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Twenty-four nations sign a treaty to phase out the chemicals eating the ozone layer

The Montreal agreement turns two years of scientific alarm into binding limits on CFCs.

By the fall of 1987, the hole over Antarctica was no longer a theory. In Montreal, on September 16, representatives of 24 countries and the European Community signed a protocol setting binding controls on the production and use of chlorofluorocarbons, the refrigerants and propellants blamed for stripping away stratospheric ozone. The agreement followed the 1985 Vienna Convention, which had asked nations only to study the problem. Montreal replaced that study mandate with binding controls…

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Truman orders air and sea forces to Korea; the UN backs a unified command under American leadership

Seoul fell yesterday, and the Security Council voted hours ago, but the question in Washington was never whether to act, only how fast.

1950

American fighters meet North Korean Yaks above Suwon; three shot down, none lost

F-82s and F-80Cs scrambled to cover civilian evacuation flights out of Seoul, two days after North Korean forces crossed the 38th parallel.

1950

Gaetjens heads it in; the US beats England, 1–0, in Belo Horizonte

Borghi shuts out the sport's reigning aristocracy; the American squad includes a hearse driver, a schoolteacher, and men who trained together exactly once.

1956

Eisenhower signs the highway act; 41,000 miles of interstate and $25 billion set in motion

The president who crossed the country on rutted Army roads in 1919 authorizes the largest public works project the nation has yet attempted.

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Twenty-four nations sign a treaty to phase out the chemicals eating the ozone layer

This story is held for members.

Washington's men chase the British off Harlem Heights, and hold

The Mayflower clears Plymouth harbor, alone, bound for Virginia

Yeltsin stops at a Texas supermarket and asks what it costs to feed a family

No astronauts aboard: four private citizens launch to orbit atop a Falcon 9

Truman orders air and sea forces to Korea; the UN backs a unified command under American leadership

American fighters meet North Korean Yaks above Suwon; three shot down, none lost

Gaetjens heads it in; the US beats England, 1–0, in Belo Horizonte

Eisenhower signs the highway act; 41,000 miles of interstate and $25 billion set in motion

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