History A-Z: The Return

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Doolittle Raid - 1942

 

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Entebbe Raid, July, 1976

 

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Four Freedoms Speech - 1941

 

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Graf Zeppelin's round the world trip of 1929

 

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Hannibal instigates the Second Punic War - 218 BCE

 

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Iwo Jima - WW2 Pacific Battle

February 19 -March 26, 1945

 

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Jet Engine Invented - 1939

 

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"King Kong" Premiers, April 7, 1933.

 

[enQji]

Loss of Nerve in Failed US Attempt to Annex Greenland (2 days ago)

 

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Midway, Battle Of - June 4-7, 1942

 

[TheGoodLife3976]

Nostradamus

French astrologer and apothecary (my new word of the day! )

 

[barefootgirl69]

Nostradamus

French astrologer and apothecary (my new word of the day! )

"Apothecary" is one of my favorite words! I was pretty chuffed when I learned to say it in German (because I was living there) and in Greek (the ex).

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Othello - a play by Wm. Shakespeare written in the early 1600s.

 

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The Pill - 1960

 

[TheGoodLife3976]

Queen Isabella I of Spain - 1451-1504

Unified Spain, financed Christopher Columbus

 

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Reconstruction Act of 1867.

 

[TheGoodLife3976]

San Francisco Earthquake - 1906.

 

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Torquemada’s Reign Of Terror - 1483-1498

 

[Graybear1826]

Unabomber - Ted Kaczynski

1978-95

 

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V-2 Rocket first successful launch - June, 1944.

 

[TheGoodLife3976]

Woodrow Wilson

US President 1913-1921

 

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X-Rays discovered by accident - 1895

 

[GraiceeGirl]

Yin & Yan Principal - 3rd Century BCE

 

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Zimbabwe becomes self-governing - 1980

 

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Australian Independence - January 1, 1901

 

[latecomer91364]

Barbarossa. In the entire history of the world, the most critical event was the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union beginning on June 22, 1941. This was the operation that lost Hitler the war. Period.

Even without D-Day, the Soviets would have eventually won this war on their own.

You talk about awakening a 'sleeping giant...'