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    1661: The Chinese Ming dynasty occupies Taiwan.

    1858: Austrian troops invade Piedmont.

    1861: Union troops officially take possession of New Orleans, completing the occupation that had begun four days earlier.

    1918: Americas WWI Ace of Aces, Eddie Rickenbacker, scores his first victory with the help of Captain James Norman Hall.

    1945: The German Army in Italy surrenders unconditionally to the Allies.

    1970: U.S. and South Vietnamese forces launch a limited "incursion" into Cambodia. The campaign included 13 major ground operations to clear North Vietnamese sanctuaries 20 miles inside the Cambodian border.

    1975: Operation Frequent Wind, the largest helicopter evacuation on record, begins removing the last Americans from Saigon.


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