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1982
The United States transfers control of the Panama Canal Zone to Panama.
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1970
The U.S. Army charges Captain Ernest Medina for his role in the My Lai massacre.
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1968
The U.S. Army launches Operation Pegasus, the reopening of a land route to the besieged Khe Sanh Marine base.
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1954
The U.S. Air Force Academy is founded in Colorado.
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1951
United Nations forces again move northward across the 38th Parallel in Korea.
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1948
The Berlin Airlift begins, relieving the surrounded city from the Soviet siege.
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1946
A miner’s strike in the U.S. idles 400,000 workers.
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1945
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1942
The U.S. Navy begins a partial convoy system in the Atlantic.
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1939
The Spanish Civil War effectively ends with the official recognition of Franco’s government.
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1929
Milan Kundera, Czech writer (The Farewell Party, The Unbearable Lightness of Being).
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The yo-yo is introduced in the United States by Louie Marx.
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1928
China’s Chiang Kai-shek begins attacks on communists.
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1924
Adolf Hitler sentenced to five years in prison for the “Beer Hall Putsch.”
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1920
Germany’s Workers Party changes its name to the Nationalist Socialist German Worker’s Party (Nazis).