2004 American military deaths in the Iraq War reach 1,000
2000 Leo Gordon, actor/writer, War and Remembrance, dies at 78
2000 Robert Cormier, writer, The Chocolate War, dies at 75
1998 Martha Gellhorn, war reporter (Reuthers), dies at 89
1998 Martha Gelhorn, female war correspondents, dies at 89
1997 Robert Mitchum, actor, Winds of War, dies at 79
1996 2 U.S. Marine helicopters collided during joint U.S. and British war games
1996 Alvaro Arzu aimed at ending 35 years of civil war
1995 J William Fulbright, (Sen-D-Ark)/anti-Vietnam War, dies at 89
1994 Jesus "Enrique" Lister, Span/Russian general (Civil War), dies at 87
1994 John Doucette, actor (Fighting Mad, Gang War), dies of cancer at 73
1994 Jordan and Israeli end 46 year state of war (Washington D.C.)
1994 John Weidner, war hero, dies at 71
1994 Evert Hartman, Dutch writer (War Without Friends), dies at 56
1994 Stuart Sloan, war hero/test pilot, dies at 72
1994 Serbs and Croats signed a cease-fire to end the war in Croatia
1994 El Salvador's 1st President election following 12-year-old civil war
1994 Harold Schneider, U.S. producer (5 Easy Pieces, War Games), dies at 55
1993 Wensley Pithey, actor (Oh What a Lovely War), dies at 79
1993 Eritrea achieved independence from Ethiopia after 30-year civil war
1993 Peter Roovers, Dutch sculptor/teacher (war monuments), dies at 90
1992 John Hancock, actor (LA Law, Love and War), dies of heart attack at 51
1992 John Hancock, actor (Ike-Love and War), dies of heart attack at 51
1992 England honors her dead soldiers in the Falkland Is war
1992 George Mann MacBeth, Scottish journalist/poet (A War Quartet), dies
1991 Victory parade held in Washington D.C., Persian Gulf War
1991 Sides in Angola sign a treaty ending 16 year civil war
1991 Angola's civil war ends
1991 U.N. Security Council adopts Gulf War truce resolution
1991 Following Iraq's capitulation in the Persian Gulf conflict, President Bush told Congress that "aggression is defeated. The war is over"
1991 6 week Gulf War ends after Iraqi troops retreated and Kuwait is liberated
1991 U.S. and allies begin a ground war assault on Iraqi troops
1991 Bush and U.S. Gulf War allies give Iraq 24 hours to begin Kuwait withdrawal
1991 U.S.S.R. announces Iraq agrees to a proposal to end Persian Gulf War U.S. calls the plan unacceptable
1991 U.S. Congress gives George Bush authority to wage war against Iraq
1990 Bush proposes U.S. - Iraq meeting to avoid war
1990 Iraq says it is preparing for a "dangerous war"
1990 PBS begins an 11 hour miniseries on Civil War
1990 Truce in Nicaragua's civil war
1990 Aldo Fabrizi, actor (Postman Goes to War, Open City), dies at 85
1989 F Fischer, German war criminal (4, Two of Breda), dies
1989 French war criminal Paul Touvier arrested in monastery in Nice
1989 Bernard Blier, actor (Les Miserables, Women and War), dies at 73
1989 German war criminals Aus der Funten/Fischer, freed in Holland
1989 German war criminals Fischer and Aus der Funten freed
1988 Iran and Iraq begin talks to end their 8 year war
1988 Cease fire between Iran and Iraq takes effect after 8 years of war
1988 Iran-Iraq begin a cease-fire in their 8-year-old war (11 PM EDT)
1988 Russian troops begin pull out of Afghanistan after 9 year war
1988 Samuel L Mendel, oldest U.S. war veteran, dies at 104
1988 Iran says Iraq uses poison gas in the war
1988 New York City Mayor Koch calls Reagan a "WIMP" in the war on drugs
1988 Neil Ronald Jones, science fiction writer (Space War, Twin Worlds), dies at 78
1987 Pieter Menten, Dutch war criminal, dies at 88
1987 Monitor, Civil War warship, is discovered by a deep sea robot
1987 U.S. deports Karl Linnas, charged with nazi war crimes, to U.S.S.R.
1986 Roy Poole, actor (Winds of War), dies at 62
1986 Institute for War documents publishes Anne Franks complete diary
1986 Netherlands and Scilly Islands sign peace treaty (war of 1651)
1985 International Physicians for Prevention of Nuclear War receives Nobel Prize
1985 War veterans returned to the "Bridge over the River Kwai"
1985 Pentagon accepts theory that atomic war would cause a nuclear winter
1983 Bomb attack on Harrod's war house in London, 5 killed, 94 injured
1983 Syria and Saudi Arabia announce cease-fire in PLO civil war in Tripoli
1983 100 million watch ABC-TV movie "Day After," about nuclear war
1983 1st time Congress invokes War Powers Act
1983 [Dallas] Mack/McCord Reynolds, sci-fi author (Earth War), dies at 65
1983 Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie arrested in Bolivia
1982 Vietnam War Memorial dedicated in Washington D.C.
1982 King Vidor, director (War and Peace), dies at 88 of a heart ailment
1982 President Reagan proclaims war against drugs
1982 Paul McCartney releases "Tug of War"
1982 Pentagon plans 1st strategy to fight a nuclear war
1982 British ship Atlantic Conveyor and Coventry were hit in Falkland war
1982 Falklands War: Argentine cruiser General Belgrano sunk by British submarine Conqueror, killing more than 350 men
1982 Lord Carrington, British foreign sect resigns due to Falkland Is war
1981 Israel annexes Golan Heights (seized from Syria in war of 1967)
1981 Maya Yang Lin wins competition to design the Vietnam War Memorial
1981 FC Terborgh, [Reijnier Flaes], lawyer/writer (Turkish War), dies at 79
1980 Honduras and El Salvador signs peace (after "soccer war" 1969)
1980 Iraqi President Saddam Hussein declares holy war against Iran
1980 Iraqi troops seize part of Iran in a border dispute; war begins
1980 Dutch war criminal Pieter Menten sentenced to 10 years
1980 "Billy Bishop Goes to War" closes at Morosco New York City after 12 performances
1980 "Billy Bishop Goes to War" opens at Morosco Theater New York City for 12 performances
1979 Iran Ayatollah Khomeini demands Saint War against Kurds
1979 Joseph Kotalla, German war criminal (4 of Breda), dies at 71
1979 War between North and South Yemen begins
1978 Dutch War criminal Pieter Menten freed
1978 War criminal Pieter Menten freed
1978 CDA-chairman W Aantjes resigns due to his war past
1978 Bruce Catton, U.S. historian/writer (Civil War), dies at 78
1978 High Council destroys judgment against war criminal Pieter Menten
1977 War criminal Pieter Menten sentenced in Amsterdam to 15 years
1977 President Carter pardons most Vietnam War draft evaders (10,000)
1977 President Jimmy Carter pardons almost all Vietnam War draft evaders
1976 Victor Stanitsin, actor (War and Peace, Jubilee), dies at 79
1976 War criminal Pieter Menten arrested in Zurich
1976 War criminal Pieter Menten captured 1 day after fleeing
1976 Belgium catholic elite start amnesty campaign for war criminals
1975 Charles Brokaw, actor (Outer Gate, I Cover the War), dies at 77
1975 Christian Falange kills 27 Palestinians, begins Lebanese civil war
1974 Cornelius Ryan, war reporter/historian (Bridge too Far), dies at 54
1974 President Ford announces conditional amnesty for U.S., Vietnam War deserters
1974 WW II war criminal JP Philippa arrested
1974 Arganat Commission publishes report concerning Yom Kippur War
1974 Last Japanese soldier, a guerrilla operating in Philippines, surrenders, 29 years after World War II ended
1974 "Monitor" (U.S. Civil War Ship) restored at Cape Hatteras North Carolina
1973 Egypt and Israel exchange prisoners of war
1973 Yom Kippur War ends, Israel 65 miles from Cairo, 26 from Damascus
1973 Security Council Resolution 338-cease fire to Yom Kippur War
1973 Jordan enters Yom Kippur war
1973 Yom Kippur War begins as Syria and Egypt attack Israel
1973 Carlo E Gadda, Italian engineer/writer (War Diary), dies at 79
1973 Funeral for LC William Nolde, last U.S. soldier killed in Vietnam War
1973 US and Vietnam sign cease-fire, ending longest U.S. war and milt draft
1973 President Nixon announces an accord has been reached to end Vietnam War
1971 John and Yoko release "Happy Xmas (War is Over)" in US
1971 John and Yoko record "Happy Xmas (War is Over)" in New York City
1971 About 200,000 anti-Vietnam War protesters march on Washington
1971 Dutch 2nd Chamber accept law against limitation of war crimes
1970 100,000s demonstrate against Vietnam War
1970 Biafran War ends, Biafra surrenders to Nigeria
1969 "War is Over! If You Want It, Happy Christmas from John and Yoko" posters begin appearing
1969 John Lennon returns OBE to protest UK's support for Vietnam War
1969 250,000 peacefully demonstrate in Washington D.C. against Vietnam War
1969 Vietnam Moratorium Day; millions nationwide protest the war
1969 "Futbol War" between El Salvador and Honduras begins
1969 Soccer war - Salvador-Honduras (1000 dead)
1969 Der Spiegel reveals Munich's Bishop Defregger is a war criminal
1969 U.S. president Nixon proclaims he will end Vietnam war in 1970
1968 My Lai massacre occurs (Vietnam War); 450 die
1968 10,000 demonstrators against U.S. in Vietnam War in West-Berlin
1967 Benjamin Spock and Allen Ginsberg arrested protesting Vietnam war
1967 Michiyoshi Ohara, wrestler, WAR/NJPW
1967 Thousands opposing Vietnam War try to storm Pentagon
1967 Biafran War erupts as Nigerian forces invade
1967 John Clark, actor (Last Day of the War), dies at 50
1967 Israel, Syria, Jordan, Iraq and Egypt end "6-Day War" with United Nations help
1967 6 day war between Israel and Arab neighbors begin
1967 10,000 demonstrate against war in Vietnam
1967 U.S. planes bomb Haiphong for 1st time during Vietnam War
1967 In the Vietnam War, U.S. planes bombed Haiphong for 1st time
1967 U.S. troops begin largest offensive of Vietnam War
1966 Robert Keith, actor (Battle Circus, Men in War), dies at 68
1966 Sadao Araki, Japanese general/minister of War (1931-34), dies at 89
1966 El Samurai, [Osamu Matsuda], wrestler, WAR/NJPW
1966 U.S. citizens demonstrate against war in Vietnam
1966 In the Vietnam War, U.S. planes bombed Hanoi and Haiphong for 1st time
1966 25,000 anti war demonstrators march in New York City
1966 Anit Vietnam war demonstrations in U.S., Europe and Australia
1966 Stephen Mailer, born in New York City, actor, Red Meat, League of Their Own, War and Love
1966 June Walker, actress (War Nurses), dies at 65
1966 Julian Bond denied seat in Georgia legislature for opposing Vietnam War
1965 15,000 demonstrate against war in Vietnam in Washington D.C.
1965 Bernard M Baruch, President advisor (termed "Cold War"), dies at 94
1965 West German Bondsdag extends war crimes retribution
1965 "Oh What a Lovely War" closes at Broadhurst New York City after 125 performances
1964 "Oh What a Lovely War" opens at Broadhurst Theater New York City for 125 performances
1964 Sandra Bullock, born in Washington D.C., actress, Speed, Net, Love and War
1964 Lyndon Baines Johnson asks for a War on Poverty
1964 President Lyndon B Johnson declares "War on Poverty"
1963 British Minister of War John Profumo resigns due to Christine Keeler
1963 British Min of War John Profumo denies having sex with Christine Keeler
1962 Gilby Clarke, U.S. pop guitarist, Guns n' Roses-Civil War
1962 Adolf Eichmann, war criminal, hanged at Ramie Prison in Israel at 56
1962 Benjamin Britten's "War Requiem," premieres
1962 Algerian War ends after 7 years (250,000 die), Ben Bella flees
1962 France and Algerian Moslems negotiate truce to end 7 year war
1961 Adolf Eichmann is found guilty of war crimes, in Israel
1961 SS Col Adolf Eichmann found guilty of war crimes in Israel
1961 Israel begins Adolf Eichmann WW II war crimes trial
1961 Adolf Eichmann tried as a war criminal in Israel
1960 Netherlands and Germany sign accord concerning war casualties
1959 Walter Williams, claimed to be last survivor of Civil War, dies at 117
1959 Dale Buisand and Chester Ovnand, 1st Americans killed in Vietnam War
1959 John Sailling, last documented Civil War vet, dies at 111
1959 Tonga, [Uliuli Fifita], wrestler, WCW/WAR/WWF, Ming, Haku, Islanders
1958 Shiro Koshinaka, wrestler, WAR/NJPW
1958 Unidentified soldiers killed in WW II and Korean War buried in Arlington
1957 Indonesia proclaims end to state of war
1956 France raises tobacco tax 20% due to war in Algeria
1956 Tatsutoshi Goto, wrestler, WAR/NJPW
1956 German war criminals Hinrichsen/Ruhl/Siebens/Viebahn freed
1956 Hague Daily Newspaper reveals war crimes of Hague mayor Schokking
1956 Kuniaki Kobayashi, wrestler, WAR/NJPW
1955 President Eisenhower upheld the use of atomic weapons in case of war
1955 Russia ends state of war with Germany
1955 U.S.S.R. ends state of war with German Federal Republic
1954 Ted Williams fractures collarbone in 1st game of spring training after flying 39 combat missions without injury in Korean War
1953 Arthur Kent, newscaster [Scud Stud], NBC-Gulf War coverage
1953 Operation "Big Switch" Korean War prisoner exchanged at Panmunjom
1953 Ken Burns, epic documentary maker, Civil War, Baseball
1953 Damasco Berenguer y Fuste, Spanish gen/min of War, dies at 79
1952 Pres-elect Eisenhower visits Korea to assess war
1952 Dutch minister Dark sentences war criminal W Lages to death
1952 Chick Vennera, born in Herkimer, New York, actor, High Risk, Milagro Beanfield War
1951 Peace talks aimed at ending Korean War resumed in Panmunjom
1951 President Harry S Truman formally ends state of war with Germany
1951 Orson Scott Card, U.S., sci-fi author, Hugo, Nebula, Ender's War
1951 Netherlands ends state of war with Germany
1951 President Truman asked Congress to formally end state of war with Germany
1951 Bobel, Braune, Naumann, Ohlendorf, Pohl, Schallenmair and Otto Schmidt, Nazi war criminals, hanged
1951 During Korean War, U.S. / U.N. forces recapture Seoul
1951 Alfred Krupp and 28 other German war criminals freed
1950 U.N. troops begin an assault intending to end Korean War by Christmas
1950 Spanish dictator Franco ends war in Gibraltar
1950 1st jet-plane battle ever, in Korean War
1950 In the Korean War, 1st jet battle takes place
1950 Henry Lewsis Stimson, U.S. minister of War/gov-gen, dies
1950 Victoria Tennant, born in London, England, All of Me, Chiefs, Winds of War
1950 U.N. troops in Korean War recapture South Korean capital of Seoul
1950 Hague Council of Annulment convicts German war criminals W Lages, FH Van de Funten and F Fischer to death
1950 Kenneth Shadrick, Pvt from WV becomes 1st U.S. fatality in Korean War
1950 1st time U.S. and North Korean forces clash in Korean War
1950 U.S.S.R. demands condemnation of Emperor Hirohito for war crimes
1949 Greeks civil war ends
1949 Morris "B B" Dickerson, born in Torrence, California, bassist, War, Low Rider, Outlaw
1949 Israel's 19 month war of independence ends
1949 Russell Porter, actor (Betsy, Hanna's War, British Empire), dies
1949 Panic in Quito Ecuador, after "War of the World" played on radio
1948 Greek government disbands due to state of war, press censorship
1948 Hideki Tojo, Japan PM (1941-44) and 6 Japs, hanged for war crimes at 64
1948 Seishiro Itagaki, Japanese General/min of War, hanged
1948 Lonnie Jordan, born in San Diego, California, rock keyboardist/vocalist, War
1948 Japanese premier Hideki Tojo sentenced to death by war crimes tribunal
1948 Bernard M. Baruch introduces term "Cold War"
1948 Bijz Criminal division sentences war criminal Jacob Folks to life
1948 Great Kabuki, [Akihisa Yone Yoshi Mera], wrestler, NWA/NJPW/WAR/SWS
1948 Rhodes conference on Israeli-Arab war opens
1948 1st use of Israeli Air Force and 1st war victory, defeating Syrian army
1947 Man O' War, racehorse, dies
1947 U.S. Air Force, Navy and War Department form U.S. Department of Defense
1946 War breaks out in Indochina as Ho Chi Minh attacks French in Hanoi
1946 1st trial against nazi war criminals in Neurenberg
1946 10 Nazi leaders hanged as war criminals after Nuremberg trials
1946 Alfred Rosenberg, German war criminal, hanged
1946 Fritz Sauckel, German war criminal, hanged
1946 Hans Franc, German war criminal, hanged
1946 Joachim von Ribbentrop, German war criminal, hanged
1946 Wilhelm Frick, German war criminal, hanged
1946 12 war criminals sentenced to death in Nuremberg
1946 22 Nazi leaders found guilty of war crimes at Nuremberg
1946 Robert L Asprin, U.S., sci-fi writer, Thieves World, Cold Cash War
1946 International Milt Tribunal opens in Tokyo against 28 Japanese war criminals
1946 28 former Jap leaders indicted in Tokyo as war criminals
1946 John M. Keynes, English economist (How to pay for the war?), dies at 62
1946 Howard Scott, born in San Pedro, California, rock guitarist and vocalist, War, Cisco Kid
1945 Nazi war crime trial opens in Nuremberg
1945 Chinese civil war begins, Chiang Kai-Shek vs Mao Tse-Tung
1945 Hideki Tojo, Japanese PM during most of WW II, attempts suicide rather than face war crimes tribunal attempt fails, later he is hanged
1945 U.S.S.R. declares war against Japan in WW II
1945 David Dukes, actor, Beacon Hill, 79 Park Avenue, Winds of War
1945 German war criminal Heinrich Himmler captured
1945 Largest operation in Pacific war, 1,500 U.S. Navy ships bomb Okinawa
1945 Finland declares war on nazi-Germany
1945 Egypt and Syria declares war on nazi-Germany
1945 Archbishop De Jong calls for help with war casualties
1945 Venezuela declares war on nazi-Germany
1945 Eddie Slovik, 1st U.S. executed for desertion since Civil War at 25
1944 Johan van Doorn, [Johnny the Selfkicker], Dutch poet, War and Porridge
1944 Russians march into Bulgaria; Bulgaria declares war on Germany
1944 In World War II, U.S. troops secure Saipan as Japan fell
1944 Yanks, Dodgers and Giants play unique 6 inn game for War Bonds, each playing successive innings, final score Dodgers-5, Yanks-1 and Giants-0
1944 Argentina coup by Juan Peron minister of war
1944 "War As It Happens" news show premieres on NBC TV (New York City only)
1944 During World War II, Allied forces begin landing at Anzio Italy
1943 Martin Raschke, German author/war correspondent, dies at 38
1943 Italy declares war on former Axis partner Germany
1943 U.S. forbid racial discrimination in war industry
1943 Dutch strike against forced labor in Nazi Germany's war industry
1943 Franklin D. Roosevelt orders minimal 48 hour work week in war industry
1943 Hitler declares "Total War"
1943 William H Hastie, civilian aide to secretary of war, resigns to protest segregation in armed forces
1942 Allies in London sentence German war criminals
1942 In World War II, battle of Guadalcanal began
1942 Jack Singer, U.S. war reporter (Wasp), dies
1942 Cuba declares war on Germany, Japan and Italy
1942 Brazil declares war on Germany, Japan and Italy
1942 Franklin D. Roosevelt creates Office of War with Elmer Davis as head
1942 USA declares war on Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania
1942 Mexico declares war on nazi-Germany and Japan
1942 Daylight Savings War Time goes into effect in U.S.
1942 Congress advises Franklin D. Roosevelt that, Americans of Japanese descent should be locked up en masse so they wouldn't oppose the U.S. war effort
1942 US auto factories switch from commercial to war production
1942 Allied Conference for war trials
1942 Interallied war trial conference publishes St. James Declaration
1942 National War Labor Board created
1942 28 nations, at war with Axis, pledge no separate peace
1941 Dutch government in London declares war on Italy
1941 Germany and Italy declare war on US
1941 China declares war on Japan, Germany and Italy
1941 London: Dutch government declares Japan the war
1941 US and Britain declare war on Japan, U.S. enters WW II
1941 Japanese emperor Hirohito signs declaration of war
1941 Passenger ship Lurline sends radio signal of sighting Jap war fleet
1941 USS Reuben James torpedoed by Germans, even though U.S. is not in war
1941 Chicago Daily Tribune editorialize there will not be war with Japan
1941 1st use of Zyclon-B gas in Auschwitz (on Russian prisoners of war)
1941 Finland declares war on Soviet Union
1941 Germany, Italy and Romania declares war on Soviet Union during WW II
1941 Ben Murphy, born in Jonesboro, Arkansas, actor, Name of the Game, Winds of War
1941 War Department forms 1st Army Air Corps squadron for black cadets
1940 Phil Ochs, born in El Paso, Texas, anti-war folk singer, Joe Hill, War is Over
1940 Sec of War Henry L Stimson drew 1st number-158-in 1st peacetime military draft in U.S. history
1940 Italy declares war on allies/raids Malta
1940 Italy declares war on France and Britain during WW II
1940 Eric Burdon, rock singer, House of Rising Sun-Animals, War
1940 Richard Monaco, U.S., sci-fi author, Grail War, Final Quest
1940 Rear Adm Joseph Taussig testifies before U.S. Senate Naval Affairs Committee that war with Japan is inevitable (He was right)
1940 Mussolini joins Hitler in Germany's war against France and Britain
1939 Adolf Hitler denies he intends to go to war against France and Britain
1939 Iraq and Saudi Arabia declare war on nazi-Germany
1939 Canada declares war on Germany
1939 In WW II, Canada declared war on Germany
1939 Franklin D. Roosevelt declares "limited national emergency" due to war in Europe
1939 South Africa declares war on nazi-Germany
1939 Dutch 2nd Chamber affirms Netherlands in a State of War
1939 Great Britain and France declare war on Germany after invasion of Poland
1939 Britain declares war on Germany. France follows 6 hours later quickly joined by Australia, NZ, South Africa and Canada
1939 Charles Miller, rock flutist/saxophonist, War
1939 U.S. recognizes Franco government in Spain at end of Spanish civil war Pope Pius XII congratulates Generalissimo Franco's victory in Spain
1939 Spanish Civil War ends, Madrid falls to Francisco Franco
1938 Seabiscuit beats War Admiral in a match race at Pimlico
1938 Orson Welles panics a nation with broadcast of "War of the Worlds"
1938 Dutch Premier Colijn sends radio message "No war coming"
1938 Japan declares war on China
1937 Hitler informs his military leader of his intentions of going to war
1937 George AA Alting van Geusau, Dutch min of war (1918-20), dies at 73
1937 China declares war on Japan
1937 69th Belmont: Charley Kurtsinger aboard War Admiral wins in 2:28.6
1937 63rd Preakness: Charley Kurtsinger aboard War Admiral wins in 1:58.4
1937 63rd Kentucky Derby: Charley Kurtsinger on War Admiral wins 2:03.2
1937 Elihu Root, U.S. min of War/Foreign affairs (Nobel 1912), dies at 91
1936 Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek declares war on Japan
1936 Spanish Civil War begins, Gen Francisco Franco led uprising
1936 Military uprising under Gen Franco/begins Spanish civil war
1935 Chaco War between Bolivia and Paraguay ends
1935 Weapons pact ends 3 year war of Gran Chaco, Bolivia vs Paraguay
1935 M. Emmet Walsh, Ogdensburg, New York, actor, Wildcats, War Party
1934 H Norman Schwarzkopf, Trenton, New Jersey, 4-star Army general, Gulf War
1934 Heihatjiro Tojo, Japanese Admiral (Russian-Japanese War), dies
1934 Jeremy Kemp, Chesterfield England, actor, Winds of War
1933 50,000 demonstrate in Antwerp against fascism/war
1933 Paraguay declares war on Bolivia
1932 Battle between unemployed war veterans and federal troops, 4 die
1932 Milly Vitale, born in Rome, actress, 7 Little Foys, War and Peace, Juggler
1931 Peking (200,000 demonstrators demand declaration of war on Japan)
1931 Lord Cecil of British Government says War was never so improbable
1931 Frederic Raphael, writer, After the War, California Time
1931 James Tolkan Calumet, born in Michigan, actor, Weekend War, Leap of Faith
1930 Barbara Ruick, born in Pasadena, California, actress, Apache War Smoke, Tu Para Mi
1930 Friedrich von Bernhardi, German war theorist/historian, dies at 81
1930 Polly Bergen, born in Knoxville, Tennessee, actress, Rhoda-Winds of War, Baby Talk
1929 President Hoover proclaims Kellogg-Briand Pact which renounces war
1929 General Feng Yu-Xiang of China declares war on Chiang Kai-Shek government
1928 Kellogg-Briand Pact, where 60 nations agree to outlaw war
1928 Armando V Diaz, Italian marshal/minister of War (1922-24), dies at 66
1928 Douglas Haig, British fieldmarshal (Sudan/Boer war/WW I), dies at 66
1927 Augusto Sandino begins 5 -year war against U.S. occupation of Nicaragua
1927 Japanese military intervention in Chinese civil war
1926 Alison Lurie, U.S., novelist, War Between the Tates
1926 John R[obert] Jones, U.S., sci-fi author, White Regiment, Lizard War
1926 Chiang Kai-shek is made supreme war lord in Canton
1926 Arthur Hockaday, director-Gen, Commonwealth War Graves Commission
1926 Kwo-Min-Tang (Guomindang) declares war on government/warlords
1925 U.S. and Italy sign peace accord about war debts
1925 Belgian and U.S. sign treaty about war debts
1925 Beirut sultan Pasja al-Atrasj calls Druzen for holy war against France
1925 John Keith Laumer, [Anthony LeBaron], U.S., science fiction author, Retief's War
1925 Aleksei Kuropatkin, Russian general/minister of War, dies at 76
1925 Jihad-Saint war against Turkish government
1924 Civil war breaks out in China (Gen Tsi moves to Shanghai)
1923 Andrew Duggan, actor, Secret War of Harry Frigg, Winds of War
1923 Baldwin-Mellon-agreement concerning Britain entering the war
1923 Edna Jo Hunter, expert on military families and prisoners of war
1922 IVVV (association) peace congress on war forms in Hague
1922 Leo V Gordon, born in Baltimore, Maryland, actor, Circus Boy, Enos, Winds of War
1922 Norodom Sihanouk, king/pres/prem Cambodia, My War with the CIA
1922 Stuart Sloan, war hero/test pilot
1922 John Weidner, war hero
1922 Vittorio Gassman, born in Genoa, Italy, actor, War and Peace
1920 Ma, the Benovelent, Chinese muslim rebel (holy war), dies
1920 Man O'War's last race and win
1920 Sergey Bondarchuk, Belozerka Ukraine, director, War and Peace
1920 52nd Belmont: Clarence Kummer aboard Man o' War wins in 2:14.2
1920 46th Preakness: Clarence Kummer aboard Man o' War wins in 1:51.6
1919 Man o'War's only defeat (Upset wins at Saratoga)
1919 Finland declares war on bolsheviks
1919 Afghanistan Emir Amanoellah begins war against Great Britain
1918 Samuel Riddle buys Man o'War for $5,000
1918 Washington catcher Eddie Ainsmith applies for deferment from the draft Sec of War Newton D. Baker rules baseball players are not draft exempt
1918 Barry Morse, actor, Fugitive-Lt Philip Gerard, Winds of War
1918 43rd Preakness: Johnny Loftus aboard War Cloud wins in 1:53.6
1918 President Hoover calls for "wheatless" and "meatless" days for war effort
1917 U.S. becomes 13th country to declare war on Austria during World War I
1917 [Dallas] Mack/McCord Reynolds, U.S., sci-fi author, Earth War
1917 Italy declares war on Germany and Turkey
1917 China declares war on Germany and Austria at start of WW I
1917 Robert Mitchum, born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, actor, Winds of War, North and South
1917 Robert Cornthwaite, born in St. Helen, Oregon, actor, Thing, War of the Worlds
1917 U.S. declares war on Germany, enters World War I
1917 President Wilson asks Congress to declare war against Germany
1917 Man O'War, racehorse, winner of 20 out of 21 races and $249,465
1917 Paul Rogers, British actor, Looking Glass War, Billy Budd
1917 Admiral Tirpitz announces unlimited submarine war
1916 David Lloyd George forms British war government
1916 Greece declares war on Germany
1916 1st tank used in war, "Little Willies" at Battle of Flors, France
1916 Bulgaria declares war on Romania
1916 Germany declares war on Romania
1916 Italy declares war against Germany during WW I
1916 Romania declares war on Austria-Hungary
1916 Germany declares war against Portugal
1915 Aristide Briand forms French war government
1915 Russia/Italy declares war on Bulgaria
1915 Great Britain declares war on Bulgaria
1915 Italy declares war on Turkey
1915 Herman Wouk, New York City, novelist, Caine Mutiny, Winds of War
1915 Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary
1915 Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary and Germany during WW I
1915 Orson Welles, Kenosha, Wisconsin, actor, Citizen Kane, War of the Worlds
1915 Paul Touvier, war criminal
1915 Germany begins "unrestricted" submarine war
1914 Peter Woolridge Townsend, war hero courtier writer
1914 Turks sultan Jamal Pasja declares a German holy war
1914 Great Britain and France and Russia declares war on Turkey
1914 Russia declares Turkey the war
1914 Russia declares war on Turkey
1914 Great Britain and France declare war on Turkey
1914 Russia declares war on Turkey
1914 German troops take Antwerp in World War I
1914 Creighton Abrams, U.S., army general, Vietnam War
1914 U.S. war reporter Richard H. Davis visits Leuven
1914 Japan declares war on Germany in World War I
1914 France declares war on Austria-Hungary, leading to WW I
1914 Great Britain declares war on Austria-Hungary
1914 France declares war on Austria-Hungary
1914 Montenegro declares war on Germany
1914 Austria-Hungary declares war on Russia and Serbia
1914 Serbia declares war against Germany
1914 Montenegro declares war against Austria-Hungary in World War I
1914 Germany declares war on Belgium; Britain declares war on Germany
1914 Lord Kitchener becomes British minister of War
1914 Germany invades Belgium and declares war on France in WW I
1914 Great Britain declares war on Germany
1914 Emperor Wilhelm II declares war on his nephew tsar Nicolas II (WW I)
1914 Trois Vierges: German 69th infantry regiment enter Luxembourg Germany declares war on Russia in WW I
1914 German Emperor Wilhelm II threatens war, orders Russia to demobilize
1914 World War I began when Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia
1914 Germany offers Austria war aid to fight against Russia in Serbia
1914 Dutch Minister of war H Colijn named director of British Petroleum
1913 Hugo Pos, Suriname/Neth WW II prosecutor of minor war crimes Tokyo
1913 2nd Balkan War ends, Treaty of Bucharest, Bulgaria loses
1913 Conclusion of 2nd Balkan War
1913 Romania declares war on Bulgaria
1913 Serbia and Greece declare war on Bulgaria
1913 2nd Balkan War begins
1913 2nd Balkan War begins-Bulgaria overthrows Greek/Serbian troops
1913 1st Balkan War ends, Treaty of London
1913 Les Tremayne, London, actor, Angry Red Planet, War of the Worlds
1913 Bulgaria captures Adrianople, ending the 1st Balkan War
1912 Denmark, Norway and Sweden declare neutrality in Comende war
1912 Socialist International rejects that world war is coming
1912 Beginning of 1st Balkan War
1912 Italo-Turkish war ends
1912 Bulgaria, Greece and Serbia declares war on Turkey
1912 1st Balkan War begins - Montenegro declares war on Turkey
1912 Montenegro declares war on Turkey, beginning 1st Balkan War
1912 War between Turkey and Montenegro breaks out in Albania
1911 Italy declares war on Turkey
1911 Italy declares war on Turkey
1911 British premier Asquith holds secret meeting about British strategy in case of war with Germany
1911 Generals Henry Wilson/Auguste Dubail sign plan for British Expeditionary army in case of war with Germany
1911 Adolphe Messimy appointed French minister of War
1910 Leo Tolstoi, Russian earl/writer (War and Peace), dies at 82
1909 Ferdinand H Aus der Funten, German war criminal, Breda 4
1909 Gaston AA marquis de Gallifet, Fren min of War (1899-1900), dies at 79
1909 Neil R[onald] Jones, U.S., sci-fi author, Space War, Twin Worlds
1908 Joseph Kotalla, German war criminal, 4 of Breda
1908 John Mills, England, actor, Big Sleep, King Rat, War and Peace
1907 Dutch government of De Master falls due to war budget
1905 Martin Raschke, German author/publisher/war correspondent
1905 Treaty of Portsmouth USA, ends Russo-Japanese War
1905 Rebel battle flags captured during war are returned to South
1904 1st monument honoring Spanish American War erected (Monroeville Ohio)
1904 Vasili Vereshtshagin, Russian painter (War and Peace), dies
1904 Japan and Russia declares war after Japan's surprise attack on Russian fleet at Port Arthur disabled 7 Russian warships
1904 Japan declares war on Russia
1904 Russo-Japanese War begins
1904 Russian-Japanese war began
1903 John Piper, British writer, US Churches in WW I, /official war painter
1903 Cornerstone laid for U.S. Army war college, Washington, D.C.
1902 Henry Steele Commager, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, historian, Atlas of Civil War
1902 F R Boschvogel, [French LJ Ramon], Flemish writer, War of Worlds
1902 Boer War Ends; Treaty of Unity signed, Britain annexes Transvaal
1901 F Fischer, German war criminal, Breda 4
1901 Army War College forms in Washington D.C.
1901 Jan de Quay, Dutch minister of war/premier, KVP, 1959-63
1901 Francesco Crispi, Italian minister of War/premier, dies at about 82
1900 June Walker, born in Illinois, actress, War Nurse, Unforgiven
1899 South Africa Boer Republic declares war on England
1899 South African Boers declare war on Great Britain
1899 Bruce Catton, U.S., historian and writer, Civil War
1899 Pieter Menten, Dutch war criminal
1899 Treaty of Paris ratifies ends war; Spain cedes Puerto Rico to US
1899 Spanish-American War ends, peace treaty ratified by Senate
1899 Robert J Fruin, Dutch historian (80-year war), dies at 75
1898 Spanish-American War ends; U.S. acquires Philippines, PR and Guam
1898 U.S. forces under George Dewey captures Manila during Spanish-Amer war
1898 Peace protocol ends Spanish-American War, signed
1898 U.S. flag hoisted over Wake Island (Spanish-American War)
1898 1st U.S. Marines land in Cuba during Spanish-American War
1898 U.S. Marines land in Cuba, during Spanish-American War
1898 U.S. declares war on Spain over Cuba
1898 Spain declares war on U.S. rejecting ultimatum to withdraw from Cuba
1898 1st Spanish-American War action: USS Nashville, takes enemy ship
1898 Spanish-American War begins
1898 President McKinley asks for Spanish-American War declaration
1897 Jacques de Kadt, Dutch politician/writer, Fascism is War!
1896 Jules Vandenpeereboom becomes Belgium's minister of War
1896 Edmund Blunden, English poet and critic, Undertones of War
1896 England defeated Zanzibar in a 38-minute war (9:02 AM-9:40 AM)
1896 Matthew B Brady, U.S. photographer (Civil War), dies at about 72
1895 Treaty of Shimonoseki signed, ends 1st Sino-Japanese War (1894-95)
1895 John Jay McCloy, lawyer/banker, Sec of War 1941-45, President Chase Man
1895 Cuban war for independence begins
1895 King Vidor, director, War and Peace, Stella Dallas
1894 Ernst Friedrich, Breslau Germany, pacifist, War Against War!
1892 Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Austrian chancellor, 1930s, /war criminal
1891 William Sherman, Union General in Civil War, dies
1891 William Tecumseh Sherman, Union Civil War general, dies at 71
1890 Heinrich Schliemann, German archaeologist (Trojan War), dies at 86
1889 Buck Jones, [Charles F Gebhart], U.S. actor, War Horse
1886 Apache Chief Geronimo surrenders ending last major US-Indian war
1885 Grover Cleveland inaugrated as 1st Democratic President since Civil War
1884 Naval War College forms in Newport RI
1884 Juan B Alberdi, [Figarillo], Arg writer (Crime of War), dies at 74
1884 Judah P Benjamin, confederate minister of War, dies at 72
1883 Arabi Pasha declares a holy war in Egypt
1881 Boers and Britain sign peace accord; end 1st Boer war
1879 Dwight Filley Davis, U.S. Sect of War/donated tennis' Davis Cup
1879 British Zulu War begins: Lt-General Chelmsford invades Zululand
1879 Zulu war against British colonial rule in South Africa begins
1878 Greece declares war on Turkey
1877 Chief Joseph surrenders, ending Nez Perce War
1877 Crazy Horse, [Tashunka Witko], last great Sioux war chief, dies at 27
1877 Sadao Araki, Japanese general/minister of War, 1931-34
1877 Russia declares war on Turkey through Romania
1876 Montenegro declares war on Turkey
1876 Serbia declares war on Turkey
1876 U.S. Congress decides to impeach Minister of War Belknap
1873 Damasco Berenguer y Fuste, Spanish general/minister of War
1872 Britain pays U.S. $15 M for damages during Civil War
1870 Bernard Baruch, financier/presidential adviser, Cold War
1870 France declares war on Prussia; Franco-Prussian war begins
1870 Mississippi becomes 9th state readmitted to U.S. after Civil War
1870 Virginia becomes 8th state readmitted to U.S. after Civil War
1869 Edwin M[cMasters] Stanton, U.S. Secretary of War (1861-65), dies at 55
1868 Despite bitter opposition, President A Johnson grants unconditional pardon to all persons involved in Southern rebellion (Civil War)
1868 John D Rockefeller begins anti oil war
1867 Henry Lewis Stimson, U.S. minister of War, 1911-13
1867 President A Johnson defies Congress suspending Sec of War Edwin Stanton
1866 Treaty of Prague ends Austro-Prussian war
1866 President Andrew Johnson formally declares Civil War over
1866 Italy declares war on Austria
1866 President Johnson ends war in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia
1865 S Brownsville, Texas (Palmito Ranch) Final engagement of Civil War PVT John J Williams of 34th Indiana is last man killed
1865 Last land action of Civil war at Palmito Ranch, Texas
1865 Civil War skirmish near Sturgeon, Missouri
1865 Columbia South Carolina burns down during Civil War
1864 Union Gen William T Sherman begins march to sea during Civil War
1864 Gen Lee wins his last victory of Civil War at Battle of Cold Harbor
1864 George AA Alting van Geusau, dir-gen, PTT, /Dutch Min of War, 1918-20
1864 Civil War battle of Olustee, Florida
1864 2nd German-Danish war begins
1864 Civil War skirmish at Kelly's Ford, Va
1863 Civil War Battle of Chickamauga, near Chattanooga Tennessee, ends
1863 John Buchanan Floyd, U.S. min of War (1857-60)/Confederate general, dies
1863 1st black regiment (54 Mass) leaves Boston to fight in Civil War
1863 War Department establishes Bureau of Colored Troops
1863 Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson, Conf general (Civil War), dies
1863 1st black Civil War regiment, South Carolina Volunteers, mustered into U.S. army
1863 War Department authorizes Mass governor to recruit black troops
1863 Civil War skirmish near Newtown, Virginia
1862 Confederate Sec of War George B Randolph resigns
1862 Battle of Sharpsburg (Antietam)-bloodiest day of Civil War, 23,110 die
1862 Battle of Antietam, bloodiest day in Civil War (Sharpsburg Md)
1862 Oliver Tilden, of the Bronx, killed in Civil War in Virginia
1862 Secretary of War authorizes Gen Rufus Saxton to arm 5,000 slaves
1862 New Orleans fell to Union forces during Civil War
1862 Civil War action at Island #10 on Mississippi River
1862 Lincoln issues General War Order #1, calling for a Union offensive McClellan ignores order
1861 Armando V Diaz, Italian marshal/minister of War, 1922-24
1861 1st naval battle of Civil War, Union frigate "Colorado" sinks privateer "Judah" off Pensacola, Fla
1861 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 1st major battle of Civil War ends (Bull Run), Va-South wins
1861 Battle of Bull Run, the 1st major battle of the Civil War, is fought
1861 War Department decrees the KA and Tennessee are to be canvassed for volunteers
1861 Samuel D. Riddle, horse owner, Man 'o War
1861 1st Civil War land battle-Union defeats Confederacy at Philippi, WV
1861 1st skirmish in Civil War, Fairfax Court House, Virginia
1861 British territorial waters and ports off-limits during Civil War
1861 Maj Gen Benjamin Butler declares slaves "contraband of war"
1861 Kentucky proclaims its neutrality in Civil War
1861 Confederate government offers war volunteers $10 premium
1861 Jefferson Davis approves a bill declaring War between U.S. and Confederacy
1861 Lincoln orders blockade of Confederate ports (Civil War)
1861 Fort Sumter, South Carolina is shelled by Confederacy, starting Civil War
1861 Mexico City captured by Juarez (Lib) in War of Reform
1861 1st hostile act of Civil War; Star of West fired on, Sumter, SC
1859 U.S. recognizes Liberal government in Mexico's War of Reform
1859 Vera Cruz besieged by Miramon (Cons) in Mexican War of Reform
1858 War of Reform (Mexico); Liberals establish capital at Vera Cruz
1857 Felix PBOG, Earl of Merode, Belgian minister of War, dies at 65
1856 Frank Kellogg, Secretary of State, 1925-29, try to outlaw war, Nobel 1929
1856 Chinese police board British vessel Arrow, arrest 12 Chinese crewmen on suspicion of piracy and lower British flag, begins 2nd Anglo-Chinese War
1856 Russia signs Peace of Paris, ending the Crimean War
1856 Hostilities in Russo-Turkish War cease
1855 Crimean war - assault of Malakof Tower under Mac-Mahon)
1854 Crimean War: British and French defeat Russian force of 50,000
1854 Charge of Light Brigade (Battle of Balaklava, Crimean War), 409 die
1854 During the Crimean War, Britain and France declare war on Russia
1853 August Belmont, Jr., breeder, Man 'O War, /founder, New York Jockey Club
1852 John Richardson, Canadian writer (War of 1812), dies
1849 Friedrich von Bernhardi, Ger historian, Germany and the Next War
1848 Battle of Custoza-Italian War of Independence, starts
1848 Mexican-American War ended with the Treaty of Guadaloupe Hidalgo
1848 Mexico gives Texas to U.S., ending the war
1848 Aleksei Kuropatkin, Russian general and minister of War
1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ends Mexican War; U.S. acquires Texas California, New Mexico and Arizona for $15 million
1847 Heihatjiro Tojo, Japan, Admiral, Russian-Japanese war
1847 American-Mexican war: U.S. Gen Winfield Scott captures Mexico City
1846 Gen Zachary Taylor captures Monterey in Mexican War
1846 U.S. declares war on Mexico, 2 months after fighting begins
1846 1st major battle of Mexican War fought at Palo Alto Texas
1846 Battle of Sobraon ends 1st Sikh War in India
1845 Mexican - U.S. war starts
1843 Vasili V Vereshchagin, Russian painter, War and Peace
1842 Walter Williams, claimed to be last survivor of Civil War, d 1959
1842 Anna Elizabeth Dickinson, orator, Joan of Arc of the Civil War
1842 Great Britain and China sign Treaty of Nanking, ends Opium war
1842 Seminole War ends; Indians removed from Florida to Oklahoma
1841 Alfred Townsend George, Civil War journalist, died in 1914
1839 Gerrit J Pijman, Dutch minister of War (1798-1800), dies at 89
1839 Joseph Fesch, French cardinal/war commission/earl/senator, dies
1839 Aroostock War: Boundary dispute between Maine and New Brunswick
1838 Mexico declares war on France
1837 Vincent Strong, civil war fighter, died in 1863
1836 Chile declares war on Bolivia and Peru
1835 2nd Seminole War begins in Osceola
1834 Portuguese Civil war ends, Dom Miguel capitulates
1833 Lemuel Haynes, Revolutionary War veteran, dies at 88
1832 Frederick Sleigh "Bobs" Roberts, British Governor of Natal, Ireland-Boer war
1832 1,300 Illinois militia defeat Sac and Fox indians, end Black Hawk War
1832 Alfred Pollard Edward, Civil War journalist, died in 1872
1831 Julius Rodenberg, [Levy], German writer, Kriegs-Songs of War and Peace
1831 Robert Jenkins loses an ear, starts war between Britain and Spain
1830 Gaston AA Marquis de Gallifet, French general/min of War, 1899-1900
1829 Peace of Adrianopel: ends Russian-Turkish war
1828 Leo Tolstoy, Russia, novelist, War and Peace, Anna Karenina,
1828 Leo Tolstoi, Russian writer, War and Peace, Anna Karenina,
1828 Russia declares war on Turkey to support Greece's independence
1827 Turks capture Acropolis and takes Athens during Greek War of Independ
1825 Java princess Dipo Negoro/Mangkubumi declare war on all non-islamics
1824 U.S. War Department creates the Bureau of Indian Affairs
1823 Thomas Alexander Scott, Assistant Secretary War, Union, died in 1881
1823 Robert J Fruin, historian, 80 year war
1822 Dirk van Hogendorp, Dutch earl/general/minister of War, dies at 61
1821 Gustavus Woodson Smith, Secretary War, Confederacy, died in 1896
1820 Florence Nightingale, Florence, Italy, nurse, Crimean War
1819 Charles Anderson Dana, Assistant Secretary War, Union, died in 1897
1818 Francesco Crispi, Italian minister of War/premier
1818 Michael A Barclay de Tolly, Russian fieldmarshal/War Minister, dies
1818 George Wythe Randolph, Secretary War Confederacy, died in 1867
1818 Jeremy F Gilmer, Maj Gen/Chief Engineer Confederate War Dept
1817 U.S. soldiers attack Florida Indian village, beginning Seminole War
1817 1st Seminole War begins in Florida
1817 Leroy Pope Walker, U.S. lawyer/Confederate minister of War, 1861
1815 Anna Ella Carroll, U.S., civil war writer, Reconstruction
1815 James Alexander Seddon, Secretary War, Confederacy, died in 1880
1815 Austria declares war on realm of Naples
1815 US declares war on Algiers for taking U.S. prisoners and demanding tribute
1814 Treaty of Ghent (end of US-Britain's War of 1812) signed
1814 Edwin M[cMasters] Stanton, Ohio, U.S. Secretary of War, 1861-65
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