Lest we forget.
1104 - American Embassy Teheran, Iran, 90 people taken hostage for 444 days by followers of Ayatollah Khomeini (1979)
1105 - General John Pershing leads U.S. troops into the first American action against German forces near the Rhine-Marne Canal in France. (1917)
1106 - First Jet landing on a carrier, USS Wake Island when an FR-1 Fireball touches down (1945)
1106 - Iran arms-for-hostages deal is revealed, damaging the Reagan administration. (1986)
1109 - Berlin Wall is opened after dividing the city for 28 years. (1989)
1109 - Vietnam Veterans Memorial Statue (1984)
1110 - US Marine Corp (1775)
1111 - Veterans Day
1111 - Vietnam Women s Memorial Dedication (1993)
1111 - Civil War: Dr. Mary E. Walker, first female surgeon, presented with the Medal of Honor, first woman to receive that award.(1865)
1111 - WWI ends at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month with the signing of an Armistice. (1918)
1111 - Construction begins on the naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. (1909)
1111 - Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington Cemetery is dedicated. (1921)
1113 - Fall of Kabul, Afghanistan (2001)
1114 - First airplane flight from deck of a ship, USS Birmingham at Hampton Roads to Norfolk VA (1910)
1114 - President Kennedy increases the number of American advisors in Vietnam from 1,000 to 16,000. (1961)
1114 - First ground combat for American troops, U.S. First Cavalry Division battles with North Vietnamese Army in the Ia Drang Valley.(1964)
1115 - First submarine with nuclear missiles, USS George Washington, takes to sea from Charleston, South Carolina. (1960)
1115 - Vietnam: A quarter of a million anti-War demonstrators march in Washington, D.C. (1969)
1122 - JFK Assassination (1963)
--- Regards, Walt Schmidt
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