HISTORY WAS MADE ON THIS DAY
Melvin James Brooks (Kaminsky) is a actor, comedian, filmmaker, songwriter, and playwright. He’s 98 today.
1974
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Clint Eastwood (right) with President Ronald Reagan in July 1987.
Eastwood is a former Republican who has sometimes supported Democrats, and has long shown an interest in California politics;
elected in 1986, Eastwood served for two years as the mayor of
Carmel–by-the-Sea, California. He is currently registered as a
Libertarian.
Eastwood turned 94 on the 31st of May.
TROOPS ORDERED TO SOUTH KOREA IN 1950
On June 27, 1950, President Harry S. Truman announced he is
ordering U.S. air and naval forces to South Korea to aid the
democratic nation in repulsing an invasion by communist
North Korea.
The United States was undertaking the major military operation,
he explained, to enforce a United Nations resolution calling for
an end to hostilities, and to stem the spread of communism in
Asia.
In addition to ordering U.S. forces to Korea, Truman also
deployed the U.S. 7th Fleet to Formosa (Taiwan) to guard
against invasion by communist China and ordered an
acceleration of military aid to French forces fighting
communist guerrillas in Vietnam.
U.N. CHARTER WAS SIGNED ON THIS DAY
On this day in history, June 26, 1945, the United Nations was
formally established with the signing of the U.N. Charter in San Francisco, California.
According to the National Archives, Article 111 of the charter
indicated, “The present Charter, of which the Chinese, French,
Russian, English, and Spanish texts are equally authentic,
shall remain deposited in the archives of the Government of
the United States of America. Duly certified copies thereof
shall be transmitted by that Government to the Governments
of the other signatory states.”
According to the United Nations official website, the U.N.
Charter was signed by representatives of the 50 countries
attending the United Nations Conference on International
Organization in San Francisco.
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