At the start of World War I, 4 August 1914, Admiral George Callaghan, Commander-in-Chief of the Home Fleet, was removed by First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill.

* August 5 – American Civil War – Battle of Mobile Bay: At Mobile Bay near Mobile, Alabama, Admiral David Farragut leads a Union flotilla through Confederate defenses and seals one of the last major Southern ports.

Neither At Dawn We Slept, the definitive history of the Pearl Harbor attack by Gordon Prange, nor The Reluctant Admiral, the definitive biography of Yamamoto in English by Hiroyuki Agawa, contains the line.

At that point, Admiral Lütjens advised cancelling the operation as having one battleship with only one heavy cruiser in support operating alone in the Atlantic was too risky, but was overruled by Raeder who insisted on going ahead.

At the time, his son, Admiral Sir Caspar John was First Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Staff.

At the battle of Tsushima, Admiral Tōgō was the officer commanding in Mikasa ( the other divisions being commanded by Vice Admirals, Rear Admirals, Commodores, Captains and Commanders for the destroyer divisions ).

At 4: 55am, Captain Narukawa of the Shinano Maru sent a wireless message to Admiral Tōgō in Masampo that " Enemy is in square 203 ".

At 6. 34 AM, before departing with the Combined Fleet, Admiral Tōgō wired a confident message to the navy minister in Tokyo:

At the same time the entire Japanese fleet put to sea, with Admiral Tōgō from his flagship Mikasa leading over forty vessels to meet the Russians.

At 10: 34 AM, realising that his situation was hopeless, Admiral Nebogatov ordered the six ships remaining under his command to surrender.

At 10 a. m. on 20 February 1873, he claimed the land for Britain and named it after his father, Admiral Sir Fairfax Moresby.

At the time of the Hand of Thrawn incident, the high-ranking Moff Disra employed a con artist known as Flim to impersonate Grand Admiral Thrawn.

At this meeting, General Zia-ul-Haq asked the Chief of Army Staff General Khalid Mahmud Arif and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Muhammad Shariff to lead a specialized civil-military team to formulate a geo-strategy to counter the Soviet aggression.

At the Battle of Jarnac ( 16 March 1569 ), the prince of Condé was killed, forcing Admiral de Coligny to take command of the Protestant forces, nominally on behalf of Condé's 15 year old son, Henry, and the sixteen-year old Henry of Navarre, who were presented by Jeanne d ' Albret as the legitimate leaders of the Huguenot cause against royal authority.

At this time he had a celebrated meeting with the French Admiral Suffren, and the allies agreed on a plan to establish Cuddalore as a French base.

At the outbreak of the Korean War, Admiral Forrest Sherman, then Chief of Naval Operations, ordered Burke to duty as Deputy Chief of Staff to Commander Naval Forces, Far East.

At the time of his appointment as Chief of Naval Operations, Burke was still a Rear Admiral, Upper Half ( Two Star ) and was promoted over the heads of many Flag Officers who were senior to him.

At the height of the British Empire, photographs of naval and military commanders were a popular subject for eagerly collected cigarette card s. The one shown here, from the turn of the 20th century, depicts then-Captain Jellicoe ( later John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe | Admiral Jellicoe of World War I ) in command of HMS Centurion ( 1892 ) | H. M. S.

At 07: 55, the Trento group encountered Admiral Pridham-Wippell's cruiser group south of the Greek island of Gavdos.

At this time, the Joseon fleet consisted of 82 panokseon and three turtle ships, with 8, 000 soldiers under Admiral Yi.

At the action off Cape Barfleur on 29 May, the French fleet of 44 rated vessels under Admiral Tourville put up stern resistance against Admirals Rooke's and Russell's 82 rated English and Dutch vessels.

At the start of World War II, George returned to active military service in the rank of Rear Admiral, briefly serving on the Intelligence Division of the Admiralty.

At that time, the German Imperial Navy had only four ranks for admirals: Rear Admiral, ( Konteradmiral, equal to a Generalmajor, with no pips on the shoulder board ); Vice Admiral ( Vizeadmiral, equal to a Generalleutnant, with one pip ); Admiral ( equal to a General der Infanterie, with two pips ), and Grand Admiral ( equal to a Field Marshal ).

At various times in the more than 100 years that have elapsed since the song was written, particularly during the John F. Kennedy administration, there have been efforts to give " America the Beautiful " legal status either as a national hymn, or as a national anthem equal to, or in place of, " The Star-Spangled Banner ", but so far this has not succeeded.

* 1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Cedar Mountain – At Cedar Mountain, Virginia, Confederate General Stonewall Jackson narrowly defeats Union forces under General John Pope.

It was recorded with musical accompaniment for the first time in 1930 by Fiddlin ' John Carson, although to another folk hymn named " At the Cross ", not to " New Britain ".

At his and Lincoln's inaugural ceremony on March 4, 1865, Johnson, who had been drinking with John W. Forney that morning, as well as the night before, gave a rambling speech and appeared intoxicated to many.

At the news of the emperor's death, his son and co-emperor John was murdered by his own troops in Thrace.

* At the height of his career, Carnegie was the second-richest person in the world, behind only John D. Rockefeller of Standard Oil.

At both Choate and Harvard, Lerner was a classmate of John F. Kennedy ; at Choate they had worked together on the yearbook staff.

At his death, the duchy passed to his son-in-law John Sigismund, Margrave of Brandenburg, combining the two territories under a single dynasty and forming Brandenburg-Prussia.

At the start of the next session, affairs were handled by a triumvirate of Granby, Disraeli, and John Charles Herries – indicative of the tension between Disraeli and the rest of the party, who needed his talents but mistrusted the man.

At the time of his death he was working on a translation of the Gospel of St. John into English.

At about this time, King John hesitated and sent his sons from the battlefield.

At a forum at the university during the 2008 presidential election campaign, both John McCain and Barack Obama said that the university should consider reinstating ROTC on campus.

At the end of November, a meeting was held in the rooms of Canon John Collins, chaired by the editor of the New Statesman, Kingsley Martin, to launch the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.

At the age of 10 he was taken by his mother to hear a talk given by John Thomas in Aberdeen, Scotland.

At a February 2, 2010 congressional hearing, Senator John McCain read from a letter signed by " over one thousand former general and flag officers ".

At Indiana University in 1999 he organized such a symposium, and in April 2000, he organized a larger symposium entitled " Spiritual Robots " at Stanford University, in which he moderated a panel consisting of Ray Kurzweil, Hans Moravec, Kevin Kelly, Ralph Merkle, Bill Joy, Frank Drake, John Holland and John Koza.

At the same time the non-album single " John, I ’ m Only Dancing ", and " All the Young Dudes ", a song he wrote and produced for Mott the Hoople, became UK hits.

At one time or another, the membership included Isaac Asimov, Frederik Pohl, Cyril Kornbluth, James Blish, John Michel, Judith Merril, Robert A. W. Lowndes, Richard Wilson, Damon Knight, Virginia Kidd, and Larry T. Shaw.

At the time John Doe buys the house, the 3-year US Treasury Note rate is 5 % per annum.

At its peak of popularity eugenics was supported by a wide variety of prominent people, including Winston Churchill, Margaret Sanger, Marie Stopes, H. G. Wells, Theodore Roosevelt, George Bernard Shaw, John Maynard Keynes, John Harvey Kellogg, Linus Pauling and Sidney Webb.

At first, he is mistaken for a murderer by the four people because he shoots at them through the door ( mistaking them as the Evil Force ), but they find out the truth after listening to a recording of Annie's father, Professor Knowby ( John Peaks ), that talked about how his wife Henrietta was possessed and buried in the cabin's cellar rather than dismembered.

At the wedding, Gareth dies suddenly of a heart attack: Gareth's partner Matthew ( John Hannah, in one of his first screen roles ) is in another part of the room listening to the groom's toast when Gareth dies.

" At the event ceremony, director John Ford announced that Capra had also received the Order of British Empire ( OBE ) on the recommendation of Winston Churchill.