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William Shockley announced the invention of the junction transistor, for which he, John Bardeen, and Walter Houser…
The United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 82 condemning the North Korean invasion of South Korea
The Korean War began with North Korean forces launching a pre-dawn raid over the 38th parallel into South Korea
Korean War: Five North Korean aircraft attacked an American air convoy above Suwon Air Base in the first air engagement
Korean War: South Korean forces began the Bodo League massacre, summarily executing tens of thousands of suspected North
Korean War: In the first encounter between North Korean and American forces, an unprepared and undisciplined U.S. Army…
Korean War: American troops withdrew from Cheonan, in modern-day South Korea, after suffering heavy casualties from a…
Korean War: North Korean troops began attacking the headquarters of the American 24th Infantry Division in present-day…
Korean War: A Korean People's Army unit massacred 31 prisoners of war of the U.S. Army on a mountain near the village…
Korean War: After a month-long campaign, much of the North Korean air force was destroyed by United Nations forces.
Korean War: After American troops withdrew, North Korean forces captured the village of Yongdong in South Korea.
Korean War: Over fears that North Korean soldiers were infiltrating refugee columns, U.S. forces concluded a four-day…
The Republic of Ireland Act 1948 came into force, describing Ireland as a republic and ending its membership in the Comm
Nineteen Eighty-Four, a dystopian political novel by the English writer George Orwell about life under a fictional total
Francisco Javier Arana, the chief of the Guatemalan armed forces, was killed in a shootout with supporters of…
The Organisation for European Economic Co-operation, headquartered in Paris, was founded
Civil War in Mandatory Palestine: The Jewish paramilitary group Haganah captured Haifa from the Arab Liberation Army
The United Kingdom publicly announced that it was independently developing nuclear weapons, after the US Atomic Energy A
Arab–Israeli War: After five days of fighting, Egyptian forces captured the Israeli community of Yad Mordechai after the
