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 milt 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
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 pres/Deng Xiaoping supreme commander of China PR
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
1952 Henri G Winkelman, Dutch supreme commander army/navy 1940, dies at 76
1952 Jonathan Frakes, actor, Commander William T Riker-Star Trek Next Gen
1951 Jurgen Stroop, Nazi commander of Warsaw Ghetto, executed
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
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 Fritz Fromm, German supreme commander of Reserve army, executed
1945 Fieldmarshal Kesselring succeeds von Rundstedt as commander
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 Gen Clark replaces Gen 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 Mordicai Anielewicz, commander of Warsaw ghetto uprising, killed
1942 Lt-general Kumakashi Harada becomes Japanese commander on Java
1942 Dwight D. Eisenhower named commander for invasion of North Africa
1942 Gen 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 Gen Winckelman replaces Gen 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 John J "Jannie" Geldenhuys, supreme commander South Africa army 1980-
1934 Brian Kenny, deputy supreme allied commander, Europe
1933 Heinrich Himmler becomes Police Commander of Germany
1931 Charles Huxtable, General commander, English ground armies
1926 Chiang Kai-shek appointed to national-revolutionary supreme commander
1924 David Loram, British vice-admiral, Supreme Allied Commander
1923 German army commander Gen Von Seeckt bans NSDAP and KPD
1921 Bernard Rogers, supreme Allied commander Europe
1918 Pro-German supreme commander general Cutters lay-offs
1918 Supreme commander of the army Gen Cutters resigns
1917 Peter Winter, naval commander
1915 Andrew J Goodpaster, U.S., general/supreme commander, NATO-Europe
1914 Gen 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
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 Fieldmarshal Lord Roberts appointed British supreme commander in South Africa
1897 Iwan S Konew, Russ 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 fieldmarshal/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
1827 Duke of Wellington appointed British supreme commander
1825 John Hunt Morgan, Brig General, Confederate cavalry commander
1821 Luis (Philippus) Brion, Curaeaos admiral/supreme commander, dies at 39
1812 John Rodgers II, Commander Union Navy, died in 1882
1812 Benjamin Franklin Sands, Commander Union Navy, died in 1883
1811 John Ancrum Winslow, Commander Union Navy, died in 1873
1811 Joseph Lanman, Commander Union Navy, died in 1874
1810 James Shedden Palmer, Commander Union Navy, died in 1867
1809 William Radford, Commander Union Navy, died in 1890
1809 Sylvanus William Godon, Commander Union Navy, died in 1879
1809 William David Porter, Commander Union Navy, died in 1864
1808 Stephen Cleeg Rowan, Commander Union Navy, died in 1890
1808 Thomas Turner, Commander Union Navy, died in 1883
1808 Thomas Tinsley Craven, Commander Union Navy, died in 1887
1808 Henry Haywood Bell, Commander Union Navy, died in 1868
1808 Charles Henry Poor, Commander Union Navy, died in 1882
1807 James Findlay Schenck, Commander Union Navy, died in 1882
1806 Henry Knox Thatcher, Commander Union Navy, died in 1880
1806 Matthew Fontaine Maury, Naval Commander, Confederacy
1804 John William, Turk, Livingston, Commander Union Navy, died in 1885
1804 Thomas Oliver Selfridge, Commander Union Navy
1803 Levin Minnesota Powell, Commander Union Navy, died in 1885
1802 James Lawrence Lardner, Commander Union Navy, died in 1881
1802 Cadwalader Ringgold, Commander Union Navy, died in 1867
1801 John Drake Sloat, Ret Major General Commander Union Navy, died in 1867
1801 Henry Eagle, Commander Union Navy, died in 1882
1801 Ralph Abercromby, English army commander (North Holland), dies at 66
1800 William Wister McKean, Commander Union Navy, died in 1865
1800 Ret Thomas Aloysius Dornin, Commander Union Navy, died in 1874
1798 Gershom Jaques Van Brunt, Commander Union Navy, died in 1863
1798 Charles H Bell, Commander Union Navy, died in 1875
1798 Charles D. Wilkes, Commander Union Navy, died in 1877
1796 Ret Cornelius Kinchiloe Stribling, Commander Union Navy, died in 1880
1795 John Marston, Jr., Commander Union Navy, died in 1885
1795 Joshua Ratoon Sands, Commander Union Navy, died in 1883
1794 John Barrien Montgomery, Commander Union Navy, died in 1873
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, Engl 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/Neth 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/Neth 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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