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, brig-gen/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 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 US Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs Colo, 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 (US 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. lt-adm (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 US Task Force 38 destroys 41 Jap ships in Battle of South China Sea
1944 Begin(ning) Liese-Aktion: werving of labor force for Germany
1944 Adm 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 adm 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
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 Gen Pershing
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/VP candidate
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, Bvt Mjr Gen Union volunteers, died in 1899
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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