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June 12, 1987: Reagan Challenges Gorbachev

Posted on June 12, 2011 by Action for Freedom — Leave a comment

On this day in 1987, in one of his most famous Cold War speeches, President Ronald Reagan challenges Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev to “tear down” the Berlin Wall, a symbol of the repressive Communist era in a divided Germany. In…

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Dec 25, 1991: Gorbachev Resigns as President of the USSR

Posted on December 24, 2010 by Action for Freedom — Leave a comment

Mikhail Gorbachev announces that he is resigning as president of the Soviet Union. In truth, there was not much of a Soviet Union from which to resign—just four days earlier, 11 of the former Soviet republics had established the Commonwealth…

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Dec 24, 1979: Soviet Tanks Roll Into Afghanistan

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On December 24, 1979, the Soviet Union invades Afghanistan, under the pretext of upholding the Soviet-Afghan Friendship Treaty of 1978. As midnight approached, the Soviets organized a massive military airlift into Kabul, involving an estimated 280 transport aircraft and three…

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December 10, 1901: First Nobel Prizes Awarded

Posted on December 10, 2010 by Action for Freedom — Leave a comment

The first Nobel Prizes are awarded in Stockholm, Sweden, in the fields of physics, chemistry, medicine, literature, and peace. The ceremony came on the fifth anniversary of the death of Alfred Nobel, the Swedish inventor of dynamite and other high…