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	Battle of the Coral Sea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Allied strategy at this time was focused on a defensive build-up of United States Army and Marine strength on New Caledonia (well to the south of the Solomon Islands), and Australian air and ground strength at Port Moresby (in southern New Guinea, just north of the Australian mainland).
		In April 1942, Japanese forces left their stronghold of Rabaul (on New Britain, just north of New Guinea) and launched a two-pronged amphibious invasion of Port Moresby (Operation MO), and Tulagi in the Solomon Islands.
		Their fears were realised when the cruisers were located by a squadron of Japanese torpedo bombers and came under intense air attack, on the afternoon of May 7.
	battle-of-the-coral-sea.iqnaut.net (1600 words)

	1860
		November 3 - The combined forces of Giuseppe Garibaldi and King Victor Emmanuel II besiege King Francis II of the Two Sicilies in Gaeta, his last remaining stronghold.
		November 6 - U.S. presidential election, 1860: Abraham Lincoln beats John C. Breckinridge and is elected as the 16th President of the United States, the first Republican to hold that office.
		December 29 - The world's first ocean-going (all) iron-hulled and armoured battleship, the (British) HMS Warrior is launched.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/1/18/1860.html (1332 words)

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		After this uprising, the Argentinean Navy was deprived of ammunition and spare planes: Perón chose not to foment popular rage, however, and he left the Navy largely intact.
		Originally laid down in 1942, she was completed in 1944 and served with the Royal Canadian Navy on loan for a short period of time, in the late 1940s.
		Once again, the FAA and most of the Army remained loyal, and the radio station was attacked by two MS.760s, while Meteors conducted combat air patrols in attempt to keep CANA aircraft outside the capital.
	www.acig.org /artman/publish/article_538.shtml (5460 words)

	Everything about 1935 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Like the rest of North Africa, it was conquered by the Muslims early in the 8th century.
		In 1510 it was taken by Don Pedro Navarro for Spain, and in 1523 it was assigned to the Knights of St. John, who had lately been expelled by the Ottoman Turks from their stronghold in the island of Rhodes.
		The knights kept it with some trouble till 1551, when they were compelled to surrender to the Turkish admiral Sinan, and Tripoli henceforward joined in the general piracy which made the Barbary states the terror of maritime Christendom.
	wikimiki.org /en/1935 (9294 words)

	What Darwin didn't know
		Four years earlier, Darwin had boarded the HMS Beagle as a gentleman companion to its troubled young captain.
		Now, having finished their surveys of coastal South America, they had finally begun their two-year journey back to England.
		On the rocks it dwells and resides, on the crag of the rock and the stronghold.
	www.crossroad.to /articles2/2002/darwin.htm (3240 words)

	February 22 Events in History
		February 22, 1967 25,000 U.S. and South Vietnamese troops launched Operation Junction City, offensive to smash Viet Cong stronghold near Cambodian border
		February 22, 1966 Soviets launch Kosmos 110 with Veterok and Ugolek, 1st 2-dog crew
		February 22, 1835 HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin leave Valdivia Chile
	www.brainyhistory.com /days/february_22.html (1767 words)

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