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Date: 25 June 2008 13:15:31
History Today :
1948 : The "Berlin Airlift" begins. The Western Allies decide that they will supply West Berlin via the air to obstruct Soviet attempts to take control of the entire city. All food stuffs, coal and other supplies for flown in by air everday. Thankfully this totally defeated the Soviet's attempts at removing us from the city. However this failure did lead to the building of the Berlin Wall in 1960.
1950 : North Korea invades South Korea by crossing the 38th Parallel, this starting the Korean War. This led to a stalemate as my Dad successfully fought back the Asian hordes. However, from subsequent films and TV programmes you'd never know that us Brits were there - it seems that this was another war won by American "arms".
1991 : Croatia and Slovenia declare independence from Yougoslavia, this helps spar 8 years of war in the Balkans.
Did you see a link in the above???