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1990
Ken Lynch, actor (Paratroop Command, Legend of Tom Dooley), dies at 79
1975
Evelyn Brent, actress (Nitwits, Last Command, Spy Train), dies at 75
1975
Nicholas Soussanin, actor (Last Command), dies at 86
1971
"City Command" kidnaps 4 U.S. military men at Ankara, Turkey
1962
U.N. command forbids flights to Katangese airports
1962
Samuel Gravely assumes command of destroyer escort "USS Falgout"
1958
U.S. and Canada form North American Air Defense Command (NORAD)
1947
William Wister Haines' "Command Decision," premieres in New York City
1945
Thomas Rennie, Gen-Maj (Dutch command 51st Highland Division), dies
1944
General Montgomery takes command of 12th and 21st army
1944
Bomber Command drop 2,572 tons of bombs on Caen, France
1944
General Eisenhower took command of Allied Invasion Force in London
1943
General Eisenhower selected to command the allied armies in Europe
1942
Italian supreme command demands dismissal of German marshal Rommel
1942
American-British-Dutch-Australian (ABDA) Command forms
1941
Hitler takes complete command of German Army
1940
Fighter Command loses 39/Luftwaffe 41 airplanes
1940
U.S. Air Defense Command forms at Mitchel Field, LI, New York
1934
SS-Reichs Fuhrer Himmler takes command of German Concentration Camps
1927
International allies military command in Germany disbands
1918
7 U.S. soldiers are surrounded by Germans in France, Alvin York is given command and shoots 20 Germans and captures 132 more
1864
GEN David Hunter takes command of Department of West Virginia
1864
General Longstreet's command ends heavy fighting at Dandridgem TN
1863
Bedford Forrest is assigned to command of West Tennessee
1863
Grant is given command of Union forces in West
1862
Maj Gen Earl Van Dorn assumes command of Conf troops in Missisippi
1862
Gen Robert E Lee takes command of Confederate armies of E Virginia and NC
1862
Gen Lee assumes command after Joe Johnston is injured at 7 Pines
1861
Grant assumes command of Federal forces at Cape Girardeau MI
1861
Union Gen George McClellan takes command from McDowell of Potamic Army
1861
CS Gen Sibley is given command of rebel troops in New Mexico territory
1861
Gen Beauregard is given command of Confederate Alexandria Line
1861
Col Robert E. Lee turns down offer to command Union armies
1860
Thomas J. Jackson is assigned to command Harpers Ferry
1856
Jacobus C J Hermans, actor, 7th Command
1775
George Washington takes command of U.S. troops
1775
Washington takes command of Continental Army at Cambridge, Mass
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