* 1944 – The 1st Air Commando Group using Sikorsky R-4 helicopters stage the first use of helicopters in combat with CSAR operations in the China-Burma-India theater.

* 1996 – Dzhokhar Dudaev, Soviet Air Force general and Chechen leader, 1st President of Ichkeria ( b. 1944 )

* 1882 – Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding, English officer in the Royal Air Force and commander in RAF Fighter Command ( d. 1970 )

With the Mirage III withdrawn, the air defence of Brasília and region is done temporarily by a mix of F-5s from 1st GAv and 1st / 14th GAv until 10 Mirage 2000Cs and two Mirage 2000B bought from French Air Force surplus stocks arrive at Anápolis.

Following the downfall of Czechoslovakia and occupation of its Czech part by Nazi Germany in 1939, Czechoslovak units and formations served with the Polish Army ( Czechoslovak Legion ), the French Army, the Royal Air Force, the British Army ( the 1st Czechoslovak Armoured Brigade ), and the Red Army ( I Corps ).

* Charles Portal, 1st Viscount Portal of Hungerford, Marshal of the Royal Air Force

* Arthur Tedder, 1st Baron Tedder, Air Chief Marshal, Royal Air Force ( later Marshal of the Royal Air Force )

Allied leaders of the Sicilian campaign in North Africa ; ( front row, left to right ) General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder, 1st Baron Tedder | Arthur Tedder, General Sir Harold Alexander, Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope | Andrew Cunningham, ( top row, left to right ) Harold Macmillan, Major General Walter Bedell Smith, and unidentified British officers ; 1943

The U. S. Army began to field the XM16E1 en masse in 1965 with most of them going to the Republic of Vietnam, and the newly organized and experimental Airmobile Divisions, the 1st Air Cavalry Division in particular.

CAF controlled the numbered air forces within the United States ( 1st Air Force, 2nd Air Force, 3rd Air Force and 4th Air Force ) and their training mission.

At lower levels, there were a large number of Strategic Air Command wings, groups such as the 1st Combat Evaluation Group, and large numbers of bases ( see List of Strategic Air Command Bases ).

* Polmar, Norman, Strategic Air Command, 1st Edition, Nautical & Aviation Publishing, 1954

* Free French Special Air Service ( SAS ), the predecessor unit of the French 1st Marine Infantry Parachute Regiment ( 1er RPIMa )

* February 10 – Hugh Trenchard, 1st Viscount Trenchard, British marshal of the Royal Air Force ( b. 1873 )

The 1st Cavalry Division had originally used C-7 Caribous as the relay aircraft, but when these planes were turned over to the Air Force, the equipment was installed in single-engine Otter aircraft, which were too underpowered to carry the heavy equipment required for relay.

It served on the Eastern Front of the European Theatre of World War II with the 1st Air Army.

U. S. Air Force Thunderbirds | Thunderbird 1st year Capt.

Johnston returned to the Texas Army during the Mexican-American War under General Zachary Taylor as a colonel of the 1st Texas Rifle Volunteers.

His first combat assignment was to lead the 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, III Corps of the Army of Virginia during the Northern Virginia Campaign.

During the 1st century AD, the Army then chose a site to the north of the emerging town in what is now the section of Bonn-Castell to build a large military installation dubbed Castra Bonnensis, i. e., literally, " Fort Bonn ".

Between 1992 and 2008, the 1st, 2nd and 16th Jungle Infantry Brigades, the 3rd Infantry Battalion, the 19th Logistics Battalion, and the 22nd Army Police Platoon were transferred by the Army from the states of Rio de Janeiro and Rio Grande do Sul to the Amazon region in accordance with the friendship policy with Argentina.

The first great battles were at the Adrianople – Kirk Kilisse defensive line, where the Bulgarian 1st and 3rd Armies ( together 110, 000 men ) defeated the Ottoman East Army ( 130, 000 men ) near Gechkenli, Seliolu and Petra.

Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, KG, GCB, DSO, PC (; 17 November 1887 – 24 March 1976 ), nicknamed " Monty " and the " Spartan General ", was a British Army officer.

During the Battle of France in 1940, De Gaulle's 4th Armoured Division and elements of the British Expeditionary Force's 1st Army Tank Brigade both made probing attacks on the German flank, actually pushing into the rear of the advancing armoured columns at times.

In the Kresna straits the Greeks were ambushed by the Bulgarian 2nd and 1st Army newly arrived from the Serbian front that had already taken defensive positions there following the Bulgarian victory at Kalimanci.

John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough was one of the first generals in the British Army, fighting campaigns in the War of the Spanish Succession.

* Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke, Field Marshal, British Army

* Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby, General ( later Field Marshal ), British Army

* William Birdwood, 1st Baron Birdwood, General, British Army ( Field Marshal, Australian Army )

* Julian Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy, General ( later Field Marshal ), British Army

* Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, Field Marshal, British Army

Since its unification with Pakistan, the East Pakistan Army had consisted of only one infantry brigade, which was made up of two battalions, the 1st East Bengal Regiment and the 1 / 14 or 3 / 8 Punjab Regiment in 1948.

The Eighth Army now enjoyed a massive superiority in material over the Axis forces: 1st Armoured Division had 173 tanks and more in reserve or transit, while Rommel possessed only 38 German tanks and 51 Italian tanks although his armoured units had some 100 tanks awaiting repair.

In response, Army Group Upper Rhine ( Heeresgruppe Oberrhein ) group was formed to engage the advancing U. S. 7th Army ( under command of General Alexander Patch ) and French 1st Army ( led by General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny ) in the Alsace region along the west bank of the Rhine.

In Latin texts, on the other hand, Joseph Fontenrose declared himself unable to find any conflation of Apollo with Sol among the Augustan poets of the 1st century, not even in the conjurations of Aeneas and Latinus in Aeneid XII ( 161 – 215 ).

* 1792 – John Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham, English statesman ( d. 1840 )

* 1665 – John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol, English politician ( d. 1751 )

* 1891 – William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim, English general, 13th Governor-General of Australia ( d. 1970 )

Albert Lemaître classified 1st in his Peugeot 3hp in the 1894 Paris – Rouen ( motor race )

* 1819 – Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet, Irish-English mathematician and physicist ( d. 1903 )

* 1913 – Makarios III, Greek archbishop and politician, 1st President of Cyprus ( d. 1977 )

* 1630 – Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, English politician ( d. 1673 )

* 1840 – John Bigham, 1st Viscount Mersey, English jurist and politician ( d. 1929 )

* 1797 – Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst, English military commander ( b. 1717 )

* 1877 – William B. Ogden, American politician, 1st Mayor of Chicago ( b. 1805 )

* 1977 – Makarios III, Greek archbishop and politician, 1st President of the Republic of Cyprus ( b. 1913 )

Indeed most biblical scholarship is in agreement that Judeo-Greco-Roman thought in the 1st century was opposite of the Western world's " individual first " mantra – it was very collectivist or communitarian in nature.

* 1925 – Alija Izetbegović, Bosniak politician, 1st President of Bosnia and Herzegovina ( d. 2003 )

* 1661 – Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax, English poet and statesman ( d. 1715 )

Atanasoff – Berry Computer replica at 1st floor of Durham Center, Iowa State University

* 1806 – Santiago de Liniers, 1st Count of Buenos Aires re-takes the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina after the first British invasion.

* 1902 – Mohammad Hatta, Indonesian politician, 1st Vice President of Indonesia ( d. 1980 )

* 1910 – Yusof bin Ishak, Singaporean politician, 1st President of Singapore ( d. 1970 )

* 1398 – Íñigo López de Mendoza, 1st Marquis of Santillana, Spanish politician and poet ( d. 1458 )

* 1590 – Henry Rich, 1st Earl of Holland, English soldier ( d. 1649 )

* 1670 – James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick, French military leader ( d. 1734 )

The city and its fortified sourroundings were encircled 13 September – 16 October 1944 by the US 1st Infantry Division and 3rd Armored Division in conjunction with the US 2nd Armored Division and 30th Infantry Division during the prolonged Battle of Aachen, later reinforced by US 28th Infantry Division elements.

* 1951 – Akhmad Kadyrov, Chechen politician, 1st President of the Chechen Republic ( d. 2004 )

* Infanta Maria Cristina Teresa Alejandra Guadalupe Maria de la Concepción Vittoria Eugenia of Spain ( 1911 – 1996 ), who married Enrico Eugenio Marone-Cinzano, 1st Conte Marone-Cinzano.