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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