Eyewitness accounts: 1918 - 1947
Historical snippets from the first and last years of this eyewitness period...
1918: Revolutionaries execute czar and family. Russian Civil War between Reds (Bolsheviks) and Whites (anti-Bolsheviks). German Kaiser abdicates. Hostilities cease on Western Front.
1947: Soviet Union rejects US plan for UN atomic-energy control. India and Pakistan gain independence from Britain. Dead Sea Scrolls discovered at Qumran. Microwave oven invented. Carbon-14 dating and transistor developed. Chuck Yeager breaks sound barrier. Thor Heyerdahl crosses Pacific in
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