The Moonduster Chronicles
The Official Newsletter of Operation Just Cause

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This Month in History
All Information retrieved from Those Were The Days Website

January 7

1904 - The distress signal, “CQD”, was established this day. It didn’t last long. Two years later, “SOS” became the radio distress signal because it was more convenient -- meaning quicker -- to send by wireless radio.

January 10

1943 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt sailed from Miami, FL to Trinidad to become the first American President to visit a foreign country during wartime.

January 10

1991 - Operation Desert Storm began. The U.S. and its United Nations allies went to war to drive Saddam Hussein’s army out of Iraqi-occupied Kuwait. U.S. General Norman Schwarzkopf gave the go-ahead for bombing raids on Baghdad, followed a few days later by assaults with ground troops on Iraqi troops in southern Iraq and Kuwait. During the following six weeks Iraq fired its Scud missles at U.S. bases in Saudi Arabia and at the general population in Israel, but was routed soundly. Iraqi troops left Kuwait, retreating all the way to Baghdad and, in many cases, surrendering in the field.

January 29

1949 - The ship, "The Newport News", was commissioned as the first air-conditioned naval ship -- in Virginia.


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