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 2014 Event 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 2014 Event 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 2014 Event 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 2014 Event 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 2014 Event 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 2014 Event 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 2014 Event 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 2014 Event 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 2014 Event 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 2014 Event 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 2014 Event 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 2013 Event A vote by the General Synod of the Church of England approves legislation allowing women bishops to be ordained by 2014 2013 Event A strike intended to shut down Nepal's general elections November 19th, is orchestrated by an alliance of 33 opposition parties 2013 Event Falkland Island voters head to the polls to participate in their general election and elect Legislative Assembly members 2013 Event Following an elaborate two-day state funeral, national independence hero of Vietnam, General Vo Nguyen Giap, is buried 2013 Event India's Bharatiya Janata Party names Narendra Modi as their leader in the next general election 2013 Event The legality of the United States' plans to strike Syria without UN backing are called into question by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon 2013 Event In Kuwait, voters go to the polls for a general election; half of the parliamentary seats are lost by Shiite candidates 2013 Event 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 2013 Event In Greece, new austerity measures prompt the unions to call for a general strike 2013 Event Following the closure of the public broadcasting station ERT, Greek unions call for a general strike 2013 Event 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 2013 Event The Arms Trade Treaty, the first-ever bill to regulate the global trade in conventional weapons, is passed by the U.N. General Assembly 2013 Event 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 2012 Event In Dublin, an estimated crowd of 10,000 protesters demonstrated against austerity and called for a general strike to shut down the country 2012 Event The European Physical Society's annual Edison Volta Prize is awarded to CERN Director General, Rolf-Dieter Heuer 2012 Event The BBC's George Entwistle steps down as Director-General, with Tim Davie replacing him Acting Director General 2012 Event 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 2012 Event 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 2012 Event In Greece, trade unions call a general strike as they continue their protest against austerity measures 2012 Event 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 2012 Event 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 2012 Event France O'Grady is appointed the first female General Secretary by Britain's Trade Union Congress 2012 Event Voters in Lesotho, a landlocked country completely surrounded by the Republic of South Africa, go to the polls for a general election 2012 Event International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General, Yukiya Amano, goes to Tehran to convince the Iran's government to co-operate with the IAEA 2012 Event 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 2012 Event 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 2011 Event In Spain, voters go to the polls for the general election; the center-right Popular Party wins a parliamentary majority 2011 Event Google's new social network service, Google+, is released to the general public 2011 Event Command of the NATO forces in Afghanistan transfers from U.S. General David Petraeus to U.S. Marine Corps Lieutenant Genreal John R. Allen 2011 Event The General Assembly of Rhode Island passes legislation allowing same-sex couples to enter civil unions 2011 Event Voters in Turkey go to the polls for a general election 2011 Event 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 2011 Event Singapore dissolves its Parliament for the 14th General Election, planned for May 7, 2011 2011 Event 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 2011 Event The head of the Taiwanese Army's electronic communications and information department, Major General Lo Hsien-che is arrested for leaking secrets to China 2011 Event 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 2010 Event India is crippled as trade unions declare a general strike to protest a hike in fuel prices 2010 Event General Stanley McChrystal, leader of the U.S. war Afghanistan announces his retirement after making controversial statements in 'Rolling Stone' magazine 2010 Event 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 2010 Event Solicitor General Elena Kagan is the youngest Justice and third woman nominated for the Supreme Court of the United States 2010 Event 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 1999 Death James White, writer, Sector General books, dies at 71 1998 Event U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan lands in Baghdad, for peace negotiations 1998 Event New York Yankees replace general manager Bob Watson with Brian Cashman 1998 Event 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 1997 Death Saw Maung, general/president of Myanmar (Burma) (1988-92), dies 1996 Death Cesar Mendoza, general of Military junta of Chile (1973-85), dies 1996 Death Antonio de Spinola, general of Portugal, dies 1996 Death Tito Okello, Ugandan general, dies at 81 1996 Death Bernard Charles Sendall, deputy director general of ITA, dies at 83 1996 Death Adolf Galland, general (Luftwaffe), dies at 83 1996 Death 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 1995 Event 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 1995 Death Edmond Jouhaud, general, dies at 90 1995 Death Erich Geiringer, general Practitioner campaigner, dies at 78 1995 Death Mordechai Gur, Israeli general, commits suicide at 65 1995 Event General Tire World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Mike Aulby 1995 Death Siad Barre, general/president of Somalia (1969-91), dies at 84 1994 Event General Hospital stars Kristina Malandro and Jack Wagner wed 1994 Event Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders resigns after masturbation comments 1994 Death Jesus "Enrique" Lister, Span/Russian general (Civil War), dies at 87 1994 Death Roberto Viola, Argentine general/president (1981), dies at 69 1994 Death Manfred Worner, German general/Secretary-General of NATO (1988-94), dies at 59 1994 Death Francisco Veguillas, Spanish general, murdered at 68 1994 Event General H Norman Schwarzkopf released from hospital after prostate surgery 1994 Death Juan J H Rovira, Spanish general, murdered 1994 Event General Tire World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Norm Duke 1994 Death Leon Degrelle, Belgium general, dies 1993 Death Philip Christison, British general (Rangoon), dies at 100 1993 Event Guinee general Lansana re-elected president 1993 Death Dionisio Herrero, Spanish air force general, murdered 1993 Death Dionisio Herrero, Spanish air force general, murdered at 63 1993 Event General Omar al-Bashir appointed Sudan president 1993 Event Somali General Aidids arm forces kill 18 U.S. Rangers 1993 Event General Colin Powell retires at 56 1993 Death James H Doolittle, U.S. air force general (Tokyo 1942), dies at 96 1993 Death Anatoli Koretski, Russian major general, murdered 1993 Death Leo Ferre, French singer/composer (Mon General), dies at 76 1993 Event Janet Reno selected by Clinton as U.S. Attorney General 1993 Event 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 1993 Death 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 1992 Event Dateline NBC airs a demonstration show General Motors trucks, blowing up on impact, later revealed NBC rigged test 1992 Death Gert Nastian, general and companion of Petra Kelly, found dead at 69 1992 Death James A Van Fleet, U.S. general (D-Day, Battle of Bulge), dies at 100 1992 Event Thailand General Suchinda Kraprayoon installed as president 1992 Event Joseph A. Molloy elected New York Yankee general partner 1992 Event 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 1991 Event General Motors announces closing of 21 plants 1991 Event General Motors announces 9 month loss of $2.2 billion 1991 Event John Hart becomes general manager of Cleveland Indians 1991 Death Leigh Watson, U.S. aviation pioneer/air force general, dies at 93 1991 Death Sergei Ajromeiev, soviet general, commits suicide 1991 Event Nepalese Congress party wins general elections 1991 Death John Russell Thomas, NFL general manager (Detroit Lions), dies 1991 Event Iraqi generals and General Schwarzkopf meet to discuss cease fire 1991 Event 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 1990 Death 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 1990 Event Deposed emir of Kuwait address United Nations General Assembly 1990 Event Robert E. Nederlander appointed New York Yankee managing general partner 1990 Event Gene Michael names New York Yankee Vice President/General Manager replacing Harding Peterson 1990 Event General Hospital tapes its 7,000th episode 1990 Event Braves replace manager Russ Nixon with General Manager Bobby Cox 1990 Event General Elvis, TV Drama last airs on ABC 1990 Event Lieutenant General Avril resigns as President of Haiti 1990 Event Dr. Antonia Novello sworn-in as 1st hispanic/female U.S. surgeon general 1990 Event Boston Red Sox hires Elaine Weddington as asstistant General Manager (highest-ranking black female in a major-league front office) 1990 Event 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 1989 Event Attorney General Thornburgh orders Joseph Doherty deported to UK 1989 Event NHL's New York Rangers fire General Manager and coach Phil Esposito 1989 Event General Manuel Noriega's government nullifies country's elections, which the opposition had won by a 3-1 margin 1989 Death Marion Mack, actress (General), dies 1989 Death Hu Yaobang, general secretary of Chinese Commnist Party, dies 1988 Event Spanish General strike to protest austerity measures 1988 Event U.N. General Assembly (151-2) censures U.S. for refusing PLO's Arafat visa 1988 Birthday Justin Cooper actor, Liar, Liar, General Hospital 1988 Event Military coup in Haiti: Lieutenant General Avril takes control, Henri Namphy flees 1988 Event Muang Muang succeeds General Sein Lwin as President of Burma 1988 Event Richard Thornburgh becomes U.S. Attorney General 1988 Event General Sein Lwin succeeds Ne Win as President of Burma 1988 Event Many killed at demonstration against general Ne Win in Rangoon 1988 Event Haiti's general assembly dissolves 1988 Event Attorney General Meese orders Joseph Doherty deported to U.K. 1988 Event Genie Francis (General Hospital) weds Jonathan Frakes (Star Trek TNG) 1988 Event Surgeon General C. Everett Koop reports nicotine as addictive as heroin 1988 Event General hospital star Jackie Zeman marries Glenn Gorden 1988 Event 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 1987 Event 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 1987 Event 2nd coup on Fiji led by Major General Sitiveni Rabuka 1986 Event General strike against Pinochet regime in Chile 1986 Event 1 day general strike in South Africa 1986 Event General Tito Okello's government flees Kampala Uganda 1985 Event General Electric acquires RCA Corp and its subsidiary, NBC 1985 Event Philipine Chief staff General Fabian speaks of B Aquino's murder 1985 Event New Jersey General Hershel Walker runs for USFL record 233 yards 1985 Event Sudan suspends constitution after coup under general Swarreddahab 1985 Event Edwin Meese III becomes U.S. Attorney General 1985 Event 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 1984 Death Yuri Andropov, General Secretary of Soviet Communist Party 1982 - 1984, dies at 69 1984 Event 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" 1983 Event Grenada general Hudson Austin forms "revolutionary council" 1983 Event General Manuel A Noriega becomes commander of Panamanian army 1983 Event 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 1983 Death 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 1982 Death Della Chiesa, Italian general/mafia fighter, murdered 1982 Event General Ariel Sharon urges Palestinians to discuss peaceful coexistence 1982 Event Israeli General Ariel Sharon urges Palestinians to discuss peace 1982 Death Richard N Gale, English general/paracommandant, dies at 86 1982 Event General Reynaldo Bignone sworn in as president of Argentina 1982 Event President Reagan 1st United Nations General Assembly address, "evil empire" speech 1982 Event General Efrain Rios Montt declares himself president of Guatemala 1982 Event Falklands War: Argentine cruiser General Belgrano sunk by British submarine Conqueror, killing more than 350 men 1982 Event Guatemala military coup under General Rios Montt, President Romeo Lucas flees 1982 Event U.S. General Dozier freed from Red Brigade of Padua Italy 1981 Event Argentine general Leopoldo Galtieri sworn in as president 1981 Event Members of Red Brigades kidnap Brigadier General James L Dozier 1981 Event Argentine president/general Roberto Viola flees 1981 Event Luke marries Laura on General Hospital (16 million watch) 1981 Event Poland General Jaruzelski elected party leader 1981 Death Moshe Dayan, Israel's general/minister of Defense, dies at 66 1981 Event Military coup under general Kolingba in Central African Republic, President Dacko flees 1981 Death General Omar Torrijos, leader of Panama, dies in plane crash 1981 Death Omar Bradley, last U.S. 5-star general, (Normandy) dies in New York at 88 1981 Event El Salvador guerrilla group FMLN opens "general offensive" 1981 Event Roger Smith becomes CEO of General Motors 1980 Event Astros owner John McMullen replaces General Manager Tal Smith with Al Rosen 1980 Event Military coup under General Kenan Evren in Turkey 1980 Event Bolivian military coup; general Garcia Meza becomes president 1979 Event Bolivia military coup under General Busch, President Guevara flees 1979 Event Military coup in El Salvador: president/general Carlos Romero flees 1979 Death Ludvik Svoboda, Czechoslovakian general/politician, dies at 83 1979 Event Rhodesian bishop Muzorewa wins general election 1979 Event Frank Peterson, Jr. named 1st black general in Marine Corps 1979 Death Nematullah Nassiri, Iran general/head of Savak, executed 1979 Death 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 1978 Event 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 1978 Event Bolivia military coup under general Juan Pereda, President Hugo Banzer flees 1978 Event General strike in Peru 1978 Event 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 1978 Death Daniel "Chappie" James, Jr., retired Air Force general, dies at 58 1977 Event Pakistan general Zia ul-Haq bans all opposition 1977 Event General Motors introduces 1st U.S. diesel auto (Oldsmobile 88) 1977 Event President Carter and General Herrera sign Panama Canal treaties 1977 Event Ian Smith, espousing racial segregation, wins Rhodesian general election with 80% of overwhelmingly white electorate's vote 1977 Event Pakistan's army, led by General Mohammad Zia ul-Haq, seizes power 1977 Event General Mills Adventure Theater premieres on CBS radio 1976 Event Genie Francis joind "General Hospital" as Laura Vining 1976 Event U.N. General Assembly passes a resolution declaring 1979 - Year of Child 1976 Event U.N. General Assembly re-elects Kurt Waldheim secretary-General 1976 Event Bangladesh General Ziaur Rahman declares himself president 1976 Event Viking 1 radio signal from Mars help prove general theory of relativity 1976 Event U.N. General Assembly condemns apartheid in South Africa 1976 Birthday R. J. Williams, actor, General Hospital, Full House 1976 Event Portuguese general Antonio Eanes elected president 1976 Death James A Farley, U.S. Postmaster General (1932-38), dies at 88 1976 Death Martha Mitchell wife of former Attorney General John Mitchell, dies in New York at 57 1976 Death Bernard L Montgomery, British general, defeated Rommel, dies at 88 1976 Death 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 1975 Event Military coup by General Mohammed/President Jakubu Gowon fired 1975 Event House of Representatives votes to restore citizenship to General Robert E. Lee 1975 Event South-Vietnam General Duong Van Minh sworn in as president till April 30 1975 Event Chad military coup by General Odingar 1975 Event 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 1974 Event South Africa suspended from United Nations General Assembly over racial policies 1974 Event U.S. General George Brown's speech deplores Jewish influence in U.S. over his treatment during the 1973 World Series 1974 Event General Francesco da Costa Gomez succeeds General Spinola as President of Portugal 1974 Event 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 1974 Event General Pinochet becomes president of Chile 1974 Event Red Brigade kidnaps Italian attorney general Mario Sossi 1974 Event 1st general striking in Ethiopia 1973 Event Yankee General Manager and President Lee MacPhail named AL president 1973 Event Solicitor General Bork, Attorney General Richardson and Deputy Attorney General Ruckelshaus resigned 1973 Event Israeli tanks under General Sharon move through Suez Canal 1973 Event 1st general striking in Luxembourg since 1942 1973 Event General Walters, ends term as acting director of CIA 1973 Event Major General Juvenal Habyarimana becomes president of Rwanda 1973 Event General Walters, serves as acting director of CIA 1972 Death Friedrich Christian Christiansen, German Luftwaffe general, dies 1972 Death George Wiess, General Manager (New York Yankees), dies at 78 1972 Event Lt. General Vernon A Walters, USA, becomes deputy director of CIA 1972 Event General Lon Nol becomes President and prince Sirik Matak premier of Cambodia 1972 Event Bill Torrey becomes 1st Islander General Manager 1971 Event Lieutenant General Robert E Cushman,, Jr., USMC, ends term as deputy director of CIA 1971 Event U.N. General Assembly ratifies Kurt Waldheim as Secretary-General 1971 Event U.N. Security Council chooses Kurt Waldheim as 4th secretary General 1971 Event General Meeting of United Nations agrees to admit China PR 1971 Death Mohamed Madbouh, Moroccan general/putschist, shot to death 1971 Event Lieutenant General Hafiz al-Assad becomes President of Syria 1971 Event General Idi Amin Dada appointed president of Uganda 1971 Event 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 1970 Event Lieutenant General Hafez al-Assad becomes Prime Minister of Syria following military coup 1970 Death Charles DeGaulle, general/president France (Free French), dies at 79 1970 Death Rene Schneider, Chilean general/supreme commander, murdered 1970 Death Vinton Hayworth, actor (General Schaeffer-I Dream of Jeannie), dies at 63 1970 Death Wladyslaw Anders, Polish general (WW I, WW II), dies at 78 1970 Event Cambodia military coup under General Lon Nol, prince Sihanuk flees 1969 Event Major General Mohamed Siad Barre becomes President of Somali 1969 Event Bolivia military coup under general Ovando Candia 1969 Event General Franco closes Spain's frontier with Gibraltar 1969 Event General Lin Piao succeeds Mao, is seriously wounded 1969 Death Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th president/general WWII, dies in Washington at 78 1969 Event Pakistan General Agha Mohammed Jagja Khan succeeds Ayub Chan as president 1969 Event General Hafez al-Assad becomes head of Syria via miltary coup 1969 Event Vince Lombardi, becomes part owner, Vice President, General Manager and head coach of Redskins 1969 Event Beatles appoint Eastman and Eastman, as general cousel to Apple 1969 Event Spanish General Franco announces state of emergency 1969 Death Franz T Csokor, Austria author (Gottes General), dies at 83 1969 Death 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 1968 Event General Ludvik Svoboda elected president of Czechoslovakia 1968 Death Julis Deutsch, Austria politician/general Spanish rep army, dies at 83 1968 Birthday Ami Dolenz, born in Los Angeles, California, actress, General Hospital, Can't Buy Me Love 1967 Event General Gnassingbe Eyadema becomes president of Togo 1967 Event 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 1967 Event Stan Musial is named General Manager of Cards 1966 Death Sadao Araki, Japanese general/minister of War (1931-34), dies at 89 1966 Death Alex E von Falkenhausen, German general, dies at 87 1966 Event General Suharto forms government in Indonesia 1966 Event Military coup led by Indonesian General Suharto breaks out 1966 Event Indonesia's president Sukarno fires General Nasution 1966 Death 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 1965 Event General Meeting of United Nations refuses admittance of China PR 1965 Event General strike in Morocco against disappearance of Ben Barka 1965 Event South Vietnam General Nguyen Cao Kentucky succeeds Phan Huy Quat as premier 1965 Death Henry D G Crerar, Canadian general (WW I, Normandy), dies at 76 1965 Event D Senanayake wins general elections in Ceylon (Sri Lanka) 1965 Event 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 1964 Event General Maxwell Taylor appointed U.S. ambassador in South Vietnam 1964 Birthday Lydie Denier, born in St. Nazaire, France, actress, General Hospital 1964 Death Douglas MacArthur, U.S. general (Pacific theater-WW II), dies at 84 1964 Event Military coup in Brazil by General Castello Branco, President Goulart ousted 1964 Death Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, Prussian general/politician, dies at 93 1964 Birthday Laura Martinez-Herring, born in Sinaloa, Mexico, Miss USA 1985, on General Hospital 1964 Event Military coup of General Nguyen Khanh in South Vietnam 1964 Event 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 1963 Event General Amin al-Hafez becomes president of Syria 1963 Event Soap operas "General Hospital" and "Doctors" premier on TV 1963 Birthday 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 1962 Event U.N. General Assembly adopts resolution condemning South Africa 1962 Death Harlow H Curtice, President of General Motors (1953-8), dies at 69 1962 Birthday Genie Francis, Englewood, New Jersey, actress, General Hospital, Bare Essence 1962 Event OAS leader general Raoul Salan sentenced to life 1962 Event Lt General Marshall S Carter, USA, becomes deputy director of CIA 1962 Event General mobilization in Indonesia over New-Guinea 1962 Event General Charles P. Cabell, USAF, ends term as deputy director of CIA 1962 Event U.N. General Assembly censures Portugal (because of Angola) 1961 Event Indonesian President Sukarno proclaims general mobilization 1961 Event General Meeting of United Nations debates about New-Guinea 1961 Birthday Amy Gibson, actress, General Hospital 1961 Event General Assembly unanimously elects U Thant acting secretary general 1961 Event 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 1961 Death Walter Bedell Smith, U.S. general/WW II chief of staff, dies at 75 1961 Event Uprising of French parachutist of General Salan/Challe in Algeria 1961 Event U.N. General Assembly condemns South Africa's apartheid 1961 Birthday Chris Heyne, Offenbach Germ, WLAF General Manager for the Frankfurt Galaxy 1960 Event General Meeting of United Nations condemns apartheid 1960 Event Laos General Fumi Nosavang occupies Vientiane 1960 Event George Weiss, at 66, resigns as General Manager of New York Yankees 1960 Event Nikita Khrushchev pounds his shoe at United Nations General Assembly 1960 Event 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 1960 Birthday Emma Samms, Samuels, London, actress, Colby's, General Hospital 1960 Event 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 1958 Event General Abdul K Kassem forms a military government in Iraq 1958 Event 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 1956 Death 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 1955 Event 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 1955 Birthday Patricia J. Engfer, general manager, Hyatt Regency-Orlando 1955 Birthday Benny Alexander, secretary general, South Africa Pan-Africanist Movement 1955 Birthday Kate Ashbrook, general secretary, Open Spaces Society 1954 Event General Fulgencio Batista elected President of Cuba 1954 Event B. O. Davis, Jr. becomes 1st black general in USAF 1954 Event Kleffens appointed chairman of General Meeting U.N. 1954 Event Postmaster General Summerfield approves CIA mail-opening project 1954 Event Military coup by general Alfredo Stroessner in Paraguay 1954 Event Viet Minh General Giap opens assault on That Bien Phu 1954 Event General Zahedi wins election in Persia 1953 Event General Electric announces all Communist employees will be fired 1953 Event Dr. Albert Schweitzer and General George C Marshall win Nobel Peace Prize 1953 Event Dutch government proclaims 5% general pay increase on Jan 1, 1954 1953 Event General Fazlollah Zahedi arrests premier Mossadeq of Persia 1953 Event U.S. General Omar Bradley's becomes chief of staff 1953 Event Egypt proclaimed a republic, General Neguib becomes president 1953 Event Military coup by general Gustavo Rojas Pinilla in Colombia 1953 Death Damasco Berenguer y Fuste, Spanish General/Minister of War, dies at 79 1953 Event 1st general elections in British Guyana, won by Jagans PPP 1953 Event General Charles P Cabell, USAF, becomes deputy director of CIA 1953 Birthday Steve Bond, born in Haifa, Israel, actor, General Hospital, To Die For 1953 Event General Walter Bedell Smith, USA, ends term as 4th director of CIA Allen W Dulles, becomes acting director of CIA 1953 Event "General Electric Theater" premieres on CBS TV; Reagan later hosts 1953 Event 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 1952 Event General Naguib forms Egyptian government/becomes premier 1952 Event General Carlos Ibanez elected president of Chile 1952 Event General strike against overtime conscription in Belgium 1952 Event General Neguib seizes power, Monarchy overthrown in Egypt (National Day) 1952 Event General Eisenhower nominated as Republican presidential candidate 1952 Event Maurice Olley of General Motors begins designing the Corvette 1952 Birthday Gary Bettman, born in Queens, New York City, commissioner, National Hockey League, formerly, general counsel and president, National Basketball Association 1952 Event Military coup by general Fulgencio Batista in Cuba 1952 Death Theodorus Pangalos, Greek general/dictator 1926, dies at 74 1952 Event General strike against French colonial management in Tunisia 1952 Event Nehru's Congress party wins general election in India 1952 Death 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 1951 Event General Francisco Craveiro Lopes appointed President of Portugal 1951 Event U.S. General Collins predicts use of atom bomb in Korea 1951 Event Ticker-tape parade for General MacArthur in New York City 1951 Event General Douglas MacArthur ends his military career 1951 Event President Truman fires General Douglas McArthur 1951 Event German general F Christian freed early from Dutch prison 1950 Event General Eisenhower named NATO commander 1950 Event U.N. General Assembly establishes High Commission for Refugees (Nobel 1954) 1950 Event U.S. General Eisenhower becomes supreme commander of NATO-Europe 1950 Event Branch Rickey signs 5-yr contract as Vice President/General Manager of Pittsburgh Pirates 1950 Event Omar N. Bradley promoted to rank of 5-star general 1950 Event General Foods blacklists Jean Muir of Aldrich Family as a communist 1950 Event General Douglas MacArthur named commander-in-chief, United Nations forces in Korea 1950 Event U.S. General MacArthur visits front in South Korea and asks for U.S. troops 1950 Event General Motors reports net earnings of $656,434,232 (record) 1950 Event 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 1949 Event Brigadier General Edwin K. Wright, USA, ends term as deputy director of CIA 1949 Event 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 1948 Event U.N. General Assembly unanimously approves Convention on Genocide 1948 Event Batavia lieutenant governor general Of Mook dismissed 1948 Event W Gomulka deposed as general secretary of Polish Worker's party 1948 Event U.S. expels Soviet Consul General in New York, Jacob Lomakin 1948 Death John J Pershing, Black Jack, U.S. general (Mexico, WW I), dies at 87 1948 Event Greek General Markos' guerrilla army bombs Saloniki 1948 Death Johann Blaskowitz, German General (surrendered at Wageningen), dies at 64 1948 Death Herb Pennock, pitcher (New York Yankees)/General Manager (Phillies), dies 1948 Event General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade effective 1947 Death Franz X. Ritter von Epp, German General (SW Africa), dies at 79 1947 Death Joseph Cuvelier, Belgian historian/general, dies at 78 1947 Event U.N. General Assembly partitions Palestine between Arabs and Jews 1947 Event U.N. General assembly begins debate on printing their own stamps 1947 Event Dutch Queen Wilhelmina gives golden award to general Eisenhower 1947 Event Larry MacPhail resigns as Yankees General Manager after final game of World Series 1947 Event General MacArthur approves Japanese constitution 1947 Event Lt General Hoyt S Vandenberg, USA, ends term as 2nd head of CIA 1947 Event General Eisenhower opens drive to raise $170M in aid for European Jews 1947 Event 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 1947 Event General George Marshall becomes Secretary of State 1946 Event U.S. General MacNarney gives 800,000 "minor Nazi's" amnesty 1946 Event U.N. General Assembly votes to establish United Nations HQs in New York City 1946 Event 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 1946 Death Joseph W. Stilwell, U.S. general (China), dies 1946 Event Kwo-less-shrew selects General Chiang Kai-shek as president of China 1946 Death Andrei Vlasov, Russian general (Red Army, Wehrmacht) executed at 45 1946 Event 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 1946 Death Masaharu Homma, Lieutenant General (responsible for Bataan Death March), executed 1946 Event 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 1945 Event General Motors workers go on strike 1945 Birthday Denise Alexander, New York City, actress, General Hospital, Another World 1945 Event General Enver Hoxha becomes leader of Albania 1945 Event Japanese surrender Taiwan to General Chiang Kai-shek 1945 Event General Eisenhower welcomed in Hague (on Hitler's train) 1945 Event General MacArthur lands in Japan 1945 Event General MacArthur named Supreme Commander of Allied Powers in Japan 1945 Event After Labour landslide in general election, Clement Attlee becomes PM 1945 Event 55th Postmaster General: Robert E Hannegan of Mo takes office 1945 Event Imperial General Headquarters in Tokyo announce fall of Okinawa 1945 Death Lieutenant General Ushijima, Japanese commander, commits suicide at Okinawa 1945 Birthday D A S Pennefather, Major-General/Commandant, General Royal Marines 1945 Event General Von Keitel surrenders to Marshal Zhukov 1945 Event General J. Blaskowitz surrenders German troops in Netherlands 1945 Event Russia takes Berlin; General Weidling surrenders 1945 Event General Belgian Labor Union (ABVV) party forms 1945 Event General Blaskowitz becomes nazi leader of "Fort Holland" 1945 Event Nazi occupiers executed, Nazi general Christiansen flees Netherlands 1945 Death Maurice Rose, 1st U.S. general in Nazi Germany, killed in action at 45 1945 Event General Eisenhower declares German defenses on Western Front broken 1945 Event General Eisenhower, Montgomery and Bradley discuss advance in Germany 1945 Event British 43rd Division under General Essame occupies Xanten 1945 Event General Douglas MacArthur returns to Manila 1945 Event U.S. troops under General Douglas MacArthur enter Manilla 1945 Event General "Vinegar Joe" Stillwell and truck convoy reopen Burma Road to China 1945 Event U.S. soldiers led by General Douglas MacArthur invades Philippines 1945 Event Greek General Plastiras forms government 1944 Event General Eisenhowers train returns to Versailles 1944 Event Battle of Bastogne - U.S. General Patton's 4th Pantzers repulse Germans 1944 Event General Eisenhower's clerk Rickey marries corporal Pearlie 1944 Event U.S. Congress gives General Eisenhower his 5th star 1944 Event Congress establshes rank of General of Army (5-star General) 1944 Event General Radescu forms Romanian government 1944 Event British order to disarm, causes general strike in Greece 1944 Event General De Gaulle arrives in Moscow 1944 Event U.S. 7th army under General Patch conquers Straatsburg 1944 Event U.S. forces under General Douglas MacArthur return to Philippines 1944 Event Dutch General Mine Workers Union (ABWM) forms 1944 Event General Von Zangens 15th army escape from Zealand 1944 Event France 2nd Tank division under General Leclerc reaches Notre Dame 1944 Event General De Gaulle returns to Paris/walks Champs Elysees Paris 1944 Event General LeClercs troops open assault on Paris 1944 Event General George Leclercs troops advance towards Paris 1944 Event General Montgomery consults with Generals Bradley/Eisenhower 1944 Birthday Antonia Novello, 14th U.S. Surgeon General, 1990-92 1944 Event General de Gaulle returns to France 1944 Event General Bradley visits Montgomery 1944 Event U.S. 20th Army corp under general Walker occupies Nantes 1944 Event General Montgomery visits general Dempsey's headquarter 1944 Event General Montgomery takes command of 12th and 21st army 1944 Event General Koiso becomes premier of Japan 1944 Event General Eisenhower visits Montgomery's headquarter in Normandy 1944 Death Friedrich Olbricht, German general (July 20th plotter), executed 1944 Death Korten, chef General of Germany Luftwaffe, dies in bomb explosion 1944 Death Ludwig Beck, gen/chief Germany general staff (July 20th plot), dies 1944 Event General Bradley flies to England 1944 Event Polish troops under General Anders occupy Ancona Italy 1944 Event U.S. government recognizes authority of General De Gaulle 1944 Event French General De Gaulle arrives in Washington, D.C. 1944 Event U.S. General Patton lands in France 1944 Event Marshal von Kluge replaces General von Rundstedt 1944 Event General Eisenhower visits front in Normandy 1944 Event General Charles de Gaulle lands at Courselles, France 1944 Event General Montgomery lands in Normandy, forms HQ in Chateau de Creully 1944 Event General Eisenhower decides invasion set for June 6 1944 Event French general De Gaulle arrives in London 1944 Event General Montgomery/Patton/Bradley/Dempsey/Crerar meet in Portsmouth 1944 Birthday General George Norman Johnson, U.S. singer, Down at the Beach Club 1944 Event General Eisenhower sets D-Day for June 5th 1944 Birthday Canon P B Price, general secretary, USPG 1944 Event General Rommel, Speidel and von Stulpnagel attempt to assassinate Hitler 1944 Event Surprise attack by Van de Peat on General Landsdrukkerij in the Hague 1944 Event General Eisenhower becomes head commander of allied air fleet 1944 Event General Montgomery speaks to generals about invastion plan 1944 Event General Eisenhower postpones South France invasion until after Normandy 1944 Event General Eisenhower took command of Allied Invasion Force in London 1944 Event General Eisenhower arrives in England 1944 Event General Clark replaces General Patton as commander of 7th Army 1943 Event Franklin D. Roosevelt appoints General Eisenhower supreme commander of Allied forces 1943 Event General Montgomery told he is appointed commandant for D-day 1943 Event Soviet army under general Vatutin reconquer Romny 1943 Event General Eisenhower announce unconditional surrender of Italy in WW II 1943 Event General Castellano signs cease fire treaty in Sicily 1943 Event Red Army under General Vatutin recaptures Achtyrka 1943 Death Hans Jeschonnek, German air force general/chief-staff, commits suicide 1943 Event General Patton enters Messina, completing conquest of Sicily by Allies 1943 Event U.S. forces led by General George Patton liberate Palermo, Sicily 1943 Event 4th day of battle at Kursk: General Model uses last tank reserve 1943 Event General MacArthur begins Operation Cartwheel, island-hopping 1943 Event Argentina taken over by General Rawson and Col Juan Peron 1943 Event French general De Gaulle arrives in Algiers 1943 Event Premier Churchill and General Marshall fly from U.S. to North Africa 1943 Event Postmaster General Frank C Walker invents Postal Zone System 1943 Event General Alexander, Eisenhower, Anderson and Bradley discuss assault on Tunis 1943 Event General Montgomery occupies Sfax Tunisia 1943 Event Major General Bradley arrives in Dakar and Marrakesh 1943 Event German tanks under Brigadier General Buelowius attack Kasserine Pass Tunesia 1943 Event German assault on Sidi Bou Zid Tunisia, General Eisenhower visits front 1943 Event General Eisenhower departs Algiers to Tebessa 1943 Event General Eisenhower selected to command the allied armies in Europe 1943 Death ... Reydons, wife of General Reydons, shot to death by resistance 1943 Event Amsterdam resistance group CS-6 shoots nazi general Seyffardt 1943 Event General Friedrich von Paul surrenders to Russian troops at Stalingrad 1943 Birthday Sherian Grace Cadoria, brigadier general 1943 Event Russian offensive at Don under general Golikov 1942 Event North Africa: 5th German pantser army forms under Colonel General von Arnim 1942 Event Colonel General Von Paul asks Hitler to surrender 1942 Event Branch Rickey named president/General Manager of Brooklyn Dodgers 1942 Death Georg Stumme, German general/commandant of African corps, dies 1942 Event 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 1942 Death Von Bismarck, German major general, (Africa Corps), dies in battle 1942 Event General Paulus orders German 6th Army to conquer Stalingrad 1942 Birthday Robert Lee Stewart, Washington D.C., Brigadier General U.S. Army/astronaut, STS-41B, 51J 1942 Event General B. Montgomery becomes commandant British 8th leader in North Africa 1942 Event Churchill fires General Auchinlek as Middle-East commandant 1942 Event Colonel General Jeremenko arrives in Stalingrad/welcomed by Nikita Khrushchev 1942 Event Colonel General Hoth' Pantser army reaches Kotelnikovo 1942 Event Colonel General Von Paul' 6th Army enters Ukraine 1942 Event Colonel General Von Hoth' 6th Pantser enters Voronezj 1942 Event General Dwight Eisenhower appointed commander of U.S. forces in Europe 1942 Birthday William Bradford Reynolds, U.S. asst attorney general 1942 Event British offensive in North Africa under general Ritchie 1942 Event German offensive in North-Africa under Colonel General Rommel 1942 Event General MacArthur vows, "I shall return" 1942 Event General Doug MacArthur arrives in Australia to become supreme commander 1942 Event General MacArthur leaves Corregidor (Bataan) for Australia 1942 Birthday Phil Esposito, NHL center/General Manager, Bruins, Rangers 1942 Event Clinton Pierce becomes 1st U.S. general wounded in action in WW II 1942 Event General Timoshenko's troops move into Ukraine 1942 Event Lt General Rommels African corps reaches Msus 1942 Event William Knudsen becomes 1st civilian appointed a general in U.S. army 1942 Event 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 1941 Death Earnest Udet, German general/head air pioneer, commits suicide 1941 Event Czechoslovakian premier general Eliasj arrested by nazis 1941 Death GJ Berenschot, general/supreme commander Dutch East Indies army, dies 1941 Event General de Gaulle forms government in exile in London 1941 Event Italian army under general Aosta surrenders to Britain in Ethiopia 1941 Event General Mills introduces Cheerios 1941 Event British general Gambier-Parry caught in North Africa 1941 Event Lee MacPhail, Dodger General Manager predicts all players will wear batting helmets 1941 Birthday Ian McGarry, general secretary, British Actors' Equity Association 1941 Birthday Jeremy Mackenzie, general 1941 Event 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 1940 Event North Africa: British counter offensive under general O'Connor 1940 Event Willys unveiled its General Purpose vehicle - Jeep 1940 Event Benjamin O. Davis became 1st Black general in U.S. Army 1940 Event Col Bo Davis attains rank of Brigadier General 1940 Event U.S. Army General Benjamin Davis becomes 1st black general 1940 Event Benjamin Oliver Davis Sr named 1st black general in regular army 1940 Event 54th Postmaster General: Frank C. Walker of Pennsylvania takes office 1940 Event General George Marshall sworn in as chief of staff of U.S. army 1940 Event French colonies Cameroon/Congo-Brazzaville support General De Gaulle 1940 Event Clermont-Ferrand sentences General Charles de Gaulle to death 1940 Event General Charles de Gaulle on BBC tells French to defy nazi occupiers 1940 Event General De Gaulle departs Bordeaux for London 1940 Event General De Gaulle arrives in Bordeaux 1940 Event General Charles de Gaulle's 1st meeting with Winston Churchill 1940 Event General Von Bock starts German offensive in Somme 1940 Event General De Gaulle becomes under minister of Defense 1940 Event Hitler affirms General von Rundstedts "Stopbevel" 1940 Event General Guderians tanks reach The Channel (British expeditionary army) 1940 Event French counter attack at Peronne under General De Gaulle 1940 Event German troops occupy Amsterdam, General Winkelman surrenders 1940 Event Nazi's capture General Dutch Persbureau (ANP) 1940 Event 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 1939 Event General Reijnders appointed supreme commander of Dutch army 1939 Event Russian offensive under General Zjoekov against Japanese invasion in Mongolia 1939 Event Retired German Colonel General Gerd von Runstedt returns to service 1939 Birthday Martin Garrod, Commandant General Royal Marines 1939 Death [Karl Eduard] Wilhelm Groener, German general, dies at 71 1939 Birthday Ruth Ashton, general secretary, Royal College of Midwives 1939 Birthday 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 1938 Birthday Janet Reno, U.S. attorney general, 1993- 1938 Birthday Gene Michael, baseball shortstop/manager/general manger, New York Yankees 1938 Birthday Don Dolan, Staten Island, New York, actor, Guy Lewis- General Hospital 1938 Birthday Roy Thinnes, born in Chicago, Illinois, actor, Invaders, Falcon Crest, General Hospital 1938 Birthday Manuel Antonio Noriega, Panamanian general/dictator, -1990 1937 Death Erich Ludendorff, German general (WW I), dies at 72 1937 Death Bakr Sidqi, general/dictator of Iraq, dies 1937 Birthday John Cope, MP/Paymaster General 1937 Event General Douglas MacArthur marries Jean Faircloth 1937 Birthday Colin Powell, born in Bronx, New York, general and Secretary of State 1937 Birthday Roger Penske, born in Shaker Heights, Ohio, owner, Penske Racing, auto racing team, the Penske Corporation, corporate director, General Electric 1937 Event 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 1936 Event Spanish Civil War begins, General Francisco Franco led uprising 1936 Event Military uprising under General Franco/begins Spanish civil war 1936 Birthday John Shalikashvili, Polish/US general, NATO 1936 Birthday 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 1935 Death 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 1935 Event Military coup by General Pons and president Ibarra in Ecuador 1935 Event General Netherlands Persbureau (ANP) forms in Amsterdam 1935 Birthday Martin Garrod, Commandant General, Royal Marines 1935 Birthday Douglas Marland, West Sand Lake, New York, soap opera writer, General Hospital 1935 Event General Sarazen's double eagle on 15th, wins him his 2nd Masters 1935 Birthday Ruth Clarke, Moderator, General Assembly of the United Reform Church 1935 Event 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 1934 Birthday Manfred Worner, German General/Secretary-General, NATO, 1988-94 1934 Birthday 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 1934 Event 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 1933 Event 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 1932 Birthday Joe H. Engle, born in Abilene, Kansas, Brigadier General USAF/astronaut, STS-T-2, T-4, 2, 51I 1932 Birthday [Dick] Richard L Thornburgh, U.S. Attorney General, 1988-93 1932 Birthday William Odom, American, NASA director, Soviet Union expert, U.S. Army lieutenant general, advised Carter, Reagan 1932 Birthday 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 1931 Birthday Roy Evans, general sect, British Iron and Steel Trade Confederation 1931 Birthday Charles Huxtable, General commander, English ground armies 1931 Birthday John Chapple, British chief of General Staff 1931 Birthday James Weatherhead, moderator, General Assembly of Church of Scotland 1931 Birthday Mikhail Gorbachev, born in Privolnoye, U.S.S.R., Soviet Secretary General from 1985 - 1991 1931 Birthday Maxwell Thurman, U.S. General 1931 Event Spanish Government of General Damasco Berenguer falls 1930 Birthday Michael Collins, Rome, Major General USAF/astronaut, Gemini 10, Apollo 11 1930 Birthday 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 1929 Death Otto Liman von Sanders, German general in Turkey (WW I), dies at 74 1929 Birthday 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 1929 Event 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 1928 Event General Electric opens 1st TV-station (Schenectady, New York) 1928 Birthday Gordon Downey, British Comptroller General/Reader Rep, Independent 1928 Death Pjotr N Wrangel, Russian baron general, dies at 49 1928 Event 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 1928 Birthday Richard Trant, British general 1928 Birthday 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 1927 Event Chilean General Carlos Ibanez names himself president 1927 Event General strike against British occupiers in Shanghai 1927 Event Uprising against Portuguese regime of General Carmona defeated 1927 Event Buster Keaton's movie "The General" released and bombed 1927 Event Uprising against regime of general Carmona in Portugal 1926 Event Lithuanian military state under General Augustine Woldemaras 1926 Event Lester Patrick becomes 1st coach and General Manager of New York Rangers 1926 Birthday Emile Francis, NHL player/coach/General Manager, Rangers, Blues, Whalers 1926 Event Greek dictator General Pangulos driven out 1926 Birthday Lord Murray of Epping Forest, general secretary, TUC 1926 Event Failed assassination on General Primo de Rivera in Barcelona 1926 Event Coup under General Sinel de Cordes in Portugal 1926 Event Military coup by General Manuel Gomes da Costa in Portugal 1926 Event British general strike ends, but mine workers go on strike 1926 Event British general strike ends 1926 Event General Pilsudski sets coup on premier Witos compared 1926 Event General strike hits Britain 1926 Event British general strike-3 million workers support miners 1926 Event Francisco Franco becomes General of Spain 1926 Event Belgian chief of staff General Maglinse quits 1926 Event Greek General Theodorus Pangulos names himself dictator 1925 Event French General Sarrail bombs Damascus 1925 Event Greek premier Papanastasiou orders General Pangulos arrested 1925 Event General Pangulos disbands Greek parliament 1925 Event French General of Morocco, marshal Lyautey, is dismissed 1925 Birthday George Cooper, general 1925 Birthday Roger Smith, CEO, General Motors 1925 Event Military putsch under General Theodorus Pangulos in Greece 1925 Birthday Peter Leng, Master General of the Ordnance 1925 Death Aleksei Kuropatkin, Russian general/minister of War, dies at 76 1925 Birthday Brent Scowcroft, born in Ogden, Utah, Lieutenant General, USAF, National Security Council 1925 Event 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 1924 Event General Christian Worker's union demands 8 hour work day in Belgium 1924 Event French government names General Serrail Governor-General of Syria 1924 Event General Plutarco Calles elected president of Mexico 1924 Event Civil war breaks out in China, General Tsi moves to Shanghai 1924 Event Hitler sentenced to 5 years labor but General Ludendorff acquitted 1924 Death R G Nivelle, French general (Verdun), dies at 67 1924 Event 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 1923 Event General Otto von Lossow calls Reichswehr to Berlin to form a dictatorship 1923 Birthday Richard Kleindienst, attorney general, 1972 1923 Birthday Wojciech Jaruzelski, Polish general/president, 1989-90 1923 Death J C Gomez, General/Venezuela's 1st Vice President, assassinated 1923 Birthday Richard Worsley, quarter master General 1923 Event Attorney General says it is legal for women to wear trousers anywhere 1923 Birthday Lord Freyberg, British Colonel of General Staff 1923 Birthday Hugh Beach, British General 1923 Event General harbor strike begins in New York City 1923 Event General mine strike against wage cuts in Saar 1923 Birthday 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 1922 Event Italy's general strike against fascist violence 1922 Event 1st general election in Netherlands 1922 Event Stalin appointed General Secretary of Communist Party 1922 Death Christiaan R de Wet, South African Boer general, dies at 67 1922 Death 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 1921 Birthday Suharto, general/president Indonesia, 1967- 1921 Birthday 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 1920 Birthday Jack Harman, British general 1920 Event General Amos Fries appointed 1st U.S. Army chemical warfare chief 1920 Event General Wrangel opens offensive against red Army 1920 Birthday 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 1919 Event Italy agress to general voting right/proportional representation 1919 Event General John Smuts becomes premier of South Africa 1919 Birthday Lord Rawlinson, British attorney general, Ewell 1919 Event General steel strike in France 1919 Event General strike in Germany, crushed 1919 Event Communist Party in Germany announces a general strike 1919 Event 1st day of 5-day Seattle general strike 1918 Event Pro-German supreme commander general Cutters lay-offs 1918 Event 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 1917 Event 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 1917 Birthday William French Smith, Attorney General, 1981-85 1917 Event General Pershing and his HQ staff arrived in Paris during WW I 1917 Birthday Erich Geiringer, general practitioner campaigner 1916 Event German army under General Mackensen occupies Bucharest 1916 Event General Douglas Haig finally calls off 1st Battle of the Somme in Europe 1916 Event Second Chamber accept initial impetus to general males/female suffrage 1916 Birthday C Everett Koop, surgeon general, 1981-89 1916 Event 40,000 Amsterdam demonstrators demand general voting right 1916 Event General Von Hindenburg becomes German Chief of Staff 1916 Event General Douglas Haig reports "The men are in splendid spirits" 1916 Event 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 1916 Event U.S. troops under General Pershing march into Mexico 1916 Death Horatio H. Kitchener, British General of Sudan, drowns at 65 1916 Event Russian General Brusilov fails on his Eastern Front attack 1916 Death Joseph S Gallieni, General/military governor of Paris, dies 1916 Event Einstein's Theory of General Relativity presented 1916 Event General Pershing, 15,000 troops chasing Villa into Mexico, stays 10-mos 1916 Event 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 1915 Event Anti-British revolt in South Africa ends with arrest of General De Law 1915 Birthday Moshe Dayan, Israeli general/minister of Defense 1915 Birthday 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 1914 Birthday Creighton Abrams, U.S., army general, Vietnam War 1914 Death Jacobus Herculas de la Rey, Uncle Chose, Boer general, dies at 66 1914 Event General von Moltke ceases German advance in France 1914 Event British expeditionary army/general Lanrezacs army attacks the Marne 1914 Event General von Hausen and countess of France regime flees to Bordeaux 1914 Event General von Kluck decides not to attack Paris 1914 Death Aleksandr Samsonov, Russian general, commits suicide 1914 Event 4th day of Tannenberg: Russian Narev-army panics, General Martos caught 1914 Event Battle at St. Quentin: French counter attack under General Lanrezac 1914 Death ... Machagovsky, Russian general (Tannenberg), dies in battle 1914 Event Battle at Mons: general von Klucks troops beat Britten 1914 Event General von Hausen executes 612 inhabitants of Dinant Belgium 1914 Event Battle at Charleroi: General von Bulows troops beat French 1914 Event General Martos' troops occupy Soldau/Neidenburg East Prussia 1914 Death Raffenel, French general (3rd Colonial Div, WW I), dies in battle 1914 Death Rondoney, French general (3rd Colonial Div, WW I), dies in battle 1914 Event French troops under general Dubail occupy Sarrebourg 1914 Event French troops under General de Castelnau occupy Chateau Salins 1914 Death James Grierson, British general 1914 Event German army occupies last fort at Luik, Belgian general Leman caught 1914 Event British field marshal John French and General Wilson land in France 1914 Event French troops under General Bonneau occupy Mulhouse at Elzas 1914 Event French troops under General Bonneau occupy Altkitrch at Elzas 1914 Event Austrian-Hungary and Russia proclaim general mobilization 1914 Event German chief of staff/General von Moltke states ultimatum on Belgium 1914 Birthday Abdel Karim Kassem, general/premier/dictator of Iraq, 1958-63 1914 Birthday William Westmoreland, born in Saxon, South Carolina, army general, Vietnam era 1914 Event 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 1913 Birthday Bernard Charles Sendall, deputy director general, ITA 1913 Event Belgium begins general strike for voting rights 1913 Event 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 1911 Event 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 1911 Death Peter A "Piet" Cronje, South Africa Boer general, dies at about 75 1910 Event SDAP/NVV initiate campaign for general males/female suffrage 1910 Event 25,000 demonstrate in Amsterdam for general male/female suffrage 1910 Event Boers and Afrikaners win 1st general elections in Union of South Africa 1910 Birthday Baroness Phillips, president and general secretary, National Association of Women 1910 Birthday Lord Richardson, president, General Medical Council 1910 Birthday Geoffrey Musson, British General 1910 Event Belgian parliament rejects socialist motion for general voting rights 1910 Birthday Antonio Sebastiao Ribiero de Spinola, general/president Portugal 1910 Event William H. Lewis appointed asst attorney general of U.S. 1909 Birthday Whit Bissel, New York City, actor, Time Machine, General Kirk-Time Tunnel 1909 Birthday Andrew Herron, Moderator, General Assembly of Church of Scotland 1908 Event Carriage-maker, William Durant, founded General Motors Corp 1908 Event 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 1908 Birthday 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 1908 Birthday Edward Lansdale, general/model, Quiet American, Ugly American 1908 Event General Baden-Powell starts Boy-Scouts 1907 Birthday Mohammed Ayub Khan, general/premier/president, Pakistan 1907 Birthday 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 1906 Birthday Curtis E Le May, air force general/Vice Presidential candidate 1906 Birthday 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 1905 Event 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 1904 Event 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 1904 Event 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 1904 Death James Longstreet, Confederate general, dies at 82 1903 Birthday Douglas Packard, British Lt General 1903 Event General railroad strike against "worgwetten" (anti-strike laws) 1903 Birthday Frank Howley, Hampton, New York, Brigadier General, Answers for Americans 1903 Birthday Charles Foulkes, Canada, general 1902 Birthday Christian Castries, French general, Dien Bien Phu 1902 Birthday Hendrik J Kruls, Netherlands, general/chief military authority, 1944-46 1902 Birthday Walter Slezak, Vienna, actor, Bedtime for Bonzo, Inspector General 1902 Death ... Potgieter, South African Boer general, dies in battle 1902 Birthday 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 1902 Birthday Simon H. Spoor, Dutch gen/intelligence officer for General MacArthur 1901 Event Boer general Kritzinger captured 1901 Event Battle at Blood River Port: Boer General Botha beats Major Goughs cavalry 1901 Event Battle at Elands River Port: Boer General Smuts destroys unit 17th Lancers 1901 Event Boer General Smuts enters Kiba Drift in Cape Colony 1901 Birthday General Maxwell D Taylor, former U.S. Army chief of staff 1901 Event Boer general Kritzinger driven out of Cape colony 1901 Event SDAP demands general voting right/abolishing First Chamber 1901 Event Dutch troops under General Van Heutsz conquer Batu Ilie on Sumatra 1901 Event Boer general John Smuts and De la Rey conqueror Mud river Transvaal 1901 Birthday 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 1900 Event Boer army under General Kritzinger take Cape colony 1900 Birthday Ibrahim Abbud, general/premier Sudan, 1958-64 1900 Event General Redvers Buller returns to England 1900 Birthday Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco, Brazil general/president, 1964-67 1900 Event British General Buller occupies Lydenburg South Africa 1900 Birthday Andrei Vlasov, Russian general, Red Army, Wehrmacht 1900 Event Battle at Bergendal: General Buller beats Boer general Botha 1900 Event President Steyn/General De Law escape Brandwater Basin 1900 Event Boer general De la Rey captures Scots Greys and Lincolns 1900 Event General Luigi Pelloux resigns as premier of Italy 1900 Event Battle at Diamond Hill: British troops chase General Botha 1900 Birthday Herman J. Friedericy, H J Merlijn, writer, Last general 1900 Event Boer general Christian de Law occupiers British train depot Roodewal 1900 Birthday Sarah Miriam Peale, U.S., portrait painter, General Lafayette-1825 1900 Death Comte de Villebois-Marevil, French/South African general, dies in battle 1900 Event British garrison of Reddersberg surrenders to Boer general De Wet 1900 Event Brigadier General Broadwoods troops fall into guerrilla hands 1900 Death Pieter J Joubert [Smart Piet], South African general, dies at 69 1900 Event General Buller's troops relieve Ladysmith Natal 1900 Event Boer General Cronje surrenders to English in Pardenberg, South Africa 1900 Event General French relieves Kimberley/Cecil Rhodes 1900 Event British troops under General Buller occupy Vaal Krantz, Natal 1899 Event Battle of Magers' fountain - Boer leader Cronje vs. General Methuen 1899 Event 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 1899 Event Battle at Graspan, Cape colony: general Methuen beats Farmers 1899 Event Battle at Belmont, Cape colony: general Methuen beats Farmers 1899 Birthday Lyman L Lemnitzer, Marine Corps general, WW II 1899 Birthday Alfred M. Gruenther, U.S., commanding general of NATO, 1953-56 1898 Birthday Edwin E. Dwinger, German writer, General Vlassov 1898 Birthday George Jessel, toastmaster general/entertainer, Diary of Young Comic 1898 Birthday 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 1897 Event Oldsmobile begins operation as a General Motors Corp division 1897 Birthday 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 1896 Birthday Richard N Gale, English general/airborne commander, Normandy 1896 Birthday Trygve Halvdan Lie, born in Norway, 1st United Nations secretary general, 1946-52 1896 Event Italians governor of Eritrea, General Baldissera, reaches Massawa 1896 Death ... Dabormida, Italian general (Eritrea), dies of injuries 1896 Death ... Albertone, Italian general (Eritrea), dies in battle 1896 Death ... Arimondi, Italian general (Eritrea), dies in battle 1896 Death ... Dabormida, Italian general (Eritrea), dies in battle 1896 Birthday 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 1895 Birthday Walter Bedell Smith, U.S. general, WW II, head of CIA, 1950 - 1952 1895 Event Italian general Oreste Baratieri lands in Massawa, Eritrea 1895 Birthday Gabriel M-E-R Chevallier, French author, Le petit general 1895 Birthday Matthew B. Ridgway, U.S. general in WW II, China, Nicaragua, Korea, NATO 1894 Birthday Fritz Sauckel, German Nazi General of Labor 1894 Birthday Francisco H. Craveiro Lopes, Portuguese general and president, 1951-58 1893 Birthday Harlow H Curtice, President of General Motors, 1953-8 1893 Birthday Viscount Dunrossil, Scotland, Governor General of Australia, 1959 - 1961 1893 Death John Murray Corse, U.S. general (Union), dies on his 58th birthday 1893 Birthday Muhammad Zafrulla Khan, President of United Nations General Assembly, 1962-63 1892 Birthday Francisco Franco, y Bahamonde, Spanish General/dictator, 1936 - 1975 1892 Birthday 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 1892 Birthday 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 1891 Death 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 1890 Birthday Charles Wilson, President of General Motors, 1940 - 1953, Secretary of Defense, 1953 - 1957 1890 Event General Federation of Womans' Clubs founded 1890 Birthday 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 1888 Birthday 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 1886 Birthday 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 1885 Birthday 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 1885 Death General Edwin H K Freiherr von Manteuffel, mayor (Elzas-Lothar'n), dies 1885 Birthday Umberto Nobile, Italian general 1885 Event General Wolseley receives last distress signal of General Gordon in Khartoum 1884 Event General Gordon receives letter of Mahdi 1884 Event General Charles Gordon arrives in Khartoum 1884 Birthday Julis Deutsch, Austria politician/General Spanish rep army 1884 Event General Charles Gordon departs London for Khartoum 1883 Birthday Johann Blaskowitz, German general 1883 Birthday 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 1882 Event British General Wolseley reaches Cairo 1882 Event 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 1881 Death W Frederik K, prince of Netherlands/general/admiral, dies at 84 1881 Birthday Wladyslaw Sikorski, premier Poland, WW II general 1881 Death Ludwig A Benedek, Austrian general, dies at 76 1881 Birthday Enver Pasja, Turkish general and politician 1881 Event Battle at Amajuba, South Africa: Boers vs. British army under General Colley 1881 Death 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 1880 Event General Wolseley opens new legislative council in Pretoria 1880 Birthday Alvaro Obregon, general/president Mexico, 1920-24 1880 Birthday 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 1879 Birthday Henri-Honore Giraud, French general/member of parliament 1878 Birthday Alex E von Falkenhausen, German general, China, WW II 1878 Birthday Jose Moscardo Ituarte, Spanish general, Alcazar 1936 1878 Birthday Pjotr N Wrangel, Russian baron/general, White Armies, WW II 1878 Birthday Theodorus Pangalos, Greek general/dictator, 1926 1877 Death Willem Sassen, Dutch attorney general on Curaeao (Affair-S), dies 1877 Death 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 1876 Death Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, Mexican general (took Alamo), dies at 79 1876 Event General Crook destroy Cheyennes and Oglala-Sioux indian camps 1874 Event 28th Postmaster General: Marshall Jewell of Connecticut takes office 1874 Event Sydney General Post Office opens in Australia 1874 Event 27th Postmaster General: James W. Marshall of New Jersey takes office 1874 Event General J van Swieten conquerors Kraton Atjeh, after 1000's die 1873 Birthday Willem Roell, Dutch general/founder, Ordedienst 1873 Birthday Damasco Berenguer y Fuste, Spanish general/minister of War 1873 Birthday 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 1871 Event Indians fighter General Sherman escapes in ambulance vs Comanches 1871 Birthday Ioannis Metaxas, Greek general and dictator, 1936-41 1871 Death Charles Niellon, Belgian brigade general, dies at 76 1870 Death ... Prim, Spanish general, murdered 1870 Death 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 1868 Event Major General E R S Canby removes mayor of Columbia SC 1868 Event 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 1867 Birthday Carl Gustaf baron Mannerheim, general/president of Finland, 1944-46 1867 Birthday Maxime Weygard, French general/Governor-General, Algeria 1866 Event 25th Postmaster General: Alexander W Randall of Wis takes office 1866 Event U.S. Grant named 1st general of Army 1866 Event General Dutch Typographer Union forms 1866 Birthday Hans von Seeckt, German general, Future of the Reich 1866 Birthday 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 1865 Event Union General Granger declares slaves are free in Texas 1865 Event General Shermans "Haines's Bluff" at Snyder's Mill, Virginia 1865 Event 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 1865 Event Confederate General Johnson surrendered to General Sherman in North Carolina 1865 Event At Appomattox, General Lee issues General Order #9, his last 1865 Birthday Erich Ludendorff, general, Germany 1865 Death Ambrose Powell Hill, Confederate general, killed in action at 39 1865 Event General Pickette moves to 5 Forks, abandoning the defense of Peterburg 1865 Event SS General Lyon at Cape Hatteras catches fire and sinks, killing 400 1865 Event General Sherman/Cox' troops reach Goldsboro North Carolina 1865 Event General Sherman's Union forces occupies Fayetteville, North Carolina 1865 Event General Early's army is defeated at Waynesborough 1865 Event Robert E. Lee appointed Confederate General in Chief 1865 Event General Sherman's march through South Carolina begins 1865 Event General Robert E Lee named Commander-in-Chief of Confederate Armies 1865 Event Confederate Brigadier General John Pegram marries Hetty Cary 1865 Event General Wm Sherman issues Field Order #15 (land for blacks) 1864 Event General Sherman conquers Savannah 1864 Event General Shermans armies reach Savannah and 12 day siege begins 1864 Event Union General O Howard orders plunderers, shot to death 1864 Event Union General William T Sherman begins march to sea during Civil War 1864 Event Union Major General Sherman burns Atlanta 1864 Event Union General Samuel R Curtis defeats Confederate General Stirling Price 1864 Event U.S. Brigadier General Emory Upton (25) promoted to general-major 1864 Event Battle of Fisher's Hill, Virginia, General Early Retreats to Brown's Gap 1864 Event Union General William T Sherman captures Atlanta 1864 Event Confederate General Joe Wheeler besieges Dalton, Georgia 1864 Event Ulysses S. Grant is named General of Volunteers 1864 Event Battle of the Crater: General Burnsides fails on attack of Petersburg 1864 Event CSA President Davis replaces General Joe Johnston with John Bell Hood 1864 Event Confederate forces led by General J Early begin invasion of Washington D.C. 1864 Event General Early and Confederate forces reach Winchester en route to Washington D.C. 1864 Event General John B Hood replaces General Johnston 1864 Event Union General Grant begin siege of Petersburg, Virginia 1864 Event Battle for Petersburg begins as General Grant assaults Confederate line 1864 Death Leonidas Polk, general, killed in action in Battle of Pine Mt 1864 Event Battle at Cynthiana Kentucky: General Hobsons unit caught 1864 Event General Lee wins his last victory of Civil War at Battle of Cold Harbor 1864 Event General David Hunter takes command of Department of West Virginia 1864 Death J E B Stuart, Confederate General, dies at 31 1864 Event General J E B Stuart is mortally wounded at Yellow Tavern 1864 Event Battle of Wilderness, General Longstreet seriously injured 1864 Event General Sherman begins advance to Atlanta Georgia 1864 Event General Grant's Army at Potomac attacks at Rappahannock 1864 Event Battle of Jenkin's Ferry, Arkansas; General W R Scurry is killed 1864 Event General Steeles' Union troops occupies Camden, Arkansas 1864 Event Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest captures Fort Pillow, Tennessee 1864 Event Battle of Mansfield, Louisiana Federals routed by General Richard Taylor 1864 Event Union General Steeles troops reach Arkadelphia Arkansas 1864 Event General Longstreet's command ends heavy fighting at Dandridgem TN 1864 Event 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 1863 Death Lewis Addison Armistead, Confederate Brigadier General Gettysburg/dies in battle at 46 1863 Event U.S. General George Meade replaces General Hooker to be more aggressive 1863 Death Edward Payson Chapin, Union Brigadier General, dies at 31 1863 Event General Grant begins siege on Vicksburg 1863 Death Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson, Confederate general (Civil War), dies 1863 Event Rebel General Earl Van Dorn attacks at Franklin, Tennessee 1863 Birthday Godfried CE van Daalen, Dutch general/governor of Atjeh 1863 Event General Joseph Hooker replaces Burnside as head of Army of Potomac 1863 Event Union General Burnside's "Mud March" 1863 Event General Mieroslawski appointed dictator of Poland 1863 Event General McClernand's Union troops surround Fort Hindman Ark 1862 Event Battle of Chichasaw Bayou: confederate armies defeat General Sherman 1862 Event Union General Ben "Beast" Butler is proclaimed a "felon, outlaw and common enemy of mankind" by Jefferson Davis 1862 Event General U.S. Grant issues order #11, expelling Jews from Tennessee 1862 Death George Dashiell Bayard, Union Brigadier General, dies at 27 1862 Event Confederate army of Tennessee, organizes under General Braxton Bragg 1862 Death Charles Davis Jameson, U.S. Union Brigadier General (Fair Oaks), dies at 35 1862 Event Major General Earl Van Dorn assumes command of Confederate troops in Missisippi 1862 Event General Read army pulls out of Antietam Creek Virginia 1862 Event General Bragg's army surrounds 4,000 federals at Munfordville, Kentucky 1862 Event General Lee invades North with 50,000 Confederate troops 1862 Event Secretary of War authorizes General Rufus Saxton to arm 5,000 slaves 1862 Event General Lee's adjutant major Stuart captured 1862 Event General John Hunt Morgan and his raiders capture Gallatin, TX 1862 Event 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 1862 Event Lincoln appoints General Halleck general-in-chief 1862 Event General John Hunt Morgan captures Tompkinsville, Kentucky 1862 Event U.S. Army of Virginia established under General John Pope 1862 Event General JEB Stuart completes his "ride around McClellan" 1862 Event General B. Butler orders William Mumford hanged after he removed and destroyed U.S. flag on display over New Orleans Mint 1862 Death Turner Ashby, General, killed near Harrisonburg VA, dies at 33 1862 Event General Robert E Lee takes command of Confederate armies of E Virginia and NC 1862 Event General Lee assumes command after Joe Johnston is injured at 7 Pines 1862 Event Battle of Booneville, Mississippi - captured General Beauregard evacuates Corinth 1862 Event General Benjamin F Butler delegates "Woman Order" of NO to be his whores 1862 Event Yorktown, Virginia - McClellan halted his troop before town as it is full of armed torpedoes left by CS Brigadier General Gabrial Rains 1862 Event James Andrews steals Confederate train (General) at Kennesaw, Georgia 1862 Death Albert Sidney Johnston, U.S. Confederate general, dies in battle at 59 1862 Event General John Hunt Morgan begins 4 days of raids near Gallatin, Tennessee 1862 Event Battle of New Bern NC: General Burnside conquers New Bern 1862 Event General Stonewall Jackson evacuates Winchester Virginia Army of the Potomac, General Henry Halleck is named general-in-chief 1862 Event General Pope lays siege in front of New Madrid 1862 Event Ft. Donelson captured by General Grant (1,400 confederates surrender) 1862 Event General Ulysses S. Grant captures Fort Henry in Tennessee 1862 Event Lincoln issues General War Order #1, calling for a Union offensive McClellan ignores order 1862 Death Felix Zollicoffer, General killed after mistakenly riding into Union lines 1861 Birthday William Crapo Durant, founded General Machine 1861 Event General George B. McClellan made general in chief of Union armies 1861 Event General Grant occupies Paducah Kentucky 1861 Event Union General George McClellan takes command from McDowell of Potamic Army 1861 Event Skirmish at Taylor Mountain, (W)Virginia - CS General Wise retreats 1861 Event Manassas, Virginia General Beauregard requests reinforcements for his 22,000 men, General Johnston is ordered to Manassas 1861 Event General McDowell advances toward Fairfax Courthouse, Virginia with 40,000 troops 1861 Event Battle of Laurel Mountain Virginia - General Morris forces retreat of rebels 1861 Event CS General Sibley is given command of rebel troops in New Mexico territory 1861 Event Battle of Carthage, Missouri - U.S. General Sigel attacks pro-secessionist 1861 Event Colonal Jackson receives his commission as brigadier general 1861 Event Battle of Boonville, MI-Brigadier General Lyon defeats Confederate forces 1861 Event General Beauregard is given command of Confederate Alexandria Line 1861 Event Postmaster General Blair announces end of postal connection with South 1861 Event Major General Benjamin Butler declares slaves "contraband of war" 1861 Event 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 1852 Death 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 1848 Birthday Aleksei Kuropatkin, Russian general and minister of War 1847 Event U.S. Marines under General Scott enter Mexico City (halls of Montezuma) 1847 Event American-Mexican war: U.S. General Winfield Scott captures Mexico City 1847 Event U.S. under General Scott defeat Mexicans at Battle of Molino del Rey 1847 Event U.S. General Scott occupies Vera Cruz Mexico 1846 Event U.S. troops under General Taylor occupies Monterey Mexico 1846 Event General Stephen W Kearney's U.S. forces captures Santa Fe, New Mexico 1846 Event 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 1841 Birthday [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 1840 Birthday Thomas Fentress Toon, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1840 Birthday William Francis Bartlett, Major General Union volunteers 1840 Birthday James Dearing, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1840 Birthday John Herbert Kelly, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1840 Birthday Edmund Kirby, Jr., Brigadier General Union volunteers 1840 Birthday John Doby Kennedy, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1839 Birthday Redvers H Buller, English general/large landowner: Natal 1839 Birthday George Armstrong Custer, Major General Union volunteers 1839 Event British troops under General Charles Napier occupy Beirut 1839 Birthday Emory Upton, Major General Union Army 1839 Birthday Nelson Appleton Miles, Major General Union volunteers 1839 Birthday John Decatur Barry, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1839 Birthday William Henry Seward, Jr., Brigadier General Union volunteers 1839 Birthday Cyrus Hamblin, Major General Union volunteers 1839 Birthday Francis Fessenden, Major General Union volunteers 1839 Birthday Seldon Connor, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1838 Birthday John Grant Mitchell, Major General Union volunteers 1838 Birthday Edwin Henry Stoughton, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1838 Birthday Basil Wilson Duke, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1838 Birthday Thomas Benton Smith, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1838 Birthday Gilbert Moxley Sorrel, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1838 Birthday James Barbour Terrill, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1838 Birthday Charles Carroll Walcott, Major General Union volunteers 1838 Birthday Charles Stratton, General Tom Thumb, famous short person 1838 Birthday William Hugh Young, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1837 Birthday John Carpenter Carter, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1837 Birthday William Wells, Major General Union volunteers 1837 Birthday Charles Garrison Harker, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1837 Birthday James Lawlor Kiernan, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1837 Birthday Ellison Capers, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1837 Birthday James Harrison Wilson, Major General Union volunteers 1837 Birthday Elon John Farnsworth, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1837 Birthday Martin Davis Hardin II, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1837 Birthday Victor Jean Baptiste Girardey, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1837 Birthday Eli Long, Major General Union Army 1837 Birthday Stephen Dodson Ramseur, Major General Confederate Army 1837 Birthday William Henry Fitzhugh "Rooney" Lee, Major General Confederate Army 1837 Birthday Robert Frederick Hoke, Major General Confederate Army 1837 Birthday James Sanks Brisbin, Major General Union volunteers 1837 Birthday Horace Porter, Brigadier General Union Army 1837 Birthday Stephen Dodson Ramseur, Major General Confederate Army 1837 Birthday Robert Daniel Johnston, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1837 Birthday Francis Jay Herron, Major General Union volunteers 1837 Birthday James Phillip Simms, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1836 Birthday John Thomas Croxton, Major General Union volunteers 1836 Birthday Maximo Gomez, Bana, general, Cuba 1836 Birthday Pierce Manning Butler Young, Major General Confederate Army 1836 Birthday Thomas Lafayette Rosser, Major General Confederate Army 1836 Birthday George Washington Gordon, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1836 Birthday John McCausland, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1836 Birthday Joseph Wheeler II, Major General, Confederacy/Cavalry/Army of Tennessee 1836 Birthday Evander McIvor Law, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1836 Birthday Henry Eugene Davies, Major General Union volunteers 1836 Birthday Thomas Wilberforce Egan, Major General Union volunteers 1836 Birthday Edwin Gray Lee, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1836 Birthday James Patrick Major, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1836 Birthday Bryan Morel Thomas, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1836 Birthday Matthew Calbraith Butler, Major General, Confederate Army 1836 Birthday Benjamin Franklin Potts, Major General Union volunteers 1836 Birthday James Meech Warner, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1836 Birthday [Hugh] Judson Kilpatrick, Major General Union volunteers 1835 Birthday George Dashiell Bayard, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1835 Birthday Micah Jenkins, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1835 Birthday Frank Crawford Armstrong, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1835 Birthday Fitzhugh Lee, Major General Confederate Army 1835 Birthday Americus Vespucius Rice, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1835 Birthday Elliott Warren Rice, Major General Union volunteers 1835 Birthday Lunsford Lindsay Lomax, Major General Confederate Army 1835 Birthday Godfrey Weitzel, Union volunteers Major general 1835 Birthday Adelbert Ames, Major General Union Army 1835 Birthday Robert Houston Anderson, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1835 Birthday William Hicks "Red" Jackson, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1835 Birthday Joseph Hayes, Major General Union volunteers 1835 Birthday William Wirt Allen, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1835 Birthday William Gaston Lewis, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1835 Birthday Theodore Washington Brevard, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1835 Birthday James William Forsyth, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1835 Birthday Edward Porter Alexander, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1835 Birthday Newton Martin Curtis, Major General Union volunteers 1835 Birthday Alfred Napoleon Alexander "Natti" Duffie, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1835 Birthday Charles Ewing, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1835 Birthday Alexander Stuart Webb, Major General Union Army 1835 Birthday Oliver Edwards, Major General Union volunteers 1835 Birthday Charles Russell Lowell, Jr., Brigadier General Union volunteers 1834 Birthday Thomas Edward Greenfield Ransom, Major General Union volunteers 1834 Birthday Joseph Jackson Bartlett, Major General Union volunteers 1834 Birthday Stephen Hinsdale Weed, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1834 Birthday Wager Swayne, Major General Union volunteers 1834 Birthday Dudley McIver DuBose, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1834 Birthday Francis Marion Cockrell, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1834 Birthday William MacRae, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1834 Birthday Nathaniel Harrison Harris, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1834 Birthday Daniel McCook, Jr., Brigadier General Union volunteers 1834 Birthday Wesley Merritt, Major General Union volunteers 1834 Death Marquis de Lafayette, French general, dies 1834 Birthday William Rufus Terrill, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1834 Birthday Francis Asbury Shoup, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1834 Birthday William Dorsey Pender, Major General Confederate Army 1834 Birthday Robert Sanford Foster, Major General Union volunteers 1834 Birthday Albert Lindley Lee, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1833 Birthday Charles Miller Shelley, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1833 Birthday James Thadeus Holtzclaw, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1833 Birthday Louis Douglass Watkins, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1833 Birthday Edward Dorr Tracy, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1833 Birthday Cyrus Bussey, Major General Union volunteers 1833 Birthday James Deering Fessenden, Major General Union volunteers 1833 Birthday Henry Alanson Barnum, Major General Union volunteers 1833 Birthday Stephen Dill Lee, Lieutenant General Confederate Army 1833 Birthday Charles Jackson Paine, Major General Union volunteers 1833 Birthday William Price Sanders, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1833 Birthday Powell Clayton, born in Bethel Pennsylvania, Brigadier General Union volunteers, Arkansas Governor 1868 - 1871, Republican 1833 Birthday John Wesley Turner, Major General Union Army 1833 Birthday Lucius Eugene Polk, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1833 Birthday Alfred Thomas Archimedes Torbert, Major General Union Army 1833 Birthday Edward Moody McCook, Major General Union volunteers 1833 Birthday John Rogers Cooke, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1833 Birthday Frank Wheaton, Major General Union Army 1833 Birthday David McMurtrie Gregg, Major General Union volunteers 1833 Birthday James Edward Rains, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1833 Birthday Thomas Howard Ruger, Major General Union volunteers 1833 Birthday John Sappington Marmaduke, Major General Confederate Army 1833 Birthday Clement Anselm Evans, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1833 Birthday James Deshler, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1833 Birthday William Whedbee Kirkland, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1833 Birthday James Ewell Brown "JEB" Stuart, Major General Confederate Army 1833 Birthday Charles George Gordon, London, general, China, Khartoum 1833 Birthday John Randolph Chambliss, Jr., Brigadier General Confederate Army 1832 Birthday Thomas Alfred Smyth, Major General Union volunteers 1832 Birthday Edward Hatch, Major General Union volunteers 1832 Birthday John Henry Ketcham, Major General Union volunteers 1832 Birthday Daniel Harris Reynolds, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1832 Birthday Archibald Gracie, Jr., Brigadier General Confederate Army 1832 Birthday George Henry Chapman, Major General Union volunteers 1832 Birthday William Woods Averell, Major General Union Army 1832 Birthday George Crockett Strong, Major General Union volunteers 1832 Birthday Henry Harrison Walker, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1832 Birthday Theodore Shelton Bowers, Brigadier General Union Army 1832 Birthday Samuel Sprigg Carroll, Major General Union Army 1832 Birthday George Washington Custis Lee, Major General Confederate Army 1832 Birthday Randall Lee Gibson, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1832 Birthday James Alexander Walker, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1832 Birthday Alexander Chambers, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1832 Birthday Thomas Ogden Osbord, Major General Union volunteers 1832 Birthday Edward Harland, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1832 Birthday George Doherty Johnston, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1832 Birthday James Hewett Ledlie, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1832 Birthday Walter Quintin Gresham, Major General Union volunteers 1832 Birthday Charles Camp Doolittle, Major General Union volunteers 1832 Birthday William Ruffin Cox, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1832 Birthday William Henry Penrose, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1832 Birthday Orlando Metcalfe Poe, Brigadier General, Union volunteers 1832 Birthday Camille Armand Jules Marie de Polignac, Major General Confederate Army 1832 Birthday John Brown Gordon, Major General Confederate Army 1832 Birthday John Pegram, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1832 Birthday Richard Waterhouse, Jr., Brigadier General Confederate Army 1831 Birthday Adam Badeau, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1831 Birthday Lucius Fairchild, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1831 Birthday Robert Ogden Tyler, Major General Union Army 1831 Birthday Joshua Woodrow Sill, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1831 Birthday John Franklin Miller, Major General Union volunteers 1831 Birthday Daniel Butterfield, Major General Union volunteers 1831 Birthday Claudius Charles Wilson, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1831 Birthday John McAlister Schofield, Major General Union volunteers 1831 Death Henry van Wine, archivist/founder General Rijksarchief, dies at 91 1831 Birthday ? Gist, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1831 Birthday Stephen Gano Burbridge, Major General Union volunteers 1831 Birthday Edward Payson Chapin, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1831 Birthday William Dwight, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1831 Birthday William Thomas Clark, Major General Union volunteers 1831 Birthday Marcus Joseph Wright, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1831 Birthday Otho French Strahl, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1831 Birthday Benjamin Hardin Helm, Brigadier General, Confederate, Lincoln's brother-in-law 1831 Birthday John Bell Hood, General Confederate Army 1831 Birthday Alexander McDowell McCook, Major General Union volunteers 1831 Birthday George Burgwyn Anderson, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1831 Birthday Grenville Mellen Dodge, Major General Union volunteers 1831 Birthday Edward Cary Walthall, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1831 Birthday Edward Aylesworth Perry, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1831 Birthday John Bratton, Old Reliable, U.S. physician/Confederate Brigadier General 1831 Birthday Philip Henry Sheridan, born in Albany, New York, Major General, Union Army 1831 Birthday Hiram Bronson Granbury, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1831 Birthday John Aaron Rawlins, Major General Union Army 1831 Birthday Cyrus Ballou Comstock, Major General Union volunteers 1831 Birthday Henry Brevard Davidson, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1831 Birthday Pieter J Joubert, general, South Africa 1831 Birthday Edward Ferrero, Major General Union volunteers 1831 Birthday John Bullock Clark, Jr., Brigadier General Confederate Army 1831 Birthday James Ronald Chalmers, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1830 Birthday John Frederick Hartranft, Major General Union volunteers 1830 Birthday Allen Thomas, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1830 Birthday Joseph Orville Shelby, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1830 Birthday Patrick Henry Jones, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1830 Birthday Albert Gallatin Jenkins, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1830 Birthday Oliver Otis Howard, Major General Union volunteers 1830 Birthday John Stevens Bowen, Major General Confederate Army 1830 Birthday Stephen Elliott, Jr., Brigadier General Confederate Army 1830 Event General Trade Journal newspaper begins publishing in Amsterdam 1830 Birthday Jeremiah Cutler Sullivan, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1830 Birthday John Parker Hawkins, Major General Union Army 1830 Birthday William Babcock Hazen, Major General Union volunteers 1830 Birthday Alvan Cullem Gillem, Major General Union volunteers 1830 Birthday William Sooy Smith, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1830 Birthday Richard Henry Jackson, Major General Union volunteers 1830 Birthday John Bordenave Villepigue, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1830 Birthday Rochard Montgomery Gano, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1830 Birthday Edward Winslow Hinks, Major General Union volunteers 1830 Birthday George Lucas Hartsuff, Major General Union volunteers 1830 Birthday Laurence Simmons Baker, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1830 Birthday George Pierce Doles, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1830 Birthday John Converse Starkweather, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1830 Birthday Davis Tillson, Major General Union volunteers 1830 Birthday Eugene Asa Carr, Major General Union Army 1830 Birthday William Felix Brantley, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1830 Birthday Marcellus Monroe Crocker, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1830 Birthday William Henry Fitzhugh Payne, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1830 Birthday Gaston AA Marquis de Gallifet, French general/Minister of War, 1899-1900 1830 Birthday George Blake Cosby, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1830 Birthday Gouverneur Kemble Warren, Major General Union volunteers 1830 Birthday , Samuel, Emerson Opdycke, Major General Union volunteers 1829 Birthday James Clay Rice, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1829 Birthday Green Berry Raum, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1829 Birthday William Passmore Carlin, Major General Union Army 1829 Birthday Samuel Wylie Crawford, Major General Union Army 1829 Birthday Christopher Columbus Andres, Major General Union volunteers 1829 Birthday Charles Sidney Winder, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1829 Birthday Lucius Marshall Walker, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1829 Birthday Dandridge McRae, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1829 Birthday Bradley Tyler Johnson, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1829 Birthday Giles Alexander Smith, Major General Union volunteers 1829 Birthday James St. Clair Morton, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1829 Birthday William Worth Belknap, Major General Union volunteers 1829 Birthday George Crook, Major General Union volunteers 1829 Birthday Seth Maxwell Barton, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1829 Birthday James Conner, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1829 Birthday John Horace Forney, Major General Confederate Army 1829 Birthday Thomas Ewing, Jr., Major General, Union volunteers 1829 Birthday Milo Smith Hascall, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1829 Birthday Robert Brown Potter, Major General Union volunteers 1829 Birthday John Baillie McIntosh, Major General Union Army 1829 Birthday George Peabody Estey, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1829 Birthday Robert Emmet Rodes, Major General Confederate Army 1829 Birthday William Robertson Boggs, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1829 Birthday Carl Schurz, Major General Union volunteers and journalist 1829 Death Adam A earl von Neipperg, Austrian general, dies at 53 1829 Birthday Johnson Hagood, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1829 Birthday Jean Jacques Alfred Mouton, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1829 Birthday Alfred Iverson, Jr., Brigadier General Confederate Army 1829 Birthday William Anderson Pile, Major General Union volunteers 1829 Birthday John Potts Slough, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1829 Birthday Alfred Cummings, Georgia, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1828 Birthday Mark Perrin Lowrey, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1828 Birthday John Beatty, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1828 Birthday Clinton Bowen Fisk, Major General Union volunteers 1828 Birthday Robert Bullock, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1828 Birthday William McComb, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1828 Birthday James Birdseye MacPherson, Major General Union volunteers 1828 Birthday Byron Grimes, Major General Confederate Army 1828 Birthday Jacob Dolson Cox, Major General Union volunteers 1828 Birthday Turner Ashby, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1828 Death Count d'Andreossi, French general/parliament leader, dies at 67 1828 Birthday Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, Major General Union volunteers 1828 Birthday George Leonard Andrews, Major General Union volunteers 1828 Birthday William Alexander Hammond, Brigadier General Union Army 1828 Birthday George Hume "Maryland" Steuart, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1828 Birthday Joseph Bradford Carr, Major General Union volunteers 1828 Birthday Cuvier Grover, Major General Union Army 1828 Birthday John Rutter Brooke, Major General Union volunteers 1828 Birthday Roger Atkinson Pryor, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1828 Birthday James Johnston Pettigrew, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1828 Birthday John Austin Wharton, Major General Confederate Army 1828 Birthday Junius Daniel, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1828 Birthday Alexander William Campbell, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1828 Birthday Alpheus Baker, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1828 Birthday James William Reilly, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1828 Birthday Adin Ballou Underwood, Major General Union volunteers 1828 Birthday Robert Brank Vance, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1828 Birthday George Baird Hodge, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1828 Birthday Charles William Field, Major General Confederate Army 1828 Birthday Patrick Ronayne Cleburne, Major General Confederate Army 1828 Birthday Elisha Franklin "Bull" Paxton, Brigadier General, Confederate Army 1828 Birthday Jefferson Columbus Davis, Major General Union Army 1828 Birthday James Fleming Fagan, Major General Confederate Army 1828 Birthday Robert Alexander Cameron, Major General Union volunteers 1828 Birthday Robert Ransom, Jr., Major General Confederate Army 1828 Birthday Thomas Carmichael Hindman, Major General Confederate Army 1828 Birthday Samuel Allen Rice, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1828 Birthday Adam Jacoby Slemmer, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1828 Birthday Calvin Edward Pratt, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1828 Birthday Lewis Addison Grant, Major General Union volunteers 1828 Event 1st edition of Amsterdam General Trade Journal (Algemeen Handelsblad) 1828 Birthday August Valentine Kautz, Major General Union Army 1827 Birthday Robert Latimer McCook, volunteers Brigadier General, Union 1827 Birthday Alfred Moore Scales, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1827 Birthday Isaac Munroe St. John, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1827 Birthday Isaac Wistar, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1827 Birthday Alfred Howe Terry, Major General Union volunteers 1827 Birthday James Sidney Robinson, Major General Union volunteers 1827 Birthday Edmund Jackson Davis, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1827 Birthday Kenner Garrard, Major General Union Army 1827 Birthday Henry Warner Slocum, Major General Union volunteers 1827 Birthday John Grubb Parke, Major General Union volunteers 1827 Birthday Michael Corcoran, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1827 Birthday John Morrison Oliver, Major General Union volunteers 1827 Birthday Walter Husted Stevens, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1827 Birthday Joseph Anthony Mower, Major General Union volunteers 1827 Birthday Julius Adolph de Lagnel, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1827 Birthday James Murrell Shackelford, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1827 Birthday William Montague Browne, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1827 Birthday Beverly Holcombe Robertson, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1827 Birthday Reuben Lindsay Walker, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1827 Birthday Francis Engle Patterson, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1827 Birthday Charles Edward Hovey, Major General Union volunteers 1827 Birthday William Hopkins Morris, Major General Union volunteers 1827 Birthday John Gibbon, Major General Union volunteers 1827 Birthday Lewis Wallace, Major General Union volunteers and author, Ben Hur 1827 Birthday Alexander Shaler, Major General Union volunteers 1827 Birthday John Robert Jones, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1827 Birthday William Richard Terry, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1827 Birthday Henry DeLamar Clayton, Major General Confederate Army 1827 Birthday Richard W. Johnson, Major General Union Army 1827 Birthday Charles Davis Jameson, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1827 Birthday James Barnet Fry, Major General Union Army 1827 Birthday Edward Stuyvesant Bragg, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1827 Birthday Charles Robert Woods, Major General Union Army 1827 Birthday Abner Monroe Perrin, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1827 Birthday John Calvin Brown, Major General Confederate Army 1827 Birthday John Wesley Frazer, Brigadier General Confederate Army, die in 1906 1827 Death Frederick of York, English duke/bishop/general, dies at 63 1827 Birthday William Lewis "Old Tige" Cabell, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1826 Birthday James Scott Negley, Union volunteers Major General 1826 Birthday John Benjamin Sanborn, Major General Union volunteers 1826 Birthday George Brinton McClellan, Major General Union Army 1826 Birthday William Mahone, Major General Confederate Army 1826 Birthday George Washington Deitzler, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1826 Birthday John McArthur, Major General Union volunteers 1826 Birthday Jasper Adalmorn Maltby, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1826 Birthday Robert Hopkins Hatton, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1826 Birthday William Haines Lytle, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1826 Birthday Hugh Boyle Ewing, Major General Union volunteers 1826 Birthday Lafayette Curry Baker, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1826 Birthday Matt Whitaker Ransom, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1826 Birthday Thomas John Lucas, Major General Union volunteers 1826 Birthday Frank Stillman Nickerson, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1826 Birthday William Denison Whipple, Major General Union Army 1826 Birthday James Gillpatrick Blunt, Major General Union volunteers 1826 Birthday Benjamin Henry Grierson, Major General Union volunteers 1826 Birthday Robert Kingston Scott, Major General Union volunteers 1826 Birthday Green Clay Smith, Major General Union volunteers 1826 Birthday Thomas Hewson Neill, Major General Union volunteers 1826 Birthday Philip Dale Roddey, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1826 Event General Congress of South American States assembles at Panama 1826 Birthday John Alexander Logan, Major General Union volunteers 1826 Birthday Halbert Eleazer Paine, Major General Union volunteers 1826 Birthday Richard Taylor, Lieutenant General Confederate Army 1826 Birthday Charles Cruft, Major General Union volunteers 1825 Birthday Francis Trowbridge Sherman, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1825 Birthday Romeyn Beck Ayres, Major General Union Army 1825 Birthday Charles Griffin, Major General Union volunteers 1825 Birthday Henry Heth, Major General Confederate Army 1825 Birthday Edward Augustus Wild, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1825 Birthday Ambrose Powell Hill, Lieutenant General, Confederate 3rd Army Corp 1825 Birthday Julius H [Szamvald] Stahel, Major General Union volunteers 1825 Birthday Joseph Benjamin Palmer, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1825 Birthday Raleigh Edward Colston, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1825 Birthday Thomas Turpin Crittenden, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1825 Birthday Elkanah Brackin Greer, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1825 Birthday Armistead Lindsay Long, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1825 Birthday William Wallace Burns, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1825 Birthday Henry Warner Birge, Major General Union volunteers 1825 Birthday Thomas Hart Taylor, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1825 Birthday William Duncan Smith, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1825 Birthday Edward Henry Hobson, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1825 Birthday Benjamin Jefferson Hill, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1825 Birthday John Cook, Major General Union volunteers 1825 Birthday John Hunt Morgan, Brigadier General, Confederate cavalry commander 1825 Birthday David Bell Birney, Major General Union volunteers 1825 Birthday George Lafayette Beal, Major General Union volunteers 1825 Birthday Joseph Bailey, Major General Union volunteers 1825 Birthday James Winning McMillan, Major General Union volunteers 1825 Birthday David Rumph "Neighbor" Jones, Major General Confederate Army 1825 Birthday Samuel Bell Maxey, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1825 Birthday Edward Lloyd Thomas, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1825 Birthday William Nelson Rector Beall, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1825 Birthday John Dunovant, Brigadier General in the Confederate Army 1825 Birthday Quincy Adams Gillmore, Major General Union volunteers 1825 Birthday George Edward Pickett, Major General Confederate Army 1825 Birthday Joseph Robert Davis, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1825 Birthday Alexander Travis Hawthorn, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1824 Birthday Augustus Louis Chetlain, Major General Union volunteers 1824 Birthday Manning Ferguson Force, Major General Union volunteers 1824 Birthday Franz Sigel, Major General Union volunteers 1824 Birthday Isham Nicholas Hayne, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1824 Birthday Joseph Horace Lewis, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1824 Birthday Arthur Middleton Manigault, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1824 Birthday Thomas Gamble Pitcher, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1824 Birthday Rufus Saxton, Major General Union volunteers 1824 Birthday William Nelson, Major General Union volunteers 1824 Birthday Truman Seymour, Major General Union Army 1824 Birthday Joseph Andrew Jackson Lightburn, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1824 Birthday Isaac Hardin Duval, Major General Union volunteers 1824 Birthday Hiram Gregory Berry, Major General Union volunteers 1824 Birthday John Sanford Mason, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1824 Birthday Absalom Baird, Major General Union Army 1824 Event General Lafayette returns to U.S. 1824 Birthday William Terry, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1824 Birthday Simon Goodell Griffin, Major General Union volunteers 1824 Birthday William Burnham Woods, Major General Union volunteers 1824 Birthday Gabriel Colvin Wharton, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1824 Birthday Alexander Schimmelfennig, born in Prussia, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1824 Birthday Waldimir "Kriz" Krzyzanowski, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1824 Birthday Alfred Pleasonton, Major General Union volunteers 1824 Birthday William Tatus Wofford, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1824 Birthday John Tyler Morgan, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1824 Birthday William Montgomery Gardner, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1824 Birthday Charles Kinnaird Graham, Major General Union volunteers 1824 Birthday Cadmus Marcellus Wilcox, Major General Confederate Army 1824 Birthday Ambrose Everett Burnside, Major General Union volunteers 1824 Birthday Edmund Kirby Smith, Florida, General Confederate Army 1824 Birthday Charles Henry Van Wyck, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1824 Birthday William Edmonson "Grumble" Jones, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1824 Birthday Alfred Holt Colquitt, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1824 Birthday Innis Newton Palmer, Major General Union volunteers 1824 Birthday William Henry Chase Whiting, Major General Confederate Army 1824 Birthday Thomas James Churchill, Major General Confederate Army 1824 Birthday Henry Beebee Carrington, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1824 Birthday John Creed Moore, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1824 Birthday John Crawford Vaughn, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1824 Birthday Lewis Cass Hunt, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1824 Birthday William Farrar "Baldy" Smith, Major General Union volunteers 1824 Birthday Winfield Scott Hancock, Major General Union volunteers 1824 Birthday Barnard Elliot Bee, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1824 Birthday George Thomas "Tige" Anderson, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1824 Birthday Nathan George "Shanks" Evans, Brigadier General, Confederacy 1824 Birthday Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson, Lieutenant General 2nd Corps, ANV, Confederate 1824 Birthday James Morrison Hawes, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1823 Birthday Preston Smith, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1823 Birthday Joseph Alexander Cooper, Major General Union volunteers 1823 Birthday Nathan Kimball, Major General Union volunteers 1823 Birthday William Henry Forney, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1823 Birthday Thomas John Wood, Major General Union volunteers 1823 Birthday John Newton, Major General Union volunteers 1823 Birthday Orris Sanford Ferry, Major General Union volunteers 1823 Birthday Charles Thomas Campbell, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1823 Birthday Daniel Marsh Frost, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1823 Birthday Thomas Francis Meagher, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1823 Birthday George Henry Gordon, Major General Union volunteers 1823 Birthday Leonard Fulton Ross, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1823 Birthday James Isham Gilbert, Major General Union volunteers 1823 Event 9th Postmaster General: John McLean of Ohio takes office 1823 Birthday Edward Elmer Potter, Major General Union volunteers 1823 Birthday Jesse Lee Reno, Major General Union volunteers 1823 Birthday John Henry Hobart Ward, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1823 Birthday Gustave Paul Cluseret, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1823 Birthday James Lawson Kemper, Major General Confederate Army 1823 Birthday John Gray Foster, Major General Union volunteers 1823 Birthday James Allen Hardie, Major General Union Army 1823 Birthday Alfred Gibbs, Major General Union Army 1823 Birthday Orlando Bolivar Wilcox, Major General Union Army 1823 Birthday Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1823 Birthday Robert Byington Mitchell, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1823 Birthday Simon Bolivar Buckner, Lieutenant General Confederate Army 1823 Birthday Joseph Farmer Knipe, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1823 Birthday Samuel Kosciusko Zook, Major General Union volunteers 1823 Birthday William Thompson Martin, Major General Confederate Army 1823 Birthday John Echols, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1823 Birthday Roswell Sabine Ripley, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1823 Birthday William Flank Perry, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1823 Birthday Ferdinand Van Derveer, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1823 Birthday William Buel Franklin, Major General Union volunteers 1823 Birthday John Daniel Imboden, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1823 Birthday Franklin Gardner, Major General Confederate Army 1823 Birthday Peter Joseph Osterhaus, Major General Union volunteers 1822 Birthday William Booth Taliaferro, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1822 Birthday Thomas Casimer Devin, Major General Union volunteers 1822 Birthday Luther Prentice Bradley, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1822 Birthday Charles Adam Heckman, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1822 Birthday Charles Smith Hamilton, Major General Union volunteers 1822 Birthday William Harrow, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1822 Birthday Gordon Granger, Major General Union volunteers 1822 Birthday James Byron Gordon, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1822 Death Dirk van Hogendorp, Dutch earl/general/minister of War, dies at 61 1822 Birthday Mansfield Lovell, Major General Confederate Army 1822 Birthday Joseph Haydn Potter, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1822 Birthday George Sykes, Major General Union volunteers 1822 Birthday Adolph Wilhelm August Friedrich von Steinwehr, Brigadier General, Union 1822 Birthday Brigadier General Eppa Hunton, fought in most ANV campaigns 1822 Birthday Joseph Rodman West, Major General Union volunteers 1822 Birthday Fitz John Porter, Major General Union volunteers 1822 Event General Agustin de Iturbide crowned Agustin I, 1st emperor of Mexico 1822 Birthday Schuyler Hamilton, Major General Union volunteers 1822 Birthday Darius Nash Couch, Major General Union volunteers 1822 Birthday Hamilton Prioleau Bee, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1822 Birthday John George Walker, Major General Confederate Army 1822 Birthday Birkett Davenport Fry, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1822 Birthday Young Marshall Moody, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1822 Birthday Samuel Davis Sturgis, Major General Union Army 1822 Birthday Dabney Herndon Maury, Major General Confederate Army 1822 Birthday Mosby Monroe Parsons, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1822 Birthday Erastus Barnard Tyler, Major General Union volunteers 1822 Birthday Napolean Jackson Tecumseh Dana, Major General Union volunteers 1822 Birthday Leroy Augustus Stafford, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1822 Birthday William Stephen Walker, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1822 Birthday Gershom Mott, Major General Union volunteers 1822 Birthday James Nagle, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1822 Birthday Seth Williams, Major General Union Army 1822 Birthday John Pope, Major General Union volunteers 1822 Birthday Allison Nelson, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1822 Birthday Albin Francisco Schoepf, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1822 Birthday Charles Champion Gilbert, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1822 Birthday Matthew Duncan Ector, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1822 Birthday James Patton Anderson, Major General Confederate Army 1822 Birthday John Basil Turchin, Ivan Turchinoff, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1822 Birthday Thomas Leiper Kane, Major General Union volunteers 1822 Birthday John Porter Hatch, volunteers Major General, Union 1822 Birthday Joseph Brevard Kershaw, Major General Confederate Army 1822 Birthday 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 1821 Birthday Rufus Barringer, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1821 Birthday Richard Heron Anderson, Lieutenant General Confederate Army 1821 Birthday Alexander Peter "Old Straight" Stewart, Lieutenant General Confederate Army 1821 Birthday Alvin Peterson Hovey, Major General Union volunteers 1821 Birthday Henry Baxter, Major General Union volunteers 1821 Birthday William Barksdale, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1821 Birthday Clement Hoffman "Rock" Stevens, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1821 Birthday 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 1821 Birthday Daniel Harvey Hill, Lieutenant General Confederate Army 1821 Birthday Christopher Columbus Augur, Major General Union volunteers 1821 Birthday William Harvey Lamb Wallace, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1821 Birthday Edward Winston Pettus, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1821 Birthday Bartolome Mitre, Argentine general 1821 Birthday Henry Moses Judah, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1821 Birthday John Dunlap Stevenson, Major General Union volunteers 1821 Birthday Alfred Sully, Major General Union volunteers 1821 Birthday [Carlos] Charles John Stolbrand, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1821 Birthday Abram Sanders Piatt, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1821 Birthday Mortimer Dormer Leggett, Major General Union volunteers 1821 Birthday Joshua Thomas Owen, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1821 Birthday [George] Hector Tyndale, Major General Union volunteers 1821 Birthday Francis Barretto Spinola, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1821 Birthday William Read Scurry, Confederate Army Brigadier General 1821 Birthday Isaac Ferdinand Quinby, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1821 Birthday Lafayette McLaws, Major General Confederate Army 1821 Birthday James Longstreet, Confederate general, 1st Corps, ANV 1821 Birthday Lucius Jeremiah Gartrell, Brigadier General, Confederate Army 1821 Birthday John James Peck, Major General Union volunteers 1820 Birthday Gustavus Adolphus Smith, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1820 Birthday Frederick Tracy Dent, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1820 Event 1st General pharmacopoeia in U.S. published, Boston 1820 Birthday David Allen Russell, Army Major General, Union 1820 Birthday Lawrence O'Bryan Branch, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1820 Birthday Robert Vinkler Richardson, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1820 Birthday James Monroe Goggin, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1820 Birthday Benjamin Franklin Cheatham, Major General Confederate Army 1820 Birthday George Jerrison Stannard, Major General Union volunteers 1820 Birthday Alfred Washington Ellet, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1820 Birthday Thomas Kilby Smith, Major General Union volunteers 1820 Birthday Williams Carter Wickham, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1820 Birthday George Washington Morgan, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1820 Birthday John Fulton Reynolds, Major General Union volunteers 1820 Birthday Earle Van Dorn, Major General Confederate Army 1820 Birthday Winfield Scott "Old Swet" Featherston, Army Brigadier General, Confederate 1820 Birthday William Miller, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1820 Birthday John Franklin Farnsworth, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1820 Birthday John Marshall Jones, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1820 Birthday Andrew Porter, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1820 Birthday Henry Rootes Jackson, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1820 Birthday Evander McNair, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1820 Birthday Harry Thompson Hays, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1820 Birthday Gyorgy Klapka, Hungarian general and MP, Komarom-castle 1820 Birthday Charles Devens, Jr., Major General, Union volunteers 1820 Birthday Patrick Edward Connor, Major General Union volunteers 1820 Birthday Louis Herbert, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1820 Death Benjamin West, British painter (Death of General Wolfe), dies at 81 1820 Birthday Horatio Gouverneur Wright, Major General, Union volunteers 1820 Birthday George Davis, Attorney General Confederacy 1820 Birthday Mahlon Dickerson Manson, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1820 Birthday William Tecumseh Sherman, Major General Union Army 1820 Birthday John Milton Thayer, Major General Union volunteers 1820 Birthday John Haskell King, Major General Union Army 1820 Birthday Abraham Buford, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1819 Birthday John White Geary, Major General Union volunteers 1819 Birthday James Clifford Veatch, Major General Union volunteers 1819 Birthday Samuel Jones, Major General Confederate Army 1819 Birthday Robert Selden Garnett, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1819 Birthday Benjamin Mayberry Prentiss, Major General Union volunteers 1819 Birthday Zachariah Cantey Deas, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1819 Birthday Daniel Edgar Sickles, Major General Union volunteers 1819 Birthday Zebulon York, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1819 Birthday Samuel McGowan, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1819 Birthday George Washington Getty, Major General Union Army 1819 Birthday Henry Jackson Hunt, Major General Union Army 1819 Death Gebhard Leberecht Furst von Blucher von Wahlstatt, General, dies at 76 1819 Birthday Martin Luther Smith, Major General Confederate Army 1819 Birthday William Starke Rosecrans, Major General Union volunteers 1819 Birthday James Henry Van Alen, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1819 Birthday Daniel Davidson Bidwell, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1819 Birthday Samuel Powhatan Carter, Major General Union volunteers 1819 Birthday Alexander Hays, Major General Union volunteers 1819 Birthday William Birney, Major General Union volunteers 1819 Birthday Thomas Leonidas Crittenden, Major General Union volunteers 1819 Birthday William Steele, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1819 Birthday William Wirt Adams, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1819 Birthday David Henry Williams, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1819 Birthday James Green Martin, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1819 Birthday Henry Lawrence Eustis, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1819 Birthday Frederick Steele, Major General Union volunteers 1819 Birthday Zealous Bates Tower, Major General Union Army 1819 Birthday George Foster Shepley, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1818 Birthday James Cantey, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1818 Birthday David Addison Weisiger, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1818 Birthday Paul Octave Hebert, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1818 Birthday William Wing "Old Blizzards" Loring, Major General Confederate Army 1818 Birthday Samuel Gibbs French, Major General Confederate Army 1818 Birthday Benjamin Franklin Butler, Major General Union volunteers 1818 Birthday Alexander Robert Lawton, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1818 Birthday Gustavus Adolphus DeRussy, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1818 Birthday Edward Otho Cresap Ord, Major General Union volunteers 1818 Birthday Irvin McDowell, Major General Union volunteers 1818 Birthday John Henninger Reagan, Attorney General, Confederacy 1818 Birthday Marcellus Augustus Stovall, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1818 Birthday Rufus Ingalls, Major General Union Army 1818 Birthday William Farquhar Barry, Major General Union Army 1818 Birthday Lovell Harrison Rosseau, Major General Union volunteers 1818 Birthday Nathaniel Lyon, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1818 Birthday John Stuart "Cerro Gordo" Williams, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1818 Birthday Joseph Abel Haskin, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1818 Event General Andrew Jackson captures Pensacola Florida 1818 Birthday Cadwallader Colden Washburn, Major General Union volunteers 1818 Event General Andrew Jackson conquers St. Marks Florida from Seminole indians 1818 Birthday Lewis Baldwin Parsons, Major General Union volunteers 1818 Birthday Wade Hampton, born in South Carolina, Lieutenant General Confederate Army 1818 Birthday Isaac Ingalls Stevens, Major General Union volunteers 1818 Birthday Don Carlos Buell, Major General Union volunteers 1818 Birthday Albion Parris Howe, Major General Union Army 1818 Birthday John Wilkins Whitfield, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1818 Birthday William Raine Peck, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1818 Birthday John Reese Kenly, Major General Union volunteers 1817 Birthday James Jay Archer, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1817 Birthday Richard Brooke Garnett, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1817 Death Richard B Garnett, killed during Pickett's Charge, Brigadier General 1817 Birthday Edward Richard Sprigg Canby, Major General Union volunteers 1817 Birthday Claudius Wistar Sears, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1817 Birthday Bushrod Rust Johnson, Major General Confederate Army 1817 Birthday Carter Littlepage Stevenson, Major General Confederate Army 1817 Birthday Speed Smith Fry, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1817 Birthday Philip Cook, Jr., Brigadier General Confederate Army 1817 Birthday James Blair Steedman, Major General Union volunteers 1817 Birthday Joseph K Barnes, Major General Union Army 1817 Birthday James Brewerton Ricketts, Major General Union Army 1817 Birthday James William Denver, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1817 Birthday John Wilson Sprague, Major General Union volunteers 1817 Birthday Herman Haupt, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1817 Birthday Braxton Bragg, General Confederate Army 1817 Birthday Lewis Henry Little, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1817 Birthday James Craig, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1817 Birthday Lewis Addison Armistead, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1817 Birthday Walter Page Lane, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1817 Birthday Richard Stoddert Ewell, Lieutenant General Confederate Army 1817 Birthday Samuel Ryan Curtis, Major General Union volunteers 1817 Birthday Lewis Golding Arnold, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1817 Birthday John Selden Roane, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1816 Birthday Eliakim Parker Scammon, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1816 Birthday Alfred Elzey Jones, Major General Confederate Army 1816 Birthday Henry Eustace McCulloch, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1816 Birthday William Henry Talkbot Walker, Major General Confederate Army 1816 Birthday Joseph Bennett Plummer, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1816 Birthday William Polk Hardeman, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1816 Birthday Jubal Anderson Early, Lt General Confederate Army 1816 Birthday William Preston, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1816 Birthday Amiel Weeks Whipple, Major General Union volunteers 1816 Birthday Egbert Benson Brown, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1816 Birthday Julius White, Major General Union volunteers 1816 Birthday Israel Vogdes, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1816 Birthday John Eugene Smith, Major General Union Army 1816 Birthday George Henry Thomas, Major General Union Army 1816 Birthday Isaac Fitzgerald Shepard, General Union volunteers 1816 Birthday Robert Huston Milroy, Major General Union volunteers 1816 Birthday Phillipe Regis Denis de Keredern de Trobriand, Major General, Union 1816 Birthday Robert Seaman Granger, Union Army Major general 1816 Birthday Henry Hopkins Sibley, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1816 Birthday Montgomery Cunningham Meigs, Major General Union Army 1816 Birthday Edward "Old Allegheny" Johnson, Major General Confederate Army 1816 Birthday James Gallant Spears, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1816 Birthday Montgomery Dent Corse, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1816 Birthday David Stuart, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1816 Birthday Nathaniel Prentiss Banks, Major General Union volunteers 1816 Birthday Lloyd Tilghman, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1816 Birthday Henry Gray, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1816 Birthday Fitz-Henry Warren, Major General Union volunteers 1816 Birthday Stephen Miller, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1815 Birthday George Gordon Meade, Major General Union Army 1815 Birthday Israel Bush Richardson, Major General Union volunteers 1815 Birthday Stephen Augustus Hurlbut, Major General Union volunteers 1815 Birthday James Hewward Trapier, General Confederate Army 1815 Birthday William Dennison, postmaster/general, Union 1815 Birthday Douglas Hancock Cooper, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1815 Birthday William Joseph Hardee, Lieutenant General Confederate Army 1815 Birthday Henry Constantine Wayne, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1815 Birthday Eleazer Arthur Paine, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1815 Birthday Howell Cobb II, Major General/Secy of Treasury, Union 1815 Birthday John Richardson Liddell, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1815 Birthday Tyree Harris Bell, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1815 Birthday John Porter McCown, Major General Confederate Army 1815 Birthday Thomas Jackson Rodman, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1815 Birthday Stewart Van Vliet, Major General Union Army 1815 Birthday Paul Jones Semmes, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1815 Birthday Martin Edward Green, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1815 Birthday Philip Kearny, Major General Union volunteers 1815 Birthday John Gross Barnard, Major General Union Army 1815 Birthday Abram Duryee, Major General Union volunteers 1815 Birthday Andrew Jackson Smith, Major General Union volunteers 1815 Birthday James Edward Harrison, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1815 Birthday Robert Hall Chilton, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1815 Birthday Nathaniel Collins McLean, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1815 Birthday Andrew Jackson Hamilton, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1815 Birthday James Chesnut, Jr., Brigadier General Confederate Army 1815 Birthday Henry Morris Naglee, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1815 Birthday William Henry French, Major General Union volunteers 1815 Birthday Alexander Brydie Dyer, Major General Union Army 1815 Birthday Thomas Williams, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1815 Birthday George Webb Morell, Major General Union volunteers 1815 Birthday Lawrence Pike Graham, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1815 Death Edward Pakenham, English general (Battle of New Orleans), dies in battle 1814 Birthday James Henry Carleton, Major General Union Army 1814 Birthday Joseph Finegan, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1814 Birthday Pleasant Adam Hackleman, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1814 Death Michael Kelly Lawler, Major General Union volunteers, dies in 1882 1814 Birthday Joseph Hooker, Major General Union volunteers 1814 Birthday Henry Hayes Lockwood, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1814 Birthday John Clifford Pemberton, Lieutenant General Confederate Army 1814 Birthday Maxcy Gregg, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1814 Birthday Justus McKinstry, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1814 Birthday John Blair Smith Todd, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1814 Birthday Henry Lewis "Old Rock" Benning, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1814 Death Jozef de Ferraris, French/Austrian general/cartographer, dies at 87 1814 Event Battle at Horseshoe Bend: General Andrew Jackson beats Creek-indians 1814 Birthday Rufus King, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1814 Birthday Jones Mitchell Withers, Major General Confederate Army 1814 Birthday Richard Griffith, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1814 Birthday 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 1813 Birthday John Sedgwick, Major General Union volunteers 1813 Birthday Conrad Feger Jackson, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1813 Birthday Benjamin Alvord, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1813 Birthday William Scott Ketchum, Major General Union Army 1813 Birthday William Hugh Keim, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1813 Birthday Mason Brayman, Major General Union volunteers 1813 Birthday Joseph Tarr Copeland, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1813 Event Americans under General Pike capture Toronto; Pike is killed 1813 Birthday Henry Washington Benham, Major General Union Army 1813 Birthday Thomas West Sherman, Major General Union Army 1813 Birthday Gabriel Rene Paul, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1813 Event Office of surgeon general of the U.S. Army forms 1813 Birthday Joseph Reid Anderson, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1813 Birthday John McNeil, Major General Union volunteers 1813 Birthday Jacon Gartner Lauman, Major General Union volunteers 1813 Birthday Thomas Neville Waul, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1812 Birthday William Grose, Major General Union volunteers 1812 Birthday Elias Smith Dennis, Major General Union volunteers 1812 Death Isaac Brock, English general (conquered Detroit), dies in battle 1812 Death Pyotr I Bagration, Georgian/Russian ruler/general, dies in battle 1812 Event General Hull surrenders Detroit and Michigan territory to England 1812 Birthday Thomas Lanier Clingman, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1812 Event U.S. forces led by General Hull invade Canada, War of 1812 1812 Birthday Theophilus Toulmin Garrard, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1812 Birthday John Alexander McClernand, Major General Union volunteers 1812 Birthday Felix Kirk Zollicoffer, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1812 Birthday Joseph Warren Revere, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1812 Birthday Louis Ludwig Blenker, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1812 Birthday Daniel Henry Rucker, Major General Union Army 1812 Birthday Randolph Barnes Marcy, Major General Union Army 1812 Birthday George Bibb Crittenden, Major General Confederate Army 1812 Birthday Henry Dwight Terry, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1812 Birthday James Speed, Attorney General Union 1812 Birthday Ralph Pomeroy Buckland, Major General Union volunteers 1812 Birthday Humphrey Marshall, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1811 Birthday Alexander Sandor Asboth, Major General Union volunteers 1811 Birthday Ben McCulloch, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1811 Birthday Hugh Thompson Reid, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1811 Birthday William Hamsley Emory, Major General Union volunteers 1811 Birthday Goode Bryan, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1811 Birthday Danville Leadbetter, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1811 Birthday Joseph Dana Webster, Major General Union volunteers 1811 Birthday Gilman Marston, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1811 Birthday Henry Prince, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1811 Birthday Charles Clark, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1811 Birthday Robert Allen, Major General Union Army 1811 Birthday Marsena Rudolph Patrick, Major General Union volunteers 1811 Birthday Robert Christie Buchanan, Major General Union Army 1811 Birthday [Catherine] Mildred Lee, daughter of U.S. general Robert E Lee 1811 Birthday Edward Dickinson Baker, Major General Union volunteers 1810 Birthday August Willich, Major General Union volunteers 1810 Birthday Benjamin Stone Roberts, Major General Union volunteers 1810 Birthday Thomas Bragg, Attorney General, Confederacy 1810 Birthday Andrew Atkinson Humphreys, Major General Union volunteers 1810 Birthday Adley Hogan Gladden, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1810 Birthday Henry Bohlen, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1810 Birthday Cassius Marcellus Clay, Major General Union volunteers 1810 Birthday Alpheus Starkey Williams, Major General Union volunteers 1810 Birthday Albert Gallatin Blanchard, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1810 Birthday Thomas Jefferson McKean, Major General Union volunteers 1810 Birthday Erasmus Darwin Keyes, Major General Union volunteers 1810 Birthday Solomon Meredith, Major General Union volunteers 1810 Birthday James Shields, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1810 Birthday James Cooper, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1810 Birthday Daniel Ullmann, Major General Union volunteers 1810 Birthday Daniel Ruggles, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1809 Birthday Albert Pike, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1809 Birthday William Nelson Pendleton, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1809 Birthday Stephen Thomas, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1809 Birthday Thomas Alfred Davies, Major General Union volunteers 1809 Birthday Horatio Phillips Van Cleve, Major General Union volunteers 1809 Birthday Robert Cumming Schenck, Major General Union volunteers 1809 Birthday Sterline "Old Pap" Price, Major General Confederate Army 1809 Birthday Ormsby McKnight Mitchel, astronomer/Major General Union volunteers 1809 Birthday George Philip St. Cooke, Major General Union Army 1809 Birthday John Smith Preston, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1809 Birthday Philip St. George Cocke, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1809 Birthday George Washington Cullom, Major General Union Army 1809 Birthday Henry Walton Wessells, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1809 Birthday 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 1808 Birthday Thomas Algeo Rowley, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1808 Birthday Benjamin Grubb Humphreys, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1808 Birthday Thomas Fenwick Drayton, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1808 Birthday William Thomas Ward, Major General Union volunteers 1808 Birthday Samuel Jameson Gholson, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1808 Birthday Catharinus Putnam Buckingham, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1808 Birthday James Bowen, Major General Union volunteers 1808 Birthday Jacob Ammen, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1807 Birthday Richard Lucian Page, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1807 Birthday James Samuel Wadsworth, Major General Union volunteers 1807 Birthday Silas Casey, Major General Union volunteers 1807 Birthday Jan van Swieten, Dutch general/governor of West-Sumatra 1807 Birthday John Bankhead "Prince John" Magruder, Major General Confederate Army 1807 Birthday Charles Ferguson Smith, Major General Union volunteers 1807 Birthday Lysander Cutler, Major General Union volunteers 1807 Birthday Abner Clark Harding, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1807 Birthday Joseph Eggleston Johnston, General Confederate Army 1807 Birthday William Bowen Campbell, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1807 Birthday Napoleon Bonaparte Buford, Major General Union volunteers 1807 Birthday Alfred Eugene "Mudwall" Jackson, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1807 Birthday Joseph Holt, Major General Union Army 1806 Birthday Stand Watie, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1806 Birthday Henry Alexander Wise, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1806 Birthday John Breckinridge Grayson, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1806 Birthday Joseph Lewis Hogg, Brigadier General Confederate Army, die in 1862 1806 Birthday Joshua Blackwood Howell, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1806 Birthday Gideon Johnson Pillow, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1806 Death Michael FB baron von Melas, Austrian general, dies at 77 1806 Birthday George C Cadwalader, Major General Union volunteers 1806 Birthday Amos Beebe Eaton, Major General Union Army 1806 Birthday Leonidas Polk, Lieutenant General Confederate Army 1806 Death John Nieuwenhuijzen, theologist (Society for General Use), dies at 81 1805 Birthday Benjamin Hugur, Major General Confederate Army 1805 Birthday Samuel Peter Heintzelman, Major General Union volunteers 1805 Birthday Robert Cowdin, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1805 Birthday Robert Anderson, Major General Union Army 1805 Birthday William Kerley Strong, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1804 Birthday Theophilus Hunter Holmes, Lieutenant General Confederate Army 1804 Birthday Lorenzo Thomas, Major General Union Army 1804 Birthday Ludwig A. Benedek, Austrian general 1804 Birthday Guillaume Nerenburger, Belgian general, Triangulatie of Belgium 1804 Birthday Neal Dow, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1804 Birthday Samuel Read Anderson, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1803 Birthday Joseph King Fenno Mansfield, Major General Union volunteers 1803 Birthday George Wright, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1803 Birthday Gabriel James Rains, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1803 Birthday Albert Sidney Johnston, General Confederate Army 1803 Birthday 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 1802 Birthday David Hunter, Major General Union volunteers 1802 Birthday Isaac Ridgeway Trimble, Major General Confederate Army 1802 Birthday George Archibald McCall, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1802 Birthday George Douglas Ramsey, Major general Union Army 1801 Birthday James Barnes, Major General Union volunteers 1801 Birthday John Drake Sloat, Ret Major General Commander Union Navy 1801 Birthday Daniel Smith Donelson, Major General Confederate Army 1801 Death Benedict Arnold, Revolutionary War general, dies in London 1801 Birthday 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 1798 Birthday Samuel Cooper, Sect of War/General Confederate Army 1798 Birthday Ethan Allen Hitchcock, Major General Union volunteers 1798 Birthday 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 1797 Birthday Edwin Vose Sumner, Major General Union volunteers 1796 Event General Salicetti orders equal rights for Jews of Bologna Italy 1796 Event 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 1795 Birthday 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 1793 Death 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 1789 Event 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 1783 Event 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 1779 Event General Anthony Wayne captures Stony Point, Bronx 1778 Event Battle of Monmouth, New Jersey (General Washington beats Clinton) 1778 Event Rhode Island General Assembly authorizes enlistment of slaves 1777 Event British General Howe plots attack on Washington's army for Dec 4 1777 Event British General John Burgoyne surrenders at Saratoga NY 1777 Death Simon Fraser, English general, dies in battle 1777 Event General George Washington's troops attacked British at Germantown, Pennsylvania 1777 Event English General William Howe occupies Philadelphia 1777 Event English general William Howe conquers Philadelphia 1777 Event 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 1776 Event 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 1775 Event 1st Postmaster General: Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania takes office 1775 Birthday 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 1770 Birthday 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 1768 Birthday 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 1761 Birthday Dirk van Hogendorp, Dutch earl/general/minister of War 1761 Birthday Dirk earl van Hogendorp, general/Dutch minister of War 1761 Birthday 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 1760 Event Princess Carolina marries General Charles Christian van Nassau-Weilburg 1759 Death Louis Joseph Montcalm, French general (Plains of Abraham), dies at 47 1759 Death 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 1745 Birthday "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 1741 Birthday 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 1712 Birthday L Joseph de Montcalm de Saint-Veran, French general in America 1710 Event Battle at Brihuega: English General Stanhope captured 1710 Event Battle at Brihuega: English General Stanhope captured 1709 Death Hamilton, Scottish general (Malplaquet), dies in battle 1709 Death Oxenstiern, German general (Malplaquet), dies in battle 1709 Death Spaar, German general (Malplaquet), dies in battle 1698 Birthday Heinrich A. Fouque, Prussian general 1696 Birthday James Oglethorpe, England, General/author/colonizer, Georgia 1696 Birthday 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 1688 Event 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 1660 Event 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 1608 Birthday Jean BG duke of Orleans, brother of French King Louis XIII/general 1605 Event Spanish army under General Spinola occupies Wachtendonk 1605 Event 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 1562 Event 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
