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RETURN TO WAR IN VIETNAM TIMELINE PAGE
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Jan 12 - French supply lines to Hoa Binh cut
Feb 7 - Elizabeth II crowned Queen
Feb 22 - French withdraw from Hoa Binh
Apr 11 - Nationalist Chinese forces capture Nanri.
May 3 - 1st flight to Geographic North Pole
Jun 19 - U.S. Army Special Forces created
Sep 2 - 1st open heart surgery performed
Oct 3 - Great Britain detonates 1st atomic weapon
Oct 11 - French attacked in Fa Si Pan mountains
Oct 14 - UN headquarters in New York completed
Oct 29 - French start Operation LORRAINE
Nov 1 -- U.S. detonates 1st hydrogen bomb
Nov 4 - Eisenhower elected President