Today in Military History 1 Oct - 31 Dec

31 Dec

1775 Battle of Quebec: Gallant nocturnal attempt by Richard Montgomery & Benedict Arnold to storm the city
1862 USS 'Monitor' founders in heavy seas off Cape Hatteras,
1862 West Virginia is admitted to the Union
1942 Japanese PM Tojo decides to abandon Guadalcanal
1942 USS 'Essex' (CV-9) is commissioned, first of a very large class
1944 Japanese a/c sink a PT-boat tender and damage a destroyer off Mindoro
1946 Pres Truman officially proclaims the end of WW II
1961 End of the Marshall Plan
1992 "The Velvet Divorce": Czechoslovakia splits into the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

BORN

1815 George Gordon Meade, Maj Gen, U.S., who won the big one at Gettysburg, d. 1872
1825 Francis Trowbridge Sherman, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1905
1880 General of the Army George C Marshall, Peace Nobelist, d. 1959 -- Learn More
1908 Simon Wiesenthal, Survivor, Nazi Hunter, d. 2005

DIED
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1775 Brig Gen Richard Montgomery (37), killed during an American nocturnal attempt to storm Quebec
1991 The USSR, 69, ending 74 years of communist misrule

 

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