# Field Marshal Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig of Britain,

* 1928 – Douglas Haig, British soldier ( b. 1861 )

* 1916 – World War I: First Battle of the Somme – in France, British Expeditionary Force commander Douglas Haig calls off the battle which started on July 1, 1916.

* January 29 – Douglas Haig, British soldier ( b. 1861 )

* November 18 – WWI – Battle of the Somme: In France, British Expeditionary Force commander Douglas Haig calls off the battle, which started on July 1.

The British commander Sir Douglas Haig, did not receive approval for the Flanders operation from the War Cabinet until 25 July.

Sir Douglas Haig succeeded Sir John French as Commander-in-Chief of the BEF on 19 December 1915.

On 15 and 29 November 1916, as the Battle of the Somme paused, Sir Douglas Haig met Général d ' Armée Joffre and the other Allies at Chantilly.

Gough planned an offensive based on the GHQ 1917 plan and the instructions he had received from Sir Douglas Haig.

In December, British Field Marshal Sir John French was replaced by General Douglas Haig as commander of the British forces.

The conduct of the battle has been a source of controversy: senior officers such as General Sir Douglas Haig, the commander of the British Expeditionary Force and Henry Rawlinson, the commander of Fourth Army, have been criticised for incurring very severe casualties while failing to achieve their territorial objectives.

By 19 December 1915, General Sir Douglas Haig had replaced General Sir John French as Commander-in-Chief of the British Expeditionary Force ( BEF ).

A disagreement over tactics arose between Sir Douglas Haig and his senior local commander, General Sir Henry Rawlinson, General Officer Commanding the British Fourth Army.

It would have been in accordance with the tactical principles of " siege-warfare in the field " if Sir Douglas Haig had stopped his attacks after the limited success of 1 July and proceeded to try elsewhere.

In 1921, Guérin sent poppy sellers to London ahead of Armistice Day, attracting the attention of Field Marshall Douglas Haig.

In January 1915 Field Marshal Sir John French, the commander of the British Expeditionary Force, with the concurrence of other senior commanders ( e. g. General Sir Douglas Haig ), wanted the New Armies incorporated into existing divisions as battalions rather than sent out as entire divisions.

Early in 1916 Kitchener visited Douglas Haig, newly appointed Commander-in-Chief of the BEF in France.

The complete failure of the French Nivelle Offensive in the week after the Arras Offensive placed pressure on Field Marshal Douglas Haig to keep the Germans occupied in the Arras sector to minimize French losses.

As a young officer, Haig served on the staff of General Douglas MacArthur in Japan.

Buchan then enlisted in the British Army and was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Intelligence Corps, where he wrote speeches and communiqués for Sir Douglas Haig.

* De Groot, Gerard Douglas Haig 1861 – 1928 ( Larkfield, Maidstone: Unwin Hyman, 1988 )

Earlier alumni include Henry Addington, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Elias Ashmole founder of the Ashmolean Museum, John Buchan, author of The Thirty-Nine Steps, John Clavell, highwayman and author, Colin Cowdrey, English Test batsman, William Webb Ellis, often credited with the invention of Rugby football, John Foxe author of Actes and Monuments popularly abridged as Foxe's Book of Martyrs, William Golding, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, and Robert Runcie, Archbishop of Canterbury.

In 1857 – 58, Douglas broke with President James Buchanan, leading to a fight for control of the Democratic Party.

The 1858 senate campaign featured the seven Lincoln – Douglas debates of 1858, the most famous political debates in American history.

* Douglas Engelbart, as an internet pioneer, the inventor of the computer mouse, in human – computer interaction, committed, vocal proponent of the development and use of computers and networks to help cope with the world ’ s increasingly urgent and complex problems

* 1892 – Donald Wills Douglas, Sr., American aviation industrialist ( d. 1981 )

* 1935 – Douglas Hill, Canadian writer ( d. 2007 )

* 1927 – Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford become the first celebrities to leave their footprints in concrete at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood.

It was the prospect of bowling at this line-up that caused England's 1932 – 33 captain Douglas Jardine to adopt the tactic of fast leg theory, also known as Bodyline.

Douglas Adams's 1982 science fiction comedy novel Life, the Universe and Everything – the third part of The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy series – features the urn containing the Ashes, as a significant element of its plot.

* 1973 – A flash fire kills 51 at the Summerland amusement centre at Douglas, Isle of Man.

* 1886 – John Alexander Douglas McCurdy Canadian pilot and engineer ( d. 1961 )

* 1945 – Douglas Osheroff, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

* 1987 – Northwest Airlines Flight 255 a McDonnell Douglas MD-82 crashes after take off in Detroit, Michigan, killing 154 of the 155 on board, plus 2 people on the ground.

* 1979 – Dave Douglas, American singer-songwriter and musician ( Relient K and Ace Troubleshooter )

* 1977 – Douglas Sequeira, Costa Rican footballer

* 1945 – The Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, General Douglas MacArthur lands at Atsugi Air Force Base.

* 1925 – Mike Douglas, American singer and talk show host ( d. 2006 )

* 1951 – General Douglas MacArthur retires from the military.

* 1918 – World War I: Actors Douglas Fairbanks and Charlie Chaplin sell war bonds on the streets of New York City's financial district.

* 1967 – William Douglas Cook, New Zealand founder of Eastwoodhill Arboretum and Pukeiti ( b. 1884 )

* 1951 – Korean War: President Harry Truman relieves General of the Army Douglas MacArthur of overall command in Korea.

* 1327 – First War of Scottish Independence: James Douglas leads a raid into Weardale and almost kills Edward III of England.

* 1972 – Rab Douglas, Scottish footballer

* 1890 – Marjory Stoneman Douglas, American conservationist and writer ( d. 1998 )

* 1948 – Carol Douglas, American singer