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. October 30th, 1961; No, it wasn't Marvin's Illudium Q -36 Explosive Space Modulator, but the RDS-220 hydrogen bomb (code name "Ivan" or "Vanya"). The most powerful nuclear weapon mankind ever detonated. It's test on October 30th, one that is referred to as Tzar...
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On the evening of October 21st, 1978; a lone Cessna 182L was flying over the waters of Bass Straight as it made its way from Melbourne to an Island north of Tasmania. The pilot was Frederick Valentich; a twenty-year-old, with 150...
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On the morning of Thursday, October 10th, 1985, Oliver North was advised by Israeli Major General Uri Simhoni, the military attaché at the Israeli embassy in Washington, that the four Palestine Liberation Front terrorists, whom, only days before, had hijacked...
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On September 22nd, 1987, a USAF RF-4C Phantom “Orange Team” launched from Aviano Air Base in Italy on a beautiful sunny afternoon for a training exercise with the US Navy. . The mission for the day was to locate the...
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This is the only supersonic picture ever taken of Concorde... April 1985, Photographer Adrian Meredith climbed into a Royal Air Force Panavia Tornado twin-engine afterburning, variable-sweep multirole combat aircraft with a single mission...to capture a supersonic Concorde at altitude, high over the Irish...
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