1620 Frederick William was Elector of Brandenburg and Duke of Prussia, thus ruler of Brandenburg-Prussia, from 1640 until his death in 1688. A member of the House of Hohenzollern, he is popularly known as “the Great Elector” because of his military and political achievements. Frederick William was a staunch pillar of the Calvinist faith, associated with the rising commercial class. He saw the importance of trade and promoted it vigorously. His shrewd domestic reforms gave Prussia a strong position in the post-Westphalian political order of north-central Europe, setting Prussia up for elevation from duchy to kingdom, achieved under his son and successor.
1761 Jean-Charles Pichegru, French revolutionary general, putschist, murdered in prison, 1804, possibly by Napoleon Lysander Cutler was an American businessman, educator, politician, and Union Army General during the American Civil War.
1807 Lysander Cutler was an American businessman, educator, politician, and Union Army General during the American Civil War.
1823 John Daniel Imboden, American lawyer, Virginia state legislator, and a Confederate army general. During the American Civil War, he commanded an irregular cavalry force. After the war, he resumed practicing law, became a writer, and was active in land development founding the town of Damascus, Virginia.
1893 Mikhail Nikolayevich Tukhachevsky nicknamed Red Napoleon by foreign newspapers, was a leading Soviet military leader and theoretician from 1918 to 1937. From 1920â1921 he commanded the Soviet Western Front in the PolishâSoviet War. Soviet forces under his command successfully repelled the Polish forces from Western Ukraine, driving them back to Poland, but the Red Army was defeated outside of Warsaw, and the war ended in Soviet defeat.
1958 Ice-T, born Tracy Marrow, joined the Army after high school in 1979 to support his girlfriend and daughter. He served four years in the 25th Infantry Division, based in Hawaii. During his deployment in Hawaii, Ice-T served as a squad leader at Schofield Barracks. According to his memoir, it was here that he purchased stereo equipment including turntables, a mixer, and speakers. At one point during his career, a sergeant told Ice-T that he served in the Army because he couldn’t survive on his own in the civilian world. Despite the sergeant’s claim, Ice-T utilized his time in the Army to built financial stability, hone his skills, and launch a career in the entertainment industry.
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