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I think that there's a second plane just crashed into the World Trade Center. I think we have a terrorist act of proportions that we cannot begin to imagine at this juncture. Kai Simonsen: Oh, my God. Jim Ryan: My goodness, a second plane now has crashed into the other tower of the World Trade Center. [sigh] Obviously, suicide terrorist attack ...
1859 – The Carrington Event is the strongest geomagnetic storm on record. [6] 1862 – American Civil War: United States President Abraham Lincoln reluctantly restores Union General George B. McClellan to full command after General John Pope's disastrous defeat at the Second Battle of Bull Run.
World War II [b] or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Axis powers. Nearly all the world's countries—including all the great powers—participated, with many investing all available economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities in pursuit of total war, blurring the distinction between military and ...
World War II, or the Second World War was a global military conflict that was fought between September 1, 1939, and September 2, 1945. The war pitted two major military alliances against each other: the Allies of the United States, Soviet Union , United Kingdom, China and others against the Axis of Germany , Japan , Italy and others .
This is a list of timelines of events over the period of World War II. Main timelines ... Timeline of the Second Italo-Ethiopian War; Timeline of the Spanish Civil War;
Second Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Taierzhuang commences. The battle ends with Chinese victory on 7 April after intense house-to-house fighting inside the city of Taierzhuang. Second Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Xuzhou begins, and ends in Japanese victory on May 1 as Chinese troops break out from the encircled city. July 6–16
26: A second attack by the British under Auchinleck fails against Rommel. First Battle of El Alamein may be said to be over. 27: Heavy RAF incendiary attack on Hamburg. 29: The Japanese take Kokoda, halfway along the Owen Stanley pass to Port Moresby. 30: Continuing stalemate at El Alamein between Rommel and Auchinleck.
This is a timeline of the events that stretched over the period of late World War II, its conclusion, legal aftermath, with the inclusion of the Cold War, from January 1945 to December 1991. January 1945