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Americans land near (LZ X-Ray) the mountains, but are unsure where PAVN are located; US troops are understrength and unarmed helicopters are at risk.

Roosevelt orders MacArthur to Australia before the Japanese take over the Philippines.

Madiba, as Mandela is affectionately called, forms a close friendship with Pienaar which lasts until Mandela's death.

Irish raiders kidnap Maewyn Succat, St. Patricks birth name, when he is 16; he spends 6 years as a slave.

Passengers and provisions carried by the Titanic as she leaves for New York.

Apartheid, a system ofracial segregation in South Africa, ensures blacks cannot vote or travel freely in their own country.

Mandela believes thatarmed resistance-including violence- is the only way to endthe problems caused by apartheid.

In 1994, Mandela becomes South Africa's first black president through a democratic vote.

African Americans and their allies demonstrate in the nation's capitol

Margaret wins the race and is elected the first female British Prime Minister.

Belon and her family have no warning before the tsunami washes over them at a beach resort on the island of Phuket.

Marie Antoinette loses her head by guillotine seven months after French Revolutionary authorities execute her husband, King Louis XVI