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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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