November 4, 1979 - Iranians storm U.S. embassy 11/04/2009 October 27, 1962 - The United States and Soviet Union step back from brink of nuclear war 10/27/2009 1947 - Congress investigates Reds in Hollywood 10/20/2008 October 19, 1965 - Communists attack Plei Me Special Forces camp 10/19/2009 October 16, 1964 - China joins A-bomb club 10/16/2009 October 5, 1986 - Iran-Contra scandal unravels 10/05/2009 October 1, 2005 - Terrorists strike again in Bali 10/01/2009 September 30, 1954 - USS Nautilus commissioned 09/30/2009 The Intelligence Oversight Act of 1980 09/21/2004 September 17, 1862 - Battle of Antietam 09/17/2009 September 16, 1940 - United States imposes the draft 09/16/2009 1959 - Khrushchev arrives in Washington 09/15/2008 Foreign Surveillance Act of 1978 08/26/2004 1965 - U.S. pilots given green light to go after anti-aircraft missiles in the North 08/21/2008 1960 - Captured U.S. spy pilot sentenced in Russia 08/19/2008 1965 - Marines launch Operation Starlite 08/18/2008 1948 - Record day for the Berlin Airlift 08/13/2008 1972 - Last U.S. ground combat unit departs South Vietnam 08/11/2008 Secretary of Defense McNamara created the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) 08/09/2004 1945 - Atomic bomb is dropped on Hiroshima 08/06/2008 July 28, 1972 - CIA reports minor damage done to North Vietnam's dikes 07/28/2009 July 22, 2003 - Jessica Lynch gets hero's welcome 07/22/2009 July 16, 1945 - Atom bomb successfully tested 07/16/2009 July 15, 1971 - Nixon announces visit to communist China 07/15/2009 George Washington was an avid user of intelligence. 07/13/2004 1965 - MiGs shot down as bombing of North Vietnam continues 07/10/2008 1960 - Pilot Francis Gary Powers Charged With Espionage 07/08/2008 1941 - U.S. Occupies Iceland 07/07/2008 1988 - U.S. Warship Downs Iranian Passenger Jet 07/03/2008 1917 - Greece declares war on Central Powers 07/02/2008 July 1, 1947 - "Mr. X" article appears in Foreign Affairs 07/01/2009 Truman orders U.S. forces to Korea 06/27/2008 Clinton Punishes Iraq for Plot to Kill Bush 06/26/2008 Eisenhower Takes Command 06/25/2008 MI-8 06/22/2004 June 17, 1940 - British and Allied troops continue the evacuation of France, as Churchill reassures his countrymen 06/17/2009 Brezhnev is Soviet president 06/16/2008 June 15, 1917 - U.S. Congress passes Espionage Act 06/15/2009 First Electronic Transmission of Information. 06/10/2004 Joseph McCarthy meets his match 06/09/2008 June 8, 1967 - Israel attacks USS Liberty 06/08/2009 U.S. reconnaissance jets shot down over Laos 06/06/2008 FDR warns Japanese against using poison gas 06/05/2008 Battle of Midway begins 06/04/2008 The Rockefeller commission issued a report which confirmed the existence of a CIA domestic mail opening operation. 06/03/2004 June 2, 1954 - McCarthy charges communists are in the CIA 06/02/2008 June 1, 1990 - Superpowers to destroy chemical weapons 06/01/2009 May 26, 1960 - United States charges Soviets with espionage 05/26/2009 Navajo code Talker Program 05/24/2004 May 21, 1988 - Gorbachev consolidates power 05/21/2009 May 20, 1956 - United States drops hydrogen bomb over Bikini Atoll 05/20/2009 May 19, 1943 - Churchill and FDR plot D-Day 05/19/2009 The Church and Pike Investigation Committees 05/17/2004 U.S.-Soviet summit meeting collapses 05/16/2008 May 15, 1967 - U.S. positions south of the DMZ come under heavy fire 05/15/2009 May 14, 1943 - United States and Britain plan Operation Pointblank 05/14/2009 May 12, 1975 - American ship Mayaguez seized 05/12/2009 May 8, 1945 - Victory in Europe 05/08/2009 May 7, 1945 - Germany surrenders unconditionally to the Allies at Reims 05/07/2009 May 6, 1942 - All American forces in the Philippines surrender unconditionally 05/06/2009 May 5, 1970 - U.S. forces capture Snoul, Cambodia 05/05/2009 May 4, 1945 - As the Nazi threat dies, the Red Army rises 05/04/2009 April 30, 1975 - South Vietnam surrenders 04/30/2009 April 29, 1946 - International Military Tribunal indicts Hideki 04/29/2009 April 28, 1965 - U.S. troops land in the Dominican Republic 04/28/2009 April 27, 1978 - Afghan president is overthrown and murdered 04/27/2009 April 24, 1980 - Hostage rescue mission ends in disaster 04/24/2009 April 23, 1945 - Truman confronts Molotov 04/23/2009 April 22, 1915 - Germans introduce poison gas 04/22/2009 April 21, 1965 - Intelligence reveals North Vietnamese units in South Vietnam 04/21/2009 April 20, 1945 - Operation Corncob is launched while Hitler celebrates his birthday 04/20/2009 April 17, 1961 - The Bay of Pigs invasion begins 04/17/2009 April 16, 1947 - Bernard Baruch coins the term "Cold War" 04/16/2009 April 15, 1970 - U.S. 1st Infantry Division withdraws from Vietnam 04/15/2009 April 14, 1988 - Soviets to withdraw from Afghanistan 04/14/2009 April 10, 1972 - B-52s begin bombing North Vietnam 04/10/2009 April 7, 1776 - U.S. Navy captures first British warship 04/07/2009 April 6, 1917 - America enters World War I 04/06/2009 April 3, 1972 - Nixon orders response to North Vietnamese invasion 04/03/2009 April 2, 1917 - Woodrow Wilson asks U.S. Congress for declaration of war 04/02/2009 March 31, 1940 - Germany's Atlantis launches 03/31/2009 March 30, 1814 - Allies capture Paris 03/30/2009 1979 - Israel-Egyptian peace agreement signed 03/26/2009 1946 - Soviets announce withdrawal from Iran 03/25/2009 1999 - NATO Bombs Yugoslavia 03/24/2009 1969 - U.S. bombs Cambodia for the first time 03/18/2009 1964 - National Security Council reviews situation 03/17/2009 1802 - U.S. Military Academy established 03/16/2009 1993 - World Trade Center bombed 02/26/2009 1973 - Release of U.S. POWs begins 02/12/2009 1965 - Rumors fly about U.S.-Soviet pressure on allies in Vietnam 02/04/2009 1950 - Klaus Fuchs arrested for passing atomic bomb information to Soviets 02/03/2009 National Security Council 02/02/2005 1978 - United States announces that it will recognize communist China 12/15/2008 1918 - World War I ends 11/11/2008 2001 - Bush addresses the United Nations regarding terrorism 11/10/2008