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1720:
Spain signs the Treaty of the Hague with the Quadruple Alliance ending a war that was begun in 1718.
1804: A force led by Lt. Stephen Decatur recaptures the American ship Philadelphia which was being held in Tripoli harbor. 1864: The Confederate submarine Hunley sinks the USS Housatonic in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina. 1865: The soldiers from Union General William Tecumseh Shermans army ransack Columbia, South Carolina, and leave a charred city in their wake. 1870: Mississippi becomes the 9th state re-admitted to the U.S. after the Civil War. 1933: The League of Nations censures Japan in a worldwide broadcast. 1944: Operation Catchpole is launched as American troops devastate the Japanese defenders of Eniwetok and take control of the atoll in the northwestern part of the Marshall Islands. 1945: Gen. MacArthurs troops land on Corregidor in the Philippines. 1947: The U.S. Voice of America (VOA) begins its first radio broadcasts to the Soviet Union. The VOA effort was an important part of Americas propaganda campaign against the Soviet Union during the Cold War. 1951: B-26s flew the first night bombing mission using SHORAN, a short-range navigation system employing an airborne radar device and two ground beacon stations for precision bombing. |
