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Stephen R. Mallory by Mathew Brady, between 1855 and 1865. Stephen Russell Mallory (1812 – November 9, 1873) was a Democratic senator from Florida from 1851 to the secession of his home state and the outbreak of the American Civil War.
Due to the change in orders and shortage of attack and combat cargo vessels, all of the division's 2.5-ton trucks, M1918 155-mm howitzers [9] and the sound and flash-ranging equipment needed for counter-battery fire had to be left in Wellington. Also, because the Wellington dock workers were on strike at the time, the Marines had to do all the ...
January 3, 1941: Australian troops fight the Battle of Bardia in Egypt against the Axis Powers in first major Australian involvement in World War II. January 23, 1941: Surviving members of Romania's Fascist organization, the Iron Guard, are arrested following massacre of 125 Jewish civilians in Bucharest .
August 21 – Secretary of Defense Laird announces defense spending being cut by 1.5 billion and a 100,000 military personnel reduction in the upcoming fiscal year. [107] August 22 – Secretary of the Navy Chafee lists 76 naval ships to be deactivated as a result of the Pentagon's spending cut of 3 billion. [108]
William Daniel Leahy (/ ˈ l eɪ h i ˌ ˈ l eɪ. i /) (6 May 1875 – 20 July 1959) was an American naval officer.The most senior United States military officer on active duty during World War II, he held several titles and exercised considerable influence over foreign and military policy.
[24] [25] Brandt, too young to be tried for murder, was released and moved to Florida where, on September 16, 2004, he would claim his final victims, his wife and their niece, before hanging himself. [ 26 ]
The growth of the metropolitan area of San Diego County grew from 113,000 in 1920 to 1.3 million by 1970, and to 3.3 million a century after the order had been issued. Japan's Parliament, the all-male National Diet, rejected a proposal for universal suffrage, with only 159 in favor and 288 against extending voting rights to women. [96]
In the Rose Bowl, the No. 1 ranked Minnesota Gophers were upset by the No. 6 ranked Washington Huskies, 17–7, before a crowd of 97,314 fans in Pasadena, California. [3] The loss, however, did not affect Minnesota's recognition as the national champion of the 1960 college football season , since the final AP and UPI polls were taken prior to ...