The Battle of Java Sea

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Muhammad Ali, the only three-time lineal champion of the heavyweight division, who beat 21 heavyweight boxers to cement his place into the history books of sports.

Codenamed Operation Overlord but referred to as D-Day, the June 6 1944 invasion of Normandy would prove to be the largest seaborne invasion in the history of human warfare.

Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin was the first man to fly into space on April 12, 1961, beating American Alan Shepard’s flight by three weeks.

The Battle of Little Bighorn was an armed engagement between combined forces of the Lakota, Northern Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians against the 7th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army.

Jimi Hendrix was first discovered by Americans during his openly-sexual performance at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival.

At the height of the Great Depression, when 25% of eligible workers found themselves homeless and unemployed, hundreds of shantytown slums sprang up across the nation.

After serving in WWII as a navigator for the Royal New Zealand Air Force, Edmund Hillary dedicated himself to mountaineering, including the yet unachieved crown jewel of mountain climbing—ascent of Mt. Everest.