Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. Birthday, Date of Birth

Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. ( SY-mən BOL-i-vər BUK-nər; 18 July 1886 – 18 June 1945) was a lieutenant general in the United States Army during World War II who served in the Pacific Theater. As commanding general of Alaska Defense Command, Buckner commanded American-Canadian forces in the Aleutian Islands campaign, including the Battle of Attu and the Kiska Expedition. Following that assignment, he was promoted to command the Tenth Army, which conducted the amphibious invasion of the Japanese island of Okinawa in 1945. He was killed during the closing days of the Battle of Okinawa by enemy artillery fire, making him the highest-ranking United States military officer lost to enemy fire during World War II.

Buckner, Lesley J. McNair, Frank Maxwell Andrews, and Millard Harmon, all lieutenant generals at the time of their deaths, were the highest-ranking Americans to be killed in World War II. Buckner and McNair were posthumously promoted to the rank of four-star general on 19 July 1954, by a Special Act of Congress (Public Law 83-508).

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18th of July 1886 News

News as it appeared on the front page of the New York Times on July 18, 1886

CITY AND SUBURBAN NEWS; NEW-YORK. BROOKLYN. NEW-JERSEY.

Date: 18 July 1886

"J.M."--At No. 1 Broadway, Room DD. The iron steamboats Taurus and Pegasus will make four trips to-day to Long Branch.

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CITY AND SUBURBAN NEWS; NEW-YORK. BROOKLYN. LONG ISLAND. NEW-JERSEY.

Date: 19 July 1886

The veterans of the Seventh Regiment will leave this city on the steamer Drew at 6 o'clock Wednesday evening to participate in the Bicentennial celebration in Albany. The muster will be at the Metropolitan Hotel at 4:45 o'clock.

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OLD WORLD NEWS BY CABLE; TORIES AND UNIONISTS TO HAVE A HARD TIME. SALISBURY TO FORM THE MINISTRY AND MAINLY FROM HIS OWN PARTY--THE WAY IN WHICH HE COULD BE UPSET ON IRISH ISSUES--LORD HARTINGTON'S POSITION.

Date: 18 July 1886

BY Commercial Cable From Our Own Correspondent.copyright, 1886, By the New-York Times

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LONDON, July 17.--The more the enemies of home rule regard the aspect of their victory the less they like it. The members of the happy family are unable to see how they are going to arrange the order of precedence in entering the cage, much less how they are to live in a condition of amity afterward.

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MYSTERIOUS DISCOVERY IN BRUSSELS.

Date: 18 July 1886

A mysterious discovery, suggestive of a crime like that of Wainwright and Billoir, was made on Monday night near the Southern ...

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THE NEW ITALIAN CRUISER.

Date: 19 July 1886

The new Italian cruiser Miseno, launched at Castellamare, is an iron steamer 129 feet long by 21 wide. She will be fitted up with vertical cylinders and engines of 430 horse power, and is expected to have a speed of 10 miles an hour.

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BILL HALEY LYNCHED.

Date: 18 July 1886

TOLEDO, Ohio, July 17.--About 2 o'clock this morning Sheriff Parr, at Paulding, a small town 60 miles west of this city, was aroused by over 100 masked and armed men who surrounded ...

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THIRTEEN PETRIFIED BODIES.

Date: 19 July 1886

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., July 18.--A special to the Journal from Rochester says: "While Mr. T. Bowman, residing about three miles north of Akron, was engaged in setting posts a day or two ago he was greatly surprised to have a post

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COMTE DE BEARN'S LAY FIGURE.

Date: 19 July 1886

A good story is told of the Comte de Bearn, a well known Parisian, who has just been gathered to his fathers. He was at one time an inveterate card player, and always came home from his club in the early hours of the morning.

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TIRED BILLY MOLONEY; MOURNFULLY SINGING HOME, SWEET HOME. CONFLICTING INFLUENCES WHICH KEEP HIM WANDERING--GENTLE THREATS FROM THE MEN IN NEW-YORK.

Date: 19 July 1886

The news that " Billy" Moloney expected soon to return to this country from Paris, where he is now an exile, as published in a cable dispatch to THE TIMES yesterday, created much talk among local politicians and others last night.

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