In late 1917, Armstrong was invited to join the U. S. Army Signal Corps with the rank of captain and was sent to Paris to help set up a wireless communication system for the Army.

A member of the Signal Corps, Armstrong was building radio direction finding equipment to track German military signals at the then-very high frequencies of 500 to 3500 kHz.

A participant in the U. S. Air Force's Man in Space Soonest and X-20 Dyna-Soar human spaceflight programs, Armstrong joined the NASA Astronaut Corps in 1962.

The halftime show was a " Salute to Louis Armstrong " featuring jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, actress and singer Carol Channing, trumpeter Al Hirt and the U. S. Marine Corps Drill Team.

In 1959 the ( then ) Council for Nature appointed Brigadier Armstrong to form the Conservation Corps, with the objective of involving young volunteers, over the age of 16, in practical conservation work.

In 1974, when the headquarters was eliminated, Fort Shafter became home to U. S. Army Support Command, Hawaii, and the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, Pacific Ocean Division ( relocated from Fort Armstrong, ( Hawaii )).

No. 47 Squadron Royal Flying Corps was formed at Beverley, East Riding of Yorkshire on 1 March 1916 as a home defence unit, protecting Hull and East Yorkshire against attack by German Zeppelins, being equipped with a mix of aircraft, including Armstrong Whitworth F. K. 3s, FK. 8s and Royal Aircraft Factory BE. 12s.

47 Squadron, now divested of its fighters, and solely equipped with Armstrong Whitworth F. K. 8s, was used mainly in the Corps Reconnaissance role, but were used to bomb the retreating Bulgarian forces following the Allied offensive of September 1918.

* Armstrong, Marion V. Disaster in the West Woods: General Edwin V. Sumner and the II Corps at Antietam.

* 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.

On 9 February 1953, Bedlington Grammar School pupil Charlton was spotted playing for East Northumberland schools by Manchester United chief scout Joe Armstrong.

* John Armstrong ( 1717 – 1795 ), born in Fermanagh, United States Congressman

RCA's momentous victory in the courts left Armstrong unable to claim royalties on any FM receivers, including televisions, which were sold in the United States.

Also, the United States Army Communications and Electronics Life Cycle Management Command ( CECOM-LCMC ) Headquarters at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland is named Armstrong Hall in his honor.

Schmitt is also the only geologist as well as the only person to have walked on the Moon who was never a member of the United States Armed Forces, although he is not the first civilian, since Neil Armstrong left military service prior to his landing in 1969.

* 1935 – Inventor Edwin Armstrong gives the first public demonstration of FM broadcasting in the United States at Alpine, New Jersey.

* 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.

* November 27 – American Indian Wars – Battle of Washita River: In the early morning, United States Army Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer leads an attack on a band of Cheyenne living on reservation land with Chief Black Kettle, killing 103 Cheyenne.

During a period when he was between recording contracts, he made records with Louis Armstrong ( Roulette ), Coleman Hawkins, John Coltrane ( both for Impulse ) and participated in a session with Charles Mingus and Max Roach which produced the Money Jungle ( United Artists ) album.

Without Parliament, the Whigs gradually crumbled mainly due to the Rye House Plot, with The Earl of Melville, The Earl of Leven, Lord Shaftesbury and the Duke of Monmouth, Charles II's illegitimate son, both being implicated escaped to the United Provinces and Algernon Sidney, Sir Thomas Armstrong and William Russell, Lord Russell being executed for treason.

FM radio was developed in the United States by Edwin Armstrong.

Max Liebermann, for instance, painted at Barbizon, Dachau, Etzenhausen and at least six short-lived Dutch colonies ; Frederick Waugh worked in Barbizon, Concarneau, Grèz-sur-Loing, St Ives and Provincetown in the United States ; Evert Pieters was active at Barbizon, Egmond, Katwijk, Laren, Blaricum, Volendam and Oosterbeek ; Elizabeth Armstrong Forbes painted at Pont-Aven, Zandvoort, Newlyn and St Ives.

Armstrong wrote United States in Prophecy ( also printed as " United States and Britain in Prophecy "), first published in 1945 and followed by further editions.

* George Buchanan Armstrong ( 1822 – 1871 ), born in County Armagh, developed new system of sorting mail on trains in the United States

", is one of the most popular tunes to have originated in a Broadway musical, and was a # 1 hit in the United States for Louis Armstrong, knocking The Beatles from # 1 in 1964.

George Armstrong Custer ( December 5, 1839 – June 25, 1876 ) was a United States Army officer and cavalry commander in the American Civil War and the Indian Wars.

United States Military Academy | USMA Cadet George Armstrong " Autie " Custer, ca.

Armstrong is a city in Emmet County, Iowa, United States.

Monroe is known for the residency of United States Major General George Armstrong Custer ( 1839 – 1876 ) during his childhood.

Armstrong is a city in Howard County, Missouri, United States.

Armstrong is a town in Bryan County, Oklahoma, United States, along the Blue River.

Apollo is a borough in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, United States, 35 miles ( 40 km ) northeast of Pittsburgh in a former coal-mining region.

On January 5, 1940, Edwin H. Armstrong demonstrated FM broadcasting in a long-distance relay network, via five stations in five States.

Applewold is a borough in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, United States.

Atwood is a borough in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, United States.

The superheterodyne principle was revisited in 1918 by U. S. Army Major Edwin Armstrong in France during World War I.

* June 25 – George Armstrong Custer, U. S. Army officer ( in battle ) ( b. 1839 )

The Cheyenne, together with the Lakota, the Sioux and a small band of Arapaho, killed Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer and much of his 7th Cavalry contingent of Army soldiers.

In 1854, during the Crimean War, Armstrong read about the difficulties the British Army experienced in manoeuvring its heavy field guns.

Their first child, Joseph Marciano Armstrong, who was born on February 28, 1995, plays drums in a Berkeley-based band named Emily's Army.

Brevet Major General George Armstrong Custer, US Army, 1865

Its airport has a long runway which serves as a backup landing site for Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport and serves as a major training site for the Louisiana Army National Guard.

When the Northern Pacific Railway's transcontinental rail line arrived in 1881, the town was renamed for Alfred Howe Terry, a General in the Union Army who commanded an 1876 expedition in connection with George Armstrong Custer ’ s campaign against Native Americans, specifically in the west.

This community bears the name of U. S. Army General George Armstrong Custer who was defeated and killed at the Battle of Little Big Horn, which took place nearby in 1876.

* Robert Armstrong, ( 1792 – 1854 ), born in Abingdon, United States Army officer and candidate to be Governor of Tennessee

Armstrong ( right ) demonstrating some boxing techniques to a US Army member during an exhibition tour in 1943.

Los Angeles-based Hellcat Records, run by Rancid's Tim Armstrong, became home to many psychobilly acts, including Tiger Army, Devil's Brigade and the Danish groups Nekromantix and HorrorPops, both of whom relocated to southern California in the early 2000s.

Gen. Frank A. Armstrong at Grand Island Army Air Field, Nebraska.

Armstrong conferred with Major General Henry Dearborn, commander of the American Army of the North, at Albany, New York during February.

In 1868 the U. S. Army, led by George Armstrong Custer, renewed the conflict against the Arapaho and Cheyenne at the Battle of Washita River.

* 11 April 1987-Robert McLean ( 44 ) and Frederick Armstrong ( 40 ), both Protestant members of the Royal Ulster Constabulary ( RUC ), were shot and killed by the Provisional Irish Republican Army ( PIRA ) while on foot patrol, Main Street, Portrush.

In 1874 George Armstrong Custer led the U. S. Army Black Hills Expedition, which set out on July 2 from Fort Abraham Lincoln in the Dakota Territory, with orders to travel to the previously uncharted Black Hills of South Dakota.

The young Armstrong joined a Pennsylvania militia regiment, but the following year became aide-de-camp to General Hugh Mercer in the Continental Army.