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2010 Event - Muslim fundamentalists in northern Algeria kill an army colonel and a military commander of Bejaia

1997 Death - Colonel Tom Parker, manager, promoted Elvis, dies at 87

1988 Event - Lebanese terrorists kidnap United Nations truce observer Lieutenant Colonel William Higgins

1987 Event - Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North concludes 6 days of Congressional testimony

1987 Event - Military coup in Fiji Islands under Lieutenant Colonel Sitivani Rabuka

1986 Death - Paulo Correia, Guinee-Bissaus colonel/putschist, executed

1982 Death - Charles Russhon, USAF Lieutenant Colonel/liaison for James Bond films, dies at 71

1980 Death - Harland "Colonel" Sanders, founder Kentucky Fried Chicken, dies at 90

1980 Death - Colonel Sanders, also known as Harland Sanders, American Celebrity

1979 Event - Colonel Benjedid Chadli succeeds President Boumedienne in Algeria

1972 Death - Charles J Correll, actor/voice (Calvin and the Colonel), dies at 82

1969 Death - Alan Mowbray, actor (Dante, Colonel Flack), dies at 72

1968 Birthday - Catherine Bell, born in London, England, actress, known for role as Lt. Colonel Sarah MacKenzie on 'JAG' television show, 1997 - 2004

1967 Death - Edward Higgins White II, Lieutenant Colonel USAF/astronaut (Gemini 4), dies at 36

1965 Event - Failed coup under Lieutenant Colonel Untung in Indonesia

1965 Event - Algerian coup under colonel Houari Boumedienne, President Ben Bella fired

1963 Birthday - Philippe Perrin, Meknes Morocco, Lieutenant Colonel FAF/astronaut

1962 Death - Frank Jenks, actor (Colonel Flack), dies of cancer at 60

1961 Event - Lieutenant Colonel Gueorgui Mossolov takes E-66A to 34,714 m altitude

1959 Death - Abdel Wahab Shawwaf, Iraqi colonel/putschist, murdered

1957 Birthday - Patrick G. Forrester, born in El Paso, Texas, Lieutenant Colonel Army/astronaut

1956 Event - Military coup under colonel Simbolon in Sumatra

1956 Birthday - Anatoli Pavlovich Artsebarsky, Russia, colonel/cosmonaut, Soyuz TM-12

1954 Event - Lieutenant Colonel John Strapp travels 632 MPH in a rocket sled

1954 Birthday - Kevin P. Chilton, born in Los Angeles, California, Lieutenant Colonel USAF/Astronaut, STS-49, 59, 76

1954 Event - Colonel Nasser disbands Moslem Brothership

1954 Event - Military junta selects colonel Armas president of Guatemala

1954 Event - Colonel Nasser seizes power and becomes Prime Minister of Egypt

1953 Birthday - Valery Grigoriyevich Korzun, Russian colonel/cosmonaut, TM-24

1952 Birthday - Valeri I Tokarev, Russian colonel/cosmonaut

1952 Birthday - Aleksandr A Volkov, Russian colonel/cosmonaut

1951 Birthday - Scott Lane, New York City, actor, Gary-McKeever and the Colonel

1950 Birthday - Valery Yevgenyevich Maksimenko, Russian colonel/cosmonaut

1950 Birthday - Gennadi Mikhailovich Manakov, colonel/cosmonaut, Soyuz TM-10, TM-16

1949 Birthday - Kenneth D Cameron, born in Cleveland, Ohio, Lieutenant Colonel USMC/astronaut, STS-37, 56, 74

1949 Event - Military coup under colonel Sami Hinnawi in Syria

1948 Birthday - Valeri Viktorovich Baberdin, Russian colonel/cosmonaut

1948 Birthday - Aleksandr S Puchkov, Russian colonel/cosmonaut

1948 Death - Andre Serot, colonel/commandant of French air force (WW II), dies

1948 Birthday - Jerry Ross, Indiana, Lieutenant Colonel USAF/astronaut, STS-61B, 27, 37, 55, 74,sk:88

1948 Birthday - Guy Spencer Gardner, Alta Vista, Virginia, Lieutenant Colonel USAF/astronaut, STS-27, STS-35

1947 Birthday - Aleksandr Stepanovich Andryushkov, Russian colonel/cosmonaut

1947 Birthday - Alexei Sergeyevich Borodai, Russian colonel/cosmonaut

1946 Death - Alfred G Jodl, Colonel General/German staff chief weather authority, hanged

1945 Death - Colonel Roberts, commandant 22nd regiment marines, dies in battle

1945 Birthday - Nikolai Nikolayevich Fefelov, Russian colonel/cosmonaut

1944 Death - Hilary Barlow, British colonel, dies

1944 Death - Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg, count/German antifascist colonel, dies

1944 Death - Mertz, German colonel (July 20th plotter), executed

1944 Event - Earl Claus von Stauffenberg promoted to colonel

1944 Event - Greek Colonel Venizelos forms government

1943 Event - Lieutenant Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg seriously wounded at allied air raid

1942 Event - North Africa: 5th German pantser army forms under Colonel General von Arnim

1942 Event - Colonel General Von Paul asks Hitler to surrender

1942 Death - Kiyoano Ichiki, Japanese colonel (WW II), dies

1942 Event - Colonel General Jeremenko arrives in Stalingrad/welcomed by Nikita Khrushchev

1942 Event - Colonel General Hoth' Pantser army reaches Kotelnikovo

1942 Event - Colonel General Von Paul' 6th Army enters Ukraine

1942 Event - Colonel General Von Hoth' 6th Pantser enters Voronezj

1942 Event - German offensive in North-Africa under Colonel General Rommel

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

1939 Event - Retired German Colonel General Gerd von Runstedt returns to service

1935 Death - Alfred Dreyfus, french colonel, dies

1932 Birthday - Alfred M Worden, Jackson Michigan, Colonel USAF/astronaut, Apollo 15

1930 Birthday - Edward H White II, born in San Antonio, Texas, Lieutenant Colonel USAF/astronaut, Gemini 4

1930 Birthday - William Reid Pogue, Okemah Oklahoma, Colonel USAF/astronaut, Skylab 4

1927 Birthday - Dominick Argento, York Penn, composer, Colonel Jonathan the Saint

1926 Birthday - Virgil Grissom, born in Mitchell, Indiana, Lieutenant Colonel USAF/astronaut, Merc 4, Gemini 3

1923 Birthday - Lord Freyberg, British Colonel of General Staff

1923 Event - Colonel Jacob Schick patents Schick shavers

1922 Death - Charles R Young, colonel, dies at 58, in Lagos Nigeria

1921 Birthday - Vasco dos Santos Goncalves, Portuguese leftist colonel

1914 Event - Colonel Jacob Ruppert and Cap Huston purchase New York Yankees for $460,000

1912 Birthday - Eric Wilson, VC/British Lieutenant Colonel

1912 Event - 37th Preakness: Clarnence Turner on Colonel Holloway wins in 1:56.6

1911 Birthday - Charles Joseph A. Russhon, USAF Lieutenant Colonel/liaison, James Bond films

1899 Death - Robert H "Bobby" Gunning, British colonel (60th Rifles), dies in battle

1896 Birthday - Alan Mowbray, born in London, England, actor, Dante, Colonel Flack

1890 Birthday - Harland Sanders, Henryville, Indiana, colonel/CEO, Kentucky Fried Chicken

1890 Birthday - Colonel Sanders, American Celebrity

1890 Birthday - Charles [Andy] Correll, Peoria, Illinois, actor, Calvin and Colonel

1885 Death - Fred Burnaby, English colonel/balloon pioneer, dies in battle

1881 Event - Egyptian military coup under colonel Arab "El Wahid"

1879 Death - Anthony Durnford, British colonel, dies in battle

1878 Birthday - Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, actor, Stormy Weather, Little Colonel

1865 Death - Francis Washburn, U.S. Union colonel/general major, dies of injuries

1865 Death - Reuben B Boston, U.S. Confederate cavalery colonel, dies in battle

1864 Death - David Bullock Harris, U.S. Confederate colonel, dies of yellow fever

1864 Death - James P McMahon, U.S. Union colonel (164th New York), dies in battle

1864 Death - Peter A Porter, U.S. Union colonel (8th New York), dies in battle

1864 Event - U.S. Union colonel Emory Upton (24) promoted to brigade-general

1864 Death - Ulric Dahlgren, Union colonel, dies in battle at 21

1862 Death - R E V Miles, U.S. Union Colonel, killed at Harpers Ferry

1861 Death - Francis Stebbins Bartow, Confederate colonel, dies in battle at 44

1861 Death - John Garland, U.S. Union colonel/Brigadier-General, dies in battle

1861 Event - Colonel Robert E. Lee resigns from Union army

1861 Event - Colonel Charles Stone is put in charge of organizing DC militia

1853 Death - Joannes P. Roothaan, 1st Dutch Lieutenant Colonel - General of Jesuits, dies at 67

1776 Death - Johann Gottlieb Rall, Hessian colonel/mercenary, dies in battle

1652 Death - Henry, count of Nassau-Siegen, colonel and Governor of Hulst, dies

1611 Birthday - Henry earl of Nassau-Siegen, colonel/governor of Hulst, Netherlands

1589 Death - Maarten Schenck van Nideggen, Lieutenant Colonel (80 year war), dies at about 49

1503 Birthday - Wilhelm von Grumbach, German Lieutenant Colonel













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