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TODAY IN MILITARY HISTORY
0    Feast of St. Peter Chanel, Patron of Oceania
1379    Battle of Marino: Pope Urban VI defeats Anti-Pope Clement VII
1503    Battle of Cerignola: Gonzalvo de Cordoba routs the French
1635    Virginia Gov John Harvey accused of treason & removed from office
1655    English fleet under Blake defeats the Tunisian corsairs
1789    Lt. William Bligh, RN, has occasion to say, "This is mutiny, Mr. Christian, mutiny."
1796    Ceasefire of Cherasco: effectively ends Bonaparte's First Italian campaign
1818    US & Britain agree to naval disarmament on the Great Lakes
1919    the 165th Infantry (69th NY) received a tumultuous reception marching up Fifth Avenue on its return the Great War -- Learn More
1925    Kurdish rebels surrender to the Turkish Army
1939    Hitler claims the 1934 German-Polish non-aggression pact is still in effect
1942    Nightly "dim-out" belatedly initiated on the East Coast, greatly reduces sinking of merchant vessels by German submarines
1943    New Ireland: 'Scamp' (SS-277) sinks seaplane carrier 'Kamikawa Maru'
1944    China: AAF raids Yellow River bridges to slow Japanese
1945    Okinawa: Kamikaze attacks on U.S. fleet continue.
1945    US Fifth Army reaches the Italian-Swiss border
1950    Ticker tape parade on Broadway for Admiral Thomas C. Kinkaid
1952    Japanese Peace Treaty formally ends the Asiatic-Pacific War of 1937-1945
1956    The French leave Vietnam
1965    US Marines land in the Dominican Republic, stay until October 1966
1967    Mohammad Ali refuses induction into the army
1971    Samuel Lee Gravely, Jr., is promoted to rear admiral; the first black admiral in US Navy
2009    A treaty between Bolivia and Paraguay formally ends the Chaco War (1932-1935)

BORN
32    Marcus Salvius Otho, Roman Emperor for a little while (Jan 15-Apr 16, 69) -- Learn More
1442    King Edward of England (1461-1470, 1471-1483), 40
1545    Yi Sun-sin, Korea's greatest admiral, d/w, Battle of Noryang, 1598
1592    George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, English courtier & admiral, d. 1628
1758    James Monroe, soldier, president (1817-1825), d. July 4, 1831 -- Learn More
1810    Daniel Ullmann, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1892
1812    Daniel Henry Rucker, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1910
1815    Andrew Jackson Smith, Maj Gen, U.S., d. 1897
1825    James Winning McMillan, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1903
1888    Henry Crerar, Commander, Canadian First Army, World War II, d., 1965
1889    Karel Doorman, Dutch admiral, kia, Java Sea, Feb 27, 1942
1908    Oscar Schindler, one of the Righteous, d. 1974
1937    Saddam Hussein al-Takriti, Dictator of Iraq (1979-2003), executed 2006
1943    John O Creighton, USN, astronaut
1949    Jerome "Jay" Apt, astronaut

DIED
1192    Conrad I of Montferrat, King of Jerusalem (1191-1192), assassinated at c. 40
1197    Rhys ap Gruffydd, c. 65, King of Deheubarth [South Wales] (1155-1197)
1813    Prince Mikhail Illarionovich Golenischev-Kutuzov, 67, Russian field marshal who bested Bonaparte in 1812-1813 [Apr. 6, OS]
1851    Adm Sir Edward Codrington GCB, Victor of Navarino, at 71 and one day
1905    Fitzhugh Lee, Maj. Gen., CSA, Brig. Gen, USA, b 1835
1936    King Fuad of Egypt (1922-36), 68
1944    William Franklin "Frank" Knox, 70, sometime Rough Rider, Republican newspaper publisher and politician, FDR's SecNav (1940-1944)
1945    Benito Mussolini (61) & Claretta Petacci (33) murdered by partisans near Milan -- Learn More