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UN votes a total embargo on Iraq; Kuwait is now four days occupied

The Security Council cuts off trade with Baghdad and demands an immediate, unconditional withdrawal.

As Iraq occupied Kuwait within a day and the royal family fled to Saudi Arabia, the United Nations Security Council moved to isolate Saddam Hussein's government economically rather than militarily. The Council demanded an immediate, unconditional withdrawal and ordered member states to halt all trade with Iraq and occupied Kuwait. It was the opening move in a standoff that ended with a January ultimatum, five weeks of bombing, and a hundred-hour ground war that pushed Iraqi forces back across the border…

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The Enola Gay drops the first atomic bomb used in war on Hiroshima

Three-quarters of the city is gone within seconds; the pilot named the plane for his mother.

Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act; literacy tests are now outlawed nationwide

Five months after troopers attacked marchers at the Edmund Pettus Bridge, the federal government takes oversight of Southern voter rolls.

Havana seizes American holdings; Washington cancels the sugar quota within a day

By year's end every U.S. company on the island answers to Castro's government instead of its own board.

The Confederacy's lone ram on the lower Mississippi goes up in flames within sight of Baton Rouge.

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Apollo 7 lifts off from Cape Kennedy; America flies astronauts again

Twenty-one months after the Apollo 1 fire killed three astronauts on the pad, a Saturn IB carries three more into orbit.

Sullivan steps outside Challenger; first American woman to walk in space

Over the next three and a half hours she and David Leestma pumped hydrazine into a mock satellite to prove orbiting spacecraft could be refueled.

A thread-like shape appears under the electron microscope in Atlanta

CDC virologists Fred Murphy and Alyne Harrison get the first clear image of the virus killing hundreds in Sudan and Zaire.

A U-2 camera finds Soviet missiles ninety miles from Florida

The film still has to be developed and read before Washington even knows what it has.

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