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The Korean War began with North Korean forces launching a pre-dawn raid over the 38th parallel into South Korea
Korean War: Five North Korean aircraft attacked an American air convoy above Suwon Air Base in the first air engagement
Korean War: South Korean forces began the Bodo League massacre, summarily executing tens of thousands of suspected North
Korean War: In the first encounter between North Korean and American forces, an unprepared and undisciplined U.S. Army…
Korean War: American troops withdrew from Cheonan, in modern-day South Korea, after suffering heavy casualties from a…
Korean War: North Korean troops began attacking the headquarters of the American 24th Infantry Division in present-day…
Korean War: A Korean People's Army unit massacred 31 prisoners of war of the U.S. Army on a mountain near the village…
Korean War: After a month-long campaign, much of the North Korean air force was destroyed by United Nations forces.
Korean War: After American troops withdrew, North Korean forces captured the village of Yongdong in South Korea.
Korean War: Over fears that North Korean soldiers were infiltrating refugee columns, U.S. forces concluded a four-day…
The Republic of Ireland Act 1948 came into force, describing Ireland as a republic and ending its membership in the Comm
Nineteen Eighty-Four, a dystopian political novel by the English writer George Orwell about life under a fictional total
Francisco Javier Arana, the chief of the Guatemalan armed forces, was killed in a shootout with supporters of…
The Organisation for European Economic Co-operation, headquartered in Paris, was founded
Civil War in Mandatory Palestine: The Jewish paramilitary group Haganah captured Haifa from the Arab Liberation Army
The United Kingdom publicly announced that it was independently developing nuclear weapons, after the US Atomic Energy A
Arab–Israeli War: After five days of fighting, Egyptian forces captured the Israeli community of Yad Mordechai after the
The Manchester Baby (replica pictured), the world's first stored-program computer, ran its first program
Arab–Israeli War: Israel Defense Forces officer Yitzhak Rabin signed an order to expel Palestinians from the towns of…