Battle of the Coral Sea

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The modern history of Hong Kong is rooted in the Opium Wars, which resulted in Britain obtaining a 99-year lease on the territory, establishing a financial hub for decades before repatriating Hong Kong to the People’s Republic of China in 1997.

The Mesolithic period is nestled between the Paleolithic and Neolithic periods and saw the rise of agriculture and animal husbandry to replace the prevailing hunter-gatherer culture, which archeologists and historians believe was an unevenly-embraced advance.

While the Articles of Confederation gave no federal rule to demand money or troops from the breakaway American Colonies, in May of 1787, state delegates convened in Philadelphia for the Constitutional Convention, creating the U.S. Constitution and later the Bill of Rights.

After WWII, the fast pace in which the Soviet’s achieved nuclear capabilities led to the discovery that design documents had been leaked. Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were ultimately implicated as soviet spies and sentenced to death.

After English-speaking Native American, Squanto, helped the Pilgrims survive in a new land, Governor William Bradford called for the first Thanksgiving feast, which lasted for three days.

German foreign secretary Arthur Zimmermann’s telegram to Mexico in 1917 was intercepted and deciphered, prompting the U.S. to rescind isolationism and declare war on Germany, officially entering WWI.

The battle of Iwo Jima was an allied invasion of the island a mere 750 miles from mainland Japan, but secret fortifications left American troops overwhelmed by Japanese defenses. Despite heavy casualties, Americans finally captured both airfields and would hoist the American flag at the summit, captured in the iconic photograph.