1938 Treaty of Munich signed by Hitler, Mussolini, Daladier and Chamberlain, forces Czechoslovakia to give territory to Germany.
1939 Germany & Russia agree to partition Poland.
1941 3,721 Jews are buried alive at Babi Yarravine (near Kiev) Ukraine.
1941 German assault on Moscow, Operation Typhoon, begins.
1946 22 Nazi leaders, including Joachim von Ribbentrop and Hermann Goering, are found guilty of war crimes, sentenced to death or prison at the Nuremberg war trials.
1954 First nuclear submarine, USS Nautilus, commissioned by the US Navy.
1968 First Boeing 747 rolls out.
1975 The Hughes (later McDonnell-Douglas, now Boeing) AH-64 Apache makes its first flight.
2004 The AIM-54 Phoenix, the primary missile for the F-14 Tomcat, retired from service. Almost two years later, the Tomcat retires.
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