2015 Event Barack Obama becomes the first U.S. president to address the African Union, which includes 54 nations as members; the president emphasized the importance of growing economies, reducing corruption, increasing education, and instituting democracy 2015 Event Negotiations break down between Greece's leftist Syriza government and the European Union regarding issuance of additional bailout funding; Greece has a deadline of tomorrow to repay USD $336 million of its existing debt 2015 Event A shipwreck that may have drowned up to 900 North African migrants traveling to Europe has prompted the European Union to meet in order to develop a plan to fund and organize rescues while reducing human trafficking incidents 2015 Event U.S. President Barack Obama gives his State of the Union address, promoting free community college education, increased capital gains taxes on the rich, more paid time off for employees, and greater tax credits for the middle class 2015 Event Lithuania changes its currency from litas to euros as it becomes the 19th member of the eurozone currency union 2014 Event Nicolas Sarkozy, former French President, is re-elected as head of the Union for a Popular Movement; Sarkozy intends to pursue the presidency again in 2017 2014 Event Flight schedules will return to normal at Air France by September 30th after the pilots' union agreed to end a strike that began on September 15th; negotiations to settle contested issues are still ongoing 2014 Event The European Union will assist Iraq in fighting Islamic State militants; European nations and the Union are sending arms in addition to humanitarian aid 2014 Event Russia counters sanctions by the U.S. and the European Union by banning all imports of dairy, fish, meat, fruit and vegetables; Ukrainian flights have also been prohibited from Russian air space 2014 Event The U.S. and the European Union impose additional sanctions on Russia, focusing on restrictions related to the nation's military, energy, and financial sectors 2014 Event Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine enter into free-trade pacts with the European Union, a decision counter to that of Kazakhstan and Belarus, who partnered with Russia in creation of the Eurasian Union 2014 Event The United Nations and the European Union have sent workers, equipment and supplies to Serbia and Bosnia in the wake of massive floods that have resulted in at least 36 deaths and a large number homeless after destruction of homes and farms 2014 Event Union backers and California legislators are seeking to raise the state's minimum wage to $13 per hour; Governor Jerry Brown ratified a law only 8 months ago to raise the wage to $10 an hour by 2016 2014 Event Football players at Northwestern University cast votes on whether to form a union; the players were ruled last month to be university employees by the National Labor Relations Board, giving the students the right to organize 2014 Event Andrus Ansip resigns as Prime Minister of Estonia; Ansip presided over the entry of Estonia into the eurozone and has served the longest to date among the prime ministers of the European Union 2014 Event After restricting its ties with Cuba since 1996, the European Union agrees to launch negotiations; the talks aim to increase the dialogue on human rights and increase trade and investment between Cuba and the EU 2014 Event Switzerland votes to put a quota on the number of immigrants to the country from the European Union; 50.4% of voters approved of the measure 2013 Event Germany holds its federal election; Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union party obtains the most votes since 1990 2013 Event Planet Pluto receives names for its fourth and fifth moons; the International Astronomical Union names them Kerberos and Styx 2013 Event The 50th anniversary of te Africa Union is celebrated 2013 Event Sigmundur Davio Gunnlaugsson, the Prime Minister elect of Iceland, announces he will indefinitely extend January's freeze on European Union membership talks 2013 Event The first-ever European MP's of Croatia are determined in an election held in anticipation of Croatia gaining formal entry into the European Union 2013 Event For the first time in its history, the European Parliament rejects a European Union budget 2012 Event Prime Minister Victor Ponta, of the Social Liberal Union, is nominated by Romanian President, Traian Basescu, to form a new government after Romania holds its parliamentary election later this December 2012 Event European Union Finance Ministers agree to give the European Central BAnk new powers to supervise euro zone banks 2012 Event Thousands of union employees protest outside of the capital building in Lansing, Michigan, as Michigan's government passes legislation, becoming the nation's 24th right-to-work state, and most highly unionized state in the U.S. to have such laws 2012 Event In Oslo, Norway, leaders of the European Union accept the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize 2012 Event Hostess Brands reveals its plan to file for bankruptcy and liquidate its assets, claiming contract disputes from the bakery's union worker strike crippled its operations; about 18,500 workers will be laid off 2012 Event A Union Pacific train strikes a parade float in Midland, Teas, killing four people and injuring 17 others 2012 Event The 2012 Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to the European Union for 'over six decades (having) contributed to the advancement of peace and reconciliation, democracy and human rights in Europe' 2012 Event The Chicago Teachers Union leadership votes to suspend the strike; teachers go back to school as union members review a tentative pact with Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel 2012 Event The Chicago Public Schools reaches a deal with the Chicago Teachers Union to end an 8-day strike 2012 Event Moody's credit rating agency lowers its outlook on the European Union's AAA long-term bond rating from stable to negative 2012 Event France O'Grady is appointed the first female General Secretary by Britain's Trade Union Congress 2012 Event News that European Union members agree on a deal to help some struggling Eurozone members causes world stock markets to soar 2012 Event Romania's USL, or Social-Liberal Union Leader, Victor Ponta, becomes Prime Minister of Romania 2012 Event In recognition of democratic reforms, the European Union opens an office in Burma 2012 Event Progress is made on the U.K. and European Union's tallest building when the spire of the Shard London Bridge is put in place 2012 Event In the U.S., the Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists merge to create the SAG-AFTRA union 2012 Event The credit ratings of European Union members including Italy, Malta, Portugal, Slovakia and Spain are downgraded by Moody's Investors Service 2012 Event The 2012 State of the Union Address is delivered by President Barack Obama to the U.S. Congress 2012 Event Responding to Iran's nuclear program, more sanctions are imposed upon Iran's banking and oil industries by the European Union 2011 Event After negotiations in Brussels, David Cameron, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, rejects the invitation to join a European Union financial crisis accord 2011 Event An emergency meeting to discuss the European sovereign debt crisis is held by leaders of the European Union 2011 Event The Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) announces the 2015 UCI World Championships will be held in Richmond, Virginia 2011 Event Queen Elizabeth II's granddaughter, Zara Phillips marries Mike Tindall, an England rugby union international 2011 Event The African Union gains its 54th member, South Sudan 2011 Event In Greece, Police fire tear gas on protesters angry over cuts their government made in co-operation with the European Union and the International Monetary Fund 2011 Event Malta becomes the last country in the European Union to legalize divorce 2011 Event Walid al-Muallem, foreign minister of Syria, denounces the European Union for the travel bans and asset freezes it has imposed on Syria 2011 Event The European Union approves a $110.8 billion (78 billion euro) bailout package for Portugal 2011 Event Wisconsin AFL-CIO assemble hundreds of union supporters claiming they will risk arrest to prevent police from clearing the Wisconsin State Capitol building 2011 Event Hungary takes over the position of the presidency of the European Union 2010 Event The engagement of Queen Elizabeth's granddaughter Zara Phillips to Mike Tindall, a Rugby Union player, is announced 2010 Event Ireland presents its 15 billion euro austerity package to secure a financial bailout from European Union and the International Monetary Fund 2010 Event Union of Myanmar changes its name to Republic of the Union of Myanmar, and changes the design of the national flag 2010 Event The European Union announces that on January 1, 2011, it will make Estonia the seventeenth member of the euro 2010 Event The European Union and International Monetary Fund present Greece with 120 billion Euro bailout package to help rid them of their sovereign debt 2010 Event Alphalara itadori, a Japanese insect that combats invasive Japanese knotweed, is the first biocontrol agent approved by the European Union 2010 Event 35 suspected pirates off the coast of Somalia are captured by the French Navy, the European Union's most successful mission 2010 Event Germany and the European Union deny planning a 20 - 25 billion euro financial aid plan for Greece 2010 Event A European Union summit discusses the possibility of bailing out Greece's economy 2009 Event Margarito Montes, a prominent union leader, is found among fifteen people killed on a ranch in northern Mexico 2009 Event The parliament of Iceland votes to pursue joining the European Union 2009 Event Sweden takes over the presidency of the European Union 2007 Event Bulgaria joins the European Union 2007 Event Romania joins the European Union 2006 Event Union of Islamic Courts takes over Mogadishu, Somalia 2005 Event New York City union members shut down subway and bus services for 3 days 2003 Event Union des Transports Africains de Guinee flight 141 crashes on takeoff from Cotonou Airport 2003 Event In his State of the Union address, President George W. Bush stated that Saddam Hussein had tried to acquire 'significant quantities of uranium from Africa' (a claim substantiated only by forged documents) 2002 Event In his State of the Union address, President George W. Bush likens Iraq, Iran and North Korea to an 'axis of evil' 1996 Event Players union approves new collective bargaining agreement 1996 Death George Ernest Leslie, trade union official, dies at 76 1996 Death Andrew John Fairclough, trade union educator, dies at 45 1996 Death Kurt Schmucker, member (Union of Christian Democrats), dies 1995 Event Austria, Finland and Sweden act to join European Union 1994 Event Norway votes against joining European Union 1994 Event Sweden agrees to join European Union 1993 Death Danny Blanchflower, North Ireland soccer/union coach, dies at 67 1993 Death Leon Liebgold, Pol/US actor/chairman (Hebrew Actors Union), dies at 83 1992 Death Marinus Ruppert, Dutch trade union leader (CNV), dies at 80 1991 Event Soviet Union formally dissolves 11 of 12 republics sign treaty forming Commonwealth of Independent States 1991 Event Armenia votes on whether to remain in Soviet Union 1991 Event Soviet Union recognizes Estonian independence 1991 Event Lexington Ave IRT subway train derails at Union Square, 5 die 1991 Event Robert Strauss becomes U.S. ambassador to Soviet Union 1991 Event Georgian SSR votes on whether to remain in the Soviet Union 1991 Death Frans Dohmen, union leader (Netherlands Catholic Mine Workers), dies at 81 1991 Event 9 of 15 Soviet reps officially approve new union treaty 1991 Death Jef Houthuys, Belgian union leader (ACV, 1968-87), dies at 68 1990 Event Soviet Union and Saudi Arabia restore diplomatic ties 1990 Death Bruno Kreisky, union chancellor Austria, dies 1990 Event U.S. beats Soviet Union 17-0 in baseball at Goodwill Games 1990 Event South Africa worker's union leader Billy Nair arrested 1990 Event 2 Germanys sign a monetary union treaty 1989 Event Pilots Union give up sympathy strike against Eastern Airlines 1989 Death Andre Kloos, Dut trade union leader (NVV)/chairman (VARA), dies at 67 1989 Event Pilot Union tells pilots okay to cross Eastern picket lines 1989 Event Mikhail Gorbachev elected Executive President in the Soviet Union 1989 Event Polish labor union granted legal status 1989 Event Soviet Union officially submits to jurisdiction of the World Court 1989 Event 1st independent blue-collar labor union in Communist Hungary forms 1989 Event Union Carbide agrees to pay $470 mill damages for Bhopol disaster 1989 Event Soviet Union promises to eliminate stockpiles of chemical weapons 1988 Event Soviet Union agrees to allow teaching of Hebrew 1988 Event Mikhail Gorbachev becomes president of Soviet Union 1988 Event Union Station reopens in Washington D.C. 1988 Event Soviet Union launches Phobos 1 to probe Martian moon (unsuccessful) 1987 Event Russian Writers Union accepts Boris Pasternak posthumous as member 1987 Event United Steel workers union ratified a concessionary with USX Corp 1986 Death Rolando Olalia, Philippines worker's union leader, murdered 1986 Death Jef Keuleers, Belgian worker's union leader, dies at 75 1986 Death Virginia Gilmore, actress (Jennie, Western Union), dies 1985 Event South Africa's Cosatu union centre forms 1985 Death Mohammed Munir, Indonesian worker's union leader, executed 1985 Event India files suit against Union Carbide over Bhopal disaster 1985 Event National Union of Mine Workers in England end a 51 week strike 1984 Event 2,000 die from Union Carbide poison gas emission in Bhopal, India 1984 Event Morocco and Libya sign "Arabic-African Union" treaty 1984 Event General Sec Konstantin U Chernenko named President of Soviet Union 1984 Event National Union of Mine Workers in England begin a 51 week strike 1984 Event Worker's union leader Billy Nair freed in South Africa 1983 Event South Africa worker's union leader Curnick Ndlovu freed after 19 years 1983 Death Derk Roemers, Dutch union leader/politician (soc dem), dies at 67 1983 Death August Cool, Belgian trade union leader, dies at 79 1982 Death Cyrill Daal, Suriname worker's union leader, murdered 1982 Event U.S. imposes sanctions against Poland for banning Solidarity trade union 1982 Death Neil Aggett, South African worker's union leader, commits suicide 1981 Death William Loeb, publisher of Manchester Union Leader, New Hampshire, dies at 75 1980 Event Poland acknowledges Solidarity union 1980 Event Polish government legalizes independent labor union Solidarity 1980 Death George Meany, union President (AFL-CIO), dies at 86 1980 Event Solidarity labor union in Poland forms 1980 Event Poland's Solidarity labor union forms 1980 Event CTUC, Commonwealth Trade Union Council, established 1979 Birthday Jonny Wilkinson, born in Frimley, England, professional rugby union player, member of the England national team, considered one of the world's best rugby players 1974 Event Union of Banana Exporting Countries (UPEB) forms 1974 Event Carole Jo Skala wins LPGA Sacramento Union Ladies Golf Classic 1973 Birthday Alison "Ali" Malyn Shumate, Union City Tennessee, Miss America-Tenn 1996 1973 Birthday Sergey Brin, born in Moscow, Soviet Union, computer scientist, Google co-founder, speaker, National Academy of Engineering inductee 1973 Event Suriname government of Sedney arrests 13 union leaders 1972 Event Soviet Union signs a separate peace with East Germany 1972 Birthday Gabrielle Union, American Actress 1972 Death Otto Brenner, German trade union leader, dies at 64 1972 Event Manipur, Meghalaya and Tripura become separate states of Indian union 1972 Event Mizoram, formerly part of Assam, creates an Indian union territory 1971 Event West German union chancellor W Burns receives Nobel prize of peace 1971 Birthday Aaron Ledesma, born in Union City, California, professional baseball player, infielder, played for Colorado Rockies, Tampa Bay Devil Rays, New York Mets and Baltimore Orioles 1971 Event Soviet Union's Concorde, TU-144, makes its 1st appearance 1970 Death Walter P Reuther, U.S. worker's union leader/president (CIO), dies 1970 Event Netherlands Christian Workers Union (NCW) forms 1969 Event Author Alexander Solzhenitsyn expelled from Soviet Writers Union 1969 Event Soyuz 5 launched by Soviet Union 1968 Event Gary Puckett and Union Gap release "Lady Will Power" 1968 Event Chad creates Union of Central African States 1968 Death Howard Lindsay, U.S. playwright (State of the Union), dies at 78 1967 Event Teamster President Jimmy Hoffa begins 8-year jail sentence for defrauding the union and jury tampering (commuted Dec 23, 1971) 1966 Event Soviet Union's Luna 10 becomes 1st spacecraft to orbit Moon 1965 Event Venera 2 launched by Soviet Union toward Venus 1965 Birthday Steve Finley, Union City, Tennessee, outfielder for the San Diego Padres 1965 Event South Africa worker's union leader Henry Fazzie sentenced to 10 years 1965 Birthday Steve Finley, born in Union City, Tennessee, outfielder for the San Diego Padres 1965 Event Lyndon Baines Johnson's "Great Society" State of the Union Address 1963 Event Nagaland becomes a state of Indian union 1963 Birthday Ron Karkovice, born in Union, New Jersey, catcher, Chicago White Sox 1963 Event South African worker's union leader Billy Nair arrested 1963 Event South Africa worker's union leader Curnick Ndlovu arrested 1963 Birthday Garry Kasparov, born in Azerbaijan, Soviet Union, former World Chess Champion, writer, political activist 1962 Death Andre Renard, Belgium worker's union leader (MSU), dies at 51 1962 Death LeRoy B Shield, U.S. pianist/composer (Union Pacific Suite), dies at 68 1961 Event Soviet Union tests a 58 megaton hydrogen bomb 1961 Event Union of South Africa becomes a republic, leaves Commonwealth 1961 Event 1st live television broadcast from Soviet Union 1961 Event Soviet Union fires a rocket from Sputnik V to Venus 1960 Birthday Cunningham T Ngcukana, South African worker's union leader 1960 Event Dutch communist trade union EVC'58 disbands 1959 Event Soviet Union's Luna-2 is 1st spacecraft to land on the Moon 1959 Birthday Edward Liddie, born in Union, Georgia, Judo fighter 1984 Olympics bronze 1959 Event Soviet Union wins 62-37 for 1st international basketball loss by US 1958 Event Union Square, San Francisco becomes state historical landmark 1957 Event Soviet Union launches, Sputnik II, carrying a dog named Laika 1956 Death Leo Baeck, President of World Union for Progressive Judaism, dies at 83 1956 Event Delhi becomes a territory of Indian union 1956 Death Albert Woolson, last veteran U.S. Union army, dies at 109 1956 Event Union workers ended a 156-day strike at Westinghouse Electric Corp 1956 Event Indonesia withdraws from Netherlands Indonesian Union 1955 Event Warsaw Pact is signed by the Soviet Union, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland and Romania 1955 Event West Europe Union established 1954 Birthday Jayaseelan Naidoo, South African worker's union leader 1954 Birthday Robert Kocharian, born in Stepanakert, Azerbaijan SSR, Soviet Union, politician, President of Armenia 1998 - 2008, President of Nagorno-Karabakh from 1994 - 1997 1954 Event Netherlands Indonesian Union breaks up 1954 Event 118 degrees F (48 degrees C), Warsaw and Union, Missouri (state record) 1954 Event France grants Vietnam independence inside French Union 1953 Event Cambodia (now Kampuchea) gains independence within French Union 1953 Event John Norman Lewis contends players have no desire to form a union 1953 Event Soviet Union conducts secret test of its 1st hydrogen bomb 1953 Birthday James Mndaweni, South African worker's union leader/president, NACTU 1952 Death William Green, union chairman AFL 1924 - 1952, dies at 79 1952 Birthday M Cyril Ramaphosa, Secretary-General of South African Mine Workers' Union 1952 Death Joseph Arendt, Belgian worker's union leader, dies at 66 1951 Birthday Robert Wuhl, Union, New Jersey, actor, Bull Durham, Good Morning Vietnam 1951 Birthday Andrew John Fairclough, trade union educator 1951 Birthday John Dittrich, born in Union, New Jersey, country singer, Restless Heart-Wheels 1950 Event Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia become Independent states in France Union 1950 Event European Payment Union forms in Paris 1949 Event Tripura accedes to Indian union 1949 Event Laos becomes associated state within French Union 1949 Birthday Dennis Locorriere, Union City, New Jersey, rock guitarist, Dr. Hook 1949 Event Tokelau (Union) Islands declared part of New Zealand 1948 Birthday Moses J "Moss" Mayekiso, South African union/SACP-leader 1948 Event Soviet Union begins Berlin Blockade 1948 Event Soviet Union recognized Israel 1948 Birthday Alexander "Alec" Erwin, South African worker's union leader 1947 Event United Mine Workers union withdrew from AFL 1947 Event U.S.S.R. joins International Amateur Athletic Union 1947 Event Belgium, Luxembourg and Netherland form Benelux Union 1947 Event Soviet Union doesn't partake in Marshall Plan 1947 Event Netherlands Radio Union forms 1947 Event Province of Petsamo returned to Soviet Union by Finland 1946 Event Part of Petsamo province ceded by Soviet Union to Finland 1946 Birthday Paul Wheatbread, rocker, Gary Puckett and Union Gap-Young Girl 1946 Event United Mine Workers union rejoins American Federation of Labor 1946 Event Cambodia becomes autonomous state inside French Union 1945 Birthday Dwight Bement, rocker, Gary Puckett and Union Gap-Young Girl 1945 Event H Lindsay and R Crouse's "State of the Union," premieres in New York City 1945 Birthday Kerry Chater, rocker, Gary Puckett and Union Gap-Young Girl 1945 Birthday Dimitar Penev, born in Bulgaria, soccer player/union coach, Lokomotiv/CSKA 1945 Event General Belgian Labor Union (ABVV) party forms 1944 Birthday Christopher N Dlamini, South African union/SACP-leader 1944 Event Dutch General Mine Workers Union (ABWM) forms 1944 Event Expulsion of more than 200,000 Tartars from Crimea by Soviet Union begins, they are accused of collaborating with the Germans 1943 Event Soviet Union breaks contact with Polish government exiled in London 1943 Death Henri Polak, Dutch union leader/politician (soc-dem), dies at 74 1942 Death Eduard C "Edo" Fimmen, Dutch trade union leader, dies at 61 1942 Event Nazi's murder 16,000 Jewish in Pinsk, Soviet Union 1942 Birthday Gary Puckett, vocalist, & Union Gap-Woman Woman, Young Girl 1942 Event Netherland's government in exile, London, recognizes Soviet Union 1941 Event German occupiers forbid National Front and Netherland Union 1941 Event USA lends Soviet Union $1 million 1941 Event Nazi mass murder at Babi Jar, Soviet Union 1941 Birthday Kees van Kooten, Dutch TV host/founder, Simplistic Union 1941 Event Finland declares war on Soviet Union 1941 Event Germany attacks the Soviet Union and occupies the Baltic states 1941 Event Germany, Italy and Romania declares war on Soviet Union during WW II 1941 Birthday Jimmy Hoffa, Jr., son of Jimmy Hoffa/Teamster union leader 1941 Event Ground broken for Union Square Garage, San Francisco 1941 Birthday Lord Vestey, British food magnate/billionaire, Union International 1940 Birthday John Dawes, born in Chapel of Ease, Wales, rugby union player, rugby coach, captain for The Barbarians, British and Irish Lions, Wales 1940 Event Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia incorporated into Soviet Union 1940 Event Linthorst Homan, de Quay and Einthoven forms Dutch Union 1940 Event Soviet Union annexes Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania 1940 Event Romania cedes Bessarabia to Soviet Union 1940 Birthday George Paul, CEO, Norwich Union Insurance Group 1939 Event Soviet Union attacks Finland-League of Nations drops Soviet Union 1939 Birthday Franklin A Sonn, union leader, South African workers 1939 Event Birdbaths installed in Union Square, SF 1939 Event Soviet Union invades Poland during WW II 1939 Event Molotov-Ribbentrop-pact (Soviet Union neutral/Poland divided) 1939 Birthday Reinier Lucassen, Dutch painter, Kuifje contra James Union 1939 Event U.S. worker's union leader Tom Mooney freed (jailed since 1916) 1938 Event Trials of Soviet leaders begins in the Soviet Union 1937 Birthday Franz Vranitzky, Austria union chancellor, 1986- 1937 Birthday David Behrman, born in Salzburg, Austria, composer, producer, Music of Our Time series, Columbia Records, founding member, Sonic Arts Union 1937 Birthday Alan Tuffin, trade union leader 1937 Event Memorial Day Massacre - Chicago police shoot on union marchers, 10 die 1936 Event Armenian SSR, Azerbaijan SSR, Georgian SSR, Kazakh SSR and Kirghiz SSR becomes constituent republics of Soviet Union 1936 Birthday Ron Carey, union President, Teamsters 1935 Event Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) labor union forms 1935 Event Belgium recognizes Soviet Union 1934 Birthday Simon Gournlay, president, British National Farmer's Union 1934 Event Franklin D. Roosevelt signs Federal Credit Union Act, establishing Credit Unions 1934 Event Union Pacific tests light-weight high-speed passenger train, Omaha 1934 Event International Telecommunication Union established 1933 Birthday Arif Melikov, born in Baku, Azerbaijan, name also Arif Malikov, Soviet composer, nationally acclaimed for composition Legend of Love whose ballet is among the finest works to emerge from the Soviet Union 1933 Event Soviet Union test GIRD-R1 rocket ("Object 09") 1933 Birthday Alan Tuffin, trade union leader 1933 Event Suriname worker's union leader A de Come banish to Netherlands 1932 Event France signs non-agression pact with Soviet Union 1932 Event British government signs trade agreement with Soviet Union 1932 Event Oswald Mosley forms British Union of Fascists 1932 Birthday Wilson "Papa" Godett, Curacaos worker's union leader/boxer 1932 Birthday Curnick M Ndlovu, Jailed South Africian worker's union leader 1932 Death Roosje Vos, Dutch trade union leader, dies at 71 1932 Death Roses Fox, Trade union leader, dies at 71 1932 Birthday William Odom, American, NASA director, Soviet Union expert, U.S. Army lieutenant general, advised Carter, Reagan 1932 Event 1st Suriname union congress at Paramaribo 1931 Death Arthur James Cook, union leader (coal miners), dies at 47 1931 Event Js Van Severen forms Verdinaso (Union of Flemish National Solidarists) 1931 Event Canadian Rugby Union adopts the forward pass 1930 Birthday John Daly, British trade union leader 1930 Birthday Elijah Barayi, head of South Africa union centre, COSATU 1929 Birthday Billy Nair, South Africa union/SACP leader, 20 years in Robbeneiland Prison 1929 Event Unilever forms by merger of Margarine Union and Lever Bros 1929 Event ENKA/Vereinigte Glanzstoff Factory merge AKU (Genl Kunstzijde Union) 1929 Event U.S. worker union commission reports of slavery in Liberia 1928 Event Tri-City Rugby Football Union forms consisting of Moose Jaw, Regina and Winnipeg 1928 Event Soviet Union Spartacan Games begins 1928 Birthday MG Falcon, CEO, Norwich Union Insurance Group 1928 Event Soviet Union orders exile of Leon Trotsky 1926 Event British Columbia Rugby Football Union forms 1926 Birthday Duncan Watson, president, World Blind Union 1926 Event Tokelau (Union) Islands in South Pacific transfers to New Zealand 1925 Birthday Roy Hughes, born in Pontllanfraith, Wales, born Royston John Hughes, Baron Islwyn, politician, Labor Party, union organizer, Member of Parliament for Newport, Member of Parliament for Newport East 1925 Event Pastor LH Perquin forms Union of Catholic Dutch Radio (KRO) forms 1925 Birthday Tom Jackson, British union leader, Post Office 1925 Birthday Charles Henry Plumb, born in England, Charles Henry Plumb, Lord Plumb, Baron Plumb of Coleshill, County of Warwickshire, Conservative Party, politician, leading figure, National Farmers Union 1924 Event General Christian Worker's union demands 8 hour work day in Belgium 1924 Event Soviet Union formally recognized by Britain 1924 Event Mussolini disallows non-fascists work union 1924 Birthday Henry M Fazzie, South Africa Union/UDF-leader 1923 Event Union of Soviet Socialist Republics form 1923 Birthday Margaret Bondfield, 1st woman chairman, Trades Union Congress 1923 Event Union of Socialist Soviet Republics established 1922 Event Soviet Union organized as a federation of RSFSR, Ukrainian SSR, Belorussian SSR and Transcaucasian SSR 1922 Event 14 republics form Union of Soviet Socialistic Republics (U.S.S.R.) 1922 Birthday Jack Boddy, British trade union leader 1922 Birthday Andre Kloos, Dutch trade union leader, NVV/VARA 1922 Event International Geographical Union forms in Brussels 1922 Birthday Jef Houthuys, chairman Belgian labor union, ACV 1968-87 1922 Event German-Russia treaty signed in Italy, Soviet Union recognized 1922 Birthday Lane Kirkland, union president, AFL-CIO 1922 Event Union of Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador dissolved 1921 Event Belgian-Luxembourg sign customs union 1921 Event Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador sign Pact of Union 1920 Event Part of Petsamo province ceded by Soviet Union to Finland 1920 Event 1st peace of Riga-Soviet Union recognizes Independence of Latvia 1920 Birthday George Ernest Leslie, trade union official 1920 Birthday William Simpson, British trade union leader 1920 Event 10,000 U.S. union and socialist organizers arrested (Palmer Raids) 1919 Event U.S. police raid offices of Union of Russian Workers 1919 Birthday Antoon J. Hubben, Dutch mayor and trade union leader 1917 Event Dutch Social-democratic trade union NVV counts 159,450 members 1916 Birthday Dorothy Mae Ballard, labor union rep 1916 Death Klaas/old stick Kater, christian worker's union leader, dies at 73 1916 Birthday Lloyd McBride, union president, United Steelworkers 1915 Birthday Moe Biller, New York City, labor union officer, AFL-CIO, Postal Workers 1915 Birthday Ron Smith, union leader, British Postal Workers 1915 Event Germany surrenders South West Africa to Union of South Africa 1914 Event Clayton Anti-trust Act passed (union and strike rights) 1912 Event Pan American Union forms 1912 Event Arizona was admitted to the Union as the 48th state 1911 Event Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta Unions form Western Canada Rugby Football Union 1911 Birthday Marinus Ruppert, Dutch chairman, CNV, trade union leader 1911 Event 1st U.S. federal cemetery with Union and Rebel graves opens, Missouri 1910 Birthday Jef Keuleers, Belgian worker's union leader 1910 Event Saskatchewan Rugby Football Union forms 1910 Event Boers and Afrikaners win 1st general elections in Union of South Africa 1910 Event Union of South Africa becomes a dominion 1910 Event Cape of Good Hope becomes part of Union of South Africa 1910 Event Union of South Africa declares independence from U.K. 1910 Birthday Frans Dohmen, union leader, Dutch Catholic Mineworker's Union 1909 Birthday Lord Collison, British union leader, agriculture workers 1909 Event 1st credit union forms in US 1908 Event 1st credit union in U.S. forms, Manchester, New Hampshire 1908 Birthday Harrison E Salisbury, journalist/author, 50th Anniv of Soviet Union 1908 Event Calgary Rugby Football Union forms 1908 Event CHU (Christian Historic Union) Dutch political party forms 1908 Event Supreme Court rules a union boycott violates Sherman Antitrust Act 1907 Birthday Otto Brenner, German worker's union leader 1907 Event Interprovincial Rugby Football Union plays 1st game (Mtl 17 Tor 8) 1907 Event Interprovincial Rugby Football union (Big Four) forms with Hamilton Tigers, Toronto Argonauts, Ottawa Rough Riders and Montreal Foot Ball 1907 Event Bishop forbids Christian membership in Dutch Textile Union 1907 Event Auto-Cycle Union Tourist Trophy, 1st held 1906 Event Belgian-British "Union Minstry of Haut-Katanga" begins 1906 Event Calvinist Reformed Union in Netherlands Church forms in Utrecht 1905 Event Union of Sweden and Norway ends 1905 Event Union workers at NVV rejects safety demands 1905 Event Dutch Covenant of Worker's union, NVV, forms 1905 Birthday Lila Lee, Union City, New Jersey, actress, Midnight Girl, Blood and Sand 1905 Event Norway dissolves union with Sweden, in effect since 1814 1903 Birthday August Cool, Belgian union leader/minister of state 1902 Event Union of Orthodox Rabbis of U.S. and Canada forms 1901 Event Free thinking-Democratic Union forms in Netherlands 1900 Event Rival forces fight for control of the Union Park ball grounds in Balt 1898 Death Sarah Emma Evelyn Edmonds, disguised as man fought for union, dies 1898 Birthday Anton de Kom, Surinam/Dutch worker's union leader/resistance fighter 1898 Birthday Randolph Scott, actor, Last of the Mohicans, Western Union 1897 Event Canadian Intercollegiate Rugby Football Union forms in Kingston 1896 Event AFL charters Actors' National Protective Union, New York City 1895 Event French labor union CGT (Confederation Generale du Travail) forms 1895 Event El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua form Central American Union 1894 Event American Railway Union under Eugene V Debs goes on strike 1894 Event American RR Union strikes Pullman Sleeping Car Co 1893 Birthday Adriaan F. Dussenbroek, Dutch family dr/co-founder, Union National Arubano 1893 Death John Murray Corse, U.S. general (Union), dies on his 58th birthday 1892 Event Manitoba Rugby Football Union forms 1891 Event Canadian Rugby Union forms 1891 Birthday Julius Raab, Austrian union chancellor, 1953-61 1891 Event 1st Woman's Christian Temperance Union meeting held (in Boston) 1891 Event Cotton pickers organize union and staged strike in Texas 1891 Death William Sherman, Union General in Civil War, dies 1891 Death William Tecumseh Sherman, Union Civil War general, dies at 71 1891 Death David Dixon Porter, U.S. rear Admiral (Union), dies at 77 1890 Event Cecil Rhodes' colonies hoist Union Jack in Mashonaland and Salisbury 1890 Event Jose Marti forms La Liga (Union of Cuban exiles) in New York City 1889 Event Union Pacific begins daily through service, Chicago-Portland and SF 1889 Event North and South Dakota entered the union as the 39th and 40th states 1889 Birthday William Lawther, union leader 1889 Birthday Asa Philip Randolph, labor leader, Railroad Porter's Union 1889 Birthday Howard Lindsay, born in Waterford, New York, playwright, actor and director, State of Union 1889 Event Dakotas, Montana and Washington admitted to union 1887 Birthday Sidney Hillman, union leader, Sidney Hillman Foundation 1887 Event Union Labor Party organized in Cincinnati 1887 Event Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) forms 1886 Death Henry Gerhard, founder (Social-Democratic Union), dies at 57 1885 Death George B McClellan, Union army general, dies at 58 1885 Event John Ward and several teammates secretly form Brotherhood of Professional Baseball Players, 1st baseball union 1885 Birthday Jozef M E Meeus, Belgian director H-Heart union 1885 Birthday Joseph Arendt, Belgian worker's union leader 1884 Event Canadian Rugby Football Union forms 1884 Birthday Roger Nash Baldwin, founder, American Civil Liberties Union 1883 Birthday Arthur James Cook, England, union leader, coal miners 1883 Event 1st state labor union legislation; New Jersey legalizes unions 1883 Event Quebec Rugby Football Union forms 1883 Event Ontario Rugby Football Union forms 1883 Event Ontario Rugby Football Union (forerunner of CFL) forms 1882 Event Social-Democratic Union forms in Amsterdam 1881 Event Dutch New-Malthusiaanse Union forms 1881 Death Ambrose Everett Burnside, U.S. Union general, dies at 57 1881 Death Emory Upton, U.S. Union General-Major (Selma), commits suicide at 42 1881 Event Union of Baptists Communities forms in Foxholl 1880 Birthday John L. Lewis, union leader, United Mine Workers, 1920-60 1879 Birthday Joe Hill, Jevla Sweden, organizer, IWW, songwriter, Union Scab, martyr 1879 Event Africaner Union forms by Reverend SJ du Toit at Cape colony 1875 Event Universal Postal Union established 1874 Event National Woman's Christian Temperance Union organizes in Cleveland 1874 Event World Postal Union forms in Bern, Switzerland 1873 Birthday Leo Baeck, rabbi/president, World Union for Progressive Judaism 1871 Event Founding of Netherland Protestant Union in Dokkum 1871 Event British Rugby Union forms 1870 Event Bathe becomes member of Noordduitse Union 1870 Event Texas becomes last confederate state readmitted to Union 1870 Event After accepting 15th amendment, Virginia is readmitted to Union 1869 Birthday James E Sullivan, founder, Amateur Athletic Union 1869 Event Colored National Labor Union, 1st Black labor convention 1868 Event Memorial Day 1st observed when 2 women in Columbus Mississippi placed flowers on both Confederate and Union graves 1868 Birthday Henri Polak, union leader/politician, soc-dem 1866 Death Samuel Ryan Curtis, Union general-major, dies at 49 1866 Event Tennessee becomes 1st Confederate state readmitted to Union 1866 Event General Dutch Typographer Union forms 1865 Death William H Revere, Jr., U.S. Union Brigadier-General, dies 1865 Death Marcellus Monroe Crocker, U.S. attorney/Union Brigadier-General, dies at 35 1865 Death George Wright, U.S. Union Brigadier-General, dies at 61 1865 Event Union General Granger declares slaves are free in Texas 1865 Death Cleaveland J Campbell, Union Brigadier-General, dies at about 29 1865 Event President Jefferson Davis is captured by Union Cavalry in Georgia 1865 Event Steamboat "Sultana" explodes in Mississippi River, kills up to 1,547. 1450 of 2000 paroled Union POWs on their way home are killed when river steamer "Sultana" blows up 1865 Death Francis Washburn, U.S. Union colonel/general major, dies of injuries 1865 Death Thomas Alfred Smyth, Irish/US Union general-major, dies at 32 1865 Event Union forces occupy Confederate capital of Richmond Virginia and Petersberg 1865 Event General Sherman's Union forces occupies Fayetteville, North Carolina 1865 Event Union troops force Confederates to abandon Ft. Anderson, North Carolina 1865 Event Union occupies Fort Anderson, NC 1865 Event Ft. Fisher, North Carolina falls to Union troops 1865 Event Union fleet bombs Fort Fisher NC 1864 Event Union General O Howard orders plunderers, shot to death 1864 Event Union General William T Sherman begins march to sea during Civil War 1864 Event Union Major General Sherman burns Atlanta 1864 Event Union troops ambush and kill 'Bloody' Bill Anderson in Richmond MI 1864 Event Union General Samuel R Curtis defeats Confederate General Stirling Price 1864 Event Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia, Union beats back Confederate attackers 1864 Death David Bell Birney, U.S. lawyer/Union general-major, dies at 39 1864 Death Alexander Gardiner, U.S. Union Brigadier-General, dies in battle 1864 Event Battle of Allatoona, 1/3 of Union troops die repulsing South 1864 Death David Allen Russell, U.S. Union general-major, dies in battle at 43 1864 Event Union General William T Sherman captures Atlanta 1864 Event Union troops/fleet occupy Fort Morgan, Alabama 1864 Death Daniel Chaplin, U.S. Union Brigadier-General, dies 1864 Death Daniel Phineas Woodbury, U.S. engineer/Union general-major, dies 1864 Event Union troops/fleet occupy Fort Gaines, Alabama 1864 Death James Birdseye Mcpherson, U.S. Union General-major, dies in battle at 35 1864 Death Daniel McCook, Jr., U.S. Union Brigadier-General, dies at 29 1864 Death Samuel Allen Rice, U.S. Union Brigadier-General, dies of injuries at 36 1864 Death Friend Smith Rutherford, U.S. Union Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 43? 1864 Death George Lincoln Prescott, U.S. Union Brigadier-General, dies of injuries 1864 Event Union General Grant begin siege of Petersburg, Virginia 1864 Event U.S. Union warship USS Kearsarge appears at Cherbourg 1864 Death James P McMahon, U.S. Union colonel (164th New York), dies in battle 1864 Death Peter A Porter, U.S. Union colonel (8th New York), dies in battle 1864 Event Battle of Adairsville Georgia, Union forces Confederates to retreat 1864 Death William N. Green, Jr., Union Brigadier-General, dies 1864 Event U.S. Union colonel Emory Upton (24) promoted to brigade-general 1864 Death James Clay Rice, lawyer/Union Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 34 1864 Death Thomas Greeley Stevenson, Union Brigadier-General, dies at about 27 1864 Death "Uncle" John Sedgwick, U.S. Union general-major, dies in battle at 50 1864 Death Thomas Donnely Doubleday, U.S. Union Col, dies in an accident 1864 Death James Samuel Wadsworth, general-major (Union), dies in battle at 56 1864 Death Henry Livermore Abbott, U.S. Union Brigadier-General, dies in battle 1864 Event Battle between Confederate and Union ships at mouth of Roanoke 1864 Death Joseph Gilbert Totten, U.S. Union general-major, dies at 76 1864 Event General Steeles' Union troops occupies Camden, Arkansas 1864 Event Union General Steeles troops reach Arkadelphia Arkansas 1864 Event Union troops occupy Fort de Russy, Louisiana 1864 Event Grant is named commander of the Union armies 1864 Event Ulysses S. Grant is appointed commander of Union Army 1864 Death Ulric Dahlgren, Union colonel, dies in battle at 21 1864 Event Confederate sub "HL Hunley" sinks Union ship "Housatonic" 1864 Death Stephen Gardner Champlin, Brigadier-General (Union), dies at about 36 1863 Death Michael Corcoran, Union Brigadier-General, dies at 36 1863 Event Battle of Bean's Station-Confederacy repulses Union in Tennessee 1863 Death Louis Ludwig Blenker, German/US Brigadier-General (Union), dies at 51 1863 Event Grant is given command of Union forces in West 1863 Event Confederate sub David damages Union ship Ironsides 1863 Event Union forces retreat to Chattanooga after defeat at Chickamauga 1863 Event Battle of Chickamauga Georgia (near Chattanooga) begins; Union retreat 1863 Death Thomas Welsh, U.S. Union Brigadier-General (Antietam), dies at 39 1863 Death George Crockett Strong, U.S. Union general-major, dies of injuries at 29 1863 Death Edward Needle Kirk, U.S. Union Brigadier-General, dies in battle at about 35 1863 Event Union troops enter Port Hudson 1863 Death Strong Vincent, U.S. Union Brigadier-General, dies 1863 Event Vicksburg, Mississippi surrenders to Union forces 1863 Death Paul Joseph Revere, U.S. grandson of Paul Revere/Union Brigadier-General, dies 1863 Death Alonzo Hersford Cushing, U.S. Union lt, dies in battle at about 22 1863 Death Samuel Kosciuzko Zook, U.S. Union general-major, dies in battle at 40 1863 Death Stephen Hinsdale Weed, U.S. Union Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 28 1863 Death John Fulton Reynolds, Union general-major, dies in battle at 42 1863 Event George A. Custer (23) appointed Union Brigadier-General 1863 Death Andrew Hull Foote, U.S. Union lt admiral, dies 1863 Event Battle of Aldie, Confederates fail to drive back Union in Virginia 1863 Death Benjamin Franklin "Grimes" Davis, Union major, dies in battle at 30 1863 Event Harriet Tubman leads Union guerrillas into Maryland, freeing slaves 1863 Death Edmund Kirby, Jr., Union Brigadier-General, dies of injuries at 23 1863 Death Edward Payson Chapin, Union Brigadier General, dies at 31 1863 Death Amiel Weeks Whipple, U.S. Union General-major, dies of injuries at 46 1863 Event End of Chancellorsville - Beaten Union army withdraws 1863 Event Battle of Chancellorsville - Beaten Union army withdraws 1863 Event Union troops/fleet occupy For Huger, Virginia 1863 Event Congress authorizes track width of 4'8" for Union Pacific Railroad 1863 Event Union General Burnside's "Mud March" 1863 Event Union forces capture Arkansas Post, or Ft. Hindman, Arkansas 1863 Event General McClernand's Union troops surround Fort Hindman Ark 1862 Event President Lincoln signs act admitting West Virginia to Union 1862 Event Union ironclad ship "Monitor" sank off Cape Hatteras, NC 1862 Death Joshua Woodrow Sill, U.S. Union Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 31 1862 Event 40,000 watch Union army men play baseball at Hilton Head, SC 1862 Event Union General Ben "Beast" Butler is proclaimed a "felon, outlaw and common enemy of mankind" by Jefferson Davis 1862 Death George Dashiell Bayard, Union Brigadier General, dies at 27 1862 Death Conrad Feger Jackson, U.S. Union Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 49 1862 Death Sylvester Churchill, U.S. Union Brigadier-General, dies 1862 Death Charles Davis Jameson, U.S. Union Brigadier General (Fair Oaks), dies at 35 1862 Death James Streshley Jackson, attorney and Union Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 39 1862 Death William Rufus Terrill, Union Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 28 1862 Death Pleasant Adam Hackleman, Union Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 47 1862 Death Isaac Peace Rodman, banker/Union Brigadier-General, dies of injury at about 40 1862 Death William "Bull" Nelson, Union general-major, murdered at 38 1862 Death R E V Miles, U.S. Union Colonel, killed at Harpers Ferry 1862 Event Battle at Crampton's Gap: Union troops chases away Confederates 1862 Event Battle at South Mountain: Union troops chases away Confederates 1862 Death Jesse Lee Reno, Union general-major (Reno Nevada), dies at 39 1862 Death Isaac Ingalls Stevens, U.S. Union general-major, dies in battle at 44 1862 Death Philip "Phil" Kearny, U.S. Union general-major, dies in battle at 48 1862 Death George William Taylor, U.S. Union Brigadier-General, dies in battle 1862 Event 2nd Battle of Bull Run - Confederates beat Union 1862 Event Battle of Altamont-Confederates beat Union forces in Tennessee 1862 Death Henry Bohlen, German/US Brigadier-General (Union), dies in battle at 51 1862 Death Joseph Bennett Plummer, U.S. Union Brigadier-General, dies at 42 or 46 1862 Event Confederate Army ironclad "Arkansas" is badly damaged in Union attack 1862 Death Thomas Williams, U.S. Union Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 47 1862 Event Battle of Newburgh, IN - captured by Union forces 1862 Event Skirmish at Union Church, Virginia (Peninsular) 1862 Death William H Keim, U.S. Union Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 48 1862 Event Union Grounds, Brooklyn, 1st baseball enclosure, opens 1862 Event Union captain David Farragut conquers New Orleans 1862 Event New Orleans fell to Union forces during Civil War 1862 Death Charles Ferguson Smith, U.S. Union General-Major, dies of infection at 55 1862 Event Union troops occupy Fort Pulaski Georgia 1862 Event Battle of Shiloh, Union defeats Confederacy in SW Tennessee 1862 Event "Monitor" (Union) and "Merrimack" (Rebel) battle in Hampton Roads 1862 Death John Baillie McIntosh, U.S. general-major (Union Army), dies at 32 1862 Event Union troops under Brigadier-General Wright occupy Fernandina Florida 1862 Event Battle of New Madrid MO-captured by Union forces 1862 Death Frederick West Lander, U.S. Union Brigadier-General/poet, dies at 40 1862 Event Lincoln issues General War Order #1, calling for a Union offensive McClellan ignores order 1862 Death Felix Zollicoffer, General killed after mistakenly riding into Union lines 1861 Event General George B. McClellan made general in chief of Union armies 1861 Event Confederate ironclad Manassas attack Union's Richmond on Mississippi 1861 Event Battle of Lexington, MI-captured by Union 1861 Event 1st naval battle of Civil War, Union frigate "Colorado" sinks privateer "Judah" off Pensacola, Fla 1861 Event President Lincoln prohibits Union states from trading with Confederacy 1861 Death Nathaniel Lyon, U.S. Union Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 43 1861 Event Lexington Kentucky - Union military camp forms in neutral state 1861 Event Union General George McClellan takes command from McDowell of Potamic Army 1861 Event Washington D.C. - Crittenden resolution is passed stating that the war is to be fought to preserve union and uphold the Constitution, not to alter slavery 1861 Event Skirmish at Fort Fillmore, New Mexico Terr - Rebels attack Union troops 1861 Event Battle of Corrick's Ford, Virginia (Carrick's Ford) - Union army takes total control of western Virginia CS20 US53 1861 Event Lincoln writes to Kentucky's militia and says Union troops will not enter that state 1861 Event Battle of Hoke's Run, West Virginia - small Union victory 1861 Event People of Tennessee vote to succeed from Union 1861 Event Lincoln's cabinet declares Union government will pay for expenses once states have mobilized volunteers 1861 Death John Garland, U.S. Union colonel/Brigadier-General, dies in battle 1861 Event Dorothea Dix offers help in setting up hospitals for Union Army 1861 Event Union blockades New Orleans, Louisiana and Mobile Alabama 1861 Event Union troops march on state militia in St. Louis, Missouri 1861 Event Riot occurs between prosecessionist and Union supporters in Knoxville TN 1861 Event Maryland's House of Delegates votes against seceding from Union 1861 Event Colonel Robert E. Lee resigns from Union army 1861 Event Col Robert E. Lee turns down offer to command Union armies 1861 Event Formal Union surrender of Ft. Sumter 1861 Event Robert E Lee resigns from Union army 1861 Event Arizona Territory votes to leave the Union 1861 Event St. Augustine Florida surrenders to Union armies 1860 Birthday Edward Albert Filene, merchant, established U.S. credit union movement 1860 Birthday Roosje Vos, Dutch union organizer 1858 Birthday Emmeline Pankhurst, born in England, found, Women's Social and Political Union 1852 Event Duke U, founded in 1838 as Union Institute chartered as Normal College 1851 Birthday John Lincoln Clem, Drummer Union volunteers 1847 Birthday Arthur T Verhaegen, Belgian worker's union leader 1845 Birthday Gustave Ador, union president of Austria, 1919 1844 Birthday Galusha Pennypacker, Major General Union Army 1843 Birthday Robert Todd Lincoln, Captain Union volunteers 1842 Birthday William Barker Cushing, Lieutenant Commander Union Navy 1842 Birthday Ulric Dahlgren, Col Union volunteers 1840 Birthday Ranald Slidell Mackenzie, Major General Union volunteers 1840 Event Union Act passed by British Parliament, uniting Upper and Lower Canada 1840 Birthday William Francis Bartlett, Major General Union volunteers 1840 Birthday Edmund Kirby, Jr., Brigadier General Union volunteers 1840 Birthday Sanuel Dana Greene, Lieutenant Commander Union Navy 1839 Birthday George Armstrong Custer, Major General Union volunteers 1839 Birthday Frances E C Willard, New York, founder, Woman's Christian Temperance Union 1839 Birthday Emory Upton, Major General Union Army 1839 Birthday Nelson Appleton Miles, Major General Union volunteers 1839 Birthday William Henry Seward, Jr., Brigadier General Union volunteers 1839 Birthday Cyrus Hamblin, Major General Union volunteers 1839 Birthday Francis Fessenden, Major General Union volunteers 1839 Birthday Seldon Connor, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1838 Birthday John Grant Mitchell, Major General Union volunteers 1838 Birthday John Milton Hay, politician, Union 1838 Birthday Edwin Henry Stoughton, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1838 Birthday Charles Carroll Walcott, Major General Union volunteers 1837 Birthday William Wells, Major General Union volunteers 1837 Birthday Charles Garrison Harker, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1837 Birthday James Lawlor Kiernan, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1837 Birthday James Harrison Wilson, Major General Union volunteers 1837 Birthday Elon John Farnsworth, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1837 Birthday Martin Davis Hardin II, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1837 Birthday Eli Long, Major General Union Army 1837 Birthday James Sanks Brisbin, Major General Union volunteers 1837 Birthday Horace Porter, Brigadier General Union Army 1837 Birthday Ephraim Elmer Ellsworth, Col Union Army 1837 Birthday Francis Jay Herron, Major General Union volunteers 1836 Birthday John Thomas Croxton, Major General Union volunteers 1836 Birthday Henry Eugene Davies, Major General Union volunteers 1836 Birthday Thomas Wilberforce Egan, Major General Union volunteers 1836 Birthday Benjamin Franklin Potts, Major General Union volunteers 1836 Birthday James Meech Warner, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1836 Birthday [Hugh] Judson Kilpatrick, Major General Union volunteers 1835 Birthday George Dashiell Bayard, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1835 Birthday Americus Vespucius Rice, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1835 Birthday Elliott Warren Rice, Major General Union volunteers 1835 Birthday Godfrey Weitzel, Union volunteers Major general 1835 Birthday Adelbert Ames, Major General Union Army 1835 Birthday Joseph Hayes, Major General Union volunteers 1835 Birthday James William Forsyth, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1835 Birthday Newton Martin Curtis, Major General Union volunteers 1835 Birthday Alfred Napoleon Alexander "Natti" Duffie, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1835 Birthday Charles Ewing, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1835 Birthday Alexander Stuart Webb, Major General Union Army 1835 Birthday Oliver Edwards, Major General Union volunteers 1835 Birthday Charles Russell Lowell, Jr., Brigadier General Union volunteers 1834 Birthday Thomas Edward Greenfield Ransom, Major General Union volunteers 1834 Birthday Joseph Jackson Bartlett, Major General Union volunteers 1834 Birthday Stephen Hinsdale Weed, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1834 Birthday Wager Swayne, Major General Union volunteers 1834 Birthday Daniel McCook, Jr., Brigadier General Union volunteers 1834 Birthday Wesley Merritt, Major General Union volunteers 1834 Birthday William Rufus Terrill, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1834 Birthday Robert Sanford Foster, Major General Union volunteers 1834 Birthday Albert Lindley Lee, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1833 Birthday Louis Douglass Watkins, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1833 Birthday Klaas Kater, Dutch Christian Worker's Union Leader 1833 Birthday Cyrus Bussey, Major General Union volunteers 1833 Birthday James Deering Fessenden, Major General Union volunteers 1833 Birthday Henry Alanson Barnum, Major General Union volunteers 1833 Birthday Charles Jackson Paine, Major General Union volunteers 1833 Birthday William Price Sanders, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1833 Birthday Powell Clayton, born in Bethel Pennsylvania, Brigadier General Union volunteers, Arkansas Governor 1868 - 1871, Republican 1833 Birthday John Wesley Turner, Major General Union Army 1833 Birthday Alfred Thomas Archimedes Torbert, Major General Union Army 1833 Birthday Edward Moody McCook, Major General Union volunteers 1833 Birthday Frank Wheaton, Major General Union Army 1833 Birthday David McMurtrie Gregg, Major General Union volunteers 1833 Birthday Thomas Howard Ruger, Major General Union volunteers 1833 Birthday Norman Willis, union leader, Britain's Trades Union Congress 1832 Birthday Thomas Alfred Smyth, Major General Union volunteers 1832 Birthday Edward Hatch, Major General Union volunteers 1832 Birthday John Henry Ketcham, Major General Union volunteers 1832 Birthday George Henry Chapman, Major General Union volunteers 1832 Birthday William Woods Averell, Major General Union Army 1832 Birthday George Crockett Strong, Major General Union volunteers 1832 Birthday Theodore Shelton Bowers, Brigadier General Union Army 1832 Birthday Samuel Sprigg Carroll, Major General Union Army 1832 Birthday Alexander Chambers, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1832 Birthday Thomas Ogden Osbord, Major General Union volunteers 1832 Birthday Edward Harland, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1832 Birthday James Hewett Ledlie, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1832 Birthday Walter Quintin Gresham, Major General Union volunteers 1832 Birthday Charles Camp Doolittle, Major General Union volunteers 1832 Birthday William Henry Penrose, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1832 Birthday Orlando Metcalfe Poe, Brigadier General, Union volunteers 1831 Birthday Adam Badeau, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1831 Birthday Lucius Fairchild, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1831 Birthday Robert Ogden Tyler, Major General Union Army 1831 Birthday Joshua Woodrow Sill, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1831 Birthday John Franklin Miller, Major General Union volunteers 1831 Birthday Daniel Butterfield, Major General Union volunteers 1831 Birthday John McAlister Schofield, Major General Union volunteers 1831 Birthday Stephen Gano Burbridge, Major General Union volunteers 1831 Birthday Edward Payson Chapin, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1831 Birthday William Dwight, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1831 Birthday William Thomas Clark, Major General Union volunteers 1831 Birthday Alexander McDowell McCook, Major General Union volunteers 1831 Birthday Grenville Mellen Dodge, Major General Union volunteers 1831 Birthday Philip Henry Sheridan, born in Albany, New York, Major General, Union Army 1831 Birthday John Aaron Rawlins, Major General Union Army 1831 Birthday Cyrus Ballou Comstock, Major General Union volunteers 1831 Birthday Edward Ferrero, Major General Union volunteers 1830 Birthday John Frederick Hartranft, Major General Union volunteers 1830 Birthday Patrick Henry Jones, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1830 Birthday Oliver Otis Howard, Major General Union volunteers 1830 Birthday Jeremiah Cutler Sullivan, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1830 Birthday John Parker Hawkins, Major General Union Army 1830 Birthday William Babcock Hazen, Major General Union volunteers 1830 Birthday Alvan Cullem Gillem, Major General Union volunteers 1830 Birthday William Sooy Smith, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1830 Birthday Richard Henry Jackson, Major General Union volunteers 1830 Birthday Edward Winslow Hinks, Major General Union volunteers 1830 Birthday George Lucas Hartsuff, Major General Union volunteers 1830 Birthday John Converse Starkweather, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1830 Birthday Davis Tillson, Major General Union volunteers 1830 Birthday Eugene Asa Carr, Major General Union Army 1830 Birthday Marcellus Monroe Crocker, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1830 Birthday Gouverneur Kemble Warren, Major General Union volunteers 1830 Birthday , Samuel, Emerson Opdycke, Major General Union volunteers 1829 Birthday James Clay Rice, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1829 Birthday Green Berry Raum, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1829 Birthday William Passmore Carlin, Major General Union Army 1829 Birthday Samuel Wylie Crawford, Major General Union Army 1829 Birthday Roscoe Conkling, MC, Union 1829 Birthday Christopher Columbus Andres, Major General Union volunteers 1829 Birthday Giles Alexander Smith, Major General Union volunteers 1829 Birthday James St. Clair Morton, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1829 Birthday William Worth Belknap, Major General Union volunteers 1829 Birthday George Crook, Major General Union volunteers 1829 Birthday Thomas Ewing, Jr., Major General, Union volunteers 1829 Birthday Milo Smith Hascall, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1829 Birthday Robert Brown Potter, Major General Union volunteers 1829 Birthday John Baillie McIntosh, Major General Union Army 1829 Birthday George Peabody Estey, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1829 Birthday Carl Schurz, Major General Union volunteers and journalist 1829 Birthday William Anderson Pile, Major General Union volunteers 1829 Birthday John Potts Slough, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1828 Birthday John Beatty, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1828 Birthday Clinton Bowen Fisk, Major General Union volunteers 1828 Birthday James Birdseye MacPherson, Major General Union volunteers 1828 Birthday Jacob Dolson Cox, Major General Union volunteers 1828 Birthday Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, Major General Union volunteers 1828 Birthday George Leonard Andrews, Major General Union volunteers 1828 Birthday William Alexander Hammond, Brigadier General Union Army 1828 Birthday Joseph Bradford Carr, Major General Union volunteers 1828 Birthday Edward Saloman, Gov, Union 1828 Birthday Cuvier Grover, Major General Union Army 1828 Birthday John Rutter Brooke, Major General Union volunteers 1828 Birthday James William Reilly, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1828 Birthday Adin Ballou Underwood, Major General Union volunteers 1828 Birthday Jefferson Columbus Davis, Major General Union Army 1828 Birthday Robert Alexander Cameron, Major General Union volunteers 1828 Birthday Samuel Allen Rice, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1828 Birthday Adam Jacoby Slemmer, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1828 Birthday Calvin Edward Pratt, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1828 Birthday Lewis Addison Grant, Major General Union volunteers 1828 Birthday August Valentine Kautz, Major General Union Army 1827 Birthday Robert Latimer McCook, volunteers Brigadier General, Union 1827 Birthday Isaac Wistar, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1827 Birthday Alfred Howe Terry, Major General Union volunteers 1827 Birthday James Sidney Robinson, Major General Union volunteers 1827 Birthday Edmund Jackson Davis, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1827 Birthday Kenner Garrard, Major General Union Army 1827 Birthday Henry Warner Slocum, Major General Union volunteers 1827 Birthday John Grubb Parke, Major General Union volunteers 1827 Birthday Michael Corcoran, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1827 Birthday John Morrison Oliver, Major General Union volunteers 1827 Birthday Joseph Anthony Mower, Major General Union volunteers 1827 Birthday James Murrell Shackelford, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1827 Birthday Francis Engle Patterson, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1827 Birthday Charles Edward Hovey, Major General Union volunteers 1827 Birthday William Hopkins Morris, Major General Union volunteers 1827 Birthday John Gibbon, Major General Union volunteers 1827 Birthday Lewis Wallace, Major General Union volunteers and author, Ben Hur 1827 Birthday Alexander Shaler, Major General Union volunteers 1827 Birthday Richard W. Johnson, Major General Union Army 1827 Birthday Charles Davis Jameson, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1827 Birthday James Barnet Fry, Major General Union Army 1827 Birthday Edward Stuyvesant Bragg, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1827 Birthday Charles Robert Woods, Major General Union Army 1826 Birthday James Scott Negley, Union volunteers Major General 1826 Birthday John Benjamin Sanborn, Major General Union volunteers 1826 Birthday George Brinton McClellan, Major General Union Army 1826 Birthday George Washington Deitzler, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1826 Birthday John McArthur, Major General Union volunteers 1826 Birthday Jasper Adalmorn Maltby, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1826 Birthday William Haines Lytle, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1826 Birthday Hugh Boyle Ewing, Major General Union volunteers 1826 Birthday Lafayette Curry Baker, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1826 Birthday Thomas John Lucas, Major General Union volunteers 1826 Birthday Frank Stillman Nickerson, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1826 Birthday William Denison Whipple, Major General Union Army 1826 Birthday James Gillpatrick Blunt, Major General Union volunteers 1826 Birthday Benjamin Henry Grierson, Major General Union volunteers 1826 Birthday Robert Kingston Scott, Major General Union volunteers 1826 Birthday Green Clay Smith, Major General Union volunteers 1826 Birthday Thomas Hewson Neill, Major General Union volunteers 1826 Birthday John Alexander Logan, Major General Union volunteers 1826 Birthday Halbert Eleazer Paine, Major General Union volunteers 1826 Birthday Charles Cruft, Major General Union volunteers 1825 Birthday Francis Trowbridge Sherman, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1825 Birthday Romeyn Beck Ayres, Major General Union Army 1825 Birthday Charles Griffin, Major General Union volunteers 1825 Event 1st college fraternity founded (Kappa Alpha (Union College, New York)) 1825 Birthday Edward Augustus Wild, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1825 Birthday Julius H [Szamvald] Stahel, Major General Union volunteers 1825 Birthday Thomas Turpin Crittenden, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1825 Birthday William Wallace Burns, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1825 Birthday Henry Warner Birge, Major General Union volunteers 1825 Birthday Edward Henry Hobson, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1825 Birthday John Cook, Major General Union volunteers 1825 Birthday David Bell Birney, Major General Union volunteers 1825 Birthday George Lafayette Beal, Major General Union volunteers 1825 Birthday Joseph Bailey, Major General Union volunteers 1825 Birthday James Winning McMillan, Major General Union volunteers 1825 Birthday Quincy Adams Gillmore, Major General Union volunteers 1824 Birthday Augustus Louis Chetlain, Major General Union volunteers 1824 Birthday Manning Ferguson Force, Major General Union volunteers 1824 Birthday Titian James Coffey, Atty Gen, Union 1824 Birthday Franz Sigel, Major General Union volunteers 1824 Birthday Isham Nicholas Hayne, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1824 Birthday Thomas Gamble Pitcher, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1824 Birthday Rufus Saxton, Major General Union volunteers 1824 Birthday William Nelson, Major General Union volunteers 1824 Birthday Truman Seymour, Major General Union Army 1824 Birthday Joseph Andrew Jackson Lightburn, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1824 Birthday Isaac Hardin Duval, Major General Union volunteers 1824 Birthday Hiram Gregory Berry, Major General Union volunteers 1824 Birthday John Sanford Mason, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1824 Birthday Absalom Baird, Major General Union Army 1824 Birthday Simon Goodell Griffin, Major General Union volunteers 1824 Birthday William Burnham Woods, Major General Union volunteers 1824 Birthday Richard James Oglesby, Union Union volunteers 1824 Birthday Alexander Schimmelfennig, born in Prussia, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1824 Birthday Waldimir "Kriz" Krzyzanowski, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1824 Birthday Alfred Pleasonton, Major General Union volunteers 1824 Birthday Charles Kinnaird Graham, Major General Union volunteers 1824 Birthday Ambrose Everett Burnside, Major General Union volunteers 1824 Birthday Charles Henry Van Wyck, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1824 Birthday Innis Newton Palmer, Major General Union volunteers 1824 Birthday Henry Beebee Carrington, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1824 Birthday Lewis Cass Hunt, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1824 Birthday William Farrar "Baldy" Smith, Major General Union volunteers 1824 Birthday Winfield Scott Hancock, Major General Union volunteers 1823 Birthday Thomas Alexander Scott, Assistant Secretary War, Union 1823 Birthday Joseph Alexander Cooper, Major General Union volunteers 1823 Birthday Nathan Kimball, Major General Union volunteers 1823 Birthday Thomas John Wood, Major General Union volunteers 1823 Birthday Galusha Aaron Grow, MC, Union 1823 Birthday John Newton, Major General Union volunteers 1823 Birthday Orris Sanford Ferry, Major General Union volunteers 1823 Birthday Charles Thomas Campbell, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1823 Birthday Thomas Francis Meagher, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1823 Birthday George Henry Gordon, Major General Union volunteers 1823 Birthday Leonard Fulton Ross, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1823 Birthday James Isham Gilbert, Major General Union volunteers 1823 Birthday Edward Elmer Potter, Major General Union volunteers 1823 Birthday Jesse Lee Reno, Major General Union volunteers 1823 Birthday John Henry Hobart Ward, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1823 Birthday Gustave Paul Cluseret, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1823 Birthday John Gray Foster, Major General Union volunteers 1823 Birthday John Sherman, MC, Union 1823 Birthday James Allen Hardie, Major General Union Army 1823 Birthday Alfred Gibbs, Major General Union Army 1823 Birthday Orlando Bolivar Wilcox, Major General Union Army 1823 Birthday Robert Byington Mitchell, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1823 Birthday Joseph Farmer Knipe, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1823 Birthday Samuel Kosciusko Zook, Major General Union volunteers 1823 Birthday Ferdinand Van Derveer, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1823 Birthday William Buel Franklin, Major General Union volunteers 1823 Birthday Peter Joseph Osterhaus, Major General Union volunteers 1822 Birthday Thomas Casimer Devin, Major General Union volunteers 1822 Birthday Luther Prentice Bradley, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1822 Birthday Charles Adam Heckman, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1822 Birthday Charles Smith Hamilton, Major General Union volunteers 1822 Birthday William Harrow, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1822 Birthday Gordon Granger, Major General Union volunteers 1822 Birthday Joseph Haydn Potter, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1822 Birthday George Sykes, Major General Union volunteers 1822 Birthday Adolph Wilhelm August Friedrich von Steinwehr, Brigadier General, Union 1822 Birthday Joseph Rodman West, Major General Union volunteers 1822 Birthday Fitz John Porter, Major General Union volunteers 1822 Birthday George Stoneman, U.S. Union general-major, Gov-Calif, 1883-87 1822 Birthday Schuyler Hamilton, Major General Union volunteers 1822 Birthday Darius Nash Couch, Major General Union volunteers 1822 Birthday Samuel Davis Sturgis, Major General Union Army 1822 Birthday Erastus Barnard Tyler, Major General Union volunteers 1822 Birthday Napolean Jackson Tecumseh Dana, Major General Union volunteers 1822 Birthday Gershom Mott, Major General Union volunteers 1822 Birthday James Nagle, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1822 Birthday Seth Williams, Major General Union Army 1822 Birthday John Pope, Major General Union volunteers 1822 Birthday Albin Francisco Schoepf, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1822 Birthday Charles Champion Gilbert, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1822 Birthday John Basil Turchin, Ivan Turchinoff, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1822 Birthday Thomas Leiper Kane, Major General Union volunteers 1822 Birthday John Porter Hatch, volunteers Major General, Union 1822 Birthday Joseph Jones Reynolds, Major General Union volunteers 1821 Birthday Frederick West Lander, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1821 Birthday Alvin Peterson Hovey, Major General Union volunteers 1821 Birthday Henry Baxter, Major General Union volunteers 1821 Birthday Christopher Columbus Augur, Major General Union volunteers 1821 Birthday William Harvey Lamb Wallace, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1821 Birthday Navy Gustavus Vasa Fox, Assistant Secretary, Union 1821 Birthday Henry Moses Judah, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1821 Birthday John Dunlap Stevenson, Major General Union volunteers 1821 Birthday Alfred Sully, Major General Union volunteers 1821 Birthday [Carlos] Charles John Stolbrand, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1821 Birthday Abram Sanders Piatt, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1821 Birthday Mortimer Dormer Leggett, Major General Union volunteers 1821 Birthday Joshua Thomas Owen, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1821 Birthday [George] Hector Tyndale, Major General Union volunteers 1821 Birthday Francis Barretto Spinola, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1821 Birthday Isaac Ferdinand Quinby, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1821 Birthday John James Peck, Major General Union volunteers 1820 Birthday Gustavus Adolphus Smith, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1820 Birthday Frederick Tracy Dent, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1820 Birthday David Allen Russell, Army Major General, Union 1820 Birthday George Jerrison Stannard, Major General Union volunteers 1820 Birthday Alfred Washington Ellet, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1820 Birthday Thomas Kilby Smith, Major General Union volunteers 1820 Birthday George Washington Morgan, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1820 Birthday John Fulton Reynolds, Major General Union volunteers 1820 Birthday Clement Laird Vallandigham, MC, Union 1820 Birthday John Franklin Farnsworth, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1820 Birthday Louis Powell Harvey, Governor, Union 1820 Birthday Andrew Porter, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1820 Birthday Charles Devens, Jr., Major General, Union volunteers 1820 Birthday Patrick Edward Connor, Major General Union volunteers 1820 Birthday Horatio Gouverneur Wright, Major General, Union volunteers 1820 Birthday Mahlon Dickerson Manson, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1820 Birthday William Tecumseh Sherman, Major General Union Army 1820 Birthday John Milton Thayer, Major General Union volunteers 1820 Birthday John Haskell King, Major General Union Army 1819 Birthday John White Geary, Major General Union volunteers 1819 Birthday James Clifford Veatch, Major General Union volunteers 1819 Event Alabama admitted to Union as 22nd state 1819 Birthday Benjamin Mayberry Prentiss, Major General Union volunteers 1819 Birthday Daniel Edgar Sickles, Major General Union volunteers 1819 Birthday George Washington Getty, Major General Union Army 1819 Birthday Henry Jackson Hunt, Major General Union Army 1819 Birthday William Starke Rosecrans, Major General Union volunteers 1819 Birthday James Henry Van Alen, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1819 Birthday Daniel Davidson Bidwell, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1819 Birthday Charles Anderson Dana, Assistant Secretary War, Union 1819 Birthday Samuel Powhatan Carter, Major General Union volunteers 1819 Birthday Alexander Hays, Major General Union volunteers 1819 Birthday Reuben Eaton Fenton, Governor, Union 1819 Birthday William Birney, Major General Union volunteers 1819 Birthday Daniel Ammen, Captain Union Navy 1819 Birthday Thomas Leonidas Crittenden, Major General Union volunteers 1819 Birthday David Henry Williams, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1819 Birthday Henry Lawrence Eustis, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1819 Birthday Frederick Steele, Major General Union volunteers 1819 Birthday Zealous Bates Tower, Major General Union Army 1819 Birthday George Foster Shepley, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1818 Birthday Benjamin Franklin Butler, Major General Union volunteers 1818 Birthday Gustavus Adolphus DeRussy, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1818 Birthday Edward Otho Cresap Ord, Major General Union volunteers 1818 Birthday Irvin McDowell, Major General Union volunteers 1818 Birthday Rufus Ingalls, Major General Union Army 1818 Birthday William Farquhar Barry, Major General Union Army 1818 Birthday Lovell Harrison Rosseau, Major General Union volunteers 1818 Birthday Nathaniel Lyon, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1818 Birthday Joseph Abel Haskin, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1818 Birthday John Albion Andrew, Gov, Union 1818 Birthday Cadwallader Colden Washburn, Major General Union volunteers 1818 Birthday Lewis Baldwin Parsons, Major General Union volunteers 1818 Birthday Isaac Ingalls Stevens, Major General Union volunteers 1818 Birthday Don Carlos Buell, Major General Union volunteers 1818 Birthday Albion Parris Howe, Major General Union Army 1818 Birthday Austin Blair, Gov/MC, Union 1818 Birthday William Maxwell Evarts, Union 1818 Birthday George Sewall Boutwell, MC, Union 1818 Birthday John Reese Kenly, Major General Union volunteers 1817 Birthday Edward Richard Sprigg Canby, Major General Union volunteers 1817 Birthday John McAuley Palmer, U.S. Union msj-gen, Gov-Ill, 1868 - 1872 1817 Birthday Speed Smith Fry, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1817 Birthday Henry Winter Davis, MC, Union 1817 Birthday James Blair Steedman, Major General Union volunteers 1817 Birthday Joseph K Barnes, Major General Union Army 1817 Birthday Mary Ann Ball Bickerdyke, U.S., army nurse, union 1817 Birthday James Brewerton Ricketts, Major General Union Army 1817 Birthday James William Denver, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1817 Birthday George Washington Julian, MC, Union 1817 Birthday John Wilson Sprague, Major General Union volunteers 1817 Birthday Herman Haupt, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1817 Birthday James Craig, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1817 Birthday Samuel Ryan Curtis, Major General Union volunteers 1817 Birthday Lewis Golding Arnold, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1816 Birthday Eliakim Parker Scammon, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1816 Birthday Joseph Bennett Plummer, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1816 Birthday Amiel Weeks Whipple, Major General Union volunteers 1816 Birthday Egbert Benson Brown, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1816 Birthday Elihu Benjamin Washburne, MC, Union 1816 Birthday Julius White, Major General Union volunteers 1816 Birthday Israel Vogdes, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1816 Birthday John Eugene Smith, Major General Union Army 1816 Birthday George Henry Thomas, Major General Union Army 1816 Birthday Isaac Fitzgerald Shepard, General Union volunteers 1816 Birthday Robert Huston Milroy, Major General Union volunteers 1816 Birthday Phillipe Regis Denis de Keredern de Trobriand, Major General, Union 1816 Birthday Robert Seaman Granger, Union Army Major general 1816 Birthday Montgomery Cunningham Meigs, Major General Union Army 1816 Birthday James Gallant Spears, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1816 Birthday David Stuart, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1816 Birthday Nathaniel Prentiss Banks, Major General Union volunteers 1816 Birthday Fitz-Henry Warren, Major General Union volunteers 1816 Birthday John Palmer Usher, Secretary Int, Union 1816 Birthday Stephen Miller, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1815 Birthday George Gordon Meade, Major General Union Army 1815 Birthday Israel Bush Richardson, Major General Union volunteers 1815 Birthday Stephen Augustus Hurlbut, Major General Union volunteers 1815 Birthday William Dennison, postmaster/general, Union 1815 Birthday Eleazer Arthur Paine, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1815 Birthday Alexander Ramsey, Gov, Union 1815 Birthday Howell Cobb II, Major General/Secy of Treasury, Union 1815 Birthday Thomas Jackson Rodman, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1815 Birthday Stewart Van Vliet, Major General Union Army 1815 Birthday Philip Kearny, Major General Union volunteers 1815 Birthday John Gross Barnard, Major General Union Army 1815 Birthday Abram Duryee, Major General Union volunteers 1815 Birthday Andrew Jackson Smith, Major General Union volunteers 1815 Birthday Nathaniel Collins McLean, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1815 Birthday Andrew Jackson Hamilton, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1815 Birthday Richard Yates Gov, MC, Union 1815 Birthday Henry Wagner "Old Brains" Halleck, Major-General Union Army 1815 Birthday Henry Morris Naglee, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1815 Birthday William Henry French, Major General Union volunteers 1815 Birthday Alexander Brydie Dyer, Major General Union Army 1815 Birthday Thomas Williams, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1815 Birthday George Webb Morell, Major General Union volunteers 1815 Birthday Lawrence Pike Graham, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1814 Birthday James Henry Carleton, Major General Union Army 1814 Birthday Pleasant Adam Hackleman, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1814 Death Michael Kelly Lawler, Major General Union volunteers, dies in 1882 1814 Birthday Joseph Hooker, Major General Union volunteers 1814 Birthday Henry Hayes Lockwood, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1814 Birthday Justus McKinstry, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1814 Birthday John Blair Smith Todd, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1814 Birthday Rufus King, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1814 Birthday Francis Harrison Pierpont, governor, Union 1813 Birthday John Wolcott Phelps, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1813 Birthday Lyman Trumbull, MC, Union 1813 Birthday John Sedgwick, Major General Union volunteers 1813 Birthday Conrad Feger Jackson, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1813 Birthday Benjamin Alvord, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1813 Birthday William Scott Ketchum, Major General Union Army 1813 Birthday William Hugh Keim, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1813 Birthday David Dixon Porter, Rear Admiral Union Navy 1813 Birthday Israel Washburn, Governor, Union 1813 Birthday Mason Brayman, Major General Union volunteers 1813 Birthday Joseph Tarr Copeland, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1813 Birthday Henry Washington Benham, Major General Union Army 1813 Birthday Thomas West Sherman, Major General Union Army 1813 Birthday Gabriel Rene Paul, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1813 Birthday John McNeil, Major General Union volunteers 1813 Birthday Jacon Gartner Lauman, Major General Union volunteers 1812 Birthday William Grose, Major General Union volunteers 1812 Birthday Elias Smith Dennis, Major General Union volunteers 1812 Birthday Percival Drayton, Captain Union Navy 1812 Birthday John Rodgers II, Commander Union Navy 1812 Birthday Theophilus Toulmin Garrard, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1812 Birthday John Alexander McClernand, Major General Union volunteers 1812 Birthday Joseph Warren Revere, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1812 Birthday Louis Ludwig Blenker, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1812 Birthday Daniel Henry Rucker, Major General Union Army 1812 Birthday Randolph Barnes Marcy, Major General Union Army 1812 Birthday Henry Dwight Terry, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1812 Birthday James Speed, Attorney General Union 1812 Birthday Benjamin Franklin Sands, Commander Union Navy 1812 Birthday Ralph Pomeroy Buckland, Major General Union volunteers 1811 Birthday Alexander Sandor Asboth, Major General Union volunteers 1811 Birthday John Ancrum Winslow, Commander Union Navy 1811 Birthday Hugh Thompson Reid, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1811 Birthday William Hamsley Emory, Major General Union volunteers 1811 Birthday Joseph Dana Webster, Major General Union volunteers 1811 Birthday Gilman Marston, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1811 Birthday Joseph Lanman, Commander Union Navy 1811 Birthday Henry Prince, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1811 Birthday Robert Allen, Major General Union Army 1811 Birthday Marsena Rudolph Patrick, Major General Union volunteers 1811 Birthday Robert Christie Buchanan, Major General Union Army 1811 Birthday Edward Dickinson Baker, Major General Union volunteers 1810 Birthday August Willich, Major General Union volunteers 1810 Birthday Benjamin Stone Roberts, Major General Union volunteers 1810 Birthday Andrew Atkinson Humphreys, Major General Union volunteers 1810 Birthday Henry Bohlen, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1810 Birthday Cassius Marcellus Clay, Major General Union volunteers 1810 Birthday James Shedden Palmer, Commander Union Navy 1810 Birthday Alpheus Starkey Williams, Major General Union volunteers 1810 Birthday Thomas Jefferson McKean, Major General Union volunteers 1810 Birthday Horatio Seymour, Gov, Union 1810 Birthday Erasmus Darwin Keyes, Major General Union volunteers 1810 Birthday Solomon Meredith, Major General Union volunteers 1810 Birthday James Shields, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1810 Birthday James Cooper, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1810 Birthday Daniel Ullmann, Major General Union volunteers 1809 Birthday Christopher "Kit" Carson, Kentucky, Union Brigadier-General/indian fighter 1809 Birthday Stephen Thomas, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1809 Birthday Thomas Alfred Davies, Major General Union volunteers 1809 Birthday Horatio Phillips Van Cleve, Major General Union volunteers 1809 Birthday John AB Dahlgren, U.S. Union Lieutenant-Admiral/inventor, Civil war Dahlgren-cannon 1809 Birthday Robert Cumming Schenck, Major General Union volunteers 1809 Birthday William Radford, Commander Union Navy 1809 Birthday Ormsby McKnight Mitchel, astronomer/Major General Union volunteers 1809 Birthday Sylvanus William Godon, Commander Union Navy 1809 Birthday George Philip St. Cooke, Major General Union Army 1809 Birthday William David Porter, Commander Union Navy 1809 Birthday George Washington Cullom, Major General Union Army 1809 Birthday Henry Walton Wessells, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1808 Birthday Stephen Cleeg Rowan, Commander Union Navy 1808 Birthday Thomas Turner, Commander Union Navy 1808 Birthday Thomas Tinsley Craven, Commander Union Navy 1808 Birthday Henry Haywood Bell, Commander Union Navy 1808 Birthday Thomas Algeo Rowley, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1808 Birthday William Thomas Ward, Major General Union volunteers 1808 Birthday Charles Henry Poor, Commander Union Navy 1808 Birthday Caleb Blood Smith, Secretary Int, Union 1808 Birthday Catharinus Putnam Buckingham, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1808 Birthday James Bowen, Major General Union volunteers 1808 Birthday Jacob Ammen, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1807 Birthday James Samuel Wadsworth, Major General Union volunteers 1807 Birthday Charles Francis Adams, Union 1807 Birthday Silas Casey, Major General Union volunteers 1807 Birthday James Findlay Schenck, Commander Union Navy 1807 Birthday Charles Ferguson Smith, Major General Union volunteers 1807 Birthday Lysander Cutler, Major General Union volunteers 1807 Birthday Abner Clark Harding, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1807 Birthday William Bowen Campbell, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1807 Birthday Charles Henry Davis, Rear Admiral Union Navy 1807 Birthday Napoleon Bonaparte Buford, Major General Union volunteers 1807 Birthday Ezra Cornell, founder, Western Union Telegraph, Cornell University 1807 Birthday Joseph Holt, Major General Union Army 1806 Birthday William Pitt Fessenden, Secretary Treasury, Union 1806 Birthday Andrew Hull Foote, Rear Admiral Union Navy 1806 Birthday Joshua Blackwood Howell, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1806 Birthday John Buchanan Floyd, Ex-Sect of War, Union 1806 Birthday Henry Knox Thatcher, Commander Union Navy 1806 Birthday George C Cadwalader, Major General Union volunteers 1806 Birthday Amos Beebe Eaton, Major General Union Army 1805 Birthday Samuel Peter Heintzelman, Major General Union volunteers 1805 Birthday Robert Cowdin, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1805 Birthday Robert Anderson, Major General Union Army 1805 Birthday William Kerley Strong, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1805 Birthday Louis Malesherbes Goldsborough, Rear Admiral Union Navy 1804 Birthday Lorenzo Thomas, Major General Union Army 1804 Birthday John William, Turk, Livingston, Commander Union Navy 1804 Birthday Thomas Oliver Selfridge, Commander Union Navy 1804 Birthday Neal Dow, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1803 Birthday Joseph King Fenno Mansfield, Major General Union volunteers 1803 Birthday George Wright, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1803 Birthday Samuel Francis DuPont, Rear Admiral Union Navy 1803 Birthday Levin Minnesota Powell, Commander Union Navy 1802 Birthday Melancthon Smith Wade, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1802 Birthday James Lawrence Lardner, Commander Union Navy 1802 Birthday Cadwalader Ringgold, Commander Union Navy 1802 Birthday David Hunter, Major General Union volunteers 1802 Birthday Gideon Welles, Secretary Navy, Union 1802 Birthday George Archibald McCall, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1802 Birthday George Douglas Ramsey, Major general Union Army 1801 Birthday James Barnes, Major General Union volunteers 1801 Birthday John Drake Sloat, Ret Major General Commander Union Navy 1801 Birthday David Glasgow Farragut, Tennessee, Vice Admiral Union Navy 1801 Birthday George Sears Greene, Major General Union volunteers 1801 Birthday Henry Eagle, Commander Union Navy 1800 Birthday Benjamin Franklin Wade, MC, Union 1800 Birthday William Wister McKean, Commander Union Navy 1800 Birthday Ret Thomas Aloysius Dornin, Commander Union Navy 1799 Birthday Simon Cameron, Secretary War Union 1799 Birthday Daniel Tyler, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1798 Birthday Thomas Holliday Hicks, Union Gov 1798 Birthday Richard Delafield, Major General Union Army 1798 Birthday Gershom Jaques Van Brunt, Commander Union Navy 1798 Birthday Charles H Bell, Commander Union Navy 1798 Birthday Ethan Allen Hitchcock, Major General Union volunteers 1798 Birthday Charles D. Wilkes, Commander Union Navy 1798 Birthday Charles Mynn Thruston, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1797 Birthday Hiram Paulding, Rear Admiral Union Navy 1797 Birthday Silas Horton Stringham, Rear Admiral Union Navy 1797 Birthday Edwin Vose Sumner, Major General Union volunteers 1796 Birthday Ret Cornelius Kinchiloe Stribling, Commander Union Navy 1796 Birthday Reverdy Johnson, rep, Union 1796 Birthday Joseph Pannell Taylor, Brigadier General Union Army 1795 Birthday John Marston, Jr., Commander Union Navy 1795 Birthday Joshua Ratoon Sands, Commander Union Navy 1794 Birthday James Wolfe Ripley, Major General Union Army 1794 Birthday John Barrien Montgomery, Commander Union Navy 1793 Birthday Edward Bates, Attorney General, Union 1792 Birthday Robert Patterson, Major General Union volunteers 1791 Birthday Peter Cooper, industrialist/philanthropist, Cooper Union 1790 Birthday Joseph Smith, Rear Admiral Union Navy 1790 Event George Washington delivers 1st state of union address 1790 Event President Washington delivers 1st State of the Union address 1789 Birthday Francis Hoyt Gregory, Rear Admiral Union Navy 1788 Birthday Joseph Gilbert Totten, Major General Union Army 1787 Birthday John Jordan Crittenden, MC, Union 1786 Birthday Winfield Scott, army general, Union, presidential candidate 1778 Birthday Charles Stewart, Rear Admiral Union Navy 1777 Event Continental Congress adopts Stars and Stripes replacing Grand Union flag 1776 Event General George Washington hoists Continental Union Flag 1707 Event English/Scottish parliament accept Act of Union, form Great Britain 1701 Event Great Britain and Ireland union is in effect, creating United Kingdom 1678 Birthday John Campbell, 2nd duke of Argyll/Field Marshal, Union of 1707 1633 Event Sweden and Protestant German monarchy form Union of Heilbronn 1606 Event England adopts Union Jack as its flag 1591 Event German monarchy forms Protestant Union of Torgau 1580 Event Drenthe joins Union of Utrecht 1579 Event Breda forms Union of Utrecht 1579 Event Antwerp request union with of Utrecht 1579 Event Venlo joins Union of Utrecht 1579 Event Friesland joins Union of Utrecht 1579 Event Veluwe joins Union of Utrecht 1579 Event Betuwe joins Union of Utrecht 1579 Event Union of Utrecht signed, forming protestant Dutch Republic 1579 Event Artois/Hainault/Dowaai sign pro-Spanish Union of Arras 1569 Event Latvia Parliament accept Union of Lublin, incorporate into Poland 1538 Event Danish king Christian III enters Schmalkaldische Union 1531 Event Bavaria joins Schmalkaldische Union 1531 Event Evangelical German monarchy/towns form Schmalkaldische Union 1525 Event Catholic German monarchy form Union of Dessau 1525 Event Battle at Boblingen: Zwabische Union beats rebel Wurttembergse farmers 1397 Event Denmark, Norway and Sweden sign Union of Kalmar under Queen Margaretha 1397 Event Union of Kalmar established between Denmark, Sweden and Norway
