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Retired with rank of sergeant. [23] For 80-year service to the king, he became one of the earliest admitted to Royal Hospital Chelsea. [24] John Read (1633–1730) – Parliamentarian. Joined Cromwell's army at 16 years old. Later emigrated to the American colonies and became a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives. [25]
Petrov was born on 7 September 1939 to a Russian family near Vladivostok.His father, Yevgraf, flew fighter aircraft during World War II. [7] His mother was a nurse. [7]Petrov enrolled at the Kiev Military Aviation Engineering Academy of the Soviet Air Forces, and after graduating in 1972 he joined the Soviet Air Defence Forces.
World War III (WWIII or WW3), also known as the Third World War or World War 3, is a hypothetical future global conflict subsequent to World War I (1914–1918) and World War II (1939–1945).
This is a list of convicted war criminals found guilty of war crimes under the rules of warfare as defined by the World War II Nuremberg Trials (as well as by earlier agreements established by the Hague Conferences of 1899 and 1907, the Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928, and the Geneva Conventions of 1929 and 1949).
Since 2,753 died in a matter of minutes, including 343 firefighters and paramedics, 23 NYPD officers, and 37 Port Authority Police officers. All those office workers. Since Falling Man.
Ensign George H. Gay Jr. (right), sole survivor of VT-8's TBD Devastator group, in front of his aircraft with his rear gunner, ARM3c George Arthur Field, while Hornet was in the Coral Sea, c. May 1942. During the Battle of Midway, Gay was the first of his squadron to take off from Hornet on June 4, 1942.
Sam Melville (a name borrowed from author Herman Melville) was born to Dorothy and William Grossman in 1934 in New York City.Dorothy left William and moved with Sam back to her hometown of Tonawanda, New York, a suburb of Buffalo.
Vancouver's 1798 map, showing some confusion in the vicinity of southeastern Vancouver Island, the Gulf Islands, and Haro Strait. The Pig War was a confrontation in 1859 between the United States and the United Kingdom over the British–U.S. border in the San Juan Islands, between Vancouver Island (present-day Canada) and the Washington Territory (present-day State of Washington).