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1996 Robert Kidd, marine geoscientist, dies at 48
1996 2 U.S. Marine helicopters collided during joint U.S. and British war games 1987 Clayton Lonetree, 1st marine court-martialed for spying, convicted 1983 U.S. Marine sharpshooters kill 5 snipers at Beirut International Airport 1983 U.S. Marine peacekeeper Sergeant Allen Soifert killed by sniper in Beirut 1981 Marine jet crashes on flight deck of USS Nimitz, killing 14 1979 Frank Peterson, Jr. named 1st black general in Marine Corps 1978 Margaret A. Brewer is 1st female general in the U.S. Marine Corps 1977 Soviet figure skaters Sergei Shakrai and Marine Tcherkasova are 1st to perform a quadruple twist lift, Helsinki 1971 Marine clay under houses liquefies, 31 die (St-Jean-Vianney Quebec) 1968 Marine James Anderson, Jr. is 1st black Medal of Honor winner 1968 U.S. marine base Khe San Vietnam, appalled 1966 Former marine Charles Whitman kills 13 and wounds 31 at University of Texas 1966 Charles Whitman, former marine, kills 13 at University of Texas, shot by cops 1962 Canadian Marine Service renamed Coast Guard 1957 Yugoslavia bans Milovan Djilas' book "new class marine officers" 1957 Marine Major John Glenn sets transcontinental speed record (03:28:08) 1956 6 marine recruits drown during exercise at Paradise Is SC 1947 Robert Kidd, marine geoscientist 1945 U.S. 7th Marine regiment conquer summit of Kunishi Ridge, Okinawa 1945 6th Marine division occupies Orokoe Peninsula Okinawa 1945 U.S. 1st Marine division conquerors Shuri-castle Okinawa 1945 6th Marine division reaches suburbs of Naha Okinawa 1945 Major Courtney, U.S. medal of honor marine, dies in battle of Sugar Loaf 1944 4th U.S. marine division conquerors Roi, Marshall Islands 1944 U.S. 7th Infantry/25th Marine Division lands on Kwajalein/Roi/Namur 1943 Women's Marine Corps created 1941 Japanese marine staff officiers Suzuki/Maejima leave Pearl Harbor 1941 Japanese marine staff officiers Suzuki/Maejima arrive in Pearl Harbor 1918 John Gray, FRS/marine biologist 1899 Lyman L Lemnitzer, Marine Corps general, WW II 1880 John Philip Sousa becomes new director of U.S. Marine Corps Band 1877 Ole Evinrude, inventor, outboard marine engine 1875 Formal opening of U.S. Marine Hospital at Presidio 1854 Marine Telegraph from Ft. Point to San Francisco completed 1853 U.S. Marine Hospital at Presidio San Francisco forms 1838 1st U.S. marine expedition 1798 U.S. Public Health Service forms and U.S. Marine Hospital authorized 1790 Revenue Marine Service, U.S. Coast Guard, created 1789 U.S. Marine Corps created by an act of Congress 1775 Congress forms U.S. Marine Corps 1773 Nathaniel Bowditch, mathematician, astronomer and author, Marine Sextant 1703 Samuel Pepys, English marine expert (Diary)/composer, dies at 70 |
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