1812 Napoleon Bonaparte's forces invade Russia crossing the Neman River.
1853 US President Franklin Pierce signs the Gadsden Purchase, buying 29,670 square-miles (76,800 square km) from Mexico for $10 million (now southern Arizona and New Mexico).
1917 Russian Black Sea fleet mutinies at Sebastopol.
1930 First radar detection of planes, Anacostia, Washington, D.C.
1947 Flying saucers sighted over Mount Rainier by pilot Ken Arnold.
1948 Soviet Union begins the West Berlin Blockade by stopping access by road, rail and water.
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