{"id":65759,"date":"2015-11-02T12:00:05","date_gmt":"2015-11-02T12:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=65759"},"modified":"2015-10-30T14:20:04","modified_gmt":"2015-10-30T14:20:04","slug":"this-week-in-history-48","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2015\/11\/this-week-in-history-48\/","title":{"rendered":"This Week in History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/TWH-logo.jpeg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-62806\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/TWH-logo.jpeg\" alt=\"TWH logo history\" width=\"600\" height=\"331\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Nov 2-8<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>QUOTE OF THE WEEK:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.values.com\/inspirational-quotes\/4171-Twenty-Years-From-Now-You-W-\" >\u201c<em>Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn\u2019t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover<\/em>.\u201d<\/a> \u2013 Mark Twain<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>NOVEMBER 2<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>2014\u00a0 <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2014_Wagah_border_suicide_attack\" >A suicide attack<\/a> killed 60 at <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wagah\" >Wagah<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>2007\u00a0 <\/strong>50,000\u2013100,000 people <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2007_Georgian_demonstrations\" >demonstrate against the Georgian government<\/a> in <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tbilisi\" >Tbilisi<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>Democracy and Georgia (country):<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2007_in_Georgia_%28country%29\" >2007 in Georgia (country) &#8211; Wikipedia<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Democracy_Index\" >Democracy Index \u2013 Wikipedia<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ohchr.org\/EN\/Issues\/RuleOfLaw\/Pages\/Democracy.aspx\" >Rule of Law \u2013 Democracy and Human Rights \u2013 UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights<\/a>, and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ohchr.org\/EN\/countries\/ENACARegion\/Pages\/GEIndex.aspx\" >the Human Rights of Georgia<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.humanrights.ge\/admin\/editor\/uploads\/pdf\/Annual%20Report%20HRIDC%202008.pdf\" >George: Flickering Beacon of Democracy \u2013 Human Rights in Georgia in 2007, by Human Rights Centre (HRIDC) &#8211; pdf<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>History of Georgia:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/History_of_Georgia_%28country%29\" >History of Georgia (country) \u2013 Wikipedia<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/countrystudies.us\/georgia\/\" >Georgia \u2013 CountryStudies.us<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/ggdavid.tripod.com\/georgia\/history.htm\" >History of Georgia \u2013 ABOUT GEORGIA \u2013 Tripod.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lonelyplanet.com\/georgia\/history\" >Georgia \u2013 History \u2013 LonelyPlanet.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.infoplease.com\/encyclopedia\/world\/georgia-country-asia-history.html\" >Georgia \u2013 History \u2013 Infoplease.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ourgeorgiahistory.com\/\" >Our Georgia History \u2013 OurGeorgiaHistory.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.everyculture.com\/Ge-It\/Georgia.html\" >Georgia \u2013 Culture and History \u2013 EveryCulture.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Democratic_Republic_of_Georgia\" >Democratic Republic of Georgia (May 1918 \u2013 February 1921 \u2013 Wikipedia<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-17303471\" >Georgia profile \u2013 Timeline &#8211; BBC<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>Georgia:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cia.gov\/library\/publications\/the-world-factbook\/geos\/gg.html\" >GEORGIA \u2013 THE WORLD FACTBOOK \u2013 CIA<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/data.un.org\/CountryProfile.aspx?crName=Georgia\" >Georgia \u2013 UN Data<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.britannica.com\/place\/Georgia\" >Georgia \u2013 Encyclopedia Britannica<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.infoplease.com\/country\/georgia.html\" >Georgia \u2013 Infoplease.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-17301647\" >Georgia country profile \u2013 Overview &#8211; BBC<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>Foreign Relations of Georgia:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Foreign_relations_of_Georgia\" >Foreign relations of Georgia \u2013 Wikipedia<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.state.gov\/r\/pa\/ei\/bgn\/5253.htm\" >US Relations with Georgia \u2013 US Department of State<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cfr.org\/region\/georgia\/ri280\" >Georgia \u2013 Council on Foreign Relations \u2013 CFR.org<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mfa.gov.tr\/relations-between-turkey-and-georgia.en.mfa\" >Relations between Turkey and Georgia \u2013 REPUBLIC OF TURKEY MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>Economy of Georgia:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Economy_of_Georgia_%28country%29\" >Economy of Georgia (country) \u2013 Wikipedia<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.worldbank.org\/en\/country\/georgia\/overview\" >Georgia \u2013 Overview &#8211; WORLD BANK<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/data.worldbank.org\/country\/georgia\" >Georgia \u2013 Data \u2013 WORLD BANK<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.adb.org\/countries\/georgia\/economy\" >Georgia \u2013 Economy &#8211; Asian Development Bank \u2013 ADB.org<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.heritage.org\/index\/country\/georgia\" >Georgia \u2013 Index \u2013 THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/economy.ge\/en\/home\" >Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development of Georgia<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.infoplease.com\/encyclopedia\/us\/georgia-state-united-states-economy.html\" >Georgia \u2013 Economy \u2013 Infoplease.com<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>2000\u00a0 <\/strong>The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Expedition_1\" >first resident crew<\/a> to the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ISS\" >ISS<\/a> docked with their <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Soyuz_TM-31\" >Soyuz TM-31<\/a> spacecraft.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1988\u00a0 <\/strong>The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Morris_worm\" >Morris worm<\/a>, the first <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Internet\" >Internet<\/a>-distributed <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Computer_worm\" >computer worm<\/a> to gain significant mainstream media attention, is launched from <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology\" >MIT<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1984\u00a0 <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Capital_punishment\" >Capital punishment<\/a>: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Velma_Barfield\" >Velma Barfield<\/a> becomes the first woman executed in the United States since <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1962\" >1962<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1983\u00a0 <\/strong>US President <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ronald_Reagan\" >Ronald Reagan<\/a> signs a bill creating <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr._Day\" >Martin Luther King, Jr. Day<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1978\u00a0 <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ctbto.org\/nuclear-testing\/the-effects-of-nuclear-testing\/the-united-states-nuclear-testing-programme\/\" >US performs nuclear test<\/a> at <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nevada_Test_Site\" >Nevada Test Site<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_nuclear_weapons_tests_of_the_United_States\" >List of the nuclear weapons tests of the United States &#8211; Wikipedia<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nuclear_weapons_and_the_United_States\" >Nuclear Weapons and the United States \u2013 Wikipedia<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.atomcentral.com\/the-cold-war.aspx\" >The Cold War \u2013 AtomCentral.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/fas.org\/nuke\/guide\/usa\/facility\/nts.htm\" >NEVADA TEST SITE \u2013 FAS.org<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.globalsecurity.org\/wmd\/facility\/nts.htm\" >NEVADA TEST SITE \u2013 GlobalSecurity.org<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.onlinenevada.org\/articles\/nevada-test-site-overview\" >Nevada Test Site Overview \u2013 OnlineNevada.org<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/about\/projects\/archive\/nucweapons\/nts\" >Nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site \u2013 Brookings.edu<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/toxipedia.org\/display\/wanmec\/Nevada+Test+Site\" >Nevada Test Site \u2013 Toxipedia.org<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/digital.library.unlv.edu\/ntsohp\/\" >Nevada Test Site \u2013 Oral History Project<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/archure.net\/liberty\/nukenevada.html\" >NUKE TESTING in NEVADA \u2013 Archure.net<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nv.doe.gov\/library\/publications\/Environmental\/DOENV_11718_594.pdf\" >ECOLOGY OF THE NEVADA TEST SITE: AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nevadatestsite.info\/\" >Nevada Test Site Workers Exposed to Radiation \u2013 National Cancer Benefits Center \u2013 NevadaTestSite.info<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/about\/projects\/archive\/nucweapons\/50\" >50 Facts About the US Nuclear Weapons \u2013 Brookings.edu<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/nuclearweaponarchive.org\/Usa\/Tests\/\" >Gallery of US Nuclear Tests \u2013 NuclearWeaponArchive.org<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.acq.osd.mil\/ncbdp\/nm\/nm_book_5_11\/index.htm\" >The Nuclear Matters Handbook<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>Nuclear Weapons and the United States:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nuclear_weapons_and_the_United_States\" >Nuclear Weapons and the United States \u2013 Wikipedia<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.state.gov\/t\/us\/2014\/231697.htm\" >Nuclear Weapons Testing: History, Progress, Challenges: Verifications and Entry into Force of the CTBT \u2013 US Department of State<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.state.gov\/t\/avc\/rls\/202015.htm\" >US Nuclear Weapons Stockpile Life Extension Programs &#8211; January 3, 2013 \u2013 US Department of State<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/research\/articles\/2014\/04\/28-50-nuclear-facts\" >50 Facts About US Nuclear Weapons Today \u2013 April 28, 2014 \u2013 Brookings.edu<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.heritage.org\/research\/lecture\/2012\/08\/the-future-of-the-us-nuclear-triad\" >The Future of the US Nuclear Weapons Program, by Michaela Dodge \u2013 The Heritage Foundation<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.armscontrol.org\/act\/1997_05\/nas\" >The Future of the US Nuclear Weapons Policy \u2013 Arms Control Association<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/publication\/252183576_The_Future_of_the_U.S._Nuclear_Weapons_Program\" >The Future of the US Nuclear Weapons Program, by Linton F. Brooks \u2013 ResearchGate.net<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.state.gov\/t\/us\/2014\/233254.htm\" >US Nuclear Weapons Policy in the 21<sup>st<\/sup> Century &#8211; Rose Gottemoeller, Under Secretary\u00a0for Arms Control and International Security, \u00a0Dixie State University, St. George, Utah &#8211; October 21, 2014 \u2013 US Department of State<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1974\u00a0 <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ctbto.org\/nuclear-testing\/the-effects-of-nuclear-testing\/the-soviet-unionsnuclear-testing-programme\/\" >USSR performs nuclear test<\/a> at <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Novaya_Zemlya\" >Novaya Zemlya<\/a> USSR.<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.globalsecurity.org\/wmd\/world\/russia\/novaya_zemlya_nuc.htm\" >Novaya Zemlya \u2013 GlobalSecurity.org<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.atlasobscura.com\/places\/novaya-zemlya\" >NOVAYA ZEMLYA \u2013 AtlasObscura.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.giantbomb.com\/novaya-zemlya\/3035-3167\/\" >Novaya Zemlya \u2013 GiantBomb.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.arkcode.com\/custom3_64.html\" >NOVA ZEMLYA (NOVAYA ZEMLYA) 58 MEGA TON H BOMB TEST \u2013 ArkCode.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nti.org\/facilities\/924\/\" >Central Test Site of Russia on Novaya Zemlya \u2013 NTI.org<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www1.american.edu\/ted\/ice\/novalya.htm\" >ICE Case Studies \u2013 Novaya Zemlya, by Carrie McVicker \u2013 American.edu<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/earthobservatory.nasa.gov\/IOTD\/view.php?id=39591\" >Novaya Zemlya Archipelago \u2013 Image \u2013 NASA<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/novayazemlya.net\/\" >Novaya Zemlya Archipelago \u2013 NovayaZemlya.net<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nuclear-risks.org\/en\/hibakusha-worldwide\/novaya-zemlya.html\" >Novaya Zemlya, Russia \u2013 Nuclear-Risks.org<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/tass.ru\/en\/russia\/743105\" >Novaya Zemlya: test site for most powerful nuclear bomb ever detonated \u2013 July 31, 2014 \u2013 TASS Russian News Agency<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nuclearno.com\/text.asp?11073\" >Novaya Zemlya: birds, animals adapt nuclear test site, by Tatyana Sinitsyna \u2013 RIA Novosti, Russia \u2013 15 August 2006<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/pubs.usgs.gov\/of\/1993\/0501\/report.pdf\" >UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR GEOGRPAPHICAL SURVEY \u2013 Physical Environment of the Underground Nuclear Test Site on Novaya Zemlya, Russia, by John R. Matzko \u2013 Open-File Report 93-501 \u2013 Reston, Virginia &#8211; 1993<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ldeo.columbia.edu\/~richards\/my_papers\/khalturin_NZ_1-42%20.pdf\" >A Review of the Nuclear Testing by the Soviet Union at Novaya Zemlya, 1955 \u2013 1990, by Vitaly I. Khalturin, Tatyana G. Rautian, Paul G. Richards, and William S. Leith \u2013 Columbia.edu<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1973\u00a0 <\/strong>The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Communist_Party_of_India_%28Marxist%29\" >Communist Party of India (Marxist)<\/a> and the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Communist_Party_of_India\" >Communist Party of India<\/a> form a &#8216;United Front&#8217; in the state of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tripura\" >Tripura<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1972\u00a0 <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ctbto.org\/nuclear-testing\/the-effects-of-nuclear-testing\/the-soviet-unionsnuclear-testing-programme\/\" >USSR performs nuclear test<\/a> at Eastern Kazakh\/<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Semipalatinsk_Test_Site\" >Semipalitinsk<\/a> USSR.<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_nuclear_weapons_tests_of_the_Soviet_Union\" >List of nuclear weapons tests of the Soviet Union<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/nuclearweaponarchive.org\/Russia\/Sovtestsum.html\" >Soviet Nuclear Test Summary \u2013 NuclearWeaponArchive.org<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/nuclearweaponarchive.org\/Russia\/Sovwpnprog.html\" >Soviet Nuclear Weapons Program \u2013 NuclearWeaponArchive.org<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.johnstonsarchive.net\/nuclear\/tests\/USSR-ntestsS.html\" >Database of nuclear tests, USSR\/Russia: overview \u2013 JohnstonArchive.net<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rferl.org\/content\/soviet_nuclear_testing_semipalatinsk_20th_anniversary\/24311518.html\" >Slow Death of Kazakhstan\u2019s Land Of Nuclear Tests \u2013 Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty \u2013 RFRL.org<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/large.stanford.edu\/courses\/2014\/ph241\/powell2\/docs\/vakulchuk.pdf\" >Semipalitinsk nuclear testing: the humanitarian consequences \u2013 Norwegian Institute of International Affairs<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/thebulletin.org\/lasting-toll-semipalatinsks-nuclear-testing\" >The lasting toll of Semipalitinsk\u2019s nuclear testing \u2013 TheBulletin.org<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/publication\/12566948_External_doses_of_residents_near_Semipalatinsk_nuclear_test_site\" >External Doses of Residents near Semipalitinsk Nuclear Test Site \u2013 ResearchGate.net<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.irpa.net\/irpa10\/cdrom\/00504.pdf\" >Radiation Exposure on Residents due to Semipalitinsk Nuclear Tests \u2013 IRPA.net<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1967\u00a0 <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vietnam_War\" >Vietnam War<\/a>: US President <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lyndon_B._Johnson\" >Lyndon B. Johnson<\/a> and &#8220;The Wise Men&#8221; conclude that the American people should be given more optimistic reports on the progress of the war.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>\u201cWise Men\u201d on the Vietnam War:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.history.com\/this-day-in-history\/johnson-meets-with-the-wise-men\" >NOV 2, 1967: THIS DAY IN HISTORY: Jonson meets the \u201cWise Men\u201d<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.geni.com\/projects\/The-Wise-Men\/10384\" >\u201c<em>On November 1 and 2, 1967, President Johnson brought together: Dean Acheson, George Ball, General Omar Bradley, McGeorge Bundy, Clark Clifford, Arthur Dean, Douglas Dillon, Justice Abe Fortas, Averell Harriman, Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., Robert Murphy and General Maxwell Taylor<\/em>.\u201d \u2013 The Wise Men \u2013 Geni.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.english.illinois.edu\/maps\/vietnam\/anderson.htm\" >The Military and Diplomatic Course of the Vietnam War, by David L Anderson \u2013 Illinois.edu<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1966\u00a0 <\/strong>The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cuban_Adjustment_Act\" >Cuban Adjustment Act<\/a> comes into force, allowing 123,000 <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cuba\" >Cubans<\/a> the opportunity to apply for permanent residence in the United States.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1965\u00a0 <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Norman_Morrison\" >Norman Morrison<\/a>, a 31-year-old <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Quaker\" >Quaker<\/a>, sets himself on fire in front of the river entrance to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Pentagon\" >the Pentagon<\/a> to protest the use of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Napalm\" >napalm<\/a> in the Vietnam war.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1964\u00a0 <\/strong>King <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Saud_of_Saudi_Arabia\" >Saud of Saudi Arabia<\/a> is deposed by a family <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Coup\" >coup<\/a>, and replaced by his half-brother <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Faisal_of_Saudi_Arabia\" >Faisal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.historytoday.com\/richard-cavendish\/new-king-saudi-arabia\" >A New King in Saud Arabia \u2013 Faisal al Saud became ruler on November 2<sup>nd<\/sup>, 1964 \u2013 HistoryToday.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.historychannel.com.au\/classroom\/day-in-history\/914\/royal-family-coup-in-saudi-arabia\" >This Day in History: November 2, 1964: Royal Family Coup in Saudi Arabia \u2013 HistoryChannel.com.au<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/History_of_Saudi_Arabia#Modern_history\" >Modern history \u2013 History of Saudi Arabia &#8211; Wikipedia<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1963\u00a0 <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/South_Vietnam\" >South Vietnamese<\/a> President <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Arrest_and_assassination_of_Ng%C3%B4_%C4%90%C3%ACnh_Di%E1%BB%87m\" >Ng\u00f4 \u0110\u00ecnh Di\u1ec7m is assassinated<\/a> following a military <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Coup\" >coup<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.britannica.com\/biography\/Ngo-Dinh-Diem\" >Ngo Dinh Diem \u2013 Encyclopedia Britannica<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/September_1964_South_Vietnamese_coup_attempt\" >September 1964 South Vietnam coup attempt \u2013 Wikipedia<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.historynet.com\/the-assassination-of-ngo-dinh-diem.htm\" >The Assassination of Ng Dinh Diem \u2013 06\/12\/2006 \u2013 HistoryNet.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/ngothelinh.tripod.com\/NgoDinhDiem.html\" >The Republic of Vietnam \u2013 President Ngo Dinh Diem \u2013 tripod.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/spartacus-educational.com\/VNngo.htm\" >Ngo Dinh Diem \u2013 Spartacus-Educational.com<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1957\u00a0 <\/strong>The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Levelland_UFO_Case\" >Levelland UFO Case<\/a> in <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Levelland,_Texas\" >Levelland, Texas<\/a>, generates national publicity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1953\u00a0 <\/strong>The Constituent Assembly of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pakistan\" >Pakistan<\/a> names the country The Islamic Republic of Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1951\u00a0 <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Korean_War\" >Korean War<\/a>: A small platoon of 28 Canadian soldiers defend a vital area against an entire battalion of 800 Chinese troops in the Battle of the Song-gok Spur. The engagement lasts into the early hours of November 3.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1949\u00a0 <\/strong>The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dutch%E2%80%93Indonesian_Round_Table_Conference\" >Dutch\u2013Indonesian Round Table Conference<\/a> ends with the Netherlands agreeing to transfer sovereignty of the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dutch_East_Indies\" >Dutch East Indies<\/a> to the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_of_Indonesia\" >United States of Indonesia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1947\u00a0 <\/strong>In <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/California\" >California<\/a>, designer <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Howard_Hughes\" >Howard Hughes<\/a> performs the maiden (and only) flight of the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Spruce_Goose\" >Spruce Goose<\/a> or H-4 The Hercules; the largest fixed-wing <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Aircraft\" >aircraft<\/a> ever built.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1944\u00a0 <\/strong>Auschwitz begins gassing inmates.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org\/jsource\/Holocaust\/autoc.html\" >Concentration Camps: Auschwitz-Birkenau \u2013 Jewish Virtual Library<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/jan\/27\/auschwitz-short-history-liberation-concentration-camp-holocaust\" >Auschwitz: a short history of the largest mass murder site in human history \u2013 TheGuardian.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/auschwitz.dk\/Auschwitz.htm\" >GATE TO HELL: AUSCHWITZ \u2013 Auschwitz.dk<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ushmm.org\/wlc\/en\/article.php?ModuleId=10005189\" >AUSCHWTIZ \u2013 Holoccaust Encyclopedia \u2013 USHMM.org<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.history.com\/topics\/world-war-ii\/auschwitz\" >AUSCHWITZ \u2013 HISTORY \u2013 History.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/auschwitz.org\/en\/\" >AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU MEMORIAL AND MUSEUM \u2013 Auschwitz.org<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1943\u00a0 <\/strong>Jewish ghetto of Riga, Latvia, is destroyed.<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Riga_Ghetto\" >Riga Ghetto \u2013 Wikipedia<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.deathcamps.org\/occupation\/riga%20ghetto.html\" >Riga Ghetto \u2013 DeathCamps.org<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org\/jsource\/vjw\/Riga.html\" >Riga, Latvia \u2013 Virtual Jewish World \u2013 Jewish Virtual Library<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/History_of_the_Jews_in_Latvia\" >History of Jews in Latvia \u2013 Wikipedia<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1940\u00a0 <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/World_War_II\" >World War II<\/a>: First day of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Battle_of_Elaia%E2%80%93Kalamas\" >Battle of Elaia\u2013Kalamas<\/a> between the Greeks and the Italians.<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/aaminis.myfastforum.org\/archive\/battle-of-elaia-kalamas-greece-28-october-8-november-1940__o_t__t_12936.html\" >Battle of Elaia \u2013 Kalamas (Greece, 28 October-8 November, 1940) \u2013 MyFastForum.org<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Battle_of_Elaia%E2%80%93Kalamas\" >\u201c<em>The <strong>Battle of Elaia\u2013Kalamas<\/strong> (Greek: <\/em><em>\u039c\u03ac\u03c7\u03b7 \u0395\u03bb\u03b1\u03af\u03b1\u03c2-\u039a\u03b1\u03bb\u03b1\u03bc\u03ac) took place in Epirus from 2\u20138 November 1940. The battle was fought between the Greeks and the Italians during the initial stage of the Greco-Italian War. The Italian Army, deployed on the Greek-Albanian border, launched a major offensive against Greece on 28 October 1940<\/em>.\u201d \u2013 Battle of Elaia-Kalamas &#8211; Wikipedia<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/ww2daybyday.blogspot.com\/2013\/11\/the-battle-of-elaia-kalamas-begins-1940.html\" >The Battle of Elaia-Kalamas begins \u2013 1940 \u2013 WW2DayByDay<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1936\u00a0 <\/strong>The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/British_Broadcasting_Corporation\" >British Broadcasting Corporation<\/a> initiates the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/BBC_Television_Service\" >BBC Television Service<\/a>, the world&#8217;s first regular, &#8220;high-definition&#8221; (then defined as at least 200 lines) service. Renamed <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/BBC_One\" >BBC1<\/a> in <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1964\" >1964<\/a>, the channel still runs to this day.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1936\u00a0 <\/strong>The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Canadian_Broadcasting_Corporation\" >Canadian Broadcasting Corporation<\/a> is established.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1930\u00a0 <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Haile_Selassie\" >Haile Selassie<\/a> is crowned emperor of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ethiopia\" >Ethiopia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1920\u00a0 <\/strong>In the United States, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/KDKA_%28AM%29\" >KDKA<\/a> of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pittsburgh,_Pennsylvania\" >Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania<\/a> starts broadcasting as the first commercial <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Radio_station\" >radio station<\/a>. The first broadcast is the result of the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_presidential_election,_1920\" >United States presidential election, 1920<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1917\u00a0 <\/strong>The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Military_Revolutionary_Committee\" >Military Revolutionary Committee<\/a> of the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Petrograd_Soviet\" >Petrograd Soviet<\/a>, in charge of preparation and carrying out the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Russian_Revolution\" >Russian Revolution<\/a>, holds its first meeting.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1917\u00a0 <\/strong>The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Balfour_Declaration\" >Balfour Declaration<\/a> proclaims British support for the &#8220;establishment in <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Palestine_%28region%29\" >Palestine<\/a> of a national home for the Jewish people&#8221; with the clear understanding &#8220;that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>Balfour Declaration:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.history.com\/this-day-in-history\/the-balfour-declaration\" >NOV 2, 1917: THIS DAY IN HISTORY: The Balfour Declaration \u2013 Histoy.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/stream\/BehindTheBalfourDeclaration-BritainsGreatWarPledgeToRothschild_491\/BehindTheBalfourDeclaration_BritainsGreatWarPledgeToLordRothschild_djvu.txt\" >Full text of the Balfour Declaration \u2013 Archive.org<\/a>, <strong><em>or<\/em><\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/avalon.law.yale.edu\/20th_century\/balfour.asp\" >the same text of this Avalon Project site<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/worldhistoryproject.org\/1917\/11\/2\/balfour-declaration\" >NOV 2, 1917: Balfour Declaration \u2013 WorldHistoryProject.org<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/history1900s.about.com\/cs\/holocaust\/p\/balfourdeclare.htm\" >Balfour Declaration \u2013 About.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/zionism-israel.com\/Balfour_Declaration_1917.htm\" >The Balfour Declaration \u2013 November 2, 1917 \u2013 Zionism-Israel.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org\/jsource\/History\/baltoc.html\" >Pre-State Israel: The Balfour Declaration (November 1917) \u2013 Jewish Virtual Library<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jcpa.org\/text\/israel-rights\/kiyum-gilbert.pdf\" >\u201cAN OVERWHELMINGLY JEWISH STATE\u201d &#8211; FROM THE BALFOUR DECLARATION TO THE PALESTINE MANDATE, by Martin Gilbert \u2013 ISRAEL\u2019S RIGHTS as a Nation-State in International Diplomacy \u2013 Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs &#8211; pdf<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.palestinefacts.org\/pf_ww1_balfour.php\" >The Balfour Declaration \u2013 PalestineFacts.org<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.britannica.com\/event\/Balfour-Declaration\" >Balfour Declaration \u2013 Encyclopedia Britannica<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>History and Background of the Balfour Declaration:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ihr.org\/jhr\/v06\/v06p389_John.html\" >Behind the Balfour Declaration: Britain Great War Pledge To Lord Rothschild, by Robert John \u2013 IHR.org<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.counter-currents.com\/2014\/06\/background-to-treason-the-balfour-declaration\/\" >Background to Treason: The Balfour Declaration, by Willian Pierce \u2013 Counter-Currents.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/r.search.yahoo.com\/_ylt=A0LEVzDMvzBWAEIA.kBXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTEzNzluNTRuBGNvbG8DYmYxBHBvcwM2BHZ0aWQDQjExNjBGXzEEc2VjA3Ny\/RV=2\/RE=1446064204\/RO=10\/RU=http%3a%2f%2famericandeception.com%2findex.php%3faction%3ddownloadpdf%26photo%3dPDFsml_AD2%2fThe_Great_Betrayal-Stephen_Wise-Jacob_De_Haas-1930-310pgs-REL-POL.sml.pdf%26id%3d491\/RK=0\/RS=bObsWBQvvqbwl9uMrGoZLEHENAA-\" >THE GREAT BETRAYAL \u2013 American Deception, by STEPHEN S WISE AND JACOB DE HAAS &#8211; 1930 &#8211; pdf<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ifamericansknew.org\/us_ints\/amery.html\" >\u201c<em>The drafter of the Balfour Declaration was a secret Zionist in what historian William Rubinstein states was \u2018probably the most remarkable example of concealment of identity in twentieth-century British political history<\/em>\u2019\u201d \u2013 THE SECRET OF LEOPOLD AMERY \u2013 IF AMERICANS KNEW \u2013 IfAmericansKnew.org<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mideastweb.org\/britzion.htm\" >British Support for Jewish Restoration \u2013 MideastWeb.org<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/zionism-israel.com\/Balfour_Introduction_to_Zionism.htm\" >Lord Arthur Balfour on Zionism \u2013 Zionism-Israel.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mideastweb.org\/napoleon1799.htm\" >\u201c<em>Hasten !, Now is the moment, which may not return for thousands of years, to claim the restoration of civic rights among the population of the universe which had been shamefully withheld from you for thousands of years, your political existence as a nation among the nations<\/em>\u2026\u201d &#8211; Napoleon Bonaparte\u2019s Letter to the Jews \u2013 April 20, 1799 \u2013 MideastWeb.org<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/opinion\/should-britain-apologize-for-the-balfour-declaration.premium-1.518145\" >\u201c<em>Rather than a colonist&#8217;s love song to Zionism, as some pro-Palestinian U.K. campaigners now claim, the Balfour Declaration of 1917 was based on miscalculations, anti-Semitism and propaganda &#8211; and set in train a war that is yet to end<\/em>. \u201d &#8211; Should Britain Apologize for the Balfour Declaration?, by James Renton \u2013 Apr 29, 2013 \u2013 Haaretz.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/jewwatch.com\/jew-references-balfour.html\" >The Balfour Declaration: <em>&#8220;Nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine&#8221; &#8211; <\/em>THE BALFOUR DECLARATION ABOVE PROTECTED NON-JEWS BUT ISRAEL MURDERS THEIR CHILDREN ON A DAILY BASIS \u2013 JewWatch.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/jesus-is-savior.com\/False%20Religions\/Illuminati\/world_war_one.htm\" ><em>\u201cA further purpose of the WWI was to cause the destruction of the Ottoman Empire, in order to free the land of Palestine from its grasp, leading to the creation of the Zionist state of Israel. After Prime Minister of England, Lord Asquith, was deposed in 1916, because he had opposed Zionist interests. David Lloyd George, whose career was made as a lawyer for the World Zionist Organization, as well as Winston Churchill and Arthur Balfour of the Round Table, were placed in power<\/em>.\u201d \u2013 Arthur Balfour \u2013 The Fall of the Ottoman Empire \u2013 World War One and the Illuminati \u2013 Jesus-Is-Savior.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.forthepeaceofjerusalem.com\/the-balfour-decleration.html\" >The Balfour Declaration \u2013 Background: World War 1 \u2013 \u201cPray for the Peace of Jerusalem\u2026\u201d \u2013 Psalm 122:6 \u2013 ForThePeaceOfJerusalem.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/johnmccarthy90066.tripod.com\/id825.html\" >The Hidden History of the Balfour Declaration, by John Cornelius \u2013 John McCarthy \u2013 Tripod.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Balfour_Declaration#Background\" >Background \u2013 Balfour Declaration (of 1917) &#8211; Wikipedia<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/lareviewofbooks.org\/essay\/wasnt-just-european-war-wwi-arabia\/\" >It Wasn\u2019t Just a European War: WWI in Arabia, by Shehryar Fazli \u2013 April 20<sup>th<\/sup>, 2014 \u2013 LAReviewOfBook.org<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.realjewnews.com\/?p=189\" >Jews Blackmailed Wilson into WWI \u2013 RealJewsNews.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.questia.com\/magazine\/1P3-509432271\/the-origin-of-the-palestine-israel-conflict\" >The Origin of the Palestine-Israel Conflict, by H. Richard \u2013 MAGAZINE ARTICLE \u2013 <em>Washington Report on Middle East Affairs<\/em> \u2013 Questia.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/desip.igc.org\/OriginsOfBalfour.html\" >ON THE ORIGINS OF THE BALFOUR DECLARATION, by Nicholas Lysson \u2013 May 2006 \u2013 IGC.org<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.coldwarstudies.com\/2012\/11\/30\/palestine-israel-timeline-1917-1929\/\" >PALESTINE-ISRALE TIMELINE: 1917-1929 \u2013 ColdWarStudies.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.balfourproject.org\/timeline\/\" >The Balfour Project \u2013 Timeline \u2013 BalfourProject.org<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1914\u00a0 World War I: The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Russian_Empire\" >Russian Empire<\/a> declares war on the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ottoman_Empire\" >Ottoman Empire<\/a><\/strong> and the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dardanelles\" >Dardanelles<\/a> are subsequently closed.<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nzhistory.net.nz\/war\/ottoman-empire\/enters-the-war\" >\u201c<em>On 2 November, Russia declared war on the Ottoman Empire. France and the British Empire, Russia\u2019s wartime allies, followed suit on the 5th<\/em>.\u201d \u2013 The Ottoman Empire \u2013 NZHistory.net.nz<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1909\u00a0 <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lambda_Chi_Alpha\" >Lambda Chi Alpha<\/a> fraternity is founded at <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Boston_University\" >Boston University<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1899\u00a0 <\/strong>The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Boers\" >Boers<\/a> begin their 118-day <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Siege_of_Ladysmith\" >siege<\/a> of British-held <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ladysmith,_South_Africa\" >Ladysmith<\/a> during the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Second_Boer_War\" >Second Boer War<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>NOVEMBER 3<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>2014\u00a0 <\/strong>UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon calls for global action on climate change after warning from scientists.<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/11\/03\/world\/europe\/global-warming-un-intergovernmental-panel-on-climate-change.html?_r=0\" >UN Panel Issues Starkest Warning Yet on Global Warming, by Justin Gilles \u2013 Nov. 2, 2014 \u2013 The New York Times<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.un.org\/climatechange\/\" >UN AND CLIMATE CHANGE<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2014\/nov\/02\/rapid-carbon-emission-cuts-severe-impact-climate-change-ipcc-report\" >\u201c<em>Most important assessment of global warming yet warns carbon emissions must be cut sharply and soon, but UN\u2019s IPCC says solutions are available and affordable<\/em>.\u201d \u2013 ICPP: rapid carbon emission cuts vital to stop severe impact of climate change \u2013 Nov.2, 2014 \u2013 TheGuardian.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.iisd.ca\/download\/pdf\/sd\/crsvol172num18e.pdf\" >SUMMARY OF THE CLIMATE SUMMIT 2014: 23 SEPTEMBER 2014 &#8211; pdf<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.unep.org\/climatechange\/NewHome\/tabid\/794594\/Default.aspx\" >Climate Change &#8211; UNEP<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>2013\u00a0 <\/strong>A <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Solar_eclipse_of_November_3,_2013\" >solar eclipse<\/a> sweeps across Africa, Europe and the Eastern United States.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>2012\u00a0 <\/strong>Syrian rebels launch a major assault on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Taftanaz\" >Taftanaz<\/a> airbase.<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Timeline_of_the_Syrian_Civil_War\" >Timeline of the Syrian Civil War \u2013 Wikipedia<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Syrian_Civil_War\" >Syrian Civil War &#8211; Wikipedia<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_Syrian_Air_Force_bases\" >List of Syrian Air Forces bases, including the Taftanaz airbase &#8211; Wikipedia<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1997\u00a0 <\/strong>The United States of America imposes <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Economic_sanctions\" >economic sanctions<\/a> against <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sudan\" >Sudan<\/a> in response to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Human_rights_in_Sudan\" >its human rights abuses of its own citizens<\/a> and its material and political assistance to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Islamic_extremism\" >Islamic extremist<\/a> groups across the Middle East and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/East_Africa\" >Eastern Africa<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1996\u00a0 <\/strong>Death of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Abdullah_%C3%87atl%C4%B1\" >Abdullah \u00c7atl\u0131<\/a>, leader of the Turkish ultra-nationalist organization <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Grey_Wolves_%28organization%29\" >Grey Wolves<\/a> in the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Susurluk_scandal\" >Susurluk car-crash<\/a>, which leads to the resignation of the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Interior_Minister_%28Turkey%29\" >Turkish Interior Minister<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mehmet_A%C4%9Far\" >Mehmet A\u011far<\/a> (a leader of the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/True_Path_Party\" >True Path Party<\/a>, DYP).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1988\u00a0 <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sri_Lanka\" >Sri Lankan<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tamil_people\" >Tamil<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mercenary\" >mercenaries<\/a> try to overthrow the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Maldives\" >Maldivian<\/a> government. At President <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Maumoon_Abdul_Gayoom\" >Maumoon Abdul Gayoom<\/a>&#8216;s request, the Indian military suppresses the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Coup\" >coup<\/a> attempt within 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1988\u00a0 <\/strong>Soviet Union agrees to allow teaching of Hebrew.<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1988\/11\/03\/world\/soviets-said-to-agree-to-end-ban-on-teaching-of-hebrew.html\" >Soviet Said to Agree to End Ban on Teaching of Hebrew \u2013 November 3, 1988 &#8211; The New York Times<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/History_of_the_Jews_in_Russia\" >History of Jews in Russia &#8211; Wikipedia<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1986\u00a0 <\/strong>The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Federated_States_of_Micronesia\" >Federated States of Micronesia<\/a> gain independence from the United States of America.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1986\u00a0 <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iran%E2%80%93Contra_affair\" >Iran\u2013Contra affair<\/a>: The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lebanon\" >Lebanese<\/a> magazine <em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ash-Shiraa\" >Ash-Shiraa<\/a><\/em> reports that the United States has been secretly selling weapons to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iran\" >Iran<\/a> in order to secure the release of seven American <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hostage\" >hostages<\/a> held by pro-Iranian groups in Lebanon.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1982\u00a0 <\/strong>The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Salang_Tunnel_fire\" >Salang Tunnel fire<\/a> in <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Afghanistan\" >Afghanistan<\/a> kills up to 2,000 people.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1979\u00a0 <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Greensboro_massacre\" >Greensboro massacre<\/a>: Five members of the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Communist_Workers%27_Party_%28United_States%29\" >Communist Workers Party<\/a> are shot dead and seven are wounded by a group of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ku_Klux_Klan\" >Klansmen<\/a> and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Neo-Nazis\" >neo-Nazis<\/a> during a &#8220;Death to the Klan&#8221; rally in <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Greensboro,_North_Carolina\" >Greensboro, North Carolina<\/a>, United States.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1978\u00a0 <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dominica\" >Dominica<\/a> gains its independence from the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>History of Dominica:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/History_of_Dominica\" >History of Dominica \u2013 Wikipedia<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lonelyplanet.com\/dominica\/history\" >Dominica \u2013 History \u2013 LonelyPlanet.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/history.howstuffworks.com\/south-american-history\/history-of-dominica.htm\" >History of Dominica \u2013 HowStuffsWorks.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/thecommonwealth.org\/our-member-countries\/dominica\/history\" >Dominica: History \u2013 The Commonwealth \u2013TheCommonwealth.org<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.worldrover.com\/history\/dominica_history.html\" >History of Dominica \u2013 WorldRover.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.avirtualdominica.com\/historytimeline.cfm\" >Dominica\u2019s History timeline \u2013 AVirtualDominica.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-latin-america-19409492\" >Dominica country profile &#8211; Timeline &#8211; BBC<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>Dominica:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><a href=\"..\/..\/..\/..\/..\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/theworldfactbook.info\/geos\/do.html\">DOMINICA \u2013 THE WORLD FACTBOOK &#8211; CIA<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/data.un.org\/CountryProfile.aspx?crName=Dominican%20Republic\" >Dominican Republic \u2013 UN Data<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/countrystudies.us\/caribbean-islands\/59.htm\" >Dominica \u2013 CountryStudies.us<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.britannica.com\/place\/Dominica\" >Dominica \u2013 Encyclopedia Britannica<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.infoplease.com\/country\/dominica.html\" >Dominica \u2013 Infoplease.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.factmonster.com\/country\/dominica.html\" >Dominica \u2013 FactMonster.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-latin-america-19246342\" >Dominica country profile \u2013 Overview &#8211; BBC<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>Foreign Relations of Dominica:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><a href=\"..\/..\/..\/..\/..\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Foreign_relations_of_Dominica\">Foreign relations of Dominica \u2013 Wikipedia<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.photius.com\/countries\/dominica\/government\/foreign.html\" >Dominica Government \u2013 Foreign Relations \u2013 Photius.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"..\/..\/..\/..\/..\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/countrystudies.us\/caribbean-islands\/66.htm\">Dominica \u2013 Foreign Relations \u2013 CountryStudies.us<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.state.gov\/r\/pa\/ei\/bgn\/2295.htm\" >US Relations with Dominica \u2013 US Department of State<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cfr.org\/region\/dominican-republic\/ri329\" >Dominica \u2013 Council on Foreign Relations \u2013 CFR.org<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>Economy of Dominica:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><a href=\"..\/..\/..\/..\/..\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Economy_of_Dominica\">Economy of Dominica \u2013 Wikipedia<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.infoplease.com\/encyclopedia\/world\/dominican-republic-economy.html\" >Dominican Republic \u2013 Economy \u2013 Infoplease.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.worldbank.org\/en\/country\/dominicanrepublic\/overview\" >Dominica \u2013 Overview &#8211; WORLD BANK<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"..\/..\/..\/..\/..\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/data.worldbank.org\/country\/dominica\">Dominica \u2013 Data \u2013 WORLD BANK<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.heritage.org\/index\/country\/dominica\" >Dominica \u2013 Index \u2013 THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/countrystudies.us\/caribbean-islands\/64.htm\" >Dominica \u2013 Economy \u2013 CountryStudies.us<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/thecommonwealth.org\/our-member-countries\/dominica\/economy\" >Dominica: Economy \u2013 TheCommonwealth.org<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1975\u00a0 <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Syed_Nazrul_Islam\" >Syed Nazrul Islam<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/A._H._M._Qamaruzzaman\" >A H M Qamaruzzaman<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tajuddin_Ahmad\" >Tajuddin Ahmad<\/a>, and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Muhammad_Mansur_Ali\" >Muhammad Mansur Ali<\/a>, Bangladeshi politicians and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sheikh_Mujibur_Rahman\" >Sheikh Mujibur Rahman<\/a> loyalists, murdered in the Dhaka Central Jail.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1973\u00a0 <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mariner_program\" >Mariner program<\/a>: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/NASA\" >NASA<\/a> launches the <em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mariner_10\" >Mariner 10<\/a><\/em> toward <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mercury_%28planet%29\" >Mercury<\/a>. On March 29, 1974, it becomes the first <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Space_probe\" >space probe<\/a> to reach that planet.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1969\u00a0 <\/strong>Vietnam War: US President <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Richard_M._Nixon\" >Richard M. Nixon<\/a> addresses the nation on television and radio, asking the &#8220;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Silent_majority\" >silent majority<\/a>&#8221; to join him in solidarity on the Vietnam War effort and to support his policies.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1967\u00a0 <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vietnam_War\" >Vietnam War<\/a>: The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Battle_of_Dak_To\" >Battle of Dak To<\/a> begins.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1964\u00a0 <\/strong>Washington D C residents are able to vote in a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Presidential_election\" >presidential election<\/a> for the first time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1962\u00a0 <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ctbto.org\/nuclear-testing\/the-effects-of-nuclear-testing\/the-soviet-unionsnuclear-testing-programme\/\" >USSR performs nuclear test<\/a> at <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Novaya_Zemlya\" >Novaya Zemlya<\/a> USSR.<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.globalsecurity.org\/wmd\/world\/russia\/novaya_zemlya_nuc.htm\" >Novaya Zemlya \u2013 GlobalSecurity.org<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.atlasobscura.com\/places\/novaya-zemlya\" >NOVAYA ZEMLYA \u2013 AtlasObscura.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.giantbomb.com\/novaya-zemlya\/3035-3167\/\" >Novaya Zemlya \u2013 GiantBomb.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.arkcode.com\/custom3_64.html\" >NOVA ZEMLYA (NOVAYA ZEMLYA) 58 MEGA TON H BOMB TEST \u2013 ArkCode.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nti.org\/facilities\/924\/\" >Central Test Site of Russia on Novaya Zemlya \u2013 NTI.org<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www1.american.edu\/ted\/ice\/novalya.htm\" >ICE Case Studies \u2013 Novaya Zemlya, by Carrie McVicker \u2013 American.edu<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/earthobservatory.nasa.gov\/IOTD\/view.php?id=39591\" >Novaya Zemlya Archipelago \u2013 Image \u2013 NASA<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/novayazemlya.net\/\" >Novaya Zemlya Archipelago \u2013 NovayaZemlya.net<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nuclear-risks.org\/en\/hibakusha-worldwide\/novaya-zemlya.html\" >Novaya Zemlya, Russia \u2013 Nuclear-Risks.org<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/tass.ru\/en\/russia\/743105\" >Novaya Zemlya: test site for most powerful nuclear bomb ever detonated \u2013 July 31, 2014 \u2013 TASS Russian News Agency<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nuclearno.com\/text.asp?11073\" >Novaya Zemlya: birds, animals adapt nuclear test site, by Tatyana Sinitsyna \u2013 RIA Novosti, Russia \u2013 15 August 2006<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/pubs.usgs.gov\/of\/1993\/0501\/report.pdf\" >UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR GEOGRPAPHICAL SURVEY \u2013 Physical Environment of the Underground Nuclear Test Site on Novaya Zemlya, Russia, by John R. Matzko \u2013 Open-File Report 93-501 \u2013 Reston, Virginia &#8211; 1993<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ldeo.columbia.edu\/~richards\/my_papers\/khalturin_NZ_1-42%20.pdf\" >A Review of the Nuclear Testing by the Soviet Union at Novaya Zemlya, 1955 \u2013 1990, by Vitaly I. Khalturin, Tatyana G. Rautian, Paul G. Richards, and William S. Leith \u2013 Columbia.edu<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1960\u00a0 <\/strong>The land that would become the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Great_Swamp_National_Wildlife_Refuge\" >Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge<\/a> was established by an <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Act_of_Congress\" >Act of Congress<\/a> after a year-long legal battle that pitted local residents against <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Port_Authority_of_New_York_and_New_Jersey\" >Port Authority of New York and New Jersey<\/a> officials wishing to turn the Great Swamp into a major regional airport for jet aircraft.<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fws.gov\/refuge\/great_swamp\/\" >Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge | New Jersey<\/a>, <strong><em>and<\/em><\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fws.gov\/refuge\/Great_Swamp\/wildlife_and_habitat\/index.html\" >Wildlife &amp; Habitat \u2013 Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge | New Jersey<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fws.gov\/uploadedFiles\/Region_5\/NWRS\/North_Zone\/Great_Swamp_Complex\/Great_Swamp\/GreatSwampBrochure.pdf\" >Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge | New Jersey \u2013 Brochure \u2013 FWS.gov &#8211; pdf<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/friendsofgreatswamp.org\/\" >Friends of Great Swamp National Wildlife<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.njskylands.com\/pkswamp\" >The Great Swamp \u2013 Skylands Visitor \u2013 New Jersey \u2013 NJSkylands.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/stateparks.com\/great_swamp.html\" >GREAT SWAMP NATIONAL REFUGE \u2013 StateParks.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.morrisparks.net\/aspparks\/gswampmain.asp\" >Great Swamp Outdoor Education Center \u2013 Morris County NJ Park Commission \u2013 MorrisParks.net<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1958\u00a0 <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ctbto.org\/nuclear-testing\/the-effects-of-nuclear-testing\/the-soviet-unionsnuclear-testing-programme\/\" >USSR performs<\/a> nuclear test at <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kapustin_Yar\" >Kapustin Yar<\/a> USSR.<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Soviet_Project_K_nuclear_tests\" >\u201c<em>The K project nuclear testing series were all high altitude tests fired by missiles from the Kapustin Yar launch site in Russia across central Kazakhstan toward the Sary Shagan test range (see map below)<\/em>.\u201d \u2013 Soviet Project K nuclear tests &#8211; Wikipedia<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.conspiracy-cafe.com\/apps\/videos\/videos\/show\/18773827-top-secret-kapustin-yar-russia\" >Top Secret Kapustin Yar \u2013 Russia\u2019s Area 51<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/nuclearweaponarchive.org\/Russia\/Sovtestsum.html\" >Soviet Nuclear Test Summary \u2013 NuclearWeaponArchive.org<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.astronautix.com\/sites\/kapinyar.htm\" >Kapustin Yar \u2013 Encyclopedia Astronautica<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1958_Soviet_nuclear_tests\" >1958 Soviet nuclear tests &#8211; Wikipedia<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1957\u00a0 <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sputnik_program\" >Sputnik program<\/a>: The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Soviet_Union\" >Soviet Union<\/a> launches <em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sputnik_2\" >Sputnik 2<\/a><\/em>. On board is the first animal to enter <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Orbit\" >orbit<\/a>, a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Soviet_space_dogs\" >dog<\/a> named <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Laika\" >Laika<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1956\u00a0 <\/strong>The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Khan_Yunis_killings\" >Khan Yunis killings<\/a> are perpetrated by the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Israel_Defense_Forces\" >Israel Defense Forces<\/a> in Egyptian-controlled Gaza, resulting in the deaths of 275 male Arabs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1954\u00a0 <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nobelprize.org\/nobel_prizes\/physics\/laureates\/1954\/\" >Nobel for physics awarded to Max Born &amp; Walter Bothe<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1954\u00a0 <\/strong>The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Godzilla_%281954_film%29\" >first <em>Godzilla<\/em> film<\/a> is released and marks the first appearance of the character <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Godzilla\" >of the same name<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=njDSd8e6o70\" >\u201c<em>Godzilla is a metaphor for Nuclear Destruction, this song suits that beautifully\u2026The ending still gives me chills how it&#8217;s set up as an uncertain future whether we can get past war and destruction. All that accompanied by this song<\/em>.\u201d \u2013 YouTube video (2 min. 55 sec.): Godzilla (1954) \u201cPrayer for Peace\u201d \u2013 Akira Ifukune<\/a>, <strong><em>or<\/em><\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qYRnw3FENNs\" >YouTube video (2 min. 59 sec.): Godzilla- Prayer for Peace<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.criterion.com\/current\/posts\/2127-godzilla-poetry-after-the-a-bomb\" >Godzilla: Poetry After the A-Bomb, by J. Hoberman \u2013 CURRENT \u2013 Criterion.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/ccat.sas.upenn.edu\/~haroldfs\/popcult\/handouts\/metaphor\/godzilla\/godzilla.html\" >The Monster That Morphed Into a Metaphor, by Terrance Rafferty \u2013 May 2, 2004 \u2013 From the NY Times \u2013 UPENN.edu<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rantlifestyle.com\/2014\/05\/18\/godzilla-the-anti-nuclear-monster-movie\/\" >\u201c<em>Since its inception in 1954, Godzilla has been repeatedly Americanized\u2026.The original concept for Godzilla was as a social commentary on the devastation of the atomic bombs that ravaged Japanese society. It served as a metaphor for what occurs in the heinous aftermath of using nuclear technology, specifically weapons<\/em>.\u201d \u2013 Godzilla: The Anti-Nuclear Monster Movie, by Willis Pattenaude \u2013 May 18, 2014 \u2013 Ranti Lifestyle \u2013 Rantilifestyle.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/blog\/godzilla-is-our-never-ending-nuclear-nightmare\" >A Brief History of Godzilla, Our Walking Nuclear Nightmare, by Brian Merchant \u2013 August 23, 2013 \u2013 Mother Board \u2013 Voice.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.comicbookmovie.com\/fansites\/nailbiter111\/news\/?a=82325\" >New GODZILLA To Parallel Japan\u2019s Fukushima Nuclear Disaster? \u2013 ComicBookMovie.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/entertainment\/movies\/new-godzilla-reflects-fears-nuclear-natural-disasters-article-1.1784809\" >The New \u2018Godzilla\u2019 reflects our current fears of nuclear and natural disasters \u2013 Sunday, May 11, 2014 \u2013 New York Daily News \u2013 NYDailyNews.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.usnews.com\/news\/articles\/2014\/05\/16\/how-godzilla-dances-around-that-whole-nuclear-issue\" >How \u2018Godzilla\u2019 Dances Around That Whole Nuclear Issue \u2013 May 16, 2014 \u2013 Tierney Sneed \u2013 US News \u2013 USNews.com<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1944\u00a0 <\/strong>World War II: Two supreme commanders of the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Slovak_National_Uprising\" >Slovak National Uprising<\/a>, Generals <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/J%C3%A1n_Golian\" >J\u00e1n Golian<\/a> and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rudolf_Viest\" >Rudolf Viest<\/a> are captured, tortured and later executed by German forces.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1943\u00a0 <\/strong>World War II: 500 aircraft of the U.S. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/8th_Air_Force\" >8th Air Force<\/a> devastate <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wilhelmshaven\" >Wilhelmshaven<\/a> harbor in Germany.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1942\u00a0 <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/World_War_II\" >World War II<\/a>: The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Koli_Point_action\" >Koli Point action<\/a> begins during the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Guadalcanal_Campaign\" >Guadalcanal Campaign<\/a> and ends on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/November_12\" >November 12<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1941\u00a0 <\/strong>The order is given to bomb Pearl Harbor.<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.history.com\/this-day-in-history\/the-order-is-given-bomb-pearl-harbor\" >NOV 3, 1941: THIS DAY IN HISTORY: The order is given: Bomb Pearl Harbor \u2013 History.com<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1930\u00a0 <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Get%C3%BAlio_Dornelles_Vargas\" >Get\u00falio Dornelles Vargas<\/a> becomes Head of the Provisional Government in <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brazil\" >Brazil<\/a> after a bloodless coup on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/October_24\" >October 24<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1918\u00a0 <\/strong>The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/German_Revolution_of_1918%E2%80%9319\" >German Revolution of 1918\u201319<\/a> begins when 40,000 sailors <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kiel_mutiny\" >take over<\/a> the port in <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kiel\" >Kiel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1918\u00a0 <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Poland\" >Poland<\/a> declares its independence from Russia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>History of Poland:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/History_of_Poland\" >History of Poland &#8211; Wikipedia<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.historyworld.net\/wrldhis\/PlainTextHistories.asp?historyid=ab01\" >HISTORY OF POLAND \u2013 HistoryWorld.net<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lonelyplanet.com\/poland\/history\" >Poland \u2013 History \u2013 LonelyPlanet.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.britannica.com\/topic\/history-of-Poland\" >History of Poland \u2013 Encyclopedia Britannica<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/countrystudies.us\/poland\/\" >Poland \u2013 HISTORY \u2013 CountryStudies.us<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.localhistories.org\/poland.html\" >A BRIEF HISTORY OF POLAND \u2013 LocalHistories.org<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org\/jsource\/vjw\/Poland.html\" >Poland \u2013 The Virtual Jewish World \u2013 Jewish Virtual Library<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rootsweb.ancestry.com\/~polwgw\/history.html\" >Timeline of Polish History \u2013 Roots Web \u2013 Ancestry.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/info-poland.buffalo.edu\/classroom\/maps\/task4.html\" >Historical Maps of Poland \u2013 Buffalo.edu<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-europe-17754512\" >Poland country profile \u2013 Timeline &#8211; BBC<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>Poland and Russia:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Poland%E2%80%93Russia_relations\" >Poland-Russia relations &#8211; Wikipedia<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/eurodialogue.org\/History-of-Russian-Polish-Relations\" >HISTORY OF RUSSIAN-POLISH RELATIONS \u2013 Euro-Dialogue.org<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/History_of_Warsaw#1918-1939\" >\u201c<em>The first years of independence were very difficult: war havoc, hyperinflation and the Polish-Bolshevik War of 1920. In the course of this war, the Battle of Warsaw was fought on the Eastern outskirts of the city, and the capital was successfully defended and the Red Army defeated. Poland stopped on itself the full brunt of the Red Army and defeated an idea of the \u2018export of the revolution.\u2019<\/em>\u201d \u2013 History of Warsaw &#8211; Wikipedia<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.opendemocracy.net\/od-russia\/andrei-kolesnikov\/russia-poland-history-too-terrible\" >Russia-Poland: a history too terrible \u2013 OpenDemocracy.net<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.academia.edu\/3215371\/POLISH-RUSSIAN_RELATIONS_HISTORY_GEOGRAPHY_AND_GEOPOLITICS\" >POLISH-RUSSIAN RELATIONS: HISTORY, GEOGRAPHY AND GEOPOLITICS, uploaded by Fatih \u00d6zbay \u2013 Academia.edu \u2013 pdf downloadable<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/poland-vs-russia-in-a-war-of-words-rents-and-history\/a-18241767\" >Poland vs. Russia in a war of words, rent and history \u2013 DW.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.historyguy.com\/russian_polish_wars.htm\" >Russo-Polish Wars: Wars and Conflicts Between Russia and Poland \u2013 HistoryGuy.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.opendemocracy.net\/article\/openrussia\/russia-poland-and-the-history-wars\" >Russia, Poland and the history wars \u2013 OpenDemocracy.net<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>Poland:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cia.gov\/library\/publications\/the-world-factbook\/geos\/pl.html\" >POLAND \u2013 THE WORLD FACTBOOK \u2013 CIA<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/data.un.org\/CountryProfile.aspx?crName=Poland\" >Poland \u2013 UN Data<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.infoplease.com\/country\/poland.html\" >Poland \u2013 Infoplease.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.britannica.com\/place\/Poland\" >Poland \u2013 Encyclopedia Britannica<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.factmonster.com\/country\/poland.html\" >Poland \u2013 FactMonster.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/geography.about.com\/od\/polandmaps\/a\/polandgeography.htm\" >Geography of Poland \u2013 About.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-17753718\" >Poland country profile \u2013 Overview &#8211; BBC<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>Foreign Relations of Poland:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.msz.gov.pl\/en\" >Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Foreign_relations_of_Poland\" >Foreign relations of Poland \u2013 Wikipedia<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/countrystudies.us\/poland\/88.htm\" >Poland \u2013 FOREIGN RELATOINS \u2013 CountryStudies.us<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cfr.org\/democratization\/poland\/p30812\" >Poland \u2013 Council on Foreign Relations \u2013 CFR.org<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Poland%E2%80%93United_States_relations\" >Poland-United States relations &#8211; Wikipedia<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.state.gov\/r\/pa\/ei\/bgn\/2875.htm\" >US Relations with Poland \u2013 US Department of State<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>Economy of Poland:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Economy_of_Poland\" >Economy of Poland \u2013 Wikipedia<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.infoplease.com\/encyclopedia\/world\/poland-economy.html\" >Poland \u2013 Economy \u2013 Infoplease.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.worldbank.org\/en\/country\/poland\" >Poland \u2013 WORLD BANK<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/data.worldbank.org\/country\/poland\" >Poland \u2013 Data \u2013 WORLD BANK<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.heritage.org\/index\/country\/poland\" >Poland \u2013 Index \u2013 THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1918\u00a0 <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Austria-Hungary\" >Austria-Hungary<\/a> enters into an <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Armistice\" >armistice<\/a> with the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Allies_of_World_War_I\" >Allies<\/a>, and the Habsburg-ruled empire dissolves.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>Austria-Hungarian Empire (Hapsburg) and the Armistice with the Allies:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/stream\/jstor-2212834\/2212834_djvu.txt\" >Full text of \u201cSupplement to Protocol of Armistice with Austro-Hungary, November 3, 1918\u201d \u2013 Archive.org<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.austro-hungarian-army.co.uk\/armistice.html\" >\u201c<em>The following text is reproduced from the English translation of the noted Austrian historian Edmund von Glaise-Horstenau&#8217;s The Collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire* published in 1930. The extract deals with the confused situation that led to the capture of thousands of Austro-Hungarian soldiers in November 1918. The ranks of Austro-Hungarian officers have been rendered in the correct German for<\/em>\u201d \u2013 The Armistice of Villa Giusti 1918 \u2013 Austro-Hungarian-Army.co.uk<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>Austro-Hungarian (Hapsburg) Empire:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Habsburg_Monarchy\" >Hapsburg Monarchy \u2013 Wikipedia<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.infoplease.com\/encyclopedia\/history\/austro-hungarian-monarchy.html\" >Austrian-Hungarian Monarchy \u2013 Infoplease.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.britannica.com\/place\/Austria-Hungary\" >Austria-Hungary | historical empire, Europe \u2013 Encyclopedia Britannica<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.firstprinciplesjournal.com\/print.aspx?article=510\" >The Tragic Death of the Hapsburg Empire, by James Kurth \u2013 FIRST PRINCIPLES \u2013 FirstPrinciplesJournal.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hapsburgs.net\/\" >Hapsburgs \u2013 The House of Hapsburg \u2013 Hapsburgs.net<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>History of the Austro-Hungarian (Hapsburg) Empire:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.academicroom.com\/topics\/history-austro-hungarian-empire\" >History of Austro-Hungarian Empire \u2013 Academic.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.historyworld.net\/wrldhis\/PlainTextHistories.asp?ParagraphID=mnx\" >HISTORY OF THE AUSTRIAN EMPIRE \u2013 HistoryWorld.net<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.infoplease.com\/encyclopedia\/people\/hapsburg.html\" >Hapsburg \u2013 Infoplease.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/candicesiller\/history-austro-hungarian-empire\/\" >History \u2013 Austro-Hungarian Empire \u2013 PINTEREST.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/almanachdegotha.org\/id3.html\" >Empire of Austria-Hungary \u2013 AlmanachDeGotha.org<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/autocww2.colorado.edu\/~toldy2\/E64ContentFiles\/HistoryOfEurope\/Austria-Hungary.html\" >Austria-Hungary \u2013 Colorado.edu<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.academia.edu\/Documents\/in\/Austro-Hungarian_History\" >Austro-Hungarian History \u2013 ACADEMIA.edu<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/alphahistory.com\/worldwar1\/austria-hungary\/\" >AUSTRIA-HUNGARY BEFORE WORLD WAR I \u2013 AlphaHistory.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.encyclopedia.com\/topic\/Austro-Hungarian_Monarchy.aspx\" >Austro-Hungarian Monarchy \u2013 THURAYA \u2013 Encyclopedia.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nzhistory.net.nz\/media\/photo\/map-austro-hungarian-empire-1914\" >Map of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1914 \u2013 NZHistory.net.nz<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1903\u00a0 <\/strong>With the encouragement of the United States, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Panama\" >Panama<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Separation_of_Panama_from_Colombia\" >separates<\/a> from <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Colombia\" >Colombia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.history.com\/this-day-in-history\/panama-declares-independence\" >NOV 3, 1903: THIS DAY IN HISTORY: Panama declares independence \u2013 History.com<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>History of Panama:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><a href=\"..\/..\/..\/..\/..\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/History_of_Panama\">History of Panama \u2013 Wikipedia<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.historycentral.com\/nationbynation\/Panama\/History1.html\" >Panama History \u2013 HistoryCentral.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.historyworld.net\/wrldhis\/PlainTextHistories.asp?historyid=ab28\" >HISTORY OF PANAMA \u2013 HistoryWorld.net<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.caribbean-panama-real-estate.com\/panama-history.php\" >History Of Panama \u2013 Caribbean and Panama<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lonelyplanet.com\/panama\/history\" >Panama \u2013 History \u2013 LonelyPlanet.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/countrystudies.us\/panama\/\" >HISTORY \u2013 Panama \u2013 CountryStudies.us<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/history.state.gov\/countries\/panama\" >A Guide to the United States\u2019 History of Recognition, Diplomatic, and Consular Relations, by Country, since 1776: Panama \u2013 OFFICE of the HISTORIAN \u2013US Department of State<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-latin-america-19889251\" >Panama country profile \u2013 Timeline &#8211; BBC<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>Panama:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cia.gov\/library\/publications\/the-world-factbook\/geos\/pm.html\" >PANAMA \u2013 THE WORLD FACTBOOK \u2013 CIA<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/data.un.org\/CountryProfile.aspx?crName=Panama\" >Panama \u2013 UN Data<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.britannica.com\/place\/Panama\" >Panama \u2013 Encyclopedia Britannica<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.infoplease.com\/country\/panama.html\" >Panama \u2013 Infoplease.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nationsonline.org\/oneworld\/panama.htm\" >Panama \u2013 NationsOnline.org<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-latin-america-19888936\" >Panama profile &#8211; BBC<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>Foreign Relations of Panama:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><a href=\"..\/..\/..\/..\/..\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Foreign_relations_of_Panama\">Foreign relations of Panama \u2013 Wikipedia<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"..\/..\/..\/..\/..\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/countrystudies.us\/panama\/62.htm\">Panama \u2013 FOREIGN RELATIONS \u2013 CountryStudies.us<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cfr.org\/region\/panama\/ri340\" >Panama \u2013 Council on Foreign Relations \u2013 CFR.org<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.state.gov\/r\/pa\/ei\/bgn\/2030.htm\" >US Relations with Panama \u2013 US Department of State<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Panama%E2%80%93United_States_relations\" >Panama-United States relations &#8211; Wikipedia<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.photius.com\/countries\/panama\/government\/panama_government_foreign_relations.html\" >Panama FOREIGN RELATIONS \u2013 Photius.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/articles.latimes.com\/keyword\/panama-foreign-relations\" >Panama \u2013 Foreign Relations \u2013 Articles \u2013 LATimes.com<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>Economy of Panama:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Economy_of_Panama\" >Economy of Panama \u2013 Wikipedia<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.infoplease.com\/encyclopedia\/world\/panama-country-central-america-economy.html\" >Panama \u2013 Economy \u2013 Infoplease.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.worldbank.org\/en\/country\/panama\" >Panama \u2013 WORLD BANK<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/data.worldbank.org\/country\/panama\" >Panama \u2013 Data \u2013 WORLD BANK<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.heritage.org\/index\/country\/panama\" >Panama \u2013 Index \u2013 THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>Colombia:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cia.gov\/library\/publications\/the-world-factbook\/geos\/co.html\" >COLOMBIA \u2013 THE WORLD FACTBOOK \u2013 CIA<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/data.un.org\/CountryProfile.aspx?crName=Colombia\" >Colombia \u2013 UN Data<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.britannica.com\/place\/Colombia\" >Colombia \u2013 Encyclopedia Britannica<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.infoplease.com\/country\/colombia.html\" >Colombia \u2013 Infoplease.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-latin-america-19390026\" >Colombia country profile \u2013 Overview &#8211; BBC<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>Foreign Relations of Columbia:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Foreign_relations_of_Colombia\" >Foreign relations of Colombia \u2013 Wikipedia<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cfr.org\/region\/colombia\/ri325\" >Colombia \u2013 Council on Foreign Relations \u2013 CFR.org<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.state.gov\/r\/pa\/ei\/bgn\/35754.htm\" >US Relations with Colombia \u2013 US Department of State<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/countrystudies.us\/colombia\/97.htm\" >Colombia \u2013 FOREIGN RELATIONS \u2013 CountryStudies.us<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.globalsecurity.org\/military\/world\/colombia\/forrel.htm\" >Colombia \u2013 Foreign Relations \u2013 GlobalSecurity.org<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.photius.com\/countries\/colombia\/government\/colombia_government_foreign_relations.html\" >Colombia FOREIGN RELATIONS \u2013 Photius.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu\/webbin\/book\/browse?type=lcsubc&amp;key=Colombia%20--%20Foreign%20relations%20--%20Panama&amp;c=x\" >Colombia \u2013 Foreign Relations \u2013 UPENN.edu<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>Colombia and the United Nations:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.colombiaun.org\/English\/Home.html\" >Permanent Mission of Colombia to the United Nations<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Permanent_Representative_of_Colombia_to_the_United_Nations\" >Permanent Representative of Colombia to the United Nations \u2013 Wikipedia<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.unog.ch\/unog\/website\/missions.nsf\/%28httpPermanentMissions_en%29\/A3A0F87E86765DC9C1256F4100451ED0\" >Permanent Mission of Colombia to the United Nations and other international organizations in Geneva<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>History of Columbia:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/History_of_Colombia\" >History of Colombia \u2013 Wikipedia<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.infoplease.com\/encyclopedia\/world\/colombia-history.html\" >Colombia \u2013 History \u2013 Infoplease.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lonelyplanet.com\/colombia\/history\" >Colombia \u2013 History \u2013 LonelyPlanet.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.historyworld.net\/wrldhis\/PlainTextHistories.asp?historyid=ab81\" >HISTORY OF COLOMBIA \u2013 HistoryWorld.net<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.worldrover.com\/history\/colombia_history.html\" >Colombia \u2013 History \u2013 WorldRover.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/latinamericanhistory.about.com\/od\/thehistoryofcolombia\/\" >The History of Colombia \u2013 About.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-latin-america-19390164\" >Colombia country profile \u2013 Timeline &#8211; BBC<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>Economy of Columbia:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Economy_of_Colombia\" >Economy of Colombia \u2013 Wikipedia<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.worldbank.org\/en\/country\/colombia\" >COLOMBIA \u2013 WORLD BANK<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/data.worldbank.org\/country\/colombia\" >Colombia \u2013 Data \u2013 WORLD BANK<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.heritage.org\/index\/country\/colombia\" >Colombia \u2013 Index \u2013 THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.infoplease.com\/encyclopedia\/world\/colombia-economy.html\" >Colombia \u2013 Economy \u2013 Infoplease.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mapsofworld.com\/south-america\/economy\/columbia.html\" >Colombia \u2013 Economy \u2013 MapsOfWorld.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.123independenceday.com\/colombia\/economy.html\" >Economy of Colombia \u2013 123IndependenceDay.com<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1898\u00a0 <\/strong>France withdraws its troops from <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fashoda\" >Fashoda<\/a> (now in Sudan), ending the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fashoda_Incident\" >Fashoda Incident<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>NOVEMBER 4<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>2008\u00a0 <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" >Barack Obama<\/a> becomes the first person of African-American descent to be elected <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/President_of_the_United_States\" >President of the United States<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>2002\u00a0 <\/strong>Chinese authorities arrest cyber-dissident <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/He_Depu\" >He Depu<\/a> for signing a pro-democracy letter to the 16th <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/National_Congress_of_the_Communist_Party_of_China\" >Communist Party Congress<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1995\u00a0 <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Israel\" >Israeli<\/a> prime minister <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yitzhak_Rabin\" >Yitzhak Rabin<\/a> is <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Assassination_of_Yitzhak_Rabin\" >assassinated<\/a> by an extremist Israeli.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.history.com\/this-day-in-history\/yitzhak-rabin-assassinated\" >NOV 4, 1995: THIS DAY IN HISTORY: Yitzhak Rabin assassinated \u2013 History.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org\/jsource\/History\/rabinass.html\" >The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin (November 4, 1995) \u2013 Jewish Virtual Library<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/intellit.muskingum.edu\/israel_folder\/israelrabin.html\" >ISRAEL \u2013 Rabin Assassination \u2013 Mukingum.edu<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/learning\/general\/onthisday\/bday\/0301.html\" >ON THIS DAY: OBITUARY \u2013 Assassination in Israel; Yitzhak Rabin, 73, an Israeli Soldier Turned Prime Minister and Peacemaker, by Marilyn Berger \u2013 November 5, 1995 \u2013 The New York Times \u2013 NYTimes.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/history1900s.about.com\/od\/1990s\/qt\/Rabin-Assassination.htm\" >Yitzhak Rabin Assassination \u2013 About.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/Magazine\/This-Week-in-History-Rabin-assassinated-380652\" >Rabin\u2019s assassination: The story that changed the nation, by Caroline Frank \u2013 11\/04\/2014 \u2013 The Jerusalem Post \u2013 Jpost.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/torahcode.us\/torah_codes\/rabin\/rabin1.shtml\" >The Rabin Assassination \u2013 TorahCode.us<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1979\u00a0 <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iran_hostage_crisis\" >Iran hostage crisis<\/a>: A mob of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iran\" >Iranians<\/a>, mostly students, overruns the US embassy in <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tehran\" >Tehran<\/a> and takes 90 hostages (53 of whom are American).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>Iran Hostage Crisis:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.history.com\/topics\/iran-hostage-crisis\" >IRAN HOSTAGE CRISIS \u2013 History.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/worldhistoryproject.org\/1979\/11\/4\/iran-hostage-crisis-begins-iranian-militants-seize-the-us-embassy-in-tehran\" >NOV 4, 1979 \u2013 Hostage Crisis Begins \u2013 Iranian Militants Seize the US Embassy in Teheran \u2013 WorldHistoryProject.org<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2007\/11\/iranians-storm-us-embassy-nov-4-1979-006622\" >Iranians storm US embassy Nov 4, 1979, by Andrew Glass \u2013 11\/04\/07 \u2013 Politico.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.army.mil\/article\/114417\/US_Embassy_in_Iran_Seized__4_November_1979\/\" >US Embassy in Iran Seized November 4, 1979 \u2013 Army.Mil<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/diplopundit.net\/2013\/11\/04\/november-4-1979-iranian-mob-attacks-us-embassy-tehran-hostages-compensated-50day\/\" >November 4, 1979: Iranian Mob Attacks US Embassy Teheran; Hostages Compensated $50\/Day, by Domani Srepo \u2013 November 4, 2013 \u2013 Diplopundit.net<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jimmycarterlibrary.gov\/documents\/hostages.phtml\" >The Hostage Crisis in Iran \u2013 JIMMY CARTER PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY &amp; MUSEUM<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thehistoryreader.com\/contemporary-history\/november-4-1979-iran-hostage-crisis\/\" >November 4, 1979: The Iran Hostage Crisis, by Ray Takeyh \u2013 posted November 4, 2011 \u2013 TheHistoryReader.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/worldhistoryproject.org\/topics\/iran-hostage-crisis\" >Iran Hostage Crisis timeline \u2013 HistoryProject.org<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/skepticism.org\/timeline\/november-history\/10228-us-embassy-tehran-taken-over-iranian-militants.html\" >Date: 4 November 1979 &#8211; US Embassy in Teheran is Taken Over by Iranian Militants \u2013 Skepticism.org<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.globalpost.com\/dispatch\/news\/regions\/middle-east\/iran\/130927\/us-iran-relations-timeline-7-major-events-the-iranian-\" >US-Iran relations timeline: 7 major events since the Iranian Revolution, by Alexander Besant \u2013 Sep 28, 2013 \u2013 GlobalPost.com<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1978\u00a0 <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ctbto.org\/nuclear-testing\/the-effects-of-nuclear-testing\/the-soviet-unionsnuclear-testing-programme\/\" >USSR performs nuclear test<\/a> at Eastern Kazakh\/<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Semipalatinsk_Test_Site\" >Semipalitinsk<\/a> USSR.<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_nuclear_weapons_tests_of_the_Soviet_Union\" >List of nuclear weapons tests of the Soviet Union<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/nuclearweaponarchive.org\/Russia\/Sovtestsum.html\" >Soviet Nuclear Test Summary \u2013 NuclearWeaponArchive.org<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/nuclearweaponarchive.org\/Russia\/Sovwpnprog.html\" >Soviet Nuclear Weapons Program \u2013 NuclearWeaponArchive.org<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.johnstonsarchive.net\/nuclear\/tests\/USSR-ntestsS.html\" >Database of nuclear tests, USSR\/Russia: overview \u2013 JohnstonArchive.net<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rferl.org\/content\/soviet_nuclear_testing_semipalatinsk_20th_anniversary\/24311518.html\" >Slow Death of Kazakhstan\u2019s Land Of Nuclear Tests \u2013 Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty \u2013 RFRL.org<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/large.stanford.edu\/courses\/2014\/ph241\/powell2\/docs\/vakulchuk.pdf\" >Semipalitinsk nuclear testing: the humanitarian consequences \u2013 Norwegian Institute of International Affairs<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/thebulletin.org\/lasting-toll-semipalatinsks-nuclear-testing\" >The lasting toll of Semipalitinsk\u2019s nuclear testing \u2013 TheBulletin.org<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/publication\/12566948_External_doses_of_residents_near_Semipalatinsk_nuclear_test_site\" >External Doses of Residents near Semipalitinsk Nuclear Test Site \u2013 ResearchGate.net<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.irpa.net\/irpa10\/cdrom\/00504.pdf\" >Radiation Exposure on Residents due to Semipalitinsk Nuclear Tests \u2013 IRPA.net<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1973\u00a0 <\/strong>The Netherlands experiences the first <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Car-Free_Sunday\" >Car-Free Sunday<\/a> caused by the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1973_oil_crisis\" >1973 oil crisis<\/a>. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Highways\" >Highways<\/a> are deserted and are used only by <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cyclist\" >cyclists<\/a> and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Roller_skaters\" >roller skaters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1970\u00a0 <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Salvador_Allende\" >Salvador Allende<\/a> takes office as <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/President_of_Chile\" >President of Chile<\/a>, the first Marxist to become president of a Latin American country through open elections.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1970\u00a0 <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vietnam_War\" >Vietnam War<\/a>: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vietnamization\" >Vietnamization<\/a>: The United States turns control of the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Binh_Thuy_Air_Base\" >Binh Thuy Air Base<\/a> in the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mekong_Delta\" >Mekong Delta<\/a> over to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/South_Vietnam\" >South Vietnam<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1966\u00a0 <\/strong>The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Arno\" >Arno River<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1966_Flood_of_the_Arno_River\" >floods<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Florence\" >Florence<\/a>, Italy, to a maximum depth of 6.7\u00a0m (22\u00a0ft), leaving thousands homeless and destroying millions of masterpieces of art and rare books. Also Venice was submerged on the same day at its record all-time <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Acqua_alta\" >acqua alta<\/a> of 194\u00a0cm.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1962\u00a0 <\/strong>In a test of the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nike_Hercules\" >Nike Hercules<\/a> air defense missile, Shot Dominic-Tightrope is successfully detonated 69,000 feet above <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Johnston_Atoll\" >Johnston Atoll<\/a>. It would also be the last atmospheric nuclear test <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ctbto.org\/nuclear-testing\/the-effects-of-nuclear-testing\/the-united-states-nuclear-testing-programme\/\" >conducted by the United States<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>Nuclear Tests by the United States:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ctbto.org\/nuclear-testing\/the-effects-of-nuclear-testing\/general-overview-of-theeffects-of-nuclear-testing\/\" >GENERAL OVERVIEW OF THE EFFECTS OF NUCLEAR TESTING &#8211; CTBTO<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.atomcentral.com\/the-cold-war.aspx\" >The Cold War \u2013 AtomCentral.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_nuclear_weapons_tests_of_the_United_States\" >List of the nuclear weapons tests of the United States &#8211; Wikipedia<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Operation_Argus\" >Operation Argus \u2013 Wikipedia<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/nuclearweaponarchive.org\/Usa\/Tests\/\" >Gallery of US Nuclear Tests \u2013 NuclearArchive.org<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.atomicarchive.com\/Almanac\/Testing.shtml\" >Nuclear Test Sites \u2013 AtomicArchive.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/fas.org\/nuke\/guide\/usa\/nuclear\/nv209nar.pdf\" >United States Nuclear Tests: July 1945 Through September 1992 \u2013 FAS.org<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>Atmospheric\/High-altitude Nuclear Explosion Testing:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/High-altitude_nuclear_explosion\" >Atmospheric nuclear explosion \u2013 Wikipedia<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.johnstonsarchive.net\/nuclear\/hane.html\" >High-altitude nuclear explosions, by Wm Robert Johnston \u2013 JohnstonsArchive.net<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ctbto.org\/nuclear-testing\/history-of-nuclear-testing\/types-of-nuclear-weapons-tests\/\" >\u201c<em>Atmospheric testing refers to explosions which take place in the atmosphere<\/em>.\u201d \u2013 TYPES OF NUCLEA WEAPONS TESTS \u2013 CTBTO.org<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>Johnston Atoll:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.britannica.com\/place\/Johnston-Atoll\" >Johnston Atoll \u2013 Encyclopedia Britannica<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cma.army.mil\/fndocumentviewer.aspx?docid=003673775\" >An Ecological Assessment of Johnston Atoll \u2013 Army.mil<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>Various Weapons Tests and Storage at Johnston Atoll, and Permanent Contamination:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.globalsecurity.org\/wmd\/facility\/johnston_atoll.htm\" >Johnston Atoll, and Kalama Atoll \u2013 WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION \u2013 GlobalSecurity.org<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/app.nimia.com\/video\/188781\/south-pacific-nuclear-tests-on-johnston-island-i-6\" >South Pacific tests on Johnston Island in 1951 \u2013 NIMIA.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nova.edu\/ncri\/11icrs\/proceedings\/files\/m23-13.pdf\" >Contaminants in Fishes from Johnston Atoll, by L. Kerr Lobel and P.S. Lobel \u2013 Boston University, Department of Biology<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/home.earthlink.net\/~robertbfish\/id19.html\" >\u201c<em>During the Cold War era, the US Air Force used JI <\/em>[Johnston Island]<em> to support several highly classified missions. In the early 1960\u2019s, it was involved with Operation Dominic, which tested a primitive anti-ballistic missile system as well as the impact of EMP on military command and control systems<\/em>.\u201d \u2013 Johnstone Island, by Bob Fish \u2013 EarthLink.net<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dodlegacy.org\/Legacy\/project\/productdocs\/2008%20Lobels%20ch%2017_sm_b884f77c-3e42-4ea2-ab14-26e9772bd358.pdf\" >Aspects of the Biology and Geomorphology of Johnston and Wake Atolls, Pacific Ocean, by Philp S. Lobel and Lisa Kerr Lobel \u2013 DODLegacy.org<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.parsons.com\/Media%20Library\/0903_CSDP.pdf\" >\u201c<em>Construction began on a Parsons-designed prototype full-scale chemical weapons incinerator at Johnston Island in the South Pacific Ocean<\/em>.\u201d \u2013 Chemical Stockpile Disposal Program (CSDP) \u2013 Parsons.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2003\/01\/27\/us\/radioactive-dump-on-pacific-wildlife-refuge-raises-liability-concerns.html\" >\u201c<em>In the 1950&#8217;s and 60&#8217;s, the United States Air Force conducted 12 test launchings of nuclear missiles on tiny Johnston Atoll in the Pacific Ocean. In 1962, two of the shots were aborted and the missiles exploded over the runway, drenching the area in radioactive contaminants<\/em>.\u201d \u2013 Radioactive Dump on Pacific Wildlife Refuge Raises Liability Concerns, by Katharine Q. Seelye \u2013 January 27, 2003 \u2013 The New York Times<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/afspacemuseum.org\/johnston\/\" >Johnston Island \u2013 Air Force Space &amp; Missile Museum<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/biologywriter.com\/backgrounder\/bioterror\/bioterror4\/\" >\u201c<em>At sunset one quiet July day an armada of ships was positioned in the ocean waters around Johnston Atoll, upwind from a line of barges with hundreds of cages containing Rhesus monkeys on their decks (figure 4)<\/em>.\u201d \u2013 Bio Terror 4 \u2013 BiologyWriter \u2013 BiologyWriter.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cia.gov\/library\/publications\/the-world-factbook\/geos\/print_um.html\" >Johnston Atoll: \u201c<em>The site was used for high-altitude nuclear tests in the 1950s and 1960s. Until late in 2000 the atoll was maintained as a storage and disposal site for chemical weapons. Munitions destruction, cleanup, and closure of the facility were completed by May 2005<\/em>.\u201d \u2013 THE UNITED STATES PACIFIC ISLAND WILD LIFE REFUGES \u2013 THE WORLD FACTBOOK &#8211; CIA<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/nautilus.org\/apsnet\/cleaning-up-johnston-atoll\/\" >Cleaning up Johnston Atoll \u2013 Nautilus Institute<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/ajw.asahi.com\/article\/forum\/security_and_territorial_issues\/japan_us\/AJ201503270059\" >South Pacific islands fell victim to tragedy of nuclear tests \u2013 March 27, 2015 \u2013 The Asahi Shimbun<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.war-stories.com\/ws-ao-johnston-island-1-1972.htm\" >AGENT ORANGE \u2013 Johnston Island, AFB \u2013 War-Stories.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.truth-out.org\/news\/item\/16945-deny-deny-until-all-the-veterans-die-pentagon-investigation-into-agent-orange-on-okinawa\" >\u201c<em>Another issue addressed by the investigation was a 2003 U.S. Army report &#8211; titled \u201cAn Ecological Assessment of Johnston Atoll\u201d &#8211; which stated that 25,000 barrels of Agent Orange had been on Okinawa prior to 1972<\/em>.\u201d \u2013 Deny, Deny Until All the Veterans Die\u201d \u2013 Pentagon Investigation into Agent Orange in Okinawa \u2013 Truth-Out.org<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guamagentorange.info\/yahoo_site_admin\/assets\/docs\/AgentOrange-JI.133194419.pdf\" >Summary Document: Agent Orange at Johnston Island \u2013 GuamAgentOrange.info<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.skyscanner.net\/news\/14-worlds-most-amazing-abandoned-airports\" >11 Johnston Atoll Airport, USA &#8211; <em>14 of the world\u2019s most amazing abandoned airports<\/em> \u2013 SkyScanner.net<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guamagentorange.info\/yahoo_site_admin\/assets\/docs\/Johnston_Atoll_History.261114404.pdf\" >HISTORY OF JOHNSTON ATOLL \u2013 GuamAgentOrange.info<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www1.american.edu\/ted\/ice\/johns.htm\" >Case Name: Johnston Atoll Chemical Waste \u2013 Chemical Weapons Disposal Dispute \u2013 TED Case Study<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.urbanghostsmedia.com\/2010\/04\/isolated-and-abandoned-military-airbase-johnston-atoll\/\" >Johnstone Atoll: An Isolated and Abandoned Military Air Base in the Mid Pacific Ocean \u2013 8 April 2010 \u2013 UrganGhostsMedia.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thelivingmoon.com\/45jack_files\/03files\/Johnston_Atoll.html\" >Secret Bases \u2013 Johnston Atoll \u2013 TheLivingMoon.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jason-stevens.com\/2010\/07\/the-forgotten-island-of-johnston-atoll\/\" >The Forgotten Atoll of Johnston Atoll \u2013 Jason-Sevens.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/johnstonmemories.com\/\" >History of Johnston Island &#8211; Johnston Memories<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>Nuclear Weapons and the United States:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nuclear_weapons_and_the_United_States\" >Nuclear Weapons and the United States \u2013 Wikipedia<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.state.gov\/t\/us\/2014\/231697.htm\" >Nuclear Weapons Testing: History, Progress, Challenges: Verifications and Entry into Force of the CTBT \u2013 US Department of State<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.state.gov\/t\/avc\/rls\/202015.htm\" >US Nuclear Weapons Stockpile Life Extension Programs &#8211; January 3, 2013 \u2013 US Department of State<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/research\/articles\/2014\/04\/28-50-nuclear-facts\" >50 Facts About US Nuclear Weapons Today \u2013 April 28, 2014 \u2013 Brookings.edu<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.heritage.org\/research\/lecture\/2012\/08\/the-future-of-the-us-nuclear-triad\" >The Future of the US Nuclear Weapons Program, by Michaela Dodge \u2013 The Heritage Foundation<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.armscontrol.org\/act\/1997_05\/nas\" >The Future of the US Nuclear Weapons Policy \u2013 Arms Control Association<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/publication\/252183576_The_Future_of_the_U.S._Nuclear_Weapons_Program\" >The Future of the US Nuclear Weapons Program, by Linton F. Brooks \u2013 ResearchGate.net<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.state.gov\/t\/us\/2014\/233254.htm\" >US Nuclear Weapons Policy in the 21<sup>st<\/sup> Century &#8211; Rose Gottemoeller, Under Secretary\u00a0for Arms Control and International Security, \u00a0Dixie State University, St. George, Utah &#8211; October 21, 2014 \u2013 US Department of State<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1960\u00a0 <\/strong>At the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kasakela_Chimpanzee_Community\" >Kasakela Chimpanzee Community<\/a> in <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tanzania\" >Tanzania<\/a>, Dr. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jane_Goodall\" >Jane Goodall<\/a> observes <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eastern_chimpanzee\" >chimpanzees<\/a> creating tools, the first-ever observation in non-human animals.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1956\u00a0 <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Soviet_Union\" >Soviet<\/a> troops enter <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hungarian_People%27s_Republic\" >Hungary<\/a> to end the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hungarian_Revolution_of_1956\" >Hungarian revolution<\/a> against the Soviet Union, that started on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/October_23\" >October 23<\/a>. Thousands are killed, more are wounded, and nearly a quarter million leave the country.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>The End of Hungarian Revolution of 1956:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.history.com\/this-day-in-history\/soviets-put-brutal-end-to-hungarian-revolution\" >NOV 4, 1956: ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY: Soviet ends brutal end in Hungarian revolution. \u2013 History.com<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mtholyoke.edu\/~carne20a\/classweb\/Timeline.html\" >Timeline of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 \u2013 MTHOLYOKE.edu<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>The \u201cHungarian Revolution of 1956\u201d or the Struggle of Hungarians against the Soviet Power: October 23 \u2013 November 4, 1956:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.history.com\/this-day-in-history\/hungarian-protest-turns-violent\" >OCT 23, 1956: ON THIS DAY: Hungarian protest turns violent \u2013 History.com<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/dailynewshungary.com\/1956-october-23-start-of-the-hungarian-revolution\/\" >1956 OCTOBER 23 \u2013 START OF THE HUNGARIAN REVOLUTION \u2013 23 Oct 2013 \u2013 DailyNewsHungary.com<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/fog.ccsf.cc.ca.us\/~sgati\/gatiproductions\/starting_over\/revolution.htm\" >\u201c<em>In 1945, during World War II, the Russians came in to liberate Hungary from the Nazis, but when the Communists took over in 1949, liberation became domination and the Hungarian government was totally subordinate to Soviet control. There was freedom in the air on October 23, 1956 when Hungarian students began demonstrating against the Communist government. The Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin had died three years before; and in March of 1956, Nikita Khrushchev had spoken out against Stalin at the 20th Party Congress<\/em>.\u201d &#8211; 1956 HUNGARIAN REVOLUTION<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/visitbudapest.travel\/budapest-events\/october-23\/\" >October 23<sup>rd<\/sup> \u2013 Revolution of 1956 \u2013 VisitBudapest.travel<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.budapestbylocals.com\/event\/23rd-october-1956-revolution\/\" >October 23<sup>rd<\/sup> 1956 Revolution \u2013 Budapest by Locals<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/uahsibhistory.wikispaces.com\/Hungarian+Revolution+of+1956\" >Hungarian Revolution of 1956 \u2013 UAHSIB History<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/nsarchive.gwu.edu\/NSAEBB\/NSAEBB76\/\" >The 1956 Hungarian Revolution: A History in Documents \u2013 GWU.edu<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.historyinanhour.com\/2013\/02\/21\/hungarian-revolution-of-1956-summary\/\" >The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 \u2013 a summary \u2013 February 21, 2013 \u2013 Historian in an Hour \u2013 HistorianInAnHour.com<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.coldwar.org\/articles\/50s\/HungarianRevolution.asp\" >HUNGARIAN REVOLUTION \u2013 THE COLD WAR MUSEUM<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>History of Hungary:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/History_of_Hungary\" >History of Hungary \u2013 Wikipedia<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/countrystudies.us\/hungary\/\" >Hungary \u2013 CountryStudies.us<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/gotohungary.com\/history\/\" >HUNGARY\u2019S HISTORY IN A NUTSHELL \u2013 GoToHungary.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.historyworld.net\/wrldhis\/PlainTextHistories.asp?historyid=ab87\" >HISTORY OF HUNGARY \u2013 HistoryWorld.net<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/hungarianhistory.tripod.com\/\" >The History of Hungary \u2013 Tripod.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lonelyplanet.com\/hungary\/history\" >Hungary \u2013 History \u2013 LonelyPlanet.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.britannica.com\/topic\/history-of-Hungary\" >History of Hungary \u2013 Encyclopedia Britannica<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-17383522\" >Hungary profile: Timeline \u2013 BBC<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1952\u00a0 <\/strong>The United States <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Federal_government_of_the_United_States\" >government<\/a> establishes the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/National_Security_Agency\" >National Security Agency<\/a>, or NSA.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>National Security Agency:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nsa.gov\/\" >National Security Agency \u2013 Official Site<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.infoplease.com\/encyclopedia\/history\/national-security-agency.html\" >National Security Agency \u2013 Infoplease.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/uspolitics.about.com\/od\/agencies\/a\/What-Is-The-National-Security-Agency.htm\" >What is the National Security Agency? \u2013 About.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/fas.org\/irp\/nsa\/\" >NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY \u2013 FAS.org<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.encyclopedia.com\/topic\/National_Security_Agency.aspx\" >National Security Agency \u2013 Encyclopeida.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/organizations\/n\/national_security_agency\/index.html\" >National Security Agency \u2013 Articles \u2013 The New York Times<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/news\/national-security-agency\/\" >National Security Agency \u2013 Articles &#8211; The Huffington Post<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/nsarchive.gwu.edu\/NSAEBB\/NSAEBB23\/\" >The National Security Agency: Declassified \u2013 The National Security Archive \u2013 GWU.edu<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/on-innovations\/a-history-of-the-nsa\/2013\/06\/19\/ded58b8a-d823-11e2-a9f2-42ee3912ae0e_gallery.html\" >A history of the NSA \u2013 The Washington Post<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1944\u00a0 <\/strong>World War II: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bitola\" >Bitola<\/a> Liberation Day<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1942\u00a0 <\/strong>World War II: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Second_Battle_of_El_Alamein\" >Second Battle of El Alamein<\/a>: Disobeying a direct order by <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Adolf_Hitler\" >Adolf Hitler<\/a>, General Field Marshal <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Erwin_Rommel\" >Erwin Rommel<\/a> leads his forces on a five-month retreat.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1939\u00a0 <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/World_War_II\" >War II<\/a>: US President <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Franklin_D._Roosevelt\" >Franklin D. Roosevelt<\/a> orders the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_Customs_Service\" >United States Customs Service<\/a> to implement the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Neutrality_Acts_of_1930s\" >Neutrality Act of 1939<\/a>, allowing cash-and-carry purchases of weapons by belligerents.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1924\u00a0 <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nellie_Tayloe_Ross\" >Nellie Tayloe Ross<\/a> of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wyoming\" >Wyoming<\/a> is elected the first female governor in the United States.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1922\u00a0 <\/strong>In <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Egypt\" >Egypt<\/a>, British archaeologist <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Howard_Carter\" >Howard Carter<\/a> and his men find the entrance to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pharaoh\" >Pharaoh<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tutankhamun\" >Tutankhamun<\/a>&#8216;s tomb in the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Valley_of_the_Kings\" >Valley of the Kings<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1921\u00a0 <\/strong>The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Milite_Ignoto\" >Italian unknown soldier<\/a> is buried in the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Altare_della_Patria\" >Altare della Patria<\/a> (Fatherland Altar) in Rome.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1921\u00a0 <\/strong>The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sturmabteilung\" >Sturmabteilung<\/a> or SA, whose members were known as &#8220;brownshirts&#8221;, physically assault <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Adolf_Hitler\" >Adolf Hitler<\/a>&#8216;s opposition after his speech in Munich.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1918\u00a0 <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/World_War_I\" >World War I<\/a>: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Austria-Hungary\" >Austria-Hungary<\/a> surrenders to Italy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1890\u00a0 <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/City_and_South_London_Railway\" >City and South London Railway<\/a>: London&#8217;s first deep-level <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/London_Underground\" >tube<\/a> railway opens between <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/King_William_Street,_London\" >King William Street<\/a> and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stockwell_tube_station\" >Stockwell<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1867\u00a0 <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Camag%C3%BCey\" >Camag\u00fcey<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cuba\" >Cuba<\/a> revolts against Spain during the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ten_Years%27_War\" >Ten Years&#8217; War<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1852\u00a0 <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Camillo_Benso,_Count_of_Cavour\" >Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour<\/a> becomes the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Prime_minister\" >prime minister<\/a> of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Piedmont\" >Piedmont<\/a>&#8211;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kingdom_of_Sardinia\" >Sardinia<\/a>, which soon expands to become Italy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1847\u00a0 <\/strong>Sir <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/James_Young_Simpson\" >James Young Simpson<\/a>, a British physician, discovers the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Anaesthetic\" >anaesthetic<\/a> properties of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chloroform\" >chloroform<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1829\u00a0 <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Newport_Rising\" >Newport Rising<\/a>: The last large-scale armed rebellion against authority in mainland Britain.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1791\u00a0 <\/strong>Beginning of the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Siege_of_Corfu_%281798%E2%80%9399%29\" >Russo-Ottoman siege<\/a> of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Corfu\" >Corfu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1791\u00a0 <\/strong>The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Western_Confederacy\" >Western Confederacy<\/a> of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Native_Americans_in_the_United_States\" >American Indians<\/a> wins a major victory over the United States in the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/St._Clair%27s_Defeat\" >Battle of the Wabash<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1783\u00a0 <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wolfgang_Amadeus_Mozart\" >Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart<\/a>&#8216;s <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Symphony_No._36_%28Mozart%29\" >Symphony No. 36<\/a> is performed for the first time in <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Linz\" >Linz<\/a>, Austria.<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/results?search_query=mozart+symphony+36&amp;spfreload=10\" >Mozart\u2019s Symphony No.36 various plays on YouTube.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1780\u00a0 <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/T%C3%BApac_Amaru_II\" >Jos\u00e9 Gabriel Condorcanqui aka T\u00fapac Amaru II<\/a> starts his <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rebellion_of_T%C3%BApac_Amaru_II\" >Rebellion<\/a> on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Peru\" >Peru<\/a> against Spain.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>NOVEMBER 5<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>2013\u00a0 <\/strong>India launches the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mars_Orbiter_Mission\" >Mars Orbiter Mission<\/a>, its <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_Solar_System_probes\" >first interplanetary probe<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>2007\u00a0 <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Android_%28operating_system%29\" >Android<\/a> mobile operating system is unveiled by <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Google\" >Google<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>2007\u00a0 <\/strong>China&#8217;s first lunar satellite, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chang%27e_1\" >Chang&#8217;e 1<\/a> goes into orbit around the Moon.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>2006\u00a0 <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Saddam_Hussein\" >Saddam Hussein<\/a>, former president of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iraq\" >Iraq<\/a>, and his co-defendants <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barzan_Ibrahim_al-Tikriti\" >Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti<\/a> and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Awad_Hamed_al-Bandar\" >Awad Hamed al-Bandar<\/a> are sentenced to death in <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Trial_of_Saddam_Hussein\" >the al-Dujail trial<\/a> for the role in the massacre of the 148 Shi&#8217;a Muslims in <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1982\" >1982<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>Saddam Hussein:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.britannica.com\/biography\/Saddam-Hussein\" >Saddam Hussein \u2013 Encyclopedia Britannica<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.infoplease.com\/encyclopedia\/people\/hussein-saddam.html\" >Saddam Hussein \u2013 Infoplease.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.biography.com\/people\/saddam-hussein-9347918#!\" >Saddam Hussein \u2013 Biography.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/people\/h\/saddam_hussein\/index.html\" >Saddam Hussein \u2013 News Archive \u2013 The New York Times<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>Saddam Hussein\u2019s Trial:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/topdocumentaryfilms.com\/trial-saddam-hussein\/\" >The Trial of Saddam Hussein \u2013 TOP DOCUMENTARY FILMS \u2013 TopDocumentaryFilms.com<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/news\/2003\/12\/14\/try-saddam-international-court-0\" >Try Saddam in an International Court \u2013 December 14, 2003 \u2013 Human Rights Watch<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/views\/2003\/12\/19\/saddam-should-face-international-court\" >Saddam Should Face International Court, by Helen Thomas \u2013 Friday, December 19, 2003 \u2013 CommonDreams.org<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/weta\/crossroads\/about\/show_trial.html\" >Did the Iraqi dictator receive a fair trial? \u2013 THE TRIAL OF SADDAM HUSSEIN \u2013 AMERICA AT A CROSSROADS \u2013 PBS.org<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/davidduke.com\/the-illegal-trial-of-saddam-hussein\/\" >The Illegal Trial of Saddam Hussein \u2013 December 11, 2006 \u2013 DavidDuke.com<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.icj.org\/iraq-trial-of-saddam-hussein-icj-urges-fundamental-rethink-if-all-participants-cannot-be-effectively-protected\/\" >\u201c<em>Already two defence lawyers are dead, one has fled, scores of witnesses appear to be too frightened to give evidence and eight people have been reportedly arrested for planning to kill an investigative judge\u201d, said Nicholas Howen, Secretary-General of the ICJ [International Commission of Jurists]. These serious developments further reduce the credibility of the trial. They make it increasingly difficult for the Court to deliver a calm, fair and just trial<\/em>.\u201d \u2013 International Commission of Jurists<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sott.net\/article\/124070-The-Capture-Trial-and-Conviction-of-Saddam-Hussein-Another-US-Intelligence-Farce\" >\u201c<em>Furthermore, Saddam&#8217;s lawyers claimed that they had been denied access to their client and that they had received death threats from members of the Iraqi government. While no mainstream media outlet at the time offered an explanation of these strange occurrences, logic would suggest that there is something about the man that appeared in court that the US military did not want the Iraqi people and the rest of the world, to see, or hear.<\/em>\u201d \u2013 The Capture, Trial and Conviction of Saddam Hussein \u2013 Another US Intelligence Farce, by Joe Quinn \u2013 Thu, 28 Dec 2006 \u2013 Sott Focus &#8211; Sott.net<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Execution_of_Saddam_Hussein\" >Execution of Saddam Hussein &#8211; Wikipedia<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1996\u00a0 <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/President_of_Pakistan\" >Pakistani President<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Farooq_Ahmed_Khan_Leghari\" >Farooq Ahmed Khan Leghari<\/a> dismisses the government of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Prime_Minister_of_Pakistan\" >Prime Minister<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Benazir_Bhutto\" >Benazir Bhutto<\/a> and dissolves the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/National_Assembly_of_Pakistan\" >National Assembly of Pakistan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1995\u00a0 <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Andr%C3%A9_Dallaire\" >Andr\u00e9 Dallaire<\/a> attempts to assassinate Prime Minister <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jean_Chr%C3%A9tien\" >Jean Chr\u00e9tien<\/a> of Canada. He is thwarted when the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Prime_Minister\" >Prime Minister<\/a>&#8216;s wife locks the door.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1990\u00a0 <\/strong>Rabbi <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Meir_Kahane\" >Meir Kahane<\/a>, founder of the far-right <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kach_movement\" >Kach movement<\/a>, is <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Assassination_of_Meir_Kahane\" >shot dead<\/a> after a speech at a New York City hotel.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1986\u00a0 <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/USS_Rentz_%28FFG-46%29\" >USS\u00a0<em>Rentz<\/em><\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/USS_Reeves_%28DLG-24%29\" >USS\u00a0<em>Reeves<\/em><\/a> and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/USS_Oldendorf_%28DD-972%29\" >USS\u00a0<em>Oldendorf<\/em><\/a> visit <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Qingdao\" >Qingdao<\/a> (Tsing Tao) China \u2013 the first US Naval visit to China since 1949.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1977\u00a0 <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_W._Bush\" >George W Bush<\/a> marries <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Laura_Bush\" >Laura Welch<\/a> in Midland, Texas.<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.history.com\/this-day-in-history\/george-w-bush-marries-laura-welch-in-midland-texas\" >NOV 5, 1977: ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY: George W Bush marries Laura Welch in Midland, Texas \u2013 History.com<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>President George W Bush and the War Crimes:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.uswarcrimes.com\/\" >Lethal Military Operations Without UN Permission Is a War Crime, by Michael Haas \u2013 August 27, 2015 \u2013 GEORGE W BUSH, WAR CRIMINAL? \u2013 USWarCrimes.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.addictinginfo.org\/2012\/05\/13\/george-w-bush-dick-cheney-convicted-of-war-crimes\/\" >George W Bush, Dick Cheney Convicted Of War Crimes, by Justin Rosario \u2013 May 13, 2012 \u2013 AddictingInfo.org<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2014\/05\/29\/richard-clarke-george-bush-war-crimes_n_5410619.html\" >Former Counterterrorism Czar Richard Clarke: Bush, Cheney Committed War Crimes, by Shadee Ashtari \u2013 5\/29\/2014 \u2013 HuffingtonPost.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/bushwarcrimes.com\/\" >Bush War Crimes \u2013 BushWarCrimes.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thenewamerican.com\/usnews\/foreign-policy\/item\/18441-un-could-prosecute-bush-for-war-crimes-says-ex-u-s-terror-czar\" >\u201c<em>Former U.S. terror czar Richard Clarke (shown), who resigned in 2003, dropped two bombshell statements about the Bush administration he served during a recent TV interview. First, he said, former President George W. Bush and then-Vice President Dick Cheney probably perpetrated what amounts to \u2018war crimes\u2019 surrounding the unconstitutional attack on Iraq<\/em>.\u201d \u2013 UN Could Prosecute Bush for War Crimes, Says Ex-US Terror Czar, by Alex Newman \u2013 Monday, 09 June 2014 &#8211; TheNewAmerican.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/article\/doj-pursues-immunity-for-bush-and-six-others-for-iraq-war-crimes\" >\u201c<em>The Department of Justice has filed a Grant of Immunity for war crimes against George W. Bush, Richard Cheney, Condoleezza Rice, Colin Powell, Paul Wolfowitz, and Donald Rumsfeld. The filing for the immunity of war crimes was made with the United States District Court, Northern District of California San Francisco Division. The filing is for procedural immunity in a case alleging that they planned and waged the Iraq War in violation of international law<\/em>.\u201d \u2013 August 22, 2013; updated June 26, 2014 \u2013 DOJ pursues immunity for Bush and six other for Iraq war crimes \u2013 Examiner.com<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1976\u00a0 <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ctbto.org\/nuclear-testing\/the-effects-of-nuclear-testing\/the-soviet-unionsnuclear-testing-programme\/\" >USSR performs<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Underground_nuclear_weapons_testing\" >underground nuclear test<\/a> in <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sakha_Republic\" >Sakha (Yakutia),<\/a> Russia.<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1976_Soviet_nuclear_tests\" >1976 Soviet nuclear tests \u2013 Wikipedia<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/srl.geoscienceworld.org\/content\/66\/3\/20.extract\" >Peaceful Nuclear Explosions in the Sakha Republic (Yakutia), Russia, by Kazuya Fujita \u2013 GeoScienceWorld.org<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>Underground Nuclear Tests:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tightflash.org\/all_911\/third_truth\/nuclear_demolition_basic\/USGSOFR01312.pdf\" >The Containment of Soviet Underground Nuclear Explosions, by Vitaly V. Adshkin, and William Leith \u2013 OPEN FILE REPROT 01-312, September 2001 \u2013 US DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR GEOLOGICAL SURVEY<\/a><\/li>\n<li><em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/srl.geoscienceworld.org\/content\/86\/2A\/451.full.pdf\" >Political Seismology or Seismological Politics: Natural Resources Defense Council \u2013 USSR Experiments in Underground Nuclear Test Verification, by Anna Amramina<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2013\/02\/11\/world\/asia\/north-korea-underground-explosion-explainer\/index.html\" >What happens with an underground nuclear test? , by Kevin Voigt \u2013 February 19, 2013 \u2013 CNN<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/nnsa.energy.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/nv_sweis\/environmentalimpact\/v2\/Appendix%20H.pdf\" >APPENDIX H \u2013 UNDERGROUND NUCLEAR TESTING<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/gajitz.com\/buried-history-underground-nuclear-weapons-tests\/\" >Buried History: Underground Nuclear Tests \u2013 GAJITZ.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theblogbelow.com\/2008\/07\/underground-nuclear-test.html\" >Underground Nuclear Tests \u2013 TheBlogBelow.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ldeo.columbia.edu\/res\/pi\/Monitoring\/Arch\/BRV_arch_exp.html\" >Borovoye Archive Data from Underground Nuclear Tests \u2013 Columbia.edu<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/pubs.usgs.gov\/of\/1993\/0501\/report.pdf\" >Physical Environment of the Underground Nuclear Test Site on Novaya Zemlya, Russia, by John R. Matzko \u2013 Open-File Report 93-501- Reston, Virginia &#8211; 1993 \u2013 THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR GEOGRAPHICAL SURVEY<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>USSR\u2019s Nuclear Weapons Tests:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_nuclear_weapons_tests_of_the_Soviet_Union\" >List of nuclear weapons tests of the Soviet Union<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/nuclearweaponarchive.org\/Russia\/Sovtestsum.html\" >Soviet Nuclear Test Summary \u2013 NuclearWeaponArchive.org<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/nuclearweaponarchive.org\/Russia\/Sovwpnprog.html\" >Soviet Nuclear Weapons Program \u2013 NuclearWeaponArchive.org<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.johnstonsarchive.net\/nuclear\/tests\/USSR-ntestsS.html\" >Database of nuclear tests, USSR\/Russia: overview \u2013 JohnstonArchive.net<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>Effect and\/or Impact of Nuclear Weapons Tests:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ctbto.org\/nuclear-testing\/the-effects-of-nuclear-testing\/the-soviet-unionsnuclear-testing-programme\/page-3-effects-of-nuclear-weapon-testing-by-the-soviet-union\/\" >Page 3: Effects of Nuclear Weapon Testing by the Soviet Union \u2013 Economic, social, and environmental impacts &#8211; CTBTO<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ctbto.org\/nuclear-testing\/the-effects-of-nuclear-testing\/general-overview-of-theeffects-of-nuclear-testing\/\" >GENERAL OVERVIEW OF THE EFFECTS OF NUCLEAR TESTING &#8211; CTBTO<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/story\/13\/08\/20\/1738213\/the-secret-effort-to-clean-up-a-former-soviet-nuclear-test-site\" >The Secret Effort To Clean Up a Former Soviet Nuclear Test Site \u2013 Slashdot.org<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/citeseerx.ist.psu.edu\/viewdoc\/summary?doi=10.1.1.543.8580\" >A Review of Nuclear Testing by the Soviet Union at Novaya, by Vitaly I. Khalturin , Tatyana G. Rautian , Paul G. Richards , and William S. Leith \u2013 CiteSeerX- PSU.edu<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1970\u00a0 <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vietnam_War\" >Vietnam War<\/a>: The United States Military Assistance Command in <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vietnam\" >Vietnam<\/a> reports the lowest weekly American soldier death toll in five years (24).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1967\u00a0 <\/strong>The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hither_Green_rail_crash\" >Hither Green rail crash<\/a> in the United Kingdom kills 49 people. Survivors include <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Robin_Gibb\" >Robin Gibb<\/a> of the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bee_Gees\" >Bee Gees<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1966\u00a0 <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ctbto.org\/nuclear-testing\/the-effects-of-nuclear-testing\/the-united-states-nuclear-testing-programme\/\" >US performs nuclear test<\/a> at <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nevada_Test_Site\" >Nevada Test Site<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_nuclear_weapons_tests_of_the_United_States\" >List of the nuclear weapons tests of the United States &#8211; Wikipedia<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nuclear_weapons_and_the_United_States\" >Nuclear Weapons and the United States \u2013 Wikipedia<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.atomcentral.com\/the-cold-war.aspx\" >The Cold War \u2013 AtomCentral.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/fas.org\/nuke\/guide\/usa\/facility\/nts.htm\" >NEVADA TEST SITE \u2013 FAS.org<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.globalsecurity.org\/wmd\/facility\/nts.htm\" >NEVADA TEST SITE \u2013 GlobalSecurity.org<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.onlinenevada.org\/articles\/nevada-test-site-overview\" >Nevada Test Site Overview \u2013 OnlineNevada.org<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/about\/projects\/archive\/nucweapons\/nts\" >Nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site \u2013 Brookings.edu<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/toxipedia.org\/display\/wanmec\/Nevada+Test+Site\" >Nevada Test Site \u2013 Toxipedia.org<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/digital.library.unlv.edu\/ntsohp\/\" >Nevada Test Site \u2013 Oral History Project<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/archure.net\/liberty\/nukenevada.html\" >NUKE TESTING in NEVADA \u2013 Archure.net<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nv.doe.gov\/library\/publications\/Environmental\/DOENV_11718_594.pdf\" >ECOLOGY OF THE NEVADA TEST SITE: AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nevadatestsite.info\/\" >Nevada Test Site Workers Exposed to Radiation \u2013 National Cancer Benefits Center \u2013 NevadaTestSite.info<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/about\/projects\/archive\/nucweapons\/50\" >50 Facts About the US Nuclear Weapons \u2013 Brookings.edu<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/nuclearweaponarchive.org\/Usa\/Tests\/\" >Gallery of US Nuclear Tests \u2013 NuclearWeaponArchive.org<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.acq.osd.mil\/ncbdp\/nm\/nm_book_5_11\/index.htm\" >The Nuclear Matters Handbook<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>Nuclear Weapons and the United States:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nuclear_weapons_and_the_United_States\" >Nuclear Weapons and the United States \u2013 Wikipedia<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.state.gov\/t\/us\/2014\/231697.htm\" >Nuclear Weapons Testing: History, Progress, Challenges: Verifications and Entry into Force of the CTBT \u2013 US Department of State<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.state.gov\/t\/avc\/rls\/202015.htm\" >US Nuclear Weapons Stockpile Life Extension Programs &#8211; January 3, 2013 \u2013 US Department of State<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/research\/articles\/2014\/04\/28-50-nuclear-facts\" >50 Facts About US Nuclear Weapons Today \u2013 April 28, 2014 \u2013 Brookings.edu<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.heritage.org\/research\/lecture\/2012\/08\/the-future-of-the-us-nuclear-triad\" >The Future of the US Nuclear Weapons Program, by Michaela Dodge \u2013 The Heritage Foundation<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.armscontrol.org\/act\/1997_05\/nas\" >The Future of the US Nuclear Weapons Policy \u2013 Arms Control Association<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/publication\/252183576_The_Future_of_the_U.S._Nuclear_Weapons_Program\" >The Future of the US Nuclear Weapons Program, by Linton F. Brooks \u2013 ResearchGate.net<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.state.gov\/t\/us\/2014\/233254.htm\" >US Nuclear Weapons Policy in the 21<sup>st<\/sup> Century &#8211; Rose Gottemoeller, Under Secretary\u00a0for Arms Control and International Security, \u00a0Dixie State University, St. George, Utah &#8211; October 21, 2014 \u2013 US Department of State<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1955\u00a0 <\/strong>After being destroyed in World War II, the rebuilt <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vienna_State_Opera\" >Vienna State Opera<\/a> reopens with a performance of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ludwig_van_Beethoven\" >Beethoven<\/a>&#8216;s <em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fidelio\" >Fidelio<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1953\u00a0 <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nobelprize.org\/nobel_prizes\/physics\/laureates\/1953\/zernike-bio.html\" >Nobel prize for physics awarded\/appended on Frederik Zernicke<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1951\u00a0 <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ctbto.org\/nuclear-testing\/the-effects-of-nuclear-testing\/the-united-states-nuclear-testing-programme\/\" >US performs nuclear test<\/a> at <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nevada_Test_Site\" >Nevada Test Site<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>For some more pertinent information, see<\/em> \u201c<strong>1966 <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ctbto.org\/nuclear-testing\/the-effects-of-nuclear-testing\/the-united-states-nuclear-testing-programme\/\" >US performs nuclear test<\/a> at <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nevada_Test_Site\" >Nevada Test Site<\/a>\u201d, <em>mentioned above<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1950\u00a0 <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Korean_War\" >Korean War<\/a>: British and Australian forces from the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/27th_British_Commonwealth_Brigade\" >27th British Commonwealth Brigade<\/a> successfully halted the advancing Chinese <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/117th_Division_%28People%27s_Republic_of_China%29\" >117th Division<\/a> during the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Battle_of_Pakchon\" >Battle of Pakchon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>Battle of Pakchon:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.c3iopscenter.com\/currentops\/2013\/11\/05\/5-november-1950-battle-of-pakchon-korean-war\/\" >5 November 1950 \u2013 Battle of Pakchon \u2013 Korean War \u2013 C3i Ops Center<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/mwh52.wordpress.com\/2013\/11\/05\/november-5-this-day-during-the-korean-war\/\" >\u201c<strong><em>November 5, 1950 \u2013 The Battle of Pakchon<\/em><\/strong><em> \u00a0took place ten days after the start of the Chinese First Phase Offensive, following the entry of the People\u2019s Volunteer Army into the Korean War. The offensive reversed the United Nations (UN) advance towards the Yalu River which had occurred after their intervention in the wake of the North Korean invasion of South Korea at the start of the war. The battle was fought between British and Australian forces from the 27th British Commonwealth Brigade with American armour and artillery in support, and the Chinese 117th Division, around the village of Pakchon on the Taeryong River<\/em>.\u201d \u2013 November 5 This Day During the Cold War<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/dbpedia.org\/page\/Battle_of_Pakchon\" >About: Battle of Pakchon \u2013 DBPedia.org<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1945\u00a0 <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Colombia\" >Colombia<\/a> joins the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_Nations\" >United Nations<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>Colombia:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cia.gov\/library\/publications\/the-world-factbook\/geos\/co.html\" >COLOMBIA \u2013 THE WORLD FACTBOOK \u2013 CIA<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/data.un.org\/CountryProfile.aspx?crName=Colombia\" >Colombia \u2013 UN Data<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.britannica.com\/place\/Colombia\" >Colombia \u2013 Encyclopedia Britannica<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.infoplease.com\/country\/colombia.html\" >Colombia \u2013 Infoplease.com<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>Foreign Relations of Columbia:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Foreign_relations_of_Colombia\" >Foreign relations of Colombia \u2013 Wikipedia<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cfr.org\/region\/colombia\/ri325\" >Colombia \u2013 Council on Foreign Relations \u2013 CFR.org<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.state.gov\/r\/pa\/ei\/bgn\/35754.htm\" >US Relations with Colombia \u2013 US Department of State<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/countrystudies.us\/colombia\/97.htm\" >Colombia \u2013 FOREIGN RELATIONS \u2013 CountryStudies.us<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.globalsecurity.org\/military\/world\/colombia\/forrel.htm\" >Colombia \u2013 Foreign Relations \u2013 GlobalSecurity.org<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.photius.com\/countries\/colombia\/government\/colombia_government_foreign_relations.html\" >Colombia FOREIGN RELATIONS \u2013 Photius.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu\/webbin\/book\/browse?type=lcsubc&amp;key=Colombia%20--%20Foreign%20relations%20--%20Panama&amp;c=x\" >Colombia \u2013 Foreign Relations \u2013 UPENN.edu<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>Colombia and the United Nations:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.colombiaun.org\/English\/Home.html\" >Permanent Mission of Colombia to the United Nations<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Permanent_Representative_of_Colombia_to_the_United_Nations\" >Permanent Representative of Colombia to the United Nations \u2013 Wikipedia<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.unog.ch\/unog\/website\/missions.nsf\/%28httpPermanentMissions_en%29\/A3A0F87E86765DC9C1256F4100451ED0\" >Permanent Mission of Colombia to the United Nations and other international organizations in Geneva<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>History of Columbia:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/History_of_Colombia\" >History of Colombia \u2013 Wikipedia<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.infoplease.com\/encyclopedia\/world\/colombia-history.html\" >Colombia \u2013 History \u2013 Infoplease.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lonelyplanet.com\/colombia\/history\" >Colombia \u2013 History \u2013 LonelyPlanet.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.historyworld.net\/wrldhis\/PlainTextHistories.asp?historyid=ab81\" >HISTORY OF COLOMBIA \u2013 HistoryWorld.net<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.worldrover.com\/history\/colombia_history.html\" >Colombia \u2013 History \u2013 WorldRover.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/latinamericanhistory.about.com\/od\/thehistoryofcolombia\/\" >The History of Colombia \u2013 About.com<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>Economy of Columbia:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Economy_of_Colombia\" >Economy of Colombia \u2013 Wikipedia<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.worldbank.org\/en\/country\/colombia\" >COLOMBIA \u2013 WORLD BANK<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/data.worldbank.org\/country\/colombia\" >Colombia \u2013 Data \u2013 WORLD BANK<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.heritage.org\/index\/country\/colombia\" >Colombia \u2013 Index \u2013 THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.infoplease.com\/encyclopedia\/world\/colombia-economy.html\" >Colombia \u2013 Economy \u2013 Infoplease.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mapsofworld.com\/south-america\/economy\/columbia.html\" >Colombia \u2013 Economy \u2013 MapsOfWorld.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.123independenceday.com\/colombia\/economy.html\" >Economy of Colombia \u2013 123IndependenceDay.com<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1943\u00a0 <\/strong>World War II: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bombing_of_the_Vatican\" >Bombing of the Vatican<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1940\u00a0 <\/strong>World War II: The British <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Armed_merchant_cruiser\" >armed merchant cruiser<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/HMS_Jervis_Bay\" >HMS\u00a0<em>Jervis Bay<\/em><\/a>, is sunk by the German <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pocket_battleship\" >pocket battleship<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/German_pocket_battleship_Admiral_Scheer\" ><em>Admiral Scheer<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1937\u00a0 <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Adolf_Hitler\" >Adolf Hitler<\/a> holds a secret meeting and states his plans for acquiring &#8220;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lebensraum\" >living space<\/a>&#8221; for the German people.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>\u201cLebensraum\u201d or\u201d Living Space\u201d, and Nazi Germany:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/history1900s.about.com\/library\/holocaust\/aa110899.htm\" >Lebensraum \u2013 About.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.historyplace.com\/worldwar2\/timeline\/hossbach.htm\" >\u201c<em>On November 5, 1937, Adolf Hitler held a secret conference in the Reich Chancellery during which he revealed his plans for the acquisition of Lebensraum, or living space, for the German people at the expense of other nations in Europe<\/em>.\u201d \u2013 The Hossbach Memorandum \u2013 World War II in Europe \u2013 The History Place \u2013 HistoryPlace.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.historyplace.com\/worldwar2\/triumph\/tr-hossbach.htm\" >\u201c<em>From the very beginning of his career until his dying day, Adolf Hitler had just two major goals. His primary goal was the forcible acquisition of Lebensraum (living space) for the German people. Secondly, he desired some kind of final reckoning with the Jews<\/em>.\u201d &#8211; Hitler Reveals War Plans \u2013 The Triumph of Hitler \u2013 The History Place \u2013 HistoryPlace.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org\/jsource\/Holocaust\/chron.html\" >The Holocaust \u2013 Timeline of Jewish Persecution (1932-1945) \u2013 Jewish Virtual Library<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1925\u00a0 <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Secret_agent\" >Secret agent<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sidney_Reilly\" >Sidney Reilly<\/a>, the first &#8220;super-spy&#8221; of the 20th century, is executed by the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/State_Political_Directorate\" >OGPU<\/a>, the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Secret_police\" >secret police<\/a> of the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Soviet_Union\" >Soviet Union<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.britannica.com\/biography\/Sidney-George-Reilly\" >Sidney Reilly \u2013 Encyclopedia Britannica<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/spartacus-educational.com\/SSreilly.htm\" >Sidney Reilly \u2013 Spartacus-Educational.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/spymuseum.com\/sidney-reilly\/\" >Sidney Reilly \u2013 SpyMuseum.com<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1917\u00a0 <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tikhon_of_Moscow\" >St Tikhon of Moscow<\/a> is elected the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Patriarch_of_Moscow\" >Patriarch of Moscow<\/a> and of the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Russian_Orthodox_Church\" >Russian Orthodox Church<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1917\u00a0 <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/October_Revolution\" >October Revolution<\/a>: In <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tallinn\" >Tallinn<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Estonia\" >Estonia<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Communist\" >Communist<\/a> leader <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jaan_Anvelt\" >Jaan Anvelt<\/a> leads revolutionaries in overthrowing the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Russian_Provisional_Government,_1917\" >Provisional Government<\/a> (As Estonia and Russia are still using the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Julian_calendar\" >Julian calendar<\/a>, subsequent period references show an October 23 date).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>Jaan Anvelt and Estonia in 1917:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.estonica.org\/en\/1917_Russian_Revolutions_and_Estonia\/\" >1917 Russian Revolution and Estonia \u2013 Estonica.org<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.britannica.com\/biography\/Jaan-Anvelt\" >Jaan Anvelt \u2013 Encyclopedia Britannica<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>History of Estonia:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/History_of_Estonia\" >History of Estonia \u2013 Wikipedia<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lonelyplanet.com\/estonia\/history\" >Estonia \u2013 History \u2013 LonelyPlanet.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.localhistories.org\/estonia.html\" >A BRIEF HISTORY OF ESTONIA \u2013 LocalHistories.org<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.visitestonia.com\/en\/about-estonia\/estonian-culture\/estonian-history-a-timeline-of-key-events\" >Estonian History \u2013 VisitEnstonia.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.infoplease.com\/encyclopedia\/world\/estonia-history.html\" >Estonia \u2013 History \u2013 Infoplease.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/estonia.eu\/about-estonia\/history\/estonias-history.html\" >Estonia\u2019s History \u2013 Chronology \u2013 Estonia.eu<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/history.howstuffworks.com\/european-history\/history-of-estonia.htm\" >History of Estonia \u2013 HowStuffWorks.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.estonica.org\/en\/History\/\" >Estonia \u2013 History \u2013 Contents \u2013 Enstonca.org<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/dictionary.sensagent.com\/list%20of%20rulers%20of%20estonia\/en-en\/\" >List of rulers of Estonia \u2013 Sensagent.com<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1916\u00a0 <\/strong>The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Everett_massacre\" >Everett massacre<\/a> takes place in <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Everett,_Washington\" >Everett, Washington<\/a> as political differences lead to a shoot-out between the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Industrial_Workers_of_the_World\" >Industrial Workers of the World<\/a> organizers and local police.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1916\u00a0 <\/strong>The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kingdom_of_Poland_%281916%E2%80%9318%29\" >Kingdom of Poland<\/a> is proclaimed by the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Act_of_5th_November\" >Act of 5th November<\/a> of the emperors of Germany and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Austria-Hungary\" >Austria-Hungary<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1914\u00a0 <\/strong>World War I: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/French_Third_Republic\" >France<\/a> and the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/British_Empire\" >British Empire<\/a> declare war on the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ottoman_Empire\" >Ottoman Empire<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>Ottoman Empire and World War I:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Defeat_and_dissolution_of_the_Ottoman_Empire\" >Defeat and dissolution of the Ottoman Empire \u2013 Wikipedia<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Middle_Eastern_theatre_of_World_War_I\" >Middle Eastern theater of World War I \u2013 Wikipedia<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.historyguy.com\/fall_of_the_ottoman_empire.htm#.ViprgyuufX4\" >The Fall of the Ottoman Empire \u2013 HistoryGuy.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nzhistory.net.nz\/war\/ottoman-empire\/collapse\" >The Ottoman Empire \u2013 page 9 \u2013 Collapse of the Ottoman Empire1918-1920 \u2013 NZHistory.net.nz<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>History of the Ottoman Empire:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/History_of_the_Ottoman_Empire\" >History of the Ottoman Empire \u2013 Wikipedia<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.infoplease.com\/encyclopedia\/history\/ottoman-empire-history.html\" >Ottoman Empire \u2013 History \u2013 Infoplease.com<\/a> <strong><em>or<\/em><\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.infoplease.com\/encyclopedia\/history\/ottoman-empire.html\" >Ottoman Empire \u2013 Infoplease.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.umich.edu\/~turkish\/links\/ottemp_brhist.html\" >A Brief History of Ottoman Empire \u2013 UMICH.edu<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theottomans.org\/english\/history\/index.asp\" >History \u2013 The Ottomans \u2013 TheOttomans.org<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/religion\/religions\/islam\/history\/ottomanempire_1.shtml\" >Ottoman Empire (1301-1922) \u2013 BBC<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.turizm.net\/turkey\/history\/ottoman3.html\" >THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE \u2013 1600 \u2013 1023 \u2013 Turizm.net<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/geography.about.com\/od\/historyofgeography\/a\/The-Ottoman-Empire.htm\" >The Ottoman Empire \u2013 About.com<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1913\u00a0 <\/strong>King <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Otto_of_Bavaria\" >Otto of Bavaria<\/a> is deposed by his cousin, Prince Regent Ludwig, who assumes the title <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ludwig_III_of_Bavaria\" >Ludwig III<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1912\u00a0 <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Woodrow_Wilson\" >Woodrow Wilson<\/a> is elected to the presidency of the United States.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1911\u00a0 <\/strong>After declaring war on the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ottoman_Empire\" >Ottoman Empire<\/a> on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/September_29\" >September 29<\/a>, 1911, Italy annexes <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tripoli\" >Tripoli<\/a> and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cyrenaica\" >Cyrenaica<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1872\u00a0 <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Women%27s_suffrage_in_the_United_States\" >Women&#8217;s suffrage in the United States<\/a>: In defiance of the law, suffragist <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Susan_B._Anthony\" >Susan B Anthony<\/a> votes for the first time, and is later fined $100.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>Susan B Anthony:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.history.com\/topics\/womens-history\/susan-b-anthony\" >Susan B Anthony \u2013 History.com<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/womenshistory.about.com\/od\/anthonysusanb\/a\/anthony.htm\" >Susan B Anthony \u2013 About.com<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.historyplace.com\/speeches\/anthony.htm\" >Susan B Anthony On Women\u2019s Right to Vote \u2013 HistoryPlace.com<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalcenter.org\/AnthonySuffrage.html\" >Woman\u2019s Rights to the Suffrage, by Susan B Anthony (1820-1909) \u2013 NationalCenter.org<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/susanbanthonywomenssuffrage.weebly.com\/\" >SUSAN B ANTHOY: THE WOMEN\u2019S SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT \u2013 Weebly.com<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/wori\/learn\/historyculture\/susan-b-anthony.htm\" >\u201c<em>Susan B. Anthony(1820-1906) is perhaps the most widely known suffragist of her generation and has become an icon of the woman\u2019s suffrage movement. Anthony traveled the country to give speeches, circulate petitions, and organize local women\u2019s rights organizations<\/em>.\u201d \u2013 Women\u2019s Rights \u2013 NPS.gov<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/womenshistory.about.com\/cs\/quotes\/a\/qu_s_b_anthony.htm\" >Susan B Anthony Quotes \u2013 About.com<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>Women\u2019s Suffrage:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.history.com\/topics\/womens-history\/the-fight-for-womens-suffrage\" >THE FIGHT FOR WOMEN\u2019S SUFFRAGE \u2013 History.com<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.historynet.com\/womens-suffrage-movement\" >WOMEN\u2019S SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT \u2013 HistoryNet.com<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/teacher.scholastic.com\/activities\/suffrage\/history.htm\" >HISTORY OF WOMEN\u2019S SUFFRAGE \u2013 Women\u2019s Suffrage \u2013 Scholatic.com<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ipu.org\/wmn-e\/suffrage.htm\" >WOMEN\u2019S SUFFRAGE \u2013 IPU.org<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/actnow.uusc.org\/site\/PageNavigator\/womens_rights.html?gclid=CLHxlOzQusgCFSQHwwodvp8GQQ\" >Women\u2019s Rights Are Human Rights \u2013 UUSC.org<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Timeline_of_women\" s_suffrage\">Timeline of women\u2019s suffrage &#8211; Wikipedia<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>Women\u2019s Suffrage in the United States:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Women\" s_suffrage_in_the_United_States\">Women\u2019s suffrage in the United States \u2013 Wikipedia<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.infoplease.com\/spot\/womenstimeline1.html\" >Women\u2019s Rights Movements in the US \u2013 1848 \u2013 1920 \u2013 Infoplease.com<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/history.house.gov\/Exhibitions-and-Publications\/WIC\/Historical-Essays\/No-Lady\/Womens-Rights\/\" >The Women\u2019s Rights Movements 1840-1920 \u2013 HISTORY, ART &amp; ARCHIVES &#8211; United States House of Representatives \u2013 House.gov<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/tag.rutgers.edu\/teaching-toolbox\/classroom-resources\/lesson-module-womens-suffrage-in-the-united-states\/\" >LESSON MODULE: WOMEN\u2019S SUFFRAGE IN THE UNITED STATES \u2013 Rutgers.edu<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>The Nineteenth Amendment and Women\u2019s Suffrage:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nineteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution\" >\u201c<em>The <\/em><strong><em>Nineteenth Amendment<\/em><\/strong><em> (<\/em><strong><em>Amendment XIX<\/em><\/strong><em>) to the United States Constitution prohibits any United States citizen from being denied the right to vote on the basis of sex. It was ratified on August 18, 1920. The Constitution allows the states to determine the qualifications of voters, subject to limitations imposed by later amendments. Until the 1910s, most states disenfranchised women<\/em>.\u201d \u2013 Nineteenth Amendment &#8211; Wikipedia<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ourdocuments.gov\/doc.php?flash=true&amp;doc=63\" >19<sup>th<\/sup> Amendment to the US Constitution: Women\u2019s Rights to Vote (1920) \u2013 OurDocuments.gov<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.history.com\/topics\/womens-history\/19th-amendment\" >19<sup>TH<\/sup> AMENDMENT \u2013 History.com<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.archives.gov\/education\/lessons\/woman-suffrage\/\" >Teaching with Documents: Women\u2019s Suffrage and the 19<sup>th<\/sup> Amendment \u2013 NATIONAL ARCHIVES \u2013 Archives.gov<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>History of Women\u2019s Suffrage (Movement) in the United States:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.suffragist.com\/timeline.htm\" >A History of American Suffragist Movement \u2013 Saffragist.com<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www1.cuny.edu\/portal_ur\/content\/voting_curriculum\/women_suffrage.html\" >Women\u2019s Suffrage and World War I \u2013 CUNY.edu<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.teachervision.com\/womens-rights\/us-history\/50972.html\" >Leaders in the US Suffrage Movement, by Susan B. Anthony \u2013 TeacherVision.com<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/constitutioncenter.org\/timeline\/html\/cw08_12159.html\" >January 1, 1919: Map: States grant women the right to vote \u2013 National Constitution Center<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.susanbanthony.net\/p\/woman-suffrage-1848-1920-teaching-with.html\" >US Women Suffrage \u2013 Teaching with Documents: Women Suffrage and the 19<sup>th<\/sup> Amendment \u2013 SusanAnthony.net<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Timeline_of_women\" s_suffrage_in_the_United_States\">Timeline of women\u2019s suffrage in the United States &#8211; Wikipedia<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nwhm.org\/education-resources\/history\/woman-suffrage-timeline\" >Women\u2019s Suffrage Timeline (1840-1920) \u2013 NATIONAL WOMEN\u2019S MUSEUM<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1862\u00a0 <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/American_Indian_Wars\" >American Native People Wars<\/a>: In <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Minnesota\" >Minnesota<\/a>, 303 <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dakota_people\" >Dakota<\/a> warriors are found guilty of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rape\" >rape<\/a> and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Murder\" >murder<\/a> of whites and are sentenced to hang. 38 are ultimately executed and the others reprieved.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1854\u00a0 <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Crimean_War\" >Crimean War<\/a>: The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Battle_of_Inkerman\" >Battle of Inkerman<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>Battle of Inkerman:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.britannica.com\/topic\/Battle-of-Inkerman\" >Battle of Inkerman \u2013 Encyclopedia Britannica<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.historyofwar.org\/articles\/battles_inkerman.html\" >Battle of Inkerman, 5 November 1854 \u2013 The Soldier\u2019s Battle \u2013 HistoryOfWar.org<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.britishbattles.com\/crimean-war\/inkerman.htm\" >The Battle of Inkerman \u2013 BritishBattles.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/militaryhistory.about.com\/od\/battleswars1800s\/p\/inkerman.htm\" >Crimean War: Battle of Inkerman \u2013 About.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/xenophon-mil.org\/crimea\/war\/inkerman\/inkerman.htm\" >INKERMAN BATTLE (24 October [5 Nov. NS], 1854 \u2013 XENOPHONE Group \u2013 Xenonphon-mil.org<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>Crimean War:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.history.com\/topics\/british-history\/crimean-war\" >CRIMEAN WAR \u2013 History.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.britannica.com\/event\/Crimean-War\" >Crimean War 1953-1856 \u2013 Encyclopedia Britannica<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.historyofwar.org\/articles\/wars_crimean.html\" >Crimean War 1853-1856 \u2013 HistoryOfWar.org<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/history\/british\/victorians\/crimea_01.shtml\" >The Crimean War \u2013 History \u2013 BBC<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.historyworld.net\/wrldhis\/PlainTextHistories.asp?historyid=aa47\" >THE HISTORY OF THE CRIMEAN WAR \u2013 HistoryWorld.net<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.preceden.com\/timelines\/33371-cause-of-the-crimean-war\" >The Cause of the Crimean War \u2013 Preceden.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/hereandnow.wbur.org\/2014\/03\/13\/history-crimean-war\" >How The Crimean War Still Echoes Today \u2013 March 13, 2014 &#8211; Here&amp;Now \u2013 WBUR.org<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>Timeline of Crimean War:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.russianwarrior.com\/STMMain.htm?1854_crimeanhist.htm&amp;1\" >Timeline of Crimean War (1853-1856) \u2013 RussianWarrior.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.historyworld.net\/timesearch\/default.asp?conid=static_timeline&amp;timelineid=315&amp;page=1&amp;keywords=Crimean+War+timeline\" >Crimean War Timeline \u2013 HistoryWorld.net<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>History of Crimea:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.britannica.com\/place\/Crimea\" >Crimea \u2013 Encyclopedia Britannica<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/History_of_Crimea\" >History of Crimea \u2013 Wikipedia<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lonelyplanet.com\/ukraine\/crimea\/history\" >Crimea \u2013 History \u2013 LonelyPlanet.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.infoplease.com\/encyclopedia\/world\/crimea-history.html\" >Crimea \u2013 History \u2013 Infoplease.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.voanews.com\/content\/the-history-of-crimea---in-brief-\/1860431.html\" >A Brief History of Crimea \u2013 Voice of America \u2013 VOANews.com<\/a>, <strong><em>and\/or <\/em><\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.voanews.com\/content\/crimeas-complicated-history-in-brief\/1865120.html\" >Crimea\u2019s Complicated History in Brief \u2013 Voice of America \u2013 VOANews.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.blacksea-crimea.com\/history1.html\" >Black Sea \u2013 Crimea \u2013 History \u2013 BlackSea-Crimea.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/news\/2014\/03\/140305-maps-crimea-history-russia-ukraine\/\" >300 Years of Embattled Crimea in 6 Maps \u2013 National Geographic \u2013 NationalGeographic.com<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1831 <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nat_Turner\" >Nat Turner<\/a>, American slave leader, is tried, convicted, and sentenced to death in <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Virginia\" >Virginia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1811\u00a0 <\/strong>Salvadoran priest <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jos%C3%A9_Mat%C3%ADas_Delgado\" >Jos\u00e9 Mat\u00edas Delgado<\/a>, rings the bells of La Merced church in San Salvador, calling for insurrection and launching the 1811 Independence Movement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1768\u00a0 <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Treaty_of_Fort_Stanwix\" >Treaty of Fort Stanwix<\/a>, the purpose of which is to adjust the boundary line between Indian lands and white settlements set forth in the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Royal_Proclamation_of_1763\" >Royal Proclamation of 1763<\/a> in the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thirteen_Colonies\" >Thirteen Colonies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1757\u00a0 <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Seven_Years%27_War\" >Seven Years&#8217; War<\/a>: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Frederick_the_Great\" >Frederick the Great<\/a> defeats the allied armies of France and the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Holy_Roman_Empire\" >Holy Roman Empire<\/a> at the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Battle_of_Rossbach\" >Battle of Rossbach<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>NOVEMBER 6<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>2012\u00a0 <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tammy_Baldwin\" >Tammy Baldwin<\/a> becomes the first <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Openly_gay\" >openly gay<\/a> politician to be elected to the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_Senate\" >United States Senate<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1999\u00a0 <\/strong>Australians vote to keep the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Head_of_the_Commonwealth\" >Head of the Commonwealth<\/a> as their <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Head_of_state\" >head of state<\/a> in the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Australian_republic_referendum,_1999\" >Australian republic referendum<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1995\u00a0 <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cleveland_Browns_relocation_controversy\" >Cleveland Browns relocation controversy<\/a>: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Art_Modell\" >Art Modell<\/a> announces that he signed a deal that would relocate the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cleveland_Browns\" >Cleveland Browns<\/a> to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Baltimore\" >Baltimore<\/a> to become the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Baltimore_Ravens\" >Baltimore Ravens<\/a>, the first time the city had a football team since <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1983\" >1983<\/a> when they were the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/History_of_the_Baltimore_Colts\" >Baltimore Colts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1995\u00a0 <\/strong>The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rova_of_Antananarivo\" >Rova of Antananarivo<\/a>, home of the sovereigns of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Madagascar\" >Madagascar<\/a> from the 16th to 19th centuries, is destroyed by fire.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1991\u00a0 <\/strong>The last <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kuwaiti_oil_fires\" >Kuwaiti oil field fire<\/a> is extinguished.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1986\u00a0 <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sumburgh_disaster\" >Sumburgh disaster<\/a>: A <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/British_International_Helicopters\" >British International Helicopters<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Boeing_234LR_Chinook\" >Boeing 234LR Chinook<\/a> crashes 2<sup>1<\/sup>\u2044<sub>2<\/sub> miles east of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sumburgh_Airport\" >Sumburgh Airport<\/a> killing 45 people. It is the deadliest civilian helicopter crash on record.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1985\u00a0 <\/strong>In <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Colombia\" >Colombia<\/a>, leftist <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Guerrilla\" >guerrillas<\/a> of the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/19th_of_April_Movement\" >19th of April Movement<\/a> seize control of the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Palace_of_Justice_siege\" >Palace of Justice<\/a> in <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bogot%C3%A1\" >Bogot\u00e1<\/a>, eventually killing 115 people, 11 of them Supreme Court justices.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1977\u00a0 <\/strong>The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kelly_Barnes_Dam\" >Kelly Barnes Dam<\/a>, located above <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Toccoa_Falls_Bible_College\" >Toccoa Falls Bible College<\/a> near <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Toccoa,_Georgia\" >Toccoa, Georgia<\/a>, fails, killing 39.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1975\u00a0 <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Green_March\" >Green March<\/a> begins: Three hundred thousand unarmed <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Morocco\" >Moroccans<\/a> converge on the southern city of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tarfaya\" >Tarfaya<\/a> and wait for a signal from King <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hassan_II_of_Morocco\" >Hassan II of Morocco<\/a> to cross into <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Western_Sahara\" >Western Sahara<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1971\u00a0 <\/strong>The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_Atomic_Energy_Commission\" >United States Atomic Energy Commission<\/a> tests the largest US underground <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hydrogen_bomb\" >hydrogen bomb<\/a>, code-named Cannikin, on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Amchitka_Island\" >Amchitka Island<\/a> in the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Aleutian_Islands\" >Aleutians<\/a>.<strong> (= <\/strong>The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ctbto.org\/nuclear-testing\/the-effects-of-nuclear-testing\/the-united-states-nuclear-testing-programme\/\" >United States performs<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theblogbelow.com\/2008\/07\/underground-nuclear-test.html\" >underground nuclear test<\/a> at Amchitka Island.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>United States Atomic Energy Commission:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/energy.gov\/sites\/prod\/files\/AEC%20History.pdf\" >History of the Atomic Energy Commission, by Alice Buck \u2013 July 1983 &#8211; pdf<\/a>, <strong><em>or<\/em><\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.atomictraveler.com\/HistoryofAEC.pdf\" >the same document on this site &#8211; pdf<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nuclearfiles.org\/menu\/key-issues\/nuclear-energy\/history\/aec_report-nuclear-power.htm\" >United States Atomic Commission Report on the Need for Atomic Power \u2013 NuclearFiles.org<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>Underground Nuclear Weapons Testing:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Underground_nuclear_weapons_testing\" >Underground nuclear weapons testing \u2013 Wikipedia<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.earthmagazine.org\/article\/satellites-can-detect-underground-nuclear-explosions\" >Satellite can detect underground nuclear explosions \u2013 EarthMagazine.org<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_nuclear_weapons_tests\" >List of nuclear weapons tests &#8211; Wikipedia<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>Nuclear weapons testing at Amchitka Island:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/military.wikia.com\/wiki\/Amchitka\" >Amchitka \u2013 Military \u2013 Wikia.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ims.uaf.edu\/research\/johnson\/amchitka\/history.html\" >\u201c<em>Amchitka Island is one of many islands of the Aleutian Island chain in western Alaska\u2026. American troops landed on Amchitka to establish The Naval Air Facility on 24 February 1943\u2026. Between 1950 and 1961 Amchitka Island was used in the Distant Early Warning network. Between 1965 and 1971 Amchitka was the site for underground nuclear testing<\/em>.\u201d \u2013 UAF.edu<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/arcticcircle.uconn.edu\/SEEJ\/amchitka\/\" >Cannikin Atomic Test at Amchitka Island, Alaska &#8211; The Untold Story<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ims.uaf.edu\/research\/johnson\/amchitka\/history.html\" >Amchitka Island and Nuclear Weapons Testing \u2013 UAF.edu<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/dec.alaska.gov\/air\/am\/rad\/amchitka.htm\" >Former Amchitka Underground Test Site \u2013 Environmental Radiation<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.everything2.com\/title\/Amchitka+Nuclear+Tests\" >Amchitka Nuclear Tests \u2013 Everything2.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/en\/about\/history\/amchitka-hunter\/\" >Amchitka: the founding voyage \u2013 GreemPeace.org<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/americablog.com\/2013\/01\/video-of-underground-nuclear-test-that-led-to-the-creation-of-greenpeace.html\" >Video of underground nuclear test that led to the creation of Greenpeace \u2013 AmericaBlog.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Canadians campaign against nuclear testing on Amchitka Island (Don\u2019t Make a Wave), 1969-1971 \u2013 Swarthmore.edu<\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.osti.gov\/scitech\/biblio\/758915\" >Amchitka Island, Alaska, special sampling project 1997 \u2013 SciTech Connect \u2013 Osti.gov<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/publication\/249097799_Amchitka_and_the_Bomb_Nuclear_Testing_in_Alaska\" >Amchitka and the Bomb: Nuclear Testing in Alaska, by Douglas Dasher \u2013 ResearchGate.net<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ualberta.ca\/~unsworth\/UA-classes\/210\/notes210\/C\/210C2.5-2008.pdf\" >Geophysics 210 October 2008 &#8211; Nuclear explosions of C2.5 Seismic detection \u2013 Ualberta.ca &#8211; pdf<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1965\u00a0 <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cuba\" >Cuba<\/a> and the United States formally agree to begin an airlift for Cubans who want to go to the United States. By <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1971\" >1971<\/a>, 250,000 Cubans had made use of this program.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1963\u00a0 <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vietnam_War\" >Vietnam War<\/a>: Following the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1963_South_Vietnamese_coup\" >November 1 coup<\/a> and execution of President <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ngo_Dinh_Diem\" >Ngo Dinh Diem<\/a>, coup leader General <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/D%C6%B0%C6%A1ng_V%C4%83n_Minh\" >D\u01b0\u01a1ng V\u0103n Minh<\/a> takes over leadership of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/South_Vietnam\" >South Vietnam<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>November 1 (and 2), 1963 Coup:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freerepublic.com\/focus\/f-news\/3086310\/posts\" >TODAY IN HISTORY: JFK AND THE COUP IN VIETNAM NOVEMBER 1 AND 2, 1963 \u2013 FreeRepublic.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.history.com\/this-day-in-history\/ngo-dinh-diem-assassinated-in-south-vietnam\" >NOV 2, 1963: THIS DAY IN HISTORY: Ngo Dinh Diem assassinated in South Vietnam \u2013 History.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.historynet.com\/the-assassination-of-ngo-dinh-diem.htm\" >The Assassination of Ngo Dinh \u2013 HistoryNet.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/nsarchive.gwu.edu\/NSAEBB\/NSAEBB101\/index.htm\" >JFK and the Diem Coup \u2013 The National Security Archive \u2013 GWU.edu<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jfklibrary.org\/JFK\/JFK-in-History\/Vietnam.aspx\" >\u201c<em>Corruption, religious differences, and mounting successes by the Vietcong guerrillas weakened the South Vietnamese government of Ngo Dinh Diem. Diem was Catholic, and public protests over the repression of Buddhists threatened the stability of his regime. Kennedy accelerated the flow of American aid and gradually increased U.S. military advisers to more than 16,000. At the same time, he pressed the Diem government to clean house and institute long-overdue political and economic reforms. The situation did not improve<\/em>\u2026\u201d \u2013 Vietnam \u2013 JFKLibrary.org<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1962\u00a0 <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Apartheid\" >Apartheid<\/a>: The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_Nations_General_Assembly\" >United Nations General Assembly<\/a> passes a resolution condemning South Africa&#8217;s apartheid policies and calls for all UN member states to cease military and economic relations with the nation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_Nations_General_Assembly_Resolution_1761\" >UNGA Resolution 1761 of 6 November 1962:<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.history.com\/this-day-in-history\/u-n-condemns-apartheid\" >NOV 6, 1962: THIS DAY IN HISTORY: UN condemns apartheid \u2013 History.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/daccess-dds-ny.un.org\/doc\/RESOLUTION\/GEN\/NR0\/192\/69\/IMG\/NR019269.pdf?OpenElement\" >Text of the United Nations General Assembly Resolution 1751 (XVII) of 6 November 1962<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1955\u00a0 <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ctbto.org\/nuclear-testing\/the-effects-of-nuclear-testing\/the-soviet-unionsnuclear-testing-programme\/\" >USSR performs nuclear test<\/a> at Eastern Kazakh\/<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Semipalatinsk_Test_Site\" >Semipalitinsk<\/a> USSR.<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_nuclear_weapons_tests_of_the_Soviet_Union\" >List of nuclear weapons tests of the Soviet Union<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/nuclearweaponarchive.org\/Russia\/Sovtestsum.html\" >Soviet Nuclear Test Summary \u2013 NuclearWeaponArchive.org<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/nuclearweaponarchive.org\/Russia\/Sovwpnprog.html\" >Soviet Nuclear Weapons Program \u2013 NuclearWeaponArchive.org<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.johnstonsarchive.net\/nuclear\/tests\/USSR-ntestsS.html\" >Database of nuclear tests, USSR\/Russia: overview \u2013 JohnstonArchive.net<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rferl.org\/content\/soviet_nuclear_testing_semipalatinsk_20th_anniversary\/24311518.html\" >Slow Death of Kazakhstan\u2019s Land Of Nuclear Tests \u2013 Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty \u2013 RFRL.org<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/large.stanford.edu\/courses\/2014\/ph241\/powell2\/docs\/vakulchuk.pdf\" >Semipalitinsk nuclear testing: the humanitarian consequences \u2013 Norwegian Institute of International Affairs<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/thebulletin.org\/lasting-toll-semipalatinsks-nuclear-testing\" >The lasting toll of Semipalitinsk\u2019s nuclear testing \u2013 TheBulletin.org<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/publication\/12566948_External_doses_of_residents_near_Semipalatinsk_nuclear_test_site\" >External Doses of Residents near Semipalitinsk Nuclear Test Site \u2013 ResearchGate.net<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.irpa.net\/irpa10\/cdrom\/00504.pdf\" >Radiation Exposure on Residents due to Semipalitinsk Nuclear Tests \u2013 IRPA.net<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1948\u00a0 <\/strong>Deputy commander-in-chief of the Eastern China Field Army General <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Su_Yu\" >Su Yu<\/a> launches a massive offensive toward <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Xuzhou\" >Xuzhou<\/a>, defended by seven different armies under the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Suppression_General_Headquarter_of_Xuzhou_Garrison\" >Suppression General Headquarter of Xuzhou Garrison<\/a>, the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Huaihai_Campaign\" >Huaihai Campaign<\/a>. The largest operational campaign of the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chinese_Civil_War\" >Chinese Civil War<\/a> begins.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1944\u00a0 <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Plutonium\" >Plutonium<\/a> is first produced at the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hanford_Site\" >Hanford Atomic Facility<\/a> and subsequently used in the <em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fat_Man\" >Fat Man<\/a><\/em> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Atomic_bomb\" >atomic bomb<\/a> dropped on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nagasaki\" >Nagasaki<\/a>, Japan.<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/cr4.globalspec.com\/blogentry\/10666\/November-6-1944-Plutonium-Production-Begins\" >November 6, 1944 \u2013 Plutonium Production Begins \u2013 GlobalSpec.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2009\/11\/1106nuclear-weapons\/\" > 6, 1944 &amp; 1971: A DOUBLE NUKE ANNIVESARY \u2013 Wired.com<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1943\u00a0 <\/strong>World War II: The Soviet <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Red_Army\" >Red Army<\/a> recaptures <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kiev\" >Kiev<\/a>. Before withdrawing, the Germans destroy most of the city&#8217;s ancient buildings.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>Battle of Kiev of 1943:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Battle_of_Kiev_%281943%29\" >Battle of Kiev (1943) \u2013 Wikipedia<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/johnstownhistory.blogspot.com\/2014\/11\/november-5-1943-red-army-strikes-at-kiev.html\" >NOVEMBER 5, 1943: RED ARMY STRIKES KIEV \u2013 JOHNSTOWN \u2013 History<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4bILVAc1wPo\" >YouTube video (5 min. 24 sec.): Red Army fighting for Kiev<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1942\u00a0 <\/strong>World War II: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carlson%27s_patrol\" >Carlson&#8217;s patrol<\/a> during the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Guadalcanal_Campaign\" >Guadalcanal Campaign<\/a> begins.<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Naval_Battle_of_Guadalcanal\" >Naval Battle of Guadalcanal \u2013 Wikipedia<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.combinedfleet.com\/battles\/Guadalcanal_Campaign\" >Guadalcanal Naval Battles \u2013 CombinedFleet.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/microworks.net\/PACIFIC\/battles\/naval_battle_guadalcanal_1.htm\" >Close Encounters: The First Naval Battle of Guadalcanal \u2013 12<sup>th<\/sup>\/13<sup>th<\/sup> November, 1942 \u2013 MicroWorks.net<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.friesian.com\/history\/guadal.htm\" >A Guadalcanal Chronology &amp; Order of Battle \u2013 7 August 1942 \u2013 6 March 1943 \u2013 Friesian.com<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1941\u00a0 <\/strong>World War II: Soviet leader <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Joseph_Stalin\" >Joseph Stalin<\/a> addresses the Soviet Union for only the second time during his 27-year rule. He falsely states that even though 350,000 troops were killed in <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nazi_Germany\" >German<\/a> attacks so far, the Germans had lost 4.5 million soldiers and that Soviet victory was near.<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.historydoctor.net\/Advanced%20Placement%20European%20History\/Notes\/soviet_union_under_stalin.htm\" >The Soviet Union under Stalin \u2013 HistoryDoctor.net<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/study.com\/academy\/lesson\/the-soviet-union-under-stalin.html\" >The Soviet Union under Stalin: Five-Year Plan, Purges &amp; Policies \u2013 Study.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.history.com\/topics\/joseph-stalin\" >JOSEPH STALIN \u2013 History.com<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1939\u00a0 <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/World_War_II\" >World War II<\/a>: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sonderaktion_Krakau\" >Sonderaktion Krakau<\/a> takes place.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1936\u00a0 <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Edwin_Armstrong\" >Edwin Armstrong<\/a> presents his paper &#8220;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/FM_broadcasting\" >A Method of Reducing Disturbances in Radio Signaling by a System of Frequency Modulation<\/a>&#8221; to the New York section of the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Institute_of_Radio_Engineers\" >Institute of Radio Engineers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1928\u00a0 <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Arnold_Rothstein\" >Arnold Rothstein<\/a>, the head of the Jewish mob in New York, was shot and mortally wounded on November 4, and died on November 6. He was assassinated by George &#8220;Hump&#8221; McManus, for failing to pay a large gambling debt.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1918\u00a0 <\/strong>The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Second_Polish_Republic\" >Second Polish Republic<\/a> is proclaimed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>Second Poland Republic:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.traveltopoland.com\/en\/history\/second-polish-republic.html?start=1\" >Second Polish Republic (1918-1939) &#8211; From democracy to authoritarian government \u2013 TravelToPoland.com<\/a>, <strong><em>and<\/em><\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.traveltopoland.com\/history\/second-polish-republic.html?aohc=&amp;pm=%3DY7p6W6y%2Fbe9kvv5x7ut&amp;h=3a50911aa9f1a3494d90651e2748edbccf2bbc90&amp;k=563348d39c1582218340.3251003&amp;ban=2218340&amp;zp=http%3A%2F%2Fzt1.zeroredirect1.com%2Fzcvisitor%2F77765fa2-7ef2-11e5-b59d-12fd62ce8bad&amp;time=1446201555\" >Second Polish Republic (1918-1939) \u2013 TravelToPoland.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/subtitle.clubfilm.ir\/index.php?q=uggcf%3A%2F%2Fra.jvxvcrqvn.bet%2Fjvxv%2FCevzr_Zvavfgre_bs_Cbynaq#Second_Republic\" >Second Republic \u2013 History of Poland (1918-1939) \u2013 ClubFilm.ir<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>History of Poland:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/History_of_Poland\" >History of Poland &#8211; Wikipedia<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.historyworld.net\/wrldhis\/PlainTextHistories.asp?historyid=ab01\" >HISTORY OF POLAND \u2013 HistoryWorld.net<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lonelyplanet.com\/poland\/history\" >Poland \u2013 History \u2013 LonelyPlanet.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.britannica.com\/topic\/history-of-Poland\" >History of Poland \u2013 Encyclopedia Britannica<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/countrystudies.us\/poland\/\" >Poland \u2013 HISTORY \u2013 CountryStudies.us<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.localhistories.org\/poland.html\" >A BRIEF HISTORY OF POLAND \u2013 LocalHistories.org<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org\/jsource\/vjw\/Poland.html\" >Poland \u2013 The Virtual Jewish World \u2013 Jewish Virtual Library<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rootsweb.ancestry.com\/~polwgw\/history.html\" >Timeline of Polish History \u2013 Roots Web \u2013 Ancestry.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/info-poland.buffalo.edu\/classroom\/maps\/task4.html\" >Historical Maps of Poland \u2013 Buffalo.edu<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-europe-17754512\" >Poland country profile \u2013 Timeline &#8211; BBC<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1917\u00a0 <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/World_War_I\" >World War I<\/a>: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Third_Battle_of_Ypres\" >Third Battle of Ypres<\/a> ends: After three months of fierce fighting, Canadian forces take <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Passendale\" >Passchendaele<\/a> in Belgium.<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/historywarsweapons.com\/third-battle-of-ypres\/\" >Third Battle of Ypres \u2013 HistoryWarsWeapons.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/militaryhistory.about.com\/od\/WWIWesternFront\/p\/World-War-I-Battle-Of-Passchendaele-Third-Ypres.htm\" >World War I: Battle of Passchendaele (Third Ypres) \u2013 About.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/greatwar\/maps\/maps_ypres.html\" >The Battle of Ypres \u2013 THE GREAT WAR \u2013 PBS.org<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/history\/worldwars\/wwone\/battle_passchendaele.shtml\" >Battle of Passchendaele: 31 July \u2013 6 November 1917 \u2013 History \u2013 BBC<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/worldhistoryproject.org\/1917\/7\/11\/third-battle-of-ypres-battle-of-passchendaele\" >Jul 11 1917 \u2013 Nov 10 1917: Third Battle of Ypres (Battle of Passchendaele) \u2013 WorldHistoryProject.org<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.historyofwar.org\/articles\/battles_ypres3.html\" >Third Battle of Ypres, 21 July- 6 November 1917 \u2013 HistoryOfWar.org<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1913\u00a0 <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mahatma_Gandhi\" >Mohandas Gandhi<\/a> is arrested while leading a march of Indian miners in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>NOVEMBER 7<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>2004\u00a0 <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iraq_War\" >Iraq War<\/a>: The interim government of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iraq\" >Iraq<\/a> calls for a 60-day &#8220;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/State_of_emergency\" >state of emergency<\/a>&#8221; as U.S. forces storm the insurgent stronghold of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fallujah\" >Fallujah<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>2002\u00a0 <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iran\" >Iran<\/a> bans <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Advertising\" >advertising<\/a> of United States products.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>2001\u00a0 <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sabena\" >SABENA<\/a>, the national airline of Belgium, goes bankrupt.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>2000\u00a0 <\/strong>The US <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Drug_Enforcement_Administration\" >Drug Enforcement Administration<\/a> discovers one of the country&#8217;s largest <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lysergic_acid_diethylamide\" >LSD<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_Leonard_Pickard\" >labs<\/a> inside a converted military <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Missile_silo\" >missile silo<\/a> in <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wamego,_Kansas\" >Wamego, Kansas<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>2000\u00a0 <\/strong>Controversial <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_presidential_election,_2000\" >US presidential election<\/a> that is later resolved in the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bush_v._Gore\" >Bush v. Gore<\/a> Supreme Court Case.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>2000\u00a0 <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hillary_Rodham_Clinton\" >Hillary Rodham Clinton<\/a> is elected to the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_Senate\" >United States Senate<\/a>, becoming the first former <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/First_Lady_of_the_United_States\" >First Lady<\/a> to win public office in the United States, although she was actually still the First Lady.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1996\u00a0 <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/NASA\" >NASA<\/a> launches the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mars_Global_Surveyor\" >Mars Global Surveyor<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1994\u00a0 <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WXYC\" >WXYC<\/a>, the student radio station of the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/University_of_North_Carolina_at_Chapel_Hill\" >University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill<\/a>, provides the world&#8217;s first <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Webcast\" >internet radio broadcast<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1991\u00a0 <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Magic_Johnson\" >Magic Johnson<\/a> announces that he is infected with <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/HIV\" >HIV<\/a> and retires from the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/National_Basketball_Association\" >NBA<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1990\u00a0 <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mary_Robinson\" >Mary Robinson<\/a> becomes the first woman to be elected <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/President_of_Ireland\" >President of the Republic of Ireland<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1989\u00a0 <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/East_Germany\" >East German<\/a> Prime Minister <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Willi_Stoph\" >Willi Stoph<\/a>, along with his entire cabinet, is forced to resign after huge anti-government protests.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1989\u00a0 <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/David_Dinkins\" >David Dinkins<\/a> becomes the first <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/African_American\" >African American<\/a> to be elected <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mayor_of_New_York_City\" >Mayor of New York City<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1987\u00a0 <\/strong>Singapore&#8217;s first <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mass_Rapid_Transit_%28Singapore%29\" >Mass Rapid Transit<\/a> line was opened, starting with train services between <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yio_Chu_Kang\" >Yio Chu Kang<\/a> and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Toa_Payoh\" >Toa Payoh<\/a> stations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1987\u00a0 <\/strong>In <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tunisia\" >Tunisia<\/a>, president <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Habib_Bourguiba\" >Habib Bourguiba<\/a> is overthrown and replaced by Prime Minister <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zine_El_Abidine_Ben_Ali\" >Zine El Abidine Ben Ali<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1983\u00a0 <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1983_United_States_Senate_bombing\" >United States Senate bombing<\/a>: A bomb explodes inside the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_Capitol\" >United States Capitol<\/a>. No one is injured, but an estimated $250,000 in damage is caused.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1975\u00a0 <\/strong>In <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bangladesh\" >Bangladesh<\/a>, a joint force of people and soldiers takes part in an uprising led by Colonel <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Abu_Taher\" >Abu Taher<\/a> that ousts and kills Brigadier <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Khaled_Mosharraf\" >Khaled Mosharraf<\/a>, freeing the then <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/House_arrest\" >house-arrested<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chief_of_Army_Staff_of_the_Bangladesh_Army\" >army chief<\/a> and future <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/President_of_Bangladesh\" >president<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Major_General\" >Maj-Gen.<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ziaur_Rahman\" >Ziaur Rahman<\/a>. The day is occasionally observed as the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/National_Revolution_and_Solidarity_Day\" >National Revolution and Solidarity Day<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1973\u00a0 <\/strong>The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_Congress\" >United States Congress<\/a> overrides President <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Richard_M._Nixon\" >Richard M. Nixon<\/a>&#8216;s veto of the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/War_Powers_Resolution\" >War Powers Resolution<\/a>, which limits presidential power to wage war without congressional approval.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1973<\/strong>\u00a0 US and Egypt announce restoration of full diplomatic links.<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.state.gov\/r\/pa\/ei\/bgn\/5309.htm\" >US Relations with Egypt \u2013 US Department of State<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/usforeignpolicy.about.com\/od\/countryprofi3\/p\/usegyptprofile.htm\" >The US-Egyptian Relationship \u2013 About.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Foreign_relations_of_Egypt\" >Foreign relations of Egypt \u2013 Wikipedia<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/fas.org\/sgp\/crs\/mideast\/RL33003.pdf\" >Egypt: Background and the US Relations, by Jeremy M Sharp \u2013 July 24, 2015 \u2013 Congressional Research Service \u2013 FAS.org &#8211; pdf<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/teachinghistory.org\/history-content\/ask-a-historian\/23930\" >The US and Egypt in the 1950s \u2013 TeachingHistory.org<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1967\u00a0 <\/strong>US President <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lyndon_B._Johnson\" >Lyndon B. Johnson<\/a> signs the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Public_Broadcasting_Act_of_1967\" >Public Broadcasting Act of 1967<\/a>, establishing the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Corporation_for_Public_Broadcasting\" >Corporation for Public Broadcasting<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1967\u00a0 <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carl_Stokes\" >Carl B Stokes<\/a> is elected as Mayor of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cleveland,_Ohio\" >Cleveland, Ohio<\/a>, becoming the first <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/African_American\" >African American<\/a> mayor of a major American city.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1968\u00a0 <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ctbto.org\/nuclear-testing\/the-effects-of-nuclear-testing\/the-soviet-unionsnuclear-testing-programme\/\" >USSR performs nuclear test<\/a> at <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Novaya_Zemlya\" >Novaya Zemlya<\/a> USSR.<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.globalsecurity.org\/wmd\/world\/russia\/novaya_zemlya_nuc.htm\" >Novaya Zemlya \u2013 GlobalSecurity.org<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.atlasobscura.com\/places\/novaya-zemlya\" >NOVAYA ZEMLYA \u2013 AtlasObscura.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.giantbomb.com\/novaya-zemlya\/3035-3167\/\" >Novaya Zemlya \u2013 GiantBomb.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.arkcode.com\/custom3_64.html\" >NOVA ZEMLYA (NOVAYA ZEMLYA) 58 MEGA TON H BOMB TEST \u2013 ArkCode.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nti.org\/facilities\/924\/\" >Central Test Site of Russia on Novaya Zemlya \u2013 NTI.org<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www1.american.edu\/ted\/ice\/novalya.htm\" >ICE Case Studies \u2013 Novaya Zemlya, by Carrie McVicker \u2013 American.edu<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/earthobservatory.nasa.gov\/IOTD\/view.php?id=39591\" >Novaya Zemlya Archipelago \u2013 Image \u2013 NASA<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/novayazemlya.net\/\" >Novaya Zemlya Archipelago \u2013 NovayaZemlya.net<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nuclear-risks.org\/en\/hibakusha-worldwide\/novaya-zemlya.html\" >Novaya Zemlya, Russia \u2013 Nuclear-Risks.org<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/tass.ru\/en\/russia\/743105\" >Novaya Zemlya: test site for most powerful nuclear bomb ever detonated \u2013 July 31, 2014 \u2013 TASS Russian News Agency<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nuclearno.com\/text.asp?11073\" >Novaya Zemlya: birds, animals adapt nuclear test site, by Tatyana Sinitsyna \u2013 RIA Novosti, Russia \u2013 15 August 2006<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/pubs.usgs.gov\/of\/1993\/0501\/report.pdf\" >UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR GEOGRPAPHICAL SURVEY \u2013 Physical Environment of the Underground Nuclear Test Site on Novaya Zemlya, Russia, by John R. Matzko \u2013 Open-File Report 93-501 \u2013 Reston, Virginia &#8211; 1993<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ldeo.columbia.edu\/~richards\/my_papers\/khalturin_NZ_1-42%20.pdf\" >A Review of the Nuclear Testing by the Soviet Union at Novaya Zemlya, 1955 \u2013 1990, by Vitaly I. Khalturin, Tatyana G. Rautian, Paul G. Richards, and William S. Leith \u2013 Columbia.edu<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1963\u00a0 <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wunder_von_Lengede\" >Wunder von Lengede<\/a>: In Germany, eleven miners are rescued from a collapsed <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mining\" >mine<\/a> after 14 days.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1957\u00a0 <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cold_War\" >Cold War<\/a>: The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gaither_Report\" >Gaither Report<\/a> calls for more American missiles and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fallout_shelter\" >fallout shelters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1956\u00a0 <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Suez_Crisis\" >Suez Crisis<\/a>: The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_Nations_General_Assembly\" >United Nations General Assembly<\/a> adopts a resolution calling for the United Kingdom, France and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Israel\" >Israel<\/a> to immediately withdraw their troops from <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Egypt\" >Egypt<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>UN Documentation Guide and UNGA Res 1002 of Nov 7, 1956:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/research.un.org\/en\/docs\/find\/resolutions\" >UN Documentation: How to Find UN Documents \u2013 UN Dag Hammarskj\u00f6ld Library \u2013 Research Guide<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/unispal.un.org\/UNISPAL.NSF\/0\/C74DD46AB4640AEF852560DF0067C227\" >UN General Assembly Resolution 1002 of November 7, 1956 A\/RES\/1002\/(ES-I)<\/a> <strong><em>or<\/em><\/strong> the same resolution on this website: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org\/jsource\/UN\/unga1002.html\" >UN General Assembly Resolution 1002 of November 7, 1956 (A\/RES\/1002\/ES-I) \u2013 Jewish Virtual Library<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>Suez Crisis of 1956:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.history.com\/topics\/cold-war\/suez-crisis\" >SUEZ CRISIS \u2013 History.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.history.com\/this-day-in-history\/israel-invades-egypt-suez-crisis-begins\" >OCT 29, 1956: THIS DAY IN HISTORY &#8211; Israel Invades Egypt; Suez Crisis begins \u2013 History.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.britannica.com\/event\/Suez-Crisis\" >Suez Crisis \u2013 Encyclopedia Britannica<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/history.state.gov\/milestones\/1953-1960\/suez\" >The Suez Crisis 1956 \u2013 OFFICE of the HISTORIAN \u2013 US Department of State<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/americanforeignpolicy.pbworks.com\/w\/page\/12563742\/Suez%20Crisis%2C%201956\" >Suez Crisis, 1956 \u2013 AmericanForeignPolicy.PBWorks.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/history\/british\/modern\/suez_01.shtml\" >The Suez Crisis, by Laurie Milner \u2013 History \u2013 BBC<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reformation.org\/1956-suez-canal-crisis.html\" >The 1956 Suez Canal Crisis!! \u2013 Reformation.org<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1954\u00a0 <\/strong>US spy plane shot down North of Japan.<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theminiaturespage.com\/boards\/msg.mv?id=258352\" >\u201c<em>November 7th 1954 USAF RB-29 Superfortress was shot down by cannon fire from two MiG-15 fighters near northern Japan. Ten of the eleven-man crew was rescued while one unlucky crewman drowned.\u201d \u2013 \u201cUS-Soviet Shoot Down Incidents in the Cold War<\/em>\u201d Topic<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1951\u00a0 <\/strong>Constitution of Jordan passes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>Constitution of Jordan of January 1, 1952 (passed on November 7, 1951):<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kinghussein.gov.jo\/constitution_jo.html\" >The Constitution of The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan \u2013 January 1, 1952 \u2013 KingHussein.gov.jo<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>Jordan:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/countrystudies.us\/jordan\/\" >Jordan \u2013 CountryStudies.us<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cia.gov\/library\/publications\/the-world-factbook\/geos\/jo.html\" >Jordan \u2013 THE WORLD FACTBOOK &#8211; CIA<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/middleeast.about.com\/od\/jordan\/p\/me071114.htm\" >Jordan: Country Profile \u2013 About.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Foreign_relations_of_Jordan\" >Foreign relations of Jordan \u2013 Wikipedia<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kinghussein.gov.jo\/f_affairs.html\" >Jordan \u2013 Foreign Affairs \u2013 King Hussein<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foreignaffairs.com\/articles\/jordan\/1993-12-01\/jordan-doomed\" >Is Jordan Doomed? By Lawrence Tal, &#8211; December 1993 Issue &#8211; Foreign Affairs<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>History of Jordan:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/History_of_Jordan\" >History of Jordan \u2013 Wikipedia<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.britannica.com\/topic\/history-of-Jordan\" >History of Jordan \u2013 Encyclopedia Britannica<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.infoplease.com\/encyclopedia\/world\/jordan-country-asia-history.html\" >Jordan \u2013 History \u2013 Infoplease.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lonelyplanet.com\/jordan\/history\" >Jordan \u2013 History \u2013 LonelyPlanet.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/philologos.org\/bpr\/files\/misc_studies\/ms043b.htm\" >Background History of Jordan \u2013 Philologos.org<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-middle-east-14636713\" >Jordan profile \u2013 Timeline &#8211; BBC<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1949\u00a0 <\/strong>The first oil was taken in <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Neft_Da%C5%9Flar%C4%B1\" >Oil Rocks (Neft Da\u015flar\u0131)<\/a>, oldest offshore oil platform.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1944\u00a0 <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Franklin_D._Roosevelt\" >Franklin D. Roosevelt<\/a> elected for a record fourth term as President of the United States of America.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1944\u00a0 <\/strong>Soviet spy <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Richard_Sorge\" >Richard Sorge<\/a>, a half-Russian, half-German World War I veteran, is hanged by his Japanese captors along with 34 of his ring.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1941\u00a0 <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/World_War_II\" >World War II<\/a>: Soviet <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hospital_ship\" >hospital ship<\/a> <em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Armenia_%28Soviet_hospital_ship%29\" >Armenia<\/a><\/em> is sunk by German planes while evacuating refugees and wounded military and staff of several <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Crimea\" >Crimean<\/a> hospitals. It is estimated that over 5,000 people died in the sinking.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1931 <\/strong>The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chinese_Soviet_Republic\" >Chinese Soviet Republic<\/a> is proclaimed on the anniversary of the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/October_Revolution\" >October Revolution<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1929\u00a0 <\/strong>In New York City, the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Museum_of_Modern_Art\" >Museum of Modern Art<\/a> opens to the public.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1920\u00a0 <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Patriarch_Tikhon_of_Moscow\" >Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow<\/a> issues a decree that leads to the formation of the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Russian_Orthodox_Church_Outside_Russia\" >Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1919\u00a0 <\/strong>The first <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Palmer_Raids\" >Palmer Raid<\/a> is conducted on the second anniversary of the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Russian_Revolution\" >Russian Revolution<\/a>. Over 10,000 suspected communists and anarchists are arrested in twenty-three different US cities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1918\u00a0 <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kurt_Eisner\" >Kurt Eisner<\/a> overthrows the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wittelsbach_dynasty\" >Wittelsbach dynasty<\/a> in the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kingdom_of_Bavaria\" >Kingdom of Bavaria<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1918\u00a0 <\/strong>The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1918_influenza_epidemic\" >1918 influenza epidemic<\/a> spreads to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Western_Samoa\" >Western Samoa<\/a>, killing 7,542 (about 20% of the population) by the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1917\u00a0 <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/World_War_I\" >World War I<\/a>: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Third_Battle_of_Gaza\" >Third Battle of Gaza<\/a> ends: British forces capture <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gaza_City\" >Gaza<\/a> from the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ottoman_Empire\" >Ottoman Empire<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1917\u00a0 <\/strong>The Gregorian calendar date of the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/October_Revolution\" >October Revolution<\/a>, which gets its name from the Julian calendar date of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/25_October\" >25 October<\/a>. On this date in 1917, the Bolsheviks storm the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Winter_Palace\" >Winter Palace<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1916\u00a0 <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jeannette_Rankin\" >Jeannette Rankin<\/a> is the first woman elected to the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_Congress\" >United States Congress<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1914\u00a0 <\/strong>The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/German_Empire\" >German<\/a> colony of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jiaozhou_Bay\" >Kiaochow Bay<\/a> and its centre at <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Qingdao\" >Tsingtao<\/a> are captured by Japanese forces.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1912\u00a0 <\/strong>The Deutsche Opernhaus (now <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Deutsche_Oper_Berlin\" >Deutsche Oper Berlin<\/a>) opens in the Berlin neighborhood of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Charlottenburg\" >Charlottenburg<\/a>, with a production of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ludwig_van_Beethoven\" >Beethoven<\/a>&#8216;s <em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fidelio\" >Fidelio<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1910\u00a0 <\/strong>The first <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Air_freight\" >air freight<\/a> shipment (from <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dayton,_Ohio\" >Dayton, Ohio<\/a>, to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Columbus,_Ohio\" >Columbus, Ohio<\/a>) is undertaken by the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wright_brothers\" >Wright brothers<\/a> and department store owner Max Moorehouse.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1908\u00a0 <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Butch_Cassidy\" >Butch Cassidy<\/a> and the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sundance_Kid\" >Sundance Kid<\/a> are reportedly killed in San Vicente, Bolivia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1907\u00a0 <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jes%C3%BAs_Garc%C3%ADa\" >Jes\u00fas Garc\u00eda<\/a> saves the entire town of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nacozari_de_Garc%C3%ADa\" >Nacozari de Garc\u00eda<\/a> by driving a burning train full of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dynamite\" >dynamite<\/a> six kilometers (3.7 miles) away before it can explode.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1900\u00a0 <\/strong>The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/People%27s_Party_%28Cuba%29\" >People&#8217;s Party<\/a> is founded in <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cuba\" >Cuba<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1900\u00a0 <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Battle_of_Leliefontein\" >Battle of Leliefontein<\/a>, a battle during which the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Royal_Canadian_Dragoons\" >Royal Canadian Dragoons<\/a> win three <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Victoria_Cross\" >Victoria Crosses<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1893\u00a0 <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Women%27s_suffrage_in_the_United_States\" >Women&#8217;s suffrage<\/a>: Women in the US state of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Colorado\" >Colorado<\/a> are granted the right to vote, the second state to do so.<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.history.com\/topics\/womens-history\/the-fight-for-womens-suffrage\" >THE FIGHT FOR WOMEN\u2019S SUFFRAGE \u2013 History.com<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Women\" s_suffrage_in_the_United_States\">Women\u2019s suffrage in the United States &#8211; Wikipedia<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/teacher.scholastic.com\/activities\/suffrage\/history.htm\" >HISTORY OF WOMEN\u2019S SUFFRAGE \u2013 Women\u2019s Suffrage \u2013 Scholatic.com<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.archives.gov\/education\/lessons\/woman-suffrage\/\" >Teaching With Documents: Woman Suffrage and the 19<sup>th<\/sup> Amendment \u2013 NATIONAL ARCHIVES \u2013 Archives.gov<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ipu.org\/wmn-e\/suffrage.htm\" >WOMEN\u2019S SUFFRAGE \u2013 IPU.org<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomu.edu\/wrc\/timeline\" >Women\u2019s History Timeline \u2013 Bloomberg University \u2013 BloomU.edu<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Timeline_of_women\" s_suffrage\">Timeline of women\u2019s suffrage &#8211; Wikipedia<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>NOVEMBER 8<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>2013\u00a0 <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Typhoon_Haiyan\" >Typhoon Haiyan<\/a>, one of the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_tropical_cyclone_records\" >strongest tropical cyclones<\/a> ever recorded, strikes the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Visayas\" >Visayas<\/a> region of the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Philippines\" >Philippines<\/a>. The storm left at least 6,340 people dead with over 1,000 still missing, and caused S$2.86 billion (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/US_dollar\" >USD<\/a>) in damage.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>2011\u00a0 <\/strong>The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Potentially_hazardous_asteroid\" >potentially hazardous asteroid<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2005_YU55\" >2005 YU55<\/a> passes 0.85 <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lunar_distance_%28astronomy%29\" >lunar distances<\/a> from Earth (about 324,600 kilometres or 201,700 miles), the closest known approach by an asteroid of its <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Absolute_magnitude#Solar_system\" >brightness<\/a> since <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2010_XC15\" >2010 XC15<\/a> in 1976.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>2004\u00a0 <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2003_invasion_of_Iraq\" >War in Iraq<\/a>: More than 10,000 US troops and a small number of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iraq\" >Iraqi<\/a> army units participate in a siege on the insurgent stronghold of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fallujah\" >Fallujah<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>2002\u00a0 <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iraq_disarmament_crisis\" >Iraq disarmament crisis<\/a>: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UN_Security_Council_Resolution_1441\" >UN Security Council Resolution 1441<\/a> \u2013 The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_Nations_Security_Council\" >United Nations Security Council<\/a> unanimously approves a resolution on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iraq\" >Iraq<\/a>, forcing <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Saddam_Hussein\" >Saddam Hussein<\/a> to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Disarmament\" >disarm<\/a> or face &#8220;serious consequences&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1987\u00a0 <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Remembrance_Day_bombing\" >Remembrance Day bombing<\/a>: A <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Provisional_Irish_Republican_Army\" >Provisional IRA<\/a> bomb explodes in <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Enniskillen\" >Enniskillen<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Northern_Ireland\" >Northern Ireland<\/a> during a ceremony honouring those who had died in wars involving British forces. Twelve people are killed and sixty-three wounded.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1985\u00a0 <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lloyd_J._Old\" >Lloyd J Old<\/a> discovery of tumor necrosis factor (TNF), a key immune signaling molecule (cytokine) that, in addition to its promise for the treatment of cancer and other diseases.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1977\u00a0 <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Manolis_Andronikos\" >Manolis Andronikos<\/a>, a Greek archaeologist and professor at the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Aristotle_University_of_Thessaloniki\" >Aristotle University of Thessaloniki<\/a>, discovers the tomb of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Philip_II_of_Macedon\" >Philip II of Macedon<\/a> at <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vergina\" >Vergina<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1968\u00a0 <\/strong>The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vienna_Convention_on_Road_Traffic\" >Vienna Convention on Road Traffic<\/a> is signed to facilitate international road traffic and to increase road safety by standardising the uniform traffic rules among the signatories.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1967\u00a0 <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ctbto.org\/nuclear-testing\/the-effects-of-nuclear-testing\/the-united-states-nuclear-testing-programme\/\" >US performs nuclear test<\/a> at <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nevada_Test_Site\" >Nevada Test Site<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_nuclear_weapons_tests_of_the_United_States\" >List of the nuclear weapons tests of the United States &#8211; Wikipedia<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nuclear_weapons_and_the_United_States\" >Nuclear Weapons and the United States \u2013 Wikipedia<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.atomcentral.com\/the-cold-war.aspx\" >The Cold War \u2013 AtomCentral.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/fas.org\/nuke\/guide\/usa\/facility\/nts.htm\" >NEVADA TEST SITE \u2013 FAS.org<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.globalsecurity.org\/wmd\/facility\/nts.htm\" >NEVADA TEST SITE \u2013 GlobalSecurity.org<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.onlinenevada.org\/articles\/nevada-test-site-overview\" >Nevada Test Site Overview \u2013 OnlineNevada.org<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/about\/projects\/archive\/nucweapons\/nts\" >Nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site \u2013 Brookings.edu<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/toxipedia.org\/display\/wanmec\/Nevada+Test+Site\" >Nevada Test Site \u2013 Toxipedia.org<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/digital.library.unlv.edu\/ntsohp\/\" >Nevada Test Site \u2013 Oral History Project<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/archure.net\/liberty\/nukenevada.html\" >NUKE TESTING in NEVADA \u2013 Archure.net<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nv.doe.gov\/library\/publications\/Environmental\/DOENV_11718_594.pdf\" >ECOLOGY OF THE NEVADA TEST SITE: AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nevadatestsite.info\/\" >Nevada Test Site Workers Exposed to Radiation \u2013 National Cancer Benefits Center \u2013 NevadaTestSite.info<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/about\/projects\/archive\/nucweapons\/50\" >50 Facts About the US Nuclear Weapons \u2013 Brookings.edu<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/nuclearweaponarchive.org\/Usa\/Tests\/\" >Gallery of US Nuclear Tests \u2013 NuclearWeaponArchive.org<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.acq.osd.mil\/ncbdp\/nm\/nm_book_5_11\/index.htm\" >The Nuclear Matters Handbook<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>Nuclear Weapons and the United States:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nuclear_weapons_and_the_United_States\" >Nuclear Weapons and the United States \u2013 Wikipedia<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.state.gov\/t\/us\/2014\/231697.htm\" >Nuclear Weapons Testing: History, Progress, Challenges: Verifications and Entry into Force of the CTBT \u2013 US Department of State<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.state.gov\/t\/avc\/rls\/202015.htm\" >US Nuclear Weapons Stockpile Life Extension Programs &#8211; January 3, 2013 \u2013 US Department of State<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/research\/articles\/2014\/04\/28-50-nuclear-facts\" >50 Facts About US Nuclear Weapons Today \u2013 April 28, 2014 \u2013 Brookings.edu<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.heritage.org\/research\/lecture\/2012\/08\/the-future-of-the-us-nuclear-triad\" >The Future of the US Nuclear Weapons Program, by Michaela Dodge \u2013 The Heritage Foundation<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.armscontrol.org\/act\/1997_05\/nas\" >The Future of the US Nuclear Weapons Policy \u2013 Arms Control Association<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/publication\/252183576_The_Future_of_the_U.S._Nuclear_Weapons_Program\" >The Future of the US Nuclear Weapons Program, by Linton F. Brooks \u2013 ResearchGate.net<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.state.gov\/t\/us\/2014\/233254.htm\" >US Nuclear Weapons Policy in the 21<sup>st<\/sup> Century &#8211; Rose Gottemoeller, Under Secretary\u00a0for Arms Control and International Security, \u00a0Dixie State University, St. George, Utah &#8211; October 21, 2014 \u2013 US Department of State<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1966\u00a0 <\/strong>US President <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lyndon_B._Johnson\" >Lyndon B Johnson<\/a> signs into law an <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Antitrust\" >antitrust<\/a> exemption allowing the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/National_Football_League\" >National Football League<\/a> to merge with the upstart <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/American_Football_League\" >American Football League<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1966\u00a0 <\/strong>Former <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Massachusetts\" >Massachusetts<\/a> Attorney General <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Edward_Brooke\" >Edward Brooke<\/a> becomes the first <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/African_American\" >African American<\/a> elected to the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_Senate\" >United States Senate<\/a> since <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Reconstruction_Era\" >Reconstruction<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1965\u00a0 <\/strong>The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/173rd_Airborne\" >173rd Airborne<\/a> is ambushed by over 1,200 <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Viet_Cong\" >Viet Cong<\/a> in <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Operation_Hump\" >Operation Hump<\/a> during the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vietnam_War\" >Vietnam War<\/a>, while the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1st_Battalion,_Royal_Australian_Regiment\" >1st Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment<\/a> fight one of the first set-piece engagements of the war between Australian forces and the Viet Cong at the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Battle_of_Gang_Toi\" >Battle of Gang Toi<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1965\u00a0 <\/strong>The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Murder_%28Abolition_of_Death_Penalty%29_Act_1965\" >Murder (Abolition of Death Penalty) Act 1965<\/a> is given Royal Assent, formally abolishing the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Death_penalty\" >death penalty<\/a> in the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1965\u00a0 <\/strong>The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/British_Indian_Ocean_Territory\" >British Indian Ocean Territory<\/a> is created, consisting of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chagos_Archipelago\" >Chagos Archipelago<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Aldabra\" >Aldabra<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Farquhar_Group\" >Farquhar<\/a> and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Des_Roches\" >Des Roches<\/a> islands.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1960\u00a0 <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_F._Kennedy\" >John F Kennedy<\/a> defeats <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Richard_Nixon\" >Richard Nixon<\/a> in one of the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_presidential_election,_1960\" >closest presidential elections<\/a> of the twentieth century to become the 35th president of the United States.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1957\u00a0 <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Operation_Grapple#Grapple_X\" >Operation Grapple X, Round C1<\/a>: the United Kingdom conducts its first successful <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hydrogen_bomb\" >hydrogen bomb<\/a> test over <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kiritimati\" >Kiritimati<\/a> in the Pacific.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>United Kingdom and its Nuclear Weapon Programme:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ctbto.org\/nuclear-testing\/the-effects-of-nuclear-testing\/the-united-kingdomsnuclear-testing-programme\/\" >THE UNITED KINGDOM\u2019S NUCLEAR TESTING PROGRMME \u2013 CTBTO<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/nuclearweaponarchive.org\/Uk\/UKTesting.html\" >British Nuclear Testing \u2013 NuclearWeaponArchive.org<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nuclear_weapons_and_the_United_Kingdom\" >Nuclear weapons and the United Kingdom \u2013 Wikipedia<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/atomicarchive.com\/History\/coldwar\/page10.shtml\" >Cold War: A Brief History \u2013 Britain Goes Nuclear \u2013 AtomicArchive.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thermonuclear_weapon\" >Thermonuclear weapon \u2013 Wikipedia<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.infoplease.com\/encyclopedia\/history\/hydrogen-bomb.html\" >Hydrogen Bomb \u2013 Infoplease.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/recomparison.com\/comparisons\/100447\/atomic-bomb-vs-hydrogen-bomb\/\" >Atomic Bomb vs. Hydrogen Bomb \u2013 ReComparison.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wisegeek.org\/what-is-a-hydrogen-bomb.htm\" >What is a Hydrogen Bomb? \u2013 WiseGeek.org<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/wiki\/United_Kingdom_atomic_weapons_program:_The_full_Penney_Report_%281947%29\" >United Kingdom atomic weapons program: The full Penney Report (1947) \u2013 WikiLeaks.org<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1956\u00a0 <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.forost.ungarisches-institut.de\/pdf\/19561109-1.pdf\" >UN General Assembly demands, in its resolution 1005 (ES II) of 9 November 1956, USSR leave Hungary<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>UN Resolutions on the Hungarian Situation of 1956:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.refworld.org\/docid\/3b00f1dd64.html\" >UNSC Resolution 120 (1956) of 4 November 1956 &#8211; S\/RES\/120 (1956)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.forost.ungarisches-institut.de\/pdf\/19561109-1.pdf\" >UNGA Resolution 1005 (ES II) of 9 November 1956 &#8211; pdf<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>Hungarian Revolution of 1956:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.history.com\/this-day-in-history\/hungarian-protest-turns-violent\" >OCT 23, 1956: ON THIS DAY: Hungarian protest turns violent \u2013 History.com<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/dailynewshungary.com\/1956-october-23-start-of-the-hungarian-revolution\/\" >1956 OCTOBER 23 \u2013 START OF THE HUNGARIAN REVOLUTION \u2013 23 Oct 2013 \u2013 DailyNewsHungary.com<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/fog.ccsf.cc.ca.us\/~sgati\/gatiproductions\/starting_over\/revolution.htm\" >\u201c<em>In 1945, during World War II, the Russians came in to liberate Hungary from the Nazis, but when the Communists took over in 1949, liberation became domination and the Hungarian government was totally subordinate to Soviet control. There was freedom in the air on October 23, 1956 when Hungarian students began demonstrating against the Communist government. The Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin had died three years before; and in March of 1956, Nikita Khrushchev had spoken out against Stalin at the 20th Party Congress<\/em>.\u201d &#8211; 1956 HUNGARIAN REVOLUTION<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/visitbudapest.travel\/budapest-events\/october-23\/\" >October 23<sup>rd<\/sup> \u2013 Revolution of 1956 \u2013 VisitBudapest.travel<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.budapestbylocals.com\/event\/23rd-october-1956-revolution\/\" >October 23<sup>rd<\/sup> 1956 Revolution \u2013 Budapest by Locals<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/uahsibhistory.wikispaces.com\/Hungarian+Revolution+of+1956\" >Hungarian Revolution of 1956 \u2013 UAHSIB History<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/nsarchive.gwu.edu\/NSAEBB\/NSAEBB76\/\" >The 1956 Hungarian Revolution: A History in Documents \u2013 GWU.edu<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.historyinanhour.com\/2013\/02\/21\/hungarian-revolution-of-1956-summary\/\" >The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 \u2013 a summary \u2013 February 21, 2013 \u2013 Historian in an Hour \u2013 HistorianInAnHour.com<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.coldwar.org\/articles\/50s\/HungarianRevolution.asp\" >HUNGARIAN REVOLUTION \u2013 THE COLD WAR MUSEUM<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.globalsecurity.org\/military\/world\/war\/hungary.htm\" >Soviet Invasion of Hungary \u2013 GlobalSecurity.org<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/fog.ccsf.cc.ca.us\/~sgati\/gatiproductions\/starting_over\/revolution.htm\" >The 1956 HUNGARIAN REVOLUTION \u2013 CCFC.CC.CA.us<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mtholyoke.edu\/~carne20a\/classweb\/Timeline.html\" >Timeline of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 \u2013 MTHOLYOKE.edu<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>History of Hungary:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/History_of_Hungary\" >History of Hungary \u2013 Wikipedia<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/countrystudies.us\/hungary\/\" >Hungary \u2013 CountryStudies.us<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/gotohungary.com\/history\/\" >HUNGARY\u2019S HISTORY IN A NUTSHELL \u2013 GoToHungary.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.historyworld.net\/wrldhis\/PlainTextHistories.asp?historyid=ab87\" >HISTORY OF HUNGARY \u2013 HistoryWorld.net<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/hungarianhistory.tripod.com\/\" >The History of Hungary \u2013 Tripod.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lonelyplanet.com\/hungary\/history\" >Hungary \u2013 History \u2013 LonelyPlanet.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.britannica.com\/topic\/history-of-Hungary\" >History of Hungary \u2013 Encyclopedia Britannica<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-17383522\" >Hungary profile: Timeline \u2013 BBC<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1950\u00a0 <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Korean_War\" >Korean War<\/a>: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_Air_Force\" >United States Air Force<\/a> Lt. Russell J. Brown, while piloting an <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/F-80_Shooting_Star\" >F-80 Shooting Star<\/a>, shoots down two <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/North_Korea\" >North Korean<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mikoyan-Gurevich_MiG-15\" >MiG-15s<\/a> in the first <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jet_aircraft\" >jet aircraft<\/a>-to-jet aircraft <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dogfight\" >dogfight<\/a> in history.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1942\u00a0 <\/strong>\u2013 World War II: French resistance coup in Algiers, in which 400 civilian French patriots neutralize Vichyist XIXth Army Corps after 15 hours of fighting, and arrest several Vichyst generals, allowing the immediate success of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Operation_Torch\" >Operation Torch<\/a> in Algiers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1942\u00a0 <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/World_War_II\" >World War II<\/a>: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Operation_Torch\" >Operation Torch<\/a> \u2013 United States and United Kingdom forces land in <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/French_North_Africa\" >French North Africa<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1940\u00a0 <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Greco-Italian_War\" >Greco-Italian War<\/a>: The Italian invasion of Greece fails as outnumbered Greek units repulse the Italians in the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Battle_of_Elaia%E2%80%93Kalamas\" >Battle of Elaia\u2013Kalamas<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1939\u00a0 <\/strong>In <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Munich\" >Munich<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Adolf_Hitler\" >Adolf Hitler<\/a> narrowly escapes the assassination attempt of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Georg_Elser\" >Georg Elser<\/a> while celebrating the 16th anniversary of the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Beer_Hall_Putsch\" >Beer Hall Putsch<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1939\u00a0 <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Venlo_Incident\" >Venlo Incident<\/a>: Two British agents of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Secret_Intelligence_Service\" >SIS<\/a> are captured by the Germans.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1937\u00a0 <\/strong>The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nazism\" >Nazi<\/a> exhibition <em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Eternal_Jew_%28art_exhibition%29\" >Der ewige Jude<\/a><\/em> (&#8220;The Eternal Jew&#8221;) opens in <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Munich\" >Munich<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1936\u00a0 <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Spanish_Civil_War\" >Spanish Civil War<\/a>: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Francoist_Spain\" >Francoist<\/a> troops fail in their effort to capture <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Madrid\" >Madrid<\/a>, but begin the 3-year <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Siege_of_Madrid\" >Siege of Madrid<\/a> afterwards.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1933\u00a0 <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Great_Depression\" >Great Depression<\/a>: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_Deal\" >New Deal<\/a> \u2013 US President <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Franklin_D._Roosevelt\" >Franklin D. Roosevelt<\/a> unveils the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Civil_Works_Administration\" >Civil Works Administration<\/a>, an organization designed to create jobs for more than 4 million unemployed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1923\u00a0 <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Beer_Hall_Putsch\" >Beer Hall Putsch<\/a>: In <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Munich\" >Munich<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Adolf_Hitler\" >Adolf Hitler<\/a> leads the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nazism\" >Nazis<\/a> in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the German government.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1917\u00a0 <\/strong>The People&#8217;s Commissars give authority to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vladimir_Lenin\" >Vladimir Lenin<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Leon_Trotsky\" >Leon Trotsky<\/a>, and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Joseph_Stalin\" >Joseph Stalin<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1901\u00a0 <\/strong>Bloody clashes take place in <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Athens\" >Athens<\/a> following the translation of the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gospels\" >Gospels<\/a> into <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Demotic_Greek\" >demotic Greek<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1898\u00a0 <\/strong>The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wilmington_Insurrection_of_1898\" >Wilmington Insurrection of 1898<\/a>, the only instance of an attempted <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Coup_d%27%C3%A9tat\" >coup d&#8217;\u00e9tat<\/a> in American history.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1895\u00a0 <\/strong>While experimenting with electricity, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wilhelm_R%C3%B6ntgen\" >Wilhelm R\u00f6ntgen<\/a> discovers the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/X-ray\" >X-ray<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1745\u00a0 <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Charles_Edward_Stuart\" >Charles Edward Stuart<\/a> invades England with an army of ~5000 that would later participate in the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Battle_of_Culloden\" >Battle of Culloden<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1644\u00a0 <\/strong>The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shunzhi_Emperor\" >Shunzhi Emperor<\/a>, the third emperor of the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Qing_dynasty\" >Qing dynasty<\/a>, is enthroned in Beijing after the collapse of the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ming_dynasty\" >Ming dynasty<\/a> as the first Qing emperor to rule over China.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>______________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>Satoshi Ashikaga, having worked as researcher, development program\/project officer, legal protection\/humanitarian assistance officer, human rights monitor-negotiator, managing-editor, and more, prefers a peaceful and prudent life, especially that in communion with nature.\u00a0 His previous work experiences, including those in war zones and war-torn zones, remind him of the invaluableness of peace.\u00a0 His interest and\/or expertise includes international affairs, international law, jurisprudence, economic and business affairs, project\/operations or organizational management, geography, history, the environmental\/ecological issues, audio\/visual documentation of nature and culture, and more. Being a member of the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/\" ><em>TRANSCEND Network for Peace, Development and Environment<\/em><\/a><em>, he is currently compiling <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/category\/history\/\" >This Week in History<\/a> <em>on <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/\" >TMS<\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>(<em>Sources and references:<\/em><\/strong><em> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/November_2\" >https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/November_2<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 to Novebmer_8; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.onthisday.com\/day\/novermber\/2\" >http:\/\/www.onthisday.com\/day\/novermber\/2<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 to november\/8; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.brainyhistory.com\/days\/novermber_2.html\" >http:\/\/www.brainyhistory.com\/days\/novermber_2.html<\/a> to _november_8.html; and other pertinent websites and\/or documents, mentioned above.<\/em><strong>)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>The views expressed in the cited or quoted websites and\/or documents in this article do not necessarily reflect those of the author of this article. These websites and\/or documents are cited or quoted for academic or educational purposes. Neither the author of this article nor the Transcend Media Service (TMS) is responsible for the contents, information, or whatsoever contained in these websites and\/or documents.<\/em><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>One of the primary purposes of this article is to provide the readers with opportunities to think about \u201cpeace\u201d, including positive peace and negative peace as well as external\/outer peace and internal\/inner peace, and more, directly or indirectly, from various angles and\/or in the broadest sense, through historical events. It is because this article is prepared specifically for the TMS whose main objective is to address \u201cpeace\u201d through peace journalism<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nov 2-8 QUOTE OF THE WEEK: \u201cTwenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn\u2019t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.\u201d \u2013 Mark Twain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}