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    Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them must share in the guilt for the dead.

    -- General Omar Bradley

    St. Petersburg, treaty of, 5 May 1762

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    Treaty that ended fighting in the Seven Years War between Prussia and Russia. The treaty followed the accession of Tsar Peter III, an admirer of Frederick the Great of Prussia, and allowed Frederick to concentrate on his other enemies.
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    1865: Confederate General Joseph Johnston officially surrenders his army to General William T. Sherman at Durham Station, North Carolina.

    1865: John Wilkes Booth is killed when Union soldiers track him down to a Virginia farm 12 days after he assassinated President Abraham Lincoln.

    1865: Joseph E. Johnston surrenders the Army of Tennessee to Sherman.

    1937: The ancient Basque town of Guernica in northern Spain is bombed by German planes.

    1952: Armistice negotiations are resumed.

    1971: The U.S. command in Saigon announces that the U.S. force level in Vietnam is 281,400 men, the lowest since July 1966.

    1972: President Nixon, despite the ongoing communist offensive, announces that another 20,000 U.S. troops will be withdrawn from Vietnam in May and June, reducing authorized troop strength to 49,000.


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