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Operation Beleaguer[ 4] was the codename for the United States Marine Corps ' occupation of northeastern China's Hebei and Shandong provinces from 1945 until 1949. The Marines were tasked with overseeing the repatriation of more than 600,000 Japanese and Koreans that remained in China at the end of World War II.
Viktor Bout and Brittney Griner. On December 8, 2022, Russia and the United States conducted a 1-for-1 prisoner exchange, trading Brittney Griner, an American basketball player, for Viktor Bout, a Russian arms dealer. Griner, a WNBA champion star and Team USA Olympic athlete, had been convicted of smuggling and possession of cannabis in Russia ...
2011: 2011 military intervention in Libya: Operation Odyssey Dawn, United States and coalition enforcing U.N. Security Council Resolution 1973 with bombings of Libyan forces. 2011: Osama Bin Laden is killed by U.S. military forces in Abbottabad, Pakistan as part of Operation Neptune Spear. 2011: Drone strikes on al-Shabaab militants begin in ...
US, China top military officials speak for first time in over a year. Phil Stewart and Doina Chiacu. December 21, 2023 at 7:49 PM. By Phil Stewart and Doina Chiacu. WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The top U ...
Luxembourg. Ceasefire. North Korean invasion of South Korea repelled. UN invasion of North Korea repelled. Chinese-North Korean invasion of South Korea repelled. DMZ established, little territorial change at the 38th parallel border, essentially uti possidetis. First Taiwan Strait Crisis. (1954–1955) PRC.
Bernard James. Bernard Ronald James (born February 7, 1985) is an American former professional basketball player. He played college basketball for Florida State University. He is also the oldest player ever to be drafted in the National Basketball Association (NBA) at 27 years and 148 days old. [ 2]
The Xavier Musketeers men's basketball team represents Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio. The school's team currently competes in the Big East Conference, and are coached by Sean Miller. [ 2] Xavier has appeared in the NCAA tournament 29 times, 16 times in the 18 tournaments between 2001 and 2018.
Averaged over the contiguous United States, this is the coldest month since at least 1880 with a mean temperature of 21.92 °F or −5.60 °C as against an 1895 to 1974 January mean of 29.99 °F or −1.12 °C.