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2004 Anna Lee, actress, General Hospital, dies at 90

2002 "General Benjamin O. Davis, Jr", Air Force General, first black general in the Air Force, dies at 89

1999 Elliot Richardson, honest US attorney general, fired by Nixon after he refused to fire Archibald Cox, dies at 79

1999 James White, writer, Sector General books, dies at 71

1998 U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan lands in Baghdad, for peace negotiations

1998 New York Yankees replace general manager Bob Watson with Brian Cashman

1997 Saw Maung, general/president of Myanmar (Burma) (1988-92), dies

1996 Cesar Mendoza, general of Military junta of Chile (1973-85), dies

1996 Antonio de Spinola, general of Portugal, dies

1996 Tito Okello, Ugandan general, dies at 81

1996 Bernard Charles Sendall, deputy director general of ITA, dies at 83

1996 Adolf Galland, general (Luftwaffe), dies at 83

1995 Attorney General Janet Reno announces she has Parkinson disease

1995 1st NBA game at General Motors Place, Vancouver Grizzlies beat Minnesota Timberwolves 100-98 in OT

1995 Rosalind Cash, actress (General Hospital), dies of cancer at 56

1995 Edmond Jouhaud, general, dies at 90

1995 Erich Geiringer, general Practitioner campaigner, dies at 78

1995 Mordechai Gur, Israeli general, commits suicide at 65

1995 General Tire World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Mike Aulby

1995 Siad Barre, general/president of Somalia (1969-91), dies at 84

1994 General Hospital stars Kristina Malandro and Jack Wagner wed

1994 Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders resigns after masturbation comments

1994 Jesus "Enrique" Lister, Span/Russian general (Civil War), dies at 87

1994 Roberto Viola, Argentine general/president (1981), dies at 69

1994 Manfred Worner, German general/sec-gen of NATO (1988-94), dies at 59

1994 Francisco Veguillas, Spanish general, murdered at 68

1994 Juan J H Rovira, Spanish general, murdered

1994 General Tire World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Norm Duke

1994 Leon Degrelle, Belgium general, dies

1993 Philip Christison, British general (Rangoon), dies at 100

1993 Guinee general Lansana re-elected president

1993 Dionisio Herrero, Spanish air force general, murdered

1993 Dionisio Herrero, Spanish air force general, murdered at 63

1993 General Omar al-Bashir appointed Sudan president

1993 Somali General Aidids arm forces kill 18 U.S. Rangers

1993 General Colin Powell retires at 56

1993 James H Doolittle, U.S. air force general (Tokyo 1942), dies at 96

1993 Anatoli Koretski, Russian major general, murdered

1993 Leo Ferre, French singer/composer (Mon General), dies at 76

1993 Janet Reno selected by Clinton as U.S. Attorney General

1993 General Motors sues NBC, alleging that "Dateline NBC" program had rigged 2 car-truck crashes to show that 1973-87 GM pickups were prone to fires

1993 Asif Nawaz, Pakistani general, dies

1992 Carlomagno Andrade, Equadorian general, dies

1992 Dateline NBC airs a demonstration show General Motors trucks, blowing up on impact, later revealed NBC rigged test

1992 Gert Nastian, general and companion of Petra Kelly, found dead at 69

1992 James A Van Fleet, U.S. general (D-Day, Battle of Bulge), dies at 100

1992 Thailand General Suchinda Kraprayoon installed as president

1992 Joseph A. Molloy elected New York Yankee general partner

1992 Algeria's general elections canceled after strong gains by Islamic Salvation Front in the 1st round

1991 Daniel R McCarthy elected New York Yankee managing general partner

1991 General Motors announces closing of 21 plants

1991 General Motors announces 9 month loss of $2.2 billion

1991 John Hart becomes general manager of Cleveland Indians

1991 Leigh Watson, U.S. aviation pioneer/air force general, dies at 93

1991 Sergei Ajromeiev, soviet general, commits suicide

1991 Nepalese Congress party wins general elections

1991 John Russell Thomas, NFL general manager (Detroit Lions), dies

1991 U.N. Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar meets with Saddam

1990 William French Smith, attorney general (1980), dies at 73 of cancer

1990 Curtis E LeMay, USAF General/VP candidate, dies at 83

1990 Deposed emir of Kuwait address United Nations General Assembly

1990 Robert E. Nederlander appointed New York Yankee managing general partner

1990 General Hospital tapes its 7,000th episode

1990 General Elvis, TV Drama last airs on ABC

1990 Lieutenant General Avril resigns as President of Haiti

1990 Dr. Antonia Novello sworn-in as 1st hispanic/female U.S. surgeon general

1989 Arnaldo Ochoa Sanchez, Cubans general, executed

1989 Attorney General Thornburgh orders Joseph Doherty deported to UK

1989 Marion Mack, actress (General), dies

1989 Hu Yaobang, general sec of Chinese Commnist Party, dies

1988 Spanish General strike to protest austerity measures

1988 U.N. General Assembly (151-2) censures U.S. for refusing PLO's Arafat visa

1988 Justin Cooper actor, Liar, Liar, General Hospital

1988 Military coup in Haiti: Lieutenant General Avril takes control, Henri Namphy flees

1988 Richard Thornburgh becomes U.S. Attorney General

1988 General Sein Lwin succeeds Ne Win as President of Burma

1988 Many killed at demonstration against general Ne Win in Rangoon

1988 Haiti's general assembly dissolves

1988 Attorney General Meese orders Joseph Doherty deported to U.K.

1988 Genie Francis (General Hospital) weds Jonathan Frakes (Star Trek TNG)

1988 Surgeon General C. Everett Koop reports nicotine as addictive as heroin

1988 General hospital star Jackie Zeman marries Glenn Gorden

1987 President Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Gorbachev sign a treaty eliminating medium range nuclear missiles

1987 2nd coup on Fiji led by Major General Sitiveni Rabuka

1986 General strike against Pinochet regime in Chile

1986 1 day general strike in South Africa

1986 General Tito Okello's government flees Kampala Uganda

1985 General Electric acquires RCA Corp and its subsidiary, NBC

1985 New Jersey General Hershel Walker runs for USFL record 233 yards

1985 Sudan suspends constitution after coup under general Swarreddahab

1985 Edwin Meese III becomes U.S. Attorney General

1985 U.S. Senate confirms Edwin Meese III as attorney general

1984 Raoul Salan, French general/OAS leader (Algeria), dies at 85

1984 Argentine ex-president/general Bignone arrested

1983 Grenada general Hudson Austin forms "revolutionary council"

1983 General Manuel A Noriega becomes commander of Panamanian army

1983 Alfred M Gruenther, U.S. general/NATO-commander (1953-56), dies at 84

1983 Mark W. Clark, U.S. general (WW II), dies at 87

1982 Della Chiesa, Italian general/mafia fighter, murdered

1982 Israeli General Ariel Sharon urges Palestinians to discuss peace

1982 Richard N Gale, English general/paracommandant, dies at 86

1982 General Reynaldo Bignone sworn in as president of Argentina

1982 General Efrain Rios Montt declares himself president of Guatemala

1982 Falklands War: Argentine cruiser General Belgrano sunk by British submarine Conqueror, killing more than 350 men

1981 Argentine general Leopoldo Galtieri sworn in as president

1981 Luke marries Laura on General Hospital (16 million watch)

1981 Poland General Jaruzelski elected party leader

1981 Moshe Dayan, Israel's general/minister of Defense, dies at 66

1981 Milt coup under general Kolingba in Cent Afr Rep, President Dacko flees

1981 Omar Bradley, last U.S. 5-star general, (Normandy) dies in New York at 88

1981 El Salvador guerrilla group FMLN opens "general offensive"

1981 Roger Smith becomes CEO of General Motors

1980 Military coup under General Kenan Evren in Turkey

1980 Bolivian military coup; general Garcia Meza becomes president

1979 Military coup in El Salvador: president/general Carlos Romero flees

1979 Ludvik Svoboda, Czech general/politician, dies at 83

1979 Rhodesian bishop Muzorewa wins general election

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

1979 Nematullah Nassiri, Iran general/head of Savak, executed

1979 Mehdi Rahimi, Iran general/milt governor of Teheran, executed

1978 Iranian general Gholan Reza Azhari forms government

1978 Bolivia milt coup under general Juan Pereda, President Hugo Banzer flees

1978 General strike in Peru

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

1978 Daniel "Chappie" James Jr, retired Air Force general, dies at 58

1977 Pakistan general Zia ul-Haq bans all opposition

1977 General Motors introduces 1st U.S. diesel auto (Oldsmobile 88)

1977 Ian Smith, espousing racial segregation, wins Rhodesian general election with 80% of overwhelmingly white electorate's vote

1977 General Mills Adventure Theater premieres on CBS radio

1976 Genie Francis joind "General Hospital" as Laura Vining

1976 U.N. General Assembly passes a resolution declaring 1979 - Year of Child

1976 U.N. General Assembly re-elects Kurt Waldheim secretary-General

1976 Bangladesh General Ziaur Rahman declares himself president

1976 U.N. General Assembly condemns apartheid in South Africa

1976 R. J. Williams, actor, General Hospital, Full House

1976 Portuguese general Antonio Eanes elected president

1976 James A Farley, U.S. Postmaster General (1932-38), dies at 88

1976 Bernard L Montgomery, British general, defeated Rommel, dies at 88

1976 General Murtala Mohammed, head of Nigeria, killed during a coup

1975 U.N. General Assembly approves resolution equating Zionism with racism

1975 Chad military coup by General Odingar

1975 Portugal military coup under general Spinola fails

1975 Jason Marsden, actor, General Hospital, Eddie-Munsters Today

1974 U.N. General Assembly recognizes Palestine right to sovereignty

1974 South Africa suspended from United Nations General Assembly over racial policies

1974 U.S. General Haig becomes NATO-supreme commander in Europe

1974 Creighton W. Abrams, Jr., U.S. general/army staff chief (Vietnam), dies at 59

1974 General Pinochet becomes president of Chile

1974 Red Brigade kidnaps Italian attorney general Mario Sossi

1974 1st general striking in Ethiopia

1973 1st general striking in Luxembourg since 1942

1973 General Walters, ends term as acting director of CIA

1973 General Walters, serves as acting director of CIA

1972 Friedrich Christian Christiansen, German Luftwaffe general, dies

1972 George Wiess, General Manager (New York Yankees), dies at 78

1972 Lt. General Vernon A Walters, USA, becomes deputy director of CIA

1972 Bill Torrey becomes 1st Islander General Manager

1971 Lieutenant General Robert E Cushman, Jr, USMC, ends term as deputy director of CIA

1971 U.N. General Assembly ratifies Kurt Waldheim as Secretary-General

1971 U.N. Security Council chooses Kurt Waldheim as 4th secretary General

1971 General Meeting of United Nations agrees to admit China PR

1971 Mohamed Madbouh, Moroccan general/putschist, shot to death

1971 Lieutenant General Hafiz al-Assad becomes President of Syria

1971 General Idi Amin Dada appointed president of Uganda

1970 B O Davis Sr, 1st black general, dies at 93 in Chicago

1970 U.N. General Assembly accepts membership of China PR

1970 Lieutenant General Hafez al-Assad becomes PM of Syria following military coup

1970 Charles DeGaulle, general/president France (Free French), dies at 79

1970 Rene Schneider, Chilean general/supreme commander, murdered

1970 Wladyslaw Anders, Polish general (WW I, WW II), dies at 78

1969 Bolivia military coup under general Ovando Candia

1969 General Franco closes Spain's frontier with Gibraltar

1969 General Lin Piao succeeds Mao, is seriously wounded

1969 Pakistan General Agha Mohammed Jagja Khan succeeds Ayub Chan as president

1969 Beatles appoint Eastman and Eastman, as general cousel to Apple

1969 Franz T Csokor, Austria author (Gottes General), dies at 83

1968 General Ludvik Svoboda elected president of Czechoslovakia

1968 Julis Deutsch, Austria politician/general Spanish rep army, dies at 83

1968 Ami Dolenz, born in Los Angeles, California, actress, General Hospital, Can't Buy Me Love

1967 U.N. Secretary General U Thant makes public proposals for peace in Vietnam

1967 A J F Moody, 1st U.S. Army General to die in Vietnam

1966 Sadao Araki, Japanese general/minister of War (1931-34), dies at 89

1966 Alex E von Falkenhausen, German general, dies at 87

1966 General Suharto forms government in Indonesia

1966 Indonesia's president Sukarno fires General Nasution

1966 Buster Keaton, [Joseph Francis], U.S. comic (General), dies at 69

1965 General Meeting of United Nations refuses admittance of China PR

1965 General strike in Morocco against disappearance of Ben Barka

1965 Henry D G Crerar, Canadian general (WW I, Normandy), dies at 76

1965 D Senanayake wins general elections in Ceylon (Sri Lanka)

1965 South Vietnam milt coup under general Nguyen Khanh

1964 Bill Peterson, Smithfield, North Carolina, WLAF general mgr for the Amsterdam Admirals

1964 U.S. attorney general Robert Kennedy resigns

1964 Lydie Denier, born in St. Nazaire, France, actress, General Hospital

1964 Douglas MacArthur, U.S. general (Pacific theater-WW II), dies at 84

1964 Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, Prussian general/politician, dies at 93

1964 Laura Martinez-Herring, born in Sinaloa, Mexico, Miss USA 1985, on General Hospital

1964 US Surgeon General Luther Terry reports that smoking may be hazardous

1963 56th Postmaster General: John A Gronouski of Wis takes office

1963 John Stamos, born in Cypress, California, actor, General Hospital, Full House

1963 General Amin al-Hafez becomes president of Syria

1963 Soap operas "General Hospital" and "Doctors" premier on TV

1962 Herman J Friedericy, Dutch author (Last General), dies at 62

1962 Edward W Brooke (R) elected attorney general of Massachusetts

1962 U.N. General Assembly adopts resolution condemning South Africa

1962 Harlow H Curtice, President of General Motors (1953-8), dies at 69

1962 Genie Francis, Englewood, New Jersey, actress, General Hospital, Bare Essence

1962 OAS leader general Raoul Salan sentenced to life

1962 Lt General Marshall S Carter, USA, becomes deputy director of CIA

1962 General mobilization in Indonesia over New-Guinea

1962 U.N. General Assembly censures Portugal (because of Angola)

1961 Indonesian President Sukarno proclaims general mobilization

1961 General Meeting of United Nations debates about New-Guinea

1961 Amy Gibson, actress, General Hospital

1961 General Assembly unanimously elects U Thant acting secretary general

1961 U.N. unanimously elects U Thant acting secretary general of the U.N.

1961 Dag Hammarskjold, United Nations Secretary General, dies in an air crash over Congo at 56

1961 Walter Bedell Smith, U.S. general/WW II chief of staff, dies at 75

1961 U.N. General Assembly condemns South-Africa's apartheid

1961 Chris Heyne, Offenbach Germ, WLAF General Manager for the Frankfurt Galaxy

1960 General Meeting of United Nations condemns apartheid

1960 Laos General Fumi Nosavang occupies Vientiane

1960 Nikita Khrushchev pounds his shoe at United Nations General Assembly

1960 U.N. General Assembly admit 13 African countries and Cyprus (96 nations)

1960 Emma Samms, [Samuels], London, actress, Colby's, General Hospital

1960 French president De Gaulle escape attempt by general Massu

1959 George C Marshall, U.S. Army general, dies at 78

1959 Jack Wagner, rocker/actor, General Hospital, Melrose Place

1959 Postmaster General bans D H Lawrence's book, Lady Chatterley's Lover (overruled by U.S. Court of Appeals in Mar 1960)

1958 David Wallace, Miami, actor, General Hospital, Babysitter, Humongus

1958 General Abdul K Kassem forms a military government in Iraq

1958 General Miguel Ydegoras Fuentes elected president of Guatemala

1957 Ian Buchanan, Scotland, actor, General Hospital, Gary Shandling Show

1956 Pietro Badoglio, Italian general (1922-43), dies at 85

1956 Jose Moscardo Ituarte, Spanish general (Alcazar 1936), dies at 77

1956 General strike in Cyprus protesting exile of archbishop Makarios

1955 Patricia J. Engfer, general manager, Hyatt Regency-Orlando

1955 Benny Alexander, secretary general, South Africa Pan-Africanist Movement

1955 Kate Ashbrook, general secretary, Open Spaces Society

1954 General Fulgencio Batista elected President of Cuba

1954 B. O. Davis, Jr. becomes 1st black general in USAF

1954 Kleffens appointed chairman of General Meeting U.N.

1954 Postmaster General Summerfield approves CIA mail-opening project

1954 Military coup by general Alfredo Stroessner in Paraguay

1954 Viet Minh General Giap opens assault on That Bien Phu

1954 General Zahedi wins election in Persia

1953 General Electric announces all Communist employees will be fired

1953 Dutch government proclaims 5% general pay increase on Jan 1, 1954

1953 General Fazlollah Zahedi arrests premier Mossadeq of Persia

1953 Egypt proclaimed a republic, General Neguib becomes president

1953 Military coup by general Gustavo Rojas Pinilla in Colombia

1953 1st general elections in British Guyana, won by Jagans PPP

1953 General Charles P Cabell, USAF, becomes deputy director of CIA

1953 Steve Bond, born in Haifa, Israel, actor, General Hospital, To Die For

1953 General Walter Bedell Smith, USA, ends term as 4th director of CIA Allen W Dulles, becomes acting director of CIA

1953 "General Electric Theater" premieres on CBS TV; Reagan later hosts

1952 Greek general Papagos wins elections

1952 General Naguib forms Egyptian government/becomes premier

1952 General Carlos Ibanez elected president of Chile

1952 General strike against overtime conscription in Belgium

1952 General Neguib seizes power, Monarchy overthrown in Egypt (Natl Day)

1952 General Eisenhower nominated as Republican presidential candidate

1952 Maurice Olley of General Motors begins designing the Corvette

1952 Military coup by general Fulgencio Batista in Cuba

1952 Theodorus Pangalos, Greek general/dictator 1926, dies at 74

1952 General strike against French colonial management in Tunisia

1952 Nehru's Congress party wins general election in India

1951 Nazi General Christiansen leaves Nethe

1951 Robert G Aitken, U.S. astronomer (New General Catalogue), dies at 86

1951 U.S. General Collins predicts use of atom bomb in Korea

1951 Ticker-tape parade for General MacArthur in New York City

1951 German general F Christian freed early from Dutch prison

1951 Gerard Leman, Belgian general

1950 General Eisenhower named NATO commander

1950 U.N. General Assembly establishes High Commission for Refugees (Nobel 1954)

1950 U.S. General Eisenhower becomes supreme commander of NATO-Europe

1950 Omar N. Bradley promoted to rank of 5-star general

1950 General Foods blacklists Jean Muir of Aldrich Family as a communist

1950 U.S. General MacArthur visits front in South Korea and asks for U.S. troops

1950 General Motors reports net earnings of $656,434,232 (record)

1950 General Chiang Kai-shek elected president of Nationalist China

1949 Rick Springfield, Australia, General Hospital, Jessie's Girl

1949 NPS/VHP win 1st general election in Suriname

1949 Simon H Spoor, intelligence officer/general (WW II), dies at 47

1949 General Spoor orders cease-fire on Sumatra

1948 Seishiro Itagaki, Japanese General/min of War, hanged

1948 U.N. General Assembly adopts Universal Declaration of Human Rights

1948 U.N. General Assembly unanimously approves Convention on Genocide

1948 W Gomulka deposed as general secretary of Polish Worker's party

1948 U.S. expels Soviet Consul General in New York, Jacob Lomakin

1948 John J Pershing, [Black Jack], U.S. general (Mexico, WW I), dies at 87

1948 General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade effective

1947 Franz X. Ritter von Epp, German General (SW Africa), dies at 79

1947 Joseph Cuvelier, Belgian historian/general, dies at 78

1947 U.N. General Assembly partitions Palestine between Arabs and Jews

1947 U.N. General assembly begins debate on printing their own stamps

1947 Dutch Queen Wilhelmina gives golden award to general Eisenhower

1947 General MacArthur approves Japanese constitution

1947 Lt General Hoyt S Vandenberg, USA, ends term as 2nd head of CIA

1947 General Eisenhower opens drive to raise $170M in aid for European Jews

1947 Brigadier General Edwin K Wright, USA, becomes deputy director of CIA

1946 US General MacNarney gives 800,000 "minor Nazi's" amnesty

1946 U.N. General Assembly votes to establish United Nations HQs in New York City

1946 U.N. General Assembly 2nd session convenes (1st New York City-Flushing Meadows)

1946 Joseph W. Stilwell, U.S. general (China), dies

1946 Andrei Vlasov, Russian general (Red Army, Wehrmacht) executed at 45

1946 Rear Admiral Sidney W Souers, USNR, ends term as 1st director of CIA Lieutenant General Hoyt S Vandenberg, USA, becomes 2nd director of CIA

1946 Masaharu Homma, Lieutenant General (responsible for Bataan Death March), executed

1946 U.N. General Assembly meets for 1st time in London

1945 George S Patton, U.S. General (Sicily/Normandy), dies in car crash at 60

1945 General Motors workers go on strike

1945 Denise Alexander, New York City, actress, General Hospital, Another World

1945 General Enver Hoxha becomes leader of Albania

1945 General Eisenhower welcomed in Hague (on Hitler's train)

1945 General MacArthur lands in Japan

1945 General MacArthur named Supreme Commander of Allied Powers in Japan

1945 After Labour landslide in general election, Clement Attlee becomes PM

1945 55th Postmaster General: Robert E Hannegan of Mo takes office

1945 Imperial General Headquarters in Tokyo announce fall of Okinawa

1945 Lieutenant General Ushijima, Japanese commander, commits suicide at Okinawa

1945 D A S Pennefather, Maj-General/Commandant, General Royal Marines

1945 General J. Blaskowitz surrenders German troops in Netherlands

1945 Russia takes Berlin; General Weidling surrenders

1945 General Belgian Labor Union (ABVV) party forms

1945 General Blaskowitz becomes nazi leader of "Fort Holland"

1945 Nazi occupiers executed, Nazi general Christiansen flees Netherlands

1945 Maurice Rose, 1st U.S. general in Nazi Germany, killed in action at 45

1945 General Eisenhower declares German defenses on Western Front broken

1945 General Douglas MacArthur returns to Manila

1945 U.S. troops under General Douglas MacArthur enter Manilla

1945 Greek General Plastiras forms government

1944 U.S. Congress gives General Eisenhower his 5th star

1944 Congress establshes rank of General of Army (5-star General)

1944 General Radescu forms Romanian government

1944 British order to disarm, causes general strike in Greece

1944 General De Gaulle arrives in Moscow

1944 Dutch General Mine Workers Union (ABWM) forms

1944 France 2nd Tank division under General Leclerc reaches Notre Dame

1944 General George Leclercs troops advance towards Paris

1944 General Montgomery consults with Generals Bradley/Eisenhower

1944 Antonia Novello, 14th U.S. Surgeon General, 1990-92

1944 U.S. 20th Army corp under general Walker occupies Nantes

1944 General Montgomery visits general Dempsey's headquarter

1944 General Montgomery takes command of 12th and 21st army

1944 General Koiso becomes premier of Japan

1944 General Eisenhower visits Montgomery's headquarter in Normandy

1944 Friedrich Olbricht, German general (July 20th plotter), executed

1944 Ludwig Beck, gen/chief Germany general staff (July 20th plot), dies

1944 General Bradley flies to England

1944 U.S. government recognizes authority of General De Gaulle

1944 French General De Gaulle arrives in Washington, D.C.

1944 U.S. General Patton lands in France

1944 Marshal von Kluge replaces General von Rundstedt

1944 General Eisenhower visits front in Normandy

1944 General Charles de Gaulle lands at Courselles, France

1944 General Eisenhower decides invasion set for June 6

1944 French general De Gaulle arrives in London

1944 General George Norman Johnson, U.S. singer, Down at the Beach Club

1944 General Eisenhower sets D-Day for June 5th

1944 Canon P B Price, general secretary, USPG

1944 Surprise attack by Van de Peat on General Landsdrukkerij in the Hague

1944 General Eisenhower becomes head commander of allied air fleet

1944 General Montgomery speaks to generals about invastion plan

1944 General Eisenhower postpones South France invasion until after Normandy

1944 General Eisenhower took command of Allied Invasion Force in London

1944 General Eisenhower arrives in England

1943 Franklin D. Roosevelt appoints General Eisenhower supreme commander of Allied forces

1943 Soviet army under general Vatutin reconquer Romny

1943 General Eisenhower announce unconditional surrender of Italy in WW II

1943 General Castellano signs cease fire treaty in Sicily

1943 Hans Jeschonnek, German air force general/chief-staff, commits suicide

1943 General MacArthur begins Operation Cartwheel, island-hopping

1943 French general De Gaulle arrives in Algiers

1943 Premier Churchill and General Marshall fly from U.S. to North Africa

1943 Postmaster General Frank C Walker invents Postal Zone System

1943 General Montgomery occupies Sfax Tunisia

1943 German assault on Sidi Bou Zid Tunisia, General Eisenhower visits front

1943 General Eisenhower departs Algiers to Tebessa

1943 General Eisenhower selected to command the allied armies in Europe

1943 ... Reydons, wife of General Reydons, shot to death by resistance

1943 Amsterdam resistance group CS-6 shoots nazi general Seyffardt

1943 Sherian Grace Cadoria, brigadier general

1943 Russian offensive at Don under general Golikov

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

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

1942 William Bradford Reynolds, U.S. asst attorney general

1942 British offensive in North Africa under general Ritchie

1942 General MacArthur vows, "I shall return"

1942 General Doug MacArthur arrives in Australia to become supreme commander

1942 General MacArthur leaves Corregidor (Bataan) for Australia

1942 Clinton Pierce becomes 1st U.S. general wounded in action in WW II

1942 General Timoshenko's troops move into Ukraine

1942 Lt General Rommels African corps reaches Msus

1942 William Knudsen becomes 1st civilian appointed a general in U.S. army

1942 Premier Churchill and General Marshall fly to Florida

1941 L M Dovator, Russian general, dies in battle

1941 British North African commandant General Cunningham lay-offs

1941 Earnest Udet, German general/head air pioneer, commits suicide

1941 Czech premier general Eliasj arrested by nazis

1941 GJ Berenschot, general/supreme commander Dutch East Indies army, dies

1941 General de Gaulle forms government in exile in London

1941 Italian army under general Aosta surrenders to Britain in Ethiopia

1941 General Mills introduces Cheerios

1941 British general Gambier-Parry caught in North Africa

1941 Ian McGarry, general secretary, British Actors' Equity Association

1941 Jeremy Mackenzie, general

1941 Russian general Zhukov appointed chief of general staff

1940 Russian general Zhukov warns of German assault

1940 Maletti, Italian general, dies in battle

1940 North Africa: British counter offensive under general O'Connor

1940 Willys unveiled its General Purpose vehicle - Jeep

1940 Benjamin O. Davis became 1st Black general in U.S. Army

1940 Col Bo Davis attains rank of Brigadier General

1940 U.S. Army Gen Benjamin Davis becomes 1st black general

1940 Benjamin Oliver Davis Sr named 1st black general in regular army

1940 54th Postmaster General: Frank C. Walker of Pennsylvania takes office

1940 General De Gaulle departs Bordeaux for London

1940 General De Gaulle arrives in Bordeaux

1940 General Charles de Gaulle's 1st meeting with Winston Churchill

1940 General De Gaulle becomes under minister of Defense

1940 Nazi's capture General Dutch Persbureau (ANP)

1939 Albrecht MAPJ, duke of Wurttemberg/general (WW II), dies at 73

1939 General Reijnders appointed supreme commander of Dutch army

1939 Martin Garrod, Commandant General Royal Marines

1939 [Karl Eduard] Wilhelm Groener, German general, dies at 71

1939 Ruth Ashton, general secretary, Royal College of Midwives

1939 Colin Webb, general manager, Press Assn

1938 Kemal Ataturk, [Mustafa Kemal], general/president Turkey, dies at 57

1938 Chris Robinson, Florida, actor, Stanley, General Hospital, Another World

1938 Janet Reno, U.S. attorney general, 1993-

1938 Gene Michael, baseball shortstop/manager/general manger, New York Yankees

1938 Don Dolan, Staten Island, New York, actor, Guy Lewis- General Hospital

1938 Roy Thinnes, born in Chicago, Illinois, actor, Invaders, Falcon Crest, General Hospital

1938 Manuel Antonio Noriega, Panamanian general/dictator, -1990

1937 Erich Ludendorff, German general (WW I), dies at 72

1937 Bakr Sidqi, general/dictator of Iraq, dies

1937 John Cope, MP/Paymaster General

1937 General Douglas MacArthur marries Jean Faircloth

1937 Colin Powell, born in Bronx, New York, general and Secretary of State

1937 44-day sit-down strike at General Motors in Flint Mich ends

1936 Zine al-Abidine Ben Ami, general/president of Tunisia, 1987-

1936 Jose Sanjurjo y Sacanell, Spanish general/high director, dies

1936 John Shalikashvili, Polish/US general, NATO

1936 James Rand, British judge, Advocate General

1935 Juan V Gomez, general/dictator of Venezuela (1908-35), dies

1935 Gyula Gombos von Jakfa, general/dictator of Hungary (1932-35), dies

1935 Milt coup by General Pons and president Ibarra in Ecuador

1935 General Netherlands Persbureau (ANP) forms in Amsterdam

1935 Martin Garrod, Commandant General, Royal Marines

1935 Ruth Clarke, Moderator, General Assembly of the United Reform Church

1934 Manfred Worner, German general/sect-gen, NATO, 1988-94

1934 H Norman Schwarzkopf, Trenton, New Jersey, 4-star Army general, Gulf War

1934 General Lazaro Cardenas elected president of Mexico

1934 France hit by a general strike against fascists and royalists

1933 Nikolaj N Joedenitsj, Russian general/contra revolutionary, dies at 71

1933 Jocelyn Elders, U.S. Surgeon General, -1994

1933 Spanish anarchists call for general strike

1932 Jeremy Isaacs, general director, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden

1932 [Dick] Richard L Thornburgh, U.S. Attorney General, 1988-93

1932 Donald Hilton, Moderator, General Assembly of United Reformed Church

1931 Edwin Meese III, prude, U.S. attorney General, 1985-88

1931 Spanish Cortes accept general female suffrage

1931 Roy Evans, general sect, British Iron and Steel Trade Confederation

1931 Charles Huxtable, General commander, English ground armies

1931 John Chapple, British chief of General Staff

1931 James Weatherhead, moderator, General Assembly of Church of Scotland

1931 Mikhail Gorbachev, Privolnoye U.S.S.R., Soviet secretary general from 1985-91

1931 Maxwell Thurman, U.S. General

1931 Spanish Government of General Damasco Berenguer falls

1930 Godfried CE van Daalen, Dutch general/governor of Atjeh, dies at 66

1929 Pieter A H Bos, Dutch lawyer/attorney general on Aruba

1929 Giitji Tanaka, Japanese baron/general/premier (1927-29), dies at 66

1929 Otto Liman von Sanders, German general in Turkey (WW I), dies at 74

1929 General Feng Yu-Xiang of China declares war on Chiang Kai-Shek government

1929 General Motors acquires German auto manufacturer Adam Opel

1928 AVRO, General Vereniging Radio Omroep, forms

1928 Alvaro Obregon, general/president of Mexico, assassinated

1928 General Electric opens 1st TV-station (Schenectady, New York)

1928 Gordon Downey, British Comptroller General/Reader Rep, Independent

1928 Pjotr N Wrangel, Russian baron general, dies at 49

1928 Richard Trant, British general

1927 Ramsey Clark, U.S. attorney General, 1967-69

1927 Charles Boissevain, editor in chief (General Trade 1885-1908), dies

1927 General strike against British occupiers in Shanghai

1927 Buster Keaton's movie "The General" released and bombed

1927 Uprising against regime of general Carmona in Portugal

1926 Lord Murray of Epping Forest, general secretary, TUC

1926 British general strike ends, but mine workers go on strike

1926 British general strike ends

1926 General strike hits Britain

1926 British general strike-3 million workers support miners

1926 Francisco Franco becomes General of Spain

1925 General Pangulos disbands Greek parliament

1925 George Cooper, general

1925 Roger Smith, CEO, General Motors

1925 Peter Leng, Master General of the Ordnance

1925 Aleksei Kuropatkin, Russian general/minister of War, dies at 76

1925 Brent Scowcroft, born in Ogden, Utah, Lieutenant General, USAF, /National Security Council

1924 Alexander Haig, Jr., Bala-Cynwyd,

1924 General Christian Worker's union demands 8 hr work day in Belgium

1924 R G Nivelle, French general (Verdun), dies at 67

1923 Gordon R[upert] Dickson, Canada, sci-fi author, Genetic General

1923 Richard Kleindienst, attorney general, 1972

1923 Wojciech Jaruzelski, Polish general/president, 1989-90

1923 J C Gomez, General/Venezuela's 1st VP, assassinated

1923 Richard Worsley, quarter master General

1923 Attorney General says it is legal for women to wear trousers anywhere

1923 Lord Freyberg, British Colonel of General Staff

1923 Hugh Beach, British General

1923 General harbor strike begins in New York City

1923 General mine strike against wage cuts in Saar

1923 Anne Jeffreys, North Carolina, actress, Dick Tracy, Topper, General Hospital

1922 Italian general strike broken by fascist terror

1922 Lord Murray of Epping Forest, general secretary, TUC

1922 Italy's general strike against fascist violence

1922 1st general election in Netherlands

1922 Stalin appointed General Secretary of Communist Party

1922 Christiaan R de Wet, South African Boer general, dies at 67

1922 Christiaan R de Wet, South African Boer general, dies at 67

1921 Roman von Ungern-Sternberg, Russ baron/general, dies

1921 Suharto, general/president Indonesia, 1967-

1921 Amadou-Mahtar M'Bow, Senegal, director general, UNESCO

1920 Gerard Leman, Belgian general, dies

1920 Elliot L Richardson, Attorney General, 1973, /Sec of Defense, 1973

1920 Jack Harman, British general

1920 James Whyte, Moderator, General Assembly of Church of Scotland

1919 Italy agress to general voting right/proportional representation

1919 General John Smuts becomes premier of South Africa

1919 Lord Rawlinson, British attorney general, Ewell

1919 General steel strike in France

1919 General strike in Germany, crushed

1919 Communist Party in Germany announces a general strike

1919 1st day of 5-day Seattle general strike

1918 Pro-German supreme commander general Cutters lay-offs

1918 Michail V Alekseyev, Russian general (WW I), murdered at 60

1918 Martha Mitchell, wife of Attorney General John Mitchell

1917 British forces under General Allenby capture Jerusalem

1917 Chung Hee Park, general/president of S Korea, 1961-79, assassinated

1917 William French Smith, Attorney General, 1981-85

1917 Erich Geiringer, general practitioner campaigner

1916 Second Chamber accept initial impetus to general males/female suffrage

1916 C Everett Koop, surgeon general, 1981-89

1916 40,000 Amsterdam demonstrators demand general voting right

1916 General Douglas Haig reports "The men are in splendid spirits"

1916 Helmuth J L von Moltke, German chief general of staff, dies at 67

1916 Horatio H Kitchener, British General (Sudan), drowns at 65

1916 Russian General Brusilov fails on his Eastern Front attack

1916 Joseph S Gallieni, General/military governor of Paris, dies

1916 Einstein's Theory of General Relativity presented

1916 General Fransisco "Poncho" Villa invades U.S. (17 killed)

1915 Albert Einstein publishes the General Theory of Relativity

1915 Augusto Pinochet, general/president, Chile

1915 Moshe Dayan, Israeli general/minister of Defense

1915 Andrew J Goodpaster, U.S., general/supreme commander, NATO-Europe

1914 Edward J Day, U.S. Postmaster General, 1961

1914 Creighton Abrams, U.S., army general, Vietnam War

1914 Jacobus Herculas de la Rey, [Uncle Chose], Boer general, dies at 66

1914 General von Moltke ceases German advance in France

1914 British expeditionary army/general Lanrezacs army attacks the Marne

1914 General von Kluck decides not to attack Paris

1914 Aleksandr Samsonov, Russian general, commits suicide

1914 Battle at St. Quentin: French counter attack under General Lanrezac

1914 ... Machagovsky, Russian general (Tannenberg), dies in battle

1914 Battle at Mons: general von Klucks troops beat Britten

1914 General Martos' troops occupy Soldau/Neidenburg East Prussia

1914 Raffenel, French general (3rd Colonial Div, WW I), dies in battle

1914 Rondoney, French general (3rd Colonial Div, WW I), dies in battle

1914 French troops under general Dubail occupy Sarrebourg

1914 James Grierson, British general

1914 German army occupies last fort at Luik, Belgian general Leman caught

1914 Austrian-Hungary and Russia proclaim general mobilization

1914 Abdel Karim Kassem, general/premier/dictator of Iraq, 1958-63

1914 William Westmoreland, born in Saxon, South Carolina, army general, Vietnam era

1914 General Zamon becomes president of Haiti

1913 John Mitchell, Nixon's attorney general who went to jail

1913 Demonstrations for general voting right in Neth

1913 Bernard Charles Sendall, deputy director general, ITA

1913 Belgium begins general strike for voting rights

1913 Mexican General V Huerta takes power with U.S. support

1911 Post Hospital at Presidio, San Francisco renamed Letterman General Hospital

1911 General Leconte appointed temporary President of Haiti

1911 Thanom Kittikachorn, general/premier Thailand, 1958..73

1911 Petrus A Cronje, Transvaal Boer general, dies

1911 Peter A "Piet" Cronje, South Africa Boer general, dies at about 75

1910 SDAP/NVV initiate campaign for general males/female suffrage

1910 25,000 demonstrate in Amsterdam for general male/female suffrage

1910 Boers and Afrikaners win 1st general elections in Union of South-Africa

1910 Baroness Phillips, pres/general secretary, Natl Association of Women

1910 Lord Richardson, president, General Medical Council

1910 Geoffrey Musson, British General

1910 Belgian parliament rejects socialist motion for general voting rights

1910 Antonio Sebastiao Ribiero de Spinola, general/president Portugal

1910 William H. Lewis appointed asst attorney general of U.S.

1909 Whit Bissel, New York City, actor, Time Machine, General Kirk-Time Tunnel

1909 Andrew Herron, Moderator, General Assembly of Church of Scotland

1908 Carriage-maker, William Durant, founded General Motors Corp

1908 William Crapo Durant incorporates General Motors in Janesville Wisc

1908 Redvers H Buller, English general, dies at 68

1908 Jacques Massu, French general, Algeria

1908 Edward Lansdale, general/model, Quiet American, Ugly American

1907 Mohammed Ayub Khan, general/premier/president, Pakistan

1907 James Gavin, U.S., 82nd Airborne Div General, Sicily/Normandy

1907 General Louis Botha named premier of Transvaal

1906 Johan A earl von Kielmansegg, German general/commandant NATO-Europe

1906 Curtis E Le May, air force general/VP candidate

1906 Joseph Wheeler II, Confederate General, dies at 70

1905 Great General Strike in Russia begins; lasts 11 days

1905 General Trade journal publishes 1st Dutch photo (train accident)

1905 Maximo Gomez, Cuban general, dies at 68

1905 Edmond Jouhaud, general

1904 German-ltalian General Von Trotha defeats Herero in SW Africa

1904 S J Paul Kruger, general/president South-Africa (1883-1904), dies at 78

1904 Side-wheeler "General Slocum" burns in New York's East River (1,031 die)

1904 Frederick Boland, Irish diplomat/president, U.N. General Assembly

1904 James Longstreet, Confederate general, dies at 82

1903 Douglas Packard, British Lt General

1903 General railroad strike against "worgwetten" (anti-strike laws)

1903 Frank Howley, Hampton, New York, Brig General, Answers for Americans

1903 Charles Foulkes, Canada, general

1902 Christian Castries, French general, Dien Bien Phu

1902 Hendrik J Kruls, Neth, general/chief military authority, 1944-46

1902 Walter Slezak, Vienna, actor, Bedtime for Bonzo, Inspector General

1902 ... Potgieter, South African Boer general, dies in battle

1902 Battle at Yzer Spruit: Boer general De la Rey beats British

1902 Simon H. Spoor, Dutch gen/intelligence officer for General MacArthur

1901 Boer general Kritzinger captured

1901 Boer General Botha captures Fort Itala in Natal

1901 Boer General Smuts enters Kiba Drift in Cape Colony

1901 Boer general Kritzinger driven out of Cape colony

1901 SDAP demands general voting right/abolishing First Chamber

1901 Boer general John Smuts and De la Rey conqueror Mud river Transvaal

1901 Carlos P Romulo, Philippine general/diplomat/jurist

1900 General Viljoen surprise attack British garrison to Helvetia

1900 Ibrahim Abbud, general/premier Sudan, 1958-64

1900 General Redvers Buller returns to England

1900 Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco, Brazil general/president, 1964-67

1900 British General Buller occupies Lydenburg South Africa

1900 Andrei Vlasov, Russian general, Red Army, Wehrmacht

1900 Battle at Bergendal: Gen Buller beats Boer general Botha

1900 President Steyn/General De Law escape Brandwater Basin

1900 Boer general De la Rey captures Scots Greys and Lincolns

1900 Battle at Diamond Hill: British troops chase General Botha

1900 Herman J. Friedericy, [H J Merlijn], writer, Last general

1900 Boer general Christian de Law occupiers British train depot Roodewal

1900 Comte de Villebois-Marevil, French/South African general, dies in battle

1900 British garrison of Reddersberg surrenders to Boer general De Wet

1900 Pieter J Joubert [Smart Piet], South African general, dies at 69

1900 General Buller's troops relieve Ladysmith Natal

1900 Boer General Cronje surrenders to English in Pardenberg, South-Africa

1900 General French relieves Kimberley/Cecil Rhodes

1899 Battle of Mud river (Boer general. Cronje beats British gen Methuen)

1899 Adrian the la Rey, son of South African general, dies in battle at 19

1899 Battle at Graspan, Cape colony: general Methuen beats Farmers

1899 Battle at Belmont, Cape colony: general Methuen beats Farmers

1899 Lyman L Lemnitzer, Marine Corps general, WW II

1899 Alfred M. Gruenther, U.S., commanding general of NATO, 1953-56

1898 Edwin E. Dwinger, German writer, General Vlassov

1898 George Jessel, toastmaster general/entertainer, Diary of Young Comic

1898 Georgios Grivas, Greek general/opposition leader on Cyprus

1897 Nathan F Twining, USAF general, Neither Liberty nor Safety

1897 General Kitchener occupies Berber, North of Khartoum

1897 Oldsmobile begins operation as a General Motors Corp division

1897 Lucius du Bignon Clay, U.S., general, WW II, /gov, West Germany

1896 James H Doolittle, USAF General, Raid on Tokyo 1942

1896 General Kitcheners army occupies Dongola Sudan

1896 Richard N Gale, English general/airborne commander, Normandy

1896 Trygve Halvdan Lie, born in Norway, 1st United Nations secretary general, 1946-52

1896 ... Dabormida, Italian general (Eritrea), dies of injuries

1896 ... Albertone, Italian general (Eritrea), dies in battle

1896 ... Arimondi, Italian general (Eritrea), dies in battle

1896 ... Dabormida, Italian general (Eritrea), dies in battle

1896 Anastasio "Tacho" Somoza, general/president of Nicaragua, 1937-56

1895 Battle at Amba Alagi: Ethiopian emperor Menelik II drives Italian general Baratieri's out

1895 Ludvik Svoboda, Czech general/politician

1895 Walter Bedell Smith, U.S. general, WW II, /head of CIA, 1950-52

1895 Italian general Oreste Baratieri lands in Massawa, Eritrea

1895 Gabriel M-E-R Chevallier, French author, Le petit general

1895 Matthew B. Ridgway, U.S. general in WW II, China, Nicaragua, Korea, NATO

1894 Fritz Sauckel, German Nazi General of Labor

1894 Francisco H. Craveiro Lopes, Portuguese general and president, 1951-58

1893 Harlow H Curtice, President of General Motors, 1953-8

1893 John Murray Corse, U.S. general (Union), dies on his 58th birthday

1893 Dragoljub "Draza" Mihailovic, Yugoslavian general/nazi collaborator

1893 Muhammad Zafrulla Khan, President of United Nations General Assembly, 1962-63

1892 Francisco Franco, [y Bahamonde], Spanish General/dictator, 1936-75

1892 Wladyslaw Anders, Polish general

1892 Gyorgy Klapka, Hungarian general/parliament leader, dies at 72

1892 General Electric Company, forms and is incorporated in New York

1892 Wladyslaw Ander