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    63d Chemical Company

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    Constituted 1 October 1933 in the Regular Army as the 3d Chemical Company

    Activated 1 June 1941 at Fort Sam Houston, Texas

    Redesignated 12 March 1942 as the 63d Chemical Depot Company

    Inactivated 13 October 1945 at Camp Myles Standish, Massachusetts

    Redesignated 19 February 1947 as the 63d Chemical Base Depot and Maintenance Company

    Activated 15 March 1947 in Germany

    Reorganized and redesignated 27 April 1951 as the 63d Chemical Service Company

    Inactivated 1 November 1954 in France

    Redesignated 1 March 1980 as the 63d Chemical Company, assigned to the 101st Airborne Division, and activated at Fort Campbell, Kentucky

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    1865: Confederate General Joseph Johnston officially surrenders his army to General William T. Sherman at Durham Station, North Carolina.

    1865: John Wilkes Booth is killed when Union soldiers track him down to a Virginia farm 12 days after he assassinated President Abraham Lincoln.

    1865: Joseph E. Johnston surrenders the Army of Tennessee to Sherman.

    1937: The ancient Basque town of Guernica in northern Spain is bombed by German planes.

    1952: Armistice negotiations are resumed.

    1971: The U.S. command in Saigon announces that the U.S. force level in Vietnam is 281,400 men, the lowest since July 1966.

    1972: President Nixon, despite the ongoing communist offensive, announces that another 20,000 U.S. troops will be withdrawn from Vietnam in May and June, reducing authorized troop strength to 49,000.


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