Major General Benedict Arnold’s court martial convenes with him acting as his own defense counsel at Middlebrook, New Jersey.
The Battle of New Orleans, fought after the Treaty of Ghent ending the War of 1812 but prior to the document’s arrival in the United States, ends in decisive American victory and establishes Major General Andrew Jackson as a national hero.
The last major battle of the Civil War outside of Virginia is fought at Bentonville, North Carolina, as Major General William T. Sherman’s 60,000 troops face off against General Joseph Johnston’s 22,000 strong Army of the South. Johnston surrenders to Sherman one month later.
Badly impoverished and facing the end of his life, former President Ulysses S. Grant is reappointed a general in the Army and placed on the retired list, enabling him to receive pay.
Elements of the 28th U.S. Volunteer Infantry battle Filipino insurgents in two separate engagements at Patol Bridge and Cavite on Luzon.
Signal Corps Lieutenant Benjamin Foulois makes his first solo flight at Fort Sam Houston, Texas. When his two predecessors return to duty with their original branches, he is briefly the only pilot in the Army.
The War Department declares the Volstead Act, which enforces widely unpopular Prohibition, applies to U.S. forces deployed overseas.
Captain Robert M. Losey, an Army Air Corps military attaché in Oslo, Norway, becomes the first American officer to die in World War II when he is killed in a German air raid.
3d Battalion, 34th Infantry, strikes from the sea as two battalions of the 503d Parachute Infantry Regiment drop by parachute in the successful battle to retake Corregidor Island, Manila Bay, Philippines.
A Hawk surface-to-air missile downs an Honest John in the first successful kill of a ballistic missile during a test at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico.
The 716th Military Police Battalion is the first non-advisory U.S. Army unit to deploy to South Vietnam.
The first M1 Abrams main battle tanks are delivered to the Army.
The Army adopts the Beretta 92FS 9mm pistol as the M9 to replace the .45-caliber M1911 pistol and .38-caliber Victory Model revolver.
Operation VIGILANT WARRIOR, an effort that successfully deters Saddam Hussein from once again invading Kuwait, comes to an end.
President Bill Clinton upgrades awards of twenty-one soldiers of World War II to the Medal of Honor for their heroism, including Senator Daniel K. Inouye (D-HI).
Operation AL-FAJR, the Second Battle of Fallujah, the heaviest urban combat fought by U.S. troops since the Tet Offensive in 1968, comes to a close.
Soldiers of the XVIII Airborne Corps Headquarters and 82d Airborne Division are sent to Haiti for Operation UNIFIED RESPONSE, a humanitarian relief mission in response to the 2010 Haitian earthquake.
Walter D. Ehlers, last surviving recipient of the Medal of Honor to participate in the D-Day landings during World War II, passes away at ninety-two years old.
