| 1985 |
-- Mikhail S Gorbachev replaces Konstantin Chernenko as Soviet leader
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| 1970 |
-- Iraq Ba'th Party recognizes Kurd nation
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| 1954 |
-- US Army charges Senator Joseph McCarthy used undue pressure tactics
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| 1953 |
-- 1st woman army doctor commissioned (FM Adams)
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| 1945 |
-- 1,000 allied bombers harass Essen, 4,662 ton bombs
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| 1943 |
-- Nazi Militia forms in Netherlands
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| 1942 |
-- Japanese troop land on North-Sumatra
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| 1942 |
-- Gen MacArthur leaves Corregidor (Bataan) for Australia
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| 1942 |
-- 1st deportation train leaves Paris for Auschewitz Concentration Camp
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| 1917 |
-- British troops occupy Baghdad
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| 1865 |
-- Gen Sherman's Union forces occupies Fayetteville, NC
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| 1862 |
-- 12] Gen Stonewall Jackson evacuates Winchester Virginia Army of the Potomac. Gen Henry Halleck is named general-in-chief
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| 1779 |
-- US army Corps of Engineers established (1st time)
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