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Rangers drop onto Point Salines; Marines storm Pearls as Grenada invasion begins

Six days after Maurice Bishop's execution, 7,600 American and Caribbean troops hit the island before sunrise.

Six days after a firing squad executed Prime Minister Maurice Bishop, American warplanes and ships closed on Grenada before dawn. At H-hour, 05:00 on October 25, 1983, Army Rangers parachuted onto Point Salines International Airport while Marines landed by helicopter and amphibious craft at Pearls Airport on the island's north end. More paratroopers and Marines lifted from USS Guam joined the assault, which also aimed to secure hundreds of American medical students at St. George's University. Grenadian resistance collapsed within days, and Hudson Austin's military government was deposed…

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1940

Davis becomes the Army's first Black general

Weeks after being left off the promotion list, the colonel gets his star from Roosevelt himself.
1944

Tang's own torpedo circles back and sinks her; nine men swim through the night

America's deadliest submarine of the war sinks from its own last torpedo, hours after her best night of the patrol.
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The U.S. ambassador puts missile photographs before the U.N. Security Council and dares the Soviets to deny them.
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1956

Supreme Court affirms Browder v. Gayle; Alabama's bus segregation laws fall

Four women arrested on Montgomery buses carried the suit, and the boycott that surrounded it has now run eleven months.
1976

Six Flags opens the world's first modern looping coaster; the Great American Revolution launches at Magic Mountain

The ride debuts in the park's Bicentennial summer, sending riders through a complete vertical loop for the first time on a modern steel coaster.
1955

West Germany joins NATO; a former enemy is now the alliance's eastern front against Moscow

Bonn gains full sovereignty and enters the Atlantic pact today, putting Western troops and nuclear guarantees on the Soviet Union's doorstep.
1946

A V-2 rises over White Sands; America fires a German rocket on its own soil for the first time

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