24 NOV Today in Military History 1615 King Louis XIII of France (14) marries Ann of Austria (14) 1863 Battles of Chattanooga, Columbia, & Lookout Mt begin in Tennessee 1871 National Rifle Association organized in New York City 1874 Joseph F Glidden receives a patent for barbed wire 1914 Benito Mussolini leaves Italys Socialist Party 1918 Bela Khun forms the Hungarian Communist Party 1922 Italian parliament gives Mussolini dictatorial powers for one year 1936 Polliwog-in-Chief FDR becomes a Shellback, USS Indianapolis (CA-35), 00º 00 N, 37º 00 W 1937 Chinese falsely announce the sinking of the Japanese battleship Nagato by air attack 1941 CNO warns fleet surprise aggressive movement by Japan imminent 1943 Operation Galvanic: Escort carrier Liscome Bay (CVE 56) is sunk by submarine off Makin 1943 - R Adm Henry Maston Mullinnix (51), Pearl Harbor hero Doris Dorie Miller (24), & c. 600 shipmates, in Liscome Bay (CVE-56) 1944 First B-29 raid from Saipan; 111 bombers hit Tokyo. 1954 France sends 20,000 soldiers to Algeria 1963 Lee Harvey Oswald, 24, former marine, assassin of JFK, shot by Jack Ruby 1965 Coup installs Gen. Joseph Mobutu as President/Dictator of Congo/Zaire (1965-1996) 1977 The tomb of Philip II of Macedon is discovered near Vergine, Macedonia
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