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Time Machine

December 2023
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50 YEARS AGO

June 18, 1953 A U.S. Air Force plane crashes near Tokyo, killing 129 people, the world’s worst air disaster up to this point.

June 19, 1953 Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, a married couple who gave nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union, are executed at Sing Sing Prison in New York State.

July 27, 1953 North Korean and United Nations officials sign a truce that ends the Korean War.

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