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1757 Captain George Vancouver (22 June 1757 â 10 May 1798) was a British officer of the Royal Navy best known for his 1791â95 expedition, which explored and charted North America’s northwestern Pacific Coast regions, including the coasts of what are now the Canadian province of British Columbia as well as the American states of Alaska, Washington, and Oregon. He also explored the Hawaiian Islands and the southwest coast of Australia.
1777 William Brown (also known in Spanish as Guillermo Brown or Almirante Brown) (22 June 1777 â 3 March 1857) was an Irish-born Argentine admiral. Brown’s victories in the Independence War, the Cisplatine War and the Anglo-French blockade of the RÃo de la Plata earned the respect and appreciation of the Argentine people, and he is regarded as one of Argentina’s national heroes. Creator and first admiral of the country’s maritime forces, he is commonly known as the “father of the Argentine Navy”.
1861 Maximilian Johannes Maria Hubert Reichsgraf[ von Spee (22 June 1861 â 8 December 1914) was a naval officer of the German Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial Navy), who commanded the East Asia Squadron during World War I. Spee entered the navy in 1878 and served in a variety of roles and locations, including on a colonial gunboat in German West Africa in the 1880s, the East Africa Squadron in the late 1890s, and as commander of several warships in the main German fleet in the early 1900s. During his time in Germany in the late 1880s and early 1890s, he married his wife, Margareta, and had three children, his sons Heinrich and Otto and his daughter Huberta. By 1912, he had returned to the East Asia Squadron as its commander, and was promoted to the rank of Vizeadmiral (Vice Admiral) the following year.
1864 Baron Tanaka Giichi (ç°ä¸ 義ä¸, 22 June 1864 â 29 September 1929) GBE KCMG was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army, politician, cabinet minister, and the Prime Minister of Japan from 1927 to 1929.
1892 Robert Ritter von Greim (born Robert Greim; 22 June 1892 â 24 May 1945) was a German Field Marshal and First World War flying ace. In April 1945, in the last days of World War II, Adolf Hitler appointed Greim commander-in-chief of the Luftwaffe (German Air Force) after Hermann Göring had been dismissed for treason. He is the last person ever promoted to Field Marshal in the German armed forces. After the surrender of Nazi Germany in May 1945, Greim was captured by the Allies. He committed suicide in an American-controlled prison on 24 May 1945.
1936 Kris Kristofferson (Jun 22, 1936) Joining U.S. Army in 1960, Kristoffersonâs military service started as a helicopter pilot after completing Ranger School and Airborne School, he eventually worked his way to the rank of U.S. Army Captain. During this time Kristofferson continued to work on music and even formed his own band while stationed at U.S. Military base in Germany. He was offered a teaching position in Literature at West Point, but he turned it down to focus on music.
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