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04 [ Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki ]

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75 years ago in 1945, World War Two was in its sixth year since 1939, which was, and still is, the deadliest conflict in human history. The global war between the allied power and axis power did not come to an end even after two out of three of the main axis power members, Italy and Germany surrendered.
After the suicide of Adolf Hitler, führer of Nazi Germany, Germany surrendered on May 8, 1945, which marked the end of the war in Europe. Unconditional surrender was called by the allies to the Empire of Japan in Potsdam Declaration, but was turned down by the Imperial Japanese armed forces.
The Pacific War entered its fourth year in 1945, and the Imperial Japanese army fought fiercely, which caused terrific casualties of the allied powers in the Far East. In order to suppress the war, air raid on Japan was conducted, which devastated 67 Japanese cities. However, the Imperial Japanese Army refused to surrender and kept the Pacific War ongoing.
On the other side, The Manhattan Project, which was secretly carried out by the allies, has underwent a successful nuclear test - The Trinity Test which was brought out by detonating a bomb named “The Gadget” on July 16, 1945, proving that the US has obtained the ability of detonating an atomic bomb. By August, the Project has already produced two types of atomic bombs...

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Due to the length of this article, the article is divided into four chapters:

Chapter 1 - Preparation
Chapter 2 - Hiroshima
Chapter 3 - Nagasaki
Chapter 4 - Aftermath

2020-08-09

03 [ First Man On Moon ]

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During Cold War in the 20th century, the space race between the US and the USSR was intense. The USSR managed to send the first man, Yuri Gagarin to space.
President Kennedy made a speech in 1961 stating that he was determined to send the first man to the moon by the end of the 1960s.
After 51 years, the legacy of Apollo 11 is still being carried on by NASA’s Artemis program, which targeted to send humans again to the surface of the moon in 2024...

2020-07-20

02 [ 76th Anniversary of D-Day: The Largest Seaborne Invasion in History ]

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76 years ago, on 6th June, 1944, the allied troops including the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, France, Australia, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Norway and New Zealand crossed the British Channel between the United Kingdom and France and landed on the coastline of Normandy, France, which was under the control of Nazi German-occupied France back in World War Two (1939-1945).
The Normandy landing, coded Operation Neptune, was a part of Operation Overlord, which aimed at claiming back the Nazi German-occupied Western Europe in World War Two. The operation was the largest seaborne invasion in history, and was later commonly-known as “D-Day”...

2020-06-06

01 [ Launching of SpaceX Crew Dragon Demo-2 - A New Era of Human Spaceflight ]

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SpaceX and NASA successfully launched The Falcon 9 Crew Dragon Demo-2 with two American astronauts, Douglas Hurley and Robert Behnken to the International Space Station from NASA's Kennedy Space Center at 3:22 p.m. EDT (3:22 a.m. HKT) on May 30, 2020. The first launch attempt on May 27 was scrubbed due to weather, however the second attempt on May 30 was a great success.
It marked the first time since the retirement of the space shuttle Atlantis (Mission STS-135) in 2011 that humans flew to the International Space Station from U.S. soil.
It was also first time astronauts have flown into orbit aboard a spacecraft produced and operated by a private company...

2020-05-31

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