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StoryWeatherIraqAl Azamiyah Al Basrah Al Hillah Al Karkh Al KazimiyahAn Nasiriyah Baghdad Baqubah Mosul Najaf Nineveh Tall KayfAfghanistanBost/Laskar Ghurian Herat Kabul QandaharGitmoToday in History1572 - The Sea Beggars land in Holland, capturing the small town of Briel.
1863 - The first wartime conscription law goes into effect in the U.S..
1865 - At the Battle of Five Forks, Gen. Robert E. Lee begins his final offensive.
1918 - England's Royal Air Force is formed.
1920 - Germany's Workers Party changes its name to the Nationalist Socialist German Worker's Party (Nazis).
1924 - Adolf Hitler is sentenced to five years in prison for the "Beer Hall Putsch."
1928 - China's Chiang Kai-shek begins attacks on communists.
1939 - The Spanish Civil War effectively ends with the official recognition of Franco's government.
1942 - The U.S. Navy begins a partial convoy system in the Atlantic.
1945 - U.S. forces land in Okinawa.
1948 - The Berlin Airlift begins, relieving the surrounded city from the Soviet siege.
1951 - U.N. forces again move northward across the 38th Parallel in Korea.
1954 - The U.S. Air Force Academy is founded in Colorado.
1968 - The U.S. Army launches Operation Pegasus to reopen a land route to the besieged Khe Sanh Marine base.
1970 - The U.S. Army charges Cpt. Ernest Medina for his part in the My Lai massacre.
1972 - The North Vietnamese launch the Nguyen Hue offensive.
1982 - The United States transfers control of the Canal Zone to Panama.
Birthdays1283 - Ludwig IV of Baveria Roman Catholic Bavarian emperor (1314-47)
1578 - William Harvey England, physician (discovered blood circulation)
1815 - Otto Von Bismarck Germany, chancellor (1866-90)
1823 - Simon Bolivar Buckner, Confederate Lieutenant General
1847 - Jules-Nicolas Crevaux, French explorer (South America)
1865 - Richard Zsigmondy, German chemist (Nobel-1925)
1883 - Lon Chaney, man of 1000 faces, actor (High Noon, Phantom of Opera)
1905 - Gaston Eyskens, PM of Belgium (1949, 1958-61, 1968-72)
1911 - Ferdinand J. Kranenburg, Dutch Secretary of Defense (Socialist Democrat)
1925 - Sala Burton (Representative-CA)
1946 - William Frederick Fisher, MD/astronaut (STS 51-I)
1950 - Ed[uardus] Nijpels, Dutch minister of Environment (VVD)
1952 - Abdel Basset Ali Al-Megrahi, Libyan bomber (Pan Am 103)
1957 - Peter Deutsch (Representative-FL)
Passings
1204 - Eleanor of Aquitaine, wife of Louis VII & Henry II, dies at 81
1205 - Amalrik II, King of Cyprus/Jerusalem
1548 - Sigismund I the Elder, King of Poland, dies at 81
1814 - Jozef de Ferraris, French/Austrian General/cartographer, dies at 87
1870 - Patrick Gass, Sergeant of Lewis & Clark Expedition, dies at 98
1916 - Gabrielle Petit, Belgian resistance fighter, executed
1922 - Charles I, Emperor (Austria)/King of Hungary (Charles IV), dies
1930 - Zawditu, 1st reigning female monarch of Ethiopia
1933 - Frederick Lord Chelmsford, viceroy of British-India (1916-21), dies at 64
1947 - George II king of Greece, dies at 56
1950 - Charles R. Drew, surgeon/developer of blood bank concept, dies at 45
1957 - Gheorge Tatarescu, premier Romania (1933-37, 39-40)
1965 - Henry D. G. Crerar, Canadian General (WWI, Normandy), dies at 76
1968 - Lev D. Landau, Russian physicist (Nobel 1962)
1976 - S. Constantine Timoshenko, Russian marshal, dies at 75
1984 - Marvin Gaye, shot to death by his father Marvin Gaye, Sr., in Los Angeles, CA at 44
1989 - Henk Gortzak, Dutch MP (CPN/PSP), dies at 57
1991 - Paulo Muwanga, chief of Uganda (1980)
1993 - Ihsan Mohamed Salem [Yunis Awad], Palestinian Al-Fatah leader
1994 - Leon Degrelle Belgian General; Stuart Sloan, war hero/test pilot, dies at 72
1995 - Richard Pool, naval Officer, dies at 75
1996 - Alfredo Nobre Coast, PM of Portugal (1978)
1997 - Nancy Woodhull, news editor (USA Today), dies of cancer at 52
Reported Missing in Action
1965Dawson, Donald,
Civilian; captured searching for brother - released August, 1965
1966
Grayson, William R.,
USN (CA); A3B crashed at sea shortly after launch, Killed, body not recovered
Krech, Melvin T.,
USN (MN); A3B crashed at sea shortly after launch, Killed, body not recovered
1967 Govan, Robert A.,
USAF (DC); T28D shot down (w/Williams)
Jourdenais, George Henry,
USAF (RI); F4C shot down (w/Stanley)
Stanley, Robert W.,
USAF (OR); F4C shot down (w/Jourdenais)
Williams, David R.,
USAF (TN); T28D shot down (w/Govan)
1972Worth, James F.,
USMC (MD); reported missing after heavy ground action
1973Fitzgerald, Frances; released April, 1973 (held 3 days)
Southerland, Daniel; released April, 1973 (held 3 days)
U.S. Marine 2nd Lt. David F. Samuel hands out bottles of water to an elderly Iraqi woman in the Abu Ghraib area. Company C, 1st Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment performs regular patrols in the area conducting cache sweeps and security patrols. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. William Skelton
Marines from Company C, 1st Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment conduct security patrols in the area surrounding the Abu Ghraib prison. The Marines are learning their new area using a method of stopping, looking, seeing and smelling. The Marines use this tactic to check the area out for insurgent activities. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. William Skelton
U.S. Marine Corps Pfc. Neal A. Wagner keeps a vigilant eye as Marines from his squad crossed an intersection in the area surrounding the Abu Ghraib prison. The prison is located 20 miles west of Baghdad. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. William Skelton
U.S. Marine Sgt. Jose L. Alicea demonstrates to local Iraqi children how his protective glasses keep him safe during an explosion. The children laughed as Alicea acted out an explosion with his hands and provided sound effects. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. William Skelton
An Iraqi man takes time to fill out a survey on how the military is handling the area surrounding the Abu Ghraib prison. Company C, 1st Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment has been patrolling the area for two weeks performing cache searches and security patrols. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. William Skelton
Three young boys living in the outskirts of Abu Ghraib prison take time to pose for a picture while Marines from Company C, 1st Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment conducted a survey in the area. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. William Skelton
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