Operation Plunder

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Charlemagne would lead the Germanic peoples for nearly four decades fervently fighting for Christianity while himself having multiple wives and mistresses. He was crowned the Holy Roman Emperor in 800 and died in 814.

The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution authorized US military intervention in Vietnam in 1964, following alleged attacks on US ships in the Gulf of Tonkin.

The Opelousas Massacre was a politically-charged racist attack on Black residents and republicans in Louisiana in 1868, resulting in the deaths of more than 250 people, mostly African Americans.

As manifest destiny pushed the American sense of entitlement further west, John Fremont entered California inspired by the Republic of Texas and seized an opportunity in Sonoma County, leading to the Bear Flag Revolt of 1845.

An ongoing refusal to increase USPS pay led to a boiling point when Congress proposed a 41% pay increase for themselves and a 5.4% increase for postal workers; resulting in the great postal strike of 1970, the largest walkout of federal employees in U.S. history.

In 1835, a fictional writer Dr. Andrew Grant published in the New York Sun newspaper about having seen life on the moon through a new high-power telescope in South Africa. The popularity and global phenomena of the six articles would be known as the Great Moon Hoax of 1835.

The Battle of Appomattox Court House and the subsequent decision would bring an end to the Civil War as Lee’s confederate troops dwindled down enough to force surrender to Grant and the Union Army.