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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