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1972: Lt. Gen Sam Phillips Becomes DIRNSA....
1943: Australian Coastwatchers Send Code
1918: "Mohawk" Field Code was issued.
1955: Prototype U-2 Flight
1969: VADM Noel Gayler becomes DIRNSA
1987: Death of Joseph Desch - innovative engineer for the National Cash Register Company
1958: Dr. Louis Tordella became D/DIRNSA
1920: Brigadier John H. Tiltman Joined GC & CS
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1963: Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
1945: US Dropped Atomic Bomb Over Hiroshima
1944: "The Harvard Mark 1"
1975: Lt Gen Lew Allen Testifies
1945: Nagasaki
1972: Last U.S. Ground Combat Unit Leaves Vietnam
1925: Radio Orphan Annie Secret Society
1958: Herbert O. Yardley Died
2008: Georgia-Russia Cyber Attacks
1942: Hedy Markey (Lamarr) Receives Patent
1994: Solomon Kullback Died
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1918: "Allegheny" Field Code was issued.
1944: Spy Velvalee Dickinson Sentenced
1945: Japan Announced Surrender
1858: Early Telegraph Communications
1981: IBM PC Debut
1982: Navajo Code Talkers Day Declared
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1846: Étienne Bazeries Birth Date
1956: U.S. Navy Recon Plane Shot Down
1948: Stone Board Has First Meeting
1907: Abraham Sinkov was born.
1778: Beginnings of Culper Spy Ring with GEN Washington & MAJ Tallmadge
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1914: Russian Navy Seized Codebooks
1878: Colonel Parker Hitt's Birth Date
1949: Soviets Detonate Atomic Bomb
1914: German Intercepts of Russian Radio Traffic
Poland and Britain signed the Agreement of Mutual Assistance.
1892: Elizebeth Smith Friedman Birth Date
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