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"Historical Timeline of Washington DC". On this Spot: Pinpointing the Past in Washington (3rd ed.). Capital Books. pp. 8– 12. ISBN 978-1-933102-70-2. "Washington, DC Timeline and Historic Plans: Illustrating the Evolution of the 'Monumental Core' of the Nation's Capital" (PDF). US National Park Service. 2008.
In 1999, recently appointed Chief of Police Charles H. Ramsey partnered with the Washington DC Regional Office of the Anti-Defamation League and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum to create a new training program that used the lessons of the Holocaust to help officers better understand their roles in upholding the Constitution and ...
An aerial photo of Washington, D.C. in 2007. The history of Washington, D.C., is tied to its role as the capital of the United States. The site of the District of Columbia along the Potomac River was first selected by President George Washington. The city came under attack during the War of 1812 in an episode known as the Burning of Washington.
Other than the Headquarters itself, which traces its lineage to 1776 as an elements of the Maryland Militia in Georgetown and Bladensburg, the oldest continuous unit of the D.C. National Guard is Headquarters and Headquarters Company (HHC), 372nd Military Police Battalion, which traces its lineage to the Washington Light Infantry organized in ...
57th Military Police Company; 58th Military Police Company; 552nd Military Police Company; 558th Military Police Company; 13th Military Police Detachment; 39th Military Police Detachment; United States Army Pacific: Active Duty 11th Military Police Brigade - Ashley, PA. 96th Military Police Battalion - San Diego, CA; 320th Military Police ...
Schutzmannschaft-Brigade Siegling (also German: Schutzmänner-Brigade Siegling; lit. ' Siegling's Auxiliary Police Brigade ') was a Belarusian Auxiliary Police brigade formed by Nazi Germany in July 1944 in East Prussia, from six auxiliary police battalions (60th and 64th Belarusian and the 57th, 61st, 62nd and 63rd Ukrainian) following the Soviet Operation Bagration.
The 1977 Hanafi Siege was a terrorist attack, hostage-taking, and standoff in Washington, D.C., lasting from March 9 to March 11, 1977.Three buildings (the District Building, B'nai B'rith headquarters, and Islamic Center of Washington) were seized by twelve Hanafi Movement gunmen, who took 149 hostages. [1]
The 21st CTC was constituted in 1926 as the 13th Motorcycle company, Then re-designated as Company "A" of the 72nd Separate Quartermaster Battalion in 1936, and began training to head out to support the Allied Forces in World War II. The company supported the war effort in Rome-Arno, and Po Valley, until they were disbanded in 1940.