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The Second Battle of El Alamein precipitated the collapse of the Axis front in Egypt and by mid-November 1942 the Afrika Korps was streaming back west into Libya. As the battle drew to a close, the Anglo-American Operation Torch landed in French North Africa (modern day Morocco and Algeria), collapsing the Axis-friendly Vichy French governments ...
Mohamed Atta [a] (1 September 1968 – 11 September 2001) was an Egyptian terrorist hijacker for al-Qaeda.Ideologically a pan-Islamist, he was the ringleader of the September 11 attacks and served as the hijacker-pilot of American Airlines Flight 11, which he crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center as part of the coordinated suicide attacks.
North American F-100 Super Sabre: 1959 Okinawa F-100 crash: 56-0687 Boeing B-52D Stratofortress: B-52 Memorial Park: 56-0763 Lockheed F-104 Starfighter: North American Eagle Project: 56-3755 North American F-100F Super Sabre: United Airlines Flight 736: 56-6676 Lockheed U-2F: Rudolf Anderson: 56-6693 Lockheed U-2C: 1960 U-2 incident: 57-0166 ...
Amtrak's Texas Eagle was forced to operate a bus bridge between San Antonio and Fort Worth, Texas and later between Temple and Fort Worth. [114] Five more tornadoes touched down south of Fort Stockton, Texas on May 4. They generally moved over rural, inaccessible open terrain, but one of them was rated EF2 tornado due to snapping power poles ...
The 1976 United States presidential election was the 48th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 2, 1976. The Democratic nominee, former Georgia governor Jimmy Carter, narrowly defeated incumbent Republican President Gerald Ford.
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO; pronounced / j uː ˈ n ɛ s k oʊ /) [1] [a] is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) with the aim of promoting world peace and security through international cooperation in education, arts, sciences and culture.
Nicholas, unbreeched at two years old, with his mother, Maria Feodorovna, in 1870 Grand Duke Nicholas was born on 18 May [O.S. 6 May] 1868, in the Alexander Palace in Tsarskoye Selo south of Saint Petersburg, during the reign of his paternal grandfather, Emperor Alexander II.