Brevet Major General George Armstrong Custer was the regiment's first permanent commander and, like such generals as George S. Patton and Terry De La Mesa Allen in their rise to military prominence, Custer was a believer in blood and guts warfare.

After the Union defeat at the First Battle of Bull Run and the retirement of the aged Winfield Scott in late 1861, Lincoln appointed Major General George B. McClellan general-in-chief of all the Union armies.

President Lincoln rejected two geographically limited emancipation attempts by Major General John C. Frémont in August 1861 and by Major General David Hunter in May 1862, on the grounds that it was not within their power, and it would upset the border states loyal to the Union.

* 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.

* 1862 – American Civil War: Major General J. E. B.

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* Also the Bavarian Major General and War Minister Moritz Ritter von Spies ( 1805 – 1862 ) was born in Ansbach.

* Land Forces: Major General Stefan Vasilev

* Air Force: Major General Konstantin Popov

As the English battalions descended the gentle slope of the Petite Gheete valley, struggling through the boggy stream, they were met by Major General de la Guiche ’ s disciplined Walloon infantry sent forward from around Offus.

Essex left Sir Philip Skippon, his Sergeant Major General of Foot, in command while he himself escaped to Plymouth in a fishing boat.

Major General William Rupertus, USMC — commander of 1st Marine Division — predicted the island would be secured within four days.

Major General Robert Ford, then Commander of Land Forces in Northern Ireland, ordered that 1st Battalion, The Parachute Regiment ( 1 PARA ) should travel to Derry to be used to arrest possible rioters during the march.

* Deputy Chief of the General Staff-Director of JOC ( Operations Commander ): Major General Josef Prokš

* Support Policy Division: Director Major General Pavel Jevula

* 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.

Reformers were led by Democratic Congressman Barney Frank of Massachusetts, who favored modification ( but ultimately voted for the defense authorization bill with the gay ban language ), and Barry Goldwater, a former Republican Senator and a retired Major General, who argued on behalf of allowing service by open gays and lesbians.

* 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.

* 1862 – American Civil War: At the Battle of Fredericksburg, Confederate General Robert E. Lee defeats the Union Major General Ambrose E. Burnside.

* 1921 – Major League Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis confirms the ban of the eight Chicago Black Sox, the day after they were acquitted by a Chicago court.

He then attended the army's Staff College, Camberley, before being appointed Brigade Major in the 17th Infantry Brigade in January 1921.

* 1921 – Acting to restore confidence in baseball after the Black Sox Scandal, Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis is elected as Major League Baseball's first commissioner.

* Major armed conflict in Ireland including Irish War of Independence ( 1919 – 1921 ) resulting in Ireland becoming an independent country in 1922 followed by the Irish Civil War ( 1922 – 23 ).

* July 19 – Elmer Valo, Slovak Major League Baseball player ( b. 1921 )

Sport: In the first half of the twentieth century, before Major League Baseball was racially integrated, dark-skinned and dark-complexion players were nicknamed Nig ; examples are: Johnny Beazley ( 1941 – 49 ), Joe Berry ( 1921 – 22 ), Bobby Bragan ( 1940 – 48 ), Nig Clarke ( 1905 – 20 ), Nig Cuppy ( 1892 – 1901 ), Nig Fuller ( 1902 ), Johnny Grabowski ( 1923 – 31 ), Nig Lipscomb ( 1937 ), Charlie Niebergall ( 1921 – 24 ), Nig Perrine ( 1907 ), and Frank Smith ( 1904 – 15 ).

In 1921, the German government founded the Arbeits-Kommandos ( work squads ) led by Major Bruno Ernst Buchrucker.

Roy Campanella ( November 19, 1921 – June 26, 1993 ), nicknamed " Campy ", was an American baseball player, primarily at the position of catcher, in the Negro leagues and Major League Baseball.

Llorente retired as Colonel in 1921 while Velasquez retired as Major in 1927.

He was promoted to Major in 1920, and in that year also entered the Field Artillery School at Fort Sill, Oklahoma ( 1920 – 1921 ).

** Major Richard Raymond Willis, VC ( staff at Haileybury College, 1921 – 1921 )

Everett was born in Burnham Deepdale, Norfolk to Major Anthony Michael Everett ( 1921 – 2009 ), who worked in business and served in the British Army, and wife Sara ( née Maclean ).

* Enriquez, Major C. M., 1921.

Baker made the following G & S recordings with HMV: 1917 The Mikado ( Ko-Ko, Pish-Tush ( part ), and Pooh-Bah ( part )), 1919 The Gondoliers ( Antonio, Don Alhambra ( part ), Duke of Plaza-Toro and Giuseppe ); 1920 The Yeomen of the Guard ( Jack Point and Sergeant Meryll ( part )); 1920 The Pirates of Penzance ( Major-General Stanley ); 1921 Patience ( Bunthorne and Major ); and 1922 Iolanthe ( Lord Chancellor ).

Warren Edward Spahn ( April 23, 1921 – November 24, 2003 ) was an American Major League Baseball left-handed pitcher.

This Field was named for Major Sheldon H. Wheeler, who had assumed command of Luke Field in 1920 and was killed in an air accident in 1921.

* Major — 1 February 1921

Hazen Shirley " Kiki " Cuyler (; August 30, 1898 – February 11, 1950 ) was a Major League Baseball right fielder from 1921 until 1938.

* James Bradshaw Adamson ( 1921 – 2003 ), Major General in the United States Army

Mike Mitchell Goliat ( November 5, 1921 – January 13, 2004 ) was an American second baseman in Major League Baseball who played for the Philadelphia Phillies ( 1949 – 51 ) and St. Louis Browns ( 1951 – 52 ).

On August 5, 1921, Forbes Field was the site of the first live radio broadcast of a Major League Baseball game in the United States.

* Corporal Leo Major ( 1921 – 2008 ), Corporal in the Canadian Army