Today — Military History — 01.26.2006
Born
| 1763 | Bernadotte, Marshal of France, King Charles XIV of Sweden & Norway |
| 1814 | Rufus King, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1876 |
| 1816 | Lloyd Tilghman, Brig Gen, C.S.A., d. 1863 |
| 1819 | Abner Doubleday, Maj Gen, U.S, , d. this day, 1893 |
| 1880 | General of the Army Douglas MacArthur |
| 1891 | Ilya Ehrenburg, Russian war poet |
| 1918 | Nicolae Ceausescu, Romanian dictator (1967-90) |
Died
| 1885 | Charles George Gordon slain at 51 by the Mahdists, Khartoum |
| 1893 | Abner Doubleday, did not invent baseball, on his 74th birthday |
| 1939 | Armand Calinescu, Romania’s PM, assassinated by the Iron Guard |
| 1993 | Jan Gies, Dutch resistance fighter, who aided the Frank family |
Event
| 1787 | Daniel Shays & followers attack arsenal at Springfield, Mass |
| 1788 | Capt Arthur Phillip founds a penal colony at Sydney, Australia colony |
| 1799 | French set-up puppet “Pathenopean Republic” in Naples, loot and rape at will |
| 1859 | Screw Frigate Brooklyn commissioned under Capt. David G. Farragut |
| 1861 | Louisiana becomes 6th state to secede |
| 1862 | Lincoln issues General War Order #1, calling for a Union offensive |
| 1863 | Black 54th Massachusetts Infantry is formed |
| 1885 | Mahdist rebels capture Khartoum, slay “Chinese” Gordon |
| 1887 | Battle of Dogali: Abyssinian Emperor John IV defeats Italians |
| 1890 | NY reporter Nellie Bly completes a ’round the world trip in 72 days |
| 1913 | John Paul Jones is laid to rest in the Chapel of Naval Academy |
| 1932 | British submarine M-2 sinks in Channel, 60 die |
| 1934 | Nazi Germany and Poland sign ten year non-aggression pact |
| 1939 | Franco’s Spanish Nationalists capture Barcelona |
| 1942 | Malaya: Japanese make major inroads into the Johore Line. |
| 1942 | U.S./Philippine troops consolidate the Bagac-Orion line on Bataan |
| 1942 | US Marines land in Northern Ireland |
| 1944 | Argentina severs diplomatic relations with Germany and Japan. |
| 1944 | Liberia declares war on Germany and Japan |
| 1944 | US bombers raid the Marshalls. |
| 1945 | Japanese government orders an end to offensives operations in China. |
| 1948 | Executive Order 9981: segregation in the Armed Forces must end |
| 1956 | Porkkala military base returned to Finland by USSR |
| 1957 | India annexes Kashmir |
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According to this Finnish blog, Porkkala was very close to the capital of Finland! Poor Finns.
Comment by David — January 27, 2006 @ 4:13 pm | Edit This