{"id":60795,"date":"2015-07-13T12:00:20","date_gmt":"2015-07-13T11:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=60795"},"modified":"2015-07-11T18:11:28","modified_gmt":"2015-07-11T17:11:28","slug":"this-week-in-history-32","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2015\/07\/this-week-in-history-32\/","title":{"rendered":"This Week in History"},"content":{"rendered":"

July 13 -19<\/em><\/p>\n

QUOTE OF THE WEEK:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201c<\/em>Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.\u201d<\/em><\/a> \u2013 Helen Keller<\/p>\n

JULY 13<\/strong><\/p>\n

2008\u00a0 <\/strong>Battle of Wanat<\/a> begins when Taliban<\/a> & al-Qaeda<\/a> guerrillas attack US Army<\/a> & Afghan National Army<\/a> troops in Afghanistan<\/a>. The U.S. deaths were, at that time, the most in a single battle since the beginning of operations in 2001<\/a>.<\/p>\n

2003\u00a0 <\/strong>French DGSE<\/a> personnel abort an operation<\/a> to rescue \u00cdngrid Betancourt<\/a> from FARC<\/a> rebels in Colombia<\/a>, causing a political scandal when details are leaked to the press.<\/p>\n

1985\u00a0 <\/strong>The Live Aid<\/a> benefit concert<\/a> takes place in London, England, United Kingdom<\/a> and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania<\/a>, as well as other venues such as Sydney, Australia<\/a> and Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union<\/a>.<\/p>\n

1980\u00a0 <\/strong>USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh\/Semipalitinsk<\/a> USSR.<\/p>\n