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2013 Event - The first-ever European MP's of Croatia are determined in an election held in anticipation of Croatia gaining formal entry into the European Union

2013 Event - For the first time in its history, the European Parliament rejects a European Union budget

2012 Event - Prime Minister Victor Ponta, of the Social Liberal Union, is nominated by Romanian President, Traian Basescu, to form a new government after Romania holds its parliamentary election later this December

2012 Event - European Union Finance Ministers agree to give the European Central BAnk new powers to supervise euro zone banks

2012 Event - Thousands of union employees protest outside of the capital building in Lansing, Michigan, as Michigan's government passes legislation, becoming the nation's 24th right-to-work state, and most highly unionized state in the U.S. to have such laws

2012 Event - In Oslo, Norway, leaders of the European Union accept the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize

2012 Event - Hostess Brands reveals its plan to file for bankruptcy and liquidate its assets, claiming contract disputes from the bakery's union worker strike crippled its operations; about 18,500 workers will be laid off

2012 Event - A Union Pacific train strikes a parade float in Midland, Teas, killing four people and injuring 17 others

2012 Event - The 2012 Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to the European Union for 'over six decades (having) contributed to the advancement of peace and reconciliation, democracy and human rights in Europe'

2012 Event - The Chicago Teachers Union leadership votes to suspend the strike; teachers go back to school as union members review a tentative pact with Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel

2012 Event - The Chicago Public Schools reaches a deal with the Chicago Teachers Union to end an 8-day strike

2012 Event - Moody's credit rating agency lowers its outlook on the European Union's AAA long-term bond rating from stable to negative

2012 Event - France O'Grady is appointed the first female General Secretary by Britain's Trade Union Congress

2012 Event - News that European Union members agree on a deal to help some struggling Eurozone members causes world stock markets to soar

2012 Event - Romania's USL, or Social-Liberal Union Leader, Victor Ponta, becomes Prime Minister of Romania

2012 Event - In recognition of democratic reforms, the European Union opens an office in Burma

2012 Event - Progress is made on the U.K. and European Union's tallest building when the spire of the Shard London Bridge is put in place

2012 Event - In the U.S., the Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists merge to create the SAG-AFTRA union

2012 Event - The credit ratings of European Union members including Italy, Malta, Portugal, Slovakia and Spain are downgraded by Moody's Investors Service

2012 Event - The 2012 State of the Union Address is delivered by President Barack Obama to the U.S. Congress

2012 Event - Responding to Iran's nuclear program, more sanctions are imposed upon Iran's banking and oil industries by the European Union

2011 Event - After negotiations in Brussels, David Cameron, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, rejects the invitation to join a European Union financial crisis accord

2011 Event - An emergency meeting to discuss the European sovereign debt crisis is held by leaders of the European Union

2011 Event - The Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) announces the 2015 UCI World Championships will be held in Richmond, Virginia

2011 Event - Queen Elizabeth II's granddaughter, Zara Phillips marries Mike Tindall, an England rugby union international

2011 Event - The African Union gains its 54th member, South Sudan

2011 Event - In Greece, Police fire tear gas on protesters angry over cuts their government made in co-operation with the European Union and the International Monetary Fund

2011 Event - Malta becomes the last country in the European Union to legalize divorce

2011 Event - Walid al-Muallem, foreign minister of Syria, denounces the European Union for the travel bans and asset freezes it has imposed on Syria

2011 Event - The European Union approves a $110.8 billion (78 billion euro) bailout package for Portugal

2011 Event - Wisconsin AFL-CIO assemble hundreds of union supporters claiming they will risk arrest to prevent police from clearing the Wisconsin State Capitol building

2011 Event - Hungary takes over the position of the presidency of the European Union

2010 Event - The engagement of Queen Elizabeth's granddaughter Zara Phillips to Mike Tindall, a Rugby Union player, is announced

2010 Event - Ireland presents its 15 billion euro austerity package to secure a financial bailout from European Union and the International Monetary Fund

2010 Event - Union of Myanmar changes its name to Republic of the Union of Myanmar, and changes the design of the national flag

2010 Event - The European Union announces that on January 1, 2011, it will make Estonia the seventeenth member of the euro

2010 Event - The European Union and International Monetary Fund present Greece with 120 billion Euro bailout package to help rid them of their sovereign debt

2010 Event - Alphalara itadori, a Japanese insect that combats invasive Japanese knotweed, is the first biocontrol agent approved by the European Union

2010 Event - 35 suspected pirates off the coast of Somalia are captured by the French Navy, the European Union's most successful mission

2010 Event - Germany and the European Union deny planning a 20 - 25 billion euro financial aid plan for Greece

2010 Event - A European Union summit discusses the possibility of bailing out Greece's economy

2009 Event - Margarito Montes, a prominent union leader, is found among fifteen people killed on a ranch in northern Mexico

2009 Event - The parliament of Iceland votes to pursue joining the European Union

2009 Event - Sweden takes over the presidency of the European Union

2007 Event - Bulgaria joins the European Union

2007 Event - Romania joins the European Union

2006 Event - Union of Islamic Courts takes over Mogadishu, Somalia

2005 Event - New York City union members shut down subway and bus services for 3 days

2003 Event - Union des Transports Africains de Guinee flight 141 crashes on takeoff from Cotonou Airport

2003 Event - In his State of the Union address, President George W. Bush stated that Saddam Hussein had tried to acquire 'significant quantities of uranium from Africa' (a claim substantiated only by forged documents)

2002 Event - In his State of the Union address, President George W. Bush likens Iraq, Iran and North Korea to an 'axis of evil'

1996 Event - Players union approves new collective bargaining agreement

1996 Death - George Ernest Leslie, trade union official, dies at 76

1996 Death - Andrew John Fairclough, trade union educator, dies at 45

1996 Death - Kurt Schmucker, member (Union of Christian Democrats), dies

1995 Event - Austria, Finland and Sweden act to join European Union

1994 Event - Norway votes against joining European Union

1994 Event - Sweden agrees to join European Union

1993 Death - Danny Blanchflower, North Ireland soccer/union coach, dies at 67

1993 Death - Leon Liebgold, Pol/US actor/chairman (Hebrew Actors Union), dies at 83

1992 Death - Marinus Ruppert, Dutch trade union leader (CNV), dies at 80

1991 Event - Soviet Union formally dissolves 11 of 12 republics sign treaty forming Commonwealth of Independent States

1991 Event - Armenia votes on whether to remain in Soviet Union

1991 Event - Soviet Union recognizes Estonian independence

1991 Event - Lexington Ave IRT subway train derails at Union Square, 5 die

1991 Event - Robert Strauss becomes U.S. ambassador to Soviet Union

1991 Event - Georgian SSR votes on whether to remain in the Soviet Union

1991 Death - Frans Dohmen, union leader (Netherlands Catholic Mine Workers), dies at 81

1991 Event - 9 of 15 Soviet reps officially approve new union treaty

1991 Death - Jef Houthuys, Belgian union leader (ACV, 1968-87), dies at 68

1990 Event - Soviet Union and Saudi Arabia restore diplomatic ties

1990 Death - Bruno Kreisky, union chancellor Austria, dies

1990 Event - U.S. beats Soviet Union 17-0 in baseball at Goodwill Games

1990 Event - South Africa worker's union leader Billy Nair arrested

1990 Event - 2 Germanys sign a monetary union treaty

1989 Event - Pilots Union give up sympathy strike against Eastern Airlines

1989 Death - Andre Kloos, Dut trade union leader (NVV)/chairman (VARA), dies at 67

1989 Event - Pilot Union tells pilots okay to cross Eastern picket lines

1989 Event - Mikhail Gorbachev elected Executive President in the Soviet Union

1989 Event - Polish labor union granted legal status

1989 Event - Soviet Union officially submits to jurisdiction of the World Court

1989 Event - 1st independent blue-collar labor union in Communist Hungary forms

1989 Event - Union Carbide agrees to pay $470 mill damages for Bhopol disaster

1989 Event - Soviet Union promises to eliminate stockpiles of chemical weapons

1988 Event - Soviet Union agrees to allow teaching of Hebrew

1988 Event - Mikhail Gorbachev becomes president of Soviet Union

1988 Event - Union Station reopens in Washington D.C.

1988 Event - Soviet Union launches Phobos 1 to probe Martian moon (unsuccessful)

1987 Event - Russian Writers Union accepts Boris Pasternak posthumous as member

1987 Event - United Steel workers union ratified a concessionary with USX Corp

1986 Death - Rolando Olalia, Philippines worker's union leader, murdered

1986 Death - Jef Keuleers, Belgian worker's union leader, dies at 75

1986 Death - Virginia Gilmore, actress (Jennie, Western Union), dies

1985 Event - South Africa's Cosatu union centre forms

1985 Death - Mohammed Munir, Indonesian worker's union leader, executed

1985 Event - India files suit against Union Carbide over Bhopal disaster

1985 Event - National Union of Mine Workers in England end a 51 week strike

1984 Event - 2,000 die from Union Carbide poison gas emission in Bhopal, India

1984 Event - Morocco and Libya sign "Arabic-African Union" treaty

1984 Event - General Sec Konstantin U Chernenko named President of Soviet Union

1984 Event - National Union of Mine Workers in England begin a 51 week strike

1984 Event - Worker's union leader Billy Nair freed in South Africa

1983 Event - South Africa worker's union leader Curnick Ndlovu freed after 19 years

1983 Death - Derk Roemers, Dutch union leader/politician (soc dem), dies at 67

1983 Death - August Cool, Belgian trade union leader, dies at 79

1982 Death - Cyrill Daal, Suriname worker's union leader, murdered

1982 Event - U.S. imposes sanctions against Poland for banning Solidarity trade union

1982 Death - Neil Aggett, South African worker's union leader, commits suicide

1981 Death - William Loeb, publisher of Manchester Union Leader, New Hampshire, dies at 75

1980 Event - Poland acknowledges Solidarity union

1980 Event - Polish government legalizes independent labor union Solidarity

1980 Death - George Meany, union President (AFL-CIO), dies at 86

1980 Event - Solidarity labor union in Poland forms

1980 Event - Poland's Solidarity labor union forms

1980 Event - CTUC, Commonwealth Trade Union Council, established

1979 Birthday - Jonny Wilkinson, born in Frimley, England, professional rugby union player, member of the England national team, considered one of the world's best rugby players

1974 Event - Union of Banana Exporting Countries (UPEB) forms

1974 Event - Carole Jo Skala wins LPGA Sacramento Union Ladies Golf Classic

1973 Birthday - Alison "Ali" Malyn Shumate, Union City Tennessee, Miss America-Tenn 1996

1973 Birthday - Sergey Brin, born in Moscow, Soviet Union, computer scientist, Google co-founder, speaker, National Academy of Engineering inductee

1973 Event - Suriname government of Sedney arrests 13 union leaders

1972 Event - Soviet Union signs a separate peace with East Germany

1972 Birthday - Gabrielle Union, American Actress

1972 Death - Otto Brenner, German trade union leader, dies at 64

1972 Event - Manipur, Meghalaya and Tripura become separate states of Indian union

1972 Event - Mizoram, formerly part of Assam, creates an Indian union territory

1971 Event - West German union chancellor W Burns receives Nobel prize of peace

1971 Birthday - Aaron Ledesma, born in Union City, California, professional baseball player, infielder, played for Colorado Rockies, Tampa Bay Devil Rays, New York Mets and Baltimore Orioles

1971 Event - Soviet Union's Concorde, TU-144, makes its 1st appearance

1970 Death - Walter P Reuther, U.S. worker's union leader/president (CIO), dies

1970 Event - Netherlands Christian Workers Union (NCW) forms

1969 Event - Author Alexander Solzhenitsyn expelled from Soviet Writers Union

1969 Event - Soyuz 5 launched by Soviet Union

1968 Event - Gary Puckett and Union Gap release "Lady Will Power"

1968 Event - Chad creates Union of Central African States

1968 Death - Howard Lindsay, U.S. playwright (State of the Union), dies at 78

1967 Event - Teamster President Jimmy Hoffa begins 8-year jail sentence for defrauding the union and jury tampering (commuted Dec 23, 1971)

1966 Event - Soviet Union's Luna 10 becomes 1st spacecraft to orbit Moon

1965 Event - Venera 2 launched by Soviet Union toward Venus

1965 Birthday - Steve Finley, Union City, Tennessee, outfielder for the San Diego Padres

1965 Event - South Africa worker's union leader Henry Fazzie sentenced to 10 years

1965 Birthday - Steve Finley, born in Union City, Tennessee, outfielder for the San Diego Padres

1965 Event - Lyndon Baines Johnson's "Great Society" State of the Union Address

1963 Event - Nagaland becomes a state of Indian union

1963 Birthday - Ron Karkovice, born in Union, New Jersey, catcher, Chicago White Sox

1963 Event - South African worker's union leader Billy Nair arrested

1963 Event - South Africa worker's union leader Curnick Ndlovu arrested

1963 Birthday - Garry Kasparov, born in Azerbaijan, Soviet Union, former World Chess Champion, writer, political activist

1962 Death - Andre Renard, Belgium worker's union leader (MSU), dies at 51

1962 Death - LeRoy B Shield, U.S. pianist/composer (Union Pacific Suite), dies at 68

1961 Event - Soviet Union tests a 58 megaton hydrogen bomb

1961 Event - Union of South Africa becomes a republic, leaves Commonwealth

1961 Event - 1st live television broadcast from Soviet Union

1961 Event - Soviet Union fires a rocket from Sputnik V to Venus

1960 Birthday - Cunningham T Ngcukana, South African worker's union leader

1960 Event - Dutch communist trade union EVC'58 disbands

1959 Event - Soviet Union's Luna-2 is 1st spacecraft to land on the Moon

1959 Birthday - Edward Liddie, born in Union, Georgia, Judo fighter 1984 Olympics bronze

1959 Event - Soviet Union wins 62-37 for 1st international basketball loss by US

1958 Event - Union Square, San Francisco becomes state historical landmark

1957 Event - Soviet Union launches, Sputnik II, carrying a dog named Laika

1956 Death - Leo Baeck, President of World Union for Progressive Judaism, dies at 83

1956 Event - Delhi becomes a territory of Indian union

1956 Death - Albert Woolson, last veteran U.S. Union army, dies at 109

1956 Event - Union workers ended a 156-day strike at Westinghouse Electric Corp

1956 Event - Indonesia withdraws from Netherlands Indonesian Union

1955 Event - Warsaw Pact is signed by the Soviet Union, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland and Romania

1955 Event - West Europe Union established

1954 Birthday - Jayaseelan Naidoo, South African worker's union leader

1954 Birthday - Robert Kocharian, born in Stepanakert, Azerbaijan SSR, Soviet Union, politician, President of Armenia 1998 - 2008, President of Nagorno-Karabakh from 1994 - 1997

1954 Event - Netherlands Indonesian Union breaks up

1954 Event - 118 degrees F (48 degrees C), Warsaw and Union, Missouri (state record)

1954 Event - France grants Vietnam independence inside French Union

1953 Event - Cambodia (now Kampuchea) gains independence within French Union

1953 Event - John Norman Lewis contends players have no desire to form a union

1953 Event - Soviet Union conducts secret test of its 1st hydrogen bomb

1953 Birthday - James Mndaweni, South African worker's union leader/president, NACTU

1952 Death - William Green, union chairman AFL 1924 - 1952, dies at 79

1952 Birthday - M Cyril Ramaphosa, Secretary-General of South African Mine Workers' Union

1952 Death - Joseph Arendt, Belgian worker's union leader, dies at 66

1951 Birthday - Robert Wuhl, Union, New Jersey, actor, Bull Durham, Good Morning Vietnam

1951 Birthday - Andrew John Fairclough, trade union educator

1951 Birthday - John Dittrich, born in Union, New Jersey, country singer, Restless Heart-Wheels

1950 Event - Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia become Independent states in France Union

1950 Event - European Payment Union forms in Paris

1949 Event - Tripura accedes to Indian union

1949 Event - Laos becomes associated state within French Union

1949 Birthday - Dennis Locorriere, Union City, New Jersey, rock guitarist, Dr. Hook

1949 Event - Tokelau (Union) Islands declared part of New Zealand

1948 Birthday - Moses J "Moss" Mayekiso, South African union/SACP-leader

1948 Event - Soviet Union begins Berlin Blockade

1948 Event - Soviet Union recognized Israel

1948 Birthday - Alexander "Alec" Erwin, South African worker's union leader

1947 Event - United Mine Workers union withdrew from AFL

1947 Event - U.S.S.R. joins International Amateur Athletic Union

1947 Event - Belgium, Luxembourg and Netherland form Benelux Union

1947 Event - Soviet Union doesn't partake in Marshall Plan

1947 Event - Netherlands Radio Union forms

1947 Event - Province of Petsamo returned to Soviet Union by Finland

1946 Event - Part of Petsamo province ceded by Soviet Union to Finland

1946 Birthday - Paul Wheatbread, rocker, Gary Puckett and Union Gap-Young Girl

1946 Event - United Mine Workers union rejoins American Federation of Labor

1946 Event - Cambodia becomes autonomous state inside French Union

1945 Birthday - Dwight Bement, rocker, Gary Puckett and Union Gap-Young Girl

1945 Event - H Lindsay and R Crouse's "State of the Union," premieres in New York City

1945 Birthday - Kerry Chater, rocker, Gary Puckett and Union Gap-Young Girl

1945 Birthday - Dimitar Penev, born in Bulgaria, soccer player/union coach, Lokomotiv/CSKA

1945 Event - General Belgian Labor Union (ABVV) party forms

1944 Birthday - Christopher N Dlamini, South African union/SACP-leader

1944 Event - Dutch General Mine Workers Union (ABWM) forms

1944 Event - Expulsion of more than 200,000 Tartars from Crimea by Soviet Union begins, they are accused of collaborating with the Germans

1943 Event - Soviet Union breaks contact with Polish government exiled in London

1943 Death - Henri Polak, Dutch union leader/politician (soc-dem), dies at 74

1942 Death - Eduard C "Edo" Fimmen, Dutch trade union leader, dies at 61

1942 Event - Nazi's murder 16,000 Jewish in Pinsk, Soviet Union

1942 Birthday - Gary Puckett, vocalist, & Union Gap-Woman Woman, Young Girl

1942 Event - Netherland's government in exile, London, recognizes Soviet Union

1941 Event - German occupiers forbid National Front and Netherland Union

1941 Event - USA lends Soviet Union $1 million

1941 Event - Nazi mass murder at Babi Jar, Soviet Union

1941 Birthday - Kees van Kooten, Dutch TV host/founder, Simplistic Union

1941 Event - Finland declares war on Soviet Union

1941 Event - Germany attacks the Soviet Union and occupies the Baltic states

1941 Event - Germany, Italy and Romania declares war on Soviet Union during WW II

1941 Birthday - Jimmy Hoffa, Jr., son of Jimmy Hoffa/Teamster union leader

1941 Event - Ground broken for Union Square Garage, San Francisco

1941 Birthday - Lord Vestey, British food magnate/billionaire, Union International

1940 Birthday - John Dawes, born in Chapel of Ease, Wales, rugby union player, rugby coach, captain for The Barbarians, British and Irish Lions, Wales

1940 Event - Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia incorporated into Soviet Union

1940 Event - Linthorst Homan, de Quay and Einthoven forms Dutch Union

1940 Event - Soviet Union annexes Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania

1940 Event - Romania cedes Bessarabia to Soviet Union

1940 Birthday - George Paul, CEO, Norwich Union Insurance Group

1939 Event - Soviet Union attacks Finland-League of Nations drops Soviet Union

1939 Birthday - Franklin A Sonn, union leader, South African workers

1939 Event - Birdbaths installed in Union Square, SF

1939 Event - Soviet Union invades Poland during WW II

1939 Event - Molotov-Ribbentrop-pact (Soviet Union neutral/Poland divided)

1939 Birthday - Reinier Lucassen, Dutch painter, Kuifje contra James Union

1939 Event - U.S. worker's union leader Tom Mooney freed (jailed since 1916)

1938 Event - Trials of Soviet leaders begins in the Soviet Union

1937 Birthday - Franz Vranitzky, Austria union chancellor, 1986-

1937 Birthday - David Behrman, born in Salzburg, Austria, composer, producer, Music of Our Time series, Columbia Records, founding member, Sonic Arts Union

1937 Birthday - Alan Tuffin, trade union leader

1937 Event - Memorial Day Massacre - Chicago police shoot on union marchers, 10 die

1936 Event - Armenian SSR, Azerbaijan SSR, Georgian SSR, Kazakh SSR and Kirghiz SSR becomes constituent republics of Soviet Union

1936 Birthday - Ron Carey, union President, Teamsters

1935 Event - Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) labor union forms

1935 Event - Belgium recognizes Soviet Union

1934 Birthday - Simon Gournlay, president, British National Farmer's Union

1934 Event - Franklin D. Roosevelt signs Federal Credit Union Act, establishing Credit Unions

1934 Event - Union Pacific tests light-weight high-speed passenger train, Omaha

1934 Event - International Telecommunication Union established

1933 Birthday - Arif Melikov, born in Baku, Azerbaijan, name also Arif Malikov, Soviet composer, nationally acclaimed for composition Legend of Love whose ballet is among the finest works to emerge from the Soviet Union

1933 Event - Soviet Union test GIRD-R1 rocket ("Object 09")

1933 Birthday - Alan Tuffin, trade union leader

1933 Event - Suriname worker's union leader A de Come banish to Netherlands

1932 Event - France signs non-agression pact with Soviet Union

1932 Event - British government signs trade agreement with Soviet Union

1932 Event - Oswald Mosley forms British Union of Fascists

1932 Birthday - Wilson "Papa" Godett, Curacaos worker's union leader/boxer

1932 Birthday - Curnick M Ndlovu, Jailed South Africian worker's union leader

1932 Death - Roosje Vos, Dutch trade union leader, dies at 71

1932 Death - Roses Fox, Trade union leader, dies at 71

1932 Birthday - William Odom, American, NASA director, Soviet Union expert, U.S. Army lieutenant general, advised Carter, Reagan

1932 Event - 1st Suriname union congress at Paramaribo

1931 Death - Arthur James Cook, union leader (coal miners), dies at 47

1931 Event - Js Van Severen forms Verdinaso (Union of Flemish National Solidarists)

1931 Event - Canadian Rugby Union adopts the forward pass

1930 Birthday - John Daly, British trade union leader

1930 Birthday - Elijah Barayi, head of South Africa union centre, COSATU

1929 Birthday - Billy Nair, South Africa union/SACP leader, 20 years in Robbeneiland Prison

1929 Event - Unilever forms by merger of Margarine Union and Lever Bros

1929 Event - ENKA/Vereinigte Glanzstoff Factory merge AKU (Genl Kunstzijde Union)

1929 Event - U.S. worker union commission reports of slavery in Liberia

1928 Event - Tri-City Rugby Football Union forms consisting of Moose Jaw, Regina and Winnipeg

1928 Event - Soviet Union Spartacan Games begins

1928 Birthday - MG Falcon, CEO, Norwich Union Insurance Group

1928 Event - Soviet Union orders exile of Leon Trotsky

1926 Event - British Columbia Rugby Football Union forms

1926 Birthday - Duncan Watson, president, World Blind Union

1926 Event - Tokelau (Union) Islands in South Pacific transfers to New Zealand

1925 Birthday - Roy Hughes, born in Pontllanfraith, Wales, born Royston John Hughes, Baron Islwyn, politician, Labor Party, union organizer, Member of Parliament for Newport, Member of Parliament for Newport East

1925 Event - Pastor LH Perquin forms Union of Catholic Dutch Radio (KRO) forms

1925 Birthday - Tom Jackson, British union leader, Post Office

1925 Birthday - Charles Henry Plumb, born in England, Charles Henry Plumb, Lord Plumb, Baron Plumb of Coleshill, County of Warwickshire, Conservative Party, politician, leading figure, National Farmers Union

1924 Event - General Christian Worker's union demands 8 hour work day in Belgium

1924 Event - Soviet Union formally recognized by Britain

1924 Event - Mussolini disallows non-fascists work union

1924 Birthday - Henry M Fazzie, South Africa Union/UDF-leader

1923 Event - Union of Soviet Socialist Republics form

1923 Birthday - Margaret Bondfield, 1st woman chairman, Trades Union Congress

1923 Event - Union of Socialist Soviet Republics established

1922 Event - Soviet Union organized as a federation of RSFSR, Ukrainian SSR, Belorussian SSR and Transcaucasian SSR

1922 Event - 14 republics form Union of Soviet Socialistic Republics (U.S.S.R.)

1922 Birthday - Jack Boddy, British trade union leader

1922 Birthday - Andre Kloos, Dutch trade union leader, NVV/VARA

1922 Event - International Geographical Union forms in Brussels

1922 Birthday - Jef Houthuys, chairman Belgian labor union, ACV 1968-87

1922 Event - German-Russia treaty signed in Italy, Soviet Union recognized

1922 Birthday - Lane Kirkland, union president, AFL-CIO

1922 Event - Union of Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador dissolved

1921 Event - Belgian-Luxembourg sign customs union

1921 Event - Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador sign Pact of Union

1920 Event - Part of Petsamo province ceded by Soviet Union to Finland

1920 Event - 1st peace of Riga-Soviet Union recognizes Independence of Latvia

1920 Birthday - George Ernest Leslie, trade union official

1920 Birthday - William Simpson, British trade union leader

1920 Event - 10,000 U.S. union and socialist organizers arrested (Palmer Raids)

1919 Event - U.S. police raid offices of Union of Russian Workers

1919 Birthday - Antoon J. Hubben, Dutch mayor and trade union leader

1917 Event - Dutch Social-democratic trade union NVV counts 159,450 members

1916 Birthday - Dorothy Mae Ballard, labor union rep

1916 Death - Klaas/old stick Kater, christian worker's union leader, dies at 73

1916 Birthday - Lloyd McBride, union president, United Steelworkers

1915 Birthday - Moe Biller, New York City, labor union officer, AFL-CIO, Postal Workers

1915 Birthday - Ron Smith, union leader, British Postal Workers

1915 Event - Germany surrenders South West Africa to Union of South Africa

1914 Event - Clayton Anti-trust Act passed (union and strike rights)

1912 Event - Pan American Union forms

1912 Event - Arizona was admitted to the Union as the 48th state

1911 Event - Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta Unions form Western Canada Rugby Football Union

1911 Birthday - Marinus Ruppert, Dutch chairman, CNV, trade union leader

1911 Event - 1st U.S. federal cemetery with Union and Rebel graves opens, Missouri

1910 Birthday - Jef Keuleers, Belgian worker's union leader

1910 Event - Saskatchewan Rugby Football Union forms

1910 Event - Boers and Afrikaners win 1st general elections in Union of South Africa

1910 Event - Union of South Africa becomes a dominion

1910 Event - Cape of Good Hope becomes part of Union of South Africa

1910 Event - Union of South Africa declares independence from U.K.

1910 Birthday - Frans Dohmen, union leader, Dutch Catholic Mineworker's Union

1909 Birthday - Lord Collison, British union leader, agriculture workers

1909 Event - 1st credit union forms in US

1908 Event - 1st credit union in U.S. forms, Manchester, New Hampshire

1908 Birthday - Harrison E Salisbury, journalist/author, 50th Anniv of Soviet Union

1908 Event - Calgary Rugby Football Union forms

1908 Event - CHU (Christian Historic Union) Dutch political party forms

1908 Event - Supreme Court rules a union boycott violates Sherman Antitrust Act

1907 Birthday - Otto Brenner, German worker's union leader

1907 Event - Interprovincial Rugby Football Union plays 1st game (Mtl 17 Tor 8)

1907 Event - Interprovincial Rugby Football union (Big Four) forms with Hamilton Tigers, Toronto Argonauts, Ottawa Rough Riders and Montreal Foot Ball

1907 Event - Bishop forbids Christian membership in Dutch Textile Union

1907 Event - Auto-Cycle Union Tourist Trophy, 1st held

1906 Event - Belgian-British "Union Minstry of Haut-Katanga" begins

1906 Event - Calvinist Reformed Union in Netherlands Church forms in Utrecht

1905 Event - Union of Sweden and Norway ends

1905 Event - Union workers at NVV rejects safety demands

1905 Event - Dutch Covenant of Worker's union, NVV, forms

1905 Birthday - Lila Lee, Union City, New Jersey, actress, Midnight Girl, Blood and Sand

1905 Event - Norway dissolves union with Sweden, in effect since 1814

1903 Birthday - August Cool, Belgian union leader/minister of state

1902 Event - Union of Orthodox Rabbis of U.S. and Canada forms

1901 Event - Free thinking-Democratic Union forms in Netherlands

1900 Event - Rival forces fight for control of the Union Park ball grounds in Balt

1898 Death - Sarah Emma Evelyn Edmonds, disguised as man fought for union, dies

1898 Birthday - Anton de Kom, Surinam/Dutch worker's union leader/resistance fighter

1898 Birthday - Randolph Scott, actor, Last of the Mohicans, Western Union

1897 Event - Canadian Intercollegiate Rugby Football Union forms in Kingston

1896 Event - AFL charters Actors' National Protective Union, New York City

1895 Event - French labor union CGT (Confederation Generale du Travail) forms

1895 Event - El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua form Central American Union

1894 Event - American Railway Union under Eugene V Debs goes on strike

1894 Event - American RR Union strikes Pullman Sleeping Car Co

1893 Birthday - Adriaan F. Dussenbroek, Dutch family dr/co-founder, Union National Arubano

1893 Death - John Murray Corse, U.S. general (Union), dies on his 58th birthday

1892 Event - Manitoba Rugby Football Union forms

1891 Event - Canadian Rugby Union forms

1891 Birthday - Julius Raab, Austrian union chancellor, 1953-61

1891 Event - 1st Woman's Christian Temperance Union meeting held (in Boston)

1891 Event - Cotton pickers organize union and staged strike in Texas

1891 Death - William Sherman, Union General in Civil War, dies

1891 Death - William Tecumseh Sherman, Union Civil War general, dies at 71

1891 Death - David Dixon Porter, U.S. rear Admiral (Union), dies at 77

1890 Event - Cecil Rhodes' colonies hoist Union Jack in Mashonaland and Salisbury

1890 Event - Jose Marti forms La Liga (Union of Cuban exiles) in New York City

1889 Event - Union Pacific begins daily through service, Chicago-Portland and SF

1889 Event - North and South Dakota entered the union as the 39th and 40th states

1889 Birthday - William Lawther, union leader

1889 Birthday - Asa Philip Randolph, labor leader, Railroad Porter's Union

1889 Birthday - Howard Lindsay, born in Waterford, New York, playwright, actor and director, State of Union

1889 Event - Dakotas, Montana and Washington admitted to union

1887 Birthday - Sidney Hillman, union leader, Sidney Hillman Foundation

1887 Event - Union Labor Party organized in Cincinnati

1887 Event - Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) forms

1886 Death - Henry Gerhard, founder (Social-Democratic Union), dies at 57

1885 Death - George B McClellan, Union army general, dies at 58

1885 Event - John Ward and several teammates secretly form Brotherhood of Professional Baseball Players, 1st baseball union

1885 Birthday - Jozef M E Meeus, Belgian director H-Heart union

1885 Birthday - Joseph Arendt, Belgian worker's union leader

1884 Event - Canadian Rugby Football Union forms

1884 Birthday - Roger Nash Baldwin, founder, American Civil Liberties Union

1883 Birthday - Arthur James Cook, England, union leader, coal miners

1883 Event - 1st state labor union legislation; New Jersey legalizes unions

1883 Event - Quebec Rugby Football Union forms

1883 Event - Ontario Rugby Football Union forms

1883 Event - Ontario Rugby Football Union (forerunner of CFL) forms

1882 Event - Social-Democratic Union forms in Amsterdam

1881 Event - Dutch New-Malthusiaanse Union forms

1881 Death - Ambrose Everett Burnside, U.S. Union general, dies at 57

1881 Death - Emory Upton, U.S. Union General-Major (Selma), commits suicide at 42

1881 Event - Union of Baptists Communities forms in Foxholl

1880 Birthday - John L. Lewis, union leader, United Mine Workers, 1920-60

1879 Birthday - Joe Hill, Jevla Sweden, organizer, IWW, songwriter, Union Scab, martyr

1879 Event - Africaner Union forms by Reverend SJ du Toit at Cape colony

1875 Event - Universal Postal Union established

1874 Event - National Woman's Christian Temperance Union organizes in Cleveland

1874 Event - World Postal Union forms in Bern, Switzerland

1873 Birthday - Leo Baeck, rabbi/president, World Union for Progressive Judaism

1871 Event - Founding of Netherland Protestant Union in Dokkum

1871 Event - British Rugby Union forms

1870 Event - Bathe becomes member of Noordduitse Union

1870 Event - Texas becomes last confederate state readmitted to Union

1870 Event - After accepting 15th amendment, Virginia is readmitted to Union

1869 Birthday - James E Sullivan, founder, Amateur Athletic Union

1869 Event - Colored National Labor Union, 1st Black labor convention

1868 Event - Memorial Day 1st observed when 2 women in Columbus Mississippi placed flowers on both Confederate and Union graves

1868 Birthday - Henri Polak, union leader/politician, soc-dem

1866 Death - Samuel Ryan Curtis, Union general-major, dies at 49

1866 Event - Tennessee becomes 1st Confederate state readmitted to Union

1866 Event - General Dutch Typographer Union forms

1865 Death - William H Revere, Jr., U.S. Union Brigadier-General, dies

1865 Death - Marcellus Monroe Crocker, U.S. attorney/Union Brigadier-General, dies at 35

1865 Death - George Wright, U.S. Union Brigadier-General, dies at 61

1865 Event - Union General Granger declares slaves are free in Texas

1865 Death - Cleaveland J Campbell, Union Brigadier-General, dies at about 29

1865 Event - President Jefferson Davis is captured by Union Cavalry in Georgia

1865 Event - Steamboat "Sultana" explodes in Mississippi River, kills up to 1,547. 1450 of 2000 paroled Union POWs on their way home are killed when river steamer "Sultana" blows up

1865 Death - Francis Washburn, U.S. Union colonel/general major, dies of injuries

1865 Death - Thomas Alfred Smyth, Irish/US Union general-major, dies at 32

1865 Event - Union forces occupy Confederate capital of Richmond Virginia and Petersberg

1865 Event - General Sherman's Union forces occupies Fayetteville, North Carolina

1865 Event - Union troops force Confederates to abandon Ft. Anderson, North Carolina

1865 Event - Union occupies Fort Anderson, NC

1865 Event - Ft. Fisher, North Carolina falls to Union troops

1865 Event - Union fleet bombs Fort Fisher NC

1864 Event - Union General O Howard orders plunderers, shot to death

1864 Event - Union General William T Sherman begins march to sea during Civil War

1864 Event - Union Major General Sherman burns Atlanta

1864 Event - Union troops ambush and kill 'Bloody' Bill Anderson in Richmond MI

1864 Event - Union General Samuel R Curtis defeats Confederate General Stirling Price

1864 Event - Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia, Union beats back Confederate attackers

1864 Death - David Bell Birney, U.S. lawyer/Union general-major, dies at 39

1864 Death - Alexander Gardiner, U.S. Union Brigadier-General, dies in battle

1864 Event - Battle of Allatoona, 1/3 of Union troops die repulsing South

1864 Death - David Allen Russell, U.S. Union general-major, dies in battle at 43

1864 Event - Union General William T Sherman captures Atlanta

1864 Event - Union troops/fleet occupy Fort Morgan, Alabama

1864 Death - Daniel Chaplin, U.S. Union Brigadier-General, dies

1864 Death - Daniel Phineas Woodbury, U.S. engineer/Union general-major, dies

1864 Event - Union troops/fleet occupy Fort Gaines, Alabama

1864 Death - James Birdseye Mcpherson, U.S. Union General-major, dies in battle at 35

1864 Death - Daniel McCook, Jr., U.S. Union Brigadier-General, dies at 29

1864 Death - Samuel Allen Rice, U.S. Union Brigadier-General, dies of injuries at 36

1864 Death - Friend Smith Rutherford, U.S. Union Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 43?

1864 Death - George Lincoln Prescott, U.S. Union Brigadier-General, dies of injuries

1864 Event - Union General Grant begin siege of Petersburg, Virginia

1864 Event - U.S. Union warship USS Kearsarge appears at Cherbourg

1864 Death - James P McMahon, U.S. Union colonel (164th New York), dies in battle

1864 Death - Peter A Porter, U.S. Union colonel (8th New York), dies in battle

1864 Event - Battle of Adairsville Georgia, Union forces Confederates to retreat

1864 Death - William N. Green, Jr., Union Brigadier-General, dies

1864 Event - U.S. Union colonel Emory Upton (24) promoted to brigade-general

1864 Death - James Clay Rice, lawyer/Union Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 34

1864 Death - Thomas Greeley Stevenson, Union Brigadier-General, dies at about 27

1864 Death - "Uncle" John Sedgwick, U.S. Union general-major, dies in battle at 50

1864 Death - Thomas Donnely Doubleday, U.S. Union Col, dies in an accident

1864 Death - James Samuel Wadsworth, general-major (Union), dies in battle at 56

1864 Death - Henry Livermore Abbott, U.S. Union Brigadier-General, dies in battle

1864 Event - Battle between Confederate and Union ships at mouth of Roanoke

1864 Death - Joseph Gilbert Totten, U.S. Union general-major, dies at 76

1864 Event - General Steeles' Union troops occupies Camden, Arkansas

1864 Event - Union General Steeles troops reach Arkadelphia Arkansas

1864 Event - Union troops occupy Fort de Russy, Louisiana

1864 Event - Grant is named commander of the Union armies

1864 Event - Ulysses S. Grant is appointed commander of Union Army

1864 Death - Ulric Dahlgren, Union colonel, dies in battle at 21

1864 Event - Confederate sub "HL Hunley" sinks Union ship "Housatonic"

1864 Death - Stephen Gardner Champlin, Brigadier-General (Union), dies at about 36

1863 Death - Michael Corcoran, Union Brigadier-General, dies at 36

1863 Event - Battle of Bean's Station-Confederacy repulses Union in Tennessee

1863 Death - Louis Ludwig Blenker, German/US Brigadier-General (Union), dies at 51

1863 Event - Grant is given command of Union forces in West

1863 Event - Confederate sub David damages Union ship Ironsides

1863 Event - Union forces retreat to Chattanooga after defeat at Chickamauga

1863 Event - Battle of Chickamauga Georgia (near Chattanooga) begins; Union retreat

1863 Death - Thomas Welsh, U.S. Union Brigadier-General (Antietam), dies at 39

1863 Death - George Crockett Strong, U.S. Union general-major, dies of injuries at 29

1863 Death - Edward Needle Kirk, U.S. Union Brigadier-General, dies in battle at about 35

1863 Event - Union troops enter Port Hudson

1863 Death - Strong Vincent, U.S. Union Brigadier-General, dies

1863 Event - Vicksburg, Mississippi surrenders to Union forces

1863 Death - Paul Joseph Revere, U.S. grandson of Paul Revere/Union Brigadier-General, dies

1863 Death - Alonzo Hersford Cushing, U.S. Union lt, dies in battle at about 22

1863 Death - Samuel Kosciuzko Zook, U.S. Union general-major, dies in battle at 40

1863 Death - Stephen Hinsdale Weed, U.S. Union Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 28

1863 Death - John Fulton Reynolds, Union general-major, dies in battle at 42

1863 Event - George A. Custer (23) appointed Union Brigadier-General

1863 Death - Andrew Hull Foote, U.S. Union lt admiral, dies

1863 Event - Battle of Aldie, Confederates fail to drive back Union in Virginia

1863 Death - Benjamin Franklin "Grimes" Davis, Union major, dies in battle at 30

1863 Event - Harriet Tubman leads Union guerrillas into Maryland, freeing slaves

1863 Death - Edmund Kirby, Jr., Union Brigadier-General, dies of injuries at 23

1863 Death - Edward Payson Chapin, Union Brigadier General, dies at 31

1863 Death - Amiel Weeks Whipple, U.S. Union General-major, dies of injuries at 46

1863 Event - End of Chancellorsville - Beaten Union army withdraws

1863 Event - Battle of Chancellorsville - Beaten Union army withdraws

1863 Event - Union troops/fleet occupy For Huger, Virginia

1863 Event - Congress authorizes track width of 4'8" for Union Pacific Railroad

1863 Event - Union General Burnside's "Mud March"

1863 Event - Union forces capture Arkansas Post, or Ft. Hindman, Arkansas

1863 Event - General McClernand's Union troops surround Fort Hindman Ark

1862 Event - President Lincoln signs act admitting West Virginia to Union

1862 Event - Union ironclad ship "Monitor" sank off Cape Hatteras, NC

1862 Death - Joshua Woodrow Sill, U.S. Union Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 31

1862 Event - 40,000 watch Union army men play baseball at Hilton Head, SC

1862 Event - Union General Ben "Beast" Butler is proclaimed a "felon, outlaw and common enemy of mankind" by Jefferson Davis

1862 Death - George Dashiell Bayard, Union Brigadier General, dies at 27

1862 Death - Conrad Feger Jackson, U.S. Union Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 49

1862 Death - Sylvester Churchill, U.S. Union Brigadier-General, dies

1862 Death - Charles Davis Jameson, U.S. Union Brigadier General (Fair Oaks), dies at 35

1862 Death - James Streshley Jackson, attorney and Union Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 39

1862 Death - William Rufus Terrill, Union Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 28

1862 Death - Pleasant Adam Hackleman, Union Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 47

1862 Death - Isaac Peace Rodman, banker/Union Brigadier-General, dies of injury at about 40

1862 Death - William "Bull" Nelson, Union general-major, murdered at 38

1862 Death - R E V Miles, U.S. Union Colonel, killed at Harpers Ferry

1862 Event - Battle at Crampton's Gap: Union troops chases away Confederates

1862 Event - Battle at South Mountain: Union troops chases away Confederates

1862 Death - Jesse Lee Reno, Union general-major (Reno Nevada), dies at 39

1862 Death - Isaac Ingalls Stevens, U.S. Union general-major, dies in battle at 44

1862 Death - Philip "Phil" Kearny, U.S. Union general-major, dies in battle at 48

1862 Death - George William Taylor, U.S. Union Brigadier-General, dies in battle

1862 Event - 2nd Battle of Bull Run - Confederates beat Union

1862 Event - Battle of Altamont-Confederates beat Union forces in Tennessee

1862 Death - Henry Bohlen, German/US Brigadier-General (Union), dies in battle at 51

1862 Death - Joseph Bennett Plummer, U.S. Union Brigadier-General, dies at 42 or 46

1862 Event - Confederate Army ironclad "Arkansas" is badly damaged in Union attack

1862 Death - Thomas Williams, U.S. Union Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 47

1862 Event - Battle of Newburgh, IN - captured by Union forces

1862 Event - Skirmish at Union Church, Virginia (Peninsular)

1862 Death - William H Keim, U.S. Union Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 48

1862 Event - Union Grounds, Brooklyn, 1st baseball enclosure, opens

1862 Event - Union captain David Farragut conquers New Orleans

1862 Event - New Orleans fell to Union forces during Civil War

1862 Death - Charles Ferguson Smith, U.S. Union General-Major, dies of infection at 55

1862 Event - Union troops occupy Fort Pulaski Georgia

1862 Event - Battle of Shiloh, Union defeats Confederacy in SW Tennessee

1862 Event - "Monitor" (Union) and "Merrimack" (Rebel) battle in Hampton Roads

1862 Death - John Baillie McIntosh, U.S. general-major (Union Army), dies at 32

1862 Event - Union troops under Brigadier-General Wright occupy Fernandina Florida

1862 Event - Battle of New Madrid MO-captured by Union forces

1862 Death - Frederick West Lander, U.S. Union Brigadier-General/poet, dies at 40

1862 Event - Lincoln issues General War Order #1, calling for a Union offensive McClellan ignores order

1862 Death - Felix Zollicoffer, General killed after mistakenly riding into Union lines

1861 Event - General George B. McClellan made general in chief of Union armies

1861 Event - Confederate ironclad Manassas attack Union's Richmond on Mississippi

1861 Event - Battle of Lexington, MI-captured by Union

1861 Event - 1st naval battle of Civil War, Union frigate "Colorado" sinks privateer "Judah" off Pensacola, Fla

1861 Event - President Lincoln prohibits Union states from trading with Confederacy

1861 Death - Nathaniel Lyon, U.S. Union Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 43

1861 Event - Lexington Kentucky - Union military camp forms in neutral state

1861 Event - Union General George McClellan takes command from McDowell of Potamic Army

1861 Event - Washington D.C. - Crittenden resolution is passed stating that the war is to be fought to preserve union and uphold the Constitution, not to alter slavery

1861 Event - Skirmish at Fort Fillmore, New Mexico Terr - Rebels attack Union troops

1861 Event - Battle of Corrick's Ford, Virginia (Carrick's Ford) - Union army takes total control of western Virginia CS20 US53

1861 Event - Lincoln writes to Kentucky's militia and says Union troops will not enter that state

1861 Event - Battle of Hoke's Run, West Virginia - small Union victory

1861 Event - People of Tennessee vote to succeed from Union

1861 Event - Lincoln's cabinet declares Union government will pay for expenses once states have mobilized volunteers

1861 Death - John Garland, U.S. Union colonel/Brigadier-General, dies in battle

1861 Event - Dorothea Dix offers help in setting up hospitals for Union Army

1861 Event - Union blockades New Orleans, Louisiana and Mobile Alabama

1861 Event - Union troops march on state militia in St. Louis, Missouri

1861 Event - Riot occurs between prosecessionist and Union supporters in Knoxville TN

1861 Event - Maryland's House of Delegates votes against seceding from Union

1861 Event - Colonel Robert E. Lee resigns from Union army

1861 Event - Col Robert E. Lee turns down offer to command Union armies

1861 Event - Formal Union surrender of Ft. Sumter

1861 Event - Robert E Lee resigns from Union army

1861 Event - Arizona Territory votes to leave the Union

1861 Event - St. Augustine Florida surrenders to Union armies

1860 Birthday - Edward Albert Filene, merchant, established U.S. credit union movement

1860 Birthday - Roosje Vos, Dutch union organizer

1858 Birthday - Emmeline Pankhurst, born in England, found, Women's Social and Political Union

1852 Event - Duke U, founded in 1838 as Union Institute chartered as Normal College

1851 Birthday - John Lincoln Clem, Drummer Union volunteers

1847 Birthday - Arthur T Verhaegen, Belgian worker's union leader

1845 Birthday - Gustave Ador, union president of Austria, 1919

1844 Birthday - Galusha Pennypacker, Major General Union Army

1843 Birthday - Robert Todd Lincoln, Captain Union volunteers

1842 Birthday - William Barker Cushing, Lieutenant Commander Union Navy

1842 Birthday - Ulric Dahlgren, Col Union volunteers

1840 Birthday - Ranald Slidell Mackenzie, Major General Union volunteers

1840 Event - Union Act passed by British Parliament, uniting Upper and Lower Canada

1840 Birthday - William Francis Bartlett, Major General Union volunteers

1840 Birthday - Edmund Kirby, Jr., Brigadier General Union volunteers

1840 Birthday - Sanuel Dana Greene, Lieutenant Commander Union Navy

1839 Birthday - George Armstrong Custer, Major General Union volunteers

1839 Birthday - Frances E C Willard, New York, founder, Woman's Christian Temperance Union

1839 Birthday - Emory Upton, Major General Union Army

1839 Birthday - Nelson Appleton Miles, Major General Union volunteers

1839 Birthday - William Henry Seward, Jr., Brigadier General Union volunteers

1839 Birthday - Cyrus Hamblin, Major General Union volunteers

1839 Birthday - Francis Fessenden, Major General Union volunteers

1839 Birthday - Seldon Connor, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1838 Birthday - John Grant Mitchell, Major General Union volunteers

1838 Birthday - John Milton Hay, politician, Union

1838 Birthday - Edwin Henry Stoughton, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1838 Birthday - Charles Carroll Walcott, Major General Union volunteers

1837 Birthday - William Wells, Major General Union volunteers

1837 Birthday - Charles Garrison Harker, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1837 Birthday - James Lawlor Kiernan, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1837 Birthday - James Harrison Wilson, Major General Union volunteers

1837 Birthday - Elon John Farnsworth, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1837 Birthday - Martin Davis Hardin II, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1837 Birthday - Eli Long, Major General Union Army

1837 Birthday - James Sanks Brisbin, Major General Union volunteers

1837 Birthday - Horace Porter, Brigadier General Union Army

1837 Birthday - Ephraim Elmer Ellsworth, Col Union Army

1837 Birthday - Francis Jay Herron, Major General Union volunteers

1836 Birthday - John Thomas Croxton, Major General Union volunteers

1836 Birthday - Henry Eugene Davies, Major General Union volunteers

1836 Birthday - Thomas Wilberforce Egan, Major General Union volunteers

1836 Birthday - Benjamin Franklin Potts, Major General Union volunteers

1836 Birthday - James Meech Warner, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1836 Birthday - [Hugh] Judson Kilpatrick, Major General Union volunteers

1835 Birthday - George Dashiell Bayard, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1835 Birthday - Americus Vespucius Rice, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1835 Birthday - Elliott Warren Rice, Major General Union volunteers

1835 Birthday - Godfrey Weitzel, Union volunteers Major general

1835 Birthday - Adelbert Ames, Major General Union Army

1835 Birthday - Joseph Hayes, Major General Union volunteers

1835 Birthday - James William Forsyth, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1835 Birthday - Newton Martin Curtis, Major General Union volunteers

1835 Birthday - Alfred Napoleon Alexander "Natti" Duffie, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1835 Birthday - Charles Ewing, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1835 Birthday - Alexander Stuart Webb, Major General Union Army

1835 Birthday - Oliver Edwards, Major General Union volunteers

1835 Birthday - Charles Russell Lowell, Jr., Brigadier General Union volunteers

1834 Birthday - Thomas Edward Greenfield Ransom, Major General Union volunteers

1834 Birthday - Joseph Jackson Bartlett, Major General Union volunteers

1834 Birthday - Stephen Hinsdale Weed, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1834 Birthday - Wager Swayne, Major General Union volunteers

1834 Birthday - Daniel McCook, Jr., Brigadier General Union volunteers

1834 Birthday - Wesley Merritt, Major General Union volunteers

1834 Birthday - William Rufus Terrill, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1834 Birthday - Robert Sanford Foster, Major General Union volunteers

1834 Birthday - Albert Lindley Lee, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1833 Birthday - Louis Douglass Watkins, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1833 Birthday - Klaas Kater, Dutch Christian Worker's Union Leader

1833 Birthday - Cyrus Bussey, Major General Union volunteers

1833 Birthday - James Deering Fessenden, Major General Union volunteers

1833 Birthday - Henry Alanson Barnum, Major General Union volunteers

1833 Birthday - Charles Jackson Paine, Major General Union volunteers

1833 Birthday - William Price Sanders, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1833 Birthday - Powell Clayton, born in Bethel Pennsylvania, Brigadier General Union volunteers, Arkansas Governor 1868 - 1871, Republican

1833 Birthday - John Wesley Turner, Major General Union Army

1833 Birthday - Alfred Thomas Archimedes Torbert, Major General Union Army

1833 Birthday - Edward Moody McCook, Major General Union volunteers

1833 Birthday - Frank Wheaton, Major General Union Army

1833 Birthday - David McMurtrie Gregg, Major General Union volunteers

1833 Birthday - Thomas Howard Ruger, Major General Union volunteers

1833 Birthday - Norman Willis, union leader, Britain's Trades Union Congress

1832 Birthday - Thomas Alfred Smyth, Major General Union volunteers

1832 Birthday - Edward Hatch, Major General Union volunteers

1832 Birthday - John Henry Ketcham, Major General Union volunteers

1832 Birthday - George Henry Chapman, Major General Union volunteers

1832 Birthday - William Woods Averell, Major General Union Army

1832 Birthday - George Crockett Strong, Major General Union volunteers

1832 Birthday - Theodore Shelton Bowers, Brigadier General Union Army

1832 Birthday - Samuel Sprigg Carroll, Major General Union Army

1832 Birthday - Alexander Chambers, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1832 Birthday - Thomas Ogden Osbord, Major General Union volunteers

1832 Birthday - Edward Harland, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1832 Birthday - James Hewett Ledlie, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1832 Birthday - Walter Quintin Gresham, Major General Union volunteers

1832 Birthday - Charles Camp Doolittle, Major General Union volunteers

1832 Birthday - William Henry Penrose, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1832 Birthday - Orlando Metcalfe Poe, Brigadier General, Union volunteers

1831 Birthday - Adam Badeau, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1831 Birthday - Lucius Fairchild, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1831 Birthday - Robert Ogden Tyler, Major General Union Army

1831 Birthday - Joshua Woodrow Sill, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1831 Birthday - John Franklin Miller, Major General Union volunteers

1831 Birthday - Daniel Butterfield, Major General Union volunteers

1831 Birthday - John McAlister Schofield, Major General Union volunteers

1831 Birthday - Stephen Gano Burbridge, Major General Union volunteers

1831 Birthday - Edward Payson Chapin, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1831 Birthday - William Dwight, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1831 Birthday - William Thomas Clark, Major General Union volunteers

1831 Birthday - Alexander McDowell McCook, Major General Union volunteers

1831 Birthday - Grenville Mellen Dodge, Major General Union volunteers

1831 Birthday - Philip Henry Sheridan, born in Albany, New York, Major General, Union Army

1831 Birthday - John Aaron Rawlins, Major General Union Army

1831 Birthday - Cyrus Ballou Comstock, Major General Union volunteers

1831 Birthday - Edward Ferrero, Major General Union volunteers

1830 Birthday - John Frederick Hartranft, Major General Union volunteers

1830 Birthday - Patrick Henry Jones, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1830 Birthday - Oliver Otis Howard, Major General Union volunteers

1830 Birthday - Jeremiah Cutler Sullivan, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1830 Birthday - John Parker Hawkins, Major General Union Army

1830 Birthday - William Babcock Hazen, Major General Union volunteers

1830 Birthday - Alvan Cullem Gillem, Major General Union volunteers

1830 Birthday - William Sooy Smith, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1830 Birthday - Richard Henry Jackson, Major General Union volunteers

1830 Birthday - Edward Winslow Hinks, Major General Union volunteers

1830 Birthday - George Lucas Hartsuff, Major General Union volunteers

1830 Birthday - John Converse Starkweather, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1830 Birthday - Davis Tillson, Major General Union volunteers

1830 Birthday - Eugene Asa Carr, Major General Union Army

1830 Birthday - Marcellus Monroe Crocker, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1830 Birthday - Gouverneur Kemble Warren, Major General Union volunteers

1830 Birthday - , Samuel, Emerson Opdycke, Major General Union volunteers

1829 Birthday - James Clay Rice, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1829 Birthday - Green Berry Raum, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1829 Birthday - William Passmore Carlin, Major General Union Army

1829 Birthday - Samuel Wylie Crawford, Major General Union Army

1829 Birthday - Roscoe Conkling, MC, Union

1829 Birthday - Christopher Columbus Andres, Major General Union volunteers

1829 Birthday - Giles Alexander Smith, Major General Union volunteers

1829 Birthday - James St. Clair Morton, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1829 Birthday - William Worth Belknap, Major General Union volunteers

1829 Birthday - George Crook, Major General Union volunteers

1829 Birthday - Thomas Ewing, Jr., Major General, Union volunteers

1829 Birthday - Milo Smith Hascall, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1829 Birthday - Robert Brown Potter, Major General Union volunteers

1829 Birthday - John Baillie McIntosh, Major General Union Army

1829 Birthday - George Peabody Estey, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1829 Birthday - Carl Schurz, Major General Union volunteers and journalist

1829 Birthday - William Anderson Pile, Major General Union volunteers

1829 Birthday - John Potts Slough, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1828 Birthday - John Beatty, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1828 Birthday - Clinton Bowen Fisk, Major General Union volunteers

1828 Birthday - James Birdseye MacPherson, Major General Union volunteers

1828 Birthday - Jacob Dolson Cox, Major General Union volunteers

1828 Birthday - Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, Major General Union volunteers

1828 Birthday - George Leonard Andrews, Major General Union volunteers

1828 Birthday - William Alexander Hammond, Brigadier General Union Army

1828 Birthday - Joseph Bradford Carr, Major General Union volunteers

1828 Birthday - Edward Saloman, Gov, Union

1828 Birthday - Cuvier Grover, Major General Union Army

1828 Birthday - John Rutter Brooke, Major General Union volunteers

1828 Birthday - James William Reilly, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1828 Birthday - Adin Ballou Underwood, Major General Union volunteers

1828 Birthday - Jefferson Columbus Davis, Major General Union Army

1828 Birthday - Robert Alexander Cameron, Major General Union volunteers

1828 Birthday - Samuel Allen Rice, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1828 Birthday - Adam Jacoby Slemmer, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1828 Birthday - Calvin Edward Pratt, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1828 Birthday - Lewis Addison Grant, Major General Union volunteers

1828 Birthday - August Valentine Kautz, Major General Union Army

1827 Birthday - Robert Latimer McCook, volunteers Brigadier General, Union

1827 Birthday - Isaac Wistar, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1827 Birthday - Alfred Howe Terry, Major General Union volunteers

1827 Birthday - James Sidney Robinson, Major General Union volunteers

1827 Birthday - Edmund Jackson Davis, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1827 Birthday - Kenner Garrard, Major General Union Army

1827 Birthday - Henry Warner Slocum, Major General Union volunteers

1827 Birthday - John Grubb Parke, Major General Union volunteers

1827 Birthday - Michael Corcoran, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1827 Birthday - John Morrison Oliver, Major General Union volunteers

1827 Birthday - Joseph Anthony Mower, Major General Union volunteers

1827 Birthday - James Murrell Shackelford, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1827 Birthday - Francis Engle Patterson, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1827 Birthday - Charles Edward Hovey, Major General Union volunteers

1827 Birthday - William Hopkins Morris, Major General Union volunteers

1827 Birthday - John Gibbon, Major General Union volunteers

1827 Birthday - Lewis Wallace, Major General Union volunteers and author, Ben Hur

1827 Birthday - Alexander Shaler, Major General Union volunteers

1827 Birthday - Richard W. Johnson, Major General Union Army

1827 Birthday - Charles Davis Jameson, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1827 Birthday - James Barnet Fry, Major General Union Army

1827 Birthday - Edward Stuyvesant Bragg, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1827 Birthday - Charles Robert Woods, Major General Union Army

1826 Birthday - James Scott Negley, Union volunteers Major General

1826 Birthday - John Benjamin Sanborn, Major General Union volunteers

1826 Birthday - George Brinton McClellan, Major General Union Army

1826 Birthday - George Washington Deitzler, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1826 Birthday - John McArthur, Major General Union volunteers

1826 Birthday - Jasper Adalmorn Maltby, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1826 Birthday - William Haines Lytle, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1826 Birthday - Hugh Boyle Ewing, Major General Union volunteers

1826 Birthday - Lafayette Curry Baker, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1826 Birthday - Thomas John Lucas, Major General Union volunteers

1826 Birthday - Frank Stillman Nickerson, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1826 Birthday - William Denison Whipple, Major General Union Army

1826 Birthday - James Gillpatrick Blunt, Major General Union volunteers

1826 Birthday - Benjamin Henry Grierson, Major General Union volunteers

1826 Birthday - Robert Kingston Scott, Major General Union volunteers

1826 Birthday - Green Clay Smith, Major General Union volunteers

1826 Birthday - Thomas Hewson Neill, Major General Union volunteers

1826 Birthday - John Alexander Logan, Major General Union volunteers

1826 Birthday - Halbert Eleazer Paine, Major General Union volunteers

1826 Birthday - Charles Cruft, Major General Union volunteers

1825 Birthday - Francis Trowbridge Sherman, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1825 Birthday - Romeyn Beck Ayres, Major General Union Army

1825 Birthday - Charles Griffin, Major General Union volunteers

1825 Event - 1st college fraternity founded (Kappa Alpha (Union College, New York))

1825 Birthday - Edward Augustus Wild, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1825 Birthday - Julius H [Szamvald] Stahel, Major General Union volunteers

1825 Birthday - Thomas Turpin Crittenden, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1825 Birthday - William Wallace Burns, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1825 Birthday - Henry Warner Birge, Major General Union volunteers

1825 Birthday - Edward Henry Hobson, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1825 Birthday - John Cook, Major General Union volunteers

1825 Birthday - David Bell Birney, Major General Union volunteers

1825 Birthday - George Lafayette Beal, Major General Union volunteers

1825 Birthday - Joseph Bailey, Major General Union volunteers

1825 Birthday - James Winning McMillan, Major General Union volunteers

1825 Birthday - Quincy Adams Gillmore, Major General Union volunteers

1824 Birthday - Augustus Louis Chetlain, Major General Union volunteers

1824 Birthday - Manning Ferguson Force, Major General Union volunteers

1824 Birthday - Titian James Coffey, Atty Gen, Union

1824 Birthday - Franz Sigel, Major General Union volunteers

1824 Birthday - Isham Nicholas Hayne, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1824 Birthday - Thomas Gamble Pitcher, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1824 Birthday - Rufus Saxton, Major General Union volunteers

1824 Birthday - William Nelson, Major General Union volunteers

1824 Birthday - Truman Seymour, Major General Union Army

1824 Birthday - Joseph Andrew Jackson Lightburn, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1824 Birthday - Isaac Hardin Duval, Major General Union volunteers

1824 Birthday - Hiram Gregory Berry, Major General Union volunteers

1824 Birthday - John Sanford Mason, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1824 Birthday - Absalom Baird, Major General Union Army

1824 Birthday - Simon Goodell Griffin, Major General Union volunteers

1824 Birthday - William Burnham Woods, Major General Union volunteers

1824 Birthday - Richard James Oglesby, Union Union volunteers

1824 Birthday - Alexander Schimmelfennig, born in Prussia, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1824 Birthday - Waldimir "Kriz" Krzyzanowski, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1824 Birthday - Alfred Pleasonton, Major General Union volunteers

1824 Birthday - Charles Kinnaird Graham, Major General Union volunteers

1824 Birthday - Ambrose Everett Burnside, Major General Union volunteers

1824 Birthday - Charles Henry Van Wyck, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1824 Birthday - Innis Newton Palmer, Major General Union volunteers

1824 Birthday - Henry Beebee Carrington, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1824 Birthday - Lewis Cass Hunt, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1824 Birthday - William Farrar "Baldy" Smith, Major General Union volunteers

1824 Birthday - Winfield Scott Hancock, Major General Union volunteers

1823 Birthday - Thomas Alexander Scott, Assistant Secretary War, Union

1823 Birthday - Joseph Alexander Cooper, Major General Union volunteers

1823 Birthday - Nathan Kimball, Major General Union volunteers

1823 Birthday - Thomas John Wood, Major General Union volunteers

1823 Birthday - Galusha Aaron Grow, MC, Union

1823 Birthday - John Newton, Major General Union volunteers

1823 Birthday - Orris Sanford Ferry, Major General Union volunteers

1823 Birthday - Charles Thomas Campbell, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1823 Birthday - Thomas Francis Meagher, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1823 Birthday - George Henry Gordon, Major General Union volunteers

1823 Birthday - Leonard Fulton Ross, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1823 Birthday - James Isham Gilbert, Major General Union volunteers

1823 Birthday - Edward Elmer Potter, Major General Union volunteers

1823 Birthday - Jesse Lee Reno, Major General Union volunteers

1823 Birthday - John Henry Hobart Ward, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1823 Birthday - Gustave Paul Cluseret, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1823 Birthday - John Gray Foster, Major General Union volunteers

1823 Birthday - John Sherman, MC, Union

1823 Birthday - James Allen Hardie, Major General Union Army

1823 Birthday - Alfred Gibbs, Major General Union Army

1823 Birthday - Orlando Bolivar Wilcox, Major General Union Army

1823 Birthday - Robert Byington Mitchell, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1823 Birthday - Joseph Farmer Knipe, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1823 Birthday - Samuel Kosciusko Zook, Major General Union volunteers

1823 Birthday - Ferdinand Van Derveer, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1823 Birthday - William Buel Franklin, Major General Union volunteers

1823 Birthday - Peter Joseph Osterhaus, Major General Union volunteers

1822 Birthday - Thomas Casimer Devin, Major General Union volunteers

1822 Birthday - Luther Prentice Bradley, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1822 Birthday - Charles Adam Heckman, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1822 Birthday - Charles Smith Hamilton, Major General Union volunteers

1822 Birthday - William Harrow, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1822 Birthday - Gordon Granger, Major General Union volunteers

1822 Birthday - Joseph Haydn Potter, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1822 Birthday - George Sykes, Major General Union volunteers

1822 Birthday - Adolph Wilhelm August Friedrich von Steinwehr, Brigadier General, Union

1822 Birthday - Joseph Rodman West, Major General Union volunteers

1822 Birthday - Fitz John Porter, Major General Union volunteers

1822 Birthday - George Stoneman, U.S. Union general-major, Gov-Calif, 1883-87

1822 Birthday - Schuyler Hamilton, Major General Union volunteers

1822 Birthday - Darius Nash Couch, Major General Union volunteers

1822 Birthday - Samuel Davis Sturgis, Major General Union Army

1822 Birthday - Erastus Barnard Tyler, Major General Union volunteers

1822 Birthday - Napolean Jackson Tecumseh Dana, Major General Union volunteers

1822 Birthday - Gershom Mott, Major General Union volunteers

1822 Birthday - James Nagle, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1822 Birthday - Seth Williams, Major General Union Army

1822 Birthday - John Pope, Major General Union volunteers

1822 Birthday - Albin Francisco Schoepf, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1822 Birthday - Charles Champion Gilbert, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1822 Birthday - John Basil Turchin, Ivan Turchinoff, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1822 Birthday - Thomas Leiper Kane, Major General Union volunteers

1822 Birthday - John Porter Hatch, volunteers Major General, Union

1822 Birthday - Joseph Jones Reynolds, Major General Union volunteers

1821 Birthday - Frederick West Lander, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1821 Birthday - Alvin Peterson Hovey, Major General Union volunteers

1821 Birthday - Henry Baxter, Major General Union volunteers

1821 Birthday - Christopher Columbus Augur, Major General Union volunteers

1821 Birthday - William Harvey Lamb Wallace, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1821 Birthday - Navy Gustavus Vasa Fox, Assistant Secretary, Union

1821 Birthday - Henry Moses Judah, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1821 Birthday - John Dunlap Stevenson, Major General Union volunteers

1821 Birthday - Alfred Sully, Major General Union volunteers

1821 Birthday - [Carlos] Charles John Stolbrand, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1821 Birthday - Abram Sanders Piatt, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1821 Birthday - Mortimer Dormer Leggett, Major General Union volunteers

1821 Birthday - Joshua Thomas Owen, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1821 Birthday - [George] Hector Tyndale, Major General Union volunteers

1821 Birthday - Francis Barretto Spinola, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1821 Birthday - Isaac Ferdinand Quinby, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1821 Birthday - John James Peck, Major General Union volunteers

1820 Birthday - Gustavus Adolphus Smith, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1820 Birthday - Frederick Tracy Dent, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1820 Birthday - David Allen Russell, Army Major General, Union

1820 Birthday - George Jerrison Stannard, Major General Union volunteers

1820 Birthday - Alfred Washington Ellet, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1820 Birthday - Thomas Kilby Smith, Major General Union volunteers

1820 Birthday - George Washington Morgan, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1820 Birthday - John Fulton Reynolds, Major General Union volunteers

1820 Birthday - Clement Laird Vallandigham, MC, Union

1820 Birthday - John Franklin Farnsworth, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1820 Birthday - Louis Powell Harvey, Governor, Union

1820 Birthday - Andrew Porter, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1820 Birthday - Charles Devens, Jr., Major General, Union volunteers

1820 Birthday - Patrick Edward Connor, Major General Union volunteers

1820 Birthday - Horatio Gouverneur Wright, Major General, Union volunteers

1820 Birthday - Mahlon Dickerson Manson, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1820 Birthday - William Tecumseh Sherman, Major General Union Army

1820 Birthday - John Milton Thayer, Major General Union volunteers

1820 Birthday - John Haskell King, Major General Union Army

1819 Birthday - John White Geary, Major General Union volunteers

1819 Birthday - James Clifford Veatch, Major General Union volunteers

1819 Event - Alabama admitted to Union as 22nd state

1819 Birthday - Benjamin Mayberry Prentiss, Major General Union volunteers

1819 Birthday - Daniel Edgar Sickles, Major General Union volunteers

1819 Birthday - George Washington Getty, Major General Union Army

1819 Birthday - Henry Jackson Hunt, Major General Union Army

1819 Birthday - William Starke Rosecrans, Major General Union volunteers

1819 Birthday - James Henry Van Alen, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1819 Birthday - Daniel Davidson Bidwell, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1819 Birthday - Charles Anderson Dana, Assistant Secretary War, Union

1819 Birthday - Samuel Powhatan Carter, Major General Union volunteers

1819 Birthday - Alexander Hays, Major General Union volunteers

1819 Birthday - Reuben Eaton Fenton, Governor, Union

1819 Birthday - William Birney, Major General Union volunteers

1819 Birthday - Daniel Ammen, Captain Union Navy

1819 Birthday - Thomas Leonidas Crittenden, Major General Union volunteers

1819 Birthday - David Henry Williams, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1819 Birthday - Henry Lawrence Eustis, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1819 Birthday - Frederick Steele, Major General Union volunteers

1819 Birthday - Zealous Bates Tower, Major General Union Army

1819 Birthday - George Foster Shepley, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1818 Birthday - Benjamin Franklin Butler, Major General Union volunteers

1818 Birthday - Gustavus Adolphus DeRussy, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1818 Birthday - Edward Otho Cresap Ord, Major General Union volunteers

1818 Birthday - Irvin McDowell, Major General Union volunteers

1818 Birthday - Rufus Ingalls, Major General Union Army

1818 Birthday - William Farquhar Barry, Major General Union Army

1818 Birthday - Lovell Harrison Rosseau, Major General Union volunteers

1818 Birthday - Nathaniel Lyon, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1818 Birthday - Joseph Abel Haskin, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1818 Birthday - John Albion Andrew, Gov, Union

1818 Birthday - Cadwallader Colden Washburn, Major General Union volunteers

1818 Birthday - Lewis Baldwin Parsons, Major General Union volunteers

1818 Birthday - Isaac Ingalls Stevens, Major General Union volunteers

1818 Birthday - Don Carlos Buell, Major General Union volunteers

1818 Birthday - Albion Parris Howe, Major General Union Army

1818 Birthday - Austin Blair, Gov/MC, Union

1818 Birthday - William Maxwell Evarts, Union

1818 Birthday - George Sewall Boutwell, MC, Union

1818 Birthday - John Reese Kenly, Major General Union volunteers

1817 Birthday - Edward Richard Sprigg Canby, Major General Union volunteers

1817 Birthday - John McAuley Palmer, U.S. Union msj-gen, Gov-Ill, 1868 - 1872

1817 Birthday - Speed Smith Fry, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1817 Birthday - Henry Winter Davis, MC, Union

1817 Birthday - James Blair Steedman, Major General Union volunteers

1817 Birthday - Joseph K Barnes, Major General Union Army

1817 Birthday - Mary Ann Ball Bickerdyke, U.S., army nurse, union

1817 Birthday - James Brewerton Ricketts, Major General Union Army

1817 Birthday - James William Denver, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1817 Birthday - George Washington Julian, MC, Union

1817 Birthday - John Wilson Sprague, Major General Union volunteers

1817 Birthday - Herman Haupt, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1817 Birthday - James Craig, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1817 Birthday - Samuel Ryan Curtis, Major General Union volunteers

1817 Birthday - Lewis Golding Arnold, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1816 Birthday - Eliakim Parker Scammon, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1816 Birthday - Joseph Bennett Plummer, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1816 Birthday - Amiel Weeks Whipple, Major General Union volunteers

1816 Birthday - Egbert Benson Brown, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1816 Birthday - Elihu Benjamin Washburne, MC, Union

1816 Birthday - Julius White, Major General Union volunteers

1816 Birthday - Israel Vogdes, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1816 Birthday - John Eugene Smith, Major General Union Army

1816 Birthday - George Henry Thomas, Major General Union Army

1816 Birthday - Isaac Fitzgerald Shepard, General Union volunteers

1816 Birthday - Robert Huston Milroy, Major General Union volunteers

1816 Birthday - Phillipe Regis Denis de Keredern de Trobriand, Major General, Union

1816 Birthday - Robert Seaman Granger, Union Army Major general

1816 Birthday - Montgomery Cunningham Meigs, Major General Union Army

1816 Birthday - James Gallant Spears, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1816 Birthday - David Stuart, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1816 Birthday - Nathaniel Prentiss Banks, Major General Union volunteers

1816 Birthday - Fitz-Henry Warren, Major General Union volunteers

1816 Birthday - John Palmer Usher, Secretary Int, Union

1816 Birthday - Stephen Miller, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1815 Birthday - George Gordon Meade, Major General Union Army

1815 Birthday - Israel Bush Richardson, Major General Union volunteers

1815 Birthday - Stephen Augustus Hurlbut, Major General Union volunteers

1815 Birthday - William Dennison, postmaster/general, Union

1815 Birthday - Eleazer Arthur Paine, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1815 Birthday - Alexander Ramsey, Gov, Union

1815 Birthday - Howell Cobb II, Major General/Secy of Treasury, Union

1815 Birthday - Thomas Jackson Rodman, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1815 Birthday - Stewart Van Vliet, Major General Union Army

1815 Birthday - Philip Kearny, Major General Union volunteers

1815 Birthday - John Gross Barnard, Major General Union Army

1815 Birthday - Abram Duryee, Major General Union volunteers

1815 Birthday - Andrew Jackson Smith, Major General Union volunteers

1815 Birthday - Nathaniel Collins McLean, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1815 Birthday - Andrew Jackson Hamilton, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1815 Birthday - Richard Yates Gov, MC, Union

1815 Birthday - Henry Wagner "Old Brains" Halleck, Major-General Union Army

1815 Birthday - Henry Morris Naglee, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1815 Birthday - William Henry French, Major General Union volunteers

1815 Birthday - Alexander Brydie Dyer, Major General Union Army

1815 Birthday - Thomas Williams, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1815 Birthday - George Webb Morell, Major General Union volunteers

1815 Birthday - Lawrence Pike Graham, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1814 Birthday - James Henry Carleton, Major General Union Army

1814 Birthday - Pleasant Adam Hackleman, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1814 Death - Michael Kelly Lawler, Major General Union volunteers, dies in 1882

1814 Birthday - Joseph Hooker, Major General Union volunteers

1814 Birthday - Henry Hayes Lockwood, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1814 Birthday - Justus McKinstry, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1814 Birthday - John Blair Smith Todd, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1814 Birthday - Rufus King, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1814 Birthday - Francis Harrison Pierpont, governor, Union

1813 Birthday - John Wolcott Phelps, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1813 Birthday - Lyman Trumbull, MC, Union

1813 Birthday - John Sedgwick, Major General Union volunteers

1813 Birthday - Conrad Feger Jackson, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1813 Birthday - Benjamin Alvord, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1813 Birthday - William Scott Ketchum, Major General Union Army

1813 Birthday - William Hugh Keim, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1813 Birthday - David Dixon Porter, Rear Admiral Union Navy

1813 Birthday - Israel Washburn, Governor, Union

1813 Birthday - Mason Brayman, Major General Union volunteers

1813 Birthday - Joseph Tarr Copeland, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1813 Birthday - Henry Washington Benham, Major General Union Army

1813 Birthday - Thomas West Sherman, Major General Union Army

1813 Birthday - Gabriel Rene Paul, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1813 Birthday - John McNeil, Major General Union volunteers

1813 Birthday - Jacon Gartner Lauman, Major General Union volunteers

1812 Birthday - William Grose, Major General Union volunteers

1812 Birthday - Elias Smith Dennis, Major General Union volunteers

1812 Birthday - Percival Drayton, Captain Union Navy

1812 Birthday - John Rodgers II, Commander Union Navy

1812 Birthday - Theophilus Toulmin Garrard, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1812 Birthday - John Alexander McClernand, Major General Union volunteers

1812 Birthday - Joseph Warren Revere, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1812 Birthday - Louis Ludwig Blenker, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1812 Birthday - Daniel Henry Rucker, Major General Union Army

1812 Birthday - Randolph Barnes Marcy, Major General Union Army

1812 Birthday - Henry Dwight Terry, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1812 Birthday - James Speed, Attorney General Union

1812 Birthday - Benjamin Franklin Sands, Commander Union Navy

1812 Birthday - Ralph Pomeroy Buckland, Major General Union volunteers

1811 Birthday - Alexander Sandor Asboth, Major General Union volunteers

1811 Birthday - John Ancrum Winslow, Commander Union Navy

1811 Birthday - Hugh Thompson Reid, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1811 Birthday - William Hamsley Emory, Major General Union volunteers

1811 Birthday - Joseph Dana Webster, Major General Union volunteers

1811 Birthday - Gilman Marston, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1811 Birthday - Joseph Lanman, Commander Union Navy

1811 Birthday - Henry Prince, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1811 Birthday - Robert Allen, Major General Union Army

1811 Birthday - Marsena Rudolph Patrick, Major General Union volunteers

1811 Birthday - Robert Christie Buchanan, Major General Union Army

1811 Birthday - Edward Dickinson Baker, Major General Union volunteers

1810 Birthday - August Willich, Major General Union volunteers

1810 Birthday - Benjamin Stone Roberts, Major General Union volunteers

1810 Birthday - Andrew Atkinson Humphreys, Major General Union volunteers

1810 Birthday - Henry Bohlen, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1810 Birthday - Cassius Marcellus Clay, Major General Union volunteers

1810 Birthday - James Shedden Palmer, Commander Union Navy

1810 Birthday - Alpheus Starkey Williams, Major General Union volunteers

1810 Birthday - Thomas Jefferson McKean, Major General Union volunteers

1810 Birthday - Horatio Seymour, Gov, Union

1810 Birthday - Erasmus Darwin Keyes, Major General Union volunteers

1810 Birthday - Solomon Meredith, Major General Union volunteers

1810 Birthday - James Shields, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1810 Birthday - James Cooper, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1810 Birthday - Daniel Ullmann, Major General Union volunteers

1809 Birthday - Christopher "Kit" Carson, Kentucky, Union Brigadier-General/indian fighter

1809 Birthday - Stephen Thomas, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1809 Birthday - Thomas Alfred Davies, Major General Union volunteers

1809 Birthday - Horatio Phillips Van Cleve, Major General Union volunteers

1809 Birthday - John AB Dahlgren, U.S. Union Lieutenant-Admiral/inventor, Civil war Dahlgren-cannon

1809 Birthday - Robert Cumming Schenck, Major General Union volunteers

1809 Birthday - William Radford, Commander Union Navy

1809 Birthday - Ormsby McKnight Mitchel, astronomer/Major General Union volunteers

1809 Birthday - Sylvanus William Godon, Commander Union Navy

1809 Birthday - George Philip St. Cooke, Major General Union Army

1809 Birthday - William David Porter, Commander Union Navy

1809 Birthday - George Washington Cullom, Major General Union Army

1809 Birthday - Henry Walton Wessells, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1808 Birthday - Stephen Cleeg Rowan, Commander Union Navy

1808 Birthday - Thomas Turner, Commander Union Navy

1808 Birthday - Thomas Tinsley Craven, Commander Union Navy

1808 Birthday - Henry Haywood Bell, Commander Union Navy

1808 Birthday - Thomas Algeo Rowley, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1808 Birthday - William Thomas Ward, Major General Union volunteers

1808 Birthday - Charles Henry Poor, Commander Union Navy

1808 Birthday - Caleb Blood Smith, Secretary Int, Union

1808 Birthday - Catharinus Putnam Buckingham, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1808 Birthday - James Bowen, Major General Union volunteers

1808 Birthday - Jacob Ammen, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1807 Birthday - James Samuel Wadsworth, Major General Union volunteers

1807 Birthday - Charles Francis Adams, Union

1807 Birthday - Silas Casey, Major General Union volunteers

1807 Birthday - James Findlay Schenck, Commander Union Navy

1807 Birthday - Charles Ferguson Smith, Major General Union volunteers

1807 Birthday - Lysander Cutler, Major General Union volunteers

1807 Birthday - Abner Clark Harding, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1807 Birthday - William Bowen Campbell, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1807 Birthday - Charles Henry Davis, Rear Admiral Union Navy

1807 Birthday - Napoleon Bonaparte Buford, Major General Union volunteers

1807 Birthday - Ezra Cornell, founder, Western Union Telegraph, Cornell University

1807 Birthday - Joseph Holt, Major General Union Army

1806 Birthday - William Pitt Fessenden, Secretary Treasury, Union

1806 Birthday - Andrew Hull Foote, Rear Admiral Union Navy

1806 Birthday - Joshua Blackwood Howell, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1806 Birthday - John Buchanan Floyd, Ex-Sect of War, Union

1806 Birthday - Henry Knox Thatcher, Commander Union Navy

1806 Birthday - George C Cadwalader, Major General Union volunteers

1806 Birthday - Amos Beebe Eaton, Major General Union Army

1805 Birthday - Samuel Peter Heintzelman, Major General Union volunteers

1805 Birthday - Robert Cowdin, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1805 Birthday - Robert Anderson, Major General Union Army

1805 Birthday - William Kerley Strong, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1805 Birthday - Louis Malesherbes Goldsborough, Rear Admiral Union Navy

1804 Birthday - Lorenzo Thomas, Major General Union Army

1804 Birthday - John William, Turk, Livingston, Commander Union Navy

1804 Birthday - Thomas Oliver Selfridge, Commander Union Navy

1804 Birthday - Neal Dow, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1803 Birthday - Joseph King Fenno Mansfield, Major General Union volunteers

1803 Birthday - George Wright, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1803 Birthday - Samuel Francis DuPont, Rear Admiral Union Navy

1803 Birthday - Levin Minnesota Powell, Commander Union Navy

1802 Birthday - Melancthon Smith Wade, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1802 Birthday - James Lawrence Lardner, Commander Union Navy

1802 Birthday - Cadwalader Ringgold, Commander Union Navy

1802 Birthday - David Hunter, Major General Union volunteers

1802 Birthday - Gideon Welles, Secretary Navy, Union

1802 Birthday - George Archibald McCall, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1802 Birthday - George Douglas Ramsey, Major general Union Army

1801 Birthday - James Barnes, Major General Union volunteers

1801 Birthday - John Drake Sloat, Ret Major General Commander Union Navy

1801 Birthday - David Glasgow Farragut, Tennessee, Vice Admiral Union Navy

1801 Birthday - George Sears Greene, Major General Union volunteers

1801 Birthday - Henry Eagle, Commander Union Navy

1800 Birthday - Benjamin Franklin Wade, MC, Union

1800 Birthday - William Wister McKean, Commander Union Navy

1800 Birthday - Ret Thomas Aloysius Dornin, Commander Union Navy

1799 Birthday - Simon Cameron, Secretary War Union

1799 Birthday - Daniel Tyler, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1798 Birthday - Thomas Holliday Hicks, Union Gov

1798 Birthday - Richard Delafield, Major General Union Army

1798 Birthday - Gershom Jaques Van Brunt, Commander Union Navy

1798 Birthday - Charles H Bell, Commander Union Navy

1798 Birthday - Ethan Allen Hitchcock, Major General Union volunteers

1798 Birthday - Charles D. Wilkes, Commander Union Navy

1798 Birthday - Charles Mynn Thruston, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1797 Birthday - Hiram Paulding, Rear Admiral Union Navy

1797 Birthday - Silas Horton Stringham, Rear Admiral Union Navy

1797 Birthday - Edwin Vose Sumner, Major General Union volunteers

1796 Birthday - Ret Cornelius Kinchiloe Stribling, Commander Union Navy

1796 Birthday - Reverdy Johnson, rep, Union

1796 Birthday - Joseph Pannell Taylor, Brigadier General Union Army

1795 Birthday - John Marston, Jr., Commander Union Navy

1795 Birthday - Joshua Ratoon Sands, Commander Union Navy

1794 Birthday - James Wolfe Ripley, Major General Union Army

1794 Birthday - John Barrien Montgomery, Commander Union Navy

1793 Birthday - Edward Bates, Attorney General, Union

1792 Birthday - Robert Patterson, Major General Union volunteers

1791 Birthday - Peter Cooper, industrialist/philanthropist, Cooper Union

1790 Birthday - Joseph Smith, Rear Admiral Union Navy

1790 Event - George Washington delivers 1st state of union address

1790 Event - President Washington delivers 1st State of the Union address

1789 Birthday - Francis Hoyt Gregory, Rear Admiral Union Navy

1788 Birthday - Joseph Gilbert Totten, Major General Union Army

1787 Birthday - John Jordan Crittenden, MC, Union

1786 Birthday - Winfield Scott, army general, Union, presidential candidate

1778 Birthday - Charles Stewart, Rear Admiral Union Navy

1777 Event - Continental Congress adopts Stars and Stripes replacing Grand Union flag

1776 Event - General George Washington hoists Continental Union Flag

1707 Event - English/Scottish parliament accept Act of Union, form Great Britain

1701 Event - Great Britain and Ireland union is in effect, creating United Kingdom

1678 Birthday - John Campbell, 2nd duke of Argyll/Field Marshal, Union of 1707

1633 Event - Sweden and Protestant German monarchy form Union of Heilbronn

1606 Event - England adopts Union Jack as its flag

1591 Event - German monarchy forms Protestant Union of Torgau

1580 Event - Drenthe joins Union of Utrecht

1579 Event - Breda forms Union of Utrecht

1579 Event - Antwerp request union with of Utrecht

1579 Event - Venlo joins Union of Utrecht

1579 Event - Friesland joins Union of Utrecht

1579 Event - Veluwe joins Union of Utrecht

1579 Event - Betuwe joins Union of Utrecht

1579 Event - Union of Utrecht signed, forming protestant Dutch Republic

1579 Event - Artois/Hainault/Dowaai sign pro-Spanish Union of Arras

1569 Event - Latvia Parliament accept Union of Lublin, incorporate into Poland

1538 Event - Danish king Christian III enters Schmalkaldische Union

1531 Event - Bavaria joins Schmalkaldische Union

1531 Event - Evangelical German monarchy/towns form Schmalkaldische Union

1525 Event - Catholic German monarchy form Union of Dessau

1525 Event - Battle at Boblingen: Zwabische Union beats rebel Wurttembergse farmers

1397 Event - Denmark, Norway and Sweden sign Union of Kalmar under Queen Margaretha

1397 Event - Union of Kalmar established between Denmark, Sweden and Norway













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