History Home
Events     Birthdays     Deaths     Years

Add "Today in History" or "Today's Birthdays" to Your Site - it's Easy!

Combat


2003 President George W. Bush declares that 'major combat operations' in Iraq are over

2000 Rick Jason, actor, Combat, dies at 74

1999 Dick Peabody, actor, Combat, dies at 74

1994 Mark Robert Isfeld, combat Engineer, dies at 31

1994 U.S. Navy issues 1st permanent order assigning women on combat ship

1991 Senate votes to allow women to fly combat aircraft

1988 1st documented combat action by U.S. military advisors in El Salvador

1986 UN's WHO announces 1st global effort to combat AIDS

1983 Last 80 U.S. combat soldiers in Grenada withdrew

1980 Edmond Vandercammen, Belgian writer/poet (Grand Combat), dies at 79

1974 Henri Smajda, Tunis/French publisher (Combat), commits suicide at 77

1973 MPLA/FNLA accord about combat against Portuguese Libya

1972 Last American combat ground troops leave Vietnam

1965 1st U.S. ground combat forces in Vietnam authorized by President Johnson

1965 U.S. ordered the 1st combat troops to Vietnam

1965 1st U.S. combat forces arrive in Vietnam (3,500 Marines)

1962 Mark Robert Isfeld, combat engineer

1954 Ted Williams fractures collarbone in 1st game of spring training after flying 39 combat missions without injury in Korean War

1953 U.S. government gives France $385 million for combat in Indo-China

1944 Walter Nowotny, German combat/jet fighter pilot, dies

1944 1st British jet fighter used in combat, Gloster Meteor

1944 1st jet fighter used in combat, Messerschmitt 262

1943 99th Pursuit Squadron flies 1st combat mission, over Italy

1942 Hitler orders combat against partisans in Russia and Balkan

1942 1st combat flight for Canada's Avro Lancaster military plane

1941 Cease fire of Joan of Arc, ends combat in Lebanon and Syria

1935 Michael Slory, Suriname poet, Bitter Combat

1932 Communist Party of Holland forms Unemployed Combat Committees

1931 Vic Morrow, born in Bronx, New York, actor, Combat, Roots, Twilight Zone the Movie

1929 Jack Hogan, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, ator, Combat, Adam 12, Sierra

1925 Shecky Greene, born in Chicago, Illinois, comedian/actor, Love Machine, Combat

1917 1st U.S. soldiers killed in combat in WW I

1917 In WW I, the 1st U.S. soldiers are killed in combat

1879 James Ritty patents 1st cash register, to combat stealing by bartenders in his Dayton, Ohio saloon

1877 1st time federal troops are used to combat strikers


History Home    Copyright 2009 BrainyMedia.com