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the Belgian Congo became a colony of the Belgian Kingdom
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a South Korean politician who served as the first president of South Korea from 1948 to 1960.
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Eisenhower planned and supervised two of the most consequential military campaigns of World War II
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book that encourages individuals to toughen up and adapt to the rising,
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Ulam, and other American scientists developed the first hydrogen bomb, which was tested at Enewetak atoll.
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the French-held garrison at Dien Bien Phu in Vietnam fell after a four month siege led by Vietnamese nationalist Ho Chi Minh.
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some babies were still born or died very soon after birth, as many as 100,000 babies were affected by the drug in total
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the two ends of the Burma-Thailand railway were joined at Konkoita in Thailand. Within 16 months the bridge was completed
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space program that sent a radio signal back to Earth for three weeks before its three silver-zinc batteries became depleted.
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a failed military landing operation on the southwestern coast of Cuba in 1961
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The Cola wars are the long-time rivalry between soft drink producers
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Aids virus seemed to emerge and there was no cure and its origins were a mystery
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The Soviet Union intervened in support of the Afghan communist government in its conflict with anti-communist Muslim guerrillas during the Afghan War
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Khomeini arrived in Tehran in triumph on February 1, 1979, and was acclaimed as the leader of the Iranian Revolution.