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Old 01-18-20, 08:10 AM   #3086
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1788 First elements of the First Fleet carrying 736 convicts from England to Australia arrives at Botany Bay to set up a penal colony.

1911 First shipboard landing of a plane (Tanforan Park to USS Pennsylvania).

1919 The Paris peace conference (aka the Versailles peace conference) opens to draw up the treaties formally ending the Great War (WWI)

1945 Soviet Armed Forces enter Krakow, Poland and push Germans out, only to eventually occupy entire country.

1957 3 B-52's set record for around-the-world flight, 45 hr 19 min.

1962 US begins spraying foliage in Vietnam to reveal Viet Cong guerrillas.

1973 John Cleese's final episode on "Monty Python's Flying Circus" on BBC TV

1981 Iran accepts US offer of $7.9 billion in frozen assets.
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