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1991 1st International flight from Long Island's MacArthur Airport (to Mexico)

1978 John D MacArthur, U.S. insurance billionaire, dies at 80

1968 Richard Harris releases "MacArthur Park"

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

1961 Douglas MacArthur declines offer to become baseball commissioner

1956 Charles MacArthur, American Playwright

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

1951 General Douglas MacArthur ends his military career

1950 General Douglas MacArthur named commander-in-chief, United Nations forces in Korea

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

1947 General MacArthur approves Japanese constitution

1946 Jimmy Webb, born in Elk City, Oklahoma, songwriter, MacArthur Park, Up Up and Away

1945 General MacArthur lands in Japan

1945 General MacArthur named Supreme Commander of Allied Powers in Japan

1945 General Douglas MacArthur returns to Manila

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

1945 U.S. soldiers led by General Douglas MacArthur invades Philippines

1944 U.S. forces under General Douglas MacArthur return to Philippines

1943 Howard Gardner, born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, psychologist, invented theory of multiple intelligences, influenced by Jerome Bruner, Nelson Goodman, Jean Piaget, MacArthur Prize Fellowship, 1981

1943 General MacArthur begins Operation Cartwheel, island-hopping

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

1937 James MacArthur, born in Los Angeles, California, actor, Danny Williams-Hawaii 5-0

1937 General Douglas MacArthur marries Jean Faircloth

1930 Richard Harris, Ire, actor, Man Called Horse, singer, MacArthur Park

1928 Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur's "Front Page," premieres in New York City

1920 Amy Clampitt, born in New Providence, Iowa, poet, author, professor at Amherst College, College of William and Mary, Smith College, received Guggenheim, MacArthur Fellowship

1916 Gregory Peck, born in La Jolla, California, actor, To Kill a Mockingbird, MacArthur

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

1895 Charles MacArthur, American Playwright

1880 Douglas MacArthur, Little Rock, Arkansas, general, WW II, he did return!


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