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Role Of UN In Soviet Invasion Of
Afghanistan:
As the world began to see peace initiative after the end of the
catastrophic Second World War, the new power blocs started to polarize the
Mother Earth into spheres of influence
Villains Of The Millennium
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Osama Bin laden
America's enemy No 1 - A complete Biography
Tamerlane (Timur)
Tamerlane's life (c. 1336-1405) was spent conquering the inhabitants of Asia. A Turkik Mongol, his goal was to...
Ivan the
Terrible (Ivan IV)
On January 16, 1547, Ivan
became the first czar of Russia, ruling until 1584....
Maximillien
Robespierre
Robespierre was the mastermind of the
Reign of Terror (1793-1794), the dark underside of the
French Revolution.....
Joseph
Stalin
Totalitarian leader of the U.S.S.R.
from 1929-53,
Stalin crushed the Soviet peoples with his
...
Mao
Zedong (Mao Tse-tung)
A
despotic ideologue who controlled China from 1949-76, Mao subjected
the Chinese
Francois
"Papa Doc" Duvalier
Up
to 60,000 Haitians died under the 1957-71 reign of Duvalier, and
millions were ...
Nicolae
Ceausescu
Running a neo-Stalinist police state from 1967-89,
Nicolae Ceausescu wound the iron ...
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Idi Amin
Brutally authoritarian president of Uganda from 1971-79,
Idi Amin oversaw the torture and murder of an estimated 300,000 of
his own people....
Pol Pot
Radical Marxist leader of Cambodia from 1975-79,
who butchered his own people. The four years of nightmarish....
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World History (1910-1929)
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1910
Boy Scouts of America incorporated. Angel Island........
1911
First use of aircraft as offensive weapon in Turkish-Italian
War.......
1912
Balkan Wars (1912-1913) resulting from
territorial disputes.......
1913
Suffragettes demonstrate in London. Garment workers strike in New
York and Boston........
1914
World War I begins: Austrian Archduke Francis Ferdinand and wife
Sophie are assassinated.....
1915
Lusitania sunk by German submarine. Second Battle of Ypres. U.S.
banks lend $500......
1916
Congress expands armed forces. Battle of Verdun. Battle of the
Somme.......
1920
League of Nations holds first meeting at Geneva, Switzerland. U.S.
Dept. of Justice red hunt nets thousands of radicals........
1921
Reparations Commission fixes German liability at 132 billion gold
marks........
1922
Mussolini marches on Rome; forms Fascist government. Irish Free
State, a self-governing dominion of British Empire.......
1923
Adolf Hitler's Beer Hall Putsch in Munich fails; in 1924 he is
sentenced to five years........
1924
Death of Lenin; Stalin wins power struggle, rules as Soviet dictator
until death in 1953..... 
1925
Nellie Tayloe Ross elected governor of Wyoming; first woman governor
elected in U.S.
1926
General strike in Britain brings nation's activities to standstill.
U.S. marines dispatched to Nicaragua during revolt.....
1927
German economy collapses. Socialists riot in Vienna; general strike
follows acquittal of Nazis for political murder....
1928
Kellogg-Briand Pact, outlawing war, signed in Paris by 65 nations.
Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin....
1929
Trotsky expelled from U.S.S.R. Lateran Treaty establishes
independent Vatican City...
1930
Britain,
U.S., Japan, France, and Italy sign naval disarmament
treaty......
1931
Spain
becomes a republic with overthrow of King Alfonso XIII......
1932
Nazis
lead in German elections with 230 Reichstag seats. Famine in U.S.S.R
1933
Hitler
appointed German chancellor, gets dictatorial powers. Reichstag
fire in Berlin
1934
Chancellor Dollfuss of Austria assassinated by Nazis. Hitler becomes
führer
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Famous Saying - Quotes /
Historical Facts
Today in History - May 12th, 2012
1922 - The magazine Radio Broadcast commented, The rate of increase in the number who spend at least part of an evening listening to radio is almost incomprehensible.
1937 - George VI was crowned king of England, succeeding his brother Edward, who abdicated to marry U.S. divorcee Wallis Simpson.
1949 - Soviet authorities announced the end of a land blockade of Berlin. The blockade lasted 328 days but was neutralized by the Allies' Berlin airlift.
1970 - The U.S. Senate confirmed U.S. President Richard Nixon's nomination of U.S. District Judge Harry A. Blackmun to the U.S. Supreme Court.
1975 - A Cambodian gunboat fired on the U.S. cargo ship Mayaguez and forced it into a Cambodian port. All 39 crewmen aboard were freed but a number of U.S. servicemen died during a rescue mission two days later.
1991 - Operation Sea Angel sent 8,000 U.S. troops to Bangladesh to distribute relief packages to cyclone victims.
2002 - Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter began a visit to Cuba. He was the first president, in or out of office, to visit the island since communists took over in 1959.
2003 - U.S. officials in Iraq reported the capture of Rihab Rashjid Taha, nicknamed Dr. Germ, who played a major role in Iraq's biological weapons program.
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World Leaders.......................
Washington,
George
1st President of the United States (1789-97), commander in
chief of the Continental army in the American Revolution.....
Thomas
Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson was born on April 13 (April 2,
old style), 1743, at Shadwell in Goochland........
drafted the Declaration of Independence ...
Abraham
Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln was born in Hardin.... he worked in a
store, managed a mill, surveyed, and split rails......
Theodore
Roosevelt
was
born in New York City on Oct. 27, 1858. A Harvard
graduate......He was elected governor of New York in 1898....
Franklin
Delano Roosevelt
Franklin
Delano Roosevelt was born in Hyde Park, N.Y., on Jan. 30,
1882..... nomination for vice president as James M.
Cox's running mate.....
John
Fitzgerald Kennedy
He
was born in Brookline, Mass., on May 29, 1917. Son of, Joseph
P. Kennedy, how was the Ambassador to Great Britain from
1937 to 1940...
Richard
Milhous Nixon
After
five years as a lawyer, Nixon joined the Navy in August 1942.
He was an air transport officer in the South Pacific and a
legal officer stateside before his discharge in 1946 as a
lieutenant commander.....
James
Earl Carter,
James
Earl Carter, Jr., was born in the tiny village of Plains, Ga.,
Oct. 1, 1924, and grew up on the family farm at nearby
Archery........
Ronald
Wilson Reagan
Ronald
Wilson Reagan rode to the presidency in 1980 on a tide of
resurgent right-wing ,sentiment among an electorate
battered by winds of unwanted change, longing for a distant, simpler
era.
William
Jefferson Clinton
William
Jefferson Clinton was born William Jefferson Blythe III in
Hope, Ark., on Aug. 19, 1946. He was named for his father, who
was killed in an automobile accident before Clinton's birth.
Virginia Kelley, his mother, eventually married Roger Clinton,
a car dealer, whose surname the future president later
adopted.
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World History
(1930-1949)
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1935
Saar
incorporated into Germany after plebiscite. Nazis repudiate
Versailles Treaty,
1936
Germans
occupy Rhineland. Italy annexes Ethiopia. Rome-Berlin Axis
proclaimed (Japan to join in 1940)
1937
Hitler
repudiates war guilt clause of Versailles Treaty; continues to
build German power.
1938
Hitler
marches into Austria; political and geographical union of
Germany and Austria
1939
Germany
invades Poland; occupies Bohemia and Moravia; renounces pact
with England and concludes 10-year non-aggression pact with
U.S.S.R
1940
Hitler
invades Norway, Denmark (April 9), the Netherlands, Belgium,
Luxembourg (May 10), and France (May 12). Churchill becomes
Britain's prime minister.
1941
Germany
attacks the Balkans and Russia. Japanese surprise attack on U.S.
fleet at Pearl Harbor brings U.S. into World War II
1942
Declaration
of United Nations signed in Washington (Jan. 1). Nazi leaders
attend Wannsee Conference to coordinate the final solution
1943
Churchill
and Roosevelt hold Casablanca Conference (Jan. 14-23).
Mussolini deposed
1944
Allies
invade Normandy on D-Day (June 6). G.I. Bill of Rights enacted.
Bretton Woods Conference creates International Monetary Fund and
World Bank
1945
Yalta
Conference (Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin) plans final defeat of
Germany
1946
First
meeting of UN General Assembly opens in London (Jan. 10).
Winston Churchill's Iron Curtain speech warns of Soviet
expansion
1947
Britain
nationalizes coal mines (Jan. 1). Peace treaties for Italy,
1948
Gandhi
assassinated in New Delhi by Hindu fanatic (Jan. 30)
1949
Cease-fire
in Palestine (Jan. 7). Truman proposes Point Four Program to
help world's less developed areas (Jan. 20)......
Unsung Heroes
...........................
Kishan Lal
,who
saved hundreds by defusing bombs ,dies unheard, unsung
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