April - Month of the Military Child
May - Nat'l Military Appreciation Month
May 1 - Silver Star Service Banner Day
May 8 - VE (Victory in Europe) Day
May 8 - Military Spouse Appreciation Day
May 16 - Armed Forces Day
May 25 - Memorial Day (Decoration Day)
June 6 - D-Day Anniversary
June 14 - Flag Day
June 14 - Army Birthday
June 23 - Coast Guard Auxiliary Birthday
June 27 - National PTSD Awareness Day
July 4 - Independence Day
July 29 - Anniversary of the Army Chaplain Corps

April 24
1805 - U.S. Marines attack & capture the town of Derna in Tripoli from the Barbary pirates
1877 - Russia declares war on the Ottoman Empire
1898 - Spain declares war on U.S., rejecting an ultimatum to withdraw from Cuba
1916 - Irish nationalists launch the Easter Uprising against British occupation
1944 - The 1st B-29 arrives in China, over the Hump of the Himalayas
1948 - The Berlin airlift begins to relieve the surrounded city
1961 - JFK accepts "sole responsibility" for the failed invasion of Cuba at the Bay of Pigs
1980 - A rescue attempt of the U.S. hostages held in Iran fails when a plane collides with a helicopter in the Iranian desert

BOOK: Operation Rumination
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