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13th August 1918: Opha May Johnson becomes the first woman to enlist in the US Marine Corps

13th August 2020
Tagged as: America, First World War, Marines, Military, United States, Women

Johnson was 40 years old when she enlisted, and her extensive clerical and stenographical experience made her a perfect fit for the role.

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26th March 1945: Battle of Iwo Jima officially ends

26th March 2019
Tagged as: America, Japan, Marines, Second World War, USA, War in the Pacific

At 9am on the 26^th March 1945, the Battle of Iwo Jima ended as US Marines officially secured the island from the Japanese Imperial Army during the War in the Pacific.

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13th August 1918: Opha May Johnson becomes the first woman to enlist in the US Marine Corps

26th March 1945: Battle of Iwo Jima officially ends

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30th September 1935: The Hoover Dam is dedicated by Franklin D. Roosevelt

12th October 1915: British nurse Edith Cavell was executed by a German firing squad

17th November 1903: The Bolshevik-Menshevik split within the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party

6th May 1983: The Hitler Diaries proven to be forgeries

24th October 1926: Harry Houdini performs his final show despite suffering from acute appendicitis

23rd October 1910: Blanche Stuart Scott becomes the first American woman to pilot an aircraft in public

22nd October 1884: The International Meridian Conference in Washington, D.C. adopts Greenwich as the prime meridian

21st October 1921: U.S. President Warren G. Harding publicly condemns lynching in a speech in Alabama

28th June 1914 & 1919: Trigger and end of the First World War

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall

1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland

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