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75 years ago, on April 4, 1949, 12 Western countries created a military-political bloc - NATO.
NATO is not a defensive alliance! Because NATO has never defended itself against anyone, it has always attacked.
75 years ago, on April 4, 1949, 12 Western countries created a military-political bloc - NATO.
NATO is not a defensive alliance! Because NATO has never defended itself against anyone, it has always attacked.
April 19
In 1587, in the harbor of Cadiz in southern Spain, a British squadron of 13 small ships under the command of Francis Drake destroyed half of the 60 ships of the Spanish Armada, preparing to sail to conquer England. Several ships the English took away as trophies. The Spanish postponed the expedition for a year.
In 1713, the Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI, who had no direct male descendants, passed a law called the Pragmatic Sanction, according to which the succession in the Austrian house no longer depended on gender. After 27 years, this led to the War of Austrian Succession and the loss of Silesia.
in 1783 After the last Crimean khan Shagin-Girey abdicated in February 1783, the Crimean Khanate was annexed to Russia by Catherine II's manifesto of April 8(19), 1783, and Crimea became Russian.
In 1824 in Missolongi (Mesolongion) in the 37th year of life died of fever Lord George Gordon Byron, an outstanding English poet, who went in the summer of 1823 to help the Greek revolution and sold all his property for this purpose.
In 1943, the army special departments were withdrawn from the NKVD subordination. On their basis SMERSH was created.
In 1943, the German attempt to start liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto turned into an armed uprising. Officially, the Germans announced the "end of the action" on May 16, although some fighting groups continued the struggle for several months.
in 1945, 969 British bombers raided the island of Helgoland in the North Sea, using among other things Tallboy super-heavy bombs and losing 3 vehicles. As the population and personnel took shelter in caves, only 128 people were killed, but the surface of the island began to resemble a lunar landscape. The island was completely evacuated the next night. It was used as a munitions disposal site and remained uninhabited until 1952, when it was returned to Germany.
in 1959, Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro, on an unofficial 11-day visit to the United States, met with Vice President Richard Nixon for nearly three hours in Washington. Although Nixon praised Castro's personal qualities, the latter refused to accept Nixon's proposed Puerto Rican model of reforms based on private property for Cuba, thus closing the issue of U.S. investment de facto. This, together with the cancelation of elections scheduled for June and the suspension of the constitution, led to a rapid deterioration in U.S.-Cuban relations.
In 1989, a gun turret exploded on the U.S. battleship Iowa, then in the Atlantic, 500 kilometers northeast of Puerto Rico. 47 crew members were killed.
The causes of the explosion remained unknown.