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NATO

Abbreviation for North Atlantic Treaty Organization.


From the Hutchinson Encyclopedia of World History. © Research Machines plc [2006] All Rights Reserved, Helicon Publishing is a division of Research Machines.
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2 January 1960

Massachusetts Senator, John F. Kennedy announces his candidacy for the Democratic Presidential nomination.

3 February 1998
A low flying Nato aircraft kills 20 people at an Italian ski resort by severing their cable car line.
9 February 1950
United States Senator Joe McCarthy launches his anti-communist crusade, claiming that more than two hundred state department officials are members of the communist party.
16 February 1916

The First World War: The Russian army defeats the Third Turkish Army to capture Erzerum, a city in the Ottoman province of Anatolia.

18 February 1954

Robert Stevens, Secretary of the US army, orders two generals subpoenaed by anti-Communist senator Joseph McCarthy, to ignore the summons.

24 March 1999
NATO launches air strikes against Serbian positions in the Yugoslavian province Kosovo.
31 March 1991
The Warsaw Pact, a communist rival to NATO, comes to an end. 
22 April 1954
Senator Joseph McCarthy begins hearings investigating the United States Army for communist beliefs and infiltration.
28 April 1952
Dwight D. Eisenhower resigns as Supreme Commander of NATO.
7 May 1999
NATO planes accidentally bomb the Chinese embassy in Belgrade during the Kosovo War. 
9 May 1955
West Germany joins NATO.
18 May 1950
In London, NATO formally establishes it charter.
30 May 1982
Spain joins NATO. 
1 June 1977
Jewish dissident and human rights activist Anatoly Shcharansky is charged with treason by the Soviet authorities.
5 June 1968
In America, Senator Bobby Kennedy is shot dead by Sirhan Sirhan.
8 June 1968
In America, Senator Robert Kennedy is buried in Arlington National Cemetery near his brother President John Kennedy.
9 June 1954
Joseph Welch, special counsel for the U.S. Army, lashes out at Senator Joseph McCarthy during hearings on whether communism has infiltrated the U.S. Army. This confrontation marked the end of McCarthy’s power during the anti-communist hysteria of the Red Scare in America.
10 June 1999
The withdrawal of Yugoslav troops from Kosovo prompts NATO to suspend its air bombing campaign against Yugoslavia.
21 June 1963
France withdraws its navy from the North Atlantic fleet of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
18 July 1969
American Senator Edward Kennedy crashes his car into Chappaquiddick River near Martha's Vineyard on the USA's east coast. Kennedy escapes, but his companion, Mary Jo Kopechne drowns.
21 July 2005
Two weeks after London is brought to a standstill by a terrorist attack, two detonators are exploded on the London underground network in a second failed terrorist attack.
25 July 1969
American Senator Edward Kennedy pleads guilty to leaving the scene of a crime and is sentenced to a two-month suspended jail sentence.
29 July 2004
U.S. Senator John F. Kerry accepts the Democratic nomination for President at the Democratic National Convention in Boston, Massachusetts.
21 August 1858
Senator Stephen Douglas of Illinois and Abraham Lincoln, a Kentucky-born lawyer and one-time U.S. representative from Illinois, begin a series of famous public encounters on the issue of slavery.
12 September 1953
American Senator, and later President, John F. Kennedy marries Jacqueline Lee Bouvier in Newport, Rhode Island.
18 September 2001
In America, the first letter containing the poison anthrax is posted. Several letters are subsequently sent media offices and U.S. Senators. Nobody has ever been brought to justice for this.   
10 October 1985
The Palestinian hijackers of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro, who were seeking to escape on an Egyptian airliner, are apprehended in Sicily when U.S. fighter planes intercept the jet and force it to land at the NATO base in Sigonella, Sicily.
29 October 1998
Nearly four decades after he became the first American to orbit the Earth, Senator John Glenn Jr., returns to space on board the shuttle Discovery. At 77 years old, Glenn is the oldest human ever to travel in space.
3 November 2004
George W. Bush wins a second term as President of the United States defeating Senator John Kerry in the presidential election.
7 November 2000
Hilary Clinton is elected as a Senator for New York making her the only ever First Leader to win an elected office in American history.
21 November 1922
Rebecca Latimer Felton becomes the first female U.S. Senator. 
17 December 1981
James Dozier, Chief of Staff of NATO’s Southern European land forces, is kidnapped from his home in Verona, Italy by the left-wing terrorist group the Red Brigade. Dozier is later rescued by the Italian authorities. 
20 December 1995
In a formal ceremony in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina NATO assumes responsibility foe peacekeeping duties in Bosnia.
2 December 1954

The anti-Communist witch-hunt comes to an end in America when its main instigator, Senator Joseph McCarthy, is condemned for conduct unbecoming of a U.S. Senator.

 

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