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When the first news of Japan's surrender came to the fighting fronts, G.I.s yelled wildly, pounded backs, fired guns, drank hoarded whiskey. On Okinawa the night was lighted by millions of tracer bullets as men fired rifles, machine guns, antiaircraft guns. Green and yellow flares glared in the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE U.S. AT WAR 1945: The Peace: The Bomb Ends WWII | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

Shortly after 11 p.m. one of Andrea Doria's card players looked idly out of a starboard window and gasped. Eerie lights of another ship glinted and sprinted out of the darkness towards Andrea Doria. A moment later, with a grinding, crunching roar, Stockholm's knife-sharp prow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs 1956: Rosa Parks, Wreck of the Andrea Doria | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

Under cover of darkness General Erich von Ludendorff, flagitious, inscrutable, unrelenting, sallied forth into he streets of Munich, capital of Bavaria, accompanied by his faithful Austrian, Herr Adolf Hitler, to make a coup for the Hohenzollerns by way of celebrating Nov. 9, the fifth anniversary of the abdication of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News 1923: Germany Exit the Mark | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

To thread together these and kindred quaint inventions the picture tells the story of a blind flower girl (Virginia Cherrill). He falls in love with her, encouraging her to believe he is a millionaire. His difficulties in getting funds to maintain this reputation in her unseeing eyes supply most of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema 1931: CITY LIGHTS with Charlie Chaplin | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

As darkness descended, the Israelis moved to the attack. Two armored columns snaked out and around the Old City of Jerusalem. Within its ancient walls are nestled the holy sites of three world religions. By 10 a.m. the conquerors stood before the great boulders of the Wailing Wall, the only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WORLD 1967: Middle East The Quickest War | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

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