Cryptologic Dates in History Calendar

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						1972: Lt. Gen Sam Phillips Becomes DIRNSA....
						1969: VADM Noel Gayler becomes DIRNSA
						1958: Dr. Louis Tordella became D/DIRNSA
						1920: Brigadier John H. Tiltman Joined GC & CS

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1943: Australian Coastwatchers Send Code	1918: "Mohawk" Field Code was issued.	1955: Prototype U-2 Flight	1963: Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty	1945: US Dropped Atomic Bomb Over Hiroshima	1944: "The Harvard Mark 1"	1975: Lt Gen Lew Allen Testifies
1990: Iraq Invaded Kuwait	1987: Death of Joseph Desch - innovative engineer for the National Cash Register Company		1925: Radio Orphan Annie Secret Society		1958: Herbert O. Yardley Died	2008: Georgia-Russia Cyber Attacks
			1994: Solomon Kullback Died

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1945: Nagasaki		1972: Last U.S. Ground Combat Unit Leaves Vietnam	1918: "Allegheny" Field Code was issued.	1961: Berlin Wall Contstruction Began	1944: Spy Velvalee Dickinson Sentenced	1945: Japan Announced Surrender
		1942: Hedy Markey (Lamarr) Receives Patent	1981: IBM PC Debut		1982: Navajo Code Talkers Day Declared

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1858: Early Telegraph Communications				1968: Soviet Invasion	1846: Étienne Bazeries Birth Date	1956: U.S. Navy Recon Plane Shot Down
						1907: Abraham Sinkov was born.

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		1948: Stone Board Has First Meeting	1914: Russian Navy Seized Codebooks	1878: Colonel Parker Hitt's Birth Date		1949: Soviets Detonate Atomic Bomb
		1778: Beginnings of Culper Spy Ring with GEN Washington & MAJ Tallmadge	Poland and Britain signed the Agreement of Mutual Assistance.
			1892: Elizebeth Smith Friedman Birth Date

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	1914: German Intercepts of Russian Radio Traffic

1955: Prototype U-2 Flight

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1945: US Dropped Atomic Bomb Over Hiroshima

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1945: Nagasaki

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1961: Berlin Wall Contstruction Began

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1945: Japan Announced Surrender

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1858: Early Telegraph Communications

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1968: Soviet Invasion

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1846: Étienne Bazeries Birth Date

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1878: Colonel Parker Hitt's Birth Date

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1949: Soviets Detonate Atomic Bomb

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1914: German Intercepts of Russian Radio Traffic

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