2004 Tony Awards, Avenue Q, I Am My Own Wife, Henry IV revival and Assassins revival won major awards
2004 46th Grammy Awards, Coldplay, Outkast, Richard Marx, Luther Vandross, Christina Aguilera and Justin Timberlake win major awards
2003 Tony Awards, Hairspray, Take Me Out, Long Day's Journey Into Night revival and Nine revival won major awards
2003 President George W. Bush declares that 'major combat operations' in Iraq are over
2003 45th Grammy Awards, Norah Jones and John Mayer win major awards
2002 Ted Williams, athlete, last person to hit .400 for a season as a major leaguer, dies at 83
2002 Tony Awards, The Goat or Who Is Sylvia?, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Private Lives revival, and Into the Woods revival won major awards
2002 44th Grammy Awards, U2, Alicia Keyes, Nelly Furtado and James Taylor win major awards
2001 Mary Kay Ash, businesswoman, started a major cosmetics company, dies at 83
2001 Tony Awards, The Producers, Proof, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest revival and 42nd Street revival won major awards
2001 43rd Grammy Awards, U2, Steely Dan, Macy Gray and Sting win major awards
2000 Tony Awards, Copenhagen, Contact, The Real Thing revival, and Kiss Me Kate revival won major awards
2000 42nd Grammy Awards, Santana, Sarah McLachlan and Sting win major awards
1999 41st Grammy Awards, Celine Dion, Lauryn Hill and Eric Clapton win major awards
1998 Tony Awards, Lion King, Caberet revival, Ragtime, and The Beauty Queen of Leenane won major awards
1998 Tony Awards, Side Man, Death of a Salesman revival, Annie Get Your Gun revival and You're a Good Man Charlie Brown revival won major awards
1998 40th Grammy Awards, Shawn Colvin, Bob Dylan, Sarah McLachlan, and Elton John win major awards
1997 Coleman Young, 1st black mayor of a major city (Detroit)
1997 Major league revenue sharing begins, New York Yanks pay out most $28M
1997 Major League Soccer announces Miami and Chicago expansion
1997 Major League Baseball announces 5 year, $50M deal with Pepsi
1996 Nebraska and Penn State are 5th and 6th major colleges to win 700
1996 Roger Clemens ties his own major league record with 20 strikeouts
1996 MacKenzie John, pipe major, dies at 83
1996 Carl Stokes, 1st black mayor of a major U.S. city (Cleve), dies
1995 Major earthquake kills 5,092 in Kobe Japan
1994 Major Bill Smith, record producer, dies at 72
1994 Major Lance, soul singer, dies at 55
1994 Richard M Major, U.S. anti-terror specialist (CIA Red Book), dies at 72
1994 Members of the Major League Baseball Players Association strike
1994 Major parts of Comet Shoemaker-Levy hit Jupiter (July 16th-22nd)
1994 Steffi Graf becomes 1st defending tennis champ to lose in 1st round of a major tournament (Wimbledon to Lorrie McNeal)
1993 British premier Major/Irish premier Reynolds signs Downing Street Declaration concerning Northern Ireland self determination
1993 Anatoli Koretski, Russian major general, murdered
1993 Sergei Y Vozovikov, Russian major/cosmonaut, dies in accident at 35
1993 Donald "Deke" K Slayton, U.S. major/astronaut (Apollo 18), dies at 69
1993 New York Knicks and Phoenix Suns get into a major brawl
1992 Alexander Pola, [Abraham Polak], actor and writer (Farce Major), dies
1992 U.S. Major Soccer League folds after 14 seasons
1992 West beats East 14 to 9 in Major Soccer League all star game
1991 Royals Warren Cromartie's 1st major league HR since 1983
1991 Darrin Lewis hits his 1st major league HR
1991 Major league umpire Steve Palermo and former NFL defensive lineman Terence Mann were shot trying to help 2 waitresses from being robbed
1991 New York Yankee Steve Howe records his 1st major league save since 1987
1991 San Diego Sockers win 4th consecutive Major Soccer League championship
1991 U.S. announces closing of 31 major U.S. military bases
1991 Major league umpires and baseball reach a 4-year agreement
1990 Britain's conservatives chose John Major to succeed Margaret Thatcher
1990 Nolan Ryan becomes 20th major league pitcher to win 300 games
1990 Boston Red Sox set major league record with 12 doubles in a game
1990 Notre Dame becomes 1st team to sell its game to a major network (NBC)
1989 Houston becomes 1st major college team to gain 1000 yards in a game
1989 1st black owners (Betram Lee and Peter Bynoe) to own a major sports team, purchasing Denver Nuggets for $65m
1989 Delta Burke (Designing Women) weds Gerald McRaney (Major Dad)
1989 Ron Brown chosen 1st black chairman of a major U.S. party (Democrats)
1988 Senate votes for major federal tax code changes
1987 2nd coup on Fiji led by Major General Sitiveni Rabuka
1987 Calif's Bob Boone catches record 1,919th major league game
1987 Knuckleballer Charlie Hough on the mound, Rangers catcher Geno Petralli ties the major league record by allowing 6 passed balls
1987 Don Mattingly hits his 4th grand slam of season and ties AL record of homers in 6 straight games (on way to tie major league record of 8)
1986 Indians Jay Bell is 10th to hit a HR on 1st major league pitch he sees
1986 SD Padre Jimmy Jones pitchs 1-hitter in his major league debut
1986 A's Mark McGwire hits his 1st major league HR
1985 Major League Baseball Players' Association stages a midseason baseball strike (lasts 1 day)
1983 Reggie Jackson is 1st major leaguer to strike out 2,000 times
1983 Stern mag announces major historical find-discovery of 60 volume personal diaries written by Adolph Hitler (turned out to be a hoax)
1982 Major leagues vote not to renew Commissioner Bowie Kuhn's contract
1981 Chelsea Hertford, actress, Major Dad
1981 42 day old, 2nd major league baseball strike ends
1980 Major race riot in Miami Florida - 16 killed, 300 injured
1979 Bern Hoffman, actor (Major Dell Conway), dies at 66
1979 Major Haddad declares South-Lebanon independent
1979 J. R. Richard throws major league record 6 wild pitches in Astrodome
1979 Major nuclear accident at 3 Mile Island, Middletown, Pennsylvania (no deaths)
1979 Major riot at Bourda prevents day's play in WSC Supertest
1978 Major Indoor Soccer League holds its 1st draft
1978 Major Indoor Soccer League grants 1st 6 franchises to Cincinnati,
1978 Dodgers become 1st major league team to draw 3 million fans
1978 Formation of Major Indoor Soccer League announced
1978 President Ford signs 1st major revision of copyright law since 1909
1977 Major Indoor Soccer League officially organized (New York City)
1977 Red Sox wallop a major league-record 8 home runs beating Toronto 9-6
1976 Sybil Thorndike, actress (Melba, Major Barbara), dies at 93
1975 Mexico City's 1st major subway accident takes 26 lives
1974 Giants John Montefusco makes his major league debut
1974 Pitching in major league-record 13th consecutive game for Dodgers
1973 Kansas City Royals' George Brett gets his 1st major league hit
1973 Robyn Smith becomes 1st female jockey to win a major race
1972 Record 8 shutouts pitched in 16 major league games (AL=5, NL=3)
1972 Major league baseball players stages 1st collective strike
1970 Mail service paralyzed by 1st major postal strike
1969 Congo-Brazzaville becomes People's republic, under major Ngouabi
1969 Hoyt Wilhelm pitches in a record 907th major league game
1969 1st major league baseball game outside U.S. played (Montreal Canada)
1969 Barbara Jo Rubin becomes 1st female jockey to win at a major U.S. track
1969 Diane Crump becomes 1st woman jockey at a major U.S. racetrack (Hialeah)
1968 AL and NL umpires form a new Association of Major League Umpires
1968 Satchel Paige, 62, and needing 158 days on a major league payroll to qualify for a pension, is signed by Braves
1968 Bobby Bonds hits a grand slam in his 1st major league game (Giants)
1968 NL awards Montreal and SD major league franchises
1967 Carl B. Stokes elected 1st black mayor of a major city-Cleveland, Ohio
1967 Ervin Major, composer, dies at 66
1967 Orville Caldwell, Deputy Major (LA-1940), dies at 71
1967 Edward G Givens Jr, Major USAF/astronaut, dies in an car crash at 47
1967 Softball pitcher Eddie Feigner strikes out 6 straight major leaguers
1966 1st major tidal power plant opens at Rance estuary, France
1966 Emmett Ashford becomes 1st black major league umpire
1965 Cubs tie major league record of 3 triple plays in a season
1965 Japanese community of San Francisco holds Masanori Murakami Day at Candlestick Park to honor 1st Japanese player to play in major leagues
1965 Major league record 26 strikeouts, Phillies (16), Pirates (10)
1965 Dick Stuart homers in a major league-record 23rd different park
1964 Phillies tie major league record with season's 3rd triple play (Reds)
1964 Houston Colt 45s Ken Johnson becomes 1st major league pitcher to lose a 9 inning no-hitter, Reds win 1-0
1963 Major league baseballs 100,000th game
1963 USAF Major Robert A Rushworth in X-15 reaches 86,900 m
1963 Colt .45s beat Giants 3-0 in major leagues' 1st Sunday night game
1963 Pete Rose triples for his 1st major league base hit
1963 Major League Rules Committee votes to expand strike zone
1962 USAF Major Robert A. Rushworth takes X-15 to 40,800m
1962 Dodgers set major league-record season attendance of 2,755,184
1962 Robert A. Rushworth, USAF major, takes X-15 to 30,600m
1962 Sergei Viktorovich Zalyotin, born in Russia, major/cosmonaut
1962 1st major league game in Houston, Colt .45s beat Chicago Cubs, 11-2
1961 Frank Robinson is 1st to win MVPs in both major leagues
1961 USAF Major Robert M White takes X-15 to 30,970m
1961 USAF Major Robert M White takes X-15 to 66,100m
1961 Pamela Ann Melroy, born in Palo Alto, California, Major USAF/astronaut, sk:STS 92
1961 Willie Mays is 4th major leaguer with 3 or more home runs twice in a season
1961 Yuri Ivanovich Onufriyenko, Russian major/cosmonaut, Mir, Soyuz TM-23
1960 Damon Wayans, actor/comedian, In Living Color, Major Payne, Blankman
1960 Steven W. Lindsey, Arcadia, California, Major USAF/astronaut, STS 87
1960 USAF Major Robert M White takes X-15 to 41,600 m
1960 Christopher J "Gus" Loria, Newton, Massachusetts, Major USMC/astronaut
1960 Continental League, a proposed third major league, gets an assurance of congressional support from New York Senator Kenneth Keating
1959 Michael P Anderson, Plattsburgh, New York, major USAF/astronaut, STS 89
1959 1st movie opening simultaneously in major cities (On The Beach)
1959 In his major league debut, San Francisco Giant Willie McCovey goes 4-for-4
1959 1st black to win a major golf tournament, William Wright
1959 Phils' Dave Philley gets a major league record 9th straight pinch hit
1959 Michael J. Bloomfield, born in Flint, Michigan, Major USAF/astronaut, STS 86
1958 Dale Long becomes 1st major league lefty catcher in 52 years
1958 Gennadi Ivanovich Padalka, Russian major/cosmonaut, SK: Soyuz TM-28
1958 Ted Williams is 10th major league player to get 1,000 extra-base hits
1958 Sergei Yuriyevich Vozovikov, Russian major/cosmonaut
1958 Arnold Palmer wins 1st major golf tournament-Masters
1958 Jeffrey N Williams, Superior Wisconsin, Major Army/astronaut
1957 U.S. Major David Simons reaches 30,933m in a balloon
1957 1st black to win a major U.S. tennis tournament, Althea Gibson
1957 Duane G. Carey, born in St. Paul, Minnesota, major USAF/astronaut
1956 Phillies Robin Roberts gives up a major league record 46th HR
1956 Paul S. Lockhart, born in Amarillo, Texas, Major USAF/astronaut
1955 Shanna Reed, Kansas City Kansas, actress, Major Dad, Mirrors
1955 U.S. Auto Club forms to oversee 4 major auto reacing categories
1954 Major league owners vote down sale of A's to a Philadelphia syndicate
1954 Attempting to handle Hoyt Wilhelm's knuckleball catcher Ray Katt of Giants sets a major league record with 4 passed balls
1954 Hurricane Carol (1st major named storm) hits New England, 70 die
1954 1st major league game where majority of team is black (Dodgers)
1954 Major League Baseball Players Association founded
1953 Supreme Court rules Major League baseball exempt from anti-trust laws
1953 Cubs Ernie Banks hits his 1st major league HR
1953 Braves Phil Paine is 1st former major leaguer to play in Japan
1953 Brian J. Duffy, born in Boston, Major USAF/astronaut, STS 45, 57, 72, sk:92
1953 1st major league network baseball game-Cleveland 7, Chicago 2
1953 Brown's Bobo Holloman 1st major league start, no-hits Philadelphia A's, 6-0
1952 Stan Musial makes his only major league pitching appearance
1952 New York Yankees Johnny Mize's pinch-hit grand slam gives Yanks a 5-1 win at Washington He has now HRed in all 15 major league parks
1952 1st black executive of a major TV station (Jackie Robinson-WNBC New York)
1952 Lloyd Blaine Hammond, Jr., Savannah, Georgia, Major USAF/astr, STS 39, 64
1951 Former Cubs 1st baseman and future TV star of Rifleman Chuck Connors is 1st player to oppose the major league draft
1951 Mark N Brown, Valparaiso, Indiana, Major USAF/astronaut, STS 28, 48, 66
1951 Willie Mays gets his 1st major league hit, a home run
1951 New York Giant Willie Mays 1st major league game (goes 0 for 5)
1951 Thomas D Akers, St. Louis, Major USAF/astronaut, STS 41, 49, 61, 79
1951 Gil McDougald ties major league record with 6 RBIs in 1 inning
1951 Senate committee reports of at least 2 major U.S. crime syndicates
1950 Margaret Whitton, born in Baltimore, Maryland, actress, Good and Evil, Major League
1950 Carl J Meade, Illinos, Major USAF/astronaut, STS 38, STS 50, 64
1950 1st Major League baseball player to fight in Korea (Curt Simmons)
1950 1st major league day game completed under lights (Phils 6, Braves 5)
1949 Terrence W. Wilcutt, Russellville, Kentucky, Major USMC/astronaut, STS 68, 79
1949 Baseball major league record 4 grand slams hit
1949 Ray Major, rock guitarist, British Lions
1949 James S. Voss, born Cordova, Alabama, Major USA/astronaut, STS 44, 53, 69
1948 Satchel Paige at 42, pitches his 1st major league complete game
1948 Gerald McRaney, born in Collins, Mississippi, actor, Rick-Simon and Simon, Major Dad
1947 Pacific Coast League application for major league status rejected
1947 Gerald McRaney, Collins Mississippi, actor, Simon and Simon, Major Dad
1947 Jackie Robinson bunts for his 1st major league hit
1947 Jackie Robinson goes hitless in his major league debut
1947 Jackie Robinson becomes 1st black in major league baseball (Dodgers)
1947 Major Harris, U.S. R&B-singer, Love won't Let me wait
1947 David Bowie, London, singer and actor, Major Tom, Ziggy Stardust
1946 Joe Garagiola plays his 1st major league baseball game
1946 Edward Bowes, radio host (Major Bowes Amateur Hour), dies at 71
1946 Giants outfielder Danny Gardella is 1st major leaguer to announce he is jumping to the "outlaw" Mexican League
1945 Major Courtney, U.S. medal of honor marine, dies in battle of Sugar Loaf
1945 John Poston, British major/Montgomery's ADC, dies in battle at 25
1944 Bandleader, Major Glenn Miller, lost over English Channel
1944 Peter Waddy, British major 1st Para Brigade, dies in battle in Arnhem
1944 Wolfgang Redlich, German major/pilot, dies in battle
1944 Joe Nuxhall, 15, of Cin Reds is youngest player in major league
1944 Heinrich zu Sayn-Wittgenstein, German major/pilot, shot down
1943 John Major, British Prime Minister, C, 1990-97
1942 During WW II, Britain launches major offensive at El Alamein, Egypt
1942 Von Bismarck, German major general, (Africa Corps), dies in battle
1942 Battle of Midway begins; Japan's 1st major defeat in WW II
1942 Major German assault on Malta
1942 3 day Battle of Java Sea ends, U.S. suffers a major naval defeat
1941 Cards' Stan Musial makes his major league debut, going 2-for-4
1941 Germans made their last major air attack on Britain
1941 Major Lance, U.S. boxer, dancer and singer, Hey Little Girl
1940 British troops 1st major offensive in No Africa (Libya) during WW II
1940 Ed Garvey, labor leader, Major League Baseball Players Assn
1939 1st major league baseball telecast-Reds beat Brooklyn Dodgers (W2XBS New York)
1938 Major leagues agrees on standard ball
1938 Major leagues disagree on increasing rosters from 23 to 25
1938 Nazis plan Jewish ghettos for all major cities
1936 1st baseman Walter Alston plays in his only major league game
1936 Indians' Bob Feller makes his major league debut in relief
1936 Major R Owens, Rep-D-NY
1936 Major R. Owens, American Politician
1936 Major Owens, American Politician
1935 1st major league night baseball game, in Cincinnati (Reds 2, Phil 1)
1935 Major Bowes' Original Amateur Hour goes national on NBC Radio Network
1934 Pittsburgh is last major league city to play a home game on a Sunday
1933 1st major league All-Star Game announced for July 6 at Comiskey Park It will be played as part of the Chicago World's Fair
1933 1st major league to get 4 consecutive doubles in 9 inn (Dick Bartell)
1933 Major earthquake in Long Beach, California
1933 Major NFL rule changes (hash mark 10 yds in, posts on goal line)
1932 Clifton C Williams, Jr., Mobile Alabama, Major USMC/astronaut
1932 Dodger John Quinn, 49, is oldest pitcher to win a major league game
1932 Gavin Lyall, author, Conduct of Major Maxim
1931 Round-robin playoff among New York City's 3 major league teams, to raise money for unemployed, concludes with Brooklyn losing to both Giants and Yanks
1931 Carrie Saxon Perry, 1st black mayor of a major U.S. city, Hartford CT
1930 Brooklyn catcher Al Lopez hits major league's last recorded bounce HR
1930 123 runs are scored in 7 major league games
1930 Edward Galven Givens, Jr., Quanah Texas, Major USAF/astronaut
1928 Carl Hubbell's 1st major league victory is a 4-0 shutout of Phils
1927 Althea Gibson, Silver, South Carolina, 1st black tennis champion in a major event
1927 Major Bernard Montgomery (29) marries widow Betty Carver
1925 Jakab Gyula Major, composer, dies at 66
1924 Donald "Deke" Kent Slayton, born in Sparta, Wisconsin, Major USAF/astro, Apollo 18
1924 Margaret Beda Nicholson, author, No Medals for the Major
1922 MacKenzie John, pipe major
1921 P B S Pinchback, major Reconstruction politician, dies at 84
1920 Ray Chapman, of Indians is hit in head by Yanks' Carl Mays pitch; he dies next day, only major league fatality
1919 Fastest major league game (51 mins), Giants beat Phillies 6-1
1919 Babe Ruth ties Ned Williamson's major league mark of 27 HRs
1919 1st air flight over a major body of water in Australia (Harry Butler)
1919 Phillies tie major league record of 8 steals in 9 inn game
1919 Major leagues open a reduced 140-game season
1919 Jackie Robinson, born in Georgia, 1st black major league baseball player, Dodgers
1918 Battle of the Argonne, final major battle of WW I
1916 Charles E Manning, Australian judge/major, dies in battle at 36
1916 Ralph Baldwin, harness driver, set 11 major world records
1915 J. Donald Budge, U.S. tennis player, 1st to hold world's 4 major titles
1914 Alexander Pola, Dutch actor and writer, Farce Major
1912 Wendy Hiller, England, actress, Major Barbara, David Copperfield
1911 Cy Young's farewell appearance in a major league game is a letdown as he loses to Brooklyn 13-3 in a Braves uniform in his 906th game
1906 Kathleen Major, principal, St. Hilda's College, England
1905 George Bernard Shaws "Major Barbara," premieres in London
1905 Cubs Jack McCarthy becomes only major league player to throw out 3 runners at plate in 1 game, all were ends of a double play
1903 Pitcher Jack Doscher, 1 son of a major leaguer debuts with Cubs
1901 CFH "Freddie" Gough, British major scout, WW II, Arnhem
1901 Ervin Major, composer
1899 Lord Winchester, British marquis/major, dies in battle
1897 Yale defeated Penn, 30-10 in 1st major college basketball game
1896 Ed Delahanty, becomes 2nd major leaguer to hit 4 home runs in a game
1893 Allan Wilson, British/Rhodesian major, dies in battle
1890 Denton True "Cy" Young pitched his 1st major league baseball game
1888 Hans Oster, German major general/spy/July 20th plotter
1886 Apache Chief Geronimo surrenders ending last major US-Indian war
1886 1st major earthquake recorded in eastern U.S., at Charleston SC, 110 die
1884 Moses Walker became 1st black player in major league
1880 John Lee Richmond pitches 1st major league perfect game, Worcester 1, Cleveland's Forest City 0
1879 John Brahms' Violin Concerto in D major premieres in Leipzig
1878 Marshall Walter "Major" Taylor, world champion cyclist, 1899
1874 Major Walter Copton Wingfield patents a portable tennis court
1874 Edward Bowes, radio host, Major Bowes Amateur Hour
1870 Thomas Connolly, baseball's major league umpire for 50 years
1868 Bertha Landes, 1st woman elected mayor of a major U.S. city, Seattle
1865 Francis Washburn, U.S. Union colonel/gen major, dies of injuries
1865 1st black major in U.S. Army, Martin Robinson Delany
1864 Union Major General Sherman burns Atlanta
1863 Battle of Gettysburg Pennsylvania ends, major victory for North
1863 Benjamin Franklin "Grimes" Davis, Union major, dies in battle at 30
1863 John Pelham, U.S. Confederate artillery major, dies in battle at 24
1862 General Lee's adjutant major Stuart captured
1862 Chatham Roberdeau Wheat, Confederate major, dies in battle at about 35
1862 Grant's major assault on Ft. Donelson, Tennessee
1861 1st major battle of Civil War ends (Bull Run), Va-South wins
1861 Battle of Bull Run, the 1st major battle of the Civil War, is fought
1860 Major Robert Anderson, under cover of darkness, concentrated his small force at Ft. Sumter
1858 Jakab Gyula Major, composer
1857 American Chess Association organized; 1st major U.S. chess tournament (New York City)
1854 Major streets lit by coal gas for 1st time
1853 1st major U.S. rail disaster kills 46 in Norwalk, Connecticut
1851 1st major San Francisco fire
1849 George Washington Williams, 1st major black historian, dies
1846 1st major battle of Mexican War fought at Palo Alto Texas
1844 Galusha Pennypacker, Bvt Major General Union Army, died in 1916
1840 Ranald Slidell Mackenzie, Bvt Major General Union volunteers
1840 William Francis Bartlett, Bvt Major General Union volunteers
1839 Emory Upton, Bvt Major General Union Army, died in 1881
1839 Nelson Appleton Miles, Major General Union volunteers, died in 1925
1839 Cyrus Hamblin, Bvt Major General Union volunteers, died in 1867
1839 Francis Fessenden, Major General Union volunteers, died in 1906
1838 John Pelham, Major Confederate Army, died in 1863
1837 William Wells, Bvt Major General Union volunteers, died in 1892
1837 James Harrison Wilson, Major General Union volunteers, died in 1925
1837 Eli Long, Bvt Major General Union Army, died in 1903
1837 William Henry Fitzhugh "Rooney" Lee, Major General Confederate Army
1837 Robert Frederick Hoke, Major General Confederate Army, died in 1912
1837 Stephen Dodson Ramseur, Major General Confederate Army, died in 1864
1837 Francis Jay Herron, Major General Union volunteers, died in 1902
1836 Henry Eugene Davies, Major General Union volunteers, died in 1894
1836 Thomas Wilberforce Egan, Bvt Major General Union volunteers
1836 James Patrick Major, Brig General Confederate Army, died in 1877
1836 Matthew Calbraith Butler, Major General, Confederate Army
1835 Fitzhugh Lee, Major General Confederate Army, died in 1905
1835 Lunsford Lindsay Lomax, Major General Confederate Army, died in 1913
1835 Godfrey Weitzel, Union volunteers Major general, died in 1884
1835 Adelbert Ames, Bvt Major General Union Army, died in 1933
1835 Joseph Hayes, Bvt Major General Union volunteers, died in 1912
1835 Newton Martin Curtis, Bvt Major General Union volunteers
1835 Alexander Stuart Webb, Major General Union Army, died in 1911
1835 Oliver Edwards, Bvt Major General Union volunteers, died in 1904
1834 Thomas Edward Greenfield Ransom, Bvt Major General Union volunteers
1834 Wager Swayne, Major General Union volunteers, died in 1902
1834 Wesley Merritt, Major General Union volunteers, died in 1910
1834 William Dorsey Pender, Major General Confederate Army, died in 1863
1834 Robert Sanford Foster, Bvt Major General Union volunteers
1833 Cyrus Bussey, Bvt Major General Union volunteers, died in 1915
1833 James Deering Fessenden, Bvt Major General Union volunteers
1833 Henry Alanson Barnum, Bvt Major General Union volunteers
1833 Charles Jackson Paine, Bvt Major General Union volunteers
1833 John Wesley Turner, Bvt Major General Union Army, died in 1899
1833 Alfred Thomas Archimedes Torbert, Bvt Major General Union Army
1833 Frank Wheaton, Bvt Major General Union Army, died in 1903
1833 David McMurtrie Gregg, Bvt Major General Union volunteers
1833 Thomas Howard Ruger, Bvt Major General Union volunteers
1833 John Sappington Marmaduke, Major General Confederate Army
1833 James Ewell Brown "JEB" Stuart, Major General Confederate Army
1832 Thomas Alfred Smyth, Major General Union volunteers, died in 1865
1832 Edward Hatch, Bvt Major General Union volunteers, died in 1889
1832 John Henry Ketcham, Bvt Major General Union volunteers, died in 1906
1832 William Woods Averell, Major General Union Army, died in 1900
1832 Samuel Sprigg Carroll, Bvt Major General Union Army, died in 1893
1832 George Washington Custis Lee, Major General Confederate Army
1832 Thomas Ogden Osbord, Bvt Major General Union volunteers
1832 Walter Quintin Gresham, Bvt Major General Union volunteers
1832 John Brown Gordon, Major General Confederate Army, died in 1904
1831 Robert Ogden Tyler, Bvt Major General Union Army, died in 1874
1831 Daniel Butterfield, Major General Union volunteers, died in 1901
1831 John McAlister Schofield, Major General Union volunteers
1831 Stephen Gano Burbridge, Bvt Major General Union volunteers
1831 Alexander McDowell McCook, Major General Union volunteers
1831 Grenville Mellen Dodge, Major General Union volunteers
1831 Philip Henry Sheridan, born in Albany, New York, Major General, Union Army
1831 John Aaron Rawlins, Bvt Major General Union Army, died in 1869
1831 Edward Ferrero, Bvt Major General Union volunteers, died in 1899
1830 Oliver Otis Howard, Major General Union volunteers, died in 1909
1830 John Stevens Bowen, Major General Confederate Army died in 1863
1830 John Parker Hawkins, Bvt Major General Union Army, died in 1914
1830 William Babcock Hazen, Major General Union volunteers, died in 1887
1830 Alvan Cullem Gillem, Major General Union volunteers, died in 1875
1830 Richard Henry Jackson, Bvt Major General Union volunteers
1830 Edward Winslow Hinks, Bvt Major General Union volunteers
1830 George Lucas Hartsuff, Major General Union volunteers, died in 1874
1830 Davis Tillson, Bvt Major General Union volunteers, died in 1895
1830 Eugene Asa Carr, Bvt Major General Union Army, died in 1910
1830 Gouverneur Kemble Warren, Major Gen Union volunteers, died in 1882
1830 , Samuel, Emerson Opdycke, Bvt Major General Union volunteers
1829 William Passmore Carlin, Bvt Major General Union Army, died in 1903
1829 Samuel Wylie Crawford, Bvt Major General Union Army, died in 1892
1829 Christopher Columbus Andres, Bvt Major General Union volunteers
1829 Giles Alexander Smith, Major General Union volunteers, died in 1876
1829 William Worth Belknap, Bvt Major General Union volunteers
1829 George Crook, Major General Union volunteers, died in 1890
1829 John Horace Forney, Major General Confederate Army, died in 1902
1829 Thomas Ewing, Jr., Major General, Bvt Union volunteers, died in 1896
1829 Robert Brown Potter, Major General Union volunteers, died in 1887
1829 John Baillie McIntosh, Bvt Major General Union Army, died in 1888
1829 Robert Emmet Rodes, Major General Confederate Army, died in 1864
1829 Carl Schurz, Major General Union volunteers and journalist
1828 Clinton Bowen Fisk, Bvt Major General Union volunteers, died in 1890
1828 Byron Grimes, Major General Confederate Army, died in 1880
1828 Jacob Dolson Cox, Major General Union volunteers, died in 1900
1828 Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, Bvt Major General Union volunteers
1828 George Leonard Andrews, Bvt Major General Union volunteers
1828 Joseph Bradford Carr, Bvt Major General Union volunteers
1828 Cuvier Grover, Bvt Major General Union Army, died in 1885
1828 John Rutter Brooke, Bvt Major General Union volunteers
1828 John Austin Wharton, Major General Confederate Army, died in 1865
1828 Adin Ballou Underwood, Bvt Major General Union volunteers
1828 Charles William Field, Major General Confederate Army, died in 1892
1828 Patrick Ronayne Cleburne, Major General Confederate Army
1828 James Fleming Fagan, Major General Confederate Army, died in 1893
1828 Robert Ransom, Jr., Major General Confederate Army, died in 1892
1828 August Valentine Kautz, Bvt Major General Union Army, died in 1895
1827 Alfred Howe Terry, Major General Union volunteers, died in 1890
1827 Kenner Garrard, Bvt Major General Union Army, died in 1879
1827 Henry Warner Slocum, Major General Union volunteers, died in 1894
1827 John Grubb Parke, Major General Union volunteers, died in 1900
1827 John Morrison Oliver, Bvt Major General Union volunteers
1827 Joseph Anthony Mower, Major General Union volunteers, died in 1870
1827 Charles Edward Hovey, Bvt Major General Union volunteers
1827 William Hopkins Morris, Major General Union volunteers, died in 1900
1827 John Gibbon, Major General Union volunteers, died in 1896
1827 Lewis Wallace, Major General Union volunteers and author, Ben Hur
1827 Alexander Shaler, Bvt Major General Union volunteers, died in 1911
1827 Henry DeLamar Clayton, Major General Confederate Army, died in 1889
1827 Richard W. Johnson, Bvt Major General Union Army, died in 1897
1827 James Barnet Fry, Bvt Major General Union Army, died in 1894
1827 Charles Robert Woods, Bvt Major General Union Army, died in 1855
1827 John Calvin Brown, Major General Confederate Army, died in 1889
1826 James Scott Negley, Union volunteers Major General, died in 1901
1826 George Brinton McClellan, Major General Union Army, died in 1885
1826 William Mahone, Major General Confederate Army, died in 1895
1826 John McArthur, Bvt Major General Union volunteers, died in 1906
1826 Hugh Boyle Ewing, Bvt Major General Union volunteers, died in 1905
1826 Thomas John Lucas, Bvt Major General Union volunteers, died in 1908
1826 William Denison Whipple, Bvt Major General Union Army, died in 1902
1826 James Gillpatrick Blunt, Major General Union volunteers
1826 Benjamin Henry Grierson, Major General Union volunteers
1826 Robert Kingston Scott, Bvt Major General Union volunteers
1826 Green Clay Smith, Bvt Major General Union volunteers, died in 1895
1826 Beethoven's Quartet #13 in B flat major (Op 130) premiered in Vienna
1826 John Alexander Logan, Major General Union volunteers, died in 1886
1826 Charles Cruft, Bvt Major General Union volunteers, died in 1883
1825 Romeyn Beck Ayres, Bvt Major General Union Army, died in 1888
1825 Charles Griffin, Major General Union volunteers, died in 1867
1825 Henry Heth, Major General Confederate Army, died in 1899
1825 Julius H [Szamvald] Stahel, Major General Union volunteers
1825 Henry Warner Birge, Bvt Major General Union volunteers
1825 John Cook, Bvt Major General Union volunteers, died in 1910
1825 David Bell Birney, Major General Union volunteers, died in 1864
1825 George Lafayette Beal, Bvt Major General Union volunteers
1825 Joseph Bailey, Bvt Major General Union volunteers, died in 1867
1825 James Winning McMillan, Bvt Major General Union volunteers
1825 David Rumph "Neighbor" Jones, Major General Confederate Army
1825 Quincy Adams Gillmore, Major General Union volunteers, died in 1888
1825 George Edward Pickett, Major General Confederate Army, died in 1875
1824 Franz Sigel, Major General Union volunteers, died in 1902
1824 Rufus Saxton, Bvt Major General Union volunteers, died in 1908
1824 William Nelson, Major General Union volunteers, died in 1862
1824 Truman Seymour, Bvt Major General Union Army, died in 1891
1824 Isaac Hardin Duval, Bvt Major General Union volunteers, died in 1902
1824 Hiram Gregory Berry, Major General Union volunteers, died in 1863
1824 Absalom Baird, Bvt Major General Union Army, died in 1905
1824 Simon Goodell Griffin, Bvt Major General Union volunteers
1824 William Burnham Woods, Bvt Major General Union volunteers
1824 Alfred Pleasonton, Major General Union volunteers, died in 1897
1824 Charles Kinnaird Graham, Bvt Major General Union volunteers
1824 Cadmus Marcellus Wilcox, Major General Confederate Army
1824 Ambrose Everett Burnside, Major General Union volunteers
1824 Innis Newton Palmer, Bvt Major General Union volunteers
1824 William Henry Chase Whiting, Major General Confederate Army
1824 Thomas James Churchill, Major General Confederate Army, died in 1905
1823 Nathan Kimball, Bvt Major General Union volunteers, died in 1898
1823 Thomas John Wood, Major General Union volunteers, died in 1906
1823 John Newton, Major General Union volunteers, died in 1895
1823 Orris Sanford Ferry, Bvt Major General Union volunteers
1823 George Henry Gordon, Bvt Major General Union volunteers
1823 James Isham Gilbert, Bvt Major General Union volunteers
1823 Jesse Lee Reno, Major General Union volunteers, died in 1862
1823 James Lawson Kemper, Major General Confederate Army, died in 1895
1823 John Gray Foster, Major General Union volunteers, died in 1874
1823 James Allen Hardie, Bvt Major General Union Army, died in 1876
1823 Alfred Gibbs, Major General Union Army, died in 1868
1823 Orlando Bolivar Wilcox, Bvt Major General Union Army, died in 1907
1823 William Buel Franklin, Major General Union volunteers, died in 1903
1823 Franklin Gardner, Major General Confederate Army
1823 Peter Joseph Osterhaus, Major General Union volunteers, died in 1917
1822 Charles Smith Hamilton, Major General Union volunteers, died in 1891
1822 Gordon Granger, Major General Union volunteers, died in 1876
1822 Mansfield Lovell, Major General Confederate Army, died in 1884
1822 George Sykes, Major General Union volunteers, died in 1880
1822 Joseph Rodman West, Bvt Major General Union volunteers
1822 Fitz John Porter, Major General Union volunteers, died in 1901
1822 Schuyler Hamilton, Major General Union volunteers, died in 1903
1822 Darius Nash Couch, Major General Union volunteers, died in 1897
1822 John George Walker, Major General Confederate Army, died in 1893
1822 Samuel Davis Sturgis, Bvt Major General Union Army, died in 1889
1822 Dabney Herndon Maury, Major General Confederate Army, died in 1900
1822 Erastus Barnard Tyler, Bvt Major General Union volunteers
1822 Napolean Jackson Tecumseh Dana, Major General Union volunteers
1822 Gershom Mott, Major General Union volunteers
1822 Seth Williams, Bvt Major General Union Army, died in 1866
1822 John Pope, Major General Union volunteers, died in 1892
1822 James Patton Anderson, Major General Confederate Army, died in 1872
1822 Thomas Leiper Kane, Bvt Major General Union volunteers, died in 1883
1822 John Porter Hatch, volunteers Bvt Major General, Union, died in 1901
1822 Joseph Brevard Kershaw, Major General Confederate Army, died in 1894
1822 Joseph Jones Reynolds, Major General Union volunteers, died in 1899
1821 Alvin Peterson Hovey, Bvt Major General Union volunteers
1821 Henry Baxter, Bvt Major General Union volunteers, died in 1873
1821 Christopher Columbus Augur, Major General Union volunteers
1821 Alfred Sully, Bvt Major General Union volunteers, died in 1879
1821 [George] Hector Tyndale, Bvt Major General Union volunteers
1821 Lafayette McLaws, Major General Confederate Army, died in 1897
1821 John James Peck, Major General Union volunteers, died in 1878
1820 David Allen Russell, Army Bvt Major General, Union, died in 1864
1820 Benjamin Franklin Cheatham, Major General Confederate Army
1820 George Jerrison Stannard, Bvt Major General Union volunteers
1820 Thomas Kilby Smith, Bvt Major General Union volunteers
1820 John Fulton Reynolds, Major General Union volunteers, died in 1863
1820 Earle Van Dorn, Major General Confederate Army, died in 1863
1820 Charles Devens, Jr., Major General, Bvt Union volunteers, died in 1891
1820 Patrick Edward Connor, Bvt Major General Union volunteers
1820 Horatio Gouverneur Wright, Major General, Union volunteers
1820 William Tecumseh Sherman, Major General Union Army, died in 1891
1820 John Milton Thayer, Bvt Major General Union volunteers, died in 1906
1820 John Haskell King, Bvt Major General Union Army, died in 1888
1819 John White Geary, Bvt Major General Union volunteers, died in 1873
1819 Samuel Jones, Major General Confederate Army, died in 1887
1819 Daniel Edgar Sickles, Major General Union volunteers, died in 1914
1819 George Washington Getty, Bvt Major General Union Army, died in 1901
1819 Henry Jackson Hunt, Bvt Major General Union Army, died in 1889
1819 Martin Luther Smith, Major General Confederate Army, died in 1866
1819 Samuel Powhatan Carter, Bvt Major General Union volunteers
1819 Alexander Hays, Bvt Major General Union volunteers, died in 1864
1819 William Birney, Bvt Major General Union volunteers, died in 1907
1819 Thomas Leonidas Crittenden, Major General Union volunteers
1819 Frederick Steele, Major General Union volunteers, died in 1868
1819 Zealous Bates Tower, Bvt Major General Union Army, died in 1900
1818 Samuel Gibbs French, Major General Confederate Army, died in 1910
1818 Edward Otho Cresap Ord, Major General Union volunteers, died in 1883
1818 Irvin McDowell, Major General Union volunteers, died in 1885
1818 Rufus Ingalls, Bvt Major General Union Army, died in 1893
1818 William Farquhar Barry, Bvt Major General Union Army, died in 1879
1818 Lovell Harrison Rosseau, Major General Union volunteers
1818 Cadwallader Colden Washburn, Major General Union volunteers
1818 Lewis Baldwin Parsons, Bvt Major General Union volunteers
1818 Isaac Ingalls Stevens, Major General Union volunteers, died in 1862
1818 Don Carlos Buell, Major General Union volunteers, died in 1898
1818 Albion Parris Howe, Bvt Major General Union Army, died in 1897
1818 John Reese Kenly, Bvt Major General Union volunteers, died in 1891
1817 Edward Richard Sprigg Canby, Major General Union volunteers
1817 Bushrod Rust Johnson, Major General Confederate Army, died in 1880
1817 Carter Littlepage Stevenson, Major General Confederate Army
1817 James Blair Steedman, Major General Union volunteers, died in 1883
1817 Joseph K Barnes, Major General Union Army, died in 1883
1817 James Brewerton Ricketts, Bvt Major General Union Army, died in 1887
1817 Samuel Ryan Curtis, Major General Union volunteers, died in 1866
1816 Alfred Elzey Jones, Major General Confederate Army, died in 1871
1816 William Henry Talkbot Walker, Major General Confederate Army
1816 Amiel Weeks Whipple, Major General Union volunteers, died in 1863
1816 Julius White, Bvt Major General Union volunteers, died in 1890
1816 John Eugene Smith, Bvt Major General Union Army, died in 1897
1816 George Henry Thomas, Major General Union Army, died in 1870
1816 Robert Huston Milroy, Major General Union volunteers, died in 1890
1816 Robert Seaman Granger, Union Army Bvt Major general, died in 1894
1816 Edward "Old Allegheny" Johnson, Major General Confederate Army
1816 Fitz-Henry Warren, Bvt Major General Union volunteers, died in 1878
1815 George Gordon Meade, Major General Union Army, died in 1872
1815 Howell Cobb II, Major General/Secy of Treasury, Union, died in 1868
1815 John Porter McCown, Major General Confederate Army, died in 1879
1815 Stewart Van Vliet, Bvt Major General Union Army, died in 1901
1815 Philip Kearny, Major General Union volunteers, died in 1862
1815 John Gross Barnard, Bvt Major General Union Army, died in 1882
1815 Abram Duryee, Bvt Major General Union volunteers, died in 1890
1815 Andrew Jackson Smith, Major General Union volunteers, died in 1897
1815 William Henry French, Major General Union volunteers, died in 1881
1815 Alexander Brydie Dyer, Bvt Major General Union Army, died in 1874
1815 George Webb Morell, Major General Union volunteers, died in 1883
1814 James Henry Carleton, Bvt Major General Union Army, died in 1873
1814 Joseph Hooker, Major General Union volunteers, died in 1879
1813 John Sedgwick, Major General Union volunteers, died in 1864
1813 William Scott Ketchum, Bvt Major General Union Army, died in 1871
1813 Mason Brayman, Bvt Major General Union volunteers, died in 1895
1813 Henry Washington Benham, Bvt Major General Union Army, died in 1884
1813 Thomas West Sherman, Bvt Major General Union Army, died in 1879
1813 John McNeil, Bvt Major General Union volunteers, died in 1891
1812 William Grose, Bvt Major General Union volunteers, died in 1900
1812 Elias Smith Dennis, Bvt Major General Union volunteers, died in 1894
1812 John Alexander McClernand, Major General Union volunteers
1812 Marin R Delany, Charlestown, Virginia, 1st black major in U.S. Medical Corp
1812 Daniel Henry Rucker, Bvt Major General Union Army, died in 1910
1812 Randolph Barnes Marcy, Bvt Major General Union Army, died in 1887
1812 George Bibb Crittenden, Major General Confederate Army, died in 1880
1811 William Hamsley Emory, Major General Union volunteers, died in 1887
1811 Joseph Dana Webster, Bvt Major General Union volunteers
1811 Robert Allen, Bvt Major General Union Army, died in 1886
1811 Marsena Rudolph Patrick, Bvt Major General Union volunteers
1811 Robert Christie Buchanan, Bvt Major General Union Army, died in 1878
1811 Edward Dickinson Baker, Major General Union volunteers, died in 1861
1810 August Willich, Bvt Major General Union volunteers, died in 1878
1810 Cassius Marcellus Clay, Major General Union volunteers, died in 1903
1810 Alpheus Starkey Williams, Bvt Major General Union volunteers
1810 Thomas Jefferson McKean, Bvt Major General Union volunteers
1810 Erasmus Darwin Keyes, Major General Union volunteers, died in 1895
1810 Solomon Meredith, Bvt Major General Union volunteers, died in 1875
1810 Daniel Ullmann, Bvt Major General Union volunteers, died in 1892
1809 Horatio Phillips Van Cleve, Bvt Major General Union volunteers
1809 Robert Cumming Schenck, Major General Union volunteers, died in 1890
1809 Sterline "Old Pap" Price, Major General Confederate Army
1809 Ormsby McKnight Mitchel, astronomer/Major General Union volunteers
1809 George Philip St. Cooke, Bvt Major General Union Army, died in 1895
1809 George Washington Cullom, Bvt Major General Union Army, died in 1892
1808 William Thomas Ward, Bvt Major General Union volunteers
1808 James Bowen, Major General Union volunteers, died in 1886
1807 James Samuel Wadsworth, Bvt Major General Union volunteers
1807 Silas Casey, Major General Union volunteers, died in 1882
1807 John Bankhead "Prince John" Magruder, Major General Confederate Army
1807 Charles Ferguson Smith, Major General Union volunteers, died in 1862
1807 Lysander Cutler, Bvt Major General Union volunteers, died in 1866
1807 Joseph Holt, Bvt Major General Union Army, died in 1894
1806 George C Cadwalader, Major General Union volunteers, died in 1879
1806 Amos Beebe Eaton, Bvt Major General Union Army, died in 1877
1805 Benjamin Hugur, Major General Confederate Army, died in 1877
1805 Samuel Peter Heintzelman, Major General Union volunteers
1805 Robert Anderson, Bvt Major General Union Army, died in 1871
1804 Lorenzo Thomas, Bvt Major General Union Army, died in 1875
1802 David Hunter, Major General Union volunteers, died in 1886
1802 Isaac Ridgeway Trimble, Major General Confederate Army, died in 1888
1802 George Douglas Ramsey, Bvt Major general Union Army, died in 1882
1801 James Barnes, Bvt Major General Union volunteers, died in 1869
1801 John Drake Sloat, Ret Major General Commander Union Navy, died in 1867
1801 Daniel Smith Donelson, Major General Confederate Army, died in 1863
1800 Nat Turner, Virginia, leader of major slave rebellion, 1831
1798 Richard Delafield, Bvt Major General Union Army, died in 1873
1798 John Adams Dix, Major General Union volunteers, died in 1879
1798 Ethan Allen Hitchcock, Major General Union volunteers, died in 1870
1797 Edwin Vose Sumner, Major General Union volunteers, died in 1863
1794 James Wolfe Ripley, Bvt Major General Union Army, died in 1870
1792 Robert Patterson, Major General Union volunteers, died in 1881
1789 James Fenimore Cooper, 1st major U.S. novelist, Last of Mohicans
1788 Joseph Gilbert Totten, Bvt Major General Union Army, died in 1864
1780 Patrick Ferguson, English major in SC, dies in battle at 36
1780 John Andre, British major, hanged by Americans (spied with B Arnold)
1780 Benedict Arnold gives British Major Andre plans to West Point
1765 Charles Messier catalogs M41 (galactic cluster in Canis Major)
1709 1st major group of Swiss/German colonists reaches NC/SC
1673 Joan Blaeu, Dutch cartographer/publisher (Atlas Major), dies at 77
1594 Gustavus II Adolphus, king who made Sweden a major power, 1611-32
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