Major Joseph Savary
MAJOR JOSEPH SAVARY, WAS THE FIRST BLACK 2nd MAJOR IN THE U.S. ARMY HISTORY. HE WAS APPOINTED BY GEN. JACKSON TO DEFENSE OF NEW ORLEANS ON DEC. 23, 1814 (c. LAWRENCE E. WALKER FOUNDATION COLLECTION)
September 20, 2025
World History
This Day In History
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- Nov. 25 – In 1986, the Iran-Contra affair erupted as President Reagan and Attorney General Edwin Meese…
- Nov. 26 – In 1942, President Roosevelt ordered…
- Nov. 27 – In 1973, the Senate voted 92-3 to confirm Gerald R. Ford as vice president, succeeding Spiro T. Agnew, who’d resigned.
- Nov. 28 – In 1943, President Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Josef Stalin met in Tehran during World War II…
- Nov. 18 – In 1976, Spain’s parliament approved a bill to establish a democracy after 37 years of dictatorship.
- Nov. 19 – In 1863, President Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address as he dedicated a national cemetery at the site of the Civil War battlefield in Pennsylvania.
- Nov. 20 – In 1945, 24 Nazi leaders went on trial before an international war crimes tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany….
- Nov. 21 – n 1995, the presidents of three rival Balkan states agreed to make peace in Bosnia, ending nearly four years of terror and ethnic bloodletting that have left a quarter of a million people dead in the worst war in Europe since World War II…
