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2012 Event - A naval base located on the Strait of Hormuz, near Bandar Langeh, is established by Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps

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

1983 Birthday - Jessica Lynch, born in Palatine, West Virginia, former Private First Class in the U.S. Army Quartermaster Corps, captured by Iraqis, recovered by special ops forces

1979 Event - Frank Peterson, Jr. named 1st black general in Marine Corps

1978 Event - Margaret A. Brewer is 1st female general in the U.S. Marine Corps

1960 Event - Peace Corps 1st suggested by John F. Kennedy

1948 Event - 1st U.S. woman army officer not in medical corps sworn-in

1948 Event - 1st Lt. Nancy Leftenant becomes 1st black in army nursing corps

1945 Event - U.S. 20th Army corps captures Wiesbaden

1945 Event - U.S. 7th Army Corps captures Cologne

1944 Event - U.S. 12nd Army Corps crosses river Seine East of Paris

1944 Event - 1st SS-Pantser corps counter attacks at Normandy

1944 Event - Polish 2nd Army corps captures convent of Monte Cassino, Italy

1944 Event - 1st female U.S. Navy captain, Sue Dauser of nurse corps, appointed

1943 Event - Withdrawing Africa Corps reaches Mareth-line in North-Africa

1943 Event - Women's Marine Corps created

1942 Event - Hitler orders Rommels African corps to fight to last man

1942 Event - 26th Russian Armoured Corps recaptures Perelazovski

1942 Event - 13th day of battle at El Alamein: Afr corps draws back out Fuka-posing

1942 Death - Georg Stumme, German general/commandant of African corps, dies

1942 Death - Von Bismarck, German major general, (Africa Corps), dies in battle

1942 Event - 1st detachment of Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, begin basic training

1942 Event - Women's Army Auxiliary Corps began basic training at Fort Des Moines

1942 Event - Africa Corps occupy Egypt

1942 Event - Tank battle at Bir Hakeim: African corps vs British army

1942 Event - U.S. Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) forms

1942 Event - Julia Flikke, Nurse Corps, becomes 1st woman colonel in U.S. army

1942 Event - Lt General Rommels African corps reaches Msus

1942 Event - Tank battle at Adzjedabia, African corps vs British army

1941 Event - German Africa Corps lands in Tripoli, Libya

1941 Event - War Department forms 1st Army Air Corps squadron for black cadets

1940 Birthday - Matthias Habich, actor, Straight to the Heart, A Corps Perdu

1937 Event - U.S. Army Air Corps physiological research laboratory completed, Ohio

1933 Event - Congress authorizes Civilian Conservation Corps

1932 Birthday - Joseph P. Kerwin, born in Oak Park, Illinois, Captain Med Corps USN/astronaut, Skylab 2

1929 Birthday - Eustace Gibbs, vice marshal, Diplomatic Corps

1922 Birthday - Gerard Philipe, Cannes France, actor, Caligula, Le Diable au Corps

1918 Event - England's Royal Flying Corps replaced by Royal Air Force

1916 Event - U.S. Army forms Reserve Officers Training Corps

1915 Event - Australian Survey Corps becomes part of Military Forces

1915 Event - 20th Russian Army corps surrenders

1914 Event - U.S. Army air service 1st comes into being, in Signal Corps

1913 Event - Richard Corfields "Camel Corps" opens "Mad Mullah" in Burao Somalia

1912 Event - Royal Flying Corps forms in England

1912 Event - Royal Flying Corps forms (later RAF)

1909 Event - Army Air Corps formed as Army takes 1st delivery from Wright Brothers

1907 Event - Signal Corps of U.S. Army starts aircraft division

1903 Birthday - Raymond Radiguet, French journalist and writer, Le diable ouch corps

1901 Event - Female Army Nurse Corps established as a permanent organization

1900 Birthday - Rene Crevel, French author, Mon corps et moi, Detours

1899 Birthday - Lyman L Lemnitzer, Marine Corps general, WW II

1880 Event - John Philip Sousa becomes new director of U.S. Marine Corps Band

1862 Event - Confederate armies officially divide into corps

1862 Event - United army officially divides corps

1824 Birthday - Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson, Lieutenant General 2nd Corps, ANV, Confederate

1821 Birthday - James Longstreet, Confederate general, 1st Corps, ANV

1819 Death - John H van Kinsbergen, lt-admiral/founder (Corps Marines), dies at 84

1802 Event - U.S. Army Corps of Engineers established (2nd time)

1789 Event - U.S. Marine Corps created by an act of Congress

1779 Event - U.S. Army Corps of Engineers established (1st time)

1775 Event - Congress forms U.S. Marine Corps

1658 Event - 1st U.S. police corps forms (New Amsterdam)









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