** 25px 1st Battalion

** Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading, the Attorney General

** David Lloyd George, 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor, the Chancellor of the Exchequer

** Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel, Postmaster General ; was falsely implicated.

** Afonso, 8th Count of Barcelos, 1st Duke of Braganza ( 1442 ).

** Ferdinand II, 3rd Duke of Braganza and 1st Duke of Guimarães ( 1475 ).

** John I, 6th Duke of Braganza and 1st Duke of Barcelos ( 1562 ).

** 1st Foreign Regiment ( 1 < sup > e </ sup > RE ), based in Aubagne

** 1st Foreign Cavalry Regiment ( 1 < sup > e </ sup > REC ), based in Orange, Vaucluse ( armoured troops )

** 1st Foreign Engineer Regiment ( 1 < sup > e </ sup > REG ), based in Laudun

** Mishnaic Hebrew – Post Temple Roman Era ( 1st through 4th Century CE )

** Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington

** Frederic Maugham, 1st Viscount Maugham, English statesman, the eldest son of the previous

** Adiabene ( 1st to 2nd c. AD )

** Hatra ( 1st to 2nd c. AD )

** ( formerly MV 1st Lt. Baldomero Lopez )

** ( formerly MV 1st Lt. Jack Lummus )

** The United States Post Office Department ( later renamed the United States Postal Service ) begins the 3rd regular airmail service in the world ( between New York City, Philadelphia and Washington, DC ), the 1st being from Allahabad to Naini Junction in India on the 18th February 1911 and the 2nd being from London to Windsor Castle on the 22nd June 1911.

** Thomas Manners, 1st Earl of Rutland ( d. 1543 )

** WWII: At Camp Hood, Texas, future baseball star and 1st Lt. Jackie Robinson is arrested and later court-martialed for refusing to move to the back of a segregated U. S. Army bus.

** Hermann Göring is captured by the United States Army. Marines of 1st Marine Division Battle of Okinawa | fighting on Okinawa, May 1945.

** Nigeria becomes a republic ; The 1st Republican Constitution is established

** Sylvanus Olympio, 1st President of Togo, assassination ( b. 1902 )

** Jo Bonner, American U. S. Representative for Alabama's 1st congressional district

** Tuanku Abdul Rahman ibni Almarhum Tuanku Muhammad, 1st Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia, dies in office.

** International Air Transport Association for Baker Army Air Field ( abandoned ), Baker Island, United States Minor Outlying Islands

** U. S. Army Biological Warfare Laboratories ( 1943 – 69 )

** United States Army Medical Unit ( 1956 – 69 )

** U. S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases ( USAMRIID ; 1969 – present )

** Belgisch Leger ( Belgian Army )

** Afghan National Army Regional Hospital at Camp Shaheen

** In the 1971 film Dad's Army, German aircrew with photographs vital to the invasion crash land in England.

** Army Ten-Miler road race at The Pentagon.

** German Federal Prosecutor Siegfried Buback and his driver are shot by 2 Red Army Faction members while waiting at a red light near his home in Karlsruhe.

** German Autumn: Red Army Faction members Andreas Baader, Jan-Carl Raspe and Gudrun Ensslin commit suicide in Stammheim prison ; Irmgard Möller fails ( their supporters still claim they were murdered ).

** Jarl Wahlström, Salvation Army general ( b. 1918 )

** Ten-Day War ( 1991 ) – a brief military conflict between Slovenian TO ( Slovenian Territorial Defence ) and the Yugoslav People's Army ( JNA ) following Slovenia's declaration of independence.

** Croatian War of Independence ( 1991 – 1995 ) – the war fought in hegh town Croatia between the Croatian government, having declared independence from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, and both the Yugoslav People's Army ( JNA ) and Serb forces, who established the self-proclaimed Republic of Serbian Krajina ( RSK ) within Croatia.

** Richard D. Winters, U. S. Army officer ( d. 2011 )

** Walter Tull, First Black infantry officer to serve in the British Army ( b. 1888 )

** In Bad Kleinen, Germany, GSG 9 troopers arrest Birgit Hogefeld and kill Wolfgang Grams two Red Army Faction terrorists.

** The United States Army suspends Gene C. McKinney, Sergeant Major of the Army, its top-ranking enlisted soldier, after hearing allegations of sexual misconduct.

** An Irish Republican Army attack on the Brookeborough police barracks leads to the deaths of Seán South and Fergal O ' Hanlon.

** The U. S. military sustains its first combat fatality in Vietnam, Army Capt.

** Bramwell Tillsley, General of The Salvation Army

** George Carpenter, 5th General of The Salvation Army ( b. 1872 )

** An Irish Republican Army bomb explodes in the centre of Coventry, England, killing 5 people.

** Lawrence Oates, English Army officer ( b. 1880 ).

** William Booth, English founder of the Salvation Army ( b. 1829 )