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2002 "General Benjamin O. Davis, Jr", Air Force General, first black general in the Air Force, dies at 89
1995 Mariners rally from 5-0 to force Game 5 of Division Series vs Yankees 1995 Jacques Lefebvre, Belgian air force gen, commits suicide at 64 1995 Mansour Satari, Brigadier-General and commandant (Iran Air Force), dies at 46 1994 U.N. votes 12-0 (2 abstentions) to authorize use of force against Haiti 1994 Turkish air force bombs Kurds, struggle in Iraq, 70 killed 1994 North-Yemen air force bombs Aden South Yemen 1993 Dionisio Herrero, Spanish air force general, murdered 1993 Dionisio Herrero, Spanish air force general, murdered at 63 1993 Giants need to beat Dodgers to force a playoff game with Braves for NL West title, but Dodgers destroy Giants 12-1, Giants end year 103-59 1993 James H Doolittle, U.S. air force general (Tokyo 1942), dies at 96 1993 Angolese air force bombs Huambo 1992 Supreme Court rules states could not force mentally unstable criminal defendants to take anti-psychotic drugs 1991 Leigh Watson, U.S. aviation pioneer/air force general, dies at 93 1990 Robert Tessier, actor (Nightwish, Future Force), dies at 56 1990 Curtis Lemay, nicknamed Old Iron Pants, General, United States Air Force, running mate for George Wallace, 1968, designed World War II strategic bombing campaign, led Berlin airlift, led firebombing of Tokyo, 22 medals and decorations, dies at age 83 1990 Arthur Kennedy, actor (Air Force), dies of a brain tumor at 76 1989 Mafia drug kingpin bombs security force at Bogota, kills 52 1989 Paul Shenar, actor (Deadly Force, Dream Lover), dies at 53 1989 Panamanian Defense Force attempted coup of Manuel Noriega fails 1989 Joe Spinell, actor (Maniac, Star Crash, Strike Force), dies at 51 1988 Ella Raines, actress (Brute Force), dies of throat cancer at 66 1987 10 die as Air Force jet crashed into a Ramada Inn near Indianapolis 1987 Sri Lanka Air Force bomb Tamil, 100s killed 1986 Supreme Court rules Air Force could ban wearing of yarmulkes 1986 French air force bombs Ouadi Doum airport in Chad 1985 U.S. fighter jets force Egyptian plane carrying hijackers of Italian ship Achille Lauro to land in Italy, gunmen are placed in custody 1984 Howland Chamberlin, actor (Force of Evil, Pickup), dies at 73 1984 U.S. ends participation in multinational Lebanon peace force 1984 Last U.S. Marines in multinational peacekeeping force in Lebanon left Beirut 1979 Royal Air force receives 1st F-16 1978 1st gay theme telefilm - Matlovich vs U.S. Air Force 1978 Daniel "Chappie" James, Jr., retired Air Force general, dies at 58 1976 1st woman was admitted to Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs Colo 1975 Constitution of Democratic Republic of Madagascar comes into force 1974 Air Force fires 1st ICBM 1972 Dutch air force drives away Russian Tupolev-bomber 1972 Wake Island becomes unincorporated territory of U.S., U.S. Air Force 1968 John Ridgely, actor (Air Force, Possessed, Big Sleep), dies at 58 1967 Chinese army/air force/fleet repress uprising in Wuhan City 1967 Race riots in Detroit force postponement of Tigers-Orioles game 1966 Felix A Vening Meinesz, geophysicist (black force), dies at 79 1963 Mark Alalmo, actor, Avenging Force 1963 French air force gets 1st nuclear weapons 1959 1st U.S. Air Force Academy graduation 1959 1st class graduates from Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo 1959 Uprising against Chinese occupation force in Lhasa Tibet 1958 Air Force Academy opens in Colorado Springs, Colo 1958 Indonesian air force bombs Padang, Sumatra/Menado, Celebes 1956 Jordan attacks United Nations Palestine force 1955 U.S. Air Force unveils self-guided missile 1954 Air Force One, 1st U.S. Presidential airplane, christened 1954 U.S. Air Force Academy forms 1954 U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado, established 1953 Earl Wilber Force "Wire" Lindo, rocker, Bob Marley and the Wailers 1952 John Garfield, actor (Juarez, Air Force), dies at 39 1951 Chinese Communists force Dalai Lama to surrender his army to Beijing 1950 Frank Stallone, New York City, Sylvestor's brother/actor, Barfly, Outlaw Force 1950 North Koreans troop reach Seoul, United Nations asks members to aid South Korea, Truman orders Air Force and Navy into Korean conflict 1950 Dutch Air Force base Tjililitan given to Indonesia 1949 Bill Wallace, rocker/actor, Fear, Avenging Force, Desperate 1948 Andre Serot, colonel/commandant of French air force (WW II), dies 1948 1st use of Israeli Air Force and 1st war victory, defeating Syrian army 1947 USAF (U.S. Air Force) forms 1947 U.S. Air Force, Navy and War Department form U.S. Department of Defense 1947 Marc A "Pete" Mitscher, U.S. Lieutenant-Admiral (WW II-Task Force 58), dies at 60 1946 Felton Perry, actor, Magnum Force, Sudden Death 1945 8th Air Force bombs Dresden 1945 U.S. Task Force 58 attacks ships near Kobe/Kure 1945 U.S. Task Force 58 attacks targets on Kiushu 1945 8th Air Force bombs Dresden 1945 Very heavy bombing on Berlin by 8th U.S. Air Force 1945 8th Air Force bombs Dresden 1945 8th Air Force bombs Magdeburg/Chemnitz 1945 U.S. Task Force 38 destroys 41 Japanese ships in Battle of South China Sea 1944 Begin(ning) Liese-Aktion: werving of labor force for Germany 1944 Admiral Halsey's Task Force 30 bombs Okinawa, 700 die 1944 Strongest Hurricane of century in Netherlands (wind force 12) 1944 Prince Bernhard appointed supreme commander of Netherlands Domestic Arm Force 1944 Allied air force bomb Germany for 6 hours 1944 Flying Fortresses of U.S. 8th Air Force attack Leipzig/Dessau 1944 Liberators of U.S. 8th Air Force attack Gotha Russelsheim/Eisenach 1944 U.S. 15th Air Force attacks Friedrichshaven Memmingen 1944 1,200+ 8th Air Force bombers bomb targets in SW Germany 1944 500 15th Air Force Liberators/Flying Fortresses bomb Munich vicinity 1944 D-Day: 150,000 Allied Expeditionary Force lands in Normandy, France 1944 900+ 8th Air Force bombers attack Zwikau, Bohlen and Brux 1944 600+ 8th Air Force bombers attack Berlin 1944 U.S. 8th Air Force bombs Enschede, Arnhem and Nijmegen by mistake/800+ die 1944 General Eisenhower took command of Allied Invasion Force in London 1944 Air Force announces production of 1st U.S. jet fighter, the Bell P-59 1943 U.S. 8th Air Force loses 60 B-17 during assault on Schweinfurt 1943 Hans Jeschonnek, German air force general/chief-staff, commits suicide 1943 U.S. 8th Air Force loses 60 B-17O at attack on Regensburg/Schweinfurt 1943 Elsie S. Ott becomes 1st woman awarded U.S. Air Force Medal 1942 1st US/8th Air Force bombs Europe 1942 Task Force 17 leaves Pearl Harbor under Admiral George Murray on Hornet 1942 1st WW II American expeditionary force lands in Africa (Gold Coast) 1942 1st U.S. force in Europe during WW II go ashore in Northern Ireland 1941 Japanese carrier force left its base and moves east toward Pearl Harbor 1941 Nazi's force German Jews, 6 and over to wear Jewish stars 1941 German battleship Bismarck sunk by British naval force 1940 German Air Force blitz London for 1st of 57 consecutive nights 1940 British Prime Minister Churchill says of Royal Air Force, "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few" 1940 German air force sinks 2 German destroyers, killing 578 1939 British Expeditionary Force reaches France 1936 German air force begins bombing of Madrid 1935 Hermann Goering officially creates German Air Force, the Luftwaffe 1934 Adolph Hitler expands German army and Navy and creates an air force, violating Treaty of Versailles 1933 Karl Radek praises invincible force of German Communist Party 1932 Air force's Marmaduke Brutal becomes leader of revolutionary junta 1930 Herb Edelman, born in Brooklyn, New York, actor, Good Guys, Strike Force, 9 to 5 1930 Supreme Court Justice John Force Crater disappears in New York City 1930 Joseph Force Crater, American Judge 1929 Luc Ferrari, born in Paris, France, composer, concentrated on musical composition, collaborated with Pierre Schaeffer from 1957 - 1966, extended notion of abstract music, interested in breaking barriers that force musical tradition 1926 French air force bombs Damascus, Syria 1926 Italy establishes corp of force in order to break powerful unions 1925 French occupation force begins evacuating country 1921 Belgium's public library law goes into force 1920 Royal Air Force holds an air display at Hendon, England 1919 Boston's police force forms strike 1918 Ben Johnson, born in Foraker, Oklahoma, actor, Chisum, Battle Force, Dillinger 1918 England's Royal Flying Corps replaced by Royal Air Force 1917 Dutch Naval Air Force forms (MLD) 1917 1st U.S. Expeditionary Force arrive in France during WW I 1916 Mexican troops beat U.S. expeditionary force under General Pershing 1915 John Egerton, born in England, born John Egerton, 6th Duke of Sutherland, served with British Expeditionary Force, captured at St. Valery, spent four years in a prisoner of war camp 1915 Vladmir Jabotinsky forms a Jewish military force to fight in Palestine 1914 Charles Drake, Bayside New York City, actor, Air Force, Glenn Miller Story 1912 John Garfield, born in New York City, actor, Air Force, Destination: Tokyo, Juarez 1909 John Ridgely, born in Chicago, Illinois, actor, Northern Pursuit, Air Force 1909 Joseph Force Crater, American Judge 1907 World's 1st air force established in the U.S. Army 1906 Curtis E Le May, air force general/Vice Presidential candidate 1906 Curtis Lemay, born in Columbus, Ohio, nicknamed Old Iron Pants, General, United States Air Force, running mate for George Wallace, 1968, designed World War II strategic bombing campaign, led Berlin airlift, led firebombing of Tokyo, 22 medals and decorations 1905 Thomas Gomez, born in New York City, actor, Force of Evil, Key Largo, Kim, Sellout 1887 Marc A. "Pete" Mitscher, U.S. lt-admiral, WW II-Task Force 58 1886 Henry "Hap" Arnold, commanding general, U.S. Army Air Force, WW II 1883 Krakatoa, west of Java, explodes with a force of 1,300 megatons 1878 Harry Carey Sr, born in Bronx, New York, actor, Aces Wild, Border Cafe, Air Force 1876 Mary R. Beard, born in Indianapolis, historian, Woman as a Force in History 1876 1st NLer to get 6 hits in 9 inn game (Dave Force, Philadelphia Athletics) 1874 Child labor law takes 12 year olds out of work force 1873 Canada's North West Mounted Police Force (RCMPF) forms 1865 Union troops force Confederates to abandon Ft. Anderson, North Carolina 1860 Major Robert Anderson, under cover of darkness, concentrated his small force at Ft. Sumter 1857 Mexican constitution of force (fiercely attacked by Pope Pius IX) 1854 Crimean War: British and French defeat Russian force of 50,000 1850 Christine [Elizabeth C] Poolman, Dutch actress, Stupid force 1848 Johan Thorbeckes revises Great Force 1835 Texas Rangers, mounted police force authorized by Texas Prov Government 1830 Charles X of France resigns by force 1830 London's re-organised police force (Scotland Yard) 1829 London's Metropolitan Police Force goes on duty (Scotland Yard) 1824 Manning Ferguson Force, Major General Union volunteers 1807 Congress passes Embargo Act, to force peace between Britain and France 1798 Catholic women force to do penance for kindling sabbath fire for Jews 1774 Francis Beaufort, admiral/hydrographer, Beaufort wind force scale 1689 Jacobite Scottish Highlanders defeat royal force at Killiecrankie 1602 Spanish force in Ireland surrender to the English at Kinsdale 1282 Furious inhabitants of Palermo attack French occupation force 1040 Lady Godiva rides naked on horseback to force her husband, the Earl of Mercia, to lower taxes |
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