Division - Notable Historical Events
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Division - Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1848-03-07 |
In Hawaii, Great Mahele (division of lands) signed |
1878-07-13 |
Congress of Berlin discussing division of African colonies ends |
1897-08-21 |
Oldsmobile begins operation as a General Motors Corp division |
1907-08-01 |
Signal Corps of US army starts aircraft division |
1914-10-01 |
The first division of Canadian troops, 33,000 sail for Britain; most Canadians are volunteers, anxious to prove their loyalty to the Commonwealth |
1916-02-23 |
French artillery kills entire French 72nd division at Samogneux Verdun |
1916-05-09 |
British-France Sykes-Picot meet over division of Turkey |
1917-10-23 |
1st Infantry division "Big Red One" shoots 1st US shot in WW I |
1925-08-07 |
League of Nation advises against Turk/Iraqi division of Mosoelgebied |
1939-08-28 |
Gen Bernard Montgomery ("Monty") becomes commander of 3rd "Iron" Infantry division |
1939-09-08 |
Gen Von Reichenau's panzer division reaches suburbs of Warsaw |
1940-05-15 |
German armoured division moves into Northern France |
1940-06-10 |
German 5th Armoured division occupies Rouen |
1940-06-19 |
German 7th Armoured division under command of Rommel occupies Cherbourg |
1941-08-01 |
Luftwaffe bombs German 23rd division |
1941-12-14 |
1st NFL division playoff, Bears beat Packers 33-14 |
1942-10-12 |
Successful Russian counter attack through 37th Guard division |
1943-01-16 |
German 2nd SS-Pantzer division evacuates Charkow |
1943-04-28 |
US 34th Division occupies Djebel el Hara North Tunisia |
1943-04-29 |
US 34th Division occupies Hill 609, North Tunisia |
1943-05-03 |
US 1st armour division occupies Mateur Tunisia |
1943-05-07 |
US 1st Armour division occupies Ferryville, Tunisia |
1943-05-07 |
US 9th Infantry division occupies Bizerta/Bensert, Tunisia |
1943-05-11 |
Hermann Goering division in Tunisia surrenders |
1943-07-11 |
Counter attack by Hermann Goering Armoured division in Sicily |
1943-07-11 |
US 45th Division occupies airport Comiso Sicily |
1943-07-11 |
US 82nd Airborne division shot at by "friendly fire" in Sicily |
1943-07-23 |
US 45th Infantry division occupies north coast of Termini |
1943-07-30 |
US 45th Infantry division occupies San Stefano |
1943-08-06 |
US 1st Infantry division occupies node Troina Sicily |
1943-08-14 |
US 45th Division occupies Falcone 40 km outside of Messina |
1943-12-10 |
British 8th Army (1st Canadian Infantry Division) occupies Orsogna/Ortona Italy |
1944-02-01 |
US 7th Infantry/4th Marine Division lands on Kwajalein/Roi/Namur |
1944-02-02 |
4th US marine division conquerors Roi, Marshall Islands |
1944-02-04 |
US 7th Infantry Division captures Kwajalein |
1944-06-06 |
82nd Airborne division WWII D-day-landing at Ste Mere Eglise |
1944-06-07 |
Canadian 50th division occupies Bayeux |
1944-07-28 |
Hitler routes 4 division of South France to Normandy |
1944-07-29 |
US 4th Armour division occupiers Avranches |
1944-07-30 |
US 30th division reaches suburbs of St-Lo Normandy |
1944-08-01 |
US 90th division occupies St Hilaire-du-Harcourt |
1944-08-05 |
US 79th/90th division occupy Laval/Mayenne |
1944-08-09 |
US 79th/90th division enter Le Mans |
1944-08-11 |
French 5th Armour division recaptures Sées |
1944-08-15 |
US 7th Armour division reaches Chartres |
1944-08-16 |
2nd Canadian Division occupies Falaise, Normandy |
1944-08-17 |
4th Canadian Armoured division occupiers Trun, Normandy |
1944-08-17 |
Canadian 2nd division conquerors Falaise, Normandy |
1944-08-19 |
Polish 1st Division occupies Hill 262 (Mont Ormel), Normandy |
1944-08-19 |
US 90th/Polish 1st Division occupy Chambois, Normandy |
1944-08-25 |
France 2nd Tank division under General Leclerc reaches Notre Dame |
1944-09-03 |
Tank division of British Guards free Brussels |
1944-09-04 |
British 11th Armoured Division frees Antwerp |
1944-09-11 |
US 5th Armored Division is 1st allied force to enter nazi-Germany |
1944-09-13 |
30th Infantry division of US 1st Army frees Margraten |
1944-09-13 |
US 28th Infantry division opens assault on Siegfried line/Westwall |
1944-09-14 |
US 28th Infantry division occupies 1.5 km of Roscheid |
1944-09-14 |
US 4th Ivy League Inf division pushes through Westwall |
1944-09-15 |
US 1st Infantry division pushes through to Westwall |
1944-09-15 |
US 28th Infantry division occupies Hill 555 at Roscheid |
1944-09-17 |
Operation Market Garden: British airborne division lands Arnhem Neth |
1944-09-18 |
US 266th division occupiers Brest Bretagne |
1944-10-29 |
1st Polish Armoured Division liberates Breda, Netherlands |
1944-10-29 |
Cabadese 2nd Infantry division frees Goes South-Beveland |
1944-11-02 |
US 28th Infantry division opens assault on Schmidt Hurtgenwald |
1944-11-03 |
US 28th Infantry division occupies Schmidt Hurtgenwald |
1944-11-16 |
US 9th division & 1st Army attacks at Geilenkirchen |
1944-12-02 |
US 95th Infantry division occupies bridge at Saar |
1944-12-03 |
US 5th Armoured division occupies Brandenburg Hurtgenwald |
1944-12-06 |
US 95th Infantry division reaches Westwall |
1944-12-16 |
US 2nd Inf division occupies "Heartbreak Crossroads" Wahlerscheid |
1945-01-16 |
Scottish 52nd land division/1st Commando brigade-assault at Heinsberg |
1945-01-24 |
Scottish 52nd Lowland division occupies Heinsberg |
1945-01-25 |
West Africa 82nd division occupies Myohaung, Burma |
1945-01-31 |
US 4th Infantry division occupies Elcherrath |
1945-02-21 |
US 10th Armour division overthrows Orscholz line |
1945-02-22 |
Canadian 3rd Division occupies Moyland |
1945-03-01 |
British 43rd Division under Gen Essame occupies Xanten |
1945-03-01 |
Chinese 30th division occupies Hsenwi |
1945-03-06 |
Chinese 38th division occupies Lashio |
1945-03-07 |
US 9th Armoured Division attacks Remagen Germany, crosses Rhine |
1945-03-19 |
British 36th division conquers Mogok (ruby mine) |
1945-03-20 |
US 70th Infantry division/7th Armour division attack Saar |
1945-03-31 |
3rd Algerian division crosses the Rhine |
1945-05-22 |
6th US Marine division reaches suburbs of Naha Okinawa |
1945-05-29 |
US 1st Marine division conquerors Shuri Castle, Okinawa |
1945-06-04 |
6th US Marine division occupies Orokoe Peninsula Okinawa |
1946-03-05 |
Winston Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech (Fulton Missouri) popularizes the term and draws attention to division of Europe |
1948-09-10 |
Bijz Criminal division sentences war criminal Jacob Folks to life |
1950-11-24 |
US infantry division conquerors Chonju Korea |
1958-03-31 |
US Navy forms atomic sub division |
1963-02-11 |
CIA Domestic Operations Division created (pretty scary!) |
1965-09-11 |
The 1st Cavalry Division of the United States Army arrives in Vietnam. |
1969-09-13 |
Baltimore Orioles, win earliest AL Eastern division title |
1975-09-07 |
Cincinnati Reds, win earliest NL division title |
1976-04-10 |
Cleveland Cavaliers win their 1st NBA Central Division title |
1976-09-26 |
Phillies clinch their 1st NL East Division title |
1977-09-27 |
Phillies clinch 2nd straight NL East Division title |
1978-09-30 |
Cleveland, Houston, NY, Philadelphia & Pittsburgh Phillies win 3rd consecutive NL East Division title |
1981-10-07 |
In 1st Eastern Division championship Yanks beat Brewers 5-3 |
1988-04-30 |
NJ Devils beat Caps 3-2 taking 7th game of Patrick Division final |
1988-12-18 |
Seattle Seahawks win their 1st ever division title with 9-7 record |
1993-09-08 |
Baseball's proposed switch to a three-division format OKed in AL |
1995-09-08 |
Cleveland Indians clinch 1st AL Central Division title |
1995-10-04 |
Jim Leyritz homers with a man on in 15th inning to give Yankees 2-0 Division Series lead over Mariners |
1995-10-07 |
Mariners rally from 5-0 to force Game 5 of Division Series vs Yankees |
1995-10-08 |
Edgar Martinez drives home tying & winning runs to rally Mariners to 6-5 win in bottom of 11th to beat Yankees & win AL Division Series |
1996-12-10 |
Rwandan Genocide: Military advisor to the United Nations Secretary-General and head of the Military Division of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations of the United Nations Maurice Baril recommends that the UN multi-national forces in Zaire stand down. |
2005-09-27 |
Atlanta Braves clinch their 14th straight division title thanks to Philadelphia's loss to the New York Mets |
2005-09-29 |
Chicago White Sox clinch their first division title since 2000 and become just the 10th team in the history of baseball to be in first place on every day of the season |
2006-03-26 |
The military junta ruling Burma officially named Naypyidaw, a new city in Mandalay Division, as the new capital. Yangon had formerly been the nation's capital. |
2012-07-13 |
Financially troubled Scottish football club, Rangers, is voted into the third division |
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Division - Birthdays
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1858-04-15 |
Emile Durkheim, French sociologist (Division du travail social) |
1883-08-14 |
Ernest E Just, biologist (pioneered cell division) |
1883-08-14 |
Ernest Everett Just, Charleston South Carolina, African-American embryologist known for his pioneering work in the physiology of development, especially fertilization and cell division |
1915-03-19 |
Robert G. Cole, American Paratrooper of the 101st, 502nd division (d. 1944) |
1922-02-13 |
Gordon Tullock, Long Division: The Next Big Threat to Democracy |
1938-04-27 |
Ruth Price, Northeast Division |
1941-12-18 |
Theresa Masurat, Northeast Division |
1942-10-14 |
Sean G. Griffin, Shogo: Mobile Armor Division |
1949-11-30 |
John Sarro, The Romeo Division |
1956-01-04 |
Bernard Albrecht, English pop guitarist (Joy Division) |
1956-07-15 |
Ian Curtis, English rock vocalist (Joy Division-Transmission) (d. 1980) |
1957-10-28 |
Stephen Morris, English pop drummer (Joy Division-Atmosphere) |
1958-06-01 |
Jon Wozencroft, Joy Division |
1962-05-16 |
Todd Gunn, Division III: Football's Finest |
1967-9-10 |
Paul Henderson, Division III: Football's Finest |
1968-02-09 |
Rosario Zinnanti, Division-Trade |
1970-03-20 |
Miklos Hegedus, Joy Division |
1971-02-02 |
Michelle Gayle, Joy Division |
1973-01-02 |
Chris Woodruff, Knoxville Tenn, tennis star (1993 NCAA Division I) |
1976-08-05 |
Daniel Gosling, Homicide: Division B |
1977-11-30 |
Matthew Pohlson, Clinton Foundation: Celebrity Division |
1979-03-19 |
Virginia Bagnato, Christmas on Division Street |
1981-08-24 |
Derrel Furutani, Division III: Football's Finest |
1982-06-16 |
Marshall Cook, Division III: Football's Finest |
1985-07-03 |
Brandon Lafourche, Division III: Football's Finest |
1988-07-14 |
Josephinne Zelaya, Division III: Football's Finest |
1991-06-01 |
Cody Krott, Division |
Division - Deaths
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1941-10-27 |
Ernest Everett Just, African-American embryologist (physiology of development, fertilization, cell division), dies of pancreatic cancer at 58 |
1945-03-24 |
Thomas Rennie, Gen-Maj (Dutch command 51st Highland Division), dies |
1980-05-18 |
Ian Curtis, English rock vocalist (Joy Division), commits suicide at 23 |
1991-10-28 |
Dudley McConnell, headed NASA's Earth Science Division, dies |
1995-04-01 |
H. Adams Carter, American Alpine Club President, 10th Mountain Division trainer (b. 1914) |
2009-06-17 |
Darrell Powers, American World War II veteran of the United States 101st Airborne Division. (b. 1923) |
2009-07-25 |
Vernon Forrest, Professional boxer, 2-division world champion (b. 1971) |
2014-11-03 |
Gordon Tullock, Long Division: The Next Big Threat to Democracy |
