Wounded to Work

The 'Wounded to Work' Institute promotes the employment,through Congressional shadowing and private sector internships of active duty and retired military.

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14 February 2005 (18 years ago): @YouTube is launched by a group of college students, eventually becoming the largest video-sharing website in the world and a main source for viral videos.

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14 February 1990 (33 years ago): The Voyager 1 spacecraft takes a photograph of planet Earth that later becomes famous as the Pale Blue Dot.

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14 February 1949 (74 years ago): The #Knesset (parliament of #Israel) convenes for the first time.

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14 February 1899 (124 years ago): Voting machines are approved by Congress for use in federal elections.

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14 February 1779 (244 years ago):

James Cook is killed by Native Hawaiians near Kealakekua on the Island of Hawaii.

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14 February 1779 (244 years ago): American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Kettle Creek is fought in Georgia.

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14 February 1778 (245 years ago): The United States flag is formally recognized by a foreign naval vessel for the first time when French Admiral Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte renders a nine-gun salute to USS Ranger, commanded by John Paul Jones.

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14 February 1530 (493 years ago): Spanish conquistadores, led by Nuño de Guzmán, overthrow and execute Tangaxuan II, the last independent monarch of the Tarascan state in present-day central Mexico.

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18 December 2018 (4 years ago):

A meteor exploded over the Bering Sea with a force over 10 times greater than the atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima in 1945.

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18 December 1972 (50 years ago):

President Richard Nixon announces that the United States will engage North Vietnam in Operation Linebacker II, a series of Christmas bombings after peace talks collapsed with North Vietnam on the 13th.

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18 December 1917 (105 years ago):

The resolution containing the language of the Eighteenth Amendment to enact Prohibition is passed by Congress.

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18 December 1865 (157 years ago):

The Republican Secretary of State William Seward proclaims the adoption of the Thirteenth Amendment, prohibiting slavery throughout the USA. As Democrats complained Republicans were taking their Black slaves away from them.

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18 December 1777 (245 years ago):

The United States celebrates its first Thanksgiving, marking the recent victory by the American rebels over British General John Burgoyne at Saratoga in October.

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18th December 1622 (400 years ago)

#Portuguese forces score a military victory over the Kingdom of Kongo at the Battle of Mbumbi in present-day Angola.

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13 December 2003 (19 years ago): Iraq War: Operation Red Dawn: Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is captured near his hometown of Tikrit.

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13 December 2002 (20 years ago): European Union enlargement: The EU announces that Cyprus, Czechia, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia will become members on May 1, 2004.

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13 December 1972 (50 years ago): Apollo program: Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt begin the third and final extra-vehicular activity (EVA) or "Moonwalk" of Apollo 17. To date, they are the last humans to set foot on the Moon.

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13 December 1949 (73 years ago): The #Knesset votes to move the capital of Israel from Tel Aviv to #Jerusalem.

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13 December 1939 (83 years ago): The Battle of the River Plate is fought off the coast of Uruguay; the first naval battle of WWII. The Kriegsmarine's Deutschland-class cruiser Admiral Graf Spee engages with three Royal Navy cruisers: HMS Ajax, HMNZS Achilles, and HMS Exeter.

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13 December 1862 (160 years ago): The Civil War: At the Battle of Fredericksburg, Confederate General Robert E. Lee defeats Union Major General Ambrose Burnside.