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The United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 82 condemning the North Korean invasion of South Korea
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 766th Independent Infantry Regiment of North Korea was disbanded after fighting for less than two months in the…
Korean War: United Nations forces repelled an attempt by North Korea to capture the city of Taegu.
Korean War: A North Korean attack was repelled by Allied forces at the Battle of Nam River.
Korean War: The Korean People's Army retreated from the Battle of the Pusan Perimeter after six weeks of fighting,…
A field-sequential color system developed by Hungarian-American engineer Peter Goldmark became the first color…
The first novel of the The Chronicles of Narnia series by C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, was…
The People's Volunteer Army ambushed the South Korean II Corps at the Battle of Onjong, and elsewhere engaged the 1st…
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