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 |
