On This Day...

[Colonel Ronan]

<div align="center"><u>Wednesday, June 25, 2008</u>
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<ul>[*]1948: The 'Berlin Airlift' begins when the order is given to fly supplies over the Soviet blockade into West Berlin.[*]1950: North Korea invades South Korea by crossing the '38th Parallel', igniting the Korean War.[*]1991: Croatia and Slovenia declare their independence from Yugoslavia, sparking eight years of war in the Balkans.[/list]

 

[Colonel Ronan]

<div align="center"><u>Thursday, June 26, 2008</u>
</div><ul>[*] 1483: Richard III becomes king of England after declaring his nephews Edward and Richard illegitimate.[*] 1934: Hitler purges his rivals in the SA, including their leader Ernst Rahm, during the 'Night of the Long Knives'.[*] 1945: The charter of the United Nations is signed by 51 nations in San Francisco, US.[/list]

 

[Colonel Ronan]

<div align="center"><u>Friday, June 27, 2008</u>

<div align='left'><ul>[*]1743: George II becomes the last British monarch to lead his army in battle, defeating the French at Dettingen.[*]1905: The crew of the Russian warship 'Potemkin' mutiny - an iconic moment in Russian revolutionary history.[*]1957: A British Medical Research Council report suggests a direct link between smoking and lung cancer.[/list]</div> </div>