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Simas Kudirka. Simas Kudirka (9 April 1930 – 11 February 2023) was a Lithuanian sailor. [1] He is best known for the attempted defection from the Soviet Union in 1970 and subsequent activism against the Soviet regime in Lithuania. An important outcome of the incident was the creation of the improved guidelines for handling defections by ...
The Defection of Simas Kudirka is a 1978 American made-for-television drama film based on actual events, featuring Alan Arkin as Simas Kudirka, a Lithuanian merchant seaman who attempts to defect from the Soviet Union to the United States by jumping onto a U.S. Coast Guard cutter. Among the movie's awards are two Emmys wins and three more Emmy ...
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September 17, 2024 at 3:08 PM. An old shipwreck, believed to be the World War I vessel the SS Tobol, has been uncovered off the northeast coast of Scotland, solving what discoverers say is a "107 ...
The history of the United States Coast Guard goes back to the United States Revenue Cutter Service, which was founded on 4 August 1790 as part of the Department of the Treasury. The Revenue Cutter Service and the United States Life-Saving Service were merged to become the Coast Guard per 14 U.S.C. § 1 which states: "The Coast Guard as ...
September 2, 2024 at 9:03 AM. A bronze statue from the Titanic — not seen in decades and feared to be lost for good — is among the discoveries made by the company with salvage rights to the ...
August 22, 2024 at 11:55 AM. The Greek-flagged oil tanker Sounion, pictured on November 29, 2017 in the United Kingdom, has been one of dozens of ships targeted by the Houthis in the Red Sea ...
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