** WWII: A BBC broadcast by " Colonel Britton " calls on the people of occupied Europe to resist the Nazis under the slogan " V for Victory ".

** Patrice Lumumba, the deposed premier of the Republic of the Congo, is arrested by the troops of Colonel Joseph Mobutu.

** U. S. Lieutenant Colonel William R. Higgins, serving with a United Nations group monitoring a truce in southern Lebanon, is kidnapped ( he is later killed by his captors ).

** Iran-Contra Affair: Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and Vice Admiral John Poindexter are indicted on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States.

** Colonel Christophe Soglo stages a second coup in Dahomey.

** Colonel Richard Ratsimandrava, President of Madagascar, is assassinated.

** Cyprian Howe, Colonel in the American Revolutionary War ( d. 1806 )

** Colonel George Monck with his regiment crosses from Scotland to England at the village of Coldstream and begins his advance towards London in support of the English Restoration.

** Colonel John B. Wyman Elementary School ( K-04 )

** Mary Ann Amy Macrae Cockburn ( Calcutta, 29 August 1855-23 April 1942 ), married on 6 June 1877 to Walter St. George Burke of Auberies, Bulmer, Essex, JP ( 27 April 1842-17 February 1916 ), Lieutenant Colonel in the service of the Royal Engineers, Justice of the Peace for Essex and for Suffolk, son of James St. George Burke and wife Anne Eliza Grubbe, and had issue

** A Danish contingent known as the Royal Danish Auxiliary Corps commanded by General Prince Frederik of Hesse and a Hanseatic contingent ( from the free cities of Bremen, Lubeck and Hamburg ) commanded by the British Colonel Sir Neil Campbell, were on their way to join Wellington ; both however, joined the army in July having missed the conflict.

** Colonel Jack

* 1931 – 1934: Colonel Bernard Cyril Freyberg, VC, CMG, DSO **

** Colonel Edward Douglas Browne-Synge-Hutchinson, VC, CB ( attended United Services College Day Boy 1875 ).

** Colonel James Power Carne, VC, DSO ( attended Imperial Service College, ( Alexander House ), 1920 – 1923 )

** Colonel John L. Collard, MC, Order of the Star of Nepal, Nepalese Burma Medal

** Cavalry: General of Brigade Marc Antoine de Beaumont and Colonel Michel Ordener

** 2nd Brigade – Colonel E. P. Pearson, consisting of the 2nd, 10th, and 21st U. S. Infantry Regiments

** 3rd Brigade – Colonel Charles A. Wikoff, consisting of the 9th, 13th and 24th ( Colored ) U. S. Infantry regiments

** 1st Brigade – Brigadier General Samuel S. Sumner, Brigade Executive Officer Colonel Henry K. Carroll ( 6th Cav ), consisted of the 3rd U. S. Cavalry, 6th U. S. Cavalry and 9th U. S. Cavalry.

** Francis Sumner Carruth, Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Air Force.

** Dr. Albert M. Schwartz, a vascular surgeon and a Colonel in the US Army.

** A Russian brigade, initially under the command of Colonel Aleksandr Ivanovich Lentsov, was part of the Task Force Eagle effort.

** The 1AD 1st Brigade was commanded by Colonel Gregory Fontenot and covered the northwest.

** Benedict Joseph Labre

** Joseph Calasanctius

** De bello Troiano and the lost Antiocheis by Joseph of Exeter

** Blessed William Joseph Chaminade

** Blessed Joseph Vaz

** Joseph of Arimathea ( Western Church )

** John Joseph of the Cross

** Joseph of Nazareth ( Western Christianity )

** Joseph D ' Angelo

** Joseph Abibos

** Joseph of Cupertino

** Joseph Heller, American novelist ( b. 1923 )

** Yalta Conference, wartime meeting from 4 February 1945 to 11 February 1945 among the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union — President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Premier Joseph Stalin, respectively — for the purpose of discussing Europe's postwar reorganization, intended to discuss the re-establishment of the nations of war-torn Europe.

** Joseph Wiseman, Canadian actor ( d. 2009 )

** Joseph Victor von Scheffel, German poet ( d. 1886 )

** Joseph L. Mankiewicz, American screenwriter and producer ( b. 1909 )

** Joseph C. Wilson, former United States diplomat

** George Joseph Stigler, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1991 )

** Joseph Barbera, American cartoonist ( d. 2006 )

** Joseph A. Califano, Jr., Chairman of the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse

** Raymond Joseph Teller, American magician

** Joseph Stein, American librettist ( d. 2010 )

** Jean Joseph Rabearivelo, Malagasy-French poet ( died 1937 )

** Nadezhda Alliluyeva-Stalin, second wife of Joseph Stalin ( died 1932 )

** Joseph Goebbels and his wife Magda commit suicide after killing their six children.