This Day in History August 30 1968 Highlights
On this date in 1945 General Douglas MacArthur arrived in Japan and set up headquarters after World War II. Other notes include Cleopatra's death by asp in 30 B C, the 1645 Dutch Indian treaty at New Amsterdam, the 1862 Second Battle of Bull Run Confederate victory, and the Dawes Plan signing in 1924. Also mentioned are the 1999 German military mule in Slovakia, indictments of 24 top German leaders as war criminals, Soviet Union support for Communist China on Formosa, and the 1968-1969 nuclear test ban treaty vote and Middle East ceasefire efforts. Historian Walter Prescott Webb is quoted on barbed wire.
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Douglas MacArthur
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Cleopatra
New Amsterdam
Bull Run
Virginia
London
Slovakia
Soviet Union
China
Formosa
U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Gamal Abdel Naseer
Egypt
Faisal
Saudi Arabia
Yemen
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