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
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