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'Black Hawk Down' Anniversary: Al Qaeda's Hidden Hand 'Black Hawk Down' Anniversary: Al Qaeda's Hidden Hand. A group of young Somalis chant anti American slogans while sitting atop the burned out hulk of a U.S. Black Hawk helicopter in Mogadishu, Somalia on Oct. 19, 1993. The helicopter was one of two shot down during a firefight with Somali guerrillas in which 18 U.S. servicemen were killed along with one Malaysian peacekeeper and 300 Somalis.
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Cold War Détente collapsed at the end of the decade with the Soviet war in Afghanistan beginning in 1979. The early 1980s were another period of elevated tension, with the Soviet downing of Korean Air Lines Flight 007 (1983), and the Able Archer NATO military exercises (1983).
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Black Hawk War [show] The Black Hawk War was a brief conflict between the United States and Native Americans led by Black Hawk, a Sauk leader. The war erupted soon after Black Hawk and a group of Sauks, Meskwakis, and Kickapoos, known as the British Band, crossed the Mississippi River, into the U.S. state of Illinois, from Iowa Indian Territory in April 1832. Black Hawk's motives were ambiguous, but he was apparently hoping to avoid bloodshed while resettling on tribal land that had been ceded to the United States
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Black Panther Party Black Panther History: On April 25th, 1967, the first issue of The Black Panther, the party's official news organ, goes into distribution. In the following month, the party marches on the California state capital fully armed, in protest of the state's attempt to outlaw carrying loaded weapons in public.
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Chief Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court Thurgood Marshall (July 2, 1908 – January 24, 1993) was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, serving from October 1967 until October 1991. Marshall was the Court's 96th justice and its first African-American justice.
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Black Hawk War begins Casualties in the 15-week war were grossly one-sided. An estimated 70 settlers or soldiers lost their lives; estimates for the number of Indians killed are between 442 and 592. Black Hawk was captured and incarcerated for a time in Fortress Monroe, Virginia.
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- Black Rain. Black Rain is a novel by Japanese author Masuji Ibuse. Ibuse began serializing Black Rain in the magazine Shincho in January 1965. The novel is based on historical records of the devastation caused by the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.s.
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Murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner Civil rights bill down the drain.. By late November 1964 the FBI accused 21 Mississippi men of engineering a conspiracy to injure, oppress, threaten, and intimidate Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner. Most of the suspects were apprehended by the FBI on December 4, 1964.
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Black Thursday 1 September 18, 1873, during the Panic of 1873 when the U.S. bank Jay Cooke & Company declared bankruptcy, triggering a series of bank failures. 2  October 24, 1929, the start of the Wall Street Crash of 1929 at the New York Stock Exchange.
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Stephen Hawking Stephen Hawking, in full Stephen William Hawking (born January 8, 1942, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England), English theoretical physicist whose theory of exploding black holes drew upon both relativity theory and quantum mechanics. He also worked with space-time singularities.
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New novel depicts 1930s Hawkâs Nest Tunnel disaster The book is set in 1930’s West Virginia depicting one of the worst industrial disasters in American history, when at least 800, possibly more than 1,500 people, died of acute silicosis poisoning while digging and drilling Union Carbide’s Hawks Nest (W.Va.) tunnel.
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- Lemuel Bryant's Travel Journal, 1832. The Black Hawk War (April–July 1832) quelled the last Indian resistance to white settlement in the region around Chicago. The famous Sauk leader, Black Hawk, and his thousand followers had been expelled from Illinois in 1831, but returned from Iowa carrying seeds for planting. Hostilities commenced after inexperienced militia attacked an Indian delegation approaching with a white flag.
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A Brief History of Time A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes is a popular-science book on cosmology (the study of the universe) by British physicist Stephen Hawking. It was first published in 1988. Hawking wrote the book for nonspecialist readers with no prior knowledge of scientific theories.
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- One of the largest Sauk villages, called Saukenuk, was located a short distance below the present site of Rock Island. Here Black Hawk was born in 1767, and Keokuk about thirteen years later. Neither of these Indians was born a chief, but both became chiefs through their own ability. At the age of fifteen Black Hawk killed a brave in a battle with the Osage Indians, and two years later he was the leader of a war party.
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Not just the 'Black Hawk Down' guy: Huntsville businessman Mike Durant named Vetrepreneur of the Year 500 list, Vermillion said in the June edition of NaVOBA's Vetrepreneur magazine. His success is built upon that same perseverance and determination that got him through the helicopter crash and his captivity, the marathon and back into a helicopter cockpit.. Black Hawk Down was written in 1999 by Mark Bowden.
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- This kind of less-than-charitable Cold War rhetoric, which I regularly hear from so many pugnacious American radio talk-show hosts and guests, is out of date in view of the fact that the fall of the Soviet Union came about (surprise, surprise) in a peaceful manner circa 1991.
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- October 27, 1968 - In London, 50,000 protest the war. October 31, 1968 - Operation Rolling Thunder ends as President Johnson announces a complete halt of U.S. bombing of North Vietnam in the hope of restarting the peace talks.
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Black Hawk Black Hawk Articles. Explore articles from the History Net archives about Black Hawk. » See all Black Hawk Articles. Black Hawk summary: Black Hawk was leader of a group of Fox and Sauk Indians. He was born in the Virginia Colony in 1767. His father was the tribal medicine man and named Pyesa.As a young man he established himself as a war leader while on many different raids of neighboring villages.lack Hawk Articles. Explore articles from the History Net archives about Black Hawk. » See all Black Hawk Articles. Black Hawk summary: Black Hawk was leader of a group of Fox and Sauk Indians. He was born in the Virginia Colony in 1767. His father was the tribal medicine man and named Pyesa.
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First Folio {This text is facing Droeshout's portrait of Shakespeare prefixed to the First Folio.}. This Figure, that thou here feest put, It was for gentle Shakespeare cut: Wherein the Grauer had a strife. with Naure, to out-doo the life: O, could he but haue dravvne his vvit. As vvell in frasse, as he hath hit.
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Black Hawk War Skirmishes between the races were frequent. Black Hawk (1767-1838), a war leader of the Sauk and Fox, was an outspoken critic of relocation and had a history of being a thorn in the side of the U.S. government. He had fought with the British in the War of 1812 and maintained relations with officials in Canada in later years.
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Black Beauty In 1992, Green Hornet enthusiast Dan Goodman, purchased the number one Black Beauty from the former transportation director of Twentieth Century Fox for the sum of $10,000 USD and commissioned Jeffries to restore it; two cars had been built for the series and Goodman's was the primary car.
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Black Hawk Down  (film) (film) Black Hawk Down won two Academy Awards for Best Film Editing and Best Sound Mixing at the 74th Academy Awards. Although it was received positively by critics, the film was strongly criticized by a number of groups and military officials. In 2009, an extended cut of the film was released on DVD.
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The Dark Tower  (series) In 2009, King announced an eighth book, The Dark Tower: The Wind Through the Keyhole; published in 2012, it is set between the fourth and fifth books of the series. December 7, 2009 saw the release of a spin-off online game titled Discordia.
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- He did not tour with with the Beatles in the 60's, but he had sided with the British in the past and was assured the British would aid him if he crossed the Mississippi and went to war with the US, which is what he did in 1832. Unfortunately for Black Hawk, it was all talk.
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Egon Brunswik Brunswik became an American citizen in 1943. After a long and painful bout of severe hypertension, Egon committed suicide in 1955. Professional contributions Probabilistic Functionalism. Brunswik's work in Vienna had culminated in the publication of Wahrnehmung und Gegenstandswelt in 1934.
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- This work is an attempt by the authors to give as full and detailed a history as possible of the confrontation between Soviet fighters and the principal strike force of the United States Far East Air Force - the B-29 'Superfortress' bombers during the course of the Korean War between 1950-1953.