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2013 Event - NASA loses communication with the International Space Station's for three hours as a result of updating the station's command and control software

2012 Event - Sarah West, a British naval officer Commander is appointed commander of HMS Portland, the Royal Navy frigate; she is the first female officer to take command of a major British warship

2011 Event - Command of the NATO forces in Afghanistan transfers from U.S. General David Petraeus to U.S. Marine Corps Lieutenant Genreal John R. Allen

1990 Death - Ken Lynch, actor (Paratroop Command, Legend of Tom Dooley), dies at 79

1975 Death - Evelyn Brent, actress (Nitwits, Last Command, Spy Train), dies at 75

1975 Death - Nicholas Soussanin, actor (Last Command), dies at 86

1971 Event - "City Command" kidnaps 4 U.S. military men at Ankara, Turkey

1962 Event - U.N. command forbids flights to Katangese airports

1962 Event - Samuel Gravely assumes command of destroyer escort "USS Falgout"

1958 Event - U.S. and Canada form North American Air Defense Command (NORAD)

1947 Event - William Wister Haines' "Command Decision," premieres in New York City

1945 Death - Thomas Rennie, General-Major (Dutch command 51st Highland Division), dies

1944 Event - General Montgomery takes command of 12th and 21st army

1944 Event - Bomber Command drop 2,572 tons of bombs on Caen, France

1944 Event - General Eisenhower took command of Allied Invasion Force in London

1943 Event - General Eisenhower selected to command the allied armies in Europe

1942 Event - Italian supreme command demands dismissal of German marshal Rommel

1942 Event - American-British-Dutch-Australian (ABDA) Command forms

1941 Event - Hitler takes complete command of German Army

1940 Event - Fighter Command loses 39/Luftwaffe 41 airplanes

1940 Event - U.S. Air Defense Command forms at Mitchel Field, LI, New York

1934 Event - SS-Reichs Fuhrer Himmler takes command of German Concentration Camps

1927 Event - International allies military command in Germany disbands

1918 Event - 7 U.S. soldiers are surrounded by Germans in France, Alvin York is given command and shoots 20 Germans and captures 132 more

1864 Event - General David Hunter takes command of Department of West Virginia

1864 Event - General Longstreet's command ends heavy fighting at Dandridgem TN

1863 Event - Bedford Forrest is assigned to command of West Tennessee

1863 Event - Grant is given command of Union forces in West

1862 Event - Major General Earl Van Dorn assumes command of Confederate troops in Missisippi

1862 Event - General Robert E Lee takes command of Confederate armies of E Virginia and NC

1862 Event - General Lee assumes command after Joe Johnston is injured at 7 Pines

1861 Event - Grant assumes command of Federal forces at Cape Girardeau MI

1861 Event - Union General George McClellan takes command from McDowell of Potamic Army

1861 Event - CS General Sibley is given command of rebel troops in New Mexico territory

1861 Event - General Beauregard is given command of Confederate Alexandria Line

1861 Event - Col Robert E. Lee turns down offer to command Union armies

1860 Event - Thomas J. Jackson is assigned to command Harpers Ferry

1856 Birthday - Jacobus C J Hermans, actor, 7th Command

1775 Event - George Washington takes command of U.S. troops

1775 Event - Washington takes command of Continental Army at Cambridge, Mass

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