1972 CE - A Palestinian terrorist group called "Black September" attack and take 11 Israeli athletes hostage at the Munich Olympic Games.
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Area 51 border and warning sign in Nevada, USA, stating "photography is prohibited" and "use of deadly force is authorized".
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Quote of the Day
"If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they'll hate you". --Don Marquis
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Artist - Patti Smith
Album - Horses
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Director - Spencer Susser
Wiki of the Day
The contras (some references use the capitalized form, "Contras") is a label given to the various rebel groups that were active from 1979 through to the early 1990s in opposition to the Sandinista Junta of National Reconstruction government in Nicaragua. Among the separate contra groups, the Nicaraguan Democratic Force (FDN) emerged as the largest by far. In 1987, virtually all contra organizations were united, at least nominally, into the Nicaraguan Resistance.
From an early stage, the rebels received financial and military support from the U.S. government, and their military significance decisively depended on it. After U.S. support was banned by Congress, the Reagan administration covertly continued it. These covert activities culminated in the Iran–Contra affair.
The term "contra" comes from the Spanish contra, which means against but in this case is short for la contrarrevolución, in English "the counter-revolution". Some rebels disliked being called contras, feeling that it defined their cause only in negative terms, or implied a desire to restore the old order. Rebel fighters usually referred to themselves as comandos ("commandos"); peasant sympathizers also called the rebels los primos ("the cousins"). From the mid-1980s, as the Reagan administration and the rebels sought to portray the movement as the "democratic resistance," members started describing themselves as la resistencia.
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