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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, 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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