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

 

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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

 

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Queen Isabella I of Spain - 1451-1504

Unified Spain, financed Christopher Columbus

 

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Reconstruction Act of 1867.

 

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San Francisco Earthquake - 1906.

 

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Torquemada’s Reign Of Terror - 1483-1498

 

[Graybear1826]

Unabomber - Ted Kaczynski

1978-95