* 1985 – The Nigerian government is peacefully overthrown by Army Chief of Staff Major General Ibrahim Babangida.

* 1942 – Major General Eugene Reybold of the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers authorizes the construction of facilities that would house the " Development of Substitute Materials " project, better known as the Manhattan Project.

# Regimental Sergeant Major of the Army ( Abbreviated: RSM-A ) – E10

The city's coroner, retired British Army Major Hubert O ' Neill, issued a statement on 21 August 1973, at the completion of the inquest into the people killed.

* 1864 – American Civil War: Franklin-Nashville Campaign – Battle of Nashville – Major General George H. Thomas's Union forces defeat Lieutenant General John Bell Hood's Confederate Army of Tennessee.

* 1864 – American Civil War: Sherman's March to the Sea – Major General William Tecumseh Sherman's Union Army troops reach the outer Confederate defenses of Savannah, Georgia.

Major General Sir Frederick Roberts led the Kabul Field Force over the Shutargardan Pass into central Afghanistan, defeated the Afghan Army at Char Asiab on 6 October 1879 and occupied Kabul.

Among notable recipients below flag rank are: X-1 test pilot Chuck Yeager and X-15 test pilot Robert M. White, who both received the DSM as U. S. Air Force majors ; Air Force Major Rudolf Anderson, the U-2 pilot shot down during the Cuban Missile Crisis ; director Frank Capra, decorated in 1945 as an Army colonel ; actor James Stewart, decorated in 1945 as an Army Air Forces colonel ( later Air Force Brigadier General ); Col. Wendell Fertig, who led Filipino guerrillas behind Japanese lines ; Col. ( later Major General ) John K. Singlaub, who led partisan forces in the Korean War ; and Maj. Maude C. Davison, who led the " Angels of Bataan and Corregidor " during their imprisonment by the Japanese, and Colonel William S. Taylor, Program Manager Multiple Launch Rocket System.

* Sir Freddie De Guingand, Major General, British Army

* Sir Henry Worth Thornton, Major General, British Army ( American born )

Arimondi left there a small garrison of approximately 1, 150 askaris and 200 Italians, commanded by Major Giuseppe Galliano, and took the bulk of his troops to Adigrat, where Oreste Baratieri, the Italian commander, was concentrating the Italian Army.

As a result, on February 24, 1966, a small number of army officers and senior police officials, led by Colonel Emmanuel Kotoka, commander of the Second Army Brigade at Kumasi, Major Akwasi Afrifa, staff officer in charge of army training and operations, Lieutenant General ( retired ) Joseph Ankrah, and J. W. K.

Major figures in the Communist Party such as Trotsky and Red Army leaders, were killed, convicted of participating in plots to overthrow the Soviet government and Stalin.

Major opened talks with the Provisional Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) upon taking office.

Drafted into the army, he distinguished himself, becoming the youngest Sergeant Major in the Austro-Hungarian Army.

He distinguished himself as a capable soldier, becoming the youngest Sergeant Major in the Austro-Hungarian Army.

Hardy handing over command of the Kenya Army to Brigadier Joseph Ndolo on 1 December 1966, British influence was underlined with the appointment of Major General Robert Penfold as Chief of General Staff, a new position as senior officer of the entire armed forces.

* Afghan National Army Training Command, Major General Aminullah Karim

* 1998 – Ivan Dougherty, Australian World War II Army Major General ( b. 1907 )

Major General A W Dennis, CB, OBE ( rtd ), British Army, previously Director of Military Assistance Overseas, made the following comments on the initial phase in Namibia at a conference in Pretoria, South Africa on 6 August 1992:

* 1884 – Major Harold Geiger, U. S. Army aviation pioneer ( d. 1927 )

According to The British Army Website, the insignia was designed by Major Edward Seago in May, 1942.

Major Steven E. Walburn argues in a 1998 article in The Air Force Law Review that this form of guilty plea should be adopted for usage by the United States military.

* Air Force: Major General Konstantin Popov

Major established companies that fly to Croatia include the domestic Croatia Airlines ( member of the Star Alliance ), Air France, Lufthansa and British Airways.

For example Major General Charles J. Dunlap, Jr. says that United States Air Force culture includes an egalitarianism bred from officers as warriors who work with small groups of enlisted airmen either as the service crew or onboard crew of their aircraft.

Major income-earners for Vanuatu targeted by the Fijian government include Vanuatu kava, valued at almost US $ 3. 2 million, and Air Vanuatu flights ( US $ 8 million ).

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

( 1952 ); Mark Antony in Joseph L. Mankiewicz's 1953 film adaptation of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar ; and as Air Force Major Lloyd Gruver in Sayonara ( 1957 ), Joshua Logan's adaption of James Michener's 1954 novel.

* Afghan Air Force Commander, Major General Mohammad Dawran

* 1962 – Major Rudolf Anderson of the United States Air Force becomes the only direct human casualty of the Cuban Missile Crisis when his U-2 reconnaissance airplane is shot down in Cuba by a Soviet-supplied SA-2 Guideline surface-to-air missile.

The Strategic Air Command ( SAC ) was both a Major Command ( MAJCOM ) of the United States Air Force and a " specified command " of the United States Department of Defense.

* Clark, Rita F. Major, Strategic Air Command, U. S. Government Printing Office.

Major income-earners for Vanuatu targeted by the Fijian government include Vanuatu kava, valued at almost US $ 3. 2 million, and Air Vanuatu flights ( US $ 8 million ).

** Planes piloted by Major Harold Geiger and Horace Meek Hickam, students at the Air Corps Tactical School, collide in mid-air at Langley Field, Virginia.

He graduated from the Air Force Institute and was a parachutist and test pilot with the rank of Major General in the Kazakhstan Air Force before he was selected as a cosmonaut.

Major employers in the area include Alegent Health System, Omaha Public Schools, First Data Corporation, Methodist Health System, Mutual of Omaha, ConAgra Foods, Nebraska Medical Center, Offutt Air Force Base, and the West Corporation.

* 201st Selab (" Flood ") Corps Commander, Major General Mohammad Rahim Wardak

* 203rd Tandar (" Thunder ") Corps Commander, Major General Abdul Khaleq

* 207th Zafar (" Victory ") Corps Commander, Major General Jalandar Shah Behnam

* 209th Shaheen (" Falcon ") Corps Commander, Major General Murad Ali

The word SCUBA was coined in 1952 by Major Christian Lambertsen who served in the U. S. Army Medical Corps from 1944 to 1946 as a physician.

In the USA Major Christian J. Lambertsen, who served in the U. S. Army Medical Corps from 1944 to 1946 as a physician, invented an underwater free-swimming oxygen rebreather in 1939.

In 1994, he was promoted to Major General, commanding the Southern Corps.

* July 3 – Young Turk Revolution in the Ottoman Empire: Major Ahmed Niyazi, with 200 followers ( Ottoman troops and civilians ), begins an open revolution by defecting from the 3rd Army Corps in Macedonia, decamping into the hill country.

It was declared ready for operations on January 1, 2000, and deployed to the Horn of Africa in November 2000 to form the core of the UN Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea ( UNMEE ) under the command of Royal Netherlands Marine Corps Major General Patrick Cammaert.

Sousa served in the U. S. Marine Corps, first from 1868 to 1875 as an apprentice musician, and then as the head of the Marine Band from 1880 to 1892 ; he was a Sergeant Major for most of his second period of Marine service and was a Warrant Officer at the time he resigned.

In 1943, following the defeat of the U. S. II Corps ( then part of British 1st Army ) by the German Afrika Korps, first at the Battle of Sidi Bou Zid and again at the Battle of the Kasserine Pass, General Dwight D. Eisenhower sent Major General Ernest Harmon to assess the II Corps.

On March 6, 1943, as a result of Harmon's report, Patton replaced Major General Lloyd Fredendall as commander of the II Corps.

Nevertheless he received a promotion to Major General of Volunteers and command of the V Corps being assembled in Tampa, Florida.

The Governor of New South Wales, William Bligh, was deposed by the New South Wales Corps under the command of Major George Johnston, working closely with John Macarthur, on 26 January 1808, 20 years to the day after Arthur Phillip founded European settlement in Australia.

In October 1807 Major George Johnston wrote a formal letter of complaint to the Commander-in-Chief of the British Army, stating that Bligh was abusive and interfering with the troops of the New South Wales Corps.

Bligh summoned the officers to Government House to answer charges made by the judge and he informed Major Johnston that he considered the action of the officers of the Corps to be treasonable.

The U. S. 101st Airborne Division, under Major General Maxwell D. Taylor, would drop in two locations just north of XXX Corps to take the bridges northwest of Eindhoven at Son and Veghel.

By 1944, the British divisions were grouped into the 1st Airborne Corps under General Frederick Browning, while US divisions in the European Theatre ( the 17th, 82nd, and 101st ) were organized into the XVIII Airborne Corps under US Major General Matthew Ridgway.

At the time of publication Major Milliard was a Judge Advocate in the Judge Advocate General's Corps, U. S. Army.

The term is especially associated with Colonel ( later Brigadier General ) Theodore C. Lyster ( the first Chief Surgeon, Aviation Section, U. S. Signal Corps, U. S. Army ), and with Major Isaac H. Jones.