1936 Adolf Hitler breaks the Treaty of Versailles by sending troops into the Rhineland.
1942 15 Mk-VB Spitfires reach Malta.
1942 1st cadets graduated from flying school at Tuskegee, Alabama.
1946 Bikini Atoll islanders are evacuated by the US government to make way for a nuclear testing site.
1974 "USS Monitor", Union Ship sunk in 1862 during US Civil War, restored at Cape Hatteras.
1994 US Navy issues 1st permanent order assigning women on combat ship.
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