algeria

1958 U.S. Army launched America's third successful satellite, "Explorer III"

1958 Elvis Presley joins the army (serial number 53310761)

1958 Jeffrey N Williams, Superior Wisconsin, Major Army/astronaut

1958 U.S.S.R. shrinks army to 300,000

1957 Elvis Presley given draft notice to join U.S. Army for National Service

1957 Army withdraws for Little Rock Ark, after Central HS integration

1957 300 U.S. Army troops guard 9 black kids return to Central HS in Ark

1957 Patrick G. Forrester, born in El Paso, Texas, Lt Col Army/astronaut

1957 U.S. Army sells last homing pigeons

1956 Albert Woolson, last veteran U.S. Union army, dies at 109

1956 7 Army trucks loaded with dynamite explode in middle of Cali, Columbia killing 1,100-1,200, destroying 2,000 buildings

1956 German DR forms own army (National People's Army)

1955 Charles D "Sam" Gemar, Yankton, South Dakota, army/astronaut, STS 38, 48, 62

1955 British Army patrols withdraw from Belfast after 20 years

1954 CIA exile army lands in Guatemala, JF Dulles and United Fruit Co

1954 Televised Senate Army McCarthy hearings ends

1954 1st army helicopter battalion forms, Fort Bragg, NC

1954 U.S. Army charges Senator Joseph McCarthy used undue pressure tactics

1954 Syrian army drives out president Adib el-Shishakli

1953 1st woman army doctor commissioned (FM Adams)

1952 Henri G Winkelman, Dutch supreme commander army/navy 1940, dies at 76

1952 Michael "Rich"ard Clifford, Cal, Army/Astronaut, STS 53, 59, 76

1952 East German SED decides to form German DR army

1952 Oupa J. Gqozo, South African warden/army commandant, Ciskei

1952 British army occupies Ismailiya, Suez Canal Zone

1951 Egyptian army fires on British troops

1951 Persian army takes over nationalized oil installations

1951 Chinese Communists force Dalai Lama to surrender his army to Beijing

1951 Indonesian army offensive against Darul Islam on Java

1950 Indonesian army opens assault on Ambon, South Moluccas

1950 Baseball rules Phils lefty Curt Simmons cannot play in World Series despite his being on furlough from Army

1950 President Truman orders army to seize control of RR to avert a strike

1950 KNIL (Royal Dutch East Indies Army) unites

1950 Rebel army of cap Raymond Westerner occupies Bandung

1949 Chinese Red army occupies Canton

1949 Chinese Red army occupies Shanghai

1949 Chinese Red army conquerors Nanjing

1949 Mao's Red army conquers Ten-tsin

1948 1st U.S. woman army officer not in medical corps sworn-in

1948 Mao's Red army conquerors Mukden, Manchuria

1948 Beersheba liberated by Israeli army

1948 Operation 10 Plagues - Israeli offensive against Egyptian army

1948 China's Red army occupies Chinchov

1948 Israeli army captures Nazareth

1948 Lydda Airfield captured by Israeli army

1948 1st use of Israeli Air Force and 1st war victory, defeating Syrian army

1948 Mao Zedong's army occupies Yenan

1948 1st Lt. Nancy Leftenant becomes 1st black in army nursing corps

1948 Greek Gen Markos' guerrilla army bombs Saloniki

1948 Omar Bradley succeeds Dwight Eisenhower as Army Chief of Staff

1947 U.S. Department of Army created

1947 1st political action of Netherlands Army on Java and Sumatra

1946 Army rocket plane XS-1 makes 1st powered flight

1946 12th Heisman Trophy Award: Glenn Davis, Army (HB)

1946 Andrei Vlasov, Russian general (Red Army, Wehrmacht) executed at 45

1946 Michael Wilkes, commander, UK Field Army

1946 Ian Lavender, British actor, Stupid Boy in Dad's Army

1946 U.S. Army establishes 1st radar contact with Moon, Belmar, NJ

1945 11th Heisman Trophy Award: Doc Blanchard, Army (FB)

1945 College football's #1 Army beats #2 Notre Dame 48-0

1945 Indonesian army forms

1945 Heavyweight champ Joe Louis is discharged from army

1945 U.S. Army B-25 crashes into 79th floor of Empire State Bldg, 14 die

1945 Isamu Tsjo, Japanese chief-staff 32nd Army, commits harakiri

1945 Mitsuri Ushijima, Jap lt-gen/commandant 32nd Army, commits harakiri

1945 Simon B Buckner, U.S. lt-gen/commandant of 10th Army, dies in action

1945 German Army in Italy surrenders

1945 Soviet army reach Rostock

1945 Red Army occupies Demmin

1945 Red Army opens attack on German Reichstag building in Berlin

1945 Russian Army frees Ravensbruck concentration camp

1945 Japanese army evacuates Rangoon

1945 U.S. 5th army reaches Swiss border

1945 U.S. 5th army enters Genua

1945 Red army completely surrounds Berlin

1945 Russia army arrives at outskirts of Berlin

1945 U.S. 7th Army occupies Neurenberg

1945 U.S. 7th army captured German city of Nuremberg

1945 Clandestine Radio 1212, after broadcasting pro-nazi propoganda for months used their influence to trap 350,000 German army group B troops

1945 Red Army begins Battle of Berlin

1945 British Army liberates Belsen concentration camp

1945 U.S. 7th Army and allies forces captured Nuremberg and Stuttgart in Germany

1945 Canadian army liberates Teuge and Assen Netherlands from Nazis

1945 Red Army occupy Wien (Vienna)

1945 Hengelo freed from nazi control by Canadian army

1945 U.S. 1st army conquers Hofgeismar

1945 Ruhrgebied sealed off by U.S. 1st and 9th army

1945 U.S. 20th Army corps captures Wiesbaden

1945 U.S. 7th Army crosses Rhine at Worms

1945 U.S. 1st army breaks out bridgehead near Remagen

1945 U.S. 3rd Army crosses Rhine at Nierstein

1945 Fritz Fromm, German supreme commander of Reserve army, executed

1945 Patton's 3rd Army makes contact with Hodge's 1st Army

1945 U.S. 7th Army Corps captures Cologne

1945 U.S. 7th Army occupies last part of Westwall

1945 British Army captures Goch

1945 Russian Red Army crosses the river Oder

1945 U.S. Army arrives at Siegfriedlinie

1945 Warsaw freed by Soviet army

1945 U.S. 1st and 3rd army meet at Houffalise

1945 Red Army frees Crakow-Plaszow concentration camp

1944 Japanese army evacuates harbor city Akyab

1944 Budapest surrounded by soviet army

1944 U.S. Army announces end of excluding Jap-Americans from West Coast

1944 Congress establshes rank of General of Army (5-star General)

1944 U.S. 7th army under Gen Patch conquers Straatsburg

1944 U.S. 9th division and 1st Army attacks at Geilenkirchen

1944 U.S. 9th Army takes Margraten cemetery

1944 Soviet army invades Hungary

1944 U.S. 1st army wins battle of Aachen

1944 U.S. 6th army lands on Leyte, Philippines

1944 U.S. 1st army begins battle of Aachen

1944 German army retreats from Athens

1944 Rudolf Schmundt, German gen/Hitlers army adjunct, dies from injuries

1944 30th Infantry division of U.S. 1st Army frees Margraten

1944 U.S. Army troops entered Germany for 1st time

1944 Gen Von Zangens 15th army escape from Zealand

1944 U.S. 1st Army frees Namen

1944 U.S. 12nd Army Corps crosses river Seine East of Paris

1944 U.S. 12nd Army corp reaches Troyes

1944 U.S. 20th Army corp enter Fontainebleau/Melun de Seine

1944 U.S. 12nd Army corp occupies Sens

1944 U.S. and British forces destroy German 7th Army at Falaise-Argentan Gap

1944 U.S. 15th Army corp occupies Mantes-Gassicourt at Paris

1944 U.S. 15th Army corp reaches Mantes-Gassicourt near Paris

1944 U.S. 20th Army corp conquers Chartres

1944 U.S. 12 Army corp occupies Orleans

1944 U.S. 15th Army corp reaches Eure, surrounds Dreux

1944 U.S. 12 Army corp enters Le Mans through Orleans

1944 British 8th army occupies Florence

1944 U.S. 15th Army corp occupies Le Mans

1944 U.S. 3rd Army reaches suburbs of Brest Brittany

1944 U.S. 20th Army corp under general Walker occupies Nantes

1944 British 8th army reaches suburbs of Florence Italy

1944 General Montgomery takes command of 12th and 21st army

1944 U.S. 8th Army corp occupies Coutances France

1944 Soviet Army frees Majdanek concentration camp

1944 Soviet Army marches into Lublin Poland

1944 Rudolf Schmundt, gen/Hitler's Army adjunct, dies from wounds

1944 U.S. V-III-E Army corp opens assault on Coutances Cotentin

1944 U.S. 7th army corp conquers Cherbourg

1944 2nd British army reaches Grainville-Mouen line

1944 British 14th army frees Imphal Assam

1944 5th Army enters and liberates Rome from Mussolini's Fascist armies

1944 Polish 2nd Army corps captures convent of Monte Cassino, Italy

1944 Soviet Army marches into pro-German Romania

1944 U.S. 1st Army completes invasion plan

1944 Soviet army begins offensive at Oranienbaum/Wolchow

1944 Army defeats Navy 10-7 in football "Arab Bowl," Oran, North Africa

1944 Gen Clark replaces Gen Patton as commander of 7th Army

1943 British 8th Army occupies Orsogna/Ortona Italy

1943 U.S. 1st Army establishes headquarter in Bristol

1943 British 8th army lands at Termoli, East Italy

1943 Zjadovs 5th Gardeleger/Managarovs 53rd Army reconquer Kremenchug

1943 Russian 13th/61st Army reconquer Chyernigov

1943 Red Army recaptures Brjansk

1943 Montgomery's 8th army contacts invasion - arm forces at Salerno

1943 Soviet army under general Vatutin reconquer Romny

1943 British 8th army occupies Tarente

1943 Red Army occupies Bachmatsj

1943 British 8th army lands at Taranto South Italy

1943 British 8th army lands in South Italy (Messina)

1943 Red Army under Gen Vatutin recaptures Achtyrka

1943 Red army recaptures Charkow

1943 Red army recaptures Spas-Demensk

1943 Red Army recaptures Tchukujev, at Kharkov

1943 Red Army recaptures Bogodukov

1943 5th German Pantser army surrenders in Tunisia

1943 British 1st army opens assault on Tunis

1943 British and U.S. Army link up in Africa during WW II

1943 Ian Robertson, British museum director, National Army Museum

1943 British 1st army recaptures Sejenane

1943 British 8th army opens assault on Mareth line, Tunisia

1943 Red Army evacuates Belgorod

1943 Red Army evacuates Kharkov

1943 New York Yankee Joe DiMaggio, enlists into the U.S. army

1943 Red army conquers Kharkov

1943 8th Army sweeps through North Africa to Tunisia

1943 Red Army recaptures Kursk

1943 Battle of Stalingrad ends with final surrender of the German army

1943 German 6th Army surrenders at Stalingrad, turning point of WW II

1943 British 8th army marches into Tripoli

1943 Red Army recaptures Pitomnik airport at Stalingrad

1943 Canadian Army troops arrive in North Africa

1942 Red army occupies German airports at Tasjinskaja and Morozowsk

1942 North Africa: 5th German pantser army forms under col-gen von Arnim

1942 3rd and 5th Romanian army corp surrenders

1942 German 4th and 6th Army surrounded at Stalingrad

1942 Russian 21st Army recaptures Kalatsj at Don

1942 British 8th Army recaptures Benghazi, Libya

1942 Soviet army offensive, 1 million Russians breach German lines

1942 German 6th Army occupies Tractorenfabriek, 3,000 German's die

1942 Gen Paulus orders German 6th Army to conquer Stalingrad

1942 Robert Lee Stewart, Washington D.C., Brig Gen U.S. Army/astronaut, STS 41B, 51J

1942 "Monty" appointed commandant of British 8th Army at Alamein

1942 Richard Gott, British gen/commandant of 8th Army, dies in battle at 43

1942 Col-Gen Hoth' Pantser army reaches Kotelnikovo

1942 Irving Berlin's musical "This is the Army," premieres in New York City

1942 4th Russian Pantser army forms with 80 tanks

1942 1st detachment of Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, begin basic training

1942 Women's Army Auxiliary Corps began basic training at Fort Des Moines

1942 Von Hoth' IV Pantser army fights with Voronezj

1942 Col-gen Von Paul' 6th Army enters Ukraine

1942 Jewish Brigade attached by British Army in WW II, forms

1942 German army defeated at El-Alamein North Africa

1942 Italian army begin siege of French western Fort Bir Hachim

1942 Tank battle at Bir Hakeim: African corps vs British army

1942 U.S. Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) forms

1942 Japanese occupying army on Java installs film censorship

1942 Julia Flikke, Nurse Corps, becomes 1st woman colonel in U.S. army

1942 KNIL, Dutch colonial army on Java, surrenders to Japanese armies

1942 Tank battle at Adzjedabia, African corps vs British army

1942 William Knudsen becomes 1st civilian appointed a general in U.S. army

1941 Hitler takes complete command of German Army

1941 German occupying army do a house search in Paris looking for Jews

1941 Russian 20th army recaptures Soljetsjnogorsk

1941 Russian 16th army recaptures Krijukovo

1941 Russian anti offensive in Moscow drives out nazi army

1941 British 13th Army corp reaches Tobruk

1941 GJ Berenschot, general/supreme commander Dutch East Indies army, dies

1941 German army occupies Viarma, U.S.S.R.

1941 German army occupies Briansk, U.S.S.R.

1941 German army conquerors Kiev

1941 Red army evacuates Smolensk

1941 20 divisions of Russian 6th/12th Army surrender at Oeman

1941 German 11st Army surrounds 20 Russian divisions at Oeman

1941 German army enters Ukraine

1941 1st U.S. Army flying school for black cadets dedicated

1941 English Army enters Baghdad, chasing pro-German coup government

1941 British army begins evacuation of Kreta

1941 Italian army under general Aosta surrenders to Britain in Ethiopia

1941 Italian army under Aosta surrenders to Britain at Amba Alagi Ethiopia

1941 English Army breaks German spy codes

1941 British army begins evacuation of Greece

1941 Greece Army surrenders to German Nazis RAF brings Greek king George II to Egypt

1941 Battle of Beda Fomm: Italian 10th army destroyed

1941 War Department forms 1st Army Air Corps squadron for black cadets

1940 Benjamin O. Davis became 1st Black general in U.S. Army

1940 U.S. Army Gen Benjamin Davis becomes 1st black general

1940 Benjamin Oliver Davis Sr named 1st black general in regular army

1940 Gen George Marshall sworn in as chief of staff of U.S. army

1940 Soviet Army attacks Romania

1940 Soviet Army occupies Lithuania

1940 Dutch army demobilizes

1940 Gen Guderians tanks reach The Channel (British expeditionary army)

1939 Finnish army recaptures Aglajarvi

1939 Wehrmacht (German regular army) murders 100 Jews in Lukov Poland

1939 Nazi army reaches Warsaw

1939 Japanese invasion army driven out of Mongolia

1939 General Reijnders appointed supreme commander of Dutch army

1938 Andreas J "Cat" Liebenberg, supreme commander, South Africa army

1938 Hitler seizes control of German army and puts Nazi in key posts

1937 Japans army conquers Shanghai

1937 U.S.S.R. executes 8 army leaders as Stalin's purge continues

1937 U.S. Army Air Corps physiological research laboratory completed, Ohio

1936 Buenaventura Durruti, Spanish anarchists army leader, dies in battle

1936 Semi-automatic rifles adopted by U.S. army

1935 Mao Tse Tung's army reaches Shanxi

1935 Italian army occupies Adua Abyssinia

1935 John J "Jannie" Geldenhuys, supreme commander South Africa army 1980-

1934 Ulrike Meinhof, German Red Army member

1934 Adolph Hitler expands German army and Navy and creates an air force, violating Treaty of Versailles

1934 H Norman Schwarzkopf, Trenton, New Jersey, 4-star Army general, Gulf War

1934 U.S. contract air mail service canceled, replaced by U.S. Army for 6 months

1933 Hitler, Goring, Prince Ruprecht, Bruning and top army meet in Berlin

1932 El Salvador army kills 4,000 protesting farmers

1931 Japanese army attacks Chinese province of Jehol

1928 Chiang Kai-shek's army crosses Yang-tse

1927 Guomindang Army conquerors Shanghai as British marines flee

1927 British expeditionary army lands in Shanghai

1926 German Marx government falls due to cooperation with red army

1926 Manchester Guardian (German Reichswehr/Red Army work together)

1926 110,000 watch Army and Navy play a 21-all tie

1925 Italian army takes Somalia

1925 French colonial army beats Rifkabylen in Morocco

1925 Kurd rebels surrender to Turkish army

1925 Abd el-Krims Rifkabylen beats French army in Morocco

1924 Notre Dame beats Army 13-7, New York Hearld Tribune dubs them (4 Horsemen)

1924 2 U.S. Army planes end around-world flight, Seattle to Seattle, 57 stops

1923 Greek king George II overthrown by army/republic

1923 German army commander Gen Von Seeckt bans NSDAP and KPD

1923 Army move SPD/KPD-government to German part of Saxon

1923 British occuping army leaves Constantinople

1923 With Spain's king Alfonso XIII assist, army coup under de Rivera

1923 Joan Moriarty, Brigadier matron-in-chief/dir, Army Nursing Services

1923 Army wins 1st college three-weapon fencing championships

1922 Turkish kalief/sultan Mehmed VI asks British army for help

1922 U.S. intervention army leaves Honduras

1921 Bill Mauldin, cartoonist, WW II Army grunts

1921 Red Army under Trotsky attack sailors of Kronstadt

1920 Gen Amos Fries appointed 1st U.S. Army chemical warfare chief

1920 Helen Cattanach, British Army Nursing Service, QARANC

1920 Gen Wrangel opens offensive against red Army

1919 Red Army captures Omsk, Siberia

1919 Petlyura's Ukrainian Army kills 35 members of a Jewish defense group

1919 Ukranian (Petlyura) Army recaptures Kiev

1919 Ukrainian National Army massacres 25 Jews in Podolia Ukraine

1919 1st jump with Army Air Corp (rip-cord type) parachute (Les Irvin)

1919 Polish Army captures Vilno, Lithuania from Soviet Army

1919 Amritsar Massacre-British Army fires on nationalist rioters in India

1919 Polish Army executes 35 young Jews

1919 Belgian Army occupies Dusseldorf

1919 Reds hire Pat Moran as manager as Christy Mathewson, is still in France with U.S. Army

1919 Army Archerd, Hollywood columnist/TV host, Movie Game

1918 U.S. Army of occupation crosses Rhine, enters Germany

1918 Supreme commander of the army Gen Cutters resigns

1918 Russian 10th Army drives out White armies of Tsaritsyn (Stalingrad)

1918 Alejandro Lanusse, army officer/politician

1918 Christy Mathewson resigns as Reds manager to accept a commission as a captain in chemical warfare branch of Army

1918 President Wilson authorizes U.S. Army's Distinguished Service Medal

1918 1st WW I U.S. Army troop ship torpedoed and sunk by Germany, off Ireland

1918 Army chaplain school organizes at Ft. Monroe Va

1917 Telephone Co runs 1st ad for Army operators, gets 7,000 applicants

1917 Battle at Caporetto: German and Austria smash Italian army

1917 Buffalo Bill Cody, army scout and Indian fighter, dies

1916 German army under Gen Mackensen occupies Bucharest

1916 U.S. Army forms Reserve Officers Training Corps

1916 Battle on the Somme: British 4th Army walks to German lines

1916 French troops capture/Serbian army flees to Corfu

1915 British army conquerors Chilly al Imara, Mesopotamie

1915 Arthur Lowe, born in Hayfield, England, actor, Captain Mainwaring-Dad's Army

1915 Czar Nicolaas II takes control of Russian Army

1915 Henry McNeal Turner, 1 U.S. black army chaplain, dies at 82

1915 British expedition Army in Belgium captures Neuve Chapelle

1915 20th Russian Army corps surrenders

1915 2nd Battle of Masurian Lakes: German armies surrounded a Russian army

1915 Turkish and German army reach Suez Canal

1914 Netherlands army shoots up geinterneerde Belgian soldiers: 8 killed

1914 Austria army occupies Belgrade Serbia

1914 British army conquerors Bazra

1914 Creighton Abrams, U.S., army general, Vietnam War

1914 British expeditionary army/general Lanrezacs army attacks the Marne

1914 Von Glucks army meets up with British expeditionary army

1914 Battle at Tannenberg ends in destruction of Russian 2nd Narev army

1914 Russian army atacks Austrian army in Galicia

1914 Battle of Tannenberg - 8th German army defeats Russian Narev army

1914 Belgium: German army begins 6 week plundering of Leuven Belgium

1914 German troops march into France pushes French army to the Sedan

1914 German army captured Brussels as the Belgian army retreated to Antwerp

1914 German army executed 150 Belgians by firing squad

1914 Belgian army withdraws to Antwerp

1914 German army occupies last fort at Luik, Belgian general Leman caught

1914 German army occupies forts at Luik

1914 German army occupies city of Liege Belgium

1914 German army shoots Belgian priests/burns down village of Battice

1914 King Albert I becomes supreme commander of Belgian army

1914 Belgium rejects demand to allow free crossing for German army

1914 U.S. Army air service 1st comes into being, in Signal Corps

1914 William Westmoreland, born in Saxon, South Carolina, army general, Vietnam era

1914 White Wolf gang beats government army in Jingdezhen China

1913 Notre Dame upsets Army 35-13, 1st to use forward pass effectively

1913 Alida Margaretha Bosshardt, Lt-colonel of Dutch Salvation Army

1913 John Lund, born in Rochester, New York, actor, Wackiest Ship in the Army

1912 U.S. Army tests 1st machine gun mounted on a plane

1912 John Le Mesurier, born in Bedford, England, actor, Jabberwocky, Dad's Army

1912 Army fires on striking mine workers at Lena-gold fields Siberia

1912 Frank Pace, Jr., U.S. Secretary of Army, 1950-53

1911 Imperial army recaptures Nanking (blood bath)

1911 Generals Henry Wilson/Auguste Dubail sign plan for British Expeditionary army in case of war with Germany

1911 Overthrown shah of Persia Mohammed Ali lands on Astrabad with army

1910 Margot Turner, matron-in-chief, Army Nursing Service

1909 Army Air Corps formed as Army takes 1st delivery from Wright Brothers

1909 Wright Brothers deliver 1st military plane to the army

1909 Orville Wright tests 1st U.S. Army airplane, flying 1h12m40s

1907 David Belasco's "Grand Army Man," premieres in New York City

1907 Signal Corps of U.S. Army starts aircraft division

1907 World's 1st air force established in the U.S. Army

1907 Romanian Army puts down Moldavian farmers' revolt

1905 Boris Alexandrov, conductor, Red Army Song/Dance Ensemble

1905 Japanese Army captures Mukden (Shenyang)

1904 Battle at Oviumbo Africa: Herero's chase away German army

1903 Cornerstone laid for U.S. Army war college, Washington, D.C.

1902 Boers and British army sign peace treaty

1901 Army War College forms in Washington D.C.

1901 Gen Maxwell D Taylor, former U.S. Army chief of staff

1901 Clara Maass, army nurse sacrificied her life at 25 to prove that the mosquito carries yellow fever

1901 Female Army Nurse Corps established as a permanent organization

1900 Boer army under gen Kritzinger take Cape colony

1900 Andrei Vlasov, Russian general, Red Army, Wehrmacht

1900 Lord Roberts' army occupies Pretoria

1900 British army occupiers Pretoria South-Africa

1900 Lord Roberts' army fights the Vaal in South Africa

1900 Battle at Driefontein, South-Africa (Boers vs. British army)

1900 Battle at Hart's Hill, South-Africa (Boers vs British army)

1900 Battle at Wynne's Hill, South-Africa (Boers vs British army)

1900 Battle at Vaalkrans, South-Africa (Boers vs British army)

1900 Battle at Tugela-Spionkop, South Africa (Boers vs British army)

1899 Battle at Colenso, South Africa (Boers-British army)

1899 Battle at Storm Berge South Africa - Boers vs British army

1899 Battle at Willow Grange, Natal (British vs Boer army)

1899 Battle at Ladysmith Natal: Boers beat lt-general Whites army

1899 Battle at Rietfontein, South Africa: Boers vs British army

1899 Battle at Elandslaagte Natal: (Boers vs British army)

1899 Battle at Talana Hill Natal: British army vs Boers

1899 San Francisco named as a port of dispatch for Army transports

1898 Lord Kitcheners army bombs Omdurman Sudan

1898 Congress passes Volunteer Army Act calling for a Volunteer Cavalry

1898 Army transfers Yerba Buena Island in San Francisco Bay to Navy

1898 Joseph Kessel, French journalist and writer, Army of the Shadows

1897 Battle at Thessalie: Turkish army beats Greece

1897 Battle at Bida Gold Coast: British troops beat Nupe's army

1896 General Kitcheners army occupies Dongola Sudan

1894 Balinese troops assault Dutch army, 97 killed

1894 Commonweal of Christ (Coxey's Army) arrives in Wash, DC 500 strong to protest unemployment; Coxey arrested for trespassing at Capitol

1894 Coxey's Army of the unemployed sets out from Massillon Oh for Wash

1893 Francis Dhanis army occupies Kasongo

1893 Francis Dhanis' army attacksthe Lualaba, occupies Nyangwe

1891 Captain Frederick Lugards army reaches Kavalli Equatoria

1891 Capt. Archinard's army fights with Nyamina of Niger in West-Sudan

1890 1st Army-Navy football game, Score: Navy 24, Army 0 at West Point

1886 Henry "Hap" Arnold, commanding general, U.S. Army Air Force, WW II

1885 Serbian army occupies Bulgaria

1885 George B McClellan, Union army general, dies at 58

1885 U.S. Salvation Army officially organized

1884 Suriname army shoots on British-Indian contract workers, 7 killed

1884 Julis Deutsch, Austria politician/General Spanish rep army

1883 Battle at El Obeid Sudan: Mahdi's army destroys Egyptian army

1883 William Hicks, British col/commander (Egyptian army), dies in battle

1881 Battle at Amajuba, South Africa: Boers vs. British army under Gen Colley

1880 Victorio, Apache chief/murderer, killed by Mexican army

1880 Salvation Army forms in Londo

1880 Salvation Army of England sets up U.S. welfare and religious activity

1879 Zulus attack British Army camp in Isandhlwana South Africa

1877 U.S. Army breaks railroad strike

1870 Robert E Lee, General of Confederate Army, dies at 63

1870 Italian army under Victor Emmanuel II seizes Rome from the French

1870 U.S. Army establishes U.S. National Weather Service

1870 173 Blackfoot (140 women and children) killed in Montana by U.S. Army

1866 1st national convention of Grand Army of Republic (veterans' org)

1866 U.S. Grant named 1st general of Army

1866 2nd Battle at Custozza: Prussian-Austria beats Italian army

1865 Evangeline Cory Booth, Salvation Army general, 1904-34

1865 Mary Edward Walker, 1st Army female surgeon, awarded Medal of Honor

1865 Army commander in South Carolina orders Freedmen's Bureau to stop seizing land

1865 William Booth founds Salvation Army (Army of the Salvation)

1865 At Ft. Towson, Gen Stand Watie surrenders last sizeable confed army

1865 Confederate Gen J E Johnston surrenders Army of Tennessee, at Durham North Carolina

1865 Battle of Sayler's Creek, 1/3rd of Lee's army cut off

1865 Lee's army arrives at Amelia Courthouse

1865 Battle of 5 Forks Virginia, signalling end of Lee's army

1865 General Early's army is defeated at Waynesborough

1865 1st black major in U.S. Army, Martin Robinson Delany

1865 Robert E. Lee is named commander-in-chief of Confederate Army

1864 Gen Grant's Army at Potomac attacks at Rappahannock

1864 Ulysses S. Grant is appointed commander of Union Army

1863 President Davis orders service duty for confederate army

1863 General Lee's army withdraws from Gettysburg

1863 Planning an invasion of Pennsylvania, Lee's army crosses Potomac

1863 End of Chancellorsville - Beaten Union army withdraws

1863 Battle of Chancellorsville - Beaten Union army withdraws

1863 1st Army Medal of Honor awarded

1863 1st black Civil War regiment, South Carolina Volunteers, mustered into U.S. army

1863 Battle at Bear River, Washington: U.S. Army vs indians

1863 General Joseph Hooker replaces Burnside as head of Army of Potomac

1862 40,000 watch Union army men play baseball at Hilton Head, SC

1862 Armies of Mississippi/Kentucky merge as Army of Tennessee

1862 Confederate army of Tennessee, organizes under Gen Braxton Bragg

1862 Ambrose Burnside replaces McClellen as head of Army of Potomac

1862 General Read army pulls out of Antietam Creek Virginia

1862 Gen Bragg's army surrounds 4,000 federals at Munfordville, KY

1862 Lee splits his army and sends Jackson to capture Harpers Ferry

1862 Confederate Army ironclad "Arkansas" is badly damaged in Union attack

1862 U.S. Army authorized to accept blacks as laborers

1862 United army officially divides corps

1862 U.S. Army of Virginia established under Gen John Pope

1862 French army intervenes in Puebla, Mexico: Cinco de Mayo

1862 Gen Stonewall Jackson evacuates Winchester Virginia Army of the Potomac. Gen Henry Halleck is named general-in-chief

1862 John Baillie McIntosh, U.S. general-major (Union Army), dies at 32

1861 Confederate congress officially admits Missouri to Confederate Army

1861 Sally Tompkins is only Confederate Army female commissioned officer

1861 U.S. Army abolishes flogging

1861 Union Gen George McClellan takes command from McDowell of Potamic Army

1861 Battle of Corrick's Ford, Virginia (Carrick's Ford) - Union army takes total control of western Virginia CS20 US53

1861 Dorothea Dix offers help in setting up hospitals for Union Army

1861 Lincoln asks for 42,000 Army Volunteers and another 18,000 seamen

1861 Colonel Robert E. Lee resigns from Union army

1861 Federal army (75,000 volunteers) mobilized by President Lincoln

1861 Robert E Lee resigns from Union army

1861 Provisionary Confederate Congress establishes Confederate Army

1857 U.S. Army, Pacific Div HQ permanently forms at Presidio

1854 Dutch army stops Chinese uprising in Borneo

1851 Walter Reed, U.S. Army Surgeon, proved mosquitoes transmit yellow fever

1850 Jean V Constant de Rebecque, Swiss/Dutch army leader, dies at 77

1848 Friedrich Freiherr Gagern, German/Dutch army commandant, dies at 53

1847 Battle of Buena Vista: U.S. troops beat Mexican army

1846 Mexican army surrounds fort in Texas

1844 Galusha Pennypacker, Bvt Major General Union Army, died in 1916

1841 William Paul Roberts, Brig General Confederate Army, died in 1910

1840 Alexander Swift "Sandie" Pendleton, Lt-colonel Confederate Army

1840 Thomas Fentress Toon, Brig General Confederate Army, died in 1902

1840 James Dearing, Brig General Confederate Army, died in 1865

1840 John Herbert Kelly, Brig General Confederate Army, died in 1864

1840 John Doby Kennedy, Brig General Confederate Army, died in 1896

1839 Emory Upton, Bvt Major General Union Army, died in 1881

1839 John Decatur Barry, Brig General Confederate Army, died in 1867

1838 John Pelham, Major Confederate Army, died in 1863

1838 Basil Wilson Duke, Brig General Confederate Army, died in 1916

1838 John Shaw Billings, U.S., librarian and army physician

1838 Thomas Benton Smith, Brig General Confederate Army, died in 1923

1838 Gilbert Moxley Sorrel, Brig General Confederate Army, died in 1901

1838 James Barbour Terrill, Brig General Confederate Army, died in 1864

1838 William Hugh Young, Brig General Confederate Army, died in 1901

1837 John Carpenter Carter, Brig General Confederate Army, died in 1864

1837 Ellison Capers, Brig General Confederate Army, died in 1908

1837 William Clarke Quantrill, Col Confederate Army, died in 1865

1837 Victor Jean Baptiste Girardey, Brig General Confederate Army

1837 Eli Long, Bvt Major General Union Army, died in 1903

1837 Stephen Dodson Ramseur, Mjr General Confederate Army, died in 1864

1837 William Henry Fitzhugh "Rooney" Lee, Major General Confederate Army

1837 Robert Frederick Hoke, Major General Confederate Army, died in 1912

1837 Horace Porter, Bvt Brig General Union Army, died in 1921

1837 Ephraim Elmer Ellsworth, Col Union Army, died in 1861

1837 Stephen Dodson Ramseur, Major General Confederate Army, died in 1864

1837 Robert Daniel Johnston, Brig General Confederate Army, died in 1919

1837 James Phillip Simms, Brig General Confederate Army, died in 1887

1836 Pierce Manning Butler Young, Mjr Gen Confederate Army, died in 1896

1836 Thomas Lafayette Rosser, Mjr General Confederate Army, died in 1910

1836 George Washington Gordon, Brig Gen Confederate Army, died in 1911

1836 John McCausland, Brig General Confederate Army, died in 1927

1836 Joseph Wheeler II, Maj Gen, Confederacy/Cavalry/Army of Tennessee

1836 Evander McIvor Law, Brig General Confederate Army, died in 1920

1836 Edwin Gray Lee, Brig General Confederate Army, died in 1870

1836 James Patrick Major, Brig General Confederate Army, died in 1877

1836 Bryan Morel Thomas, Brig General Confederate Army, died in 1905

1836 Matthew Calbraith Butler, Major General, Confederate Army

1835 Micah Jenkins, Brig General Confederate Army, died in 1864

1835 Frank Crawford Armstrong, Brig General Confederate Army

1835 Fitzhugh Lee, Major General Confederate Army, died in 1905

1835 Lunsford Lindsay Lomax, Major General Confederate Army, died in 1913

1835 Adelbert Ames, Bvt Major General Union Army, died in 1933

1835 Hunter Holmes McGuire, Med Director Confederate Army, died in 1900

1835 Robert Houston Anderson, Brig General Confederate Army, died in 1888

1835 William Hicks "Red" Jackson, Brig General Confederate Army

1835 William Wirt Allen, Brig General Confederate Army, died in 1894

1835 William Gaston Lewis, Brig General Confederate Army, died in 1901

1835 Theodore Washington Brevard, Brig General Confederate Army

1835 Ibrahim Pasha's army attacks Jewish settlers of Hebron Palestine

1835 Edward Porter Alexander, Brig General Confederate Army

1835 Alexander Stuart Webb, Major General Union Army, died in 1911

1834 Dudley McIver DuBose, Brig General Confederate Army, died in 1883

1834 Francis Marion Cockrell, Brig General Confederate Army, died in 1915

1834 William MacRae, Brig General Confederate Army, died in 1882

1834 Nathaniel Harrison Harris, Brig General Confederate Army

1834 Francis Asbury Shoup, Brig General Confederate Army, died in 1896

1834 William Dorsey Pender, Major General Confederate Army, died in 1863

1833 Charles Miller Shelley, Brig General Confederate Army, died in 1907

1833 James Thadeus Holtzclaw, Brig General Confederate Army, died in 1893

1833 John Singleton Mosby, lawyer/Col Confederate Army, died in 1916

1833 Edward Dorr Tracy, Brig General Confederate Army, died in 1863

1833 Stephen Dill Lee, Lieutenant General Confederate Army, died in 1908

1833 John Wesley Turner, Bvt Major General Union Army, died in 1899

1833 Lucius Eugene Polk, Brig General Confederate Army, died in 1892

1833 Alfred Thomas Archimedes Torbert, Bvt Major General Union Army

1833 John Rogers Cooke, Brig General Confederate Army, died in 1891

1833 Frank Wheaton, Bvt Major General Union Army, died in 1903

1833 James Edward Rains, Brig General Confederate Army, died in 1862

1833 John Sappington Marmaduke, Major General Confederate Army

1833 Clement Anselm Evans, Brig General Confederate Army, died in 1911

1833 James Deshler, Brig General Confederate Army, died in 1863

1833 William Whedbee Kirkland, Brig Gen Confederate Army, died in 1915

1833 James Ewell Brown "JEB" Stuart, Major General Confederate Army

1833 John Randolph Chambliss, Jr., Brig Gen Confederate Army, died in 1864

1832 Daniel Harris Reynolds, Brig General Confederate Army, died in 1902

1832 French army begins bombing citadel of Antwerp

1832 Archibald Gracie, Jr., Brig General Confederate Army, died in 1864

1832 William Woods Averell, Major General Union Army, died in 1900

1832 Henry Harrison Walker, Brig General Confederate Army, died in 1912

1832 Theodore Shelton Bowers, Bvt Brig General Union Army, died in 1866

1832 Samuel Sprigg Carroll, Bvt Major General Union Army, died in 1893

1832 George Washington Custis Lee, Major General Confederate Army

1832 Randall Lee Gibson, Brig General Confederate Army, died in 1892

1832 James Alexander Walker, Brig General Confederate Army, died in 1901

1832 George Doherty Johnston, Brig General Confederate Army

1832 William Ruffin Cox, Brig General Confederate Army, died in 1919

1832 Camille Armand Jules Marie de Polignac, Mjr General Confederate Army

1832 John Brown Gordon, Major General Confederate Army, died in 1904

1832 John Pegram, Brig General Confederate Army, died in 1865

1832 Richard Waterhouse, Jr., Brig General Confederate Army, died in 1876

1831 Robert Ogden Tyler, Bvt Major General Union Army, died in 1874

1831 Claudius Charles Wilson, Brig General Confederate Army, died in 1863

1831 ? Gist, Brig General Confederate Army, died in 1864

1831 Battle of Hasselt - Dutch army drives out Belgi