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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 Sgt 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 Maj John Glenn sets transcontinental speed record (03:28:08)

1956 6 marine recruits drown during exercise at Paradise Is SC

1952 Pepsi Nunes, marine biologist

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

1924 U.S., min of marine Edwin Denby ends term due to Teapot Dome-scandal

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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