* 1945 – Michael J. Smith, American astronaut ( d. 1986 )

Covey, American astronaut

* 1956 – David McDowell Brown, American astronaut ( d. 2003 )

* 1969 – Tracy Caldwell Dyson, American astronaut

* 1959 – Scott Altman, American astronaut

* 1933 – Stuart Roosa, American astronaut ( d. 1994 )

At the time of Kennedy's proposal, only one American had flown in space — less than a month earlier — and NASA had not yet sent an astronaut into orbit.

* 1946 – Charles F. Bolden, Jr., American general and astronaut

* 1931 – Jack Swigert, American astronaut ( d. 1982 )

* 1990 – Ronald Evans, American astronaut ( b. 1933 )

Catherine Grace " Cady " Coleman ( born December 14, 1960 ) is an American chemist, a former United States Air Force officer, and a current NASA astronaut.

* 1953 – Daniel Barry, American astronaut

* 1958 – Steven L. Smith, American astronaut

An American EVA begins when the spacewalking astronaut has at least his head outside of the spacecraft.

Accordingly, the American definition of EVA start time was redefined to when the astronaut switches the EMU to battery power.

* 1936 – Jack Lousma, American astronaut

* 1959 – Clayton Anderson, American astronaut

* 1964 – Mark Kelly, American astronaut

* 1964 – Scott Kelly, American astronaut

* 1935 – Roger Chaffee, American astronaut ( d. 1967 )

* 1964 – Leland D. Melvin, American astronaut

* 1932 – Al Worden, American astronaut

* 1958 – Susan J. Helms, American astronaut

* 1942 – Donald E. Williams, American astronaut

* 1964 – Stephen G. Bowen, American astronaut

* 1863 – American Civil War: Grierson's Raid begins – troops under Union Army Colonel Benjamin Grierson attack central Mississippi.

* 1944 – Bernie Worrell, American keyboardist and composer ( Parliament-Funkadelic, Praxis, and Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains )

* 1873 – American Indian Wars: while protecting a railroad survey party in Montana, the United States 7th Cavalry, under Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer clashes for the first time with the Sioux near the Tongue River ; only one man on each side is killed.

* 1778 – American Revolutionary War: 3, 000 British soldiers under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Archibald Campbell capture Savannah, Georgia.

On the third day Allen was exchanged for Colonel Archibald Campbell, who was conducted to the exchange by Colonel Elias Boudinot, the American commissary general of prisoners appointed by General George Washington.

During the War of 1812, Key, accompanied by the American Prisoner Exchange Agent Colonel John Stuart Skinner, dined aboard the British ship HMS Tonnant, as the guests of three British officers: Vice Admiral Alexander Cochrane, Rear Admiral George Cockburn, and Major General Robert Ross.

The famous American flier, Colonel Charles Lindbergh, arrived in the Demerara River with his flying boat ( an amphibian craft ) on September 22, 1929.

The IEC held its inaugural meeting on 26 June 1906, following discussions between the British Institution of Electrical Engineers, the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, and others, which began at the 1900 Paris International Electrical Congress, and continued with Colonel R. E. B. Crompton playing a key role.

Colonel William Nolde is killed in action becoming the conflict's last recorded American combat casualty.

* 1781 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Cowpens – Continental troops under Brigadier General Daniel Morgan defeat British forces under Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton at the battle in South Carolina.

He appeared in the HBO Films production of Taking Chance, a film based on a story of the same name written by Lieutenant Colonel Michael Strobl, an American ' Desert Storm ' war veteran.

British authorities in Canada were nervous about possible expansion by American settlers across Lake Erie, so Colonel Talbot developed the Talbot Trail in 1809 as a way to stimulate settlement to the area ; Talbot recruited settlers from Ireland and Scotland and there are numerous places named after him, such as Port Talbot and the Talbot River and Talbotville in southern Ontario.

* 1877 – American Indian Wars: Sitting Bull leads his band of Lakota into Canada to avoid harassment by the United States Army under Colonel Nelson Miles.

* 1775 – American Revolutionary War: A small Colonial militia led by Ethan Allen and Colonel Benedict Arnold captures Fort Ticonderoga.

* 1864 – American Civil War: Colonel Emory Upton leads a 10-regiment " Attack-in-depth " assault against the Confederate works at The Battle of Spotsylvania, which, though ultimately unsuccessful, would provide the idea for the massive assault against the Bloody Angle on May 12.

* 1969 – Buckethead, American musician and songwriter ( Guns N ' Roses, Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains, Praxis, and Deli Creeps )

* 1868 – American Indian Wars: Battle of Washita River – United States Army Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer leads an attack on Cheyenne living on reservation land.

* 1864 – American Indian Wars: Sand Creek Massacre – Colorado volunteers led by Colonel John Chivington massacre at least 150 Cheyenne and Arapaho noncombatants inside Colorado Territory.

Colonel Donovan was employed to evaluate the global military position in order to offer suggestions concerning American intelligence requirements because the U. S. did not have a central intelligence agency.

Roosevelt's crew consisted of his 24-year-old son Kermit, Colonel Rondon, a naturalist, George K. Cherrie, sent by the American Museum of Natural History, Brazilian Lieutenant Joao Lyra, team physician Dr. José Antonio Cajazeira, and 16 skilled paddlers and porters ( called camaradas in Portuguese ).

* August 16 – Colonel Prentiss Ingraham, American author of dime fiction ( b. 1843 )

* October 21 – American Civil War – Battle of Ball's Bluff: Union forces under Colonel Edward Baker are defeated by Confederate troops in the second major battle of the war.

* June 25 – American Indian Wars – Battle of the Little Bighorn: 300 men of the U. S. 7th Cavalry Regiment under Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer are wiped out by 5, 000 Lakota, Cheyenne and Arapaho led by Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse.

* August 4 – American Indian Wars: While protecting a railroad survey party in Montana, the Seventh Cavalry, under Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer, clashes for the first time with the Sioux, near the Tongue River ( only 1 man on each side is killed ).