On September 21, 1866, the 9th and 10th Cavalry units and the 38th, 39th, 40th, and 41st Infantry units (later consolidated as the 24th and 25th Infantry) were formed. The units were comprised entirely of black soldiers – the first to serve in a peacetime army. They would come to be known as Buffalo Soldiers.
Businessman and philanthropist Milton Snavely Hershey was born on September 13, 1857, in Derry Township, Pennsylvania.
Artist Romare Bearden was born September 2, 1911, in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Civil War general and 18th US president, Ulysses S. Grant died on July 23, 1885.
On June 4, 1940, over 338,000 Allied troops were evacuated from the beaches of Dunkirk after being cut off and surrounded there for weeks.
Scientist and mathematician Dr. Theodore von Kármán was born on May 11, 1881, in Budapest, Austria-Hungary.
Playwright and novelist Thornton Wilder was born on April 17, 1897, in Madison, Wisconsin.
Douglas MacArthur was born on January 26, 1880, in Little Rock, Arkansas.
On January 3, 1777, George Washington earned a major victory at Princeton, New Jersey.