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On April 4, 1949, with the Cold War was heating up, 12 countries signed the North Atlantic Treaty creating NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation). Collective defence means that an attack against ...

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James Webb Space Telescope launched Christmas Day 2021 On December 25, 2021, NASA launched the James Webb Space Telescope. It left earth aboard the Ariane 5 launch vehicle at 07:20am EST (2021-12-25 ...

Tsar Nicholas II of Russia abdicates the Russian throne on March 15, 1917, ending his tumultuous and disastrous 23-year reign. Nicholas was the last of the 304-year-old Romanov dynasty that began in ...

Harriet Tubman died on March 10, 1913. I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can’t say — I never ran my train off the track and I never ...

On February 26, 1940 Czech painter, illustrator, print maker, stage designer and stamp designer Oldřich Kulhánek was born in Prague. Kulhánek studied at the prestigious Academy of Arts, Architecture ...