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Battle of Sievershausen The Battle of Sievershausen occurred on 9 July 1553 in Sievershausen ( today part of Lehrte in present - day Germany ) , between the Catholic Imperial troops and those of the Protestant Schmalkaldic League . 4 , 000 soldiers were killed , including the Protestant commander , Maurice , Elector of Saxony . The Catholic retreat was covered by General Joachim von Röbel , who became famous as a result and ended his days as a field - marshal .
Thomas Taylor ( Medal of Honor ) Thomas Taylor ( born 1834 , date of death unknown ) was a Union Navy sailor in the American Civil War and a recipient of the U . S . military ' s highest decoration , the Medal of Honor , for his actions at the Battle of Mobile Bay . Born in 1834 in Bangor , Maine , Taylor was still living in that city when he joined the Navy . He served during the Civil War as a coxswain on the . At the Battle of Mobile Bay on August 5 , 1864 , he " encouraged the men of the forward pivot gun when the officer in command displayed cowardice " . For this action , he was awarded the Medal of Honor a year later on June 22 , 1865 . Taylor ' s official Medal of Honor citation reads : Served on board the U . S . S . " Metacomet " during the action against rebel forts and gunboats and with the rebel ram " Tennessee " in Mobile Bay , 5 August 1864 . Despite damage to his ship and the loss of several men on board as enemy fire raked her decks , Taylor encouraged the men of the forward pivot gun when the officer in command displayed cowardice , doing honor to the occasion .
Kosmos 2084 Kosmos 2084 ( meaning " Cosmos 2084 " ) is a Russian US - K missile early warning satellite which was launched in 1990 as part of the Russian Space Forces ' Oko programme . The satellite was designed to identify missile launches using optical telescopes and infrared sensors . Kosmos 2084 was launched from Site 43 / 3 at Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Russia . A Molniya - M carrier rocket with a 2BL upper stage was used to perform the launch , which took place at 20 : 45 UTC on 21 June 1990 . The launch failed to place the satellite into a molniya orbit as the Blok 2BL failed to ignite leaving the satellite in low Earth orbit . It subsequently received its Kosmos designation , and the international designator 1990 - 055A . The United States Space Command assigned it the Satellite Catalog Number 20663 .
George Hamilton D ' Oyly Lyon Admiral Sir George Hamilton D ' Oyly Lyon , KCB ( 3 October 1883 – 19 August 1947 ) was a distinguished Royal Navy officer as well as an English sportsman who played first - class cricket and represented the England national rugby union team . Naval career . Educated at Bruton School and at the Royal Naval College , Dartmouth , Lyon joined the Navy on 15 June 1899 , and saw active service at the Battle of Jutland , aboard HMS " Monarch " . He was appointed Head of the British Naval Mission to Greece in 1929 and Commodore commanding the Home Fleet Destroyers in 1932 . He went on to be Rear Admiral commanding 3rd Cruiser Squadron in 1935 and Commander - in - Chief of the Africa Station in 1938 ( the Africa Station became the South Atlantic Station in 1939 ) . He served in World War II as Commander - in - Chief , The Nore from 1941 and retired in 1943 . Sporting career . Lyon , in four first - class cricket matches , made 185 runs at 26 . 42 and took 7 wickets at 20 . 00 . A right - arm medium pace bowler and right - handed batsman , he played twice for Hampshire in the 1907 County Championship . On debut , his only significant contribution was dismissing Worcestershire opener Harry Foster while in the other match for Hampshire , he claimed the wicket of Ernest Killick , of Sussex , after Lyon made his then highest score of 29 . Capped twice for England at rugby union , Lyon was a full - back and made his Test debut at Inverleith , in a loss to Scotland during the 1908 Home Nations Championship . When he appeared in his second and final Test the following year , it was as captain and against Australia at Blackheath . England once again lost the fixture but were awarding no less than nine players their first Test caps . His return to first - class cricket in 1911 was much more successful , with an appearance for an Army and Navy cricket team against the Oxford and Cambridge Universities team at Portsmouth . Despite batting down the order at nine , Lyon was the top scorer for the Army and Navy in their first innings , with 90 . He then managed career best figures of 4 / 51 and one of those , Ronald Lagden , was also an English rugby union international . Lyon ' s final first - class match came eleven years later when he lined up for the Royal Navy against the Army at Lord ' s . He contributed scores of 22 and 32 but couldn ' t stop the Army winning by 9 wickets .
Arch of the Sergii Arch of the Sergii is an Ancient Roman triumphal arch located in Pula , Croatia . The arch commemorates three brothers of the Sergii family , specifically Lucius Sergius Lepidus , a tribune serving in the twenty - ninth legion that participated in the Battle of Actium and disbanded in 27 BC . This suggests an approximate date of construction : 29 - 27 BC . The arch stood behind the original naval gate of the early Roman colony . The Sergii were a powerful family of officials in the colony and retained their power for centuries . History . The honorary triumphal arch , originally a city gate , was erected as a symbol of the victory at Actium . It was paid for by the wife of Lepidus , Salvia Postuma Sergia , sister of the three brothers . Both of their names are carved in the stone along with Lucius Sergius and Gaius Sergius , the honoree ' s father and uncle respectively . In its original form , statues of the two elders flanked Lepidus on both sides on the top of the arch . On either side of the inscription , a frieze depicts cupid s , garland s and bucrania . This small arch with pairs of crenelated Corinthian columns and winged victories in the spandrel s , was built on the facade of a gate ( " Porta Aurea " ) in the walls , so the part , visible from the town - side , was decorated . The decoration is late hellenistic , with major Asia Minor influences . The low relief on the frieze represents a scene with a war chariot drawn by horses . This arch has attracted the attention of many artists , like Michelangelo .
Directorate of Military Intelligence The Directorate of Military Intelligence ( DMI ) was a department of the British War Office . Over its lifetime the Directorate underwent a number of organisational changes , absorbing and shedding sections over time . History . The first instance of an organisation which would later become the DMI was the Department of Topography & Statistics , formed by Major Thomas Best Jervis , late of the Bombay Engineer Corps , in 1854 in the early stages of the Crimean War . When the War Office was subsumed into the Ministry of Defence ( MoD ) in 1964 , the DMI was absorbed into the Defence Intelligence Staff ( DIS ) , with some functions divested elsewhere in the MoD . Present . Two MI sections remain in existence today . MI5 and MI6 , remain in colloquial use in the United Kingdom and elsewhere to refer to the Security Service and the Secret Intelligence Service , although neither organisation has been officially titled as such since the late 1920s . Both MI5 and MI6 are also depicted in the logos of the respective organisations and are often used to refer to both departments by the government and media . Sections . During the First World War , British secret service s were divided into numbered sections named " Military Intelligence " , department number " x " , abbreviated to MIx , such as MI1 for information management . The branch , department , section , and sub - section numbers varied through the life of the department , however examples include :
John Albert Knebel John Albert Knebel ( born October 4 , 1936 ) is a former United States government official who served as Secretary of Agriculture under President Gerald Ford . Biography . Early life and education . Knebel was born in Tulsa , Oklahoma on October 4 , 1936 . He graduated from West Point in 1959 and received his Master ' s at Creighton University in 1962 . In 1965 , he received his law degree from American University . Between 1965 and 1968 he was engaged in private practice with the firm of Howrey , Simon , Baker and Murchison in Washington , DC . He was a legislative assistant to Congressman J . Ernest Wharton in 1963 and 1964 and served as general counsel to the Small Business Administration during Nixon ' s second term . He was also a member of the American , Federal , and District of Columbia Bar Association . In March 1971 , he became the General Counsel of the Small Business Administration , and in January 1973 he was appointed as General Counsel of the Department of Agriculture . He was a partner in the law firm of Brownstein , Zeidman , Schomer and Chase from April until December 1975 , when he was named the Under Secretary / Deputy Secretary of Agriculture . U . S . Secretary of Agriculture . On November 4 , 1976 , Knebel was named Secretary of Agriculture to by President Gerald R . Ford after his predecessor , Earl L . Butz to resigned amid a scandal involving a racist comment . His period in this office was brief and ended January 20 , 1977 , when Jimmy Carter replaced Ford in the White House . After that , he returned to law and was still the president of the American Mining Congress . Personal life . Knebel married Zenia Marks of New Jersey , with whom he has had three children . He and his family resided in McLean , Virginia at the time on his appointment as Secretary of Agriculture in 1976 .
Alan Gardner , 1st Baron Gardner Admiral Alan Gardner , 1st Baron Gardner ( 12 February 1742 – 1 January 1809 ) was a British Royal Navy officer and peer of the realm . He was regarded by some as one of the Georgian era ' s most dashing frigate captains and , ultimately , a respected senior admiral . Naval career . Gardner joined the Royal Navy in 1755 . Promoted to Captain in 1766 , his first command was the fireship . He commanded a number of frigate s before being promoted to a ship of the line . In 1782 he commanded a ship at the Battle of the Saintes and in 1786 , as Commodore of the American Squadron ( consisting of HMS " Europa " and ) , he suppressed smuggling in the Gulf of Mexico and ordered detailed hydrographic surveys of Caribbean locations of interest to the Navy . During this time , he commanded and probably mentored future famous officers such as George Vancouver , Peter Puget and Joseph Whidbey . He was a Member of the Board of Admiralty from 1790 to 1795 and was then promoted to full Admiral in 1795 . During the Mutiny at Spithead in 1797 , Gardner negotiated directly with the mutineers , until he lost his temper , seized a mutineer by the throat and threatened to hang the lot . This nearly led to his own demise at the hands of the mutineers , but cooler heads prevailed . In 1800 he became Commander - in - Chief of the Irish Station . That year he was also created Baron Gardner , of Uttoxeter , in the Peerage of Ireland and in 1806 the title of Baron Gardner in the Peerage of the United Kingdom was created for him . He was Member of Parliament for Plymouth and , later , Westminster . He was briefly Commander - in - Chief , Portsmouth from March to June 1803 . In 1807 he was made Commander - in - Chief of the Channel Fleet and he died in office on 1 January 1809 . Family . Gardner was born in Uttoxeter . He married Susannah Hyde Gale ( c . 1760 - 20 April 1823 ) on 20 May 1769 . They had two sons . The older son , Alan Hyde Gardner , 2nd Baron Gardner , and their nephew , Robert Barrie , became Admirals in the Royal Navy . Gale was a Jamaican heiress and the daughter of Francis Gale , a plantation owner , and Susanna Hall . Through his brother , Major Valentine Gardner , he was the uncle of Colonel William Linnæus Gardner , an Indian officer . Legacy . Capt . George Vancouver named several locations after Gardner : Mount Gardner in Australia , the Gardner Channel in Canada , and Port Gardner Bay in Puget Sound . Also in Puget Sound , Port Susan is named for his wife , Susannah . An East Indiaman was named after Admiral Gardner ; it was wrecked on the Goodwin Sands , 24 January 1809 . It was carrying a large number of copper 10 and 20 cash coins minted by the East India Company for circulation in the Madras Presidency . Preserved in tightly sealed barrels , large numbers were retrieved around 1986 . They are frequently packaged and sold as very inexpensive " shipwreck coins . "
USS Pivot ( MSO - 463 ) USS " Pivot " ( AM - 463 / MSO - 463 ) was an " Aggressive " - class minesweeper acquired by the U . S . Navy for the task of removing mines that had been placed in the water to prevent the safe passage of ships . The second ship to be named " Pivot " by the Navy , " AM – 463 " was laid down 31 March 1952 by Wilmington Boat Works , Wilmington , California ; launched 9 January 1954 ; sponsored by Mrs . Minor C . Heinl ; and commissioned 12 July 1954 , Lt . Robert M . Collins in command . West Coast operations . Following shakedown in the Long Beach - San Diego area , " Pivot " became flagship of Mine Division 93 at its establishment 6 December . On 8 January 1955 , she participated in Operation Rainbow to begin her career in the U . S . Pacific Fleet and the following month was redesignated " MSO – 463 " . WestPac deployments . She operated along the U . S . West Coast until departing Long Beach , California , 2 June 1958 for the Far East for service with the U . S . 7th Fleet . During this deployment she attempted to assist aground at Naruto Kaikyo , Japan ; but ran aground herself during the daring operation in dangerous waters . " Pivot " managed to break free but " Prestige " was lost . Awarded the Battle Efficiency “ E ” . Returning to Long Beach 7 January 1959 , the non - magnetic ocean minesweeper resumed operations along the U . S . West Coast establishing a pattern of alternating service off the Pacific seaboard with WestPac deployments in 1960 , 1962 , 1964 , 1966 and 1968 . During the 1962 deployment , she received the Battle Efficiency “ E ” . Supporting Market Time operations . Her last three deployments took " Pivot " to Viet Nam for “ Market Time ” operations , inspecting junks and other craft to stem the flow of Communist war material from the north into South Viet Nam . Her light draft , and her crew ’ s high standard of seamanship suited the minesweep ideally for this important service in support of freedom . " Pivot " returned to Long Beach from her last 7th Fleet deployment 10 May 1969 and operated on the West coast into 1970 . Decommissioning . " Pivot " was decommissioned on 1 July 1971 . Stricken from the Navy list 1 August 1974 she was sold to Spain effective the same day . " Pivot " was named " Guadamedina " ( M42 ) in the Spanish Navy .
Alwin Boerst Major Alwin Boerst ( born 20 October 1910 in Osterode – Killed in action 30 March 1944 near Iaşi ) was a German World War II " Luftwaffe " " Stuka " ace . He was also a recipient of the Knight ' s Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords . The Knight ' s Cross of the Iron Cross and its higher grade Oak Leaves and Swords was awarded to recognise extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership . Boerst participated in the Battle of Crete and assisted in the sinking of British destroyers " Kelly " and " Kashmir " . Together with his radio operator and gunner , Ernst Filius , he took off on 30 March 1944 for the first time flying a Ju 87G - 1 . They were shot down and killed during this mission north of Iaşi by ground fire . " Oberfeldwebel " Filius was posthumously awarded the Knight ' s Cross of the Iron Cross on 19 May 1944 . Boerst was posthumous honoured with the Swords to his Knight ' s Cross on 6 April 1944 . Boerst flew 1060 combat missions .
9th Motorized Division ( France ) The French 9th Motorized Division was a French Army formation during World War II . During the Battle of France in May 1940 , the division contained the following units : The division was an active division which had existed during peacetime . It was a fully motorized Infantry Division .
Tikona Tikona ( Marathi : तिकोना ) also known as Vitandgad ) is the dominant hill fort in Maval in western India . It is located near Kamshet around 60 km from Pune The village nearest the fort is called Tikona - Peth or Tokono - Peth . The 3500 ft high hill is pyramidal in shape and the name Tikona means " triangle " . The fort is a trekking destination noted for the large doors , the temple of ' Trimbakeshwar Mahadev ' , a water tank and some Satvahan caves . Trek organisers also commend the views of Pawna dam and the nearby forts of Tung , Lohagad and Visapur . There is a lake at the summit . History . Little is known about the origins of this fort . There is a vihara on the fort datable to circa seventh - eight centuries A . D . Malik Ahmed Nizamshah of the Nizam dynasty conquered the fort in 1585 and annexed it to the Nizam territory . In 1657 , Shivaji brought the whole of Konkan , which had been Nizam territory , under his control when he conquered Tikona along with the forts of Karnala , Lohgad , Mahuli , Songad , Tala , and Visapur . This fort was a strategic nexus : the centre of control for the entire Pawana Mawal region . In 1660 , Dhamale family one of the Deshmukh from Maval region was charged with ensuring the security of fort Tikona . Jaysingh invaded the region in 1665 and the local villages were by Dilerkhan but the forts held out . Tikona fort was surrendered to the Mughal warrior Kubadkhan , who had attacked the region together with Halal Khan and others , according to the Treaty of Purandar signed on 12 June 1665 . Kubad DKhan took over the fort on 18 June but it was later recaptured by the Marathas .
Werner von Haeften Werner Karl von Haeften ( 9 October 1908 – 21 July 1944 ) was an Oberleutnant in the Wehrmacht , who took part in the military - based conspiracy against Adolf Hitler known as the 20 July plot . He is considered a hero of the German anti - Nazi resistance . Early life . Haeften and his brother Hans were born in Berlin to Hans von Haeften , an army officer and President of the " Reichsarchiv " ( German National Archives ) . He studied law in his hometown and then worked for a bank in Hamburg until the outbreak of World War II , when he joined the German army . War service . In 1943 , having recovered from a severe wound he had suffered on the Eastern Front , Haeften became adjutant to Oberstleutnant Claus von Stauffenberg , one of the leading figures in the German Resistance . On 20 July 1944 , Haeften accompanied Stauffenberg to the military high command of the Wehrmacht near Rastenburg , East Prussia ( now Kętrzyn , Poland ) , where Stauffenberg planted a briefcase bomb in a conference room at Hitler ' s " Wolfsschanze " ( Wolf ' s Lair ) headquarters . After the detonation , Stauffenberg and Haeften rushed to Berlin and , not knowing that Hitler had survived the explosion , attempted to launch the long - planned " coup d ' état " , which would swiftly fail . On the same day , Haeften , along with Stauffenberg and fellow conspirators General Friedrich Olbricht and Oberst Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim , was arrested and condemned to death by General Friedrich Fromm , who nevertheless was later executed by the Nazi regime . All four plotters were shot after midnight by a ten - man firing squad from the Grossdeutschland Guards Battalion in the courtyard of the War Ministry , the Bendlerblock . When Stauffenberg was about to be shot , in a last gesture of loyalty and defiance , Haeften placed himself in the path of the bullets meant for Stauffenberg . Haeften ' s brother Hans , also involved in the anti - Hitler plot , was executed on 15 August at Plötzensee Prison . Film portrayal . In the 1971 Eastern Bloc co - production " Liberation : Direction of the Main Blow " , von Haeften was depicted by East German actor Hans - Edgar Stecher . In the 2004 German production , " Stauffenberg " , von Haeften is portrayed by actor Hardy Krüger junior . In the 2008 film " Valkyrie " , Lt . von Haeften is portrayed by British actor Jamie Parker .
Julio Canessa Lieutenant General Julio Canessa Roberts ( born March 19 , 1925 ) is a Chilean military and political figure . He was a member of the Government Junta that ruled Chile from 1973 to 1990 , representing the Army . He was also a designated Senator between 1998 and 2006 . General Canessa was Army Vice Commander - in - chief and a member of the Government Junta from 1983 to 1985 . He was replaced by Humberto Gordon . In 1998 , he was designated Senator after a nomination from the National Security Council . As a Senator he opposed the Concert of Parties for Democracy on the Indigenous law , seeing it as bad for development , and in 2001 he defended landmines as necessary . Later the positions of the Designated Senators were eliminated because of the Constitutional Reforms of 2004 .
USS John P . Murtha ( LPD - 26 ) USS " John P . Murtha " ( LPD - 26 ) , will be the 10th " San Antonio " - class amphibious transport dock ship of the United States Navy , and will be named in honor of Congressman John Murtha ( 1932 – 2010 ) of Pennsylvania . A former United States Marine Corps officer , Murtha was the first Vietnam War veteran elected to the U . S . House of Representatives , in 1974 . Murtha served as either chairman or ranking minority member of the House Appropriations Defense Subcommittee from 1989 to 2010 . All other ships of the class are named for American cities ; however , two months after Murtha ' s death , on 9 April 2010 , Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus signed an official memo to the Chief of Naval Operations , designating the naming of LPD - 26 as the " John P . Murtha " . The " Navy Times " said the official announcement " added fuel to an already smoldering backlash " , because of Murtha ' s call for withdrawing from the Iraq War in 2005 , and his public pre - trial condemnation of the Marines involved in the Haditha incident . " John P . Murtha " keel was laid down on 6 June 2012 , at the Ingalls Shipbuilding yard in Pascagoula , Mississippi .
Russian coast defense ship Admiral Ushakov The Admiral Ushakov was the lead ship in her class of armoured warships ( coastal battleships ) of the Imperial Russian Navy , and named after Admiral Fyodor Fyodorovich Ushakov the Russian naval commander of the 18th century . Service life . " Admiral Ushakov " was part of the Baltic Fleet at the beginning of the Russo - Japanese war . The " Ushakov " was chosen to form part of Admiral Nikolai Nebogatov ' s " Third Pacific Squadron " which was sent out to reinforce Admiral Zinovy Rozhestvensky on his journey to the Far East . The ship was obsolete and was not considered suitable for a voyage to the Pacific . However the Admiralty insisted on including " Ushakov " and her sister ships " General - Admiral Graf Apraxin " and " Admiral Senyavin " to bolster their force . Journeying via the Suez Canal and across the Indian Ocean , they linked up with Rozhestvensky ' s fleet off Cam Ranh Bay in Indochina and proceeded together to the $ 3 . At the Battle of Tsushima , on 27 – 28 May 1905 , the " Ushakov " was separated from Nebogatov during the night and fought to the last . She was twice hit below the water line and once above , the blazing wreck being scuttled on the evening of 28 May .