Afonso V (15 January 1432 â 28 August 1481), known by the sobriquet the African (Portuguese: o Africano), was King of Portugal. His sobriquet refers to his conquests in Northern Africa.
Naglee was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on January 15, 1815. He graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1835 as 23rd in a class of 56 cadets. Posted in the 5th U.S. Infantry he resigned shortly after his graduation and worked as a civil engineer. Naglee came to California in 1846 during the MexicanâAmerican War as captain of Company D of the 1st Regiment of New York Volunteers. After his discharge from the army, in 1849, Captain Naglee became the first commanding officer of the 1st California Guards, a California Militia unit in San Francisco, the beginning of what would become the California National Guard. In May 1861 Naglee reentered the United States Army as lieutenant colonel of the 16th U.S. Infantry. He was made a brigadier general of Volunteers in February 1862 and given command of a brigade in the IV Corps of the Army of the Potomac. In 1863 he commanded the VII Corps and the District of Virginia
John Cabell Breckinridge (January 16, 1821 â May 17, 1875) was an American lawyer, politician, and soldier. He represented Kentucky in both houses of Congress and became the 14th and youngest-ever vice president of the United States, serving from 1857 to 1861. He was commissioned a brigadier general and then expelled from the Senate. Following the Battle of Shiloh in 1862, he was promoted to major general, and in October he was assigned to the Army of Mississippi under Braxton Bragg.
Ecaterina Teodoroiu was a Romanian woman who fought and died in World War I, and is regarded as a heroine of Romania. A Scouts’ member, she had initially worked as a nurse but she subsequently decided to become a front-line soldier, being deeply impressed by the patriotism of the wounded and the death of her brother Nicolae, a sergeant in the Romanian Army.
Alexander Ivanovich Marinesko (15 January 1913 â 25 November 1963) was a Soviet naval officer and, during World War II, the captain of the submarine S-13 which sank the German military transport ship Wilhelm Gustloff. The most successful Soviet submarine commander in terms of gross register tonnage (GRT) sunk, with 42,000 GRT to his name, he was posthumously awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union in 1990.
John Joseph O’Connor (January 15, 1920 â May 3, 2000) was an American prelate of the Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of New York from 1984 until his death in 2000, and was created a cardinal in 1985. He previously served as a U.S. Navy chaplain (1952â1979, including four years as Chief), auxiliary bishop of the Military Vicariate of the United States (1979â1983), and Bishop of Scranton (1983â1984).
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