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2012 Event - In the U.S., President Obama nominates John R. Allen as Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR), with General Joseph Dunford positioned to succeed Allen in his previous post of commander of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan 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 - In North Korea, Kim Jong-un is given the tile of Supreme Commander of North Korea's armed forces 2010 Event - A drone strike in Pakistan reportedly kills Taliban commander, Faqir Mohammed 2010 Event - Muslim fundamentalists in northern Algeria kill an army colonel and a military commander of Bejaia 2003 Death - Rick Husband, astronaut, commander of Columbia, STS-107 1999 Death - Andrew Keith, writer, Wing Commander, dies at 41 1996 Death - Peter Winter, naval commander, dies at 78 1996 Death - Lewis B Combs, naval commander/civil engineer, dies at 101 1993 Death - Sathasivam Krishnakumar, Sri Lanka commander, commits suicide 1989 Death - Marie-Madeleine Fourcade, commander (French resistance), dies 1988 Death - Lauris Morstad, NATO commander/CEO Corning Fiberglass, dies at 71 1988 Death - Khalil al-Wazir, PLO military commander, assassinated by Israeli commandos 1988 Death - Sean MacBride, Ireland, commander of Irish Republican Army, dies at 83 1987 Death - Maxwell D Taylor, U.S. commander 101st airborne (WW II), dies at 85 1986 Death - Stephen D Thorne, Lieutenant Commander USN/astronaut, dies in a plane crash at 33 1986 Death - Michael J Smith, Beaufort NC, Commander USN, astr, dies in Challenger 1984 Death - Hans Speidel, German gen/NATO-supreme commander (1957-64), dies at 87 1983 Event - General Manuel A Noriega becomes commander of Panamanian army 1983 Event - Li Xiannian becomes president/Deng Xiaoping supreme commander of China PR 1980 Birthday - Conor Oberst, born in Omaha, Nebraska, singer, songwriter, played with Bright Eyes band, Commander Venus, Park Ave, Monsters of Folk 1979 Death - Kurt Kasznar, actor (Commander Fitzhugh-Land of the Giants), dies at 65 1979 Event - Failed attack on NATO commander Haig in Obourg, Belgium 1974 Event - U.S. General Haig becomes NATO-supreme commander in Europe 1972 Event - "Hot Rod Lincoln," by Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen hits #9 1971 Death - Thomas C Heart, U.S. admiral/commander (Asiatic fleet), dies 1971 Death - Thomas C Hart, U.S. admiral/commander (Pacific Fleet), dies at 94 1970 Event - Treblinka SS commander Franz Stangl sentenced to life imprisonment 1970 Death - Rene Schneider, Chilean general/supreme commander, murdered 1970 Birthday - John Carmack, born in Roeland Park, Kansas, game programmer, co-founder of id Software, lead programmer for computer games, 'Quake', 'Doom', 'Commander Keen' series 1970 Event - 96th Kentucky Derby: Mike Manganello on Dust Commander wins 2:03.4 1964 Birthday - Stephen N Frick, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Lieutenant Commander USN/astronaut 1963 Birthday - Lisa M Nowak, Washington D.C., Lieutenant Commander USN/astronaut 1963 Birthday - Heidemarie M Stefanyshyn-Piper, St. Paul, Minnesota, Lieutenant Commander USN/astronaut 1961 Birthday - Susan Leigh Still, Augusta, Georgia, Lieutenant Commander USN/astronaut, STS-83, 94 1961 Birthday - William C McCool, born in San Diego, California, Lieutenant Commander USN/astronaut 1961 Birthday - Daniel C Burbank, born in Manchester, Connecticut, Lieutenant Commander USCG/astronaut 1961 Birthday - Laurel B. Clark, born in Ames Iowa, Lieutenant Commander USN/astronaut 1959 Birthday - Kathryn P Hire, Mobile Alabama, Lieutenant Commander USN/astronaut, sk: STS-90 1959 Birthday - Scott D. Altman, born in Lincoln, Illinois, Lieutenant Commander USN/astronaut, sk: STS-90 1958 Birthday - Brent W. Jett, Jr., Pontiac, Michigan, Lieutenant Commander USN/astronaut, STS-72, sk:81 1958 Birthday - John Bennett Herrington, Wetumka, Oklahoma, Lieutenant Commander USN/astronaut 1958 Birthday - Michael E Lopez-Alegria, born in Madrid, Spain, Lieutenant Commander/astronaut, STS-73, sk 92 1958 Birthday - Joe Frank Edwards, Jr., Richmond, Virginia, Commander USN/astronaut, STS-89 1957 Birthday - Daniel W. Bursch, born in Bristol, Pennsylvania, Lieutenant Commander USN/Astronaut, STS-51, 68, 77 1956 Birthday - Amanda Burton, born in Ballougry, Northern Ireland, actress, known for television role of Sam Ryan on 'Silent Witness', appeared in 'The Commander' and 'Peak Practice' 1955 Birthday - Pierre J Thuot, Groton Conn, Lieutenant Commander USN/astronaut, STS-36, 49, 62 1955 Birthday - Jerry M Linenger, Mount Clemens, Michigan, PhD/Commander USN/astronaut, STS-81/84 1953 Birthday - Michael Baker, born in Memphis, Tennessee, Lieutenant Commander USN/astronaut, STS-43, 52, 68, 81 1953 Birthday - Stephen D. Thorne, born in Frankfurt-on-Main, West Germany, Lieutenant Commander USN/astronaut 1952 Death - Henri G Winkelman, Dutch supreme commander army/navy 1940, dies at 76 1952 Birthday - James D Wetherbee, Flushing, New York, Lieutenant Commander USN/astr, STS-32, 52, 63, 86 1952 Birthday - Lee M Morin, Manchester, New Hampshire, Commander USN/astronaut 1952 Birthday - Jonathan Frakes, actor, Commander William T Riker-Star Trek Next Gen 1952 Birthday - Mario Runco, Jr., born in Bronx, New York, Lieutenant Commander USN/astronaut, STS-44, 54, 77 1951 Death - Jurgen Stroop, Nazi commander of Warsaw Ghetto, executed 1951 Birthday - Charles E. Brady, Jr., Pinehurst, North Carolina, Commander USN/astronaut, STS-78 1951 Birthday - Kenneth S. Reightler, Jr., Patuxent R, Maryland, Commander USN/astro, STS-48, 60 1950 Event - General Eisenhower named NATO commander 1950 Event - U.S. General Eisenhower becomes supreme commander of NATO-Europe 1950 Birthday - Winston E Scott, born in Miami, Florida, USN Commander/astronaut, STS-72, 87 1949 Birthday - Bruce E Melnick, New York City, Commander USCG/astronaut, STS-41, STS-49 1949 Birthday - Frank L Culbertson, Jr., Charleston, South Carolina, Commander USN/astronaut, STS-38 1948 Birthday - Dale A Gardner, Fairmont, Minnesota, Commander USN/astronaut, STS-8, STS-51A 1948 Birthday - Bill Kirchen, singer/guitarist, Commander Cody and His Lost Planet 1948 Birthday - Bill Kirchen, singer/guitarist, Commander Cody and Lost Planet Airmen 1946 Birthday - Michael Wilkes, commander, UK Field Army 1946 Event - Field Marshal Montgomery appointed British supreme commander 1945 Event - General MacArthur named Supreme Commander of Allied Powers in Japan 1945 Death - Lieutenant General Ushijima, Japanese commander, commits suicide at Okinawa 1945 Birthday - Michael J. Smith, born in Beaufort, North Carolina, Commander USN, astronaut, 51L-Challenger disaster 1945 Death - Fritz Fromm, German supreme commander of Reserve army, executed 1945 Event - Field Marshal Kesselring succeeds von Rundstedt as commander 1945 Death - Betram Home Ramsay, English Admiral/Commander Naval Forces (Normandy), dies at 61 1944 Event - Prince Bernhard appointed supreme commander of Netherlands Domestic Arm Force 1944 Birthday - Commander Cody, singer/pianist, Commander Cody and Lost Planet Airmen 1944 Event - General Eisenhower becomes head commander of allied air fleet 1944 Event - General Clark replaces General Patton as commander of 7th Army 1943 Event - Franklin D. Roosevelt appoints General Eisenhower supreme commander of Allied forces 1943 Event - Lord Mountbatten appointed Supreme Allied Commander in SE Asia 1943 Birthday - Michael J McCulley, born in San Diego, California, Commander USN/astronaut, STS-34 1943 Death - Mordicai Anielewicz, commander of Warsaw ghetto uprising, killed 1942 Event - Lieutenant-General Kumakashi Harada becomes Japanese commander on Java 1942 Event - Dwight D. Eisenhower named commander for invasion of North Africa 1942 Event - General Dwight Eisenhower appointed commander of U.S. forces in Europe 1942 Birthday - Gael Ramsey, Brigadier commander, HQ Aldershot Garrison 1942 Event - General Doug MacArthur arrives in Australia to become supreme commander 1941 Death - GJ Berenschot, general/supreme commander Dutch East Indies army, dies 1940 Event - General Winckelman replaces General Reijnders as Dutch supreme commander 1939 Event - General Reijnders appointed supreme commander of Dutch army 1939 Event - Isoroku Yamamoto appointed supreme commander of Japanese fleet 1939 Death - Cornelis J Cutters, supreme commander of Navy (1910-18), dies 1938 Birthday - Andreas J "Cat" Liebenberg, supreme commander, South Africa army 1936 Event - Spanish fascist junta names Franco to generalissimo/supreme commander 1935 Birthday - Roger B Chaffee, Grand Rapids Michigan, Lieutenant Commander USN/astronaut 1935 Birthday - John J "Jannie" Geldenhuys, supreme commander South Africa army 1980- 1934 Birthday - Norman Schwarzkopf, born in Trenton, New Jersey, nicknamed, Stormin' Norman, The Bear, Commander, Coalition Forces in the Gulf War, 1991, retired U.S. Army General 1934 Birthday - Brian Kenny, deputy supreme allied commander, Europe 1933 Event - Heinrich Himmler becomes Police Commander of Germany 1932 Birthday - David Scott, born in San Antonio, Texas, astronaut, commander of Apollo 15 mission, seventh person to walk on the Moon, first person to drive on the Moon 1931 Birthday - Charles Huxtable, General commander, English ground armies 1929 Event - Lieutenant Commander Richard E. Byrd sends "My calculations indicate that we have reached vicinity of South Pole" 1926 Event - Chiang Kai-shek appointed to national-revolutionary supreme commander 1924 Birthday - David Loram, British Vice-Admiral, Supreme Allied Commander 1923 Event - German army commander General Von Seeckt bans NSDAP and KPD 1921 Birthday - Bernard Rogers, supreme Allied commander Europe 1920 Death - Gerard Leman, Belgian general, war hero, provided King Albert I of Belgium with his military education, commander of the forts surrounding Liege in World War One, captured as a prisoner of War by the Germans and released at the end of the War, dies 1918 Event - Pro-German supreme commander general Cutters lay-offs 1918 Event - Supreme commander of the army General Cutters resigns 1917 Birthday - Peter Winter, naval commander 1915 Birthday - Andrew J Goodpaster, U.S., general/supreme commander, NATO-Europe 1914 Event - General von Hindenburgs named commander of German armies on Eastern Front 1914 Event - King Albert I becomes supreme commander of Belgian army 1914 Event - John French appointed British supreme commander 1913 Birthday - Kurt Kaszner, born in Vienna, Austria, actor, Commander Fitzhugh-Land of the Giants 1907 Birthday - Lauris Norstad, U.S. gen, NATO commander and CEO, Owens-Corning Fiberglass 1900 Event - Lord Kitchener succeeds lord Roberts up as supreme commander in South Africa 1899 Event - Field Marshal Lord Roberts appointed British supreme commander in South Africa 1897 Birthday - Iwan S. Konew, Russian marshal/supreme commander pact of Warsaw 1897 Birthday - Hans Speidel, nazi chief-staff/NATO-supreme commander 1896 Birthday - Richard N Gale, English general/airborne commander, Normandy 1895 Birthday - Lewis B. Combs, naval commander and civil engineer 1886 Birthday - Raymond A. Spruance, U.S. admiral/fleet commander/ambassador 1884 Birthday - Isoroku Yamamoto, admiral and supreme commander of Japanese fleet 1883 Birthday - Alexander Papagos, Greek Field Marshal/supreme commander 1883 Death - William Hicks, British col/commander (Egyptian army), dies in battle 1883 Birthday - Betram Home Ramsay, English admiral/Commander Allied Naval Forces 1879 Birthday - Friedrich Christiansen, nazi commander Wehrmacht Netherland 1876 Birthday - Henri G Winkelman, Dutch general/supreme commander/navy 1940 1865 Event - Army commander in South Carolina orders Freedmen's Bureau to stop seizing land 1864 Event - Grant is named commander of the Union armies 1864 Event - Ulysses S. Grant is appointed commander of Union Army 1861 Event - Robert E. Lee named commander of Virginia Confederate forces 1860 Birthday - John J, Blackjack, Pershing, U.S. commander, WW I 1856 Birthday - Yang Hsiu-ch'ing, commander in chief of Taiping Rebellion 1852 Birthday - Cornelis J Snijders, supreme commander of Dutch Navy, 1910-18 1851 Birthday - Gerard Leman, born in Liege, Belgium, Belgian general, war hero, provided King Albert I of Belgium with his military education, commander of the forts surrounding Liege in World War One, captured as a prisoner of War by the Germans and released at the end of the War 1842 Birthday - William Barker Cushing, Lieutenant Commander Union Navy 1840 Birthday - Sanuel Dana Greene, Lieutenant Commander Union Navy 1827 Event - Duke of Wellington appointed British supreme commander 1825 Birthday - John Hunt Morgan, Brigadier General, Confederate cavalry commander 1821 Death - Luis (Philippus) Brion, Curaeaos admiral/supreme commander, dies at 39 1812 Birthday - John Rodgers II, Commander Union Navy 1812 Birthday - Benjamin Franklin Sands, Commander Union Navy 1811 Birthday - John Ancrum Winslow, Commander Union Navy 1811 Birthday - Joseph Lanman, Commander Union Navy 1810 Birthday - James Shedden Palmer, Commander Union Navy 1809 Birthday - William Radford, Commander Union Navy 1809 Birthday - Sylvanus William Godon, Commander Union Navy 1809 Birthday - William David Porter, Commander Union Navy 1808 Birthday - Stephen Cleeg Rowan, Commander Union Navy 1808 Birthday - Thomas Turner, Commander Union Navy 1808 Birthday - Thomas Tinsley Craven, Commander Union Navy 1808 Birthday - Henry Haywood Bell, Commander Union Navy 1808 Birthday - Charles Henry Poor, Commander Union Navy 1807 Birthday - James Findlay Schenck, Commander Union Navy 1806 Birthday - Henry Knox Thatcher, Commander Union Navy 1806 Birthday - Matthew Fontaine Maury, Naval Commander, Confederacy 1804 Birthday - John William, Turk, Livingston, Commander Union Navy 1804 Birthday - Thomas Oliver Selfridge, Commander Union Navy 1803 Birthday - Levin Minnesota Powell, Commander Union Navy 1802 Birthday - James Lawrence Lardner, Commander Union Navy 1802 Birthday - Cadwalader Ringgold, Commander Union Navy 1801 Birthday - John Drake Sloat, Ret Major General Commander Union Navy 1801 Birthday - Henry Eagle, Commander Union Navy 1801 Death - Ralph Abercromby, English army commander (North Holland), dies at 66 1800 Birthday - William Wister McKean, Commander Union Navy 1800 Birthday - Ret Thomas Aloysius Dornin, Commander Union Navy 1798 Birthday - Gershom Jaques Van Brunt, Commander Union Navy 1798 Birthday - Charles H Bell, Commander Union Navy 1798 Birthday - Charles D. Wilkes, Commander Union Navy 1796 Birthday - Ret Cornelius Kinchiloe Stribling, Commander Union Navy 1795 Birthday - John Marston, Jr., Commander Union Navy 1795 Birthday - Joshua Ratoon Sands, Commander Union Navy 1794 Birthday - John Barrien Montgomery, Commander Union Navy 1786 Death - August Keppel, 1st viscount/naval commander/politican, dies 1782 Birthday - Luis [Philippus] Brion, Curacao commander of Colombian fleet 1775 Event - 2nd Continental Congress names George Washington, supreme commander 1765 Death - William August duke of Cumberland, English supreme commander, dies at 44 1759 Death - James Wolfe and the French commander Louis Montcalm, killed 1734 Birthday - Ralph Abercromby, English army commander, Dutch Guyana 1711 Event - Duke of Marlborough fired as English army commander 1676 Death - Paulus Wirtz, Wurtz, German/Netherlands army commander, dies at 63 1645 Event - Robert Devereux resigns as parliament supreme commander 1634 Event - Ferdinand II orders commander Albrecht von Wallenstein, execution 1632 Event - Albrecht von Wallenstein appointed supreme commander 1630 Event - Ferdinand II fires supreme commander Albrecht von Wallenstein 1628 Death - Hans Jonsson, Swedish fleet commander, drowned 1625 Event - Albrecht von Wallenstein appointed German supreme commander 1621 Event - Miles Standish appointed 1st commander of Plymouth colony 1612 Birthday - Paul Wirtz, Wurtz, German/Netherlands army commander 1608 Death - Adolf, earl of Nassau-Siegen/cavalry commander, dies in battle 1598 Birthday - Maarten Harpertszoon Tromp, naval commander 1596 Event - Dutch fleet commander Cornelis de Houtman taken hostage in Java 1571 Death - Ali Pasha, Turkish fleet commander, dies in battle 1547 Death - Henry Howard, earl of Surrey, army commander/poet, beheaded at 29 1528 Death - Great Wierd, Dutch Gelderland army commander, beheaded 1356 Death - Gautier de Brienne, duke of Athens/French supreme commander, dies 69 Event - Roman Lower Rhine army proclaims its commander, Vitellius, emperor |
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