#e <t>battle<n>First Battle of El Alamein<d>1942 Jul<c>El Alamein
#e <t>battle<n>Final Battle of El Alamein<d>1942 Oct<c>El Alamein
#e <t>battle<n>D-Day<d>1944 Jun 6<c>Normandy
#e <t>bombing<d>1945 Mar 10<n>Tokyo firebombed<c>Tokyo
// post-war
#p <nat>Jamaican<o>musician<n>Bob Marley<b>1944 Nov (6)<d>1981 May 11
#e <t>war<n>Korean War<d>1950<e>1952<c>Korea
#e <t>treaty<d>1963 Aug 5<n>Limited Test Ban Treaty<info>signed by the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., bans tests of nuclear weapons in the atmosphere or in space
#e <t>exp<d>1974 May 18<n>India explodes atomic bomb<c>India<info>India becomes the sixth nuclear nation
#e <t>crash<d>1977 Mar 27<n>Tenerife crash<c>Canary Islands<info>worst airline disaster in history; 583 killed
#e <t>battle<d>1979 Dec 25<n>Soviet forces enter Afghanistan<c>Afghanistan
#e <t>crash<d>1983 Sep 1<n>KAL Flight 007 shot down<c>Sea of Japan<info>Korean Air Lines flight 007 is shot down after crossing into Soviet airspace
#e <t>bombing<n>Qana massacre<c>Qana<d>1996 Apr 18<info>100 die in artillery barrage
// Iran
#e <t>battle<d>1979 Nov 4<n>Iranian militants seize U.S. embassy<c>Tehran
#e <t>crash<d>1980 Apr 24<n>U.S. attempt to rescue hostages fails<c>Iran
#e <t>misc<d>1981 Jan 20<n>American hostages in Iran are released<c>Tehran