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

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

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

1980 Colonel Sanders, American Celebrity

1979 Colonel Benjedid Chadli succeeds President Boumedienne in Algeria

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

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

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

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

1959 Abdel Wahab Shawwaf, Iraqi colonel/putschist, murdered

1956 Military coup under colonel Simbolon in Sumatra

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

1954 Colonel Nasser disbands Moslem Brothership

1954 Military junta selects colonel Armas president of Guatemala

1954 Colonel Nasser seizes power and becomes PM of Egypt

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

1952 Valeri I Tokarev, Russian colonel/cosmonaut

1952 Aleksandr A Volkov, Russian colonel/cosmonaut

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

1950 Valery Yevgenyevich Maksimenko, Russian colonel/cosmonaut

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

1949 Military coup under colonel Sami Hinnawi in Syria

1948 Valeri Viktorovich Baberdin, Russian colonel/cosmonaut

1948 Aleksandr S Puchkov, Russian colonel/cosmonaut

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

1947 Aleksandr Stepanovich Andryushkov, Russian colonel/cosmonaut

1947 Alexei Sergeyevich Borodai, Russian colonel/cosmonaut

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

1945 Nikolai Nikolayevich Fefelov, Russian colonel/cosmonaut

1944 Hilary Barlow, British colonel, dies

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

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

1944 Earl Claus von Stauffenberg promoted to colonel

1944 Greek Colonel Venizelos forms government

1943 Lt colonel Claus von Stauffenberg seriously wounded at allied air raid

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

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

1935 Alfred Dreyfus, french colonel, dies

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

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

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

1923 Lord Freyberg, British Colonel of General Staff

1923 Colonel Jacob Schick patents Schick shavers

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

1921 Vasco dos Santos Goncalves, Portuguese leftist colonel

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

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

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

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

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

1890 Colonel Sanders, American Celebrity

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

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

1881 Egyptian military coup under colonel Arab "El Wahid"

1879 Anthony Durnford, British colonel, dies in battle

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

1865 Francis Washburn, U.S. Union colonel/gen major, dies of injuries

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1861 John Garland, U.S. Union colonel/brig-general, dies in battle

1861 Colonel Robert E. Lee resigns from Union army

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

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

1652 Henry, count of Nassau-Siegen, colonel/gov of Hulst, dies

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



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