Today Francis Gary Powers exchanged in Berlin because the United States agreed to release Rudolph Ivanovich Abel, a convicted Soviet spy. The Soviet Union released the captured American U2 spy plane pilot Francis Gary Powers along with United States student Frederic Pryor, for Rudolph Abel, in a well-publicized spy swap at the Glienicke Bridge in Berlin.
Six bombs went off across Baghdad as the US Embassy Baghdad was formally dedicated and opened on January 5, 2009. The embassy complex came at a cost of more than $700M US and covers 104 acres on the Tigris River. US Embassy Baghdad The United States had maintained an embassy in Iraq until closing in
Panama’s General Manuel Noriega surrenders to United States military forces on January 3, 1990. He had sought refuge in the Apostolic Nunciature of the Holy See in Panama City, Panama when US military troops invaded Panama on December 20, 1989. Noriega, who was born in Panama in 1938. He had been a loyal soldier to
Major General William Rosencrans and the Union Army defeated Confederate troops at the Battle of Stones River in 1863 one day after President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. Stones River had the highest percentage of casualties on both sides of the Civil War throughout all major battles. The battle itself was inconclusive, but the Union Army’s