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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

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1965

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.
1960

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.
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The Confederacy's lone ram on the lower Mississippi goes up in flames within sight of Baton Rouge.
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1983

Challenger lights up the pre-dawn sky on the shuttle program's first night launch

Guion Bluford rides along, becoming the first African American to fly in space.
1974

An SR-71 crosses the Atlantic in under two hours flat

Sullivan and Widdifield average nearly 1,807 miles an hour, refueling in midair along the way.
1983

Soviet jet destroys Korean Air 007 off Sakhalin; 269 dead, a US congressman among them

The Boeing 747 had drifted deep into Soviet airspace before a Su-15 pilot fired his missiles.
1976

Viking 2 sets down on Mars, tilted on a rock at Utopia Planitia

A stray radar echo fires the thrusters early, cracking the ground beneath the lander's feet.
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