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"On This Date in Cryptologic History" Calendar

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1919: The American "Black Chamber" began operations.
1780: British Major John André Hanged As a Spy
1940: "Odd/Even" Agreement for Army & Navy
1949: AFSA Assumed Cryptologic Activities
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1942: Army Transfers Cryptographic Division School
1918: "Champlain" Field Codes Released.
1985: U.S. Fighters Intercept Terrorists from "Achille Lauro"
1952: USAF RB-29 Shot Down
2001: "Operation Enduring Freedom" Began.
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1955: William Friedman Awarded National Security Medal
1946: Vint Hill Farms School Renamed
1907: First Commercial Transatlantic Wireless Service
2000: al-Qaeda Bomed the USS Cole
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1875: Charles Wheatstone Died.
1948: Air Force Security Service Established
1962: President Kennedy ordered a naval quarantine of Cuba
1893: Laurance Safford born.
1952: Memorandum from President Truman re: COMINT and NSA
1983: U.S. Forces Landed in Grenada During Operation Urgent Fury
1948: Lamphere-Gardner VENONA Collaboration Began.
1981: Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board Re-established.
1957: Dr. James Killian Submits Influential Report on Defense and Intelligence
2003: Death of Dr. Richard Leibler
1945: United Nations came into existence.
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1918: First Combat Employment of Choctaw Codetalkers
1861: Lincoln Approved Military Telegraph Department
1917: First U.S. Intercept in France in WWI
1992: Center for Cryptologic History Published "The Friedman Legacy"
1737: Birthday of James Lovell
2010: National Cryptologic Museum Recognizes Dr. David Kahn
1918: The "Osage" Field Code Was Released.
1969: 1st Message Sent on DoD ARPANET
1980: Elizebeth Friedman Died.
1977: Lambros Callimahos Died.
2010: U.S. Cyber Command at Ft. Meade
1929: Cipher Bureau Closed.
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