1912 Roald Amundsen announces discovery of the South Pole.
1918 President Woodrow Wilson authorizes US Army's Distinguished Service Medal.
1936 Adolf Hitler breaks the Treaty of Versailles by sending troops into the Rhineland.
1942 15 Mk-VB Spitfires reach Malta.
1942 First cadets graduated from flying school at Tuskegee.
1945 US 9th Armoured Division attacks Remagen Germany, crosses Rhine.
1946 Bikini Atoll islanders are evacuated by the US government to make way for a nuclear testing site.
1974 "USS Monitor", Union Ship sunk in 1862 during US Civil War, restored at Cape Hatteras.
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