1953 CIA-assisted coup overthrows government of Iran
The Iranian military, with the support and financial assistance of the United States government, overthrows the government of Premier Mohammed Mosaddeq and reinstates the Shah of Iran. Iran remained a solid Cold War ally of the United States until a revolution ended the Shah’s rule in 1979. Mosaddeq came to…
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1964 The Beatles kick off first U.S. tour at San Francisco’s Cow Palace
The Beatles took America by storm during their famous first visit, wowing the millions who watched them during their historic television appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show in February 1964. But after the first great rush of stateside Beatlemania, the Beatles promptly returned to Europe, leaving their American fans to…
1919 President Wilson appears before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
On August 19, 1919, in a break with conventional practice, U.S. President Woodrow Wilson appears personally before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to argue in favor of its ratification of the Versailles Treaty, the peace settlement that ended the First World War. The previous July 8, Wilson had returned from Paris,…
1919 – Afghanistan gained independence from Britain.
1934 – Adolf Hitler was approved for sole executive power in Germany as Fuehrer.
1856 – Gail Borden received a patent for his process of condensing milk by vacuum.
1960 – Francis Gary Powers, an American U-2 pilot, was convicted of espionage in Moscow.
1974 – During an anti-American protest in Nicosia, Cyprus,
U.S. Ambassador Rodger P. Davies was fatally wounded by a bullet while in the American embassy.
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