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2003 Rick Husband, astronaut, commander of Columbia, STS-107

1999 Andrew Keith, writer, Wing Commander, dies at 41

1996 Peter Winter, naval commander, dies at 78

1996 Lewis B Combs, naval commander/civil engineer, dies at 101

1993 Sathasivam Krishnakumar, Sri Lanka commander, commits suicide

1989 Marie-Madeleine Fourcade, commander (French resistance), dies

1988 Lauris Morstad, NATO commander/CEO Corning Fiberglass, dies at 71

1988 Khalil al-Wazir, PLO military commander, assassinated by Israeli commandos

1988 Sean MacBride, Ireland, commander of Irish Republican Army, dies at 83

1987 Maxwell D Taylor, U.S. commander 101st airborne (WW II), dies at 85

1986 Stephen D Thorne, Lieutenant Commander USN/astronaut, dies in a plane crash at 33

1986 Michael J Smith, Beaufort NC, Commander USN, astr, dies in Challenger

1984 Hans Speidel, German gen/NATO-supreme commander (1957-64), dies at 87

1983 General Manuel A Noriega becomes commander of Panamanian army

1983 Li Xiannian becomes president/Deng Xiaoping supreme commander of China PR

1979 Kurt Kasznar, actor (Commander Fitzhugh-Land of the Giants), dies at 65

1979 Failed attack on NATO commander Haig in Obourg, Belgium

1974 U.S. General Haig becomes NATO-supreme commander in Europe

1972 "Hot Rod Lincoln," by Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen hits #9

1971 Thomas C Heart, U.S. admiral/commander (Asiatic fleet), dies

1971 Thomas C Hart, U.S. admiral/commander (Pacific Fleet), dies at 94

1970 Treblinka SS commander Franz Stangl sentenced to life imprisonment

1970 Rene Schneider, Chilean general/supreme commander, murdered

1970 96th Kentucky Derby: Mike Manganello on Dust Commander wins 2:03.4

1964 Stephen N Frick, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Lieutenant Commander USN/astronaut

1963 Lisa M Nowak, Washington D.C., Lieutenant Commander USN/astronaut

1963 Heidemarie M Stefanyshyn-Piper, St. Paul, Minnesota, Lieutenant Commander USN/astronaut

1961 Susan Leigh Still, Augusta, Georgia, Lieutenant Commander USN/astronaut, STS-83, 94

1961 William C McCool, born in San Diego, California, Lieutenant Commander USN/astronaut

1961 Daniel C Burbank, born in Manchester, Connecticut, Lieutenant Commander USCG/astronaut

1961 Laurel B. Clark, born in Ames Iowa, Lieutenant Commander USN/astronaut

1959 Kathryn P Hire, Mobile Alabama, Lieutenant Commander USN/astronaut, sk: STS-90

1959 Scott D. Altman, born in Lincoln, Illinois, Lieutenant Commander USN/astronaut, sk: STS-90

1958 Brent W. Jett, Jr., Pontiac, Michigan, Lieutenant Commander USN/astronaut, STS-72, sk:81

1958 John Bennett Herrington, Wetumka, Oklahoma, Lieutenant Commander USN/astronaut

1958 Michael E Lopez-Alegria, born in Madrid, Spain, Lieutenant Commander/astronaut, STS-73, sk 92

1958 Joe Frank Edwards, Jr., Richmond, Virginia, Commander USN/astronaut, STS-89

1957 Daniel W. Bursch, born in Bristol, Pennsylvania, Lieutenant Commander USN/Astronaut, STS-51, 68, 77

1955 Pierre J Thuot, Groton Conn, Lieutenant Commander USN/astronaut, STS-36, 49, 62

1955 Jerry M Linenger, Mount Clemens, Michigan, PhD/Commander USN/astronaut, STS-81/84

1953 Michael Baker, born in Memphis, Tennessee, Lieutenant Commander USN/astronaut, STS-43, 52, 68, 81

1953 Stephen D. Thorne, born in Frankfurt-on-Main, West Germany, Lieutenant Commander USN/astronaut

1952 Henri G Winkelman, Dutch supreme commander army/navy 1940, dies at 76

1952 James D Wetherbee, Flushing, New York, Lieutenant Commander USN/astr, STS-32, 52, 63, 86

1952 Lee M Morin, Manchester, New Hampshire, Commander USN/astronaut

1952 Jonathan Frakes, actor, Commander William T Riker-Star Trek Next Gen

1952 Mario Runco, Jr., born in Bronx, New York, Lieutenant Commander USN/astronaut, STS-44, 54, 77

1951 Jurgen Stroop, Nazi commander of Warsaw Ghetto, executed

1951 Charles E. Brady, Jr., Pinehurst, North Carolina, Commander USN/astronaut, STS-78

1951 Kenneth S. Reightler, Jr., Patuxent R, Maryland, Commander USN/astro, STS-48, 60

1950 General Eisenhower named NATO commander

1950 U.S. General Eisenhower becomes supreme commander of NATO-Europe

1950 Winston E Scott, born in Miami, Florida, USN Commander/astronaut, STS-72, 87

1949 Bruce E Melnick, New York City, Commander USCG/astronaut, STS-41, STS-49

1949 Frank L Culbertson, Jr., Charleston, South Carolina, Commander USN/astronaut, STS-38

1948 Dale A Gardner, Fairmont, Minnesota, Commander USN/astronaut, STS-8, STS-51A

1948 Bill Kirchen, singer/guitarist, Commander Cody and His Lost Planet

1948 Bill Kirchen, singer/guitarist, Commander Cody and Lost Planet Airmen

1946 Michael Wilkes, commander, UK Field Army

1946 Field Marshal Montgomery appointed British supreme commander

1945 General MacArthur named Supreme Commander of Allied Powers in Japan

1945 Lieutenant General Ushijima, Japanese commander, commits suicide at Okinawa

1945 Michael J. Smith, born in Beaufort, North Carolina, Commander USN, astronaut, 51L-Challenger disaster

1945 Fritz Fromm, German supreme commander of Reserve army, executed

1945 Field Marshal Kesselring succeeds von Rundstedt as commander

1945 Betram Home Ramsay, English Admiral/Commander Naval Forces (Normandy), dies at 61

1944 Prince Bernhard appointed supreme commander of Netherlands Domestic Arm Force

1944 Commander Cody, singer/pianist, Commander Cody and Lost Planet Airmen

1944 General Eisenhower becomes head commander of allied air fleet

1944 General Clark replaces General Patton as commander of 7th Army

1943 Franklin D. Roosevelt appoints General Eisenhower supreme commander of Allied forces

1943 Lord Mountbatten appointed Supreme Allied Commander in SE Asia

1943 Michael J McCulley, born in San Diego, California, Commander USN/astronaut, STS-34

1943 Mordicai Anielewicz, commander of Warsaw ghetto uprising, killed

1942 Lieutenant-General Kumakashi Harada becomes Japanese commander on Java

1942 Dwight D. Eisenhower named commander for invasion of North Africa

1942 General Dwight Eisenhower appointed commander of U.S. forces in Europe

1942 Gael Ramsey, Brigadier commander, HQ Aldershot Garrison

1942 General Doug MacArthur arrives in Australia to become supreme commander

1941 GJ Berenschot, general/supreme commander Dutch East Indies army, dies

1940 General Winckelman replaces General Reijnders as Dutch supreme commander

1939 General Reijnders appointed supreme commander of Dutch army

1939 Isoroku Yamamoto appointed supreme commander of Japanese fleet

1939 Cornelis J Cutters, supreme commander of Navy (1910-18), dies

1938 Andreas J "Cat" Liebenberg, supreme commander, South Africa army

1936 Spanish fascist junta names Franco to generalissimo/supreme commander

1935 Roger B Chaffee, Grand Rapids Michigan, Lieutenant Commander USN/astronaut

1935 John J "Jannie" Geldenhuys, supreme commander South Africa army 1980-

1934 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 Brian Kenny, deputy supreme allied commander, Europe

1933 Heinrich Himmler becomes Police Commander of Germany

1932 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 Charles Huxtable, General commander, English ground armies

1929 Lieutenant Commander Richard E. Byrd sends "My calculations indicate that we have reached vicinity of South Pole"

1926 Chiang Kai-shek appointed to national-revolutionary supreme commander

1924 David Loram, British Vice-Admiral, Supreme Allied Commander

1923 German army commander General Von Seeckt bans NSDAP and KPD

1921 Bernard Rogers, supreme Allied commander Europe

1920 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 Pro-German supreme commander general Cutters lay-offs

1918 Supreme commander of the army General Cutters resigns

1917 Peter Winter, naval commander

1915 Andrew J Goodpaster, U.S., general/supreme commander, NATO-Europe

1914 General von Hindenburgs named commander of German armies on Eastern Front

1914 King Albert I becomes supreme commander of Belgian army

1914 John French appointed British supreme commander

1913 Kurt Kaszner, born in Vienna, Austria, actor, Commander Fitzhugh-Land of the Giants

1907 Lauris Norstad, U.S. gen, NATO commander and CEO, Owens-Corning Fiberglass

1900 Lord Kitchener succeeds lord Roberts up as supreme commander in South Africa

1899 Field Marshal Lord Roberts appointed British supreme commander in South Africa

1897 Iwan S. Konew, Russian marshal/supreme commander pact of Warsaw

1897 Hans Speidel, nazi chief-staff/NATO-supreme commander

1896 Richard N Gale, English general/airborne commander, Normandy

1895 Lewis B. Combs, naval commander and civil engineer

1886 Raymond A. Spruance, U.S. admiral/fleet commander/ambassador

1884 Isoroku Yamamoto, admiral and supreme commander of Japanese fleet

1883 Alexander Papagos, Greek Field Marshal/supreme commander

1883 William Hicks, British col/commander (Egyptian army), dies in battle

1883 Betram Home Ramsay, English admiral/Commander Allied Naval Forces

1879 Friedrich Christiansen, nazi commander Wehrmacht Netherland

1876 Henri G Winkelman, Dutch general/supreme commander/navy 1940

1865 Army commander in South Carolina orders Freedmen's Bureau to stop seizing land

1864 Grant is named commander of the Union armies

1864 Ulysses S. Grant is appointed commander of Union Army

1861 Robert E. Lee named commander of Virginia Confederate forces

1860 John J, Blackjack, Pershing, U.S. commander, WW I

1856 Yang Hsiu-ch'ing, commander in chief of Taiping Rebellion

1852 Cornelis J Snijders, supreme commander of Dutch Navy, 1910-18

1851 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 William Barker Cushing, Lieutenant Commander Union Navy

1840 Sanuel Dana Greene, Lieutenant Commander Union Navy

1827 Duke of Wellington appointed British supreme commander

1825 John Hunt Morgan, Brigadier General, Confederate cavalry commander

1821 Luis (Philippus) Brion, Curaeaos admiral/supreme commander, dies at 39

1812 John Rodgers II, Commander Union Navy

1812 Benjamin Franklin Sands, Commander Union Navy

1811 John Ancrum Winslow, Commander Union Navy

1811 Joseph Lanman, Commander Union Navy

1810 James Shedden Palmer, Commander Union Navy

1809 William Radford, Commander Union Navy

1809 Sylvanus William Godon, Commander Union Navy

1809 William David Porter, Commander Union Navy

1808 Stephen Cleeg Rowan, Commander Union Navy

1808 Thomas Turner, Commander Union Navy

1808 Thomas Tinsley Craven, Commander Union Navy

1808 Henry Haywood Bell, Commander Union Navy

1808 Charles Henry Poor, Commander Union Navy

1807 James Findlay Schenck, Commander Union Navy

1806 Henry Knox Thatcher, Commander Union Navy

1806 Matthew Fontaine Maury, Naval Commander, Confederacy

1804 John William, Turk, Livingston, Commander Union Navy

1804 Thomas Oliver Selfridge, Commander Union Navy

1803 Levin Minnesota Powell, Commander Union Navy

1802 James Lawrence Lardner, Commander Union Navy

1802 Cadwalader Ringgold, Commander Union Navy

1801 John Drake Sloat, Ret Major General Commander Union Navy

1801 Henry Eagle, Commander Union Navy

1801 Ralph Abercromby, English army commander (North Holland), dies at 66

1800 William Wister McKean, Commander Union Navy

1800 Ret Thomas Aloysius Dornin, Commander Union Navy

1798 Gershom Jaques Van Brunt, Commander Union Navy

1798 Charles H Bell, Commander Union Navy

1798 Charles D. Wilkes, Commander Union Navy

1796 Ret Cornelius Kinchiloe Stribling, Commander Union Navy

1795 John Marston, Jr., Commander Union Navy

1795 Joshua Ratoon Sands, Commander Union Navy

1794 John Barrien Montgomery, Commander Union Navy

1786 August Keppel, 1st viscount/naval commander/politican, dies

1782 Luis [Philippus] Brion, Curacao commander of Colombian fleet

1775 2nd Continental Congress names George Washington, supreme commander

1765 William August duke of Cumberland, English supreme commander, dies at 44

1759 James Wolfe and the French commander Louis Montcalm, killed

1734 Ralph Abercromby, English army commander, Dutch Guyana

1711 Duke of Marlborough fired as English army commander

1676 Paulus Wirtz, Wurtz, German/Netherlands army commander, dies at 63

1645 Robert Devereux resigns as parliament supreme commander

1634 Ferdinand II orders commander Albrecht von Wallenstein, execution

1632 Albrecht von Wallenstein appointed supreme commander

1630 Ferdinand II fires supreme commander Albrecht von Wallenstein

1628 Hans Jonsson, Swedish fleet commander, drowned

1625 Albrecht von Wallenstein appointed German supreme commander

1621 Miles Standish appointed 1st commander of Plymouth colony

1612 Paul Wirtz, Wurtz, German/Netherlands army commander

1608 Adolf, earl of Nassau-Siegen/cavalry commander, dies in battle

1598 Maarten Harpertszoon Tromp, naval commander

1596 Dutch fleet commander Cornelis de Houtman taken hostage in Java

1571 Ali Pasha, Turkish fleet commander, dies in battle

1547 Henry Howard, earl of Surrey, army commander/poet, beheaded at 29

1528 Great Wierd, Dutch Gelderland army commander, beheaded

1356 Gautier de Brienne, duke of Athens/French supreme commander, dies

69 Roman Lower Rhine army proclaims its commander, Vitellius, emperor


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