General Events in History

2015 Event

• Former General Muhammadu Buhari defeats incumbent Goodluck Jonathan to become the new President of Nigeria; Buhari won by over 2.5 million votes

2014 Event

• Loretta Lynch, U.S. attorney for Eastern New York, is nominated U.S. Attorney General to replace Eric Holder; Lynch must be confirmed before taking the position

• Palestine will be officially recognized as a sovereign state by the new government of Sweden; though the U.N. General Assembly supported such recognition two years ago, few nations have officially extended this recognition

• General Motors (GM) issues its 71st recall this year, affecting over 500,000 Cadillac SUVs, Saab SUVs and Chevy Spark cars that may have defective or loose parts; GM is also halting sales of GMC Canyons and Chevy Colorados due to air bag concerns

• U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announces his resignation after six years of service in the Obama Administration; Holder's resignation will take effect upon selection and confirmation of a successor

• U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder flies to Ferguson, MO to inform residents that the shooting death of teenager Michael Brown will be investigated by the federal government; a separate county-appointed grand jury has already begun reviewing the case

• Discount store Dollar Tree will buy rival Family Dollar for $8.5 billion; the merged company is expected to generate revenue in line with competitor Dollar General

• General Motors announces the recall of almost 3.4 additional vehicles for safety issues, bringing the current year recall total to almost 6 million; GM CEO Mary Barra has been keeping the U.S. Congress informed of the company's corrective actions

• General Motors announces an additional recall of 2.4 million vehicles as a proactive measure against discovery of further safety defects; in 2014 to date, the company has recalled over 13 million vehicles for safety issues

• The Bharatiya Janata Party wins India's general election, defeating the Indian National Congress; the results appear to signal a desire for greater economic progress

• AT&T adds an unnamed automaker to its list of car manufacturers using the company's wireless service for mobile connectivity on the road; current customers include Volvo, Tesla and General Motors

• The Italian government sets aside 2 million euros for repairs to the ancient city of Pompeii after damage caused by heavy rains highlights the general decay of this World Heritage site

• U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder authorizes federal prosecutors to pursue the death penalty for Boston Marathon bombing suspect, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev

2013 Event

• U.S. automaker General Motors appoints Mary Barra CEO; she becomes the first female to become CEO of an automative company

• A vote by the General Synod of the Church of England approves legislation allowing women bishops to be ordained by 2014

• A strike intended to shut down Nepal's general elections November 19th, is orchestrated by an alliance of 33 opposition parties

• Falkland Island voters head to the polls to participate in their general election and elect Legislative Assembly members

• Following an elaborate two-day state funeral, national independence hero of Vietnam, General Vo Nguyen Giap, is buried

• India's Bharatiya Janata Party names Narendra Modi as their leader in the next general election

• The legality of the United States' plans to strike Syria without UN backing are called into question by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon

• In Kuwait, voters go to the polls for a general election; half of the parliamentary seats are lost by Shiite candidates

• Scientists in Britain identify the mechanism causing human allergy to cats; they believe a general cure for the condition could be available in the next five years

• In Greece, new austerity measures prompt the unions to call for a general strike

• Following the closure of the public broadcasting station ERT, Greek unions call for a general strike

• A meeting of the U.N. General Assembly organized by former Serbian foreign minister, Vuk Jeremic, is boycotted by the United States, Jordan and Canada

• The Arms Trade Treaty, the first-ever bill to regulate the global trade in conventional weapons, is passed by the U.N. General Assembly

• China's CPC General Secretary Xi Jinping is named as the new President of the People's Republic of China, with Li Yuanchao named as Vice President

2012 Event

• Japan holds it's general election, with Shinzo Abe, former Prime Minister and opposition Liberal Democratic Party leader, predicted as winner

• In Dublin, an estimated crowd of 10,000 protesters demonstrated against austerity and called for a general strike to shut down the country

• The European Physical Society's annual Edison Volta Prize is awarded to CERN Director General, Rolf-Dieter Heuer

• The BBC's George Entwistle steps down as Director-General, with Tim Davie replacing him Acting Director General

• In the U.S., President Obama nominates John R. Allen as Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR), with General Joseph Dunford positioned to succeed Allen in his previous post of commander of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan

• Mohamed Yousef el-Magariaf, Chairman of Libya's legislative authority, the General National Congress, says al-Qaeda elements who fought with rebels in Libya's civil war number "up to 200" in Libya

• In Greece, trade unions call a general strike as they continue their protest against austerity measures

• The U.S. Justice Department's inspector general reports that Operation Fast and Furious created a 'significant danger to public safety''; the investigation states Attorney General Eric Holder had no prior knowledge of the operation

• The U.S. Surgeon General, the Secretary of Health and Human Services and the Army Secretary, release a new U.S. national strategy to prevent suicides; the strategy uses Facebook as a tactic

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

• Voters in Lesotho, a landlocked country completely surrounded by the Republic of South Africa, go to the polls for a general election

• International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General, Yukiya Amano, goes to Tehran to convince the Iran's government to co-operate with the IAEA

• Sybrand van Haersma Buma becomes the top candidate for 2012's Dutch general election after being elected as the new party leader of the Christian Democratic Appeal

• The North Korean Workers party names Kin Jong Un First Secretary, with his father, Kim Jong IL delcared as the party's 'eternal' General Secretary

2011 Event

• Outbreaks of violence are reported as voters in the Democratic Republic of the congo go to the polls for a general election

• In Spain, voters go to the polls for the general election; the center-right Popular Party wins a parliamentary majority

• Google's new social network service, Google+, is released to the general public

• Command of the NATO forces in Afghanistan transfers from U.S. General David Petraeus to U.S. Marine Corps Lieutenant Genreal John R. Allen

• The General Assembly of Rhode Island passes legislation allowing same-sex couples to enter civil unions

• Voters in Turkey go to the polls for a general election

• In Singapore, two cabinet ministers, George Yeo and Li Hwee Hua, become the highest ranking ministers to be unseated in a general election since 1963

• Singapore dissolves its Parliament for the 14th General Election, planned for May 7, 2011

• Voters in Uganda participate in the Ugandan general election; voters fear the election is rigged to extend the 30-year rule of rebel Yoweri Museveni

• The head of the Taiwanese Army's electronic communications and information department, Major General Lo Hsien-che is arrested for leaking secrets to China

• Following general elections last year, Burma's new parliament is set to convene on January 31

2010 Event

• Speaking at the U.N. General Assembly, Mahmoud Abbas communicates that Palestinians desire a 'comprehensive and just' peace agreement; he requests Israel cease its policy of building settlements in the West Bank

• India is crippled as trade unions declare a general strike to protest a hike in fuel prices

• General Stanley McChrystal, leader of the U.S. war Afghanistan announces his retirement after making controversial statements in 'Rolling Stone' magazine

• Christina Figueres of Costa Rica is appointed by U.N. Secretary - General Ban Ki Moon to lead efforts to combat global warming and climate change

• Solicitor General Elena Kagan is the youngest Justice and third woman nominated for the Supreme Court of the United States

• Tengzhong's bid to purchase Hummer from General Motors is rejected by the Ministry of Commerce of the People's Republic of China

2009 Event

• At the 21st NATO Summit, new Secretary General, former Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen, is appointed

2004 Death

• Anna Lee, actress, General Hospital, dies at 90

2002 Death

• "General Benjamin O. Davis, Jr", Air Force General, first black general in the Air Force, dies at 89

1999 Death

• Elliot Richardson, honest U.S. attorney general, fired by Nixon after he refused to fire Archibald Cox, dies at 79

• James White, writer, Sector General books, dies at 71

1998 Event

• U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan lands in Baghdad, for peace negotiations

• New York Yankees replace general manager Bob Watson with Brian Cashman

• New York Giant General Manager George Young resigns to accept NFL position

1997 Death

• Georges Marchais, Sec General of French Communist Party (1972-94), dies

• Saw Maung, general/president of Myanmar (Burma) (1988-92), dies

1996 Death

• Cesar Mendoza, general of Military junta of Chile (1973-85), dies

• Antonio de Spinola, general of Portugal, dies

• Tito Okello, Ugandan general, dies at 81

• Bernard Charles Sendall, deputy director general of ITA, dies at 83

• Adolf Galland, general (Luftwaffe), dies at 83

• Karoly Grosz, politician, Communist Party, General Secretary of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party until end of Communism, dies at 65

1995 Event

• Attorney General Janet Reno announces she has Parkinson disease

• 1st NBA game at General Motors Place, Vancouver Grizzlies beat Minnesota Timberwolves 100-98 in OT

1995 Death

• Rosalind Cash, actress (General Hospital), dies of cancer at 56

• Edmond Jouhaud, general, dies at 90

• Erich Geiringer, general Practitioner campaigner, dies at 78

• Mordechai Gur, Israeli general, commits suicide at 65

• General Tire World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Mike Aulby

• Siad Barre, general/president of Somalia (1969-91), dies at 84

1994 Event

• General Hospital stars Kristina Malandro and Jack Wagner wed

• Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders resigns after masturbation comments

1994 Death

• Jesus "Enrique" Lister, Span/Russian general (Civil War), dies at 87

• Roberto Viola, Argentine general/president (1981), dies at 69

• Manfred Worner, German general/Secretary-General of NATO (1988-94), dies at 59

• Francisco Veguillas, Spanish general, murdered at 68

• General H Norman Schwarzkopf released from hospital after prostate surgery

• Juan J H Rovira, Spanish general, murdered

• General Tire World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Norm Duke

• Leon Degrelle, Belgium general, dies

1993 Death

• Philip Christison, British general (Rangoon), dies at 100

1993 Event

• Guinee general Lansana re-elected president

• Dionisio Herrero, Spanish air force general, murdered

• Dionisio Herrero, Spanish air force general, murdered at 63

• General Omar al-Bashir appointed Sudan president

• Somali General Aidids arm forces kill 18 U.S. Rangers

• General Colin Powell retires at 56

• James H Doolittle, U.S. air force general (Tokyo 1942), dies at 96

• Anatoli Koretski, Russian major general, murdered

• Leo Ferre, French singer/composer (Mon General), dies at 76

• Janet Reno selected by Clinton as U.S. Attorney General

• General Motors sues NBC, alleging that "Dateline NBC" program had rigged 2 car-truck crashes to show that 1973-87 GM pickups were prone to fires

• Asif Nawaz, Pakistani general, dies

1992 Event

• General Suwa finds tooth of 4.4 million year old Australopithecus ramidus

1992 Death

• Carlomagno Andrade, Equadorian general, dies

• Dateline NBC airs a demonstration show General Motors trucks, blowing up on impact, later revealed NBC rigged test

• Gert Nastian, general and companion of Petra Kelly, found dead at 69

• James A Van Fleet, U.S. general (D-Day, Battle of Bulge), dies at 100

• Thailand General Suchinda Kraprayoon installed as president

• Joseph A. Molloy elected New York Yankee general partner

• Algeria's general elections canceled after strong gains by Islamic Salvation Front in the 1st round

1991 Event

• Daniel R McCarthy elected New York Yankee managing general partner

• General Motors announces closing of 21 plants

• General Motors announces 9 month loss of $2.2 billion

• John Hart becomes general manager of Cleveland Indians

1991 Death

• Leigh Watson, U.S. aviation pioneer/air force general, dies at 93

• Sergei Ajromeiev, soviet general, commits suicide

• Nepalese Congress party wins general elections

• John Russell Thomas, NFL general manager (Detroit Lions), dies

• Iraqi generals and General Schwarzkopf meet to discuss cease fire

• U.N. Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar meets with Saddam

1990 Event

• Reggie Williams becomes 1st General Manager of WLAF's NY-New Jersey Knights

1990 Death

• William French Smith, attorney general (1980), dies at 73 of cancer

• Curtis Lemay, nicknamed Old Iron Pants, General, United States Air Force, running mate for George Wallace, 1968, designed World War II strategic bombing campaign, led Berlin airlift, led firebombing of Tokyo, 22 medals and decorations, dies at age 83

• Deposed emir of Kuwait address United Nations General Assembly

• Robert E. Nederlander appointed New York Yankee managing general partner

• Gene Michael names New York Yankee Vice President/General Manager replacing Harding Peterson

• General Hospital tapes its 7,000th episode

• Braves replace manager Russ Nixon with General Manager Bobby Cox

• General Elvis, TV Drama last airs on ABC

• Lieutenant General Avril resigns as President of Haiti

• Dr. Antonia Novello sworn-in as 1st hispanic/female U.S. surgeon general

• Boston Red Sox hires Elaine Weddington as asstistant General Manager (highest-ranking black female in a major-league front office)

• Panama's leader General Manuel Noriega surrenders to U.S. authorities

1989 Event

• Bob Quinn resigns as New York Yankee Vice President/General Manager and replaced by Harding Peterson

1989 Death

• Arnaldo Ochoa Sanchez, Cubans general, executed

• Attorney General Thornburgh orders Joseph Doherty deported to UK

• NHL's New York Rangers fire General Manager and coach Phil Esposito

• General Manuel Noriega's government nullifies country's elections, which the opposition had won by a 3-1 margin

• Marion Mack, actress (General), dies

• Hu Yaobang, general secretary of Chinese Commnist Party, dies

1988 Event

• Spanish General strike to protest austerity measures

• U.N. General Assembly (151-2) censures U.S. for refusing PLO's Arafat visa

1988 Birthday

• Justin Cooper actor, Liar, Liar, General Hospital

• Military coup in Haiti: Lieutenant General Avril takes control, Henri Namphy flees

• Muang Muang succeeds General Sein Lwin as President of Burma

• Richard Thornburgh becomes U.S. Attorney General

• General Sein Lwin succeeds Ne Win as President of Burma

• Many killed at demonstration against general Ne Win in Rangoon

• Haiti's general assembly dissolves

• Attorney General Meese orders Joseph Doherty deported to U.K.

• Genie Francis (General Hospital) weds Jonathan Frakes (Star Trek TNG)

• Surgeon General C. Everett Koop reports nicotine as addictive as heroin

• General hospital star Jackie Zeman marries Glenn Gorden

• Panamanian General Manuel Noriega indicted by U.S. grand jury for drugs

1987 Event

• President Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Gorbachev sign a treaty eliminating medium range nuclear missiles

• Woody Woodward resigns as New York Yankee General Manager, Lou Piniella is named General Manager and Billy Martin is named New York Yankee manager for 5th and final time

• 2nd coup on Fiji led by Major General Sitiveni Rabuka

1986 Event

• General strike against Pinochet regime in Chile

• 1 day general strike in South Africa

• General Tito Okello's government flees Kampala Uganda

1985 Event

• General Electric acquires RCA Corp and its subsidiary, NBC

• Philipine Chief staff General Fabian speaks of B Aquino's murder

• New Jersey General Hershel Walker runs for USFL record 233 yards

• Sudan suspends constitution after coup under general Swarreddahab

• Edwin Meese III becomes U.S. Attorney General

• U.S. Senate confirms Edwin Meese III as attorney general

1984 Death

• Raoul Salan, French general/OAS leader (Algeria), dies at 85

1984 Event

• General Sec Konstantin U Chernenko named President of Soviet Union

• Yuri Andropov, General Secretary of Soviet Communist Party 1982 - 1984, dies at 69

• Argentine ex-president/general Bignone arrested

1983 Event

• Attorney General Edwin Meese says people go to soup kitchens "because food is free and that's easier than paying for it"

• Grenada general Hudson Austin forms "revolutionary council"

• General Manuel A Noriega becomes commander of Panamanian army

• Brigadier General Efrain Rios Montt was deposed as president of Guatemela

1983 Death

• Alfred M Gruenther, U.S. general/NATO-commander (1953-56), dies at 84

• Mark W. Clark, U.S. general (WW II), dies at 87

1982 Death

• Philip Ober, actor (General Stone-I Dream of Jeannie), dies at 80

• Della Chiesa, Italian general/mafia fighter, murdered

1982 Event

• General Ariel Sharon urges Palestinians to discuss peaceful coexistence

• Israeli General Ariel Sharon urges Palestinians to discuss peace

• Richard N Gale, English general/paracommandant, dies at 86

• General Reynaldo Bignone sworn in as president of Argentina

• President Reagan 1st United Nations General Assembly address, "evil empire" speech

• General Efrain Rios Montt declares himself president of Guatemala

• Falklands War: Argentine cruiser General Belgrano sunk by British submarine Conqueror, killing more than 350 men

• Guatemala military coup under General Rios Montt, President Romeo Lucas flees

• U.S. General Dozier freed from Red Brigade of Padua Italy

1981 Event

• Argentine general Leopoldo Galtieri sworn in as president

• Members of Red Brigades kidnap Brigadier General James L Dozier

• Argentine president/general Roberto Viola flees

• Luke marries Laura on General Hospital (16 million watch)

• Poland General Jaruzelski elected party leader

1981 Death

• Moshe Dayan, Israel's general/minister of Defense, dies at 66

• Military coup under general Kolingba in Central African Republic, President Dacko flees

• General Omar Torrijos, leader of Panama, dies in plane crash

• Omar Bradley, last U.S. 5-star general, (Normandy) dies in New York at 88

• El Salvador guerrilla group FMLN opens "general offensive"

• Roger Smith becomes CEO of General Motors

1980 Event

• Astros owner John McMullen replaces General Manager Tal Smith with Al Rosen

• Military coup under General Kenan Evren in Turkey

• Bolivian military coup; general Garcia Meza becomes president

1979 Event

• Bolivia military coup under General Busch, President Guevara flees

• Military coup in El Salvador: president/general Carlos Romero flees

1979 Death

• Ludvik Svoboda, Czechoslovakian general/politician, dies at 83

• Rhodesian bishop Muzorewa wins general election

• Frank Peterson, Jr. named 1st black general in Marine Corps

• Nematullah Nassiri, Iran general/head of Savak, executed

• Mehdi Rahimi, Iran general/military governor of Teheran, executed

1978 Event

• Iranian general Gholan Reza Azhari forms government

1978 Birthday

• General Austin, born in Columbus, Georgia, rapper, Another Bad Creation

• On Old Timer's Day, New York Yankees announce that Billy Martin will return as New York Yankee manager in 1980 and Bob Lemon will become General Manager

• Bolivia military coup under general Juan Pereda, President Hugo Banzer flees

• General strike in Peru

• Margaret A. Brewer is 1st female general in the U.S. Marine Corps

1978 Death

• Lucius D. Clay, general and Governor U.S. zone W-Germany (airlift), dies at 80

• Daniel "Chappie" James, Jr., retired Air Force general, dies at 58

1977 Event

• Pakistan general Zia ul-Haq bans all opposition

• General Motors introduces 1st U.S. diesel auto (Oldsmobile 88)

• President Carter and General Herrera sign Panama Canal treaties

• Ian Smith, espousing racial segregation, wins Rhodesian general election with 80% of overwhelmingly white electorate's vote

• Pakistan's army, led by General Mohammad Zia ul-Haq, seizes power

• General Mills Adventure Theater premieres on CBS radio

1976 Event

• Genie Francis joind "General Hospital" as Laura Vining

• U.N. General Assembly passes a resolution declaring 1979 - Year of Child

• U.N. General Assembly re-elects Kurt Waldheim secretary-General

• Bangladesh General Ziaur Rahman declares himself president

• Viking 1 radio signal from Mars help prove general theory of relativity

• U.N. General Assembly condemns apartheid in South Africa

1976 Birthday

• R. J. Williams, actor, General Hospital, Full House

• Portuguese general Antonio Eanes elected president

1976 Death

• James A Farley, U.S. Postmaster General (1932-38), dies at 88

• Martha Mitchell wife of former Attorney General John Mitchell, dies in New York at 57

• Bernard L Montgomery, British general, defeated Rommel, dies at 88

• General Murtala Mohammed, head of Nigeria, killed during a coup

1975 Death

• Hendrik Kruls, Dutch general/chief military authority 1944 - 1946, dies at 73

1975 Event

• U.N. General Assembly approves resolution equating Zionism with racism

• Military coup by General Mohammed/President Jakubu Gowon fired

• House of Representatives votes to restore citizenship to General Robert E. Lee

• South-Vietnam General Duong Van Minh sworn in as president till April 30

• Chad military coup by General Odingar

• Portugal military coup under general Spinola fails

1975 Birthday

• Jason Marsden, actor, General Hospital, Eddie-Munsters Today

1974 Event

• U.N. General Assembly recognizes Palestine right to sovereignty

• South Africa suspended from United Nations General Assembly over racial policies

• U.S. General George Brown's speech deplores Jewish influence in U.S. over his treatment during the 1973 World Series

• General Francesco da Costa Gomez succeeds General Spinola as President of Portugal

• U.S. General Haig becomes NATO-supreme commander in Europe

1974 Death

• Creighton W. Abrams, Jr., U.S. general/army staff chief (Vietnam), dies at 59

• General Pinochet becomes president of Chile

• Red Brigade kidnaps Italian attorney general Mario Sossi

• 1st general striking in Ethiopia

1973 Event

• Yankee General Manager and President Lee MacPhail named AL president

• Solicitor General Bork, Attorney General Richardson and Deputy Attorney General Ruckelshaus resigned

• Israeli tanks under General Sharon move through Suez Canal

• 1st general striking in Luxembourg since 1942

• General Walters, ends term as acting director of CIA

• Major General Juvenal Habyarimana becomes president of Rwanda

• General Walters, serves as acting director of CIA

1972 Death

• Friedrich Christian Christiansen, German Luftwaffe general, dies

• George Wiess, General Manager (New York Yankees), dies at 78

1972 Event

• Lt. General Vernon A Walters, USA, becomes deputy director of CIA

• General Lon Nol becomes President and prince Sirik Matak premier of Cambodia

• Bill Torrey becomes 1st Islander General Manager

1971 Event

• Lieutenant General Robert E Cushman,, Jr., USMC, ends term as deputy director of CIA

• U.N. General Assembly ratifies Kurt Waldheim as Secretary-General

• U.N. Security Council chooses Kurt Waldheim as 4th secretary General

• General Meeting of United Nations agrees to admit China PR

1971 Death

• Mohamed Madbouh, Moroccan general/putschist, shot to death

• Lieutenant General Hafiz al-Assad becomes President of Syria

• General Idi Amin Dada appointed president of Uganda

• Military coup in Uganda under General Idi Amin Dada

1970 Death

• B O Davis Sr, 1st black general, dies at 93 in Chicago

1970 Event

• U.N. General Assembly accepts membership of China PR

• Lieutenant General Hafez al-Assad becomes Prime Minister of Syria following military coup

• Charles DeGaulle, general/president France (Free French), dies at 79

• Rene Schneider, Chilean general/supreme commander, murdered

• Vinton Hayworth, actor (General Schaeffer-I Dream of Jeannie), dies at 63

• Wladyslaw Anders, Polish general (WW I, WW II), dies at 78

• Cambodia military coup under General Lon Nol, prince Sihanuk flees

1969 Event

• Major General Mohamed Siad Barre becomes President of Somali

• Bolivia military coup under general Ovando Candia

• General Franco closes Spain's frontier with Gibraltar

• General Lin Piao succeeds Mao, is seriously wounded

1969 Death

• Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th president/general WWII, dies in Washington at 78

• Pakistan General Agha Mohammed Jagja Khan succeeds Ayub Chan as president

• General Hafez al-Assad becomes head of Syria via miltary coup

• Vince Lombardi, becomes part owner, Vice President, General Manager and head coach of Redskins

• Beatles appoint Eastman and Eastman, as general cousel to Apple

• Spanish General Franco announces state of emergency

• Franz T Csokor, Austria author (Gottes General), dies at 83

• Barton Maclane, actor (General Peterson-I Dream of Jeannie), dies at 68

1968 Birthday

• Vanessa Marcil, born in Indio, California, actress, appeared in television series, 'Beverly Hills, 90210' and 'General Hospital' soap opera

1968 Event

• Peru coup under General Velasco Alvarado, President Belaunde Terry flees

• General Ludvik Svoboda elected president of Czechoslovakia

1968 Death

• Julis Deutsch, Austria politician/general Spanish rep army, dies at 83

• Ami Dolenz, born in Los Angeles, California, actress, General Hospital, Can't Buy Me Love

1967 Event

• General Gnassingbe Eyadema becomes president of Togo

• U.N. Secretary General U Thant makes public proposals for peace in Vietnam

1967 Death

• A J F Moody, 1st U.S. Army General to die in Vietnam

• Stan Musial is named General Manager of Cards

1966 Death

• Sadao Araki, Japanese general/minister of War (1931-34), dies at 89

• Alex E von Falkenhausen, German general, dies at 87

1966 Event

• General Suharto forms government in Indonesia

• Military coup led by Indonesian General Suharto breaks out

• Indonesia's president Sukarno fires General Nasution

• Buster Keaton, Joseph Francis, U.S. comic (General), dies at 69

1965 Death

• Branch Rickey, American baseball player, manager, and general manager

1965 Event

• Congo military coup under General Mobutu, President Kasavubu overthrown

• General Meeting of United Nations refuses admittance of China PR

• General strike in Morocco against disappearance of Ben Barka

• South Vietnam General Nguyen Cao Kentucky succeeds Phan Huy Quat as premier

• Henry D G Crerar, Canadian general (WW I, Normandy), dies at 76

• D Senanayake wins general elections in Ceylon (Sri Lanka)

• South Vietnam military coup under general Nguyen Khanh

1964 Birthday

• Bill Peterson, Smithfield, North Carolina, WLAF general manager for the Amsterdam Admirals

1964 Event

• U.S. attorney general Robert Kennedy resigns

• General Maxwell Taylor appointed U.S. ambassador in South Vietnam

• Lydie Denier, born in St. Nazaire, France, actress, General Hospital

1964 Death

• Douglas MacArthur, U.S. general (Pacific theater-WW II), dies at 84

• Military coup in Brazil by General Castello Branco, President Goulart ousted

• Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, Prussian general/politician, dies at 93

• Laura Martinez-Herring, born in Sinaloa, Mexico, Miss USA 1985, on General Hospital

• Military coup of General Nguyen Khanh in South Vietnam

• U.S. Surgeon General Luther Terry reports that smoking may be hazardous

1963 Event

• 56th Postmaster General: John A Gronouski of Wis takes office

1963 Birthday

• John Stamos, born in Cypress, California, actor, General Hospital, Full House

• General Amin al-Hafez becomes president of Syria

• Soap operas "General Hospital" and "Doctors" premier on TV

• Mark Pryor, born in Fayetteville, Arkansas, politician, Democrat, U.S. Senator from Arkansas, voted to confirm Alberto Gonzales as Attorney General

1962 Death

• Herman J Friedericy, Dutch author (Last General), dies at 62

1962 Event

• Edward W Brooke (R) elected attorney general of Massachusetts

• U.N. General Assembly adopts resolution condemning South Africa

• Harlow H Curtice, President of General Motors (1953-8), dies at 69

1962 Birthday

• Genie Francis, Englewood, New Jersey, actress, General Hospital, Bare Essence

• OAS leader general Raoul Salan sentenced to life

• Lt General Marshall S Carter, USA, becomes deputy director of CIA

• General mobilization in Indonesia over New-Guinea

• General Charles P. Cabell, USAF, ends term as deputy director of CIA

• U.N. General Assembly censures Portugal (because of Angola)

1961 Event

• Indonesian President Sukarno proclaims general mobilization

• General Meeting of United Nations debates about New-Guinea

1961 Birthday

• Amy Gibson, actress, General Hospital

• General Assembly unanimously elects U Thant acting secretary general

• U.N. unanimously elects U Thant acting Secretary General of the U.N.

1961 Death

• Dag Hammarskjold, United Nations Secretary General, dies in an air crash over Congo at 56

• Walter Bedell Smith, U.S. general/WW II chief of staff, dies at 75

• Uprising of French parachutist of General Salan/Challe in Algeria

• U.N. General Assembly condemns South Africa's apartheid

• Chris Heyne, Offenbach Germ, WLAF General Manager for the Frankfurt Galaxy

1960 Event

• General Meeting of United Nations condemns apartheid

• Laos General Fumi Nosavang occupies Vientiane

• George Weiss, at 66, resigns as General Manager of New York Yankees

• Nikita Khrushchev pounds his shoe at United Nations General Assembly

• U.N. General Assembly admit 13 African countries and Cyprus (96 nations)

1960 Birthday

• Scott Thompson Baker, born in Minneapolis, actor, General Hosp, All My Children

• Emma Samms, Samuels, London, actress, Colby's, General Hospital

• French president De Gaulle escape attempt by general Massu

1959 Death

• George C Marshall, U.S. Army general, dies at 78

1959 Birthday

• Jack Wagner, rocker/actor, General Hospital, Melrose Place

1959 Event

• Postmaster General bans D H Lawrence's book, Lady Chatterley's Lover (overruled by U.S. Court of Appeals in Mar 1960)

1958 Birthday

• David Wallace, Miami, actor, General Hospital, Babysitter, Humongus

1958 Event

• General Ayub Khan succeeds Iskander Mirza as president of Pakistan

• General Abdul K Kassem forms a military government in Iraq

• General Miguel Ydegoras Fuentes elected president of Guatemala

1957 Event

• U.S. Surgeon General Leroy Burney connects smoking with lung cancer

1957 Birthday

• Ian Buchanan, Scotland, actor, General Hospital, Gary Shandling Show

1956 Death

• Pietro Badoglio, Italian general (1922-43), dies at 85

• Jose Moscardo Ituarte, Spanish general (Alcazar 1936), dies at 77

1956 Event

• General strike in Cyprus protesting exile of archbishop Makarios

1955 Event

• Argentine General Pedro Aramburu succeeds E Lonardi as president

• Branch Rickey steps down as General Manager of the Pirates

1955 Birthday

• Leigh J McCloskey, born in Los Angeles, California, actor, Dallas, Executive Suite, General Hosp

• Patricia J. Engfer, general manager, Hyatt Regency-Orlando

• Benny Alexander, secretary general, South Africa Pan-Africanist Movement

• Kate Ashbrook, general secretary, Open Spaces Society

1954 Event

• General Fulgencio Batista elected President of Cuba

• B. O. Davis, Jr. becomes 1st black general in USAF

• Kleffens appointed chairman of General Meeting U.N.

• Postmaster General Summerfield approves CIA mail-opening project

• Military coup by general Alfredo Stroessner in Paraguay

• Viet Minh General Giap opens assault on That Bien Phu

• General Zahedi wins election in Persia

1953 Event

• General Electric announces all Communist employees will be fired

• Dr. Albert Schweitzer and General George C Marshall win Nobel Peace Prize

• Dutch government proclaims 5% general pay increase on Jan 1, 1954

• General Fazlollah Zahedi arrests premier Mossadeq of Persia

• U.S. General Omar Bradley's becomes chief of staff

• Egypt proclaimed a republic, General Neguib becomes president

• Military coup by general Gustavo Rojas Pinilla in Colombia

1953 Death

• Damasco Berenguer y Fuste, Spanish General/Minister of War, dies at 79

• 1st general elections in British Guyana, won by Jagans PPP

• General Charles P Cabell, USAF, becomes deputy director of CIA

1953 Birthday

• Steve Bond, born in Haifa, Israel, actor, General Hospital, To Die For

• General Walter Bedell Smith, USA, ends term as 4th director of CIA Allen W Dulles, becomes acting director of CIA

• "General Electric Theater" premieres on CBS TV; Reagan later hosts

• Egyptian Premier General Naguib disbands all political parties

1952 Event

• Greek general Papagos wins elections

1952 Birthday

• Alexander Leibkind, Germany, judo, 1976 Olympics, WLAF, General Manager for the Rhein Fire

• General Naguib forms Egyptian government/becomes premier

• General Carlos Ibanez elected president of Chile

• General strike against overtime conscription in Belgium

• General Neguib seizes power, Monarchy overthrown in Egypt (National Day)

• General Eisenhower nominated as Republican presidential candidate

• Maurice Olley of General Motors begins designing the Corvette

• Gary Bettman, born in Queens, New York City, commissioner, National Hockey League, formerly, general counsel and president, National Basketball Association

• Military coup by general Fulgencio Batista in Cuba

1952 Death

• Theodorus Pangalos, Greek general/dictator 1926, dies at 74

• General strike against French colonial management in Tunisia

• Nehru's Congress party wins general election in India

• Jean JM de Lattre de Tassigny, General (N-Africa/Indo-China), dies at 61

1951 Event

• Nazi General Christiansen leaves Netherlands

1951 Death

• Robert G Aitken, U.S. astronomer (New General Catalogue), dies at 86

• General Francisco Craveiro Lopes appointed President of Portugal

• U.S. General Collins predicts use of atom bomb in Korea

• Ticker-tape parade for General MacArthur in New York City

• General Douglas MacArthur ends his military career

• President Truman fires General Douglas McArthur

• German general F Christian freed early from Dutch prison

1950 Event

• General Eisenhower named NATO commander

• U.N. General Assembly establishes High Commission for Refugees (Nobel 1954)

• U.S. General Eisenhower becomes supreme commander of NATO-Europe

• Branch Rickey signs 5-yr contract as Vice President/General Manager of Pittsburgh Pirates

• Omar N. Bradley promoted to rank of 5-star general

• General Foods blacklists Jean Muir of Aldrich Family as a communist

• General Douglas MacArthur named commander-in-chief, United Nations forces in Korea

• U.S. General MacArthur visits front in South Korea and asks for U.S. troops

• General Motors reports net earnings of $656,434,232 (record)

• General Chiang Kai-shek elected president of Nationalist China

1949 Birthday

• Rick Springfield, Australia, General Hospital, Jessie's Girl

1949 Event

• NPS/VHP win 1st general election in Suriname

1949 Death

• Simon H Spoor, intelligence officer/general (WW II), dies at 47

• Brigadier General Edwin K. Wright, USA, ends term as deputy director of CIA

• General Spoor orders cease-fire on Sumatra

1948 Death

• Seishiro Itagaki, Japanese General/Minister of War, hanged

1948 Event

• U.N. General Assembly adopts Universal Declaration of Human Rights

• U.N. General Assembly unanimously approves Convention on Genocide

• Batavia lieutenant governor general Of Mook dismissed

• W Gomulka deposed as general secretary of Polish Worker's party

• U.S. expels Soviet Consul General in New York, Jacob Lomakin

• John J Pershing, Black Jack, U.S. general (Mexico, WW I), dies at 87

• Greek General Markos' guerrilla army bombs Saloniki

• Johann Blaskowitz, German General (surrendered at Wageningen), dies at 64

• Herb Pennock, pitcher (New York Yankees)/General Manager (Phillies), dies

• General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade effective

1947 Death

• Franz X. Ritter von Epp, German General (SW Africa), dies at 79

• Joseph Cuvelier, Belgian historian/general, dies at 78

1947 Event

• U.N. General Assembly partitions Palestine between Arabs and Jews

• U.N. General assembly begins debate on printing their own stamps

• Dutch Queen Wilhelmina gives golden award to general Eisenhower

• Larry MacPhail resigns as Yankees General Manager after final game of World Series

• General MacArthur approves Japanese constitution

• Lt General Hoyt S Vandenberg, USA, ends term as 2nd head of CIA

• General Eisenhower opens drive to raise $170M in aid for European Jews

• Brigadier General Edwin K Wright, USA, becomes deputy director of CIA

1947 Birthday

• Jane Elliot, New York City, actress, Baby Boom, General Hospital, Knots Landing

• General George Marshall becomes Secretary of State

1946 Event

• U.S. General MacNarney gives 800,000 "minor Nazi's" amnesty

• U.N. General Assembly votes to establish United Nations HQs in New York City

• U.N. General Assembly 2nd session convenes (1st New York City-Flushing Meadows)

1946 Death

• Alfred G Jodl, Colonel General/German staff chief weather authority, hanged

• Joseph W. Stilwell, U.S. general (China), dies

• Kwo-less-shrew selects General Chiang Kai-shek as president of China

• Andrei Vlasov, Russian general (Red Army, Wehrmacht) executed at 45

• Rear Admiral Sidney W Souers, USNR, ends term as 1st director of CIA Lieutenant General Hoyt S Vandenberg, USA, becomes 2nd director of CIA

1946 Birthday

• Craig Patrick, born in Detroit, Michigan, hockey player, coach, general manager of Pittsburgh Penguins 1989 - 2006

• Masaharu Homma, Lieutenant General (responsible for Bataan Death March), executed

• U.N. General Assembly meets for 1st time in London

1945 Death

• George S Patton, U.S. General (Sicily/Normandy), dies in car crash at 60

1945 Event

• General George C. Marshall named special U.S. envoy to China

• General Motors workers go on strike

1945 Birthday

• Denise Alexander, New York City, actress, General Hospital, Another World

• General Enver Hoxha becomes leader of Albania

• Japanese surrender Taiwan to General Chiang Kai-shek

• General Eisenhower welcomed in Hague (on Hitler's train)

• General MacArthur lands in Japan

• General MacArthur named Supreme Commander of Allied Powers in Japan

• After Labour landslide in general election, Clement Attlee becomes PM

• 55th Postmaster General: Robert E Hannegan of Mo takes office

• Imperial General Headquarters in Tokyo announce fall of Okinawa

• Lieutenant General Ushijima, Japanese commander, commits suicide at Okinawa

• D A S Pennefather, Major-General/Commandant, General Royal Marines

• General Von Keitel surrenders to Marshal Zhukov

• General J. Blaskowitz surrenders German troops in Netherlands

• Russia takes Berlin; General Weidling surrenders

• General Belgian Labor Union (ABVV) party forms

• General Blaskowitz becomes nazi leader of "Fort Holland"

• Nazi occupiers executed, Nazi general Christiansen flees Netherlands

• Maurice Rose, 1st U.S. general in Nazi Germany, killed in action at 45

• General Eisenhower declares German defenses on Western Front broken

• General Eisenhower, Montgomery and Bradley discuss advance in Germany

• British 43rd Division under General Essame occupies Xanten

• General Douglas MacArthur returns to Manila

• U.S. troops under General Douglas MacArthur enter Manilla

• General "Vinegar Joe" Stillwell and truck convoy reopen Burma Road to China

• U.S. soldiers led by General Douglas MacArthur invades Philippines

• Greek General Plastiras forms government

1944 Event

• General Eisenhowers train returns to Versailles

• Battle of Bastogne - U.S. General Patton's 4th Pantzers repulse Germans

• General Eisenhower's clerk Rickey marries corporal Pearlie

• U.S. Congress gives General Eisenhower his 5th star

• Congress establshes rank of General of Army (5-star General)

• General Radescu forms Romanian government

• British order to disarm, causes general strike in Greece

• General De Gaulle arrives in Moscow

• U.S. 7th army under General Patch conquers Straatsburg

• U.S. forces under General Douglas MacArthur return to Philippines

• Dutch General Mine Workers Union (ABWM) forms

• General Von Zangens 15th army escape from Zealand

• France 2nd Tank division under General Leclerc reaches Notre Dame

• General De Gaulle returns to Paris/walks Champs Elysees Paris

• General LeClercs troops open assault on Paris

• General George Leclercs troops advance towards Paris

• General Montgomery consults with Generals Bradley/Eisenhower

1944 Birthday

• Antonia Novello, 14th U.S. Surgeon General, 1990-92

• General de Gaulle returns to France

• General Bradley visits Montgomery

• U.S. 20th Army corp under general Walker occupies Nantes

• General Montgomery visits general Dempsey's headquarter

• General Montgomery takes command of 12th and 21st army

• General Koiso becomes premier of Japan

• General Eisenhower visits Montgomery's headquarter in Normandy

1944 Death

• Friedrich Olbricht, German general (July 20th plotter), executed

• Korten, chef General of Germany Luftwaffe, dies in bomb explosion

• Ludwig Beck, gen/chief Germany general staff (July 20th plot), dies

• General Bradley flies to England

• Polish troops under General Anders occupy Ancona Italy

• U.S. government recognizes authority of General De Gaulle

• French General De Gaulle arrives in Washington, D.C.

• U.S. General Patton lands in France

• Marshal von Kluge replaces General von Rundstedt

• General Eisenhower visits front in Normandy

• General Charles de Gaulle lands at Courselles, France

• General Montgomery lands in Normandy, forms HQ in Chateau de Creully

• General Eisenhower decides invasion set for June 6

• French general De Gaulle arrives in London

• General Montgomery/Patton/Bradley/Dempsey/Crerar meet in Portsmouth

• General George Norman Johnson, U.S. singer, Down at the Beach Club

• General Eisenhower sets D-Day for June 5th

• Canon P B Price, general secretary, USPG

• General Rommel, Speidel and von Stulpnagel attempt to assassinate Hitler

• Surprise attack by Van de Peat on General Landsdrukkerij in the Hague

• General Eisenhower becomes head commander of allied air fleet

• General Montgomery speaks to generals about invastion plan

• General Eisenhower postpones South France invasion until after Normandy

• General Eisenhower took command of Allied Invasion Force in London

• General Eisenhower arrives in England

• General Clark replaces General Patton as commander of 7th Army

1943 Event

• Franklin D. Roosevelt appoints General Eisenhower supreme commander of Allied forces

• General Montgomery told he is appointed commandant for D-day

• Soviet army under general Vatutin reconquer Romny

• General Eisenhower announce unconditional surrender of Italy in WW II

• General Castellano signs cease fire treaty in Sicily

• Red Army under General Vatutin recaptures Achtyrka

1943 Death

• Hans Jeschonnek, German air force general/chief-staff, commits suicide

• General Patton enters Messina, completing conquest of Sicily by Allies

• U.S. forces led by General George Patton liberate Palermo, Sicily

• 4th day of battle at Kursk: General Model uses last tank reserve

• General MacArthur begins Operation Cartwheel, island-hopping

• Argentina taken over by General Rawson and Col Juan Peron

• French general De Gaulle arrives in Algiers

• Premier Churchill and General Marshall fly from U.S. to North Africa

• Postmaster General Frank C Walker invents Postal Zone System

• General Alexander, Eisenhower, Anderson and Bradley discuss assault on Tunis

• General Montgomery occupies Sfax Tunisia

• Major General Bradley arrives in Dakar and Marrakesh

• German tanks under Brigadier General Buelowius attack Kasserine Pass Tunesia

• German assault on Sidi Bou Zid Tunisia, General Eisenhower visits front

• General Eisenhower departs Algiers to Tebessa

• General Eisenhower selected to command the allied armies in Europe

• ... Reydons, wife of General Reydons, shot to death by resistance

• Amsterdam resistance group CS-6 shoots nazi general Seyffardt

• General Friedrich von Paul surrenders to Russian troops at Stalingrad

1943 Birthday

• Sherian Grace Cadoria, brigadier general

• Russian offensive at Don under general Golikov

1942 Event

• North Africa: 5th German pantser army forms under Colonel General von Arnim

• Colonel General Von Paul asks Hitler to surrender

• Branch Rickey named president/General Manager of Brooklyn Dodgers

1942 Death

• Georg Stumme, German general/commandant of African corps, dies

• U.S. General Clark and Lemnitzer and French General Mast meet secretly in Algeria

1942 Birthday

• Jerry Jones, owner/General Manager for the Dallas Cowboys

• Von Bismarck, German major general, (Africa Corps), dies in battle

• General Paulus orders German 6th Army to conquer Stalingrad

• Robert Lee Stewart, Washington D.C., Brigadier General U.S. Army/astronaut, STS-41B, 51J

• General B. Montgomery becomes commandant British 8th leader in North Africa

• Churchill fires General Auchinlek as Middle-East commandant

• Colonel General Jeremenko arrives in Stalingrad/welcomed by Nikita Khrushchev

• Colonel General Hoth' Pantser army reaches Kotelnikovo

• Colonel General Von Paul' 6th Army enters Ukraine

• Colonel General Von Hoth' 6th Pantser enters Voronezj

• General Dwight Eisenhower appointed commander of U.S. forces in Europe

• William Bradford Reynolds, U.S. asst attorney general

• British offensive in North Africa under general Ritchie

• German offensive in North-Africa under Colonel General Rommel

• General MacArthur vows, "I shall return"

• General Doug MacArthur arrives in Australia to become supreme commander

• General MacArthur leaves Corregidor (Bataan) for Australia

• Phil Esposito, NHL center/General Manager, Bruins, Rangers

• Clinton Pierce becomes 1st U.S. general wounded in action in WW II

• General Timoshenko's troops move into Ukraine

• Lt General Rommels African corps reaches Msus

• William Knudsen becomes 1st civilian appointed a general in U.S. army

• Premier Churchill and General Marshall fly to Florida

1941 Death

• L M Dovator, Russian general, dies in battle

1941 Event

• British North African commandant General Cunningham lay-offs

• Earnest Udet, German general/head air pioneer, commits suicide

• Czechoslovakian premier general Eliasj arrested by nazis

• GJ Berenschot, general/supreme commander Dutch East Indies army, dies

• General de Gaulle forms government in exile in London

• Italian army under general Aosta surrenders to Britain in Ethiopia

• General Mills introduces Cheerios

• British general Gambier-Parry caught in North Africa

• Lee MacPhail, Dodger General Manager predicts all players will wear batting helmets

1941 Birthday

• Ian McGarry, general secretary, British Actors' Equity Association

• Jeremy Mackenzie, general

• Russian general Zhukov appointed chief of general staff

1940 Event

• Russian general Zhukov warns of German assault

1940 Death

• Maletti, Italian general, dies in battle

• North Africa: British counter offensive under general O'Connor

• Willys unveiled its General Purpose vehicle - Jeep

• Benjamin O. Davis became 1st Black general in U.S. Army

• Col Bo Davis attains rank of Brigadier General

• U.S. Army General Benjamin Davis becomes 1st black general

• Benjamin Oliver Davis Sr named 1st black general in regular army

• 54th Postmaster General: Frank C. Walker of Pennsylvania takes office

• General George Marshall sworn in as chief of staff of U.S. army

• French colonies Cameroon/Congo-Brazzaville support General De Gaulle

• Clermont-Ferrand sentences General Charles de Gaulle to death

• General Charles de Gaulle on BBC tells French to defy nazi occupiers

• General De Gaulle departs Bordeaux for London

• General De Gaulle arrives in Bordeaux

• General Charles de Gaulle's 1st meeting with Winston Churchill

• General Von Bock starts German offensive in Somme

• General De Gaulle becomes under minister of Defense

• Hitler affirms General von Rundstedts "Stopbevel"

• General Guderians tanks reach The Channel (British expeditionary army)

• French counter attack at Peronne under General De Gaulle

• German troops occupy Amsterdam, General Winkelman surrenders

• Nazi's capture General Dutch Persbureau (ANP)

• General Winckelman replaces General Reijnders as Dutch supreme commander

1939 Death

• Albrecht MAPJ, duke of Wurttemberg/general (WW II), dies at 73

1939 Event

• General Von Reichenaus pantzer division reaches suburbs of Warsaw

• General Reijnders appointed supreme commander of Dutch army

• Russian offensive under General Zjoekov against Japanese invasion in Mongolia

• Retired German Colonel General Gerd von Runstedt returns to service

1939 Birthday

• Martin Garrod, Commandant General Royal Marines

• [Karl Eduard] Wilhelm Groener, German general, dies at 71

• Ruth Ashton, general secretary, Royal College of Midwives

• Colin Webb, general manager, Press Association

1938 Death

• Kemal Ataturk, Mustafa Kemal, general/president Turkey, dies at 57

1938 Birthday

• Chris Robinson, Florida, actor, Stanley, General Hospital, Another World

1938 Event

• General Metaxas names himself premier of Greece

• Janet Reno, U.S. attorney general, 1993-

• Gene Michael, baseball shortstop/manager/general manger, New York Yankees

• Don Dolan, Staten Island, New York, actor, Guy Lewis- General Hospital

• Roy Thinnes, born in Chicago, Illinois, actor, Invaders, Falcon Crest, General Hospital

• Manuel Antonio Noriega, Panamanian general/dictator, -1990

1937 Death

• Erich Ludendorff, German general (WW I), dies at 72

• Bakr Sidqi, general/dictator of Iraq, dies

1937 Birthday

• John Cope, MP/Paymaster General

1937 Event

• General Douglas MacArthur marries Jean Faircloth

• Colin Powell, born in Bronx, New York, general and Secretary of State

• Roger Penske, born in Shaker Heights, Ohio, owner, Penske Racing, auto racing team, the Penske Corporation, corporate director, General Electric

• 44-day sit-down strike at General Motors in Flint, Michigan ends

1936 Birthday

• Zine al-Abidine Ben Ami, general/president of Tunisia, 1987-

1936 Event

• General Mola and Cabanellas form Spanish anti-govt

1936 Death

• Jose Sanjurjo y Sacanell, Spanish general/high director, dies

• Spanish Civil War begins, General Francisco Franco led uprising

• Military uprising under General Franco/begins Spanish civil war

• John Shalikashvili, Polish/US general, NATO

• James Rand, British judge, Advocate General

1935 Death

• Juan V Gomez, general/dictator of Venezuela (1908-35), dies

1935 Event

• Coup under General Giorgios Kondylis in favor of Greek monarchy

• Gyula Gombos von Jakfa, general/dictator of Hungary (1932-35), dies

1935 Birthday

• Charles M. Duke, Jr., born in Charlotte, North Carolina, Brigadier General USAF and astronaut, Apollo 16

• Military coup by General Pons and president Ibarra in Ecuador

• General Netherlands Persbureau (ANP) forms in Amsterdam

• Martin Garrod, Commandant General, Royal Marines

• Douglas Marland, West Sand Lake, New York, soap opera writer, General Hospital

• General Sarazen's double eagle on 15th, wins him his 2nd Masters

• Ruth Clarke, Moderator, General Assembly of the United Reform Church

• Eastern Airlines hires Eddie Rickenbacker as General Manager

1934 Birthday

• Yakubu Gowon, born in Kanke, Nigeria, politician, General, Head of the Federal Military Government of Nigeria 1966 - 1975

• Manfred Worner, German General/Secretary-General, NATO, 1988-94

• Norman Schwarzkopf, born in Trenton, New Jersey, nicknamed, Stormin' Norman, The Bear, Commander, Coalition Forces in the Gulf War, 1991, retired U.S. Army General

1934 Event

• General Lazaro Cardenas elected president of Mexico

• France hit by a general strike against fascists and royalists

1933 Death

• Nikolaj N Joedenitsj, Russian general/contra revolutionary, dies at 71

1933 Birthday

• Jocelyn Elders, U.S. Surgeon General, -1994

1933 Event

• Spanish anarchists call for general strike

• German Parliament disolves, General Ludendorf predicts catastrophe

1932 Event

• General Kurt von Schleicher becomes chancellor of Germany

1932 Birthday

• Jeremy Isaacs, general director, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden

• Joe H. Engle, born in Abilene, Kansas, Brigadier General USAF/astronaut, STS-T-2, T-4, 2, 51I

• [Dick] Richard L Thornburgh, U.S. Attorney General, 1988-93

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

• Donald Hilton, Moderator, General Assembly of United Reformed Church

1931 Birthday

• Edwin Meese III, prude, U.S. attorney General, 1985-88

1931 Event

• Spanish Cortes accept general female suffrage

• Roy Evans, general sect, British Iron and Steel Trade Confederation

• Charles Huxtable, General commander, English ground armies

• John Chapple, British chief of General Staff

• James Weatherhead, moderator, General Assembly of Church of Scotland

• Mikhail Gorbachev, born in Privolnoye, U.S.S.R., Soviet Secretary General from 1985 - 1991

• Maxwell Thurman, U.S. General

• Spanish Government of General Damasco Berenguer falls

1930 Birthday

• Michael Collins, Rome, Major General USAF/astronaut, Gemini 10, Apollo 11

• Karoly Grosz, born in Miskolc, Hungary, politician, Communist Party, General Secretary of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party until end of Communism

1930 Event

• Babe Ruth signs 2-year contract for $160,000 with New York Yankee General Manager Ed Barrow, wrongly predicts "No one will ever be paid more than Ruth"

1930 Death

• Godfried CE van Daalen, Dutch general/governor of Atjeh, dies at 66

1929 Birthday

• Pieter A H Bos, Dutch lawyer/attorney general on Aruba

1929 Death

• Giitji Tanaka, Japanese baron/general/premier (1927-29), dies at 66

• Otto Liman von Sanders, German general in Turkey (WW I), dies at 74

• James McDivitt, born in Chicago, Brigadier General USAF/astronaut, Gemini 4, Apollo 9

1929 Event

• General Feng Yu-Xiang of China declares war on Chiang Kai-Shek government

• General Motors acquires German auto manufacturer Adam Opel

1928 Event

• AVRO, General Vereniging Radio Omroep, forms

1928 Death

• Alvaro Obregon, general/president of Mexico, assassinated

• General Electric opens 1st TV-station (Schenectady, New York)

1928 Birthday

• Gordon Downey, British Comptroller General/Reader Rep, Independent

• Pjotr N Wrangel, Russian baron general, dies at 49

• 44-yr old New York Ranger General Manager Lester Patrick replaces his injured goaltender in a Stanley Cup game, and beats Montreal Maroons 2-1

• Richard Trant, British general

• William R. Boggs, born in Georgia, Brigadier General and chief of engineers under Bragg

1927 Birthday

• Ramsey Clark, U.S. attorney General, 1967-69

1927 Death

• Charles Boissevain, editor in chief (General Trade 1885-1908), dies

1927 Event

• General Chiang Kai-shek begins counter revolution in Shanghai

• Chilean General Carlos Ibanez names himself president

• General strike against British occupiers in Shanghai

• Uprising against Portuguese regime of General Carmona defeated

• Buster Keaton's movie "The General" released and bombed

• Uprising against regime of general Carmona in Portugal

1926 Event

• Lithuanian military state under General Augustine Woldemaras

• Lester Patrick becomes 1st coach and General Manager of New York Rangers

1926 Birthday

• Emile Francis, NHL player/coach/General Manager, Rangers, Blues, Whalers

• Greek dictator General Pangulos driven out

• Lord Murray of Epping Forest, general secretary, TUC

• Failed assassination on General Primo de Rivera in Barcelona

• Coup under General Sinel de Cordes in Portugal

• Military coup by General Manuel Gomes da Costa in Portugal

• British general strike ends, but mine workers go on strike

• British general strike ends

• General Pilsudski sets coup on premier Witos compared

• General strike hits Britain

• British general strike-3 million workers support miners

• Francisco Franco becomes General of Spain

• Belgian chief of staff General Maglinse quits

• Greek General Theodorus Pangulos names himself dictator

1925 Event

• French General Sarrail bombs Damascus

• Greek premier Papanastasiou orders General Pangulos arrested

• General Pangulos disbands Greek parliament

• French General of Morocco, marshal Lyautey, is dismissed

1925 Birthday

• George Cooper, general

• Roger Smith, CEO, General Motors

• Military putsch under General Theodorus Pangulos in Greece

• Peter Leng, Master General of the Ordnance

1925 Death

• Aleksei Kuropatkin, Russian general/minister of War, dies at 76

• Brent Scowcroft, born in Ogden, Utah, Lieutenant General, USAF, National Security Council

• General M Froense replaces Trotsky as People's Commissioner of Defense

1924 Birthday

• Alexander Haig, Pennsylvania, U.S. Secretary of State, 1981 - 1982, General

1924 Event

• Christian General Feng Joe Siang occupies Beijing

• General Christian Worker's union demands 8 hour work day in Belgium

• French government names General Serrail Governor-General of Syria

• General Plutarco Calles elected president of Mexico

• Civil war breaks out in China, General Tsi moves to Shanghai

• Hitler sentenced to 5 years labor but General Ludendorff acquitted

1924 Death

• R G Nivelle, French general (Verdun), dies at 67

• 1st coast-to-coast radio hookup: General John Joseph Carty speech in Chicago

1923 Event

• German army commander General Von Seeckt bans NSDAP and KPD

1923 Birthday

• Gordon R[upert] Dickson, Canada, sci-fi author, Genetic General

• General Otto von Lossow calls Reichswehr to Berlin to form a dictatorship

• Richard Kleindienst, attorney general, 1972

• Wojciech Jaruzelski, Polish general/president, 1989-90

1923 Death

• J C Gomez, General/Venezuela's 1st Vice President, assassinated

• Richard Worsley, quarter master General

• Attorney General says it is legal for women to wear trousers anywhere

• Lord Freyberg, British Colonel of General Staff

• Hugh Beach, British General

• General harbor strike begins in New York City

• General mine strike against wage cuts in Saar

• Anne Jeffreys, North Carolina, actress, Dick Tracy, Topper, General Hospital

1922 Event

• Italian general strike broken by fascist terror

1922 Birthday

• Lord Murray of Epping Forest, general secretary, TUC

• Italy's general strike against fascist violence

• 1st general election in Netherlands

• Stalin appointed General Secretary of Communist Party

1922 Death

• Christiaan R de Wet, South African Boer general, dies at 67

• Christiaan R de Wet, South African Boer general, dies at 67

1921 Birthday

• Peter Hansen, born in Oakland California, actor, Mr Parkson-Mr Novak, General Hospital

1921 Death

• Roman von Ungern-Sternberg, Russian baron/general, dies

• Suharto, general/president Indonesia, 1967-

• Amadou-Mahtar M'Bow, Senegal, director general, UNESCO

1920 Event

• Ed Barrow appointed General Manager of New York Yankees

1920 Death

• Gerard Leman, Belgian general, war hero, provided King Albert I of Belgium with his military education, commander of the forts surrounding Liege in World War One, captured as a prisoner of War by the Germans and released at the end of the War, dies

1920 Birthday

• Elliot L. Richardson, Attorney General, 1973, Secretary of Defense, 1973

• Jack Harman, British general

• General Amos Fries appointed 1st U.S. Army chemical warfare chief

• General Wrangel opens offensive against red Army

• James Whyte, Moderator, General Assembly of Church of Scotland

1919 Event

• New York City welcomes home General John J Pershing and 25,000 WW I soldiers

• Italy agress to general voting right/proportional representation

• General John Smuts becomes premier of South Africa

1919 Birthday

• Lord Rawlinson, British attorney general, Ewell

• General steel strike in France

• General strike in Germany, crushed

• Communist Party in Germany announces a general strike

• 1st day of 5-day Seattle general strike

1918 Event

• Pro-German supreme commander general Cutters lay-offs

• Supreme commander of the army General Cutters resigns

1918 Death

• Michail V Alekseyev, Russian general (WW I), murdered at 60

1918 Birthday

• Martha Mitchell, wife of Attorney General John Mitchell

1917 Event

• British forces under General Allenby capture Jerusalem

• General Pershing and U.S. troops see action on Western Front for 1st time

1917 Birthday

• Chung Hee Park, general/president of S Korea, 1961-79, assassinated

• William French Smith, Attorney General, 1981-85

• General Pershing and his HQ staff arrived in Paris during WW I

• Erich Geiringer, general practitioner campaigner

1916 Event

• German army under General Mackensen occupies Bucharest

• General Douglas Haig finally calls off 1st Battle of the Somme in Europe

• Second Chamber accept initial impetus to general males/female suffrage

1916 Birthday

• C Everett Koop, surgeon general, 1981-89

• 40,000 Amsterdam demonstrators demand general voting right

• General Von Hindenburg becomes German Chief of Staff

• General Douglas Haig reports "The men are in splendid spirits"

• Mexican troops beat U.S. expeditionary force under General Pershing

1916 Death

• Helmuth J L von Moltke, German chief general of staff, dies at 67

• U.S. troops under General Pershing march into Mexico

• Horatio H. Kitchener, British General of Sudan, drowns at 65

• Russian General Brusilov fails on his Eastern Front attack

• Joseph S Gallieni, General/military governor of Paris, dies

• Einstein's Theory of General Relativity presented

• General Pershing, 15,000 troops chasing Villa into Mexico, stays 10-mos

• General Fransisco "Poncho" Villa invades U.S. (17 killed)

1915 Event

• Albert Einstein publishes the General Theory of Relativity

1915 Birthday

• Augusto Pinochet, general/president, Chile

1915 Death

• General Porfirio [Jose de la Cruz] Diaz, president Mexico, dies

• Anti-British revolt in South Africa ends with arrest of General De Law

• Moshe Dayan, Israeli general/minister of Defense

• Andrew J Goodpaster, U.S., general/supreme commander, NATO-Europe

1914 Birthday

• Edward J Day, U.S. Postmaster General, 1961

1914 Event

• General von Hindenburgs named commander of German armies on Eastern Front

• Creighton Abrams, U.S., army general, Vietnam War

1914 Death

• Jacobus Herculas de la Rey, Uncle Chose, Boer general, dies at 66

• General von Moltke ceases German advance in France

• British expeditionary army/general Lanrezacs army attacks the Marne

• General von Hausen and countess of France regime flees to Bordeaux

• General von Kluck decides not to attack Paris

• Aleksandr Samsonov, Russian general, commits suicide

• 4th day of Tannenberg: Russian Narev-army panics, General Martos caught

• Battle at St. Quentin: French counter attack under General Lanrezac

• ... Machagovsky, Russian general (Tannenberg), dies in battle

• Battle at Mons: general von Klucks troops beat Britten

• General von Hausen executes 612 inhabitants of Dinant Belgium

• Battle at Charleroi: General von Bulows troops beat French

• General Martos' troops occupy Soldau/Neidenburg East Prussia

• Raffenel, French general (3rd Colonial Div, WW I), dies in battle

• Rondoney, French general (3rd Colonial Div, WW I), dies in battle

• French troops under general Dubail occupy Sarrebourg

• French troops under General de Castelnau occupy Chateau Salins

• James Grierson, British general

• German army occupies last fort at Luik, Belgian general Leman caught

• British field marshal John French and General Wilson land in France

• French troops under General Bonneau occupy Mulhouse at Elzas

• French troops under General Bonneau occupy Altkitrch at Elzas

• Austrian-Hungary and Russia proclaim general mobilization

• German chief of staff/General von Moltke states ultimatum on Belgium

• Abdel Karim Kassem, general/premier/dictator of Iraq, 1958-63

• William Westmoreland, born in Saxon, South Carolina, army general, Vietnam era

• General Zamon becomes president of Haiti

1913 Birthday

• John Mitchell, Nixon's attorney general who went to jail

1913 Event

• Demonstrations for general voting right in Netherlands

• Bernard Charles Sendall, deputy director general, ITA

• Belgium begins general strike for voting rights

• Mexican General V Huerta takes power with U.S. support

1912 Death

• General Zeledon, Nicaraguan opponent of U.S. occupation, is executed

1911 Event

• Post Hospital at Presidio, San Francisco renamed Letterman General Hospital

• General Leconte appointed temporary President of Haiti

1911 Birthday

• Thanom Kittikachorn, general/premier Thailand, 1958..73

1911 Death

• Petrus A Cronje, Transvaal Boer general, dies

• Peter A "Piet" Cronje, South Africa Boer general, dies at about 75

1910 Event

• SDAP/NVV initiate campaign for general males/female suffrage

• 25,000 demonstrate in Amsterdam for general male/female suffrage

• Boers and Afrikaners win 1st general elections in Union of South Africa

1910 Birthday

• Baroness Phillips, president and general secretary, National Association of Women

• Lord Richardson, president, General Medical Council

• Geoffrey Musson, British General

• Belgian parliament rejects socialist motion for general voting rights

• Antonio Sebastiao Ribiero de Spinola, general/president Portugal

• William H. Lewis appointed asst attorney general of U.S.

1909 Birthday

• Whit Bissel, New York City, actor, Time Machine, General Kirk-Time Tunnel

• Andrew Herron, Moderator, General Assembly of Church of Scotland

1908 Event

• Carriage-maker, William Durant, founded General Motors Corp

• William Crapo Durant incorporates General Motors in Janesville Wisc

1908 Death

• Redvers H Buller, English general, dies at 68

1908 Birthday

• Jacques Massu, French general, Algeria

• Maurice Stans, born in Shaokopee, Minnesota, Maurice Hubert Stans, President Richard Nixon's finance chairmen, acquitted in Watergate, U.S. Deputy Postmaster General 1955 - 57, U.S. Secretary of Commerce 1969 - 1972

• Edward Lansdale, general/model, Quiet American, Ugly American

• General Baden-Powell starts Boy-Scouts

1907 Birthday

• Mohammed Ayub Khan, general/premier/president, Pakistan

• James Gavin, U.S., 82nd Airborne Div General, Sicily/Normandy

1907 Event

• General Louis Botha named premier of Transvaal

1906 Birthday

• Johan A earl von Kielmansegg, German general/commandant NATO-Europe

• Curtis E Le May, air force general/Vice Presidential candidate

• Curtis Lemay, born in Columbus, Ohio, nicknamed Old Iron Pants, General, United States Air Force, running mate for George Wallace, 1968, designed World War II strategic bombing campaign, led Berlin airlift, led firebombing of Tokyo, 22 medals and decorations

1906 Death

• Joseph Wheeler II, Confederate General, dies at 70

1905 Event

• Great General Strike in Russia begins; lasts 11 days

• General Trade journal publishes 1st Dutch photo (train accident)

1905 Death

• Maximo Gomez, Cuban general, dies at 68

1905 Birthday

• Edmond Jouhaud, general

1904 Event

• General Nogi's assault on Port Arthur: 16,000 Japanese casualties

• German-ltalian General Von Trotha defeats Herero in SW Africa

1904 Death

• S J Paul Kruger, general/president South Africa (1883-1904), dies at 78

• Side-wheeler "General Slocum" burns in New York's East River (1,031 die)

1904 Birthday

• Frederick Boland, Irish diplomat/president, U.N. General Assembly

• James Longstreet, Confederate general, dies at 82

1903 Birthday

• Douglas Packard, British Lt General

1903 Event

• General railroad strike against "worgwetten" (anti-strike laws)

• Frank Howley, Hampton, New York, Brigadier General, Answers for Americans

• Charles Foulkes, Canada, general

1902 Birthday

• Christian Castries, French general, Dien Bien Phu

• Hendrik J Kruls, Netherlands, general/chief military authority, 1944-46

• Walter Slezak, Vienna, actor, Bedtime for Bonzo, Inspector General

1902 Death

• ... Potgieter, South African Boer general, dies in battle

• Philip Ober, born in Fort Payne, Alabama, actor, General Stone-I Dream of Jeannie

1902 Event

• Battle at Yzer Spruit: Boer general De la Rey beats British

• Simon H. Spoor, Dutch gen/intelligence officer for General MacArthur

1901 Event

• Boer general Kritzinger captured

• Battle at Blood River Port: Boer General Botha beats Major Goughs cavalry

• Battle at Elands River Port: Boer General Smuts destroys unit 17th Lancers

• Boer General Smuts enters Kiba Drift in Cape Colony

1901 Birthday

• General Maxwell D Taylor, former U.S. Army chief of staff

• Boer general Kritzinger driven out of Cape colony

• SDAP demands general voting right/abolishing First Chamber

• Dutch troops under General Van Heutsz conquer Batu Ilie on Sumatra

• Boer general John Smuts and De la Rey conqueror Mud river Transvaal

• Carlos P Romulo, Philippine general/diplomat/jurist

1900 Event

• General Viljoen surprise attack British garrison to Helvetia

1900 Birthday

• Barton Maclane, Columbia, South Carolina, actor, General Peterson-I Dream of Jeannie

• Boer army under General Kritzinger take Cape colony

• Ibrahim Abbud, general/premier Sudan, 1958-64

• General Redvers Buller returns to England

• Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco, Brazil general/president, 1964-67

• British General Buller occupies Lydenburg South Africa

• Andrei Vlasov, Russian general, Red Army, Wehrmacht

• Battle at Bergendal: General Buller beats Boer general Botha

• President Steyn/General De Law escape Brandwater Basin

• Boer general De la Rey captures Scots Greys and Lincolns

• General Luigi Pelloux resigns as premier of Italy

• Battle at Diamond Hill: British troops chase General Botha

• Herman J. Friedericy, H J Merlijn, writer, Last general

• Boer general Christian de Law occupiers British train depot Roodewal

• Sarah Miriam Peale, U.S., portrait painter, General Lafayette-1825

1900 Death

• Comte de Villebois-Marevil, French/South African general, dies in battle

• British garrison of Reddersberg surrenders to Boer general De Wet

• Brigadier General Broadwoods troops fall into guerrilla hands

• Pieter J Joubert [Smart Piet], South African general, dies at 69

• General Buller's troops relieve Ladysmith Natal

• Boer General Cronje surrenders to English in Pardenberg, South Africa

• General French relieves Kimberley/Cecil Rhodes

• British troops under General Buller occupy Vaal Krantz, Natal

1899 Event

• Battle of Magers' fountain - Boer leader Cronje vs. General Methuen

• Battle of Mud river (Boer General. Cronje beats British General Methuen)

1899 Death

• Adrian the la Rey, son of South African general, dies in battle at 19

• Battle at Graspan, Cape colony: general Methuen beats Farmers

• Battle at Belmont, Cape colony: general Methuen beats Farmers

1899 Birthday

• Lyman L Lemnitzer, Marine Corps general, WW II

• Alfred M. Gruenther, U.S., commanding general of NATO, 1953-56

1898 Birthday

• Edwin E. Dwinger, German writer, General Vlassov

• George Jessel, toastmaster general/entertainer, Diary of Young Comic

• Georgios Grivas, Greek general/opposition leader on Cyprus

1897 Birthday

• Nathan F Twining, USAF general, Neither Liberty nor Safety

1897 Event

• General Kitchener occupies Berber, North of Khartoum

• Oldsmobile begins operation as a General Motors Corp division

• Lucius du Bignon Clay, U.S., general, WW II, gov, West Germany

1896 Birthday

• James H Doolittle, USAF General, Raid on Tokyo 1942

1896 Event

• General Kitcheners army occupies Dongola Sudan

• Richard N Gale, English general/airborne commander, Normandy

• Trygve Halvdan Lie, born in Norway, 1st United Nations secretary general, 1946-52

• Italians governor of Eritrea, General Baldissera, reaches Massawa

1896 Death

• ... Dabormida, Italian general (Eritrea), dies of injuries

• ... Albertone, Italian general (Eritrea), dies in battle

• ... Arimondi, Italian general (Eritrea), dies in battle

• ... Dabormida, Italian general (Eritrea), dies in battle

• Anastasio "Tacho" Somoza, general/president of Nicaragua, 1937-56

1895 Event

• Battle at Amba Alagi: Ethiopian emperor Menelik II drives Italian general Baratieri's out

1895 Birthday

• Ludvik Svoboda, Czechoslovakian general/politician

• Walter Bedell Smith, U.S. general, WW II, head of CIA, 1950 - 1952

• Italian general Oreste Baratieri lands in Massawa, Eritrea

• Gabriel M-E-R Chevallier, French author, Le petit general

• Matthew B. Ridgway, U.S. general in WW II, China, Nicaragua, Korea, NATO

1894 Birthday

• Fritz Sauckel, German Nazi General of Labor

• Francisco H. Craveiro Lopes, Portuguese general and president, 1951-58

1893 Birthday

• Harlow H Curtice, President of General Motors, 1953-8

• Viscount Dunrossil, Scotland, Governor General of Australia, 1959 - 1961

1893 Death

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

• Muhammad Zafrulla Khan, President of United Nations General Assembly, 1962-63

1892 Birthday

• Francisco Franco, y Bahamonde, Spanish General/dictator, 1936 - 1975

• Wladyslaw Anders, Polish general

1892 Death

• Gyorgy Klapka, Hungarian general/parliament leader, dies at 72

1892 Event

• General Electric Company, forms and is incorporated in New York

• Wladyslaw Anders, Polish general, WW I, WW II

1891 Birthday

• Kenneth A. N. Anderson, British general, Dunkerk, North Africa

1891 Event

• Conductors on London General Omnibus Company go on strike

1891 Death

• William Sherman, Union General in Civil War, dies

• William Tecumseh Sherman, Union Civil War general, dies at 71

1890 Birthday

• Dwight D Eisenhower, Denison, Texas, R, 34th President, 1953 - 1961, General, WW 2

• Charles Wilson, President of General Motors, 1940 - 1953, Secretary of Defense, 1953 - 1957

1890 Event

• General Federation of Womans' Clubs founded

• Alfred G Jodl, German Wehrmacht general/chief of staff

1889 Event

• Kansas passes 1st general antitrust law in U.S.

1888 Birthday

• Hans Oster, German major general/spy/July 20th plotter

• Henry DG Crerar, Canadian general, WW I/Italy/Netherland

1887 Birthday

• Alan Gordon Cunningham, Irish/British general/director of Palestine, 1945-48

1886 Birthday

• Gyula Gombos von Jakfa, general/dictator of Hungary, 1932-35

• Henry "Hap" Arnold, commanding general, U.S. Army Air Force, WW II

1886 Event

• U.S. general strike for 8 hour day, begins

1885 Birthday

• Albrecht Schaeffer, German writer, The General

• George S Patton, U.S. general, Sicily/Italy/Normandy, "Old Blood and Guts"

1885 Death

• George B McClellan, Union army general, dies at 58

1885 Event

• Dutch demonstrate for general voting right

• General Edwin H K Freiherr von Manteuffel, mayor (Elzas-Lothar'n), dies

• Umberto Nobile, Italian general

• General Wolseley receives last distress signal of General Gordon in Khartoum

1884 Event

• General Gordon receives letter of Mahdi

• General Charles Gordon arrives in Khartoum

1884 Birthday

• Julis Deutsch, Austria politician/General Spanish rep army

• General Charles Gordon departs London for Khartoum

1883 Birthday

• Johann Blaskowitz, German general

• Joseph W. Stilwell, U.S. general, China

1883 Event

• Fire at uninsured Newhall Hotel in Milwaukee, Wisconsin kills 71. General Tom Thumb of P T Barnum fame, escapes unhurt

1882 Event

• British general Wolseley occupies Cairo

• British General Wolseley reaches Cairo

• British under General Wolseley land in Alexandria

1882 Birthday

• Walter Lucht, German artillery general, WW I/WW II

1881 Death

• Ambrose Everett Burnside, U.S. Union general, dies at 57

• W Frederik K, prince of Netherlands/general/admiral, dies at 84

1881 Birthday

• Wladyslaw Sikorski, premier Poland, WW II general

• Ludwig A Benedek, Austrian general, dies at 76

• Enver Pasja, Turkish general and politician

1881 Event

• Battle at Amajuba, South Africa: Boers vs. British army under General Colley

• George Colley, British governor of Natal/general, dies in battle at 46

1880 Birthday

• Ludwig Beck, chef Germany general staff, "July 20th plot"

1880 Event

• General Wolseley opens new legislative council in Pretoria

• General Wolseley opens new legislative council in Pretoria

• Alvaro Obregon, general/president Mexico, 1920-24

• Douglas MacArthur, Little Rock, Arkansas, general, WW II, he did return!

1879 Event

• Battle at Lydenburg South Africa: General Wolseley beats Sekhukhenes Pedi-Zulu

1879 Birthday

• Nicholas Vachel Lindsay, U.S., poet, General William Booth enters Heaven

1879 Death

• John B Hood, confederate general (lost Atlanta), dies at 48

• Henri-Honore Giraud, French general/member of parliament

1878 Birthday

• Alex E von Falkenhausen, German general, China, WW II

• Jose Moscardo Ituarte, Spanish general, Alcazar 1936

• Pjotr N Wrangel, Russian baron/general, White Armies, WW II

• Theodorus Pangalos, Greek general/dictator, 1926

1877 Death

• Willem Sassen, Dutch attorney general on Curaeao (Affair-S), dies

• Nathan Bedford Forrest, American Civil War, Confederate Army lieutenant general, cavalry leader, opposed Reconstruction era in the post-war South, dies in Memphis, Tennessee, at age 56

1877 Event

• General strike brings U.S. railroad to a stand still

1877 Birthday

• Sadao Araki, Japanese general/minister of War, 1931-34

1876 Birthday

• Henri G Winkelman, Dutch general/supreme commander/navy 1940

1876 Event

• 29th Postmaster General: James N. Tyner of Indiana takes office

1876 Death

• George A Custer, U.S. general (Little Bighorn), dies at 36

• Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, Mexican general (took Alamo), dies at 79

• General Crook destroy Cheyennes and Oglala-Sioux indian camps

1874 Event

• 28th Postmaster General: Marshall Jewell of Connecticut takes office

• Sydney General Post Office opens in Australia

• 27th Postmaster General: James W. Marshall of New Jersey takes office

• General J van Swieten conquerors Kraton Atjeh, after 1000's die

1873 Birthday

• Willem Roell, Dutch general/founder, Ordedienst

• Damasco Berenguer y Fuste, Spanish general/minister of War

• Theodor Korner von Siegringen, Austrian general/president

1872 Death

• Benito Juarez, Cuban justice/general (battle of Acapulco), dies at 66

1872 Birthday

• Jose Sanjurjo y Sacanell, Spanish general, Morocco

1871 Event

• General Dutch Werkliedenverbond (ANWV), forms in Utrecht

1871 Birthday

• Pietro Badoglio, Italy, general/Libya Governor, 1928 - 1933, Prime Minister of Italy, 1943 - 1944

• Indians fighter General Sherman escapes in ambulance vs Comanches

• Ioannis Metaxas, Greek general and dictator, 1936-41

1871 Death

• Charles Niellon, Belgian brigade general, dies at 76

1870 Death

• ... Prim, Spanish general, murdered

• Robert E Lee, General of Confederate Army, dies at 63

1870 Birthday

• Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, Prussian general/politician, East Africa

1869 Death

• Guillaume Nerenburger, Belgian general (triangulatie), dies at 64

1869 Birthday

• Emanuele F, duke of Aosta, Italian general, WW I, fascist

1868 Event

• Battle at Washita, General Custer defeats Cheyennes

1868 Birthday

• Franz X. Ritter von Epp, German general, China

• Major General E R S Canby removes mayor of Columbia SC

• 2nd Belmont: Bobby Swim aboard General Duke wins in 3:02

1867 Birthday

• Wilhelm Groener, Germany, general

1867 Event

• General E R S Canby orders South Carolina courts to impanel blacks jurors

• Carl Gustaf baron Mannerheim, general/president of Finland, 1944-46

• Maxime Weygard, French general/Governor-General, Algeria

1866 Event

• 25th Postmaster General: Alexander W Randall of Wis takes office

• U.S. Grant named 1st general of Army

• General Dutch Typographer Union forms

1866 Birthday

• Hans von Seeckt, German general, Future of the Reich

• James B. Hertzog, South African general/premier, 1914 - 1939

1865 Birthday

• Evangeline Cory Booth, Salvation Army general, 1904-34

1865 Event

• At Ft. Towson, General Stand Watie surrenders last sizeable Confederate army

• Union General Granger declares slaves are free in Texas

• General Shermans "Haines's Bluff" at Snyder's Mill, Virginia

• Confederate General J E Johnston surrenders Army of Tennessee, at Durham North Carolina

1865 Death

• Francis Washburn, U.S. Union colonel/general major, dies of injuries

• Confederate General Johnson surrendered to General Sherman in North Carolina

• At Appomattox, General Lee issues General Order #9, his last

• Erich Ludendorff, general, Germany

• Ambrose Powell Hill, Confederate general, killed in action at 39

• General Pickette moves to 5 Forks, abandoning the defense of Peterburg

• SS General Lyon at Cape Hatteras catches fire and sinks, killing 400

• General Sherman/Cox' troops reach Goldsboro North Carolina

• General Sherman's Union forces occupies Fayetteville, North Carolina

• General Early's army is defeated at Waynesborough

• Robert E. Lee appointed Confederate General in Chief

• General Sherman's march through South Carolina begins

• General Robert E Lee named Commander-in-Chief of Confederate Armies

• Confederate Brigadier General John Pegram marries Hetty Cary

• General Wm Sherman issues Field Order #15 (land for blacks)

1864 Event

• General Sherman conquers Savannah

• General Shermans armies reach Savannah and 12 day siege begins

• Union General O Howard orders plunderers, shot to death

• Union General William T Sherman begins march to sea during Civil War

• Union Major General Sherman burns Atlanta

• Union General Samuel R Curtis defeats Confederate General Stirling Price

• U.S. Brigadier General Emory Upton (25) promoted to general-major

• Battle of Fisher's Hill, Virginia, General Early Retreats to Brown's Gap

• Union General William T Sherman captures Atlanta

• Confederate General Joe Wheeler besieges Dalton, Georgia

• Ulysses S. Grant is named General of Volunteers

• Battle of the Crater: General Burnsides fails on attack of Petersburg

• CSA President Davis replaces General Joe Johnston with John Bell Hood

• Confederate forces led by General J Early begin invasion of Washington D.C.

• General Early and Confederate forces reach Winchester en route to Washington D.C.

• General John B Hood replaces General Johnston

• Union General Grant begin siege of Petersburg, Virginia

• Battle for Petersburg begins as General Grant assaults Confederate line

1864 Death

• Leonidas Polk, general, killed in action in Battle of Pine Mt

• Battle at Cynthiana Kentucky: General Hobsons unit caught

• General Lee wins his last victory of Civil War at Battle of Cold Harbor

• General David Hunter takes command of Department of West Virginia

• J E B Stuart, Confederate General, dies at 31

• General J E B Stuart is mortally wounded at Yellow Tavern

• Battle of Wilderness, General Longstreet seriously injured

• General Sherman begins advance to Atlanta Georgia

• General Grant's Army at Potomac attacks at Rappahannock

• Battle of Jenkin's Ferry, Arkansas; General W R Scurry is killed

• General Steeles' Union troops occupies Camden, Arkansas

• Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest captures Fort Pillow, Tennessee

• Battle of Mansfield, Louisiana Federals routed by General Richard Taylor

• Union General Steeles troops reach Arkadelphia Arkansas

• General Longstreet's command ends heavy fighting at Dandridgem TN

• General Sherman begins his march to the South

1863 Death

• John Buchanan Floyd, U.S. Minister of War (1857-60), Confederate general, dies

1863 Event

• General Lee's army withdraws from Gettysburg

• Lewis Addison Armistead, Confederate Brigadier General Gettysburg/dies in battle at 46

• U.S. General George Meade replaces General Hooker to be more aggressive

• Edward Payson Chapin, Union Brigadier General, dies at 31

• General Grant begins siege on Vicksburg

• Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson, Confederate general (Civil War), dies

• Rebel General Earl Van Dorn attacks at Franklin, Tennessee

1863 Birthday

• Godfried CE van Daalen, Dutch general/governor of Atjeh

• General Joseph Hooker replaces Burnside as head of Army of Potomac

• Union General Burnside's "Mud March"

• General Mieroslawski appointed dictator of Poland

• General McClernand's Union troops surround Fort Hindman Ark

1862 Event

• Battle of Chichasaw Bayou: confederate armies defeat General Sherman

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

• General U.S. Grant issues order #11, expelling Jews from Tennessee

1862 Death

• George Dashiell Bayard, Union Brigadier General, dies at 27

• Confederate army of Tennessee, organizes under General Braxton Bragg

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

• Major General Earl Van Dorn assumes command of Confederate troops in Missisippi

• General Read army pulls out of Antietam Creek Virginia

• General Bragg's army surrounds 4,000 federals at Munfordville, Kentucky

• General Lee invades North with 50,000 Confederate troops

• Secretary of War authorizes General Rufus Saxton to arm 5,000 slaves

• General Lee's adjutant major Stuart captured

• General John Hunt Morgan and his raiders capture Gallatin, TX

• Prelude to 2nd Manassas, Jackson is victorious at Battle of Cedar Mt., however General Charles S. Winder is killed

1862 Birthday

• Nikolaj N Yudenitcch, Russian general/counter-revolutionary

• Lincoln appoints General Halleck general-in-chief

• General John Hunt Morgan captures Tompkinsville, Kentucky

• U.S. Army of Virginia established under General John Pope

• General JEB Stuart completes his "ride around McClellan"

• General B. Butler orders William Mumford hanged after he removed and destroyed U.S. flag on display over New Orleans Mint

• Turner Ashby, General, killed near Harrisonburg VA, dies at 33

• General Robert E Lee takes command of Confederate armies of E Virginia and NC

• General Lee assumes command after Joe Johnston is injured at 7 Pines

• Battle of Booneville, Mississippi - captured General Beauregard evacuates Corinth

• General Benjamin F Butler delegates "Woman Order" of NO to be his whores

• Yorktown, Virginia - McClellan halted his troop before town as it is full of armed torpedoes left by CS Brigadier General Gabrial Rains

• James Andrews steals Confederate train (General) at Kennesaw, Georgia

• Albert Sidney Johnston, U.S. Confederate general, dies in battle at 59

• General John Hunt Morgan begins 4 days of raids near Gallatin, Tennessee

• Battle of New Bern NC: General Burnside conquers New Bern

• General Stonewall Jackson evacuates Winchester Virginia Army of the Potomac, General Henry Halleck is named general-in-chief

• General Pope lays siege in front of New Madrid

• Ft. Donelson captured by General Grant (1,400 confederates surrender)

• General Ulysses S. Grant captures Fort Henry in Tennessee

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

• Felix Zollicoffer, General killed after mistakenly riding into Union lines

1861 Birthday

• William Crapo Durant, founded General Machine

1861 Event

• General George B. McClellan made general in chief of Union armies

• General Grant occupies Paducah Kentucky

• Union General George McClellan takes command from McDowell of Potamic Army

• Skirmish at Taylor Mountain, (W)Virginia - CS General Wise retreats

• Manassas, Virginia General Beauregard requests reinforcements for his 22,000 men, General Johnston is ordered to Manassas

• General McDowell advances toward Fairfax Courthouse, Virginia with 40,000 troops

• Battle of Laurel Mountain Virginia - General Morris forces retreat of rebels

• CS General Sibley is given command of rebel troops in New Mexico territory

• Battle of Carthage, Missouri - U.S. General Sigel attacks pro-secessionist

• Colonal Jackson receives his commission as brigadier general

• Battle of Boonville, MI-Brigadier General Lyon defeats Confederate forces

• General Beauregard is given command of Confederate Alexandria Line

• Postmaster General Blair announces end of postal connection with South

• Major General Benjamin Butler declares slaves "contraband of war"

• General Winfield Scott presents his Anaconda Plan

1859 Birthday

• Yuan She-k'ai, Chinese general/president/dictator

1859 Event

• General Horsford defeats Begum of Oudh and Nana Sahib in Indian mutiny

1857 Birthday

• Michail V Aleksejev, Russian general, WW I-chief of staff

1855 Birthday

• Otto Liman von Sanders, German general in Turkey, WW I

1854 Death

• ... Soimonov, Russian general, dies in battle of Inkermann

1854 Birthday

• Christiaan R de Wet, South Africa, Boer General, Nicholsonsnek

1853 Death

• Joannes P. Roothaan, 1st Dutch Lieutenant Colonel - General of Jesuits, dies at 67

1852 Event

• 18th Postmaster General: Samuel D Hubbard of Connecticut takes office

1852 Death

• Arthur Wellesley, General/Duke of Wellington, dies at 83

• Anne-Franeois Mellinet, French/Belgian general (Antwerp), dies at 83

1852 Birthday

• Johan L. E. Dreyer, Danish astronomer, New general catalogue of nebulae

1851 Birthday

• Gerard Leman, born in Liege, Belgium, Belgian general, war hero, provided King Albert I of Belgium with his military education, commander of the forts surrounding Liege in World War One, captured as a prisoner of War by the Germans and released at the end of the War

1850 Event

• 17th Postmaster General: Nathan K Hall of New York takes office

1849 Death

• David H Chasse, baron/general (fought Napoleon at Waterloo), dies at 84

1849 Birthday

• Joseph S. Gallieni, general, Battle of Marne, military governor, Paris

1848 Event

• General Zachary Taylor elected as president of US

1848 Birthday

• Helmuth J L von Moltke, German general/chief of staff, WW I

• Aleksei Kuropatkin, Russian general and minister of War

1847 Event

• U.S. Marines under General Scott enter Mexico City (halls of Montezuma)

• American-Mexican war: U.S. General Winfield Scott captures Mexico City

• U.S. under General Scott defeat Mexicans at Battle of Molino del Rey

• U.S. General Scott occupies Vera Cruz Mexico

1846 Event

• U.S. troops under General Taylor occupies Monterey Mexico

• General Stephen W Kearney's U.S. forces captures Santa Fe, New Mexico

• General Zachary Taylor captures Monterey in Mexican War

1846 Birthday

• Mildred Childe "Life" Lee, daughter of confederate General Robert E Lee

1845 Death

• Maria EJ Versfelt, mistress of general Moreau/marshal Ney, dies at 68

1844 Birthday

• Galusha Pennypacker, Major General Union Army

1844 Event

• Johan Thorbecke argue general right to vote

1842 Death

• Pierre, earl the Cambronne, French general (Waterloo, Elba), dies at 71

1842 Event

• 1st U.S. wire suspension bridge for general traffic opens in Penn

1841 Death

• Johann F Herbart, German philosopher (General Padagogik), dies at 65

1841 Birthday

• William Paul Roberts, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• [Eleanor] Agnes Lee, daughter of U.S. general Robert E Lee

1840 Birthday

• Ranald Slidell Mackenzie, Major General Union volunteers

1840 Death

• Leopold count of Limburg Stirum, Dutch general/politician, dies at 82

• Thomas Fentress Toon, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• William Francis Bartlett, Major General Union volunteers

• James Dearing, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• John Herbert Kelly, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Edmund Kirby, Jr., Brigadier General Union volunteers

• John Doby Kennedy, Brigadier General Confederate Army

1839 Birthday

• Redvers H Buller, English general/large landowner: Natal

• George Armstrong Custer, Major General Union volunteers

1839 Event

• British troops under General Charles Napier occupy Beirut

• Emory Upton, Major General Union Army

• Nelson Appleton Miles, Major General Union volunteers

• John Decatur Barry, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• William Henry Seward, Jr., Brigadier General Union volunteers

• Cyrus Hamblin, Major General Union volunteers

• Francis Fessenden, Major General Union volunteers

• Seldon Connor, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1838 Birthday

• John Grant Mitchell, Major General Union volunteers

• Edwin Henry Stoughton, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• Basil Wilson Duke, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Thomas Benton Smith, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Gilbert Moxley Sorrel, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• James Barbour Terrill, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Charles Carroll Walcott, Major General Union volunteers

• Charles Stratton, General Tom Thumb, famous short person

• William Hugh Young, Brigadier General Confederate Army

1837 Birthday

• John Carpenter Carter, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• William Wells, Major General Union volunteers

• Charles Garrison Harker, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• James Lawlor Kiernan, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• Ellison Capers, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• James Harrison Wilson, Major General Union volunteers

• Elon John Farnsworth, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• Martin Davis Hardin II, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• Victor Jean Baptiste Girardey, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Eli Long, Major General Union Army

• Stephen Dodson Ramseur, Major General Confederate Army

• William Henry Fitzhugh "Rooney" Lee, Major General Confederate Army

• Robert Frederick Hoke, Major General Confederate Army

• James Sanks Brisbin, Major General Union volunteers

• Horace Porter, Brigadier General Union Army

• Stephen Dodson Ramseur, Major General Confederate Army

• Robert Daniel Johnston, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Francis Jay Herron, Major General Union volunteers

• James Phillip Simms, Brigadier General Confederate Army

1836 Birthday

• John Thomas Croxton, Major General Union volunteers

• Maximo Gomez, Bana, general, Cuba

• Pierce Manning Butler Young, Major General Confederate Army

• Thomas Lafayette Rosser, Major General Confederate Army

• George Washington Gordon, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• John McCausland, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Joseph Wheeler II, Major General, Confederacy/Cavalry/Army of Tennessee

• Evander McIvor Law, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Henry Eugene Davies, Major General Union volunteers

• Thomas Wilberforce Egan, Major General Union volunteers

• Edwin Gray Lee, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• James Patrick Major, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Bryan Morel Thomas, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Matthew Calbraith Butler, Major General, Confederate Army

• Benjamin Franklin Potts, Major General Union volunteers

• James Meech Warner, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• [Hugh] Judson Kilpatrick, Major General Union volunteers

1835 Birthday

• George Dashiell Bayard, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• Micah Jenkins, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Frank Crawford Armstrong, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Fitzhugh Lee, Major General Confederate Army

• Americus Vespucius Rice, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• Elliott Warren Rice, Major General Union volunteers

• Lunsford Lindsay Lomax, Major General Confederate Army

• Godfrey Weitzel, Union volunteers Major general

• Adelbert Ames, Major General Union Army

• Robert Houston Anderson, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• William Hicks "Red" Jackson, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Joseph Hayes, Major General Union volunteers

• William Wirt Allen, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• William Gaston Lewis, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Theodore Washington Brevard, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• James William Forsyth, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• Edward Porter Alexander, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Newton Martin Curtis, Major General Union volunteers

• Alfred Napoleon Alexander "Natti" Duffie, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• Charles Ewing, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• Alexander Stuart Webb, Major General Union Army

• Oliver Edwards, Major General Union volunteers

• Charles Russell Lowell, Jr., Brigadier General Union volunteers

1834 Birthday

• Thomas Edward Greenfield Ransom, Major General Union volunteers

• Joseph Jackson Bartlett, Major General Union volunteers

• Stephen Hinsdale Weed, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• Wager Swayne, Major General Union volunteers

• Dudley McIver DuBose, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Francis Marion Cockrell, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• William MacRae, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Nathaniel Harrison Harris, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Daniel McCook, Jr., Brigadier General Union volunteers

• Wesley Merritt, Major General Union volunteers

1834 Death

• Marquis de Lafayette, French general, dies

• William Rufus Terrill, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• Francis Asbury Shoup, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• William Dorsey Pender, Major General Confederate Army

• Robert Sanford Foster, Major General Union volunteers

• Albert Lindley Lee, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1833 Birthday

• Charles Miller Shelley, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• James Thadeus Holtzclaw, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Louis Douglass Watkins, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• Edward Dorr Tracy, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Cyrus Bussey, Major General Union volunteers

• James Deering Fessenden, Major General Union volunteers

• Henry Alanson Barnum, Major General Union volunteers

• Stephen Dill Lee, Lieutenant General Confederate Army

• Charles Jackson Paine, Major General Union volunteers

• William Price Sanders, Brigadier General Union volunteers

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

• John Wesley Turner, Major General Union Army

• Lucius Eugene Polk, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Alfred Thomas Archimedes Torbert, Major General Union Army

• Edward Moody McCook, Major General Union volunteers

• John Rogers Cooke, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Frank Wheaton, Major General Union Army

• David McMurtrie Gregg, Major General Union volunteers

• James Edward Rains, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Thomas Howard Ruger, Major General Union volunteers

• John Sappington Marmaduke, Major General Confederate Army

• Clement Anselm Evans, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• James Deshler, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• William Whedbee Kirkland, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• James Ewell Brown "JEB" Stuart, Major General Confederate Army

• Charles George Gordon, London, general, China, Khartoum

• John Randolph Chambliss, Jr., Brigadier General Confederate Army

1832 Birthday

• Thomas Alfred Smyth, Major General Union volunteers

• Edward Hatch, Major General Union volunteers

• John Henry Ketcham, Major General Union volunteers

• Daniel Harris Reynolds, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Archibald Gracie, Jr., Brigadier General Confederate Army

• George Henry Chapman, Major General Union volunteers

• William Woods Averell, Major General Union Army

• George Crockett Strong, Major General Union volunteers

• Henry Harrison Walker, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Theodore Shelton Bowers, Brigadier General Union Army

• Samuel Sprigg Carroll, Major General Union Army

• George Washington Custis Lee, Major General Confederate Army

• Randall Lee Gibson, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• James Alexander Walker, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Alexander Chambers, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• Thomas Ogden Osbord, Major General Union volunteers

• Edward Harland, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• George Doherty Johnston, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• James Hewett Ledlie, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• Walter Quintin Gresham, Major General Union volunteers

• Charles Camp Doolittle, Major General Union volunteers

• William Ruffin Cox, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• William Henry Penrose, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• Orlando Metcalfe Poe, Brigadier General, Union volunteers

• Camille Armand Jules Marie de Polignac, Major General Confederate Army

• John Brown Gordon, Major General Confederate Army

• John Pegram, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Richard Waterhouse, Jr., Brigadier General Confederate Army

1831 Birthday

• Adam Badeau, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• Lucius Fairchild, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• Robert Ogden Tyler, Major General Union Army

• Joshua Woodrow Sill, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• John Franklin Miller, Major General Union volunteers

• Daniel Butterfield, Major General Union volunteers

• Claudius Charles Wilson, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• John McAlister Schofield, Major General Union volunteers

1831 Death

• Henry van Wine, archivist/founder General Rijksarchief, dies at 91

• ? Gist, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Stephen Gano Burbridge, Major General Union volunteers

• Edward Payson Chapin, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• William Dwight, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• William Thomas Clark, Major General Union volunteers

• Marcus Joseph Wright, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Otho French Strahl, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Benjamin Hardin Helm, Brigadier General, Confederate, Lincoln's brother-in-law

• John Bell Hood, General Confederate Army

• Alexander McDowell McCook, Major General Union volunteers

• George Burgwyn Anderson, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Grenville Mellen Dodge, Major General Union volunteers

• Edward Cary Walthall, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Edward Aylesworth Perry, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• John Bratton, Old Reliable, U.S. physician/Confederate Brigadier General

• Philip Henry Sheridan, born in Albany, New York, Major General, Union Army

• Hiram Bronson Granbury, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• John Aaron Rawlins, Major General Union Army

• Cyrus Ballou Comstock, Major General Union volunteers

• Henry Brevard Davidson, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Pieter J Joubert, general, South Africa

• Edward Ferrero, Major General Union volunteers

• John Bullock Clark, Jr., Brigadier General Confederate Army

• James Ronald Chalmers, Brigadier General Confederate Army

1830 Birthday

• John Frederick Hartranft, Major General Union volunteers

• Allen Thomas, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Joseph Orville Shelby, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Patrick Henry Jones, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• Albert Gallatin Jenkins, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Oliver Otis Howard, Major General Union volunteers

• John Stevens Bowen, Major General Confederate Army

• Stephen Elliott, Jr., Brigadier General Confederate Army

1830 Event

• General Trade Journal newspaper begins publishing in Amsterdam

• Jeremiah Cutler Sullivan, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• John Parker Hawkins, Major General Union Army

• William Babcock Hazen, Major General Union volunteers

• Alvan Cullem Gillem, Major General Union volunteers

• William Sooy Smith, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• Richard Henry Jackson, Major General Union volunteers

• John Bordenave Villepigue, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Rochard Montgomery Gano, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Edward Winslow Hinks, Major General Union volunteers

• George Lucas Hartsuff, Major General Union volunteers

• Laurence Simmons Baker, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• George Pierce Doles, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• John Converse Starkweather, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• Davis Tillson, Major General Union volunteers

• Eugene Asa Carr, Major General Union Army

• William Felix Brantley, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Marcellus Monroe Crocker, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• William Henry Fitzhugh Payne, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Gaston AA Marquis de Gallifet, French general/Minister of War, 1899-1900

• George Blake Cosby, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Gouverneur Kemble Warren, Major General Union volunteers

• , Samuel, Emerson Opdycke, Major General Union volunteers

1829 Birthday

• James Clay Rice, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• Green Berry Raum, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• William Passmore Carlin, Major General Union Army

• Samuel Wylie Crawford, Major General Union Army

• Christopher Columbus Andres, Major General Union volunteers

• Charles Sidney Winder, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Lucius Marshall Walker, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Dandridge McRae, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Bradley Tyler Johnson, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Giles Alexander Smith, Major General Union volunteers

• James St. Clair Morton, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• William Worth Belknap, Major General Union volunteers

• George Crook, Major General Union volunteers

• Seth Maxwell Barton, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• James Conner, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• John Horace Forney, Major General Confederate Army

• Thomas Ewing, Jr., Major General, Union volunteers

• Milo Smith Hascall, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• Robert Brown Potter, Major General Union volunteers

• John Baillie McIntosh, Major General Union Army

• George Peabody Estey, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• Robert Emmet Rodes, Major General Confederate Army

• William Robertson Boggs, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Carl Schurz, Major General Union volunteers and journalist

1829 Death

• Adam A earl von Neipperg, Austrian general, dies at 53

• Johnson Hagood, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Jean Jacques Alfred Mouton, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Alfred Iverson, Jr., Brigadier General Confederate Army

• William Anderson Pile, Major General Union volunteers

• John Potts Slough, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• Alfred Cummings, Georgia, Brigadier General Confederate Army

1828 Birthday

• Mark Perrin Lowrey, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• John Beatty, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• Clinton Bowen Fisk, Major General Union volunteers

• Robert Bullock, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• William McComb, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• James Birdseye MacPherson, Major General Union volunteers

• Byron Grimes, Major General Confederate Army

• Jacob Dolson Cox, Major General Union volunteers

• Turner Ashby, Brigadier General Confederate Army

1828 Death

• Count d'Andreossi, French general/parliament leader, dies at 67

• Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, Major General Union volunteers

• George Leonard Andrews, Major General Union volunteers

• William Alexander Hammond, Brigadier General Union Army

• George Hume "Maryland" Steuart, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Joseph Bradford Carr, Major General Union volunteers

• Cuvier Grover, Major General Union Army

• John Rutter Brooke, Major General Union volunteers

• Roger Atkinson Pryor, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• James Johnston Pettigrew, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• John Austin Wharton, Major General Confederate Army

• Junius Daniel, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Alexander William Campbell, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Alpheus Baker, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• James William Reilly, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• Adin Ballou Underwood, Major General Union volunteers

• Robert Brank Vance, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• George Baird Hodge, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Charles William Field, Major General Confederate Army

• Patrick Ronayne Cleburne, Major General Confederate Army

• Elisha Franklin "Bull" Paxton, Brigadier General, Confederate Army

• Jefferson Columbus Davis, Major General Union Army

• James Fleming Fagan, Major General Confederate Army

• Robert Alexander Cameron, Major General Union volunteers

• Robert Ransom, Jr., Major General Confederate Army

• Thomas Carmichael Hindman, Major General Confederate Army

• Samuel Allen Rice, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• Adam Jacoby Slemmer, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• Calvin Edward Pratt, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• Lewis Addison Grant, Major General Union volunteers

1828 Event

• 1st edition of Amsterdam General Trade Journal (Algemeen Handelsblad)

• August Valentine Kautz, Major General Union Army

1827 Birthday

• Robert Latimer McCook, volunteers Brigadier General, Union

• Alfred Moore Scales, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Isaac Munroe St. John, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Isaac Wistar, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• Alfred Howe Terry, Major General Union volunteers

• James Sidney Robinson, Major General Union volunteers

• Edmund Jackson Davis, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• Kenner Garrard, Major General Union Army

• Henry Warner Slocum, Major General Union volunteers

• John Grubb Parke, Major General Union volunteers

• Michael Corcoran, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• John Morrison Oliver, Major General Union volunteers

• Walter Husted Stevens, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Joseph Anthony Mower, Major General Union volunteers

• Julius Adolph de Lagnel, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• James Murrell Shackelford, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• William Montague Browne, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Beverly Holcombe Robertson, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Reuben Lindsay Walker, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Francis Engle Patterson, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• Charles Edward Hovey, Major General Union volunteers

• William Hopkins Morris, Major General Union volunteers

• John Gibbon, Major General Union volunteers

• Lewis Wallace, Major General Union volunteers and author, Ben Hur

• Alexander Shaler, Major General Union volunteers

• John Robert Jones, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• William Richard Terry, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Henry DeLamar Clayton, Major General Confederate Army

• Richard W. Johnson, Major General Union Army

• Charles Davis Jameson, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• James Barnet Fry, Major General Union Army

• Edward Stuyvesant Bragg, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• Charles Robert Woods, Major General Union Army

• Abner Monroe Perrin, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• John Calvin Brown, Major General Confederate Army

• John Wesley Frazer, Brigadier General Confederate Army, die in 1906

1827 Death

• Frederick of York, English duke/bishop/general, dies at 63

• William Lewis "Old Tige" Cabell, Brigadier General Confederate Army

1826 Birthday

• James Scott Negley, Union volunteers Major General

• John Benjamin Sanborn, Major General Union volunteers

• George Brinton McClellan, Major General Union Army

• William Mahone, Major General Confederate Army

• George Washington Deitzler, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• John McArthur, Major General Union volunteers

• Jasper Adalmorn Maltby, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• Robert Hopkins Hatton, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• William Haines Lytle, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• Hugh Boyle Ewing, Major General Union volunteers

• Lafayette Curry Baker, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• Matt Whitaker Ransom, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Thomas John Lucas, Major General Union volunteers

• Frank Stillman Nickerson, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• William Denison Whipple, Major General Union Army

• James Gillpatrick Blunt, Major General Union volunteers

• Benjamin Henry Grierson, Major General Union volunteers

• Robert Kingston Scott, Major General Union volunteers

• Green Clay Smith, Major General Union volunteers

• Thomas Hewson Neill, Major General Union volunteers

• Philip Dale Roddey, Brigadier General Confederate Army

1826 Event

• General Congress of South American States assembles at Panama

• John Alexander Logan, Major General Union volunteers

• Halbert Eleazer Paine, Major General Union volunteers

• Richard Taylor, Lieutenant General Confederate Army

• Charles Cruft, Major General Union volunteers

1825 Birthday

• Francis Trowbridge Sherman, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• Romeyn Beck Ayres, Major General Union Army

• Charles Griffin, Major General Union volunteers

• Henry Heth, Major General Confederate Army

• Edward Augustus Wild, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• Ambrose Powell Hill, Lieutenant General, Confederate 3rd Army Corp

• Julius H [Szamvald] Stahel, Major General Union volunteers

• Joseph Benjamin Palmer, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Raleigh Edward Colston, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Thomas Turpin Crittenden, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• Elkanah Brackin Greer, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Armistead Lindsay Long, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• William Wallace Burns, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• Henry Warner Birge, Major General Union volunteers

• Thomas Hart Taylor, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• William Duncan Smith, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Edward Henry Hobson, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• Benjamin Jefferson Hill, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• John Cook, Major General Union volunteers

• John Hunt Morgan, Brigadier General, Confederate cavalry commander

• David Bell Birney, Major General Union volunteers

• George Lafayette Beal, Major General Union volunteers

• Joseph Bailey, Major General Union volunteers

• James Winning McMillan, Major General Union volunteers

• David Rumph "Neighbor" Jones, Major General Confederate Army

• Samuel Bell Maxey, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Edward Lloyd Thomas, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• William Nelson Rector Beall, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• John Dunovant, Brigadier General in the Confederate Army

• Quincy Adams Gillmore, Major General Union volunteers

• George Edward Pickett, Major General Confederate Army

• Joseph Robert Davis, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Alexander Travis Hawthorn, Brigadier General Confederate Army

1824 Birthday

• Augustus Louis Chetlain, Major General Union volunteers

• Manning Ferguson Force, Major General Union volunteers

• Franz Sigel, Major General Union volunteers

• Isham Nicholas Hayne, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• Joseph Horace Lewis, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Arthur Middleton Manigault, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Thomas Gamble Pitcher, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• Rufus Saxton, Major General Union volunteers

• William Nelson, Major General Union volunteers

• Truman Seymour, Major General Union Army

• Joseph Andrew Jackson Lightburn, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• Isaac Hardin Duval, Major General Union volunteers

• Hiram Gregory Berry, Major General Union volunteers

• John Sanford Mason, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• Absalom Baird, Major General Union Army

1824 Event

• General Lafayette returns to U.S.

• William Terry, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Simon Goodell Griffin, Major General Union volunteers

• William Burnham Woods, Major General Union volunteers

• Gabriel Colvin Wharton, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Alexander Schimmelfennig, born in Prussia, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• Waldimir "Kriz" Krzyzanowski, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• Alfred Pleasonton, Major General Union volunteers

• William Tatus Wofford, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• John Tyler Morgan, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• William Montgomery Gardner, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Charles Kinnaird Graham, Major General Union volunteers

• Cadmus Marcellus Wilcox, Major General Confederate Army

• Ambrose Everett Burnside, Major General Union volunteers

• Edmund Kirby Smith, Florida, General Confederate Army

• Charles Henry Van Wyck, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• William Edmonson "Grumble" Jones, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Alfred Holt Colquitt, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Innis Newton Palmer, Major General Union volunteers

• William Henry Chase Whiting, Major General Confederate Army

• Thomas James Churchill, Major General Confederate Army

• Henry Beebee Carrington, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• John Creed Moore, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• John Crawford Vaughn, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Lewis Cass Hunt, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• William Farrar "Baldy" Smith, Major General Union volunteers

• Winfield Scott Hancock, Major General Union volunteers

• Barnard Elliot Bee, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• George Thomas "Tige" Anderson, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Nathan George "Shanks" Evans, Brigadier General, Confederacy

• Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson, Lieutenant General 2nd Corps, ANV, Confederate

• James Morrison Hawes, Brigadier General Confederate Army

1823 Birthday

• Preston Smith, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Joseph Alexander Cooper, Major General Union volunteers

• Nathan Kimball, Major General Union volunteers

• William Henry Forney, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Thomas John Wood, Major General Union volunteers

• John Newton, Major General Union volunteers

• Orris Sanford Ferry, Major General Union volunteers

• Charles Thomas Campbell, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• Daniel Marsh Frost, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Thomas Francis Meagher, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• George Henry Gordon, Major General Union volunteers

• Leonard Fulton Ross, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• James Isham Gilbert, Major General Union volunteers

1823 Event

• 9th Postmaster General: John McLean of Ohio takes office

• Edward Elmer Potter, Major General Union volunteers

• Jesse Lee Reno, Major General Union volunteers

• John Henry Hobart Ward, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• Gustave Paul Cluseret, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• James Lawson Kemper, Major General Confederate Army

• John Gray Foster, Major General Union volunteers

• James Allen Hardie, Major General Union Army

• Alfred Gibbs, Major General Union Army

• Orlando Bolivar Wilcox, Major General Union Army

• Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Robert Byington Mitchell, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• Simon Bolivar Buckner, Lieutenant General Confederate Army

• Joseph Farmer Knipe, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• Samuel Kosciusko Zook, Major General Union volunteers

• William Thompson Martin, Major General Confederate Army

• John Echols, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Roswell Sabine Ripley, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• William Flank Perry, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Ferdinand Van Derveer, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• William Buel Franklin, Major General Union volunteers

• John Daniel Imboden, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Franklin Gardner, Major General Confederate Army

• Peter Joseph Osterhaus, Major General Union volunteers

1822 Birthday

• William Booth Taliaferro, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Thomas Casimer Devin, Major General Union volunteers

• Luther Prentice Bradley, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• Charles Adam Heckman, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• Charles Smith Hamilton, Major General Union volunteers

• William Harrow, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• Gordon Granger, Major General Union volunteers

• James Byron Gordon, Brigadier General Confederate Army

1822 Death

• Dirk van Hogendorp, Dutch earl/general/minister of War, dies at 61

• Mansfield Lovell, Major General Confederate Army

• Joseph Haydn Potter, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• George Sykes, Major General Union volunteers

• Adolph Wilhelm August Friedrich von Steinwehr, Brigadier General, Union

• Brigadier General Eppa Hunton, fought in most ANV campaigns

• Joseph Rodman West, Major General Union volunteers

• Fitz John Porter, Major General Union volunteers

1822 Event

• General Agustin de Iturbide crowned Agustin I, 1st emperor of Mexico

• Schuyler Hamilton, Major General Union volunteers

• Darius Nash Couch, Major General Union volunteers

• Hamilton Prioleau Bee, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• John George Walker, Major General Confederate Army

• Birkett Davenport Fry, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Young Marshall Moody, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Samuel Davis Sturgis, Major General Union Army

• Dabney Herndon Maury, Major General Confederate Army

• Mosby Monroe Parsons, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Erastus Barnard Tyler, Major General Union volunteers

• Napolean Jackson Tecumseh Dana, Major General Union volunteers

• Leroy Augustus Stafford, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• William Stephen Walker, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Gershom Mott, Major General Union volunteers

• James Nagle, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• Seth Williams, Major General Union Army

• John Pope, Major General Union volunteers

• Allison Nelson, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Albin Francisco Schoepf, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• Charles Champion Gilbert, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• Matthew Duncan Ector, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• James Patton Anderson, Major General Confederate Army

• John Basil Turchin, Ivan Turchinoff, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• Thomas Leiper Kane, Major General Union volunteers

• John Porter Hatch, volunteers Major General, Union

• Joseph Brevard Kershaw, Major General Confederate Army

• Joseph Jones Reynolds, Major General Union volunteers

1821 Death

• Jean-Baptiste Dumonceau de Bergendael, S Netherlands general, dies at 61

1821 Birthday

• Frederick West Lander, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• Rufus Barringer, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Richard Heron Anderson, Lieutenant General Confederate Army

• Alexander Peter "Old Straight" Stewart, Lieutenant General Confederate Army

• Alvin Peterson Hovey, Major General Union volunteers

• Henry Baxter, Major General Union volunteers

• William Barksdale, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Clement Hoffman "Rock" Stevens, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Nathan Bedford Forrest, born in Chapel Hill, Tennessee, American Civil War, Confederate Army lieutenant general, cavalry leader, opposed Reconstruction era in the post-war South

• Daniel Harvey Hill, Lieutenant General Confederate Army

• Christopher Columbus Augur, Major General Union volunteers

• William Harvey Lamb Wallace, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• Edward Winston Pettus, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Bartolome Mitre, Argentine general

• Henry Moses Judah, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• John Dunlap Stevenson, Major General Union volunteers

• Alfred Sully, Major General Union volunteers

• [Carlos] Charles John Stolbrand, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• Abram Sanders Piatt, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• Mortimer Dormer Leggett, Major General Union volunteers

• Joshua Thomas Owen, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• [George] Hector Tyndale, Major General Union volunteers

• Francis Barretto Spinola, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• William Read Scurry, Confederate Army Brigadier General

• Isaac Ferdinand Quinby, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• Lafayette McLaws, Major General Confederate Army

• James Longstreet, Confederate general, 1st Corps, ANV

• Lucius Jeremiah Gartrell, Brigadier General, Confederate Army

• John James Peck, Major General Union volunteers

1820 Birthday

• Gustavus Adolphus Smith, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• Frederick Tracy Dent, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1820 Event

• 1st General pharmacopoeia in U.S. published, Boston

• David Allen Russell, Army Major General, Union

• Lawrence O'Bryan Branch, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Robert Vinkler Richardson, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• James Monroe Goggin, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Benjamin Franklin Cheatham, Major General Confederate Army

• George Jerrison Stannard, Major General Union volunteers

• Alfred Washington Ellet, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• Thomas Kilby Smith, Major General Union volunteers

• Williams Carter Wickham, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• George Washington Morgan, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• John Fulton Reynolds, Major General Union volunteers

• Earle Van Dorn, Major General Confederate Army

• Winfield Scott "Old Swet" Featherston, Army Brigadier General, Confederate

• William Miller, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• John Franklin Farnsworth, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• John Marshall Jones, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Andrew Porter, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• Henry Rootes Jackson, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Evander McNair, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Harry Thompson Hays, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Gyorgy Klapka, Hungarian general and MP, Komarom-castle

• Charles Devens, Jr., Major General, Union volunteers

• Patrick Edward Connor, Major General Union volunteers

• Louis Herbert, Brigadier General Confederate Army

1820 Death

• Benjamin West, British painter (Death of General Wolfe), dies at 81

• Horatio Gouverneur Wright, Major General, Union volunteers

• George Davis, Attorney General Confederacy

• Mahlon Dickerson Manson, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• William Tecumseh Sherman, Major General Union Army

• John Milton Thayer, Major General Union volunteers

• John Haskell King, Major General Union Army

• Abraham Buford, Brigadier General Confederate Army

1819 Birthday

• John White Geary, Major General Union volunteers

• James Clifford Veatch, Major General Union volunteers

• Samuel Jones, Major General Confederate Army

• Robert Selden Garnett, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Benjamin Mayberry Prentiss, Major General Union volunteers

• Zachariah Cantey Deas, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Daniel Edgar Sickles, Major General Union volunteers

• Zebulon York, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Samuel McGowan, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• George Washington Getty, Major General Union Army

• Henry Jackson Hunt, Major General Union Army

1819 Death

• Gebhard Leberecht Furst von Blucher von Wahlstatt, General, dies at 76

• Martin Luther Smith, Major General Confederate Army

• William Starke Rosecrans, Major General Union volunteers

• James Henry Van Alen, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• Daniel Davidson Bidwell, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• Samuel Powhatan Carter, Major General Union volunteers

• Alexander Hays, Major General Union volunteers

• William Birney, Major General Union volunteers

• Thomas Leonidas Crittenden, Major General Union volunteers

• William Steele, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• William Wirt Adams, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• David Henry Williams, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• James Green Martin, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Henry Lawrence Eustis, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• Frederick Steele, Major General Union volunteers

• Zealous Bates Tower, Major General Union Army

• George Foster Shepley, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1818 Birthday

• James Cantey, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• David Addison Weisiger, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Paul Octave Hebert, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• William Wing "Old Blizzards" Loring, Major General Confederate Army

• Samuel Gibbs French, Major General Confederate Army

• Benjamin Franklin Butler, Major General Union volunteers

• Alexander Robert Lawton, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Gustavus Adolphus DeRussy, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• Edward Otho Cresap Ord, Major General Union volunteers

• Irvin McDowell, Major General Union volunteers

• John Henninger Reagan, Attorney General, Confederacy

• Marcellus Augustus Stovall, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Rufus Ingalls, Major General Union Army

• William Farquhar Barry, Major General Union Army

• Lovell Harrison Rosseau, Major General Union volunteers

• Nathaniel Lyon, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• John Stuart "Cerro Gordo" Williams, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Joseph Abel Haskin, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1818 Event

• General Andrew Jackson captures Pensacola Florida

• Cadwallader Colden Washburn, Major General Union volunteers

• General Andrew Jackson conquers St. Marks Florida from Seminole indians

• Lewis Baldwin Parsons, Major General Union volunteers

• Wade Hampton, born in South Carolina, Lieutenant General Confederate Army

• Isaac Ingalls Stevens, Major General Union volunteers

• Don Carlos Buell, Major General Union volunteers

• Albion Parris Howe, Major General Union Army

• John Wilkins Whitfield, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• William Raine Peck, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• John Reese Kenly, Major General Union volunteers

1817 Birthday

• James Jay Archer, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Richard Brooke Garnett, Brigadier General Confederate Army

1817 Death

• Richard B Garnett, killed during Pickett's Charge, Brigadier General

• Edward Richard Sprigg Canby, Major General Union volunteers

• Claudius Wistar Sears, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Bushrod Rust Johnson, Major General Confederate Army

• Carter Littlepage Stevenson, Major General Confederate Army

• Speed Smith Fry, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• Philip Cook, Jr., Brigadier General Confederate Army

• James Blair Steedman, Major General Union volunteers

• Joseph K Barnes, Major General Union Army

• James Brewerton Ricketts, Major General Union Army

• James William Denver, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• John Wilson Sprague, Major General Union volunteers

• Herman Haupt, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• Braxton Bragg, General Confederate Army

• Lewis Henry Little, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• James Craig, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• Lewis Addison Armistead, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Walter Page Lane, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Richard Stoddert Ewell, Lieutenant General Confederate Army

• Samuel Ryan Curtis, Major General Union volunteers

• Lewis Golding Arnold, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• John Selden Roane, Brigadier General Confederate Army

1816 Birthday

• Eliakim Parker Scammon, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• Alfred Elzey Jones, Major General Confederate Army

• Henry Eustace McCulloch, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• William Henry Talkbot Walker, Major General Confederate Army

• Joseph Bennett Plummer, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• William Polk Hardeman, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Jubal Anderson Early, Lt General Confederate Army

• William Preston, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Amiel Weeks Whipple, Major General Union volunteers

• Egbert Benson Brown, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• Julius White, Major General Union volunteers

• Israel Vogdes, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• John Eugene Smith, Major General Union Army

• George Henry Thomas, Major General Union Army

• Isaac Fitzgerald Shepard, General Union volunteers

• Robert Huston Milroy, Major General Union volunteers

• Phillipe Regis Denis de Keredern de Trobriand, Major General, Union

• Robert Seaman Granger, Union Army Major general

• Henry Hopkins Sibley, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Montgomery Cunningham Meigs, Major General Union Army

• Edward "Old Allegheny" Johnson, Major General Confederate Army

• James Gallant Spears, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• Montgomery Dent Corse, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• David Stuart, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• Nathaniel Prentiss Banks, Major General Union volunteers

• Lloyd Tilghman, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Henry Gray, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Fitz-Henry Warren, Major General Union volunteers

• Stephen Miller, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1815 Birthday

• George Gordon Meade, Major General Union Army

• Israel Bush Richardson, Major General Union volunteers

• Stephen Augustus Hurlbut, Major General Union volunteers

• James Hewward Trapier, General Confederate Army

• William Dennison, postmaster/general, Union

• Douglas Hancock Cooper, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• William Joseph Hardee, Lieutenant General Confederate Army

• Henry Constantine Wayne, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Eleazer Arthur Paine, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• Howell Cobb II, Major General/Secy of Treasury, Union

• John Richardson Liddell, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Tyree Harris Bell, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• John Porter McCown, Major General Confederate Army

• Thomas Jackson Rodman, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• Stewart Van Vliet, Major General Union Army

• Paul Jones Semmes, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Martin Edward Green, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Philip Kearny, Major General Union volunteers

• John Gross Barnard, Major General Union Army

• Abram Duryee, Major General Union volunteers

• Andrew Jackson Smith, Major General Union volunteers

• James Edward Harrison, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Robert Hall Chilton, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Nathaniel Collins McLean, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• Andrew Jackson Hamilton, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• James Chesnut, Jr., Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Henry Morris Naglee, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• William Henry French, Major General Union volunteers

• Alexander Brydie Dyer, Major General Union Army

• Thomas Williams, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• George Webb Morell, Major General Union volunteers

• Lawrence Pike Graham, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1815 Death

• Edward Pakenham, English general (Battle of New Orleans), dies in battle

1814 Birthday

• James Henry Carleton, Major General Union Army

• Joseph Finegan, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Pleasant Adam Hackleman, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1814 Death

• Michael Kelly Lawler, Major General Union volunteers, dies in 1882

• Joseph Hooker, Major General Union volunteers

• Henry Hayes Lockwood, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• John Clifford Pemberton, Lieutenant General Confederate Army

• Maxcy Gregg, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Justus McKinstry, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• John Blair Smith Todd, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• Henry Lewis "Old Rock" Benning, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Jozef de Ferraris, French/Austrian general/cartographer, dies at 87

1814 Event

• Battle at Horseshoe Bend: General Andrew Jackson beats Creek-indians

• Rufus King, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• Jones Mitchell Withers, Major General Confederate Army

• Richard Griffith, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Thomas Green, Brigadier General Confederate Army

1813 Birthday

• John Wolcott Phelps, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1813 Event

• U.S. troops under General Coffee destroy indian village at Talladega Ala

1813 Death

• Tecumseh, U.S. Shawnee-chief/English General (Battle of Thames), dies

• John Sedgwick, Major General Union volunteers

• Conrad Feger Jackson, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• Benjamin Alvord, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• William Scott Ketchum, Major General Union Army

• William Hugh Keim, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• Mason Brayman, Major General Union volunteers

• Joseph Tarr Copeland, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• Americans under General Pike capture Toronto; Pike is killed

• Henry Washington Benham, Major General Union Army

• Thomas West Sherman, Major General Union Army

• Gabriel Rene Paul, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• Office of surgeon general of the U.S. Army forms

• Joseph Reid Anderson, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• John McNeil, Major General Union volunteers

• Jacon Gartner Lauman, Major General Union volunteers

• Thomas Neville Waul, Brigadier General Confederate Army

1812 Birthday

• William Grose, Major General Union volunteers

• Elias Smith Dennis, Major General Union volunteers

1812 Death

• Isaac Brock, English general (conquered Detroit), dies in battle

• Pyotr I Bagration, Georgian/Russian ruler/general, dies in battle

1812 Event

• General Hull surrenders Detroit and Michigan territory to England

• Thomas Lanier Clingman, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• U.S. forces led by General Hull invade Canada, War of 1812

• Theophilus Toulmin Garrard, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• John Alexander McClernand, Major General Union volunteers

• Felix Kirk Zollicoffer, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Joseph Warren Revere, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• Louis Ludwig Blenker, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• Daniel Henry Rucker, Major General Union Army

• Randolph Barnes Marcy, Major General Union Army

• George Bibb Crittenden, Major General Confederate Army

• Henry Dwight Terry, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• James Speed, Attorney General Union

• Ralph Pomeroy Buckland, Major General Union volunteers

• Humphrey Marshall, Brigadier General Confederate Army

1811 Birthday

• Alexander Sandor Asboth, Major General Union volunteers

• Ben McCulloch, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Hugh Thompson Reid, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• William Hamsley Emory, Major General Union volunteers

• Goode Bryan, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Danville Leadbetter, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Joseph Dana Webster, Major General Union volunteers

• Gilman Marston, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• Henry Prince, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• Charles Clark, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Robert Allen, Major General Union Army

• Marsena Rudolph Patrick, Major General Union volunteers

• Robert Christie Buchanan, Major General Union Army

• [Catherine] Mildred Lee, daughter of U.S. general Robert E Lee

• Edward Dickinson Baker, Major General Union volunteers

1810 Birthday

• August Willich, Major General Union volunteers

• Benjamin Stone Roberts, Major General Union volunteers

• Thomas Bragg, Attorney General, Confederacy

• Andrew Atkinson Humphreys, Major General Union volunteers

• Adley Hogan Gladden, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Henry Bohlen, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• Cassius Marcellus Clay, Major General Union volunteers

• Alpheus Starkey Williams, Major General Union volunteers

• Albert Gallatin Blanchard, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Thomas Jefferson McKean, Major General Union volunteers

• Erasmus Darwin Keyes, Major General Union volunteers

• Solomon Meredith, Major General Union volunteers

• James Shields, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• James Cooper, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• Daniel Ullmann, Major General Union volunteers

• Daniel Ruggles, Brigadier General Confederate Army

1809 Birthday

• Albert Pike, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• William Nelson Pendleton, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Stephen Thomas, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• Thomas Alfred Davies, Major General Union volunteers

• Horatio Phillips Van Cleve, Major General Union volunteers

• Robert Cumming Schenck, Major General Union volunteers

• Sterline "Old Pap" Price, Major General Confederate Army

• Ormsby McKnight Mitchel, astronomer/Major General Union volunteers

• George Philip St. Cooke, Major General Union Army

• John Smith Preston, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Philip St. George Cocke, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• George Washington Cullom, Major General Union Army

• Henry Walton Wessells, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• Richard Caswell Gatlin, Brigadier General Confederate Army

1809 Event

• Holland Brigade under Brigadier General Chasse reaches Madrid

1808 Birthday

• Hugh Weedon Mercer, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Thomas Algeo Rowley, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• Benjamin Grubb Humphreys, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Thomas Fenwick Drayton, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• William Thomas Ward, Major General Union volunteers

• Samuel Jameson Gholson, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Catharinus Putnam Buckingham, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• James Bowen, Major General Union volunteers

• Jacob Ammen, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1807 Birthday

• Richard Lucian Page, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• James Samuel Wadsworth, Major General Union volunteers

• Silas Casey, Major General Union volunteers

• Jan van Swieten, Dutch general/governor of West-Sumatra

• John Bankhead "Prince John" Magruder, Major General Confederate Army

• Charles Ferguson Smith, Major General Union volunteers

• Lysander Cutler, Major General Union volunteers

• Abner Clark Harding, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• Joseph Eggleston Johnston, General Confederate Army

• William Bowen Campbell, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• Napoleon Bonaparte Buford, Major General Union volunteers

• Alfred Eugene "Mudwall" Jackson, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Joseph Holt, Major General Union Army

1806 Birthday

• Stand Watie, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Henry Alexander Wise, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• John Breckinridge Grayson, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Joseph Lewis Hogg, Brigadier General Confederate Army, die in 1862

• Joshua Blackwood Howell, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• Gideon Johnson Pillow, Brigadier General Confederate Army

1806 Death

• Michael FB baron von Melas, Austrian general, dies at 77

• George C Cadwalader, Major General Union volunteers

• Amos Beebe Eaton, Major General Union Army

• Leonidas Polk, Lieutenant General Confederate Army

• John Nieuwenhuijzen, theologist (Society for General Use), dies at 81

1805 Birthday

• Benjamin Hugur, Major General Confederate Army

• Samuel Peter Heintzelman, Major General Union volunteers

• Robert Cowdin, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• Robert Anderson, Major General Union Army

• William Kerley Strong, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1804 Birthday

• Theophilus Hunter Holmes, Lieutenant General Confederate Army

• Lorenzo Thomas, Major General Union Army

• Ludwig A. Benedek, Austrian general

• Guillaume Nerenburger, Belgian general, Triangulatie of Belgium

• Neal Dow, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• Samuel Read Anderson, Brigadier General Confederate Army

1803 Birthday

• Joseph King Fenno Mansfield, Major General Union volunteers

• George Wright, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• Gabriel James Rains, Brigadier General Confederate Army

• Albert Sidney Johnston, General Confederate Army

• James Outram, Bulterley Hall Derbyshire, general

1802 Birthday

• Melancthon Smith Wade, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1802 Death

• Henry DFL, prince of Prussia/general/diplomat, dies

• David Hunter, Major General Union volunteers

• Isaac Ridgeway Trimble, Major General Confederate Army

• George Archibald McCall, Brigadier General Union volunteers

• George Douglas Ramsey, Major general Union Army

1801 Birthday

• James Barnes, Major General Union volunteers

• John Drake Sloat, Ret Major General Commander Union Navy

• Daniel Smith Donelson, Major General Confederate Army

1801 Death

• Benedict Arnold, Revolutionary War general, dies in London

• George Sears Greene, Major General Union volunteers

1800 Death

• Jean-Baptiste Kleber, French general/architect, murdered at 47

1800 Birthday

• John Henry Winder, Brigadier General Confederate Army

1799 Birthday

• Daniel Tyler, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1799 Death

• W G Frederik, prince of Orange/general, dies at 25

1798 Birthday

• Richard Delafield, Major General Union Army

• Samuel Cooper, Sect of War/General Confederate Army

• Ethan Allen Hitchcock, Major General Union volunteers

• Charles Mynn Thruston, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1797 Death

• Louis-Lazare Hoche, French revolutionary general, dies

1797 Birthday

• W Frederik K, prince of Netherlands/general/admiral, 10 day campaign

• Edwin Vose Sumner, Major General Union volunteers

1796 Event

• General Salicetti orders equal rights for Jews of Bologna Italy

• Cleveland, Ohio, founded by General Moses Cleaveland

1796 Birthday

• Joseph Pannell Taylor, Brigadier General Union Army

1795 Birthday

• James Barry, female disguised as a man, surgeon general, British army

• Charles Niellon, Belgian brigade general, 10 day campaign

1795 Event

• Zealand Netherlands surrenders to French general Michaud

1794 Birthday

• James Wolfe Ripley, Major General Union Army

1794 Event

• General Mad Anthony Wayne defeated the Indians at Fallen Timbers Ohio

1793 Birthday

• Edward Bates, Attorney General, Union

1793 Death

• Adam-Philippe Custine, French earl/general/parliament member, dies

• Louis A count d'Affry, general/French ambassador in Netherland, dies

1792 Birthday

• Robert Patterson, Major General Union volunteers

1791 Event

• Battle at Wabash: indians assault general St. Clair/killed 637 soldiers

1791 Death

• Richard earl d'Alton, Austria general of S Netherlands, commits suicide at 58

1789 Event

• U.S. Attorney General Office is created

• Office of Postmaster General is created under the Treasury Department

1789 Death

• Peter I Panin, Russian general (Pugatshov-uprising), dies at about 67

1788 Birthday

• Joseph Gilbert Totten, Major General Union Army

1786 Birthday

• Winfield Scott, army general, Union, presidential candidate

1785 Birthday

• Joannes P Roothaan, 1st Dutch general of the Jesuits, 1829-53

1784 Event

• 1st daily newspaper in America (Penns Packet and General Advertiser)

1783 Event

• General Washington bids officers farewell at Fraunce's Tavern, New York City

• General Washington bids farewell to his army

1781 Event

• English army under general Cornwallis occupies Yorktown, Virginia

1779 Death

• Casimir Pulaski, General, dies

1779 Event

• U.S. troops under General A Wayne conquer Ft. Stony Point, New York

• General Anthony Wayne captures Stony Point, Bronx

1778 Event

• Battle of Monmouth, New Jersey (General Washington beats Clinton)

• Rhode Island General Assembly authorizes enlistment of slaves

1777 Event

• British General Howe plots attack on Washington's army for Dec 4

• British General John Burgoyne surrenders at Saratoga NY

1777 Death

• Simon Fraser, English general, dies in battle

• General George Washington's troops attacked British at Germantown, Pennsylvania

• English General William Howe occupies Philadelphia

• English general William Howe conquers Philadelphia

• British General Burgoyne captures Fort Ticonderoga from Americans

1776 Event

• Brigadier General Arnold's Lake Champlain fleet defeated by British

1776 Birthday

• Maria E J Versfelt, actress/mistress, General Moreau and Marshal Ney

• General George Washington hoists Continental Union Flag

1775 Death

• Richard Montgomery, General, dies fighting British

1775 Event

• General Washington forbids recruiting officers enlisting blacks

1775 Birthday

• Louis-Antoine the Bourbon, French duke of Angoulame/General of France

• 1st Postmaster General: Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania takes office

• Adam A earl von Neipperg, Austrian general and Napoleon's wife Marie lover

1774 Death

• Heinrich A Fouque, Prussian general (7 year war), dies at 76

1772 Birthday

• Rowland Hill, 1st Viscount/general

1772 Death

• Jozef Wenceslas, monarch of Liechtenstein/general, dies at 75

1770 Birthday

• Pierre earl de Cambronne, French general, Waterloo, Elba

1770 Event

• General Church of New Jerusalem established

• Alexander Carlyle, Moderator of General Assembly

1769 Birthday

• Arthur Wellesley, General/Duke of Wellington

1768 Event

• English troops under general Gauge lands in Boston

1768 Birthday

• Anne-Franeois Mellinet, French/Belgian general, Maastricht

• Edouard Mortier, French general, duke, prime minister, 1834-35

1767 Birthday

• Andrew Jackson, General and 7th President, 1829-37

1765 Birthday

• David H Chasse, Dutch baron/general, fought Napoleon at Waterloo

1764 Birthday

• Jose Gervasio Artigas, general/father of Uruguay

1763 Birthday

• Josef Poniatovski, Polish general/marshal of France

1761 Birthday

• Louis AG baron de Bacler d'Albe, French cartographer and Brigadier General

• Dirk van Hogendorp, Dutch earl/general/minister of War

• Dirk earl van Hogendorp, general/Dutch minister of War

• Earl d'Andreossi, French general and member of parliament

1760 Birthday

• Jean-Baptiste Dumonceau de Bergendael, South Netherlands earl/general

1760 Event

• French army gives Montreal to General Jeffrey Amherst

• Princess Carolina marries General Charles Christian van Nassau-Weilburg

1759 Death

• Louis Joseph Montcalm, French general (Plains of Abraham), dies at 47

• James Wolfe, British general (Plains of Abraham), dies in battle at 32

1758 Event

• British battle fleet under General James Wolfe conquerors Louisbourg

1756 Birthday

• Henry "Light Horse Harry" Lee, Rep/Gov-Va, general

1755 Death

• Edward Braddock, British general, dies in battle at Pittsburgh

1755 Event

• British General E. Braddock mortally wounded during French and Indian War

1753 Birthday

• Jean-Baptiste Kleber, French general and architect, Mainz, Fleurus

1749 Event

• General fast because of drought in MA

1748 Birthday

• Casimir Pulaski, Count/American Revolutionary War general

1747 Birthday

• Kasamir Pulaski, U.S. general in the Revolutionary War

1746 Birthday

• John Muhlenberg, Lutheran pastor/general/congressman

1745 Birthday

• Benjamin Rush, Byberry, Pennsylvania, physician, general and signer, Declaration of Independence

• "Mad" Anthony Wayne, general

1742 Birthday

• Nathanael Greene, American Revoluntionary War General

1741 Event

• Benjamin Franklin's General Magazine, 2nd U.S. magazine begins publishing

1741 Birthday

• Benedict Arnold, general and traitor, U.S. revolution

• Benedict Arnold, U.S. general turn traitor, Revolutionary War

1740 Birthday

• Adam-Philippe Custine, French earl/general/MP

1738 Birthday

• Benjamin West, painter, Death of General Wolfe

1734 Death

• Duke of Berwick, French general strategist, dies in battle

1729 Birthday

• Michael F B Freiherr von Melas, Austrian general, 7 Year Wars

1727 Event

• New York General assembly permits Jews to omit phrase "upon the faith of a Christian" from abjuration oath

1726 Birthday

• Jozef de Ferraris, French/Austrian earl/general/cartographer

1724 Birthday

• John Nieuwenhuijzen, theologist/co-founder, Society of It General

1722 Death

• John Churchill up Marlborough, English general strategist, dies at 72

1721 Death

• James Stanhope 1st earl of Stanhope, English general, dies at 47

1718 Death

• Arnold J van Keppel, earl of Albemarle/general, dies at about 48

1713 Birthday

• Louis A A Count d'Affry, French general/ambassador to Netherland

1712 Birthday

• Louis Joseph de Montcalm de Saint-Veran, France, general

• L Joseph de Montcalm de Saint-Veran, French general in America

1710 Event

• Battle at Brihuega: English General Stanhope captured

• Battle at Brihuega: English General Stanhope captured

1709 Death

• Hamilton, Scottish general (Malplaquet), dies in battle

• Oxenstiern, German general (Malplaquet), dies in battle

• Spaar, German general (Malplaquet), dies in battle

1698 Birthday

• Heinrich A. Fouque, Prussian general

1696 Birthday

• James Oglethorpe, England, General/author/colonizer, Georgia

• Jozef Wenceslas, monarch of Liechtenstein/general

1694 Death

• Francesco Morosini, Italian army general, dies

1693 Death

• Antonio Caraffa, Italian general (Eperieser Bloedgericht), dies at 46?

1690 Death

• Hieronymus van Beverningk, Duitch general, dies at 76

1689 Event

• Battle of Killicrankie, Viscount Dundee defeats Whig General MacKay

1688 Event

• General strategist John Churchill joins with Willem III

• General strategist John Churchill meets Willem III

1682 Event

• 1st General Assembly in Pennsylvania (Chester)

1675 Death

• Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne Vicomte de Turenne, General (France), dies

1674 Event

• General John Sobieski chosen King of Poland

1672 Event

• French army under General Turenne crosses Rhine at Lobith

1671 Death

• Thomas, 3rd baron Fairfax of Cameron, English general, dies at 59

1670 Death

• George Monck, English general(-to the-sea), dies at 61

1664 Death

• Miklos Zrinyi, Hungarian general/poet, killed by wild boar at 44

1660 Event

• General Moncks army reaches London

• General Moncks army battles with the Tweed on way to London

1659 Event

• General Monck demands free parliamentary election in Scotland

1659 Birthday

• Ferdinand W, prince of Wurttemberg-Neustadt/General Dutch infantry

1658 Death

• Oliver Cromwell, British general (1653-58)/Lord Protector, dies at 59

1651 Event

• Massachusetts General Court ordered a fine (five shillings) for "observing any such day as Christmas"

1650 Birthday

• John Churchill, 1st duke of Marlborough, English general strategist

1650 Death

• James G, Marquis of Montrose, Scottish general, hanged

1650 Event

• Scottish general Montrose defeated

1643 Event

• Battle at Tuttlingen: Beiers army under General Mercy beats France

1641 Event

• General court declares RI a democracy and adopts new constitution

1631 Event

• Battle of Breitenfeld: King Gustaaf Adolf defeats General Tilly

1630 Event

• In Boston the 1st general court is held

1629 Death

• Tumengung Buraksa, Matarams/Javanese general, dies in battle

1629 Birthday

• Juan Jose, of Austria, Spanish general and governor of Netherlands

1622 Birthday

• Isaac Sweers, Dutch Admiral/general/Civil rights activist

1612 Birthday

• Thomas Fairfax, Lord Fairfax, English Parliamentary general

1611 Birthday

• Henry Ireton, English general/MP, Edgehill

1608 Birthday

• George Monck/Monk, English general and Governor of Scotland

• Jean BG duke of Orleans, brother of French King Louis XIII/general

1605 Event

• Spanish army under General Spinola occupies Wachtendonk

• Spanish army under of general Spinola conquerors Lingen

1598 Event

• Spanish general strategist Bernardino de Mendoza occupies fort Rhine

1598 Death

• Hidejoshi, Hijoshi, Japanese general strategist/kampaku, dies

1595 Death

• Philip III van Croij, prince of Chimay/general, dies at 69

1590 Death

• Philip van Egmont, general/prince of Gavere, dies in battle at 30

1583 Birthday

• Albrecht Eusebius Wenzel von Wallenstein, German general

1583 Event

• Dutch States General and Anjou sign treaty

1574 Death

• Christoffel Palts, German general strategist, dies in battle

1569 Death

• Francois de Coligny, French general (Jarnac), dies

1563 Death

• Francois Guise, French general/duke, assassinated at 44

1563 Event

• Huguenot Jean Poltrot de Mere shoots General Francois De Guise

1562 Event

• General Francois de Guise enters Paris

• Blood bath at Vassy: General de Guise allows 1200 huguenots murder

1547 Death

• Hernan Cortes, Spanish general defeated Aztec Indians

1545 Birthday

• Alessandro Farnese, Duke of Parma/general/diplomat

1524 Death

• Thomas Howard 2nd duke of Norfolk, general/premier, dies at about 80

1521 Birthday

• Francois de Coligny, ruler of van Andelot, French general, Jarnac

1519 Birthday

• Francois de Guise, Balafre, French general strategist, Calais

1515 Death

• Gonzalo de Cordoba, Spanish general/strategist/viceroy of Naples, dies

1471 Death

• John Soreth, French general, dies

1456 Death

• Janos Hunyadi, Hungarian general strategist, dies at about 49

1399 Death

• Raymundus of Capua, Italian general, dies

1386 Birthday

• Traversari Ambrosius, Italian humanist//sciencist/general

1371 Death

• Vlkasin, Hungarian general/co-king of Serbia, dies

1311 Event

• General Malik Kafur returns to Delhi after campaign in South India

1253 Death

• Elias van Cortona, Italian general (1232-39), dies at about 53

1237 Death

• Jordanus of Saxon, 2nd general of Dominicans, drowns

1169 Death

• Shirkuh, Kurd general/vizier of Cairo/Saladin's uncle, dies

1141 Death

• Yue Fei, Chinese general, executed

1099 Death

• El Cid, Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar, Span general strategist, dies at 59

1002 Death

• Al-Mansur, Arabic general strategist/regent of Cordoba, dies

732 Death

• Abd ar-Rahman, Yemenite general strategist (Bordeaux occupier), dies

472 Death

• Ricimer, Barbaars general, dies

472 Birthday

• Flavius Ricimer, general of the Western Roman Empire, kingmaker

451 Event

• General Aetius defeats Attila the Hun at Chalons-sur-Marne

394 Death

• Arbogast, French general, commits suicide

350 Event

• General Maxentius drives out Western Roman emperor Constans

303 Event

• Emperor Diocletian orders general persecution of Christians

284 Event

• General Gaius Aurelius V Diocletianus Jovius (3) becomes emperor of Rome

69 Event

• General Vespasianus occupies Rome

40 Birthday

• Gnaeus Julius Agricola, Roman general; conquered Wales, No England