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* 1941 – World War II: Fiorello La Guardia, Mayor of New York City and Director of the Office of Civilian Defense, signs Administrative Order 9, creating the Civil Air Patrol.

In October 1939 he became Minister in charge of Scientific and Industrial Research, and during November – December 1939 he was Acting Minister for Air and Civil Aviation.

The ICAO should not be confused with the International Air Transport Association ( IATA ), a trade organization for airlines also headquartered in Montreal, or with the Civil Air Navigation Services Organisation ( CANSO ), an organization for Air Navigation Service Providers ( ANSPs ) with its headquarters at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol in the Netherlands.

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* 1956 – The International Air Transport Association finalizes a draft of the Radiotelephony spelling alphabet for the International Civil Aviation Organization.

* 1948 – The U. S. Congress passes Public Law 557, which permanently establishes the Civil Air Patrol as an auxiliary of the United States Air Force.

Assisting the SEOC were agencies such as the National Weather Service, the Air Force, the Civil Air Patrol, and the American Red Cross.

Air China owns 17. 5 % of Cathay Pacific ( second largest shareholder ) and the Civil Aviation Administration of China ( CAAC ), an administrative agency of the State Council, owns majority and controlling stakes in China Southern Airlines, China Eastern Airlines, and Air China.

Conventions which used the Franc Poincaré included the Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules Relating to International Carriage by Air, the International Convention on Civil Liability for Oil Pollution Damage and the International Convention on the Establishment of an International Fund for Compensation for Oil Pollution Damage.

* Tom Cooper, Sudan, Civil War since 1955 Air Combat Information Group, Feb 10, 2008

The USAF, USMC, US Army, US Navy, and FAA as well as a number of international ATC training organizations such as the Royal Australian Air Force and Civil Aviation Authorities in Italy, Brazil, and Canada are currently using ATC simulators with speech recognition from a number of different vendors.

* May 26 – The U. S. Congress passes Public Law 557, which permanently establishes the Civil Air Patrol as the auxiliary of the United States Air Force.

** Fiorello La Guardia, Mayor of New York City and Director of the Office of Civilian Defense, signs Administrative Order 9, creating the Civil Air Patrol under the authority of the United States Army Air Force.

* March 10 – 11 – Vietnam War: Battle of Lima Site 85, largest single ground combat loss of United States Air Force members ( 12 ) during the then-secret war later known as the Laotian Civil War.

* March 1 – The International Air Transport Association finalizes a draft of the Radiotelephony spelling alphabet for the International Civil Aviation Organization.

Organizations known to use ALE for Emergency management, disaster relief, ordinary communication or extraordinary situation response include: Red Cross, FEMA, Disaster Medical Assistance Teams, NATO, Federal Bureau of Investigation, United Nations, AT & T, Civil Air Patrol, SHARES, State of California Emergency Management Agency ( CalEMA ), other US States ' Offices of Emergency Services or Emergency Management Agencies, and Amateur Radio Emergency Service ( ARES ).

* The Civil Air Patrol's Floyd Bennett Composite Squadron regularly meets at the former airfield.

From 1948 until 1959, he served as Civil Air Patrol's National Board Chairman.

* 103rd Squadron, Civil Air PatrolThe Civil Air Patrol's Yokota Air Base Squadron 103 conducts operations at Yokota Air Base.

Klein is served by David Wayne Hooks Memorial Airport, one of just a few privately owned airports in the U. S. to have a Federal Aviation Administration control tower, and home to Civil Air Patrol's Delta Composite Squadron.

Every year, she gives a speech to cadets from throughout Civil Air Patrol at the National Honor Guard Academy and also to a gathered assembly of basic cadets and staff at the Civil Air Patrol's Tri-Wing Encampment, held by Maryland Wing.

The Civil Air Patrol's corporate and joint CAP-USAF headquarters is also located at Maxwell.

One of the airport's oldest buildings, next to the restored Douglas DC-3, hosts the U. S. Civil Air Patrol's Clover Field Composite Squadron 51.

The Civil Air Patrol's Achievement Award is given to a member when the circumstances of his or her performance are above and beyond those of the member ’ s peers, but are not sufficient enough to warrant a Commander's Commendation Award.

The National Commander's Unit Citation Award was approved by the Civil Air Patrol's National Board at its March 2006 meeting .." It is awarded to " units providing services or achievements above and beyond those normally recognized by a Unit Citation Award.

The aerospace education awards are presented to senior members who excel in furthering the educational aspects of the Civil Air Patrol's mission.

The Brigadier General Charles E. “ Chuck ” Yeager Aerospace Education Achievement Award is presented to senior members who successfully complete the Civil Air Patrol's Aerospace Education Program for Senior Members ( AEPSM ).

Bauer is also a lieutenant colonel in the Civil Air Patrol's South Carolina Wing.

He saw extensive combat during his military career, fighting actions in the Texas War of Independence, the Mexican-American War, the Utah War, and the American Civil War.

Category: People of Texas in the American Civil War

Atchison then resigned from the army over reported strategy arguments with General Price and moved to Texas for the duration of the Civil War.

* 1861 – American Civil War: Texas secedes from the United States.

* John Salmon Ford ( 1815 – 1897 ), American political figure in Texas ; best known as " Rip " Ford ; served in state Congress and Senate ; veteran of Mexican War and Civil War

* 1863 – American Civil War: encounters and sinks the off Galveston Lighthouse in Texas.

* 1865 – American Civil War: Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith, commander of the Confederate Trans-Mississippi division, is the last general of the Confederate Army to surrender, at Galveston, Texas.

* 1865 – American Civil War: Battle of Palmito Ranch – in far south Texas, more than a month after Confederate General Robert E. Lee's surrender, the last land battle of the Civil War ends with a Confederate victory.

During the American Civil War, on September 8, 1863, a small Confederate force thwarted a Union invasion of Texas at the Second Battle of Sabine Pass, fought at the mouth of the river.

* 1863 – American Civil War: Second Battle of Sabine Pass – on the Texas-Louisiana border at the mouth of the Sabine River, a small Confederate force thwarts a Union invasion of Texas.

* June 2 – American Civil War: Confederate forces west of the Mississippi under General Edmund Kirby Smith surrender at Galveston, Texas, becoming the last to do so.

* June 19 – American Civil War: Union Major General Gordon Granger lands at Galveston, Texas and informs the people of Texas of the Emancipation Proclamation.

* February 1 – American Civil War: Texas secedes from the Union.

** American Civil War: Texas is admitted to the Confederate States of America.

Even before the famous Texas cattle drives after the Civil War, the trail was being used to drive herds of thousands of cattle, horses, sheep, and goats from the midwest to various towns and cities along the trails.

The Wilmot Proviso, one of the major events leading to the American Civil War, would have banned slavery in any territory to be acquired from Mexico in the Mexican War or in the future, including the area later known as the Mexican Cession, but which some proponents construed to also include the disputed lands in south Texas and New Mexico east of the Rio Grande.

* Silby, Joel H. Storm over Texas: The Annexation Controversy and the Road to the Civil War.

He refused to swear loyalty to the Confederacy when Texas seceded from the Union in 1861 with the outbreak of the American Civil War, and was removed from office.

Instead, he retired to Huntsville, Texas, where he died before the end of the Civil War.

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