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1599: Birth date of Antoine Rossignol
1921: William Friedman began 6 month contract with Army Signal Corps
1962: Lt Gen Gordon A. Blake, USAF, became DIRNSA.
1977: U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command established.
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1980: NSA Office of Policy mandated use of term "Service Cryptologic Element."
1977: NARA assigned Record Group 457 to declassified NSA records.
1957: MG Gordon Blake named Commander, AF Security Service
1924: Laurance Safford named OIC, Navy Cryptographic Branch.
1838: Alfred Vail uses dots & dashes
1962: Marine cryptologists in Vietnam.
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1942: Jerzy Różycki, Polish Cipher Bureau mathematician, died.
1996: Louis Tordella, long-time D/DIRNSA died.
2003: First "History Today" article on NSA Daily Page.
1944: BRUSA Agreement
1977: 56-bit Data Encryption Standard published.
1978: Brig Gen Ardisana Died on this Date
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1898: Publication of a new War Department Telegraphic Code was authorized.
1917: Zimmermann Telegram
1859: Alfred Vail, co-inventor of the telegraph, died.
1944: 9th Infantry Division of the Australian Army captured Japanese cryptographic library.
1981: Iran released U.S. hostages.
1988: DIRNSA and OPSEC training.
1991: Operation DESERT STORM began.
1918: German spy Lothar Witzke was arrested carrying a coded message.
1998: U.S. cryptologic pioneer Abraham Sinkov died.
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1941: Eligible readers of "Magic" intercept are established.
1918: Arthur Scherbius received patent for ENIGMA.
1987: Navy EA-3B recon aircraft crashed in the Mediterranean Sea.
1973: Paris Peace Accords signed.
28 Jan 1986: Remembering the Challenger and her Crew
1943: New Zealand corvettes disable Japanese submarine and seize codebooks.
1968: North Koreans captured USS Pueblo.
1915: Battle Of Dogger Bank
1975: Church Committee began investigation of U.S. Intelligence Community.
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1968: Tet offensive in Vietnam began.
1992: 'The Federal Register' published details for the Secure Hash Standard (SHA).
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