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2009 Joao Bernardo Vierira, President of Guinea-Bissau is assassinated during an armed attack on his residence in Bissau

2005 IRA issues a statement ordering the end to the armed campaign against the British

1994 Armed Zulus demonstrate in Johannesburg, over 53 killed

1994 20 die in armed assault on mosque in Khartum, Sudan

1988 Man armed with explosives blows self up in 125 St. subway station (New York City)

1984 Bill Raisch, one armed actor (Fred Johnson-Fugitive), dies at 79

1976 Patricia Hearst convicted of armed robbery

1964 Turkey threatens Cyprus with armed attack

1955 Armed military action taken against bureaucratic strike in Amsterdam

1954 U.S. Armed Forces end segregation of races

1951 Armed uprising in Ambonezen Camp Middelburg

1948 President Truman issues Executive Order No. 9981 directing "equality of treatment and opportunity" in armed forces

1948 Executive Order 9981, end segregation in U.S. Armed Forces signed

1946 Jonathan Banks, Washington D.C., actor, Armed and Dangerous, Cold Steel

1945 1 armed outfielder, St. L Brown Pete Gray, 1st game he goes 1 for 4

1945 Italy's Communist Party (CPI) calls for armed uprising in Italy

1944 Dutch Armed Forces forms, under prince Bernhard

1944 Chinese/U.S. armed forces take Myitkyina Airport, Burma

1943 Armed revolt breaks out in Treblinka

1943 William H. Hastie, civilian aide to secretary of war, resigns to protest segregation in armed forces

1942 National Boxing Association freezes titles of those serving in armed services

1942 "Stars and Stripes" paper for U.S. Armed Forces starts

1941 Estonians starts armed resistance against Soviet occupation

1940 1st 75,000 men called to armed forces duty during peacetime

1940 Black leaders protest discrimination in U.S. Armed Forces

1940 British merchant vessel fleet is armed

1933 U.S. forswears armed intervention in Western Hemisphere

1930 John Watts, chief of defense, Omani Armed Forces

1918 "Stars and Stripes," weekly U.S. Armed Forces newspaper, 1st published

1914 Armed resistance against British rule begins in Ulster

1913 Frances Langford, born in Lakeland, Florida, singer, Armed Forces Hour, Star Time

1905 Bill Raisch, one armed actor, Fred Johnson-Fugitive

1880 5,000 armed Boers gather in Paardekraal South Africa

1874 Armed Democrats seize Texas government ending Radical Reconstruction

1862 Yorktown, Virginia - McClellan halted his troop before town as it is full of armed torpedoes left by CS Brigadier General Gabrial Rains

1810 Clark Mills, U.S., sculptor, Freedom, Armed Liberty

1794 Congress prohibits citizens from serving in foreign armed forces

1794 Congress passes Neutrality Act, bans Americans from serving in armed forces of foreign powers


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