The Battle of Lepanto takes place, with the Holy League defeating the Ottoman Empire's navy in a significant naval battle.
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The German Democratic Republic. The GDR, commonly known as East Germany is created from the Soviet occupation zone of occupation on October 7, 1949. The United States responded by stating its position that the GDR was “without any legal validity,” and that the United States would “continue to give full support to the Government of the German Federal Republic FDR at Bonn in its efforts to restore a truly free and democratic Germany.”
The FDR, commonly known as West Germany had been formed months earlier on May 23,1949 by combining the occupation territories of France, Britain and the U.S. The U.S. refused to recognize the GDR until 1974. The GDR was absorbed by the FRG in 1990 when Germany reunified. More
The deportation order by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service of John Lennon's and his wife, Yoko Ono, is reversed by U.S. Federal Appeals Court judge, Chief Judge Irving Kaufman; allowing them to legally remain in the United States.
Judge Kaufman, found that Lennon's 1968 conviction for marijuana possession in the UK (the reason given for the deportation order) not to violate U.S. immigration law. The Judge's order also warned "The courts will not condone selective deportation based upon secret political grounds" The deportation order was widely believed at the time, to be politically motivated due to Lennon's anti-Vietnam War activism. Lennon was eventually granted a green card in 1976.
Four terrorists from the Arab Liberation Front, hijack the Italian cruise ship MS Achille Lauro shortly after it left Alexandria, Egypt. During the hijack the terrorists killed Leon Klinghoffer, a disabled American man who was in a wheelchair. More
The U.S. led attack on Afghanistan begins as the United States, supported by its allies, launches military operations against the Taliban regime in response to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 on New, York and Washington D.C. On September 18 2001, President Bush had signed into law a joint resolution authorizing the use of force against those responsible for attacking the United States on September. The war in Afghanistan lasted almost two decades.
The 2011 Nobel Peace Prize is jointly awarded to three female political activists Two African and one Asian female ."for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women’s rights to full participation in peace-building work". The joint Laureated were: Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberian activist Leymah Gbowee and Yemeni politician Tawakkul Karman. All Nobel Peace Prizes