Cryptologic Dates in History Calendar

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1944: Jargon Code Message Announced D-Day Invasion			1944: U-505 Captured by U.S. Navy Task Group.	1969: USAF RC-135E "Rivet Amber" was lost over the Bering Sea.	1944: D-Day	1991: Joseph Mauborgne, code and cipher expert & WWI Army Signal Corps Officer died.
1931: Herbert Yardley's "The American Black Chamber" was released.			1942: Battle of Midway began.	1918: BG Marlborough Churchill became Chief, MID.		1954: Death of Alan Turing, famed mathematician and cryptologist
				1967: Six-day War began in Mideast.

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1999: NATO and Yugoslavia Signed Accord.		1917: U.S. Army MI-8 Established.	1941: Herbert O. Yardley hired by Canada's National Research Council.	1862: J.E.B. Stewart began his infamous ride around McClellan's Army of the Potomac	Publication of Brownell Committee Report - laid foundation for NSA.	1942: Signal Intelligence Service took possession of Arlington Hall.
1967: USS Liberty attacked by Israeli forces.

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		2014: ATF honors Elizebeth Friedman	1979: Presidents Carter and Brezhnev signed SALT II Treaty.	1963: US-USSR agreed to "hotline."		1843: Publication of first installments of "The Gold Bug" by Poe
				1934: Communications Act of 1934 signed by President Roosevelt

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1960: GRAB, first reconnaissance satellite, launched.	1955: ASA assumes duties from Signal Corps.	1918: "Potomac Code" was issued.	1950: North Korean invasion of South Korea.		1860: Albert J. Myer, developer of flag "wig-wag" code appointed Signal Officer.	2007: Commissioning of Coast Guard Cryptologic Group at NSA.
	1976: Diffie and Hellman presented public-key exchange idea.		1966: New NSA Headquarters building was dedicated.			1968: USS Liberty was decommissioned.
			1532: Hernan Cortes Letters - first known use of cryptography in New World.

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1942: Allies realized code was broken by Germans.	1971: Two Rock Ranch (WWII monitoring station) closed.
1998: Frank Rowlett, cryptologic pioneer, died.

1944: D-Day

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1991: Joseph Mauborgne, code and cipher expert & WWI Army Signal Corps Officer died.

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1954: Death of Alan Turing, famed mathematician and cryptologist

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1917: U.S. Army MI-8 Established.

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1941: Herbert O. Yardley hired by Canada's National Research Council.

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1862: J.E.B. Stewart began his infamous ride around McClellan's Army of the Potomac

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Publication of Brownell Committee Report - laid foundation for NSA.

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1942: Signal Intelligence Service took possession of Arlington Hall.

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2014: ATF honors Elizebeth Friedman

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1979: Presidents Carter and Brezhnev signed SALT II Treaty.

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1843: Publication of first installments of "The Gold Bug" by Poe

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1960: GRAB, first reconnaissance satellite, launched.

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1918: "Potomac Code" was issued.

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1860: Albert J. Myer, developer of flag "wig-wag" code appointed Signal Officer.

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1971: Two Rock Ranch (WWII monitoring station) closed.

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