1997 Georges Marchais, Sec Gen of French Communist Party (1972-94), dies
1995 Jacques Lefebvre, Belgian air force gen, commits suicide at 64
1994 Gen H Norman Schwarzkopf released from hospital after prostate surgery
1992 Gen Suwa finds tooth of 4.4 million year old Australopithecus ramidus
1991 Iraqi generals and Gen Schwarzkopf meet to discuss cease fire
1990 Panama's leader Gen Manuel Noriega surrenders to U.S. authorities
1989 Gen Manuel Noriega's government nullifies country's elections, which the opposition had won by a 3-1 margin
1988 John Mitchell, former Atny Gen, dies of heart attack in Washington
1988 Muang Muang succeeds Gen Sein Lwin as President of Burma
1988 Panamanian Gen Manuel Noriega indicted by U.S. grand jury for drugs
1985 Philipine Chief staff Gen Fabian speaks of B Aquino's murder
1984 Hans Speidel, German gen/NATO-supreme commander (1957-64), dies at 87
1984 Gen Sec Konstantin U Chernenko named President of Soviet Union
1984 Yuri Andropov, Gen Sec of Soviet Communist Party (1982-84), dies at 69
1983 Att Gen Edwin Meese says people go to soup kitchens "...because food is free and that's easier than paying for it"
1983 Brig Gen Efrain Rios Montt was deposed as president of Guatemela
1982 Philip Ober, actor (Gen Stone-I Dream of Jeannie), dies at 80
1982 Gen Ariel Sharon urges Palestinians to discuss peaceful coexistence
1982 President Reagan 1st United Nations Gen Assembly address, "evil empire" speech
1982 Guatemala military coup under gen Rios Montt, President Romeo Lucas flees
1982 U.S. Gen Dozier freed from Red Brigade of Padua Italy
1981 Members of Red Brigades kidnap Brig Gen James L Dozier
1981 Argentine president/gen Roberto Viola flees
1981 Gen Omar Torrijos, leader of Panama, dies in plane crash
1979 Bolivia military coup under Gen Busch, President Guevara flees
1978 Lucius D Clay, gen/gov U.S. zone W-Germany (airlift), dies at 80
1977 President Carter and Gen Herrera sign Panama Canal treaties
1977 Pakistan's army, led by Gen Mohammad Zia ul-Haq, seizes power
1976 Martha Mitchell wife of former Att Gen John Mitchell, dies in New York at 57
1975 Hendrik Kruls, Dutch gen/chief milt authority (1944-46), dies at 73
1975 Anthony C McAuliffe, U.S. gen/commandant 101st div (Nuts!), dies at 77
1975 Military coup by Gen Mohammed/President Jakubu Gowon fired
1975 House of Representatives votes to restore citizenship to Gen Robert E. Lee
1975 South-Vietnam Gen Duong Van Minh sworn in as president till April 30
1974 U.S. Gen George Brown's speech deplores Jewish influence in U.S. over his treatment during the 1973 World Series
1974 Gen Francesco da Costa Gomez succeeds Gen Spinola as President of Portugal
1974 Georgios Grivas, Greek gen/oppos leader on Cyprus (EOKA), dies at 75
1973 Solicitor Gen Bork, AG Richardson and Deputy AG Ruckelshaus resigned
1973 Israeli tanks under Gen Sharon move through Suez Canal
1973 Maj Gen Juvenal Habyarimana becomes president of Rwanda
1972 Gen Lon Nol becomes President and prince Sirik Matak premier of Cambodia
1971 Military coup in Uganda under Gen Idi Amin Dada
1970 Vinton Hayworth, actor (Gen Schaeffer-I Dream of Jeannie), dies at 63
1970 Cambodia military coup under Gen Lon Nol, prince Sihanuk flees
1969 Maj Gen Mohamed Siad Barre becomes President of Somali
1969 Charles Foulkes, Canada gen/honorary citizen of Wageningen, dies at 66
1969 Dwight D Eisenhower, 34th pres/gen (WW 2), dies in Washington at 78
1969 Gen Hafez al-Assad becomes head of Syria via miltary coup
1969 Spanish Gen Franco announces state of emergency
1969 Barton Maclane, actor (Gen Peterson-I Dream of Jeannie), dies at 68
1968 Peru coup under gen Velasco Alvarado, President Belaunde Terry flees
1967 Gen Gnassingbe Eyadema becomes president of Togo
1967 Michelle Forbes, born in Austin, Texas, actress, Ensign Ro-Star Trek Next Gen
1966 Military coup led by Indonesian Gen Suharto breaks out
1965 Congo milt coup under Gen Mobutu, President Kasavubu overthrown
1965 South Vietnam Gen Nguyen Cao Kentucky succeeds Phan Huy Quat as premier
1964 Francisco H Craveiro Lopes, Portuguese gen/president (1951-58), dies at 70
1964 Gen Maxwell Taylor appointed U.S. ambassador in South Vietnam
1964 Military coup in Brazil by Gen Castello Branco, President Goulart ousted
1964 Military coup of Gen Nguyen Khanh in South Vietnam
1962 Gen Charles P. Cabell, USAF, ends term as deputy director of CIA
1961 Uprising of French parachutist of Gen Salan/Challe in Algeria
1960 Scott Thompson Baker, born in Minneapolis, actor, Gen Hosp, All My Children
1958 Gen Ayub Khan succeeds Iskander Mirza as president of Pakistan
1957 Denise Crosby, born in Hollywood, California, actress, Tasha-Star Trek: Next Gen
1957 U.S. Surgeon Gen Leroy Burney connects smoking with lung cancer
1955 Argentine gen Pedro Aramburu succeeds E Lonardi as president
1955 Leigh J McCloskey, born in Los Angeles, California, actor, Dallas, Executive Suite, Gen Hosp
1953 Dr. Albert Schweitzer and Gen George C Marshall win Nobel Peace Prize
1953 U.S. Gen Omar Bradley's becomes chief of staff
1953 Damasco Berenguer y Fuste, Spanish gen/min of War, dies at 79
1953 Egyptian Premier Gen Naguib disbands all political parties
1952 Jonathan Frakes, actor, Commander William T Riker-Star Trek Next Gen
1952 Jean JM de Lattre de Tassigny, gen (N-Africa/Indo-China), dies at 61
1951 Gen Francisco Craveiro Lopes appointed President of Portugal
1951 Gen Douglas MacArthur ends his military career
1951 President Truman fires Gen Douglas McArthur
1950 Augusto Gen'un Alcalde, Buenos Aires, 1st S Amer Zen teacher
1950 Gen Douglas MacArthur named commander-in-chief, United Nations forces in Korea
1949 Brigadier Gen Edwin K. Wright, USA, ends term as deputy director of CIA
1948 Court of justice sentences Gen Fr Christiansen to 12 years
1948 John de Lancie, actor, Q-Star Trek Next Gen, Days of our Lives
1948 Greek Gen Markos' guerrilla army bombs Saloniki
1948 Johann Blaskowitz, German gen (surrendered at Wageningen), dies at 64
1947 Jane Elliot, New York City, actress, Baby Boom, Gen Hospital, Knots Landing
1947 Gen George Marshall becomes Secretary of State
1946 Kwo-less-shrew selects Gen Chiang Kai-shek as president of China
1946 Dragoljub "Draza" Mihailovic, Yugoslav gen (Nazi), executed at 53
1945 Gen George C. Marshall named special U.S. envoy to China
1945 Japanese surrender Taiwan to Gen Chiang Kai-shek
1945 Gen Von Keitel surrenders to Marshal Zhukov
1945 Gen Eisenhower, Montgomery and Bradley discuss advance in Germany
1945 British 43rd Division under Gen Essame occupies Xanten
1945 Gen "Vinegar Joe" Stillwell and truck convoy reopen Burma Road to China
1945 US soldiers led by Gen Douglas MacArthur invades Philippines
1944 Gen Eisenhowers train returns to Versailles
1944 Battle of Bastogne-US Gen Patton's 4th Pantzers repulse Germans
1944 Gen Eisenhower's clerk Rickey marries corporal Pearlie
1944 U.S. 7th army under Gen Patch conquers Straatsburg
1944 U.S. forces under Gen Douglas MacArthur return to Philippines
1944 Rudolf Schmundt, German gen/Hitlers army adjunct, dies from injuries
1944 Gen Von Zangens 15th army escape from Zealand
1944 Gen De Gaulle returns to Paris/walks Champs Elysees Paris
1944 Gen LeClercs troops open assault on Paris
1944 Gen de Gaulle returns to France
1944 Gen Bradley visits Montgomery
1944 Korten, chef gen of Germany Luftwaffe, dies in bomb explosion
1944 Ludwig Beck, gen/chief Germany general staff (July 20th plot), dies
1944 Rudolf Schmundt, gen/Hitler's Army adjunct, dies from wounds
1944 Polish troops under gen Anders occupy Ancona Italy
1944 Gen Montgomery lands in Normandy, forms HQ in Chateau de Creully
1944 Gen Montgomery/Patton/Bradley/Dempsey/Crerar meet in Portsmouth
1944 Gen Rommel, Speidel and von Stulpnagel attempt to assassinate Hitler
1944 Gen Clark replaces Gen Patton as commander of 7th Army
1943 Gen Montgomery told he is appointed commandant for D-day
1943 Red Army under Gen Vatutin recaptures Achtyrka
1943 Gen Patton enters Messina, completing conquest of Sicily by Allies
1943 Gen. Patton slaps a U.S. GI in the hospital accusing him of cowardice
1943 U.S. forces led by Gen George Patton liberate Palermo, Sicily
1943 4th day of battle at Kursk: Gen Model uses last tank reserve
1943 Wladyslaw Sikorski, gen/PM of Poland in exile (1939-43), dies at 62
1943 Argentina taken over by Gen Rawson and Col Juan Peron
1943 Gen Alexander, Eisenhower, Anderson and Bradley discuss assault on Tunis
1943 German tanks under brig gen Buelowius attack Kasserine Pass Tunesia
1943 Augusto Pinochet Ugarte (Chilean gen/dictator) marries Lucia Hiriart
1943 Gen Friedrich von Paul surrenders to Russian troops at Stalingrad
1942 U.S. gens Clark and Lemnitzer and French gen Mast meet secretly in Algeria
1942 Gen Paulus orders German 6th Army to conquer Stalingrad
1942 Robert Lee Stewart, Washington D.C., Brig Gen U.S. Army/astronaut, STS 41B, 51J
1942 Gen B. Montgomery becomes commandant British 8th leader in North Africa
1942 Richard Gott, British gen/commandant of 8th Army, dies in battle at 43
1942 Churchill fires Gen Auchinlek as Middle-East commandant
1942 Gen Dwight Eisenhower appointed commander of U.S. forces in Europe
1941 Ioannis Metaxas, Greek gen/dictator (1936-41), commits suicide at 69
1940 U.S. Army Gen Benjamin Davis becomes 1st black general
1940 Gen George Marshall sworn in as chief of staff of U.S. army
1940 French colonies Cameroon/Congo-Brazzaville support Gen De Gaulle
1940 Clermont-Ferrand sentences Gen Charles de Gaulle to death
1940 Gen Charles de Gaulle on BBC tells French to defy nazi occupiers
1940 Gen Von Bock starts German offensive in Somme
1940 Hitler affirms Gen von Rundstedts "Stopbevel"
1940 Gen Guderians tanks reach The Channel (British expeditionary army)
1940 French counter attack at Peronne under Gen De Gaulle
1940 German troops occupy Amsterdam, Gen Winkelman surrenders
1940 Gen Winckelman replaces Gen Reijnders as Dutch supreme commander
1939 Gen Von Reichenaus pantzer division reaches suburbs of Warsaw
1939 Russ offensive under gen Zjoekov against Jap invasion in Mongolia
1938 Diana Muldaur, New York City, actress, McCloud, Star Trek Next Gen, LA Law
1938 Gen Metaxas names himself premier of Greece
1937 Joseph Saidu Momoh, gen/president, Sierra Leone
1936 Hans von Seeckt, German Gen/advisor of Chiang Kai-shek, dies at 70
1936 Gen Mola and Cabanellas form Spanish anti-govt
1936 Spanish Civil War begins, Gen Francisco Franco led uprising
1936 Military uprising under Gen Franco/begins Spanish civil war
1936 Gen. Anastasio Somoza takes over as dictator of Nicaragua
1935 Coup under Gen Giorgios Kondylis in favor of Greek monarchy
1935 Charles M Duke, Jr., Charlotte, North Carolina, Brig Gen USAF/astronaut, Apol 16
1935 Douglas Marland, West Sand Lake, New York, soap opera writer, Gen Hospital
1935 Gen Sarazen's double eagle on 15th, wins him his 2nd Masters
1933 William A Anders, Hong Kong, Maj Gen, USAF/astronaut, Apollo 8
1933 German Parliament disolves, Gen Ludendorf predicts catastrophe
1932 Gen Kurt von Schleicher becomes chancellor of Germany
1932 Joe H Engle, Abilene, Kansas, Brig Gen USAF/astro, STS T-2, T-4, 2, 51I
1930 Michael Collins, Rome, Mjr Gen USAF/astronaut, Gemini 10, Apollo 11
1929 James McDivitt, born in Chicago, Brig Gen USAF/astronaut, Gemini 4, Apollo 9
1928 William R. Boggs, born in Georgia, Brig Gen/chief of engineers under Bragg
1927 Gen Chiang Kai-shek begins counter revolution in Shanghai
1927 Chilean gen Carlos Ibanez names himself president
1927 Uprising against Portuguese regime of Gen Carmona defeated
1926 Lithuanian military state under gen Augustine Woldemaras
1926 Greek dictator Gen Pangulos driven out
1926 Failed assassination on Gen Primo de Rivera in Barcelona
1926 Coup under Gen Sinel de Cordes in Portugal
1926 Military coup by Gen Manuel Gomes da Costa in Portugal
1926 Gen Pilsudski sets coup on premier Witos compared
1926 Belgian chief of staff Gen Maglinse quits
1926 Greek gen Theodorus Pangulos names himself dictator
1925 French Gen Sarrail bombs Damascus
1925 Greek premier Papanastasiou orders gen Pangulos arrested
1925 French Gen of Morocco, marshal Lyautey, is dismissed
1925 Military putsch under Gen Theodorus Pangulos in Greece
1925 Gen M Froense replaces Trotsky as People's Commissioner of Defense
1924 Christian Gen Feng Joe Siang occupies Beijing
1924 French government names Gen Serrail Governor-General of Syria
1924 Gen Plutarco Calles elected president of Mexico
1924 Civil war breaks out in China (Gen Tsi moves to Shanghai)
1924 Hitler sentenced to 5 years labor but Gen Ludendorff acquitted
1924 1st coast-to-coast radio hookup: Gen John Joseph Carty speech in Chicago
1923 German army commander Gen Von Seeckt bans NSDAP and KPD
1923 Gen Otto von Lossow calls Reichswehr to Berlin to form a dictatorship
1921 Peter Hansen, born in Oakland California, actor, Mr Parkson-Mr Novak, Gen Hospital
1920 Gen Amos Fries appointed 1st U.S. Army chemical warfare chief
1920 Gen Wrangel opens offensive against red Army
1919 New York City welcomes home Gen John J Pershing and 25,000 WW I soldiers
1918 Supreme commander of the army Gen Cutters resigns
1917 Gen Pershing and U.S. troops see action on Western Front for 1st time
1917 Gen Pershing and his HQ staff arrived in Paris during WW I
1916 German army under Gen Mackensen occupies Bucharest
1916 Gen Douglas Haig finally calls off 1st Battle of the Somme in Europe
1916 Gen Von Hindenburg becomes German Chief of Staff
1916 Mexican troops beat U.S. expeditionary force under Gen Pershing
1916 U.S. troops under Gen Pershing march into Mexico
1916 Gen Pershing, 15,000 troops chasing Villa into Mexico, stays 10-mos
1915 Gen Porfirio [Jose de la Cruz] Diaz, president Mexico, dies
1915 Anti-British revolt in South-Africa ends with arrest of Gen De Law
1914 Gen von Hindenburgs named commander of German armies on Eastern Front
1914 Gen von Hausen and countess of France regime flees to Bordeaux
1914 4th day of Tannenberg: Russian Narev-army panics, Gen Martos caught
1914 Gen von Hausen executes 612 inhabitants of Dinant Belgium
1914 Battle at Charleroi: Gen von Bulows troops beat French
1914 French troops under gen de Castelnau occupy Chateau Salins
1914 British field marshal John French and Gen Wilson land in France
1914 French troops under Gen Bonneau occupy Mulhouse at Elzas
1914 French troops under Gen Bonneau occupy Altkitrch at Elzas
1914 German chief of staff/gen von Moltke states ultimatum on Belgium
1912 Gen Zeledon, Nicaraguan opponent of U.S. occupation, is executed
1908 Gen Baden-Powell starts Boy-Scouts
1907 Lauris Norstad, U.S. gen, NATO commander and CEO, Owens-Corning Fiberglass
1904 Gen Nogi's assault on Port Arthur: 16,000 Japanese casualties
1902 Philip Ober, born in Fort Payne, Alabama, actor, Gen Stone-I Dream of Jeannie
1902 Simon H. Spoor, Dutch gen/intelligence officer for General MacArthur
1901 Battle at Blood River Port: Boer Gen Botha beats mjr Goughs cavalry
1901 Battle at Elands River Port: Boer Gen Smuts destroys unit 17th Lancers
1901 Gen Maxwell D Taylor, former U.S. Army chief of staff
1901 Dutch troops under Gen Van Heutsz conquer Batu Ilie on Sumatra
1900 Barton Maclane, Columbia, South Carolina, actor, Gen Peterson-I Dream of Jeannie
1900 Boer army under gen Kritzinger take Cape colony
1900 Battle at Bergendal: Gen Buller beats Boer general Botha
1900 Gen Luigi Pelloux resigns as premier of Italy
1900 Sarah Miriam Peale, U.S., portrait painter, Gen Lafayette-1825
1900 British troops under Gen Buller occupy Vaal Krantz, Natal
1899 Battle of Magers' fountain - Boer leader Cronje vs Gen Methuen
1899 Battle of Mud river (Boer general. Cronje beats British gen Methuen)
1896 Italians governor of Eritrea, Gen Baldissera, reaches Massawa
1893 Viscount Dunrossil, Scotland, Gov Gen of Australia, 1959-61
1893 Benjamin F Butler, U.S. gen/president candidate (anti-monopoly), dies at 74
1891 Count Helmuth K B von Moltke, Prussian gen/fieldmarshal, dies
1890 Dwight D Eisenhower, Denison, Texas, R, 34th President, 1953-1961, /Gen, WW 2
1890 Jean J M de Lattre de Tassigny, French gen, Indo-China
1887 Alan Gordon Cunningham, Irish/Brit gen/director of Palestine, 1945-48
1885 Gen Edwin H K Freiherr von Manteuffel, mayor (Elzas-Lothar'n), dies
1885 Gen Wolseley receives last distress signal of Gen Gordon in Khartoum
1884 Ismet Inonu, [Moestafa Ismet], Turkish gen/premier/president
1881 Battle at Amajuba, South Africa: Boers vs. British army under Gen Colley
1879 Billy Mitchell, aviation hero Gen, WW I
1879 Battle at Lydenburg South Africa: Gen Wolseley beats Sekhukhenes Pedi-Zulu
1879 Nicholas Vachel Lindsay, U.S., poet, Gen William Booth enters Heaven
1876 Gen Crook destroy Cheyennes and Oglala-Sioux indian camps
1874 Gen J van Swieten conquerors Kraton Atjeh, after 1000's die
1871 Pietro Badoglio, Italy, gen/Libya Governor, 1928-33, /PM of Italy, 1943-44
1871 Indians fighter Gen Sherman escapes in ambulance vs Comanches
1868 Maj Gen E R S Canby removes mayor of Columbia SC
1867 Gen E R S Canby orders South Carolina courts to impanel blacks jurors
1865 Conf Gen Lee surrenders to Union Gen Grant at Appomattox
1865 At Ft. Towson, Gen Stand Watie surrenders last sizeable confed army
1865 Union Gen Granger declares slaves are free in Texas
1865 Gen Shermans "Haines's Bluff" at Snyder's Mill, Virginia
1865 Confederate Gen J E Johnston surrenders Army of Tennessee, at Durham North Carolina
1865 Francis Washburn, U.S. Union colonel/gen major, dies of injuries
1865 Confederate Gen Johnson surrendered to Gen Sherman in North Carolina
1865 At Appomattox, Gen Lee issues Gen Order #9, his last
1865 Gen Pickette moves to 5 Forks, abandoning the defense of Peterburg
1865 Gen Sherman's Union forces occupies Fayetteville, North Carolina
1865 Gen Robert E Lee named Commander-in-Chief of Confederate Armies
1865 Gen Wm Sherman issues Field Order #15 (land for blacks)
1864 Gen Sherman conquers Savannah
1864 Union Gen William T Sherman begins march to sea during Civil War
1864 Union Gen Samuel R Curtis defeats Conf Gen Stirling Price
1864 Battle of the Crater: Gen Burnsides fails on attack of Petersburg
1864 CSA President Davis replaces Gen Joe Johnston with John Bell Hood
1864 Confederate forces led by Gen J Early begin invasion of Washington D.C.
1864 Gen Early and Confederate forces reach Winchester en route to Washington D.C.
1864 Union Gen Grant begin siege of Petersburg, Virginia
1864 Battle for Petersburg begins as Gen Grant assaults Confederate line
1864 Battle at Cynthiana Kentucky: Gen Hobsons unit caught
1864 Gen Lee wins his last victory of Civil War at Battle of Cold Harbor
1864 GEN David Hunter takes command of Department of West Virginia
1864 Gen J E B Stuart is mortally wounded at Yellow Tavern
1864 Gen Grant's Army at Potomac attacks at Rappahannock
1864 Battle of Jenkin's Ferry, Arkansas; Gen W R Scurry is killed
1864 Confederate Gen Nathan Bedford Forrest captures Fort Pillow, Tennessee
1864 Battle of Mansfield, Louisiana Federals routed by Gen Richard Taylor
1863 Daniel Smith Donelson, Conf gen/cousin of Andrew Jackson, dies at 61
1863 Rebel Gen Earl Van Dorn attacks at Franklin, Tennessee
1863 Union Gen Burnside's "Mud March"
1862 Battle of Chichasaw Bayou: confederate armies defeat Gen Sherman
1862 Union Gen Ben "Beast" Butler is proclaimed a "felon, outlaw and common enemy of mankind" by Jefferson Davis
1862 Gen U.S. Grant issues order #11, expelling Jews from Tennessee
1862 Confederate army of Tennessee, organizes under Gen Braxton Bragg
1862 Maj Gen Earl Van Dorn assumes command of Conf troops in Missisippi
1862 Gen Bragg's army surrounds 4,000 federals at Munfordville, KY
1862 Gen Lee invades North with 50,000 Confederate troops
1862 Secretary of War authorizes Gen Rufus Saxton to arm 5,000 slaves
1862 Gen John Hunt Morgan and his raiders capture Gallatin, TX
1862 Prelude to 2nd Manassas, Jackson is victorious at Battle of Cedar Mt, however Gen Charles S Winder is killed
1862 Gen John Hunt Morgan captures Tompkinsville, Kentucky
1862 U.S. Army of Virginia established under Gen John Pope
1862 Gen JEB Stuart completes his "ride around McClellan"
1862 Gen B. Butler orders William Mumford hanged after he removed and destroyed U.S. flag on display over New Orleans Mint
1862 Gen Robert E Lee takes command of Confederate armies of E Virginia and NC
1862 Gen Lee assumes command after Joe Johnston is injured at 7 Pines
1862 Battle of Booneville, Mississippi - captured Gen Beauregard evacuates Corinth
1862 Gen Benjamin F Butler delegates "Woman Order" of NO to be his whores
1862 Gen John Hunt Morgan begins 4 days of raids near Gallatin, Tennessee
1862 Gen Stonewall Jackson evacuates Winchester Virginia Army of the Potomac. Gen Henry Halleck is named general-in-chief
1862 Gen Ulysses S. Grant captures Fort Henry in Tennessee
1862 Felix Zollicoffer, Gen killed after mistakenly riding into Union lines
1861 Gen George B. McClellan made general in chief of Union armies
1861 Union Gen George McClellan takes command from McDowell of Potamic Army
1861 Skirmish at Taylor Mountain, (W)Virginia - CS Gen Wise retreats
1861 Manassas, Virginia Gen Beauregard requests reinforcements for his 22,000 men, Gen Johnston is ordered to Manassas
1861 Gen McDowell advances toward Fairfax Courthouse, Virginia with 40,000 troops
1861 Battle of Laurel Mountain Virginia - Gen Morris forces retreat of rebels
1861 CS Gen Sibley is given command of rebel troops in New Mexico territory
1861 Battle of Carthage, Missouri - U.S. Gen Sigel attacks pro-secessionist
1861 Gen Beauregard is given command of Confederate Alexandria Line
1861 Maj Gen Benjamin Butler declares slaves "contraband of war"
1861 Gen Winfield Scott presents his Anaconda Plan
1859 Gen Horsford defeats Begum of Oude and Nana Sahib in Indian mutiny
1852 Johan L E Dreyer, Danish astronomer, New gen catalogue of nebulae
1851 Gen Arista replaces Mexican President Herrera
1849 David H Chasse, baron/gen (fought Napoleon at Waterloo), dies at 84
1847 American-Mexican war: U.S. Gen Winfield Scott captures Mexico City
1847 U.S. under Gen Scott defeat Mexicans at Battle of Molino del Rey
1846 US troops under Gen Taylor occupies Monterey Mexico
1846 Gen Stephen W Kearney's U.S. forces captures Santa Fe, New Mexico
1846 Gen Zachary Taylor captures Monterey in Mexican War
1846 Mildred Childe "Life" Lee, daughter of confederate gen Robert E Lee
1844 Moritz F Freiherr von Bissing, German gen/gov-gen of Belgium, 1914-17
1839 British troops under Gen Charles Napier occupy Beirut
1838 Charles Carroll Walcott, Bvt Mjr Gen Union volunteers, died in 1898
1837 Stephen D Ramseur, youngest West Pointer to be Maj Gen
1836 Pierce Manning Butler Young, Mjr Gen Confederate Army, died in 1896
1836 George Washington Gordon, Brig Gen Confederate Army, died in 1911
1836 Joseph Wheeler II, Maj Gen, Confederacy/Cavalry/Army of Tennessee
1836 Benjamin Franklin Potts, Bvt Mjr Gen Union volunteers, died in 1887
1836 [Hugh] Judson Kilpatrick, Mjr Gen Union volunteers, died in 1881
1835 Alfred Napoleon Alexander "Natti" Duffie, Brig Gen Union volunteers
1834 Joseph Jackson Bartlett, Bvt Mjr Gen Union volunteers, died in 1893
1833 William Whedbee Kirkland, Brig Gen Confederate Army, died in 1915
1833 John Randolph Chambliss, Jr., Brig Gen Confederate Army, died in 1864
1832 George Henry Chapman, Bvt Maj Gen Union volunteers, died in 1882
1831 John Franklin Miller, Bvt Mjr Gen Union volunteers, died in 1886
1831 John Bell Hood, Gen Confederate Army, died in 1879
1831 John Bratton, [Old Reliable], U.S. physician/Confederate Brig Gen
1831 Cyrus Ballou Comstock, Bvt Mjr Gen Union volunteers, died in 1910
1830 John Frederick Hartranft, Bvt Mjr Gen Union volunteers, died in 1889
1830 Jeremiah Cutler Sullivan, Brig Gen Union volunteers, died in 1890
1830 Marcellus Monroe Crocker, Brig gen Union volunteers, died in 1865
1830 Gouverneur Kemble Warren, Major Gen Union volunteers, died in 1882
1829 Jean Jacques Alfred Mouton, Brig Gen Confederate Army, died in 1864
1829 William Anderson Pile, Bvt Mjr Gen Union volunteers, died in 1889
1829 Alfred Cummings, Georgia, Brig Gen Confederate Army, died in 1910
1828 James Birdseye MacPherson, Mjr Gen Union volunteers, died in 1864
1828 Robert Alexander Cameron, Bvt Mjr Gen Union volunteers, died in 1894
1828 Thomas Carmichael Hindman, Mjr Gen Confederate Army, died in 1868
1827 James Sidney Robinson, Bvt Mjr Gen Union volunteers, died in 1892
1826 John Benjamin Sanborn, Bvt Mjr Gen Union volunteers, died in 1904
1826 Halbert Eleazer Paine, Bvt Mjr Gen Union volunteers, died in 1905
1825 Francis Trowbridge Sherman, Brig Gen Union volunteers, died in 1905
1825 Alexander Travis Hawthorn, Brig Gen Confederate Army, died in 1899
1824 Manning Ferguson Force, Bvt Mjr Gen Union volunteers, died in 1899
1824 Titian James Coffey, Atty Gen, Union, died in 1867
1824 William Montgomery Gardner, Brig Gen Confederate Army, died in 1901
1824 William Farrar "Baldy" Smith, Mjr Gen Union volunteers, died in 1903
1824 Nathan George "Shanks" Evans, Brig Gen, Confederacy, died in 1868
1823 Joseph Alexander Cooper, Bvt Mjr Gen Union volunteers, died in 1910
1822 William Booth Taliaferro, Brig Gen Confederate Army, died in 1898
1822 Thomas Casimer Devin, Bvt Mjr Gen Union volunteers, died in 1878
1822 Adolph Wilhelm August Friedrich von Steinwehr, Brig Gen, Union vol
1822 Brig Gen Eppa Hunton, fought in most ANV campaigns
1822 Gen Agustin de Iturbide crowned Agustin I, 1st emperor of Mexico
1821 John Dunlap Stevenson, Bvt Mjr Gen Union volunteers, died in 1897
1820 Robert Vinkler Richardson, Brig Gen Confederate Army, died in 1870
1820 George Davis, Atty Gen Confederacy, died in 1896
1819 James Clifford Veatch, Bvt Mjr Gen Union volunteers, died in 1895
1819 Benjamin Mayberry Prentiss, Mjr Gen Union volunteers, died in 1901
1819 Thomas Hill Watts, Atty Gen, Confederacy, died in 1892
1818 William Wing "Old Blizzards" Loring, Mjr Gen Confederate Army
1818 Gustavus Adolphus DeRussy, Brig Gen Union volunteers, died in 1891
1818 John Henninger Reagan, Atty Gen, Confederacy
1818 Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard, U.S. Confederate gen, Hero of Sumter
1818 Gen Andrew Jackson captures Pensacola Florida
1818 Gen Andrew Jackson conquers St. Marks Florida from Seminole indians
1818 Jeremy F Gilmer, Maj Gen/Chief Engineer Confederate War Dept
1817 Richard B Garnett, killed during Pickett's Charge, Brig Gen
1817 Braxton Bragg, Gen Confederate Army, died in 1876
1816 Isaac Fitzgerald Shepard, Gen Union volunteers, died in 1889
1816 Phillipe Regis Denis de Keredern de Trobriand, Bvt Mjr Gen, Union
1816 Montgomery Cunningham Meigs, Bvt Mjr Gen Union Army, died in 1892
1816 Nathaniel Prentiss Banks, Mjr Gen Union volunteers, died in 1894
1815 Stephen Augustus Hurlbut, Mjr Gen Union volunteers, died in 1882
1815 James Hewward Trapier, N Gen Confederate Army, died in 1865
1815 Nathaniel Collins McLean, Brig Gen Union volunteers, died in 1905
1814 Battle at Horseshoe Bend: Gen Andrew Jackson beats Creek-indians
1813 U.S. troops under Gen Coffee destroy indian village at Talladega Ala
1813 Josef Poniatovski, Polish gen/marshal of France, dies in battle
1813 Tecumseh, U.S. Shawnee-chief/English Gen (Battle of Thames), dies
1813 Americans under Gen Pike capture Toronto; Pike is killed
1812 Gen Hull surrenders Detroit and Michigan territory to England
1812 U.S. forces led by Gen Hull invade Canada, War of 1812
1812 Theophilus Toulmin Garrard, Brig Gen Union volunteers, died in 1902
1812 James Speed, Atty Gen Union, died in 1887
1812 Ralph Pomeroy Buckland, Bvt Mjr Gen Union volunteers, died in 1892
1811 Alexander Sandor Asboth, Bvt Mjr Gen Union volunteers, died in 1868
1811 Battle of Tippecanoe: Gen Jackson vs indians
1810 Benjamin Stone Roberts, Bvt Mjr Gen Union volunteers, died in 1875
1810 Thomas Bragg, Atty Gen, Confederacy, died in 1872
1810 Andrew Atkinson Humphreys, Mjr Gen Union volunteers, died in 1883
1809 William Nelson Pendleton, Brig Gen Confederate Army, died in 1883
1809 Holland Brigade under brig gen Chasse reaches Madrid
1807 Joseph Eggleston Johnston, Gen Confederate Army, died in 1891
1807 Napoleon Bonaparte Buford, Mjr Gen Union volunteers, died in 1883
1803 Joseph King Fenno Mansfield, Mjr Gen Union volunteers, died in 1862
1803 Albert Sidney Johnston, Gen Confederate Army, died in 1862
1796 Cleveland, Ohio, founded by Gen Moses Cleveland
1794 Gen Mad Anthony Wayne defeated the Indians at Fallen Timbers Ohio
1793 Edward Bates, Atty Gen, Union, died in 1869
1783 Gen Washington bids officers farewell at Fraunce's Tavern, New York City
1783 Gen Washington bids farewell to his army
1779 U.S. troops under Gen A Wayne conquer Ft. Stony Point, New York
1778 Battle of Monmouth, New Jersey (Gen Washington beats Clinton)
1777 British Gen Howe plots attack on Washington's army for Dec 4
1777 Gen George Washington's troops attacked British at Germantown Pa
1777 British Gen Burgoyne captures Fort Ticonderoga from Americans
1776 Brig Gen Arnold's Lake Champlain fleet defeated by British
1776 Gen George Washington hoists Continental Union Flag
1760 French army gives Montreal to Gen Jeffrey Amherst
1760 Princess Carolina marries Gen Charles Christian van Nassau-Weilburg
1758 British battle fleet under gen James Wolfe conquerors Louisbourg
1755 Brit Gen E Braddock mortally wounded during French and Indian War
1755 E Braddock, British Gen, mortally wounded during French and Indian War
1710 Battle at Brihuega: English Gen Stanhope captured
1679 Juan Jose of Austrian, Spanish gen/gov of Netherlands, dies at 50
1678 Wu San-kuei, gen, invited Manchus to China, dies trying to expel them
1675 Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne Vicomte de Turenne, gen (France), dies
1672 French army under Gen Turenne crosses Rhine at Lobith
1659 Ferdinand W, prince of Wurttemberg-Neustadt/gen Dutch infantry
1651 Henry Ireton, English gen/parliament leader (Marston Moor), dies at 40
1643 Battle at Tuttlingen: Beiers army under Gen Mercy beats France
1631 Battle of Breitenfeld: King Gustaaf Adolf defeats Gen Tilly
1572 Gaspard de Chatillon, Count the Coligny, French gen/admiral, beheaded
1563 Huguenot Jean Poltrot de Mere shoots gen Francois De Guise
1562 Blood bath at Vassy: Gen de Guise allows 1200 huguenots murder
1558 Battle at Grevelingen: Gen/earl Lamoraal van Egmont beat France
1515 Gonzalo Fernandez de Cordoba, [el Gran Capitan], Span gen, dies at 62
1311 Gen Malik Kafur returns to Delhi after campaign in South India
820 Leo V, the Armenian, Byzantine gen/Emperor (813-20), murdered
284 Gen Gaius Aurelius V Diocletianus Jovius (3) becomes emperor of Rome
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